dexter - seasons 4 and 5
this one has been a little bit of a headscratcher for the past month or so. the series is based on a trilogy of books, and this season will end out the books. there was a part of me that was hoping they would go out on top and just end this season and walk away...silly me not thinking about hollywood. i'm still up in the air about this season, and i'm frankly not sure how much longer they can drag out the "oh my god they're going to catch me / oh thank god i'm safe" angle, but i'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt...the show is definitely dumbed down from the first half of the first season, but still a good watch every week...
no hulk 2
so marvel has been smart enough not to badmouth the hulk - at least before the dvd sales are in - and also smart enough to know that there's not going to be another one anytime soon. even as a comic nerd i wasn't in a rush to see this one, especially in a summer full of superhero movies. but the good news is that the hulk is not gone and forgotten by any means. marvel hinted that we would see the hulk again soon, just not in his own movie, which lends credence to the rumors that the avengers movie would have the team facing down a rampaging hulk...fingers crossed.
daniel craig turns down thor
thank fucking god! look, i loved the guy in layer cake and road to perdition, and i'm sure he's a great bond, but i really haven't felt the need to see him anything else. he's bland and pretty boring - kinda the blonde, english version of keanu reeves. they've had enough trouble between matt vaughn's 300m dollar budget and script overhauls already without having to worry about daniel craig coming in and mucking it up...might as well use jason statham if you're going to go that route. you've got kenneth fucking branaugh on board...don't fuck this up in the casting...
13 tzameti remake
speaking of jason statham...hollywood, fucking stop it! quit casting him in movies that he doesn't belong in, and quit remaking foreign films instead of using your distribution wing to make sure people see the real thing!
so, they've decided to remake the amazing film 13 tzameti - now simply called 13. if you haven't seen it, then quit reading and go put it on your netflix list. chud put it perfectly when they called it the audition of russian roulette movies - an hour of plot development followed by thirty minutes of you yelling "what the fuck" at the screen. great movie, and one that deserved a lot more love over here...
...and most likely will, but not the right kind. the original director has been given the option to direct, which is a good thing. but the casting consists of jason statham, mickey rourke, and 50 cent - or fitty as we call him on the street.
this is such a horrible fucking mistake. you're not going to be able to improve on the sheer weirdness of the film, so that means all you can do at this point is screw it up...maybe with a romantic lead - i'd suggest renee zellwedsksdksfder - and a happy ending where all the guns shoot happiness and fairy dust...maybe one of the characters learns something about himself in the process. i want to cut my wrists now...
(rob)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
New Punisher Series
finally, a new series for the punisher. i loved war journal when it started out around the time of the death of captain america. the image of the punisher cap made for an awesome cover, and a great premise. then bucky took on the mantle and punisher kinda started slipping for me. around the time of the jigsaw storyline i quit reading altogether. i'll pick up the last few issues that deal with the skrull invasion, but it's a series that i'm done with.
same for the garth ennis punisher. ennis is one of the rare writers that i think honestly understood the character and what he stood for. his run will easily go down in my top twenty with no hesitation. but he dropped off and they brought on new writers, and again the quality starts to slip - like your favorite restaurant gone to pot. they used to serve the best steaks - lean, perfectly grilled, and just melt in your mouth. simple, but effective, and you just want more. and then they decide to skimp a little on the meat - but just a bit. and it may still be good, but you're nitpicking over every little piece of fat that wasn't trimmed off, upset about just a little too much char on the outside. and it's never the same.
so when i heard about a new series for the punisher today - set to debut in february, as soon as war journal ends its run - i was a little skeptical. any fan of the punisher has gotten used to having their heart broken over the years as people took a simple character and bastardized him rather than work with him (ahem...black punisher).
but i have mixed feelings. the little bit of art that i saw looks good - no runaways anime bullshit here folks - and the writer claims he's taking frank back to his roots...hunting criminals. and in a post civil war marvel universe full of unregistered super heroes - and villains - that means the new avengers had better watch their back. that's right, we're going to get punisher the way punisher used to play - going up against spiderman, wolverine, daredevil, etc...
...unless it derails with issue one, which has the punisher going up against the sentry...that's right, the motherfucking sentry...this is kinda like lois lane deciding to take on superman in a fight with no kryptonite. had they started with daredevil or spiderman, or even a return of the kingpin to new york i would have been on board, but punisher is the batman of our marvel universe - he's not superhuman, and to see him take on the sentry really makes me hestitant about the rest of the series...
but as always i guess we'll have to wait and see...if it's great it will still have to compare to ennis. and if it sucks...well we're all used to that by now...
(rob)
same for the garth ennis punisher. ennis is one of the rare writers that i think honestly understood the character and what he stood for. his run will easily go down in my top twenty with no hesitation. but he dropped off and they brought on new writers, and again the quality starts to slip - like your favorite restaurant gone to pot. they used to serve the best steaks - lean, perfectly grilled, and just melt in your mouth. simple, but effective, and you just want more. and then they decide to skimp a little on the meat - but just a bit. and it may still be good, but you're nitpicking over every little piece of fat that wasn't trimmed off, upset about just a little too much char on the outside. and it's never the same.
so when i heard about a new series for the punisher today - set to debut in february, as soon as war journal ends its run - i was a little skeptical. any fan of the punisher has gotten used to having their heart broken over the years as people took a simple character and bastardized him rather than work with him (ahem...black punisher).
but i have mixed feelings. the little bit of art that i saw looks good - no runaways anime bullshit here folks - and the writer claims he's taking frank back to his roots...hunting criminals. and in a post civil war marvel universe full of unregistered super heroes - and villains - that means the new avengers had better watch their back. that's right, we're going to get punisher the way punisher used to play - going up against spiderman, wolverine, daredevil, etc...
...unless it derails with issue one, which has the punisher going up against the sentry...that's right, the motherfucking sentry...this is kinda like lois lane deciding to take on superman in a fight with no kryptonite. had they started with daredevil or spiderman, or even a return of the kingpin to new york i would have been on board, but punisher is the batman of our marvel universe - he's not superhuman, and to see him take on the sentry really makes me hestitant about the rest of the series...
but as always i guess we'll have to wait and see...if it's great it will still have to compare to ennis. and if it sucks...well we're all used to that by now...
(rob)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Captain America Found on Hulk DVD
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/found-captain-america-in-the-incredible-hulk.php
ok, well this shows us a little more about the timeframe of captain america showing up in the marvel film universe. it's a little blurry, but that's definitely a frozen cap...
i'm giddy with comic geekness...the next few years are gonna be great ones for the comic nerds...
(rob)
ok, well this shows us a little more about the timeframe of captain america showing up in the marvel film universe. it's a little blurry, but that's definitely a frozen cap...
i'm giddy with comic geekness...the next few years are gonna be great ones for the comic nerds...
(rob)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
This also made for lollerskates
And would have made for spank bank material if it hadn't been for Biden.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Here's a good collection of links
I believe they approve links pretty well. Some links NSFW so watch out.
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Obey the Durian
Well here's what I can tell you about the Durian. Anything you may have heard about the overwhelming odor that they produce is true. If anything those reports may be understated. It pretty much smells like a swamp gone bad, and it's not as if swamps smell good to begin with.
I thought about not smelling it before I tried it but the food geek in me would not allow that. If I was going to do this I was going to do it right and get the complete Durian experience. So I took a big whif, then I thought to myself there is no way a human should ingest anything that smells like that, and then I took a sip.
The flavor is really hard to describe. At first I detected a sweet almond flavor but the swamp smell really spilled into the flavor. I wound up with a sweet swampy almond flavor kicking around in my mouth. Immediately I thought, this is a horrible horrible thing. I was, however, determined to finish this thing. Under no circumstances would I leave it on the side of the road or anything like that. I was in it for the long haul.
At about the halfway I went from holy christ I can't take another sip to wait a minute, there's something good in here. Literally for the first half of the beverage I had to struggle with every sip. Now everything had changed. I was now involved in an incredible flavor experience that had awakened me to a whole new world.
I rapidly consumed the remaining durian, with boba nonetheless, and I knew I would have to have more. The place that I got it was closed though. The next morning I got up and drove across town to get my second durian. This was completely different. The smell which less than 24 hours ago had repulsed me to no end I now found strangely pleasing. I tore into this one with reckless abandon. I couldn't get enough. Insanely delicious is the only way that I could describe it.
Tuesday I was at work. I had taken the train which means my car was not available to me. I hopped online and found a Vietnamese restaurant that was about 10 minutes away and convinced Rob to take me over there. I had already checked the menu and they had durian. He went with me and I told him he was going to have to get one. Begrudgingly he did, as he is also somewhat of a foodie and couldn't leave without at least giving it a try.
I hopped back into his car tingling with anticipation. I was also pretty excited to see how he would react to his. He smelled it first and nearly puked. He also said something like What the fuck did you get me into but I was too excited to care. I started drinking mine, enjoying the boba's which had already started to absorb the flavor of the durian and were roughly akin to durian flavored chewing gum. This was great.
Rob, however, did not share my enthusiasm. He tried 2 little sips and thought he might die. We got back to work where the entire office was fascinated by our little treats. I drank all of mine, that was 3 in 3 days. Rob then told me he was going to trash his and I told him the hell if he was. I took it and drank it right down. Make that 4 in 3 days.
I didn't have one yesterday but I drove to work today so rest assured that I will be getting one on the way home. I don't know if there are any hardcore Vietnamese places around you but you need to track one down and try this. I found several Vietnamese grocery stores that sell the actual Durian fruit and I will be picking one up to eat in it's natural form.
waldo
I thought about not smelling it before I tried it but the food geek in me would not allow that. If I was going to do this I was going to do it right and get the complete Durian experience. So I took a big whif, then I thought to myself there is no way a human should ingest anything that smells like that, and then I took a sip.
The flavor is really hard to describe. At first I detected a sweet almond flavor but the swamp smell really spilled into the flavor. I wound up with a sweet swampy almond flavor kicking around in my mouth. Immediately I thought, this is a horrible horrible thing. I was, however, determined to finish this thing. Under no circumstances would I leave it on the side of the road or anything like that. I was in it for the long haul.
At about the halfway I went from holy christ I can't take another sip to wait a minute, there's something good in here. Literally for the first half of the beverage I had to struggle with every sip. Now everything had changed. I was now involved in an incredible flavor experience that had awakened me to a whole new world.
I rapidly consumed the remaining durian, with boba nonetheless, and I knew I would have to have more. The place that I got it was closed though. The next morning I got up and drove across town to get my second durian. This was completely different. The smell which less than 24 hours ago had repulsed me to no end I now found strangely pleasing. I tore into this one with reckless abandon. I couldn't get enough. Insanely delicious is the only way that I could describe it.
Tuesday I was at work. I had taken the train which means my car was not available to me. I hopped online and found a Vietnamese restaurant that was about 10 minutes away and convinced Rob to take me over there. I had already checked the menu and they had durian. He went with me and I told him he was going to have to get one. Begrudgingly he did, as he is also somewhat of a foodie and couldn't leave without at least giving it a try.
I hopped back into his car tingling with anticipation. I was also pretty excited to see how he would react to his. He smelled it first and nearly puked. He also said something like What the fuck did you get me into but I was too excited to care. I started drinking mine, enjoying the boba's which had already started to absorb the flavor of the durian and were roughly akin to durian flavored chewing gum. This was great.
Rob, however, did not share my enthusiasm. He tried 2 little sips and thought he might die. We got back to work where the entire office was fascinated by our little treats. I drank all of mine, that was 3 in 3 days. Rob then told me he was going to trash his and I told him the hell if he was. I took it and drank it right down. Make that 4 in 3 days.
I didn't have one yesterday but I drove to work today so rest assured that I will be getting one on the way home. I don't know if there are any hardcore Vietnamese places around you but you need to track one down and try this. I found several Vietnamese grocery stores that sell the actual Durian fruit and I will be picking one up to eat in it's natural form.
waldo
Rachel Ray
I'll admit it. I find her terribly obnoxious. I hear she's a horrid bitch. I don't even watch her shows anymore. But I would still like to bang Rachel Ray. So here's this for those that share my opinion.
Cina Carano is fighting tonight
The big story is Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock but I'm more interested in what Gina has to do to make weight.
If you have the media in your back pocket,
and you tell the people that this financial mess is all the conservatives fault, then you will benefit even if the facts show you to be wrong.
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waldo
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waldo
Like most democrats
Joe Biden evidently does not know what a constitution is.
As always click title for story.
waldo
As always click title for story.
waldo
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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