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New 9 Trailer - Looks even better than the first trailer and the story is much more apparent to me than in the previous trailer. Reading the first comment though, people laughing at the trailer is just ridiculous; which can only be attributed to people’s complete ignorance and the stereotypes of what animation is and what animation can be - you know who you are.
MacFarlane confirms Family Guy Movie - Will he learn from the Simpsons movie? Will he learn from the South Park movie? Is there anything to learn from that piece of shit, or will it also be just a really really long episode?
Princess and the Frog Trailer - The second movie to come out of Disney under John Lasseter’s directorship (and by that I mean, him being in charge rather than him directing the movies), and this actually looks absolutely stunning. It’s like Disney remembered what is was good at and put it in this movie. This trailer will take you back to when you were a kid.
District 9 Trailer (HD) - Interesting trailer. Not sure what to make of it or what the story will be like, but the production values and how they try and make it seem like a documentary put it on my definitely maybe list of movies to go and watch.
The Hunt For Gollum - Fan movie which was released for the Sci Fi festival in London. Seems to be extremely well made, and it’s there for free to watch.
Miyazaki’s Ponyo Trailer - The man has never stopped amazing me in the sheer depth of his imagination projected onto the screen. Can’t wait for this movie to come out.
When Worlds Collide - Spock Confronts the Ultimate Challenge. Comic from Paul Pope, to get you in the Star Trek mood, just before the movie comes out.
Star Trek Trailer 3 - The battle for my favourite movie this year is most definitely on. This of all things might make me into a Star Trek fan…that really does scare me, but seriously, that trailer is immense. Absolutely loved the music and the general look and feel of it. Although having said all of that I bet that Star Trek purist will be outraged, mainly because this movie won’t be Star Trek boring.
Watchmen on CBR - A whole slew of articles and videos covering the Watchmen phenomenon. Clearly Alan Moore’ curse or spell didn’t really have any effect on the movie, and by the looks of things it’s going to kick some ass in the box office as well. I just got back from watching it, so there’s bound to be a review of it in due course.
Terminator Salvation / Trailer 2 - Oh now that is more like it. Is that NIN in the background?Maybe McG has created something worth watching, as long as I can get the whole Christian Bale outburst thing, I might even enjoy this.
Franklyn Trailer - Interesting looking new British sci-fi/fantasy movie that oddly has a very ‘Dark City’ feel to it.
Angel of Death Debut - From the mind of Ed Brubaker comes this internet series on Crackle. Interesting to see if this format actually has any traction.
Monsters VS Aliens - The animation looks crisp, and from the trailer alone, I think the Blob is easily the breakthrough character.
Battle for Terra Trailer - Another animated movie I’m looking forward to watching this year.
http://www.brokenkode.com/movie-list-battle-for-terra-trailer-page
Christian Bale Goes Bat S**t on Peter Griffin - It never ceases to amaze me how on the pulse Family Guy is with today’s pop culture. These guys never miss a beat.
This was a HUGE Battlestar Galactica Episode. This post is rife with SPOILERS, so if you’ve not seen the episode go somewhere else, nothing to read here.
No Exit answered many questions that have been lingering with most of us for years. As the EW review says, I definitely feel like i’ve deserved this particular episode dammit. I sat through years of BSG goodness, and dammit I wanted some resolution. However this episode didn’t give you everything. It answered (or tried to answer) a number of questions, however these are some of the questions outstanding.
Who Nuked Earth?
So on Kobol, humanity was born. 4000 years ago a tribe from Kobol left for somewhere else. These were the tribe that eventually came to Earth. As it turns out this tribe was completely made of Cylons created on Kobol; back then they could only reanimated themselves. These Cylons left Kobol 2000 years prior to the rest of the tribes leaving Kobol, since they wanted to have their own world (which explains why the left earlier and in the opposite direction to everyone else). Over time they learnt how to reproduce without copies. Emulating humans as best they could.
Eventually these guys (over the course of several 1000 years) forgot how to do this, because they didn’t need know. The lingering question remained however was who nuked Earth? Was it themselves? Unfortunately this little interview snippet doesn’t really shed much light on that question. For the sake of argument let’s just say that a war began between the Cylons and Humans from Kobol. The 5 Cylons were warned (through the ‘Head’ characters) and so they went off to stop the same from happening to the rest of the colonies and trying to actually live together in peace.
The Plan
Now John Cavil as the evil super villian is pretty interesting, except the producers of the show obviously know that for him to pull of something like this there must have been a pretty intricate plan. So they’re going to be releasing a movie called ‘The Plan’ to further elaborate on this series of events and how it actually came about.
Daniel
As for Daniel, he’s basically Kera’s father. Simple. Before he dies he goes off and has the first hybrid baby. Now obviously the question is how did this actually happen? I always thought that the problem has always been that they couldn’t really have babies. Athena was meant to have had the first one with Helo, so there’s a loophole here, but I can’t remember what the deal is. But anyway, Kera is a hybrid, with a link to her dad, so she might be getting some of his memories? One bit of evidence that’s small but points in this general direction is that like her dear dad, Kera is also an artist.
Rorschachs Mask - Great making of video from the upcoming Watchmen movie. Interesting just how faithful they’ve tried to be down to the inkblots drawn on the mask. Shame that Moore will never see this movie as it’s probably going to be the one that is closest to his vision from all Hollywood adaptations.
Inglorious Basterds Trailer - And there you have it. Quentin Tarantino’s 7th movie (if you count Kill Bill as two separate movies).
Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 15 Promo - No Exit - Don’t click on the link if you’ve not seen the latest episodes, because it’s got a pretty major spoiler attached. For all those who have seen the latest episodes, this one promises to be an even better episode that the last two that we’ve just had.
Images Reveal McG’s Terminator Salvation Vision - The last time I saw something like this was the production art for ‘The Matrix’. Hopefully the story won’t suck.
Rhino - Easily the standout character from the movie Bolt; Rhino should get his own movie after this. Unlike Scat, this hampster could carry on an hour long movie. Best scene however is definitely:
Ring, ring? Who is it? Destiny? I’ve been expecting your call.
In anticipation of the new Watchmen movie (hopefully coming to a cinema near you), there is actually a slew of great books on offer to enhance the whole experience. If you’ve not read the source material, SHAME ON YOU. Your homework is to buy the Absolute Edition of this masterpiece and get reading. If you’ve already done that, don’t forget to grab the Dave Gibbons artbook, Watching the Watchmen.
If you are more into movie related books (I personally do like a good one), there is the standard Film companion (which is probably the weakest offering actually) as you can have the Art of the Film which is bound to be more interesting, especially when you get work by such greats as Adam Hughes (who has always been one of my favourite artists of all time). But possibly my favourite tie in book of the entire movie might have to be the Portraits book, which is a collection of black and white photographs taken during the making of the movie.
Don’t forget to read these books while listening to the official soundtrack. Yeah this movie is going to make someone a TON of money, some definitely from me.
Mary & Max - Quirky looking Australian animation (how many of those knocking about) that first appeared at the Sundance film festival. No trailer yet, or release date in the UK.
Planet 51Tease trailer - The little that is shown in this trailer definitely made me smile. Animation looks very crisp, in a Don Bluth kind of way, however its all about the story.
Slumdog Millionaire was released this week and it’s the latest effort form director Danny Boyle. I’d heard literally NOTHING about this movie but I knew from the way that it was being talked about that it might be a pretty good movie. I was wrong. It’s an EXCELLENT movie…see what I did there?
If you’ve not heard about it, starts off with the interrogation/torture of a young man who as we find out quickly is from the slums in Mumbai who manages to gets on the show ‘Who Wants to be a Milliionaire’. The story basically weaves the questions asked on the show with his life spanning across three time periods.
The situations and the character development is incredibly well paced and the story, much like the show keeps you on the edge of your seat. If I had a complaint it’s the fact that the ending that I came up in my head for the movie would have probably made it into more of a classic than it is destined to be.