Wolverine & The Mutant Bandwagon

This promotional pic for the upcoming X-Men Origins : Wolverine was sent to SuperheroHype by Hugh Jackman himself. The guy's awesome I tell ya'. He acts, he's hosting the Oscars this year, he's in all sorts of magazines, guys think he's badass, girls think he's uber-charming, and homos Google him at night when they're alone. And he still finds time to send the guys at SuperheroHype an E-Mail. Seriously, how cool is that?!

Anyway, everything in the promo pic looks awful except for Hugh Jackman who -once again-looks unkept, bulked-up, and perfect as the ferocious, feral slash-o-holic. For some reason everyone's looking at their shoes, or maybe they all winked at the same time. Ryan Reynolds looks like an emo-case and the rest just look, well, too lame to actually be in this movie. If there was a band called Wolverine & The Mutant Bandwagon, this would seriously be on the front cover!

On another note, I was browsing through the web for more on this movie and found myself this fan-made poster. It's fake and some guy had it made on Photoshop. So why's it here? Simply because if this poster was indeed official, I'd be more than psyched about this flick. Seriously. The color, the almost violent picture, the wolf's shadow and the way it forms a mask that pays homage to the masked Wolverine in the cartoons / comics. This is how a Wolverine movie should be hyped; not with some indy-band photoshoot. And the sheer rage on Wolvie's face is crazy; you can almost sense that he's gonna' sink those claws into someone's flesh and bones any second now! Yikes.

Wolverine is due on May 1, 2009.

The Economy Must Be Worse Than I Imagined....

I understand that America is going through a pretty bad phase right now and I feel sorry for all who are affected by this time of crisis, I really do. And when major billion-dollar companies can crumble overnight, what's to stop big machines like Hollywood from lowering their costs for advertising, marketing, and overall film budgets?

That being said, there's a difference between lowering costs and deliberately being cheapskates. Take the new French poster for Underworld : Rise Of The Lycans, for instance. We see the death-dealing vampire chick and then we see the werewolves in the background. At first glance I knew there was something ver familiar about those werewolves and I also knew that it had something to do with Van Helsing. I looked up the Helsing posters and lo and behold; same werewolves!

I'm not kidding, folks. Whoever markets this gig actually took the werewolves out of the Helsing poster and placed them in the Underworld poster. I don't call that budgeting, I call that being cheap and stupid. I liked Underworld, had fun with Underworld 2, and wanted to give this Underworld prequel a go...well not anymore. I'm not spending my cash on something that dares to look embarrassingly low-budget to the world. Either they borrowed the werewolves from the Van Helsing poster, or the same people are handling marketing for both flicks, or they just used images off the same library. Whatever the reason, they suck.

And now this movie sucks.

Transformers 2: The Hype Has Begun!

As promised by Michael Bay himself, the first teaser poster for Transformers : Revenge Of The Fallen has hit the web and Bay really seems to understand what the word 'teaser' means.

The poster is nothing more than a black sheet with the movie's title and two glowing red robotic eyes that stare right back at you. So there's nothing much to see there except for the fact that those eyes look pretty damn cool.

A part of me says that Bay jumped into this sequel way too soon. Transformers hit cinemas in July 2007 and its sequel hits theaters worldwide barely two years later on June 26, 2009. This movie could go two ways; a 90minute no-brainer flopfest OR a 120minute masterpiece with sh*t blowing up in ways you cannot imagine, robots becoming cars and vice versa, complete chaos and destruction, and Megan Fox! Seriously, to those of you who say Transformers had no storyline and no proper character development, I request you to please for Heaven's sake lighten up! It's Transformers, not Citizen Kane! Giant robots from a robot planet that battle it out amongst their clans on our home planet with the aid of a human kid and his superhot girlfriend. That's all you need to know.

Mark your calendars. June 26, 2009. The hype has begun, my friends. Roll out!

2009 Stuff.

Hey, everyone! New year, new resolutions, and a whole new slate of movies to anticipate and look forward to this year. Updates have been slow, yes, but the holidays are always a time of laziness and kickin' back. You understand.

Anyway, 2009 has some pretty cool flicks to offer although it's pretty obvious that this year pales in comparison to last year or more even to the whopper year that was 2007. That year was a crazy ride for movie buffs, huh? POTC : At Worlds End, Spider-Man 3, Ocean's 13, Bourne Ultimatum, Harry Potter & The Uncountable Sequels, Die Hard 4.0, Shrek The Third, 300, Transformers, I Am Legend, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie...*pant pant*. Crazy ride indeed.

Then in 2008 we saw the birth of Marvel's 'new Spider-Man' when Robert Downey Jr. donned the metal suit and became Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk cleared-up its horrid reputation as a movie, Wall-E took in serious cash, Kung-Fu Panda had some pretty cool moves, and we were treated to this lil' gig called The Dark Knight which now domestically ranks as second highest grossing movie of all time, right under Titanic.

Because of the writer's strike, however, Hollywood's machines were slowed down a level and the effects of that are still being felt. Prince Of Persia decided to jump over to 2010 so that's out. We have Watchmen (March 2009). Hopefully the courtcase between 20th Century F**k *cough* I mean Fox and Warner Bros. settles soon and the movie doesn't get delayed or *gulp*...cancelled. :(

Then there's X-Men Origins : Wolverine (May 2009) which looks like fun, although I'm not gonna' set my hopes up too high. We have the bound-to-be-awesome Transformers : Revenge Of The Fallen. That one's gonna' be so. effin. cool. indeed. absolutely. definitely. uh-huh.

Other movies worth a mention are Terminator : Salvation starring Christian Bale, Monsters vs. Aliens, UP, Disney's The Princess & The Frog in which they go back to their 2D animation roots. Awesome! There's Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Don't miss that.

Although this has nothing to do with movies, God Of War 3 comes out this year. Then there's the fifth season of LOST. One's a very cool videogame and the other is probably the best damn thing writen for television. LOST is amazing and I have yet to see anything that embeds a compelling story / plot, writing, and character development in a TV series as good as LOST.

Below are movies that you should avoid at all costs in order to save your eyes, brains, money, and sanity.

Dragonball(sack) : Justin Chatwin as Goku. *laughter*. I would have watched a 3D animation Dragonball if I had to but live-action. Who greenlights stuff like this? Dragonball is cool, no doubt, but a live-action movie?! Remember Mortal Kombat? *shudder*

Street Fighter : Legend Of Chun Li : A movie about Chun-Li? I mean yeah, it was cool in the videogames when she did that helicopter kick and showed us 'more' of herself. It was like porn in an era when there was access to none. But a movie just for her? That's like Cyclops without the X-Men. Nobody gives a rat's ass.

Avoid anything related to Uwe Boll, Eddie Murphy and his multiple roles in a single movie (again), and Mike Myers trying to be funny while not voicing Shrek. Please, you'd rather just burn your 20 dollar bills.

Have a fun year!