COMIC CON REVIEW FORTHCOMING

Since comics have been a big part of my nerd-dom since I was in 3rd grade, of course I’m going to be checking out all the news from COMIC CON and will be doing a huge review of news and other tid bits…don’t know if I’m going to be covering that many movies out of COMIC CON…you never know.

NEW IN GAME IMAGES FROM DCU ONLINE

These are new screen shots from DC UNIVERSE ONLINE for the PS3, which may just be my own personal PS3 saver

-photos from IGN

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS ADVANCE SCREENING

This coming up wednesday I will be going to the PINEAPPLE EXPRESS advance screening here in North Carolina. I have to thank a good friend of mine, who checks out this site, JOE who told me about some tickets. I find it funny that I saw SUPERBAD at a advance screening as well. I’m very excited, I’ve been looking forward to this movie since I first heard about SUPERBAD and they kept talking about the movie they were filming at the same time…Pineapple Express. So expect a review soon on thursday or friday.

Freakazoid and Tiny Toons: OUT JULY 29TH

July 29th will bring it back to 5th and 6th grade for me…good times. Freakazoid is $18.99 on AMAZON.COM, and Tiny Toons is $30.99 on AMAZON.COM

CHUCK SEASON 1 ON BLU RAY

-tvshowsondvd.net

This show is great, but the blu ray box set doesn’t come out until November 11th. The regular box set will be out September 16th. The SRP for the blu ray is only $49.99, so you know BEST BUY will have it for about $35.

SIMPSONS SEASON 11 BOXSET

-tvshowsondvd.net

This is the way they should have been making them since the beginning. They fit with all the other dvds in your collection and look awesome.

Excuses Excuses

In an interview with Forbes, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata apologized for the company’s lackluster E3 media briefing and said that while it chose not to display more core games, that doesn’t mean that the developer isn’t working n them.

“If there is any perception that Nintendo is ignoring the core gamers, it’s a misunderstanding and we really want to get rid of that misunderstanding by any means,” Iwata said. “We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of Zelda.’ However, the fact of the matter is the so-called ‘big titles’ need a long, long development period. … We really didn’t think this year’s E3 media briefing was the time to do so.”

-IGN.COM

Sounds like the same old song they did at last years E3…maybe these guys need to be grilled by a reporter that has some cajones and call them on their crap.

Stuff I like:Dr. Horrible

DR. HORRIBLE SING ALONG BLOG is a interesting thing. It’s a three part video blog, but instead of it being about some 15 year old girl whose life is soooo horrible, it’s about a wanna be super villain. The way Neal Patrick Harris plays the aptly named Dr. Horrible is genius, you find yourself actually rooting for him. I was a little worried about the musical aspect, but the songs are just another part of the narrative and not used in a annoying hack way. The best part about this is that it was only available, for free, for about a week. It’s a cool feeling to know you’ve seen something that the wider world won’t hear about too late. The reason I haven’t mentioned it on the site before now is because this is the kind of thing you should either find out about on your own or not. Things like this don’t come around to often, and it’s going to be on dvd some time in the future. It’s just the inherent elitist in all nerds that make this such a awesome idea.

DARK KNIGHT REVIEW

THE DARK KNIGHT REVIEW

So I’m putting it on the table right now, this review is going to be Spoiler free because spoilers are annoying. That being said, this movie is epic. Although it could have stood to be edited down a bit, it’s the Godfather 2 of comic book movies. I loved the way they attacked the idea of The Joker as almost a force of nature. That’s the reason I’ve always loved The Joker as a villain, he’s just insane and won’t stop until he’s proved his point…but we’ll never know what his point truly is because he’s insane. Now I’m going to say that this is by far Heath Ledgers best role I’ve seen him in, and I always enjoyed him as a actor. But in THE DARK KNIGHT, I forgot that The Joker was Heath Ledger.

The Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT isn’t that different from Jack’s from BATMAN. People are going around saying that Heath did something groundbreaking, and I say he was truly amazing in the role…BUT it’s not a totally new take on The Joker. He’s a mix between the silly over the top Joker from Tim Burton’s Batman and the comic book Joker. People have seemed to have forgotten that in Burton’s Batman, The Joker killed a ton of people. He killed models, gang bosses, citizens, cops, etc…But with the jokey almost silly Nichelson take on the Joker people forget he was rather dark for the time. Heth Ledgers Joker is that joker, but with a more mysterious edge. We don’t know his background, the joker we get is the joker we see. That mystery makes him creepier but not different. I found myself surprised by the sheer number of things that this new joker did that were VERY similar to what the Joker did in Burton’s Batman.

All this talk about Heath as the joker you forget the main character is Batman. Now I’ve been a Christian Bale fan for a long time, way before Batman Begins…but I wasn’t the biggest fan of all of Bale’s choices for playing Batman/Bruce Wayne in the first movie. In the second Bale has made a lot of headway in getting a feel for the character. I felt in BATMAN BEGINS, Bale was not a good Bruce Wayne…after he starts being BATMAN. In my opinion BRUCE WAYNE is supposed to be ditsy and light hearted to throw off the idea that he could be BATMAN. BALE didn’t do such a good job separated BATMAN and BRUCE WAYNE in the first, but he did a great job in DARK KNIGHT. He played up the fact that the character he’s created as BRUCE WAYNE is seen as a playboy who dates any woman he wants. BALE knocked it out of the park, but I still am not into the gravely voice…it just sounds kinda silly, but I get it. And what the hell is with the crazy destruction BATMAN leaves in his wake? While watching the movie I wanted to scream after seeing all the property damage BATMAN caused. It was kinda ridiculous with Batman blowing up cars and riding through a mall, its totally against everything Batman is but he it looks cool in a movie to blow up cars, but if you think it out they’re better ways to have your hero get somewhere fast.

I loved the movie, I have to say it’s better than BATMAN BEGINS and is now the best BATMAN movie ever…but how do Batman and Joker do together. Thankfully they keep the dynamic the same as it’s always been. The Joker doesn’t hate Batman, he’s intrigued with him. The Joker see Batman as a equal, and a plaything. With the relationship between Joker and Batman, it’s easy to once again see parallels between this movie and Burton’s Batman but that’s because this relationship has been the same for more than 50 years. Batman is only as good as his villains, and this movie has the best and most classic of Batman’s villains. I loved the way they played on the fact that Gotham’s changing, mostly because the arrival of BATMAN. The villains are getting worse and worse, and the fact that he’s going to have to evolve to stop or at least survive these new criminals.

It can’t all be great, they were a few and things that bugged me about the movie, but they were very small. Before I said the movie could have been edited to make it tighter. I mean that some stuff was really not really needed to get the movie to where it needed to go. Some stuff felt padded on to try and give it a bit more to do, which is fine but wasn’t really needed. I have to say that I don’t know if it was the way it was shot, but when people fell off of things I didn’t really get too worried. With the camera so close it felt like they fell like one story. And I swear if I see BATMAN crash on top of another car or something else and be virtually unhurt I’ll scream. For a film that was always talked about being the realistic vision of the Batman world, some really ridiculous, super comic book ideals kept happening. The thing with the sonar kinda bugged me, it was cool at first but didn’t make any sense at the end.

This is what I think about SPIDER-MAN 3

CHARLES’ GRADE: A-

PROS: Great movie, has my fav Batman villain and reminded me why I used to love another Batman villain before BATMAN FOREVER ruined it, great acting from everyone even Aaron Eckhart(I’m not a huge fan of his), BALE finally getting the dual identity of Bruce Wayne right, Ledgers Joker(which isn’t that different in execution as Nichelsons’)

CONS:Could have trimmed the fat a little, property destruction got a little comic in the execution, didn’t like the overall ending so much I felt we had already done that in the movie already.

“now who said they didn’t want to take their shots?”

everytime we take a ride he keeps putting his head out the window

E3 in a nutshell

-PENNYARCADE.COM

Once again the guys at PENNY ARCADE nailed it.