A Nightmare on Elm Street Definitely Felt Like That

If I was an emoticon kinda guy, I would have put a frowney face after that title. But I'm not, so I didn't. But the movie still sucked. I will give it two things thought: 1) Visually, it looked real good. They did their job with that part. And B) Jackie Earle Haley was pretty awesome as Freddy. He didn't seem to have as much screen time as I thought he would be and he kinda mumbled like Rorschach at times but he was still pretty awesome.
It's just a shame that they had to cast such shitty actors in it. The writing was pretty bad too, but ya kind of expect that in a movie like this. I guess you kind of expect bad acting too. I guess I just figured that they would try to do something that wasn't already done in all the other versions of it. Which means good acting and good writing. Oh well. I suppose they still have time to look up Death Machine. (seriously, that's a horrible movie and you should try to watch it. I dare ya)

Oops...

It's Been two weeks since I last posted anything? Man, I have some problems. You all know I can talk at great lengths, so why is this any different? I have no idea but I feel like I have let you all down and I hope you let me make it up to you. Again. So I'll go right into my movie review.
Kick-Ass was amazing.
I'm a big fan of the comic, but I gotta tell ya, it seemed like moving over to a movie format may not be the easiest thing. And I was wrong. The first half was pretty similar to what set-ups the book has but the back end is a bit different. And I think I may actually have like the movie version a little better. I loved it. I think the only thing I didn't like were some of the cliched Italians. And that's only because I wish I were more in touch with my heritage as one. It was a great movie. If you can stand the blood and violence and language, go see it. Every comic geek should be there at some point. Unless you don't like blood and violence and language. Then skip it. But you should go anyway. You know how I know I really loved it? I actually like Nic Cage. And I hate that dudes acting. But I really liked him in this. Go see it. I can't say it enough.

Bucky Gets a Name

News is throwing out that Sebastian Stan has signed on to a 5 movie deal to play Cap's sidekick Bucky Barnes. The guy is apparently on Gossip Girl (hooray...) but some of you might recognize him from the recent Hot Tub Time Machine (Sarah, I know you've seen that one a couple of times) where he played Blaine. I would imagine this is the main ski patrol guy whom I thought was named Lane....

But oh well. He kinds looks the part but I really have no recollection of his acting so it's yet another vote I will hold onto until I see the movie.

Blackest Night 8 w/ Spoilers and Pictures

So who read Blackest Night 8? Anybody? Nobody? Alright, good. Here's what happened...

My ass got kicked.

Awesome series with an awesome ending. After Sinestro becoming the embodiment on Life after he merged with The Entity, I wasn't quite sure what Johns was going to do next. And yet the ending wasn't the biggest surprise. Nekron pulls Sinestro and Entity apart only to have Hal, after a plethora of "we choose life" comments joining it and making his own "White Lantern Corps"! And of course, if Black brings the dead, then it only stands to reason that White brings the life, and Hal begins bringing the dead back to life, including William Hand, the Anti-Monitor, Deadman (go figure) and all the heroes we've been missing.

Overall, kind of cheesy but a great issue and a great series. It most definately makes me excited for Brightest Day, also written by Johns and Tomasi. I do believe it starts this month.

The Arrow Family is Making Another Run

I'ma go under the assumption that you people aren't reading many comics anymore, let alone what's happening to Green Arrow and his family so I'm gonna give a ya a quick(ish) rundown and why it's cool. In Justice League Cry for Justice, the original Prometheus came back. After figuring it out, Prometheus cut off Red Arrow's arm. He then went on to try and destroy the cities of the heroes. Only way to stop him is to let him go (which of course works somehow...) but Arrow's city, Star City, has already been blown to pieces, Killing thousands including Ollie's pseudo-granddaughter and Conner's actual daughter, Lian. Destroying his city, maiming his "son" and killing his "granddaughter", believe it or not, sends Ollie over the edge. He is the one who talks the League into letting Prometheus go, only to hunt him down and kill him himself. Now he is on the hunt for the Electrucutioner, who helped Prometheus, while on the run from the other Leaguers who are now trying to stop him (cuz heroes never kill...). Meanwhile, after waking up, Conner has come to find out that Prometheus' blade that took his arm also released nanites so they are having a hard time fixing it, not to mention that he now has to hear his daughter was killed while he was out. Turning to pills to ease the pain, we are starting seeing the old drug addict of the 70's once more.

I love what they're doing. Ollie is one of the few that I can see actually crossing that line. Damn right he's gonna want blood. "Yes they deserved to die! And I hope they burn in hell!" (look it up. It's actually a pretty good movie). Not to mention the emotion that writer JT Krul is putting into this. We all know I'm a smart-ass who jokes a lot but the three pages where Conner sees his daughter's body are heart-wrenching. I don't know if the Arrow Family has ever been this interesting to me.

In terms of books, Cry for Justice was good, but it felt rushed. It was originally was supposed to be another League ongoing but it got moved into a 7-issue mini instead so you can feel the places where things were shortened in order to fit. But it was still a pretty good story. Most of the art on this page was done by Mauro Cascioli who did the painted art on the first 4 issues but the final three were mostly done by filler artists. Green Arrow and The Rise of Arsenal are both written by JT Krul with art by this guy and that guy but I don't know their names (so sue me). This book is selling out at most levels so you'll probably want to pick up trades if ya get into it and if you have any interest at this point, I recommend it. The Cry for Justice mini should be available in hardcover but the others have just started so it'll be five of six months until they get collected.

Cap (Sorta) Confirmed

So, as Ryan said in his comment the last time around, reports are saying that Evans has accepted the role of Cap. Main voice to believe would probably be Avengers movie producer Jon Favreau who said on his twitter account "Welcome to the new Captain. He continues the fine tradition of playing two Marvel characters!"
So..... what do ya think? Good pick? Like I said, I like him for the look and the action, but not sure how to feel about the "being him" part. All I can go with is the fact that despite all that can be said for the movies, almost all of the casting for Marvel has been great. I hope Evans proves me wrong and is amazing.

WTF, DC? WTF?

What the hell is wrong with DC? You guys seeing this picture to the side? Catgirl? F-ing Catgirl?! After reading all this love for Tony Daniel's work on Batman, I decided to get caught up on the book and this is the crap people are liking? The dude's first writing gig was the three issue mini Battle for the Cowl and it was, at best, mediocre. But this? It's a sad time for the Bat-family. Morrison's Batman and Robin is good and all but the only Bat-book worth reading right now seems to be the only one without Batman in it! And that Bat-character is a lesbian (which has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to throw it out there)! What is wrong with DC? Here's my idea: give Geoff Johns the writing reigns for a while. To everything. Let him fix it all. Steer things in a good direction. Then it will at least look like they're trying...

F-ing Catgirl....

Chris "Johnny Storm" Evans offered Cap....?

Really? Chris Evans has been offered the part of Captain America? What the Hell?! Don't get me wrong, I like me some Chris Evans. For all the flaws that the two FF movies had, him as Torch wasn't one of my complaints. I enjoyed him in Cellular (though that movie sucked too), Sunshine was complete rip of Event Horizon but he was great in that, he looks good in The Losers but that's not even out yet, and Push has been one of my favorite "sleeper hits" in some time. Not to mention my giant man-crush on him. But Captain America? Steve "Eat Your Wheaties" Rogers?! This character is the moral compass for the Marvel Universe. The role model on integrity that all others can look up to, and Chris Evans came to mind? I just don't see that.
Though, I didn't see Downey Jr as Iron Man as first either so I can only hope that Marvel has seen something in his auditions that I haven't

Dear Diary 5

Dear Diary,
Today I bought Ninja Assassin on blu-ray and it gave me an NB. I had an NB in Best Buy while buying it. I had an NB in my car on the ride home. I had an NB in the living room while it was on the HD flat-screen. I had an NB while just taking the blu-ray into the basement. Hell, I have an NB just typing about it! I love me some Ninja Assassin and I am grateful that one was smart enough to make this movie. Now, I am off to do something about all these NB's...
Love Always
ME

Little Facts

Two things of interest (possibly).
First, don't go see She's Out of My League. It was pretty stupid and all the funny parts were in the trailers. If you haven't heard of it, then don't worry. You're not missing much. Plus there was no nudity.
Second, reports are say that Agent Smith himself, Hugo Weaving, is in talks to play the Red Skull for the upcoming First Avenger movie. Would probably do a good job, in my book though I don't know how of if he could pull off a German accent. And oddly enough, one of the dudes from She's Out of My League is still one of the names up for the role of Cap. Personally, I'm still all for Captain Awesome from Chuck playing him.

New Iron Man 2 Trailer

http://www.newsarama.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=NA_100308_iron-man2
Watch it. You know you want to.

Nobody Knows Who Lee Pace Is

But you should. Even though it was prematurely cancelled (one of the many), Pushing Daisies was amazing. If you haven't watched it, you need to. It's all about the Ned, the Pie Man (Pace) who is able to bring people back from the dead with a mere touch. Only he must touch them again, within a minute to put them back or else somebody else dies in their place. And of course, they decide to use his power to bring people back, in order to get information from them so that they can collect reward money. Great show.
But I'm losing my first thought. I watched a movie with Lee Pace in it last night called The Fall and I thought it was amazing. I would absolutely recommend watching it. It's the story of a stuntman who, after a fall, befriends a little girl in a hospital in the early 1900's (1920-ish, I think). However, things are not quite as they appear, as he begins to tell her a story, all in an attempt to get her to sneak around and still him pills. Great movie with great imagery. And (don't tell anyone you heard it from me) it had an amazingly touching story. You will feel the connections bonded between these two by the end of the movie. Watch it. Stop reading this crap that I'm typing and go watch it.

I Actually Liked Tracy Morgan

Was lucky enough to watch Cop Out last night and I will freely admit that I loved it. I know a lot of critics have been bashing it and that I am a little biased when it come to Kevin Smith movies (even if he only directed it) but this movie was funny as hell. I read a review that said it best: if you think this movie looks good and funny, you will probably find it such. It pretty much delivers what you think it will. It doesn't reach beyond anything. If you think this movie looks stupid, skip it. But if you have any interest, I would say see it. Good stuff. And if you are still up in the air about it, I would recommend watching the red band trailer for it. A quick google search should bring it up somewhere.
But they should have stayed with the original title of A Couple of Dicks. Fits the movie a little better.

Double Review

Two movies in the last couple of days that I would love to share my opinion on.

The Crazies: Trailers for this one made me think that I would be in for an amazing zombie-ish gore fest. I was wrong. Crazies isn't a bad movie, really. You don't go into these kind thinking they're gonna be great anyway but it wasn't bad. My only real complaint was that there was much less gore than I thought there would be. That's really the main reason I watched it. But it was cool. decent stuff. If you're interested in it, you'll probably like it.

Black Dynamite: Holy mother of funny! This movie may be one of the best farce movies I have seen in a very long time. It looked like a funny movie but I really had no idea that I would laugh this much. If you have never heard of it, Dynamite is about a kung fu brotha who, after his real brother is shot dead, returns to the CIA to rid the streets of smack and avenge his brother's death with blood and... well kung fu. Huge play on the old school blaxploitation films, this one if awesome. It's out on dvd now so if you have no problem with foul language, profane nudity and kung fu treachery, then you have to see it. Have to. See it.

Leo DeCrapeo Still Sucks

Watched Shutter Island last night and it's clear to me that DeCrapeo is relying on Scorsese to have any kind of career. And I wish I could say this was another one to keep him alive but alas, the luck has run out. Shutter is the story of two federal marshals investigating the disappearance of an inmate in the country's "worst of the worst" insane asylum. Visually, Scorsese still knows what he's doing but the writing was sub-par at best. Plot holes throughout, a mysterious bandage in Leo's head the whole time, Rorschach for only five minutes and a "twist ending" that you will have to be 10 years old not to see. The only plus to this movie is the it reminds me that I'm one day closer to watching Cop Out.