I think I was pretty clear about how I feel about the Michael Bay Transformer movies when I revealed what Prime and Bumblebee were going to look like in the fourth film, but when some fans moan about the Star Wars prequels or Indy 4 and say arrrgh they’re ruining my childhood, THAT is what is achieved by Bay’s molestation of the franchise. To be honest, I liked the first one. It was flawed and very VERY Michael Bay and John Turturro was ridiculous, but it was F/X I’d never seen before and it was ok enough that it seemed awesome despite little warning shots like when Bumblebee took a leak on someone. Then came the second film. I maintain it is one of the five worst major franchise sequels of all-time. It’s offensive, it’s creepy and it’s so disrespectful to anyone who liked these characters that there may or may not be a restraining order on file on the part of Mr. Bay due to my reaction to the movie. But whatever, y’all keep going and its geeky, so here’s number four entitled “Age of Extinction” lending credence to the only real plot point leaked which is here come the Dinobots. Oh, maybe they’ll have giant robot scrotums like Devastator did. Remember how funny that was? Ahhhh, BAY I’M COMING FOR YOU, I’M COMING RIGHT NOW, YOU HEAR ME? OPTIMUS PRIME WAS GOING TO BE MY KID’S MIDDLE NAME!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Microsoft announced today that the Xbox One will be available on Friday, November 22 in all 13 of their initial launch markets – Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, UK and USA. There’s going to be a lot of XB1 happening during my Thanksgiving break.
Sony will launch the Playstation 4 earlier in the month on November 15th. All gamers everywhere will be completely broke by November 23rd.
DC Comics kicks off its first major event since relaunching its universe “The New 52” two years ago today with Forever Evil. The seven-part miniseries written by Geoff Johns and drawn by David Finch is clearly all about the villains. September, in fact, is “Villains Month” in all DC titles. Instead of regular issues, every book in the line is being taken over by a villain to feature their origin, background, current goings-on, etc. There’s always MAJOR FALLOUT from these events and THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, but I can tell you, thank you very much spoilery article. That this particular teaser featuring Nightwing (Dick Grayson) portends a very, very profound change for the character:
This is going to have major repercussions in the Bat-books, which are still reeling from the death of the Robin (Damian Wayne). Here are some other teasers and poster art for the series. It’s $3.99 and available at retailers or you can just do what I do and download it from Comixology and read it on your Kindle.
Here’s the third poster for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In this one Walter is quite literally on top of the world. These have been a really great series of images that capture in spare, stark stills the powerful imagination lying inside this normal guy. I’m going to include the first two incase you missed them. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opens Christmas Day and stars Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine. Official synopsis below.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is based on James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
A part of me is actually going to be said when the real posters for Superman vs. Batman and Star Wars Episode VII start to appear because the fan made ones have been so outstanding I don’t see how anything else could live up to them. This, by artist Matt Ferguson, sums up the Superman/Batman dynamic in a yin and yang motif. Extremely cool stuff. By the way, it’s not confirmed yet as Superman vs. Batman or Batman vs. Superman, but I get exhausted writing both every time I refer to the movie so I’m going with the one I am betting they choose based on that it’s a sequel to Man of Steel.
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