September 22, 2008 – 8:48 am
(I almost wrote the subject line ‘Wearing Yellow Spandex’ but I get enough random weird search queries as it is…)
Limited Edition, the new podcast from John ‘Shuttler’ Nicholson, ex-host of TabulaCast, and his partner in crime Matt, has moved on to Episode 2 - and said episode has a brand new voice in the mix, namely me! Yes, after hearing episode one of the show I thought I could help these ‘babes in the wood’ on the subject of comics and superhero-type stuff, so I volunteered my services.
Did I completely take over? Are they regretting ever asking me to appear? Did I vent my spleen on the subject of NCsoft? Even worse, did I spill precious secrets about Issue 13??? Read More »
Seven days to Comic-Con in San Diego - and 230 days until Watchmen.
With The Dark Knight in US movie theaters today (another week for us to wait here in the UK - thanks, don’t tell me) it seems about the right time to release a movie trailer for Watchmen, doesn’t it?
Go see it right now in HD over at Apple. (And thank God it isn’t hosted on Yahoo!.)
Then come on back; I’ll be waiting. Read More »
Episode 2.5 of the Official NCE Podcast is now online for you to listen to, download as an MP3, or even subscribe to in your favourite RSS reader (now including iTunes). Tell ‘em I sent you.
Wait; that’d be telling me I sent you, so… don’t.
This installment is mostly left-over material from the MiniCon, including a long chat between Alex ‘GhostRaptor’ Weekes and I about Task Force: Omega, and a fun get-together between Alex, some random players and Aero just gabbing about the weekend in general. P’raps you’re in there.
On the flip side, if you can handle a non-BBFC-approved 18-rated podcast about movies, you can go listen to Tagline - the irreverent, infrequent podcast my bro and I put together. I’ve had two people tell me the latest episode was “funny” in the last two days, and only one of them was my wife, so I’d take that as a recommendation.
I found it interesting to read more than a few worried comments last week from movie commentators and analysts that Grand Theft Auto IV might actually affect the box office performance of Iron Man, given that GTA IV came out a few days ahead of Iron Man’s release, and that both of them are ostensibly aimed at the same audience.
With a nice round $100m opening weekend for Marvel’s first self-financed blockbuster, it’s fair to say that those predictions were absolutely bogus, although I never thought for a minute that GTA IV would do Iron Man any damage - and nor did the vice chairman of the studio releasing Iron Man, either:
”It’s crazy to think that young males can’t carve out two hours for Iron Man. It’s going to be a great week to be a young guy.”
Or even, erm, a not-so-young guy; this week has been a riot of new entertainment for me, between queuing for GTA IV outside Woolworths on Tuesday (Yep, there was a queue!) and sitting with my over-excited colleagues during Iron Man’s opening night. The idea that any of us were going to miss Iron Man to sit at home and play GTA IV was insane, even though I’m pretty sure every single one of us who saw the movie that night went home and played GTA IV afterwards. Read More »
Rocked.
That is all.
PS: Sequel? Already covered.
PPS: Great round-up of movie-related links over at Newsarama’s blog; warning, minor spoilers there.
PPPS: If you’re any kind of Marvel fan… wait in your seat riiight until the very, very last credit has rolled.
New Incredible Hulk trailer. Which is still not doing it for me.
I don’t really know why, which kind of bothers me. I think it’s possibly a combination of the Hulk himself (Too realistic? Too comic book? Can’t decide), that horrible abomination of an Abomination (or Tim Roth’s inexplicable English accent) and maybe - maybe - CG-fighting fatigue brought on by last summer’s Transformers. Big CG things smacking each other… eh.
It could just be that I still love the 2003 movie, and I’m being sour. Still don’t worry Marvel, your relentless campaign of brainwashing appears to be working great, and every forum fanboy seems to now insist that Ang Lee’s vision was rubbish just like you kept saying after this version got the go-ahead.
Iron Man, on the other hand? All over that bad boy. There’s an entire row in our local cinema pre-booked for the NC posse this very evening. So I’ll let you know how that turns out tomorrow.
Oh by the way, if you’re off to see it - I hear on very good authority that it’s worth staying past the (inevitably loooong) end credits….
PS: Bonus points if you recognise the title quote. Not that hard, mind you.
MTV is hosting the first (and much overdue) trailer for The Incredible Hulk (click the HD link if outside the US).
This would be ‘The Incredible Hulk’, of course. AKA Hulk 2. AKA “Hulk 1: No there was never any Hulk movie before this, you are mistaken.” Honestly? Trailer had me right up until the big dudes started appearing.
I’m one of the apparently shrinking number of people who thought Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk was really good. Loved Eric Bana. Loved the Hulk on-screen. Really loved the script, too. While there might not have been enough mindless action for the average teenager (Don’t worry folks; they got the director of The Transporter in for this one, so we’re sorted) I thought that the 2003 Hulk was a serious meditation on anger dressed up as a blockbuster. Read More »
