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May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007 Archives

  • May 12, 2007
    She loves you, Yeah Yeah Yeah. Don't you just love headlines with question marks at the end? "Paris Hilton Has Syphilis?" "Britney Spears Adopts Lemur?" You get all excited and flip to the middle of the magazine, is it true, is it true? - only to find: guess what? We don't f... / Continue →
  • May 12, 2007
    The teaser page for The Dark Night is now up. Get excited. I loved Batman Begins, but Chris Nolan seems to have gone to the Ridley Scott shakey cam school of directing when it comes to action sequences. What does his storyboard look like? A bird. A plane. A fist. A foot. Uh... / Continue →
  • May 12, 2007
    See that guy on the computer in his underwear? I'm tired of him making fun of my movies. For anyone who was wondering when we'd finally see the petulant, neurotic side of Al Capone, you're in luck. Capone will be played by none other than Nic Cage in Brian De Palma's upcomin... / Continue →
  • May 11, 2007
    "Can you identify the man you say you saw stealing watermelons, Mrs. Stanton?" Say what you will about 10 page ruminations on Whitney Houston, Bret Easton Ellis writes a pretty kickass book. And with an Informers movie adaptation now in the works to go along with American Psyc... / Continue →
  • May 11, 2007
    Nothing sells me on a film like the threat of Michael Moore's chubby fingers maneuvering their way into my sphincter, so I absolutely adore the new poster for Sicko, Moore's sure-to-be scathing documentary about America's wretched health care system, coming June 29th. The one-s... / Continue →
  • May 11, 2007
    The Bratz describe their friendship longevity in three letters: BFF. I've been vocal about my enthusiasm about seeing the Bratz doll line brought to screens, but I really think they missed the mark on this one. Though I'm not actually familiar with Bratz canon, I had assumed wh... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    Take 1988's Working Girl, remove every iota of talent, and you've got Blonde Ambition. It's genuinely one of the worst trailers I've seen, even keeping in mind that the intended audience is idiots. If I can say one thing good, it's that this is a really ideal vehicle for Jessic... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    If Andy Dick were a robot. digg_url = 'http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/05/hires_transformers_characters.php';Yeah, so you think you've seen all the Transformers guys by now, but have you seen them in high resolution?! I didn't think so. I don't really know very much about the... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    Surely capitalizing on the popularity of QVC's Gold Week--a promise of the year's most fantastic deals in gold products--Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Science of Sleep) stars in The Golden Door. If Titanic didn't fulfill your lifetime requirement for upper class girl falls for lowe... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    Variety reports that Halcyon has bought the rights to the Terminator franchise, allowing the privately funded company to continue burying the series without even the interference of pesky series star Arnold Schwarzenegger. T3 writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris have alread... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    As if straight to DVD wasn't bad enough, now comes the news that Lost Boys 2, er, Lost Boys: The Tribe will no longer include Corey Feldman, and will be directed by P.J. Pesce, the guy who did Sniper 3 and Dusk Till Dawn 3. I can imagine how the interview went. "Dude, look a... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    "Quick, somebody beat it!" If you're a big Hollywood exec, why take a chance on a new project? It's a safer bet to go with something that's already established and then milk that cow till it shits blood. Here is just some of the sequel news that's floating around: L.A. Confid... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    Why won't this hack die? digg_url = 'http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/05/bruce_willis_is_my_new_hero.php';Apparently, Bruce Willis has been speaking out over on AICN about the new Die Hard Movie. I'll spare you the details of him defending the PG-13 rating, because the really ... / Continue →
  • May 10, 2007
    George Lucas announced to Fox News that he has decided to continue making the Star Wars universe shittier, injecting more of his out-of-touch ideas of humor and romance into two hour-long made-for-TV Star Wars movies. The director added that the stories won't involve the Skywal... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    The Incredible Hulk will be matched against the oversized adversary Abomination, and Tim Roth will play the villain's alter ego, Emil Blonsky.Despite the fact that the first Hulk sucked with Ang Lee and this one's going to be directed by the guy who did The Transporter, this sto... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    Sorry about the picture. To our knowledge, she's never been photographed with her mouth closed. Despite the ample wood I sported this morning and the satisfying bowel movement I just had, today is sad day. It's a sad day because Nancy Grace has decided to end her show on Court... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    "I would never be in a movie with Dane Cook like that Jessica Alba trollop." Chun-Li from Street Fighter, that sixteen-bit sexpot spank material for adolescent boys before the advent of online porn, is supposedly going to be played by Jessica Biel in a new, disappointingly Van ... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    So. How bout we grab one too many pints and I smack you around a bit? Normally I hate musicals. They're just too realistic. Honestly, how many times have you been hanging with your boys, on your way to go beat up a gang of Puerto Ricans when someone starts singing and soon ev... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    "Matt Da-mon!" Kung fu! Motorcycles! Bad puns! The guy from Good Will Hunting! That's right, retards, it's Bourne Ultimatum trailer time. If you ever wondered what it would be like if they made James Bond without the charm, or xXx without black people, here's your answer. ... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    Bob Barker says: "Keep your dirty hands off my Plinko." Rosie O'Donnell, currently finishing up her final season of morning blabbering with The View, is reportedly looking to spread her evil into the game show venue, and her hungry eyes are set on the granddaddy of them all, Th... / Continue →
  • May 9, 2007
    Sleestaks from the horrific drug-induced nightmare of Sid and Marty Krofft's Land of the Lost. Despite poor numbers from Grindhouse, The Hollywood Reporter claims Robert Rodriguez is still in high demand, with the director currently deciding between two future projects (in addi... / Continue →
  • May 8, 2007
    Please, someone stop the beat. With a gun. Does anyone else find these new Hairspray posters thoroughly horrifying? They're like rabid wolverines painted magenta that chase you around the room, staring at you with their dead eyes. And then the ice weasels come. The movie'... / Continue →
  • May 8, 2007
    Entertainment Weekly showed the first shot of Iron Man's final suit last week, but now Paramount has officially released a high resolution version. Click the above shot for the full Iron Man suit in all its glory. It's the exact same shot as last week, just way less blurry. And... / Continue →
  • May 8, 2007
    "Yes, I bought this bracelet from a street vendor. What's it to you, f***face?" Three of my favorite movies of the last few years are Pan's Labrynth, Y tu mama tambien, and Amores perros. Now their directors are unionizing teaming up.Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alfo... / Continue →
  • May 7, 2007
    "Grab the bull by the balls, kid." Get those gun fingaz ready, I-bankers! Just as that Boiler Room DVD started collecting dust comes the news that Fox has signed deals with the original producer and writer of Wall Street for a sequel.Stephen Schiff's script, Money Never Sleeps... / Continue →
  • May 7, 2007
    Nerd Boner News Hour: As superhero movies go, Spider-Man 3 may not be X-Men 2, but it's not exactly Daredevil, either. Still, the idea that I'm reporting on the villains spidey will fight in the next movie before anyone knows whether the director or any of the stars will be ba... / Continue →