waking dreams

I am, without doubt, a fan of the superhero-movie genre. I get excited about new Batman movies, and 2011 will bring us Green Lantern, Captain America AND Thor, and of course there's the Avengers movie next year.

But all of that just got shoved to one side by what may actually be the best, or one of the best, superhero movies of 2011.

Also, it's 12 minutes long and cost only $300 to make.

www.lazyteenagesuperheroes.com

Watch! enjoy! let the democratisation of technology continue!

I saw Predators. (It's produced by Robert Rodriguez! I had to!)

IT WAS AWESOME.

( spoilers )

PS. Adrien Brody? Hot. Badass.

So, my local (and only, but I won't rant about that now) cinema FINALLY got around to showing The Losers.

I'll admit it, I was there for Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

(I'm now half convinced that Clay is our universe's version of the Comedian, btw. Yeah. Um...)

Also, and this may be a sign of the rather worrying extent to which fandom has taken over my brain, all it took was for one character to use the word "leverage", completely in context, not referring to a certain TV show/"consulting" group at all, and I started thinking "...hey, that would actually make a pretty awesome crossover".

Then I thought some more about it on the way home. I think I may have to actually write that now.

(completely unrelated, but I also thought that, were circumstances a little different, Clay would make a rather awesome Christopher Chance. Not that I want anything to happen to the current encumbent of that name, but, you know, if the situation was different....)

Anyway. Awesome movie. Unpretentious, lots of shit blowing up, but not "just a dumb action movie" either. Also, not lacking in the pretty. I mean, Cougar, guys. Just Cougar on his own would be enough. The others as well is just spoiling us.

Oh, and there was an ad for The A-Team before the movie, too, and I remembered why I want to see *that* movie. The reason? His name's Bradley Cooper. Yeahhhh....

You know it's true....

This is the spill.com review for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's new movie. I have not seen this movie, only the review.



All I can say at this point is...

damn, I think he actually makes a movie that, by comparison, makes Southland Tales look really, really good.

(Southland Tales is... complex. It's fun, but in a WTF-is-going-on-why-can't-I-stop-watching sort of way... which is better than this movie looks.)

So, yeah, vampire novels are EVERYWHERE these days. Ditto movies. I think we all know why.

Werewolves - up 'til now - seem to have been a bit left out.

I say "until now" because The Wolfman with Benicio del Toro just came out.

It's awesome. And also has Hugo Weaving and Anthony Hopkins in. And... well, no offence to the newly un-jailbait Taylor Lautner but... Sharkboy with airbrushed muscles and some mediocre CGI is not my idea of a werewolf... *not ranting about sparklepires today*...

but The Wolfman gets it right. It's dark and scary and bloody and more than a few people get torn into bits (there is one scene where there are just these bits of organs and stuff scattered over the ground, srsly). Also, without the prosthetics Benicio del Toro is... definitely not unattractive.

Also, the heroine (who does actually deserve the word, btw) rocks. Hard. She's smart, caring and able to find the resolve to do what she has to (despite not wanting to)... and oh, this movie's set in 1894. Therefore, screw you, Bella Swan. Gwen can kick your whiny ass any day.


AWESOME TRAILERS THIS WEEK:

Clash of the Titans, with Sam Worthington in non-giant-blue-person form. Also, GIANT FREAKING SCORPIONS. It looks fun in a really stupid kind of way.

Kick-Ass. Comic book movie, based off of a GN by Mark Millar (guy who wrote Wanted). IS GOING TO BE FANTASTIC. This is all.

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Now, I have to go watch, in no particular order, Lost, Supernatural, Caprica and Leverage. And also remind myself that I will not get upset on the 14th. Believe it or not, the reason for that has absolutely nothing to do with Valentine's Day, which is so insignificant to me personally that it doesn't even register, and everything to do with a character I still miss rather a lot.

Just saw an Avatar trailer...

and I realised that one element of the plot is (so far as I could tell) basically Pocohontas on an alien planet.

Well, I guess imperialism and exploitation is one of those things that transcends boundaries.


Also just saw a trailer for the new Alice in Wonderland movie (the Johnny Depp one). It looks good. Plot suspiciously reminiscent of the very recent Alice TV movie that SyFy just aired, but whatever...

Ah, yeah, now I remember why I try to avoid watching movies with the parents these days.


The fact that mein vater insists on having the TV on full volume because he can't hear the film over the sound of the crisp packet he was eating from is just the beginning. He also does not appear to grasp the fact that while Richard Curtis makes films that are technically set in 20th or 21st century England, such films are not necessarily realistic.

(Movie was The Boat That Rocked, btw. Decent, overall. Good music.)

I've had this.. idea, I guess, that Michael C Hall would make a really, fantastically awesome amoral evil genius type character, bent on world domination, possibly with a white cat and an evil laugh.

It would seem that I was right about that, because that basically is who he plays in Gamer, and you know what? He's AWESOME. (No cat, unfortunately, but he does laugh in an evilish kinda way a few times)

There was also a slight Broadway moment. It was a WTFH moment IN THE EXTREME, and must be seen to be believed.

And... actually, yeah, it's a good movie all round. Though, TBH, any film with Gerard Butler, Michael C Hall, and Kyra Sedgewick all in the same place is FINE by me. Lots of explosions and stuff, too, and some downright WEIRD moments.

I should also point out that yes, there is one scene of this movie that involves Milo Ventimiglia wearing... skintight latex. Er. Yeah.... it is a good movie, I swear.

OK, so I saw The Time-traveler's Wife yesterday.

It was good.

(Then again, any film with that much Naked!Eric Bana is FINE by me... er...)

Anyways...

Being scientifically-minded, I got to thinking about Henry and Alba and the timetraveling thing. And now I've decided that, basically, Henry's traveling is the beginning of a new stage of human evolution, into... idk, X-men mutants or whatever.

Think about it - Henry can timetravel, but can't control it at all. Alba can timetravel, but has a degree of control over it. Anyone want to bet that Alba's hypothetical future child will have an even greater amount of control?