James Cameron Finds Jesus. No, Literally.
Feb 26From Alert Nerd’s “Batshit Crazy, In A Good Way” Bureau comes word today that James Cameron, director of Terminator 2 and Aliens and Titanic and on the whole more ass-kickingly good movies than groan-worthy awful ones, has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ.
This might just be my favorite news story EVAR, folks.
Some Thoughts Thought Whilst Watching Ghost Rider
Feb 23Nic Cage is now officially your moderately embarrassing dad who thinks he’s still cool.
If you are the Movie Protagonist and Sam Elliott shows up in your Movie? You are fucked. Same thing with Peter Stormare, Peter Sarsgaard and Fionnula Flanagan. Seriously, if Fionnula Flanagan wants to give you some maybe-kindly, maybe-sinister advice? So fucked. Run in the opposite direction, Movie Protagonist!
Young Nic Cage looks so not like Nic Cage that it is kind of hilarious. As is much of the movie.
What a waste of Donal Logue.
Eva Mendes is pretty and would still make a great She-Hulk.
What the hell with Wes Bentley? Wasn’t he the hot new thing for a while? Didn’t it look like he was angling to be Poor Man’s Tobey Maguire? What happened?
Movie Ghost Rider is basically Radiskull. One by one! Just for fun!
Hodgman – free
Feb 23If you’ve enjoyed John Hodgman as the resident expert on The Daily Show (say, patiently explaining the tubes of the internet), on the comedy defying I’m A Mac ads (how can a comedy duo with two straight men work? And by straight, I mean, of course, not-gay. No, wait…), or my personal favorite, his quick cameo in the latest Wired, wherein he calls the European Hadron particle collider, the Massive Hardon Collider. And then corrects himself. “I meant to say, ‘Massive Erection Collider'”, then have I got something for you.
I just turned on iTunes (Canadian store – I don’t know if it’s the same at other stores, the US one in particular) and you can download the abridged version of Hodgman’s “The Areas of My Expertise.” Free. And you’re thinking, “Oh, well, abridged. So, it’s a sampler.”
It’s 7 hours long.
Go get it.
Tits Up: Buy the Cheerleader, Be a Creep.
Feb 20Tits Up is a recurring feature where I will chronicle gratuitous T&A and the objectification of women throughout fandom and the geekverse at large, especially in mainstream superhero comic books.
I’m all for supporting charity, in pretty much ANY form.
BUT.
It is more than slightly creepy for a charity to sell a mildly sexual pin-up of an underage girl to raise funds. Even if she is on television.
The Hero Initiative, you have gone…TITS UP.
Previously: Tits Up: Ex Machina
"Junior!"
Feb 18One of my favorite places for hilarious bile on the internet is Ain’t It Cool News. Their Talkbackers have a consistent, special gift for finding the most cruel and unforgiving ways to rip on whatever the fanboy topic of the day might be.
A leitmotif, if you will, of the Talkbackers’ hate is mock titles of the fourth Indiana Jones installment. Every story about the flick guarantees tens of these sarcastic jabs.
So it is with GREAT GLEE that I bring you the latest of these Talkbacks. (Scroll down past the story itself, of course–who gives a shit who plays Indy’s son? The film’s gonna blow chunks regardless.)
“Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Reverse Mortgage,” indeed.
I read these and wept with laughter.
