Disjointed Digression

A movie that I missed in my Trailer Park post a little while back was Moon.    I think this looks like it could be a good movie.  So when I saw that the release date was today, I got kinda psyched.  I went to austin360.com and checked for show times for tomorrow.  I figured it would be too crowded tonight.  There were no show times.  I went to each of the theaters listed on the site.  Nothing. Nada. Zilch.  WTF?  As it turns out the movie is being released in limited venues today.  I know there is some reason involving money (probably sums of money that I will never personally see in my lifetime) that they do limited releases,  but it is just annoying.  I guess I’ll have to keep an eye out and see if I can catch it when it gets a wide release.

Here are some movie trailers that look interesting to me.  Most are slated to come out later this year but one is supposedly already out…

The Objective Release date: 2/6/2009 (Supposedly you can see it On Demand)
I’m kinda curious about this one.  Honestly, it looks like it could be good, but probably not great.

Anvil! the Story of Anvil Release date: 4/10/2009 (limited)
I had never heard of this band, and from little I have listened to their music (thanks to Amazon’s samples) they don’t sound like a band I would listen to, but the documentary looks interesting.

Sleep Dealer Release date: 4/17/2009 (limited)
Near-future sci-fi, kinda reminds me of William Gibson novels

X-Men Origins Wolverine Release date: 5/1/2009
Wolverine, my favorite X-man.  This movie could be good, but the potential to suck is quite high, especially since they have Gambit in the movie.

Star Trek Release date: 5/8/2009
I’m going to see this one expecting to see a sci-fi action movie.  I’m not a big trek fan, nor am I a huge fan of JJ Abrams (Cloverfield was not good, Lost either imo)

Terminator Salvation Release date: 5/21/2009
A new Terminator movie, I’ll give it a shot.  The last Terminator movie was ok.

Drag Me to Hell Release date: 5/29/2009
Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre!  No Bruce Campbell, but I guess you can’t get everything you want.

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Release date: 6/24/2009
The first one was not bad.  More of a nostalgia thing for me.

The Hurt Locker Release date: 6/26/2009 (limited)
Could be good, I’ll give it a shot.

Public Enemies Release date: 7/1/2009
Story of John Dillinger, looks pretty good.  Candy wants to see it for Johnny Depp, of course.

G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Release date: 8/7/2009
Nostalgia again, like Wolverine ( and transformers 2) has a high potential to suck.

Inglorious Basterds Release date: 8/21/2009
Quentin Tarantino goes to war.  Interesting cast with Eli Roth as an actor. Looks good though.

Extract Release date: 9/4/2009
Jason Bateman’s comeback continues in this new Mike Judge movie.  Hopefully this will be as good as Office Space!

I’ve found a few movie trailers of films that I’m looking forward to seeing:

Watch the trailer! ’nuff said.

This looks goofy/funny and violent.

Spider-man 3. Venom!

I was not a big fan of the original Fantastic Four movie, but the Silver Surfer just looks soo fuckin’ cool!

BTW the pics are links to the trailers.

Yeah, so this past week I got a year older. Candy showered me with DVDs! Apparently she passed “Know your Geek 101″ with flying colors. She got me Babylon 5 Seasons 2-5 and X-Files Seasons 4-6. She is too good to me! We didn’t make a big fuss about the birthday, we went out to eat at the Macaroni Grill and that was about it.
Other than that I’ve not been doing a whole lot other than work and playing World of Warcraft.

Let’s Talk About Movies
I haven’t been watching as many movies as I used to. More and more I’ve been saying “I’ll wait for that to come to DVD”. What is kind of odd is that I’ll be all about seeing a movie at the cinema, but the week after it gets released, I’ll say “I’ll wait for that to come to DVD”. I’ve done that with V for Vendetta, and Da Vinci Code, just to name a few recently. The last movies I went to see in the theater were Ice Age Meltdown (meh the first one was a little better) and The Notorious Bettie Page. I liked The Notorious Bettie Page, it was a fairly good biopic, but I felt like there was something missing from the movie. I can’t say what, but it seemed to lack something. Even though it seemed like something is missing, I recommend it.
Since I’m a comic book nerd, I had to check out the Ghost Rider trailer.
Before seeing the trailer, I had my doubts about Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze, but it looks like he might work out. From what I’ve seen in the trailer, I’ll go see the movie, but there is some potential for it to suck, which is the case for any comic book movie. Daredevil and Electra sucked but the trailers were not so bad, from what I remember.
Beav mentioned a pod/video cast called Geekdrome to me. So I checked out the latest episode. IMO, it’s not as good as Diggnation, but I subscribed to it. On Geekdrome they talked about the Superman Returns trailer. Talked is a bit mild, the fawned over it, damn near having an orgasm. I decided to watch this trailer that would change my life…
About 15 seconds into the trailer I remembered that Superman is my least favorite comic book hero. He is the Achilles of comic books. He only has one weakness…going on cocaine binges in Vegas. No wait, that’s not it, Kryptonite, that’s it. That’s his physical weakness, his character flaw is that he is too good. For example Batman has no problem dangling a bad guy from a rooftop to get answers, but I think Superman would frown on that. I really don’t know, since I haven’t read any Superman comics in ages because I think he sucks. But I digress…
Back to the trailer. It’s a Superman movie. It looks slicker than the old ones (obviously). But in essence it’s a movie about an almost invulnerable boy scout. I think I’m going to pass, or possibly I’ll wait for that to come to DVD.
Since I’m on comic book movies I’ll mention that I have not seen X-Men 3. But I have bought tickets to go see it on Sunday. I’m a little excited about the movie, but I find that these days I just can’t get as excited about movies as I used to. I blame this on Hollywood putting out shitty movies for the the past 5-10 years. There have been good movies in those years, don’t get me wrong. But for every Sin City there are 25 Stealths. I guess I’m tired of digging through a mound of shit to find gold flakes. I just hope that it’s not that I have out-grown movies, that I have lost my cinema innocence never to regain that sense of wonderment, the excitement at a trailer.

Time magazine online (is it still considered a magazine if its online?) has a really good double interview with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon (linky). Joss Whedon is the creator behind Firefly and Buffy among other things. Neil Gaiman is best known for the Sandman comic book series and has written quite a few novels.
Of course both creators have movies coming out on Sept 30th. Wedon has Serenity and Gaiman has Mirrormask
The Time interviewer comments on this…
“TIME: That’s exactly the simile I was looking for. So you guys both have movies coming out on September 30th.”
and I love Neil’s response
“NG: It will be National Geek Day. ”
There are a ton of great quotes in this interview, I would recommend reading it all the way through, especially if you are fan of either of the two creators.

“My ass is for sale and I want to do big movies that pay a lot of money to shoot in L.A. Starting right now: No more art!”
WILLIAM H. MACY telling the New York Daily News about his career goals.

I send myself news items from work, I think with the intention of bloggin my opinion about them… so here goes:

Gimme some sugar baby.

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Even though it looks like I’m jumping on the sentimental bandwagon, I’m going to post this anyway…
RIP Christoper Reeve

The Passion of the Clerks will be sequel to Clerks. The sequel will pick up ten years later from where it left Dante and Randal and the rest of the gang.