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Black Friday Giveaways (part 3): Peek handheld {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2008 2:54PM Oooo!! Shiney!!
Discuss: Should They Make an 'Incredible Hulk' Sequel? {Cinematical}
Nov 28th 2008 12:45PM I've put forth that Avengers will be Hulk 2. At the end, Banner has a smile on his face. But who is smiling? Is Hulk now the dominant personality or has Banner given in to his darker side? What if the events of The Incredible Hulk was just a set up for a Hulk as villain Avengers movie which will redeem the green guy before credits roll?
Sony Pictures celebrates NXE eve by...blocking Xbox 360 Netflix movie streaming {Engadget HD}
Nov 19th 2008 5:10PM Paying a publisher for exclusive content is not petty, it's business. Sony is completely allowed to also pay for their own exclusive content. Sony specifically excluding only the 360 and allowing all other devices is petty because it's discrimination.
Street Fighter II HD wins our love with Karate Kid homage {Joystiq}
Nov 13th 2008 12:15AM Stan Bush's "The Touch" blows this song away
The Geek Beat: Is it the Time of the Preacher? {Cinematical}
Nov 5th 2008 12:40PM James Marsden would kill as Jesse. I think Colin Farrell would be a lock for Cassidy. Tulip...no idea. I think anyone could play her and it would be a decent role.
Mark Millar Wants to Make An 8 Hour Superman Epic {Cinematical}
Oct 30th 2008 2:43PM I like this idea...but I'm not sure you could do it in 8 hours, or even get to that ending in a logical way. What does the end say? Is Superman how humanity survives into space? Does a Human become him? If you're going to study the life of the Last Son of Krypton, there has to be something lasting...something that can be said this is why he lived.
But I'll trust Millar. Red Son is my favorite Superman story.
Fan Rant: DirecTV, You're Killing Me {Cinematical}
Oct 28th 2008 4:17PM I don't remember any bitching about the Singing in the Rain commercials as being in poor taste because Gene Kelly had died. A movie is a movie...there's lots of movies that have people who died tragically in them and if we go around trying to avoid any mention of those movies then it's no worse than people saying they should digitally alter the WTC towers out of old movies.
BTW, you forgot Shatner in that list of people to smack around for getting involved in these crappy ads.
Cinematical Seven: The Best of Bruce Campbell {Cinematical}
Oct 21st 2008 11:35PM There's two actors who I go out of my way to watch, even in movies I know will suck...the first is Christopher Walken, the second is Bruce Campbell. Campbell is a god for movie geeks, and I need to track him down here in Miami to see when *I* can see My Name is Bruce. He lives here now to film Burn Notice (so awesome), you think he'd hit a theater here.
Dammit, now I'm all worked up again.
The Geek Beat: I Don't Wanna Grow Up {Cinematical}
Oct 21st 2008 10:14PM Speed Racer failed because it was a 2 1/2 hour long fan service aimed at the wrong crowd. It was DOA from conception, not because of where it landed on the spectrum
Even for kids fare, it still has to be entertaining. The definition of entertaining changes depending on your audience. Don't confuse a failure of demographics for a failure of cenception.
The Geek Beat: I Don't Wanna Grow Up {Cinematical}
Oct 21st 2008 1:22PM I think this is already happening to a degree. The new animated Batman series is targetted toward younger demos than any others, while there's also running cartoons like Ben10. On the comics side, you have Marvel's Ultimate universe which has some mature titles (Ultimates) and some kid-friendly stuff (Spider-man).
I think what we're seeing now is a maturing of the process in both directions. You don't have to look hard to find thought-provoking stories for adults and flashy stories for kids, but we are losing the middle ground of sharable family experiences (like iron Man, which you pointed out). in the end, though, we people our age stop buying the books and going to the movies, the companies will self-correct and skew younger to find the new audiences. It's just that our parents didn't go this long without geting kids or a mortgage, so we're exploring a new frontier of sorts...how to be adults without being Adults.
