I’m not entirely fond of this style of animation, but at least they’re back to putting more clothes on Starfire. I know, I know, they toned down her costume for the first Teen Titans show. Which happens to be the one I like, so neener neener.
Category: Movies
Covert Media /Broken Road to create Star Wars parody, lawsuit(?).
Well, I ASSUME that there’s going to be a good chance for the latter:
A spoof of the Star Wars franchise is in development with Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, whose credits include the Scary Movie franchise, “Epic Movie” and “Vampires Suck.”
The duo will write and direct the project, titled “Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue.” Covert Media’s CEO Paul Hanson (“District 9”) is producing the film alongside Broken Road Productions’ Todd Garner (“True Memoirs of an International Assassin”).
…(Via GeekTyrant) This should be a fascinating contest of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. On one hand, we have the Mouse. On the other hand, we have the entire question of just how protected parodies are… which is danged convoluted. Seriously, the more I refreshed my memory on this, the more complicated it got. And on the gripping hand, Disney pretty much does nothing to go after porn parodies of its stuff (DO NOT SEARCH FOR EXAMPLES, IF YOU LOVE YOUR EYES), so maybe they won’t care, after all. Which sounds… weird, no?
‘Honest Trailers: John Wick.’
I like this one, because it raises an important point: Keanu Reeves starts series well, but he doesn’t have the best record when it comes to the sequel. Also: John Wick really didn’t cheat on the action sequences, did it? I totally missed it until after they compared it to Taken.
The ‘Iron Fist’ series trailer.
The preparations are complete. Now Marvel prepares for the next stage of its machinations. Which will be awesome, because a Defenders series probably means… yup. Squirrel Girl. At the bare minimum, there’ll be a cameo.
(Iron Fist drops March 17th.)
And then there’s the latest “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” trailer.
This one I’m more comfortable liking on sight.
If they stick with the kind of big, kind of cheerfully messy, and kind of indifferent to whether or not a particular Good Bit looks too goofy attitude that we saw in the first movie, things should be fine. Shoot, I don’t even really care about the plot. Yeah, go get that Space Macguffin. What I care about is that everybody have fun while doing it.
The… Ayup. The “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” trailer.
Here we go again. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Comes out Memorial Day. It… might not suck? I mean, I liked On Stranger Tides well enough. But I would, wouldn’t I?
The Samurai Jack Season 5 trailer.
Here we go. March 11th. And nothing else needs to be said.
Quote of the Day, You Tell ‘Em, Cthulhu edition.
“Please make better movies about me.”
Moe Lane
PS: Geeks Are Sexy updated to note that the 2005 HPLHS silent movie Call of Cthulhu Did Not Suck, which is true: it did not. It was also decidedly not produced by Hollywood, which is absolutely an indictment of Hollywood — and buttresses the comic’s original point, to boot. If a bunch of enthusiasts can create an excellent Cthulhu flick, there’s no reason why a major studio can’t produce at least a decent one.
Yet another tooth-grinding trailer for ‘Life.’
OK, class: who can tell me what’s wrong with this picture from the upcoming aliens-eating-you-in-orbit movie Life?
That’s right, class: FIRE. That is a device that creates fire. On a space station. And somebody thought that it was a good idea to haul that mass up a gravity well*. Fire does not belong on a space station. Aside from everything else, it eats the oxygen that your astronauts will be needing, and you cannot crack a window to let more oxygen in. Because it’s space.
Continue reading Yet another tooth-grinding trailer for ‘Life.’
Quote of the Day, Michael Bay Taunts Us All About Transformers edition.
GeekTyrant thinks that he might mean it, this time: “On the heels of this morning’s clip of the Transformers: The Last KnightSuper Bowl ad, Michael Bay has announced he’s officially leaving the franchise…again.” But they note that Michael Bay LIES because he is a lying LIAR. …Sorry. This franchise annoys me, because every time I see a Michael Bay Transformers film I’m left with the feeling that there is a good movie buried in there. Somewhere. If I squint just the right way.
But the movies rack up the cash, so what do I know? …No, seriously: that’s a potent argument, for me. The last Transformers flick brought in over a billion dollars worldwide while only managing a 18% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes (51% from fans), which argues that it works as entertainment for somebody. A lot of somebodies. I have to acknowledge that.