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December 13, 2009 - December 19, 2009 Archives

  • December 18, 2009
    With this song, Tim Heidecker (the Tim of Tim and also Eric) says everything our hearts have been wanting to scream. (Thanks, Todd.)... / Continue →
  • December 18, 2009
    Play him off, Smash Mouth. 'Shrek Forever After' Poster [Apple]... / Continue →
  • December 18, 2009
    We are never getting rid of this kid. Seventeen-year-old Taylor Lautner--the Twilight werewolf that made you swoon because he has muscles--has been cast as the lead in another action film. Two weeks ago, news broke the toothy teen would be playing totally X-treme hero Max Stee... / Continue →
  • December 18, 2009
    Looking at raw images is for jerks. You gotta enhance that shit. (Thanks, Finnegan.)... / Continue →
  • December 18, 2009
    Boy, was I ever wrong. From the poster, I just assumed Bounty Hunter was going to be some hollow screwball romantic-comedy involving Gerard Butler bounty hunting Jennifer Aniston and the two falling in love in the process. Well, that's simply not the case. There is so much more... / Continue →
  • December 18, 2009
    Sorry, Lionsgate has stipulated that all Kick-Ass media must be posted with at least one (1) reference to how it kicks ass. Anyway, here's the character poster for Chloe Moretz's Hit-Girl. It appears she'll at some point wield a... a, um... I don't know, Battle Arena Toshinden ... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    This teaser claims Shrek Forever After is the final chapter of the Shrek series. I don't believe this, because Shrek is the plasma in our cultural blood that Dreamworks so generously donates every few years, but whatever. Here's it is. Shrekky Shreksmas!... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    "Everybody loves... babies." Good work, team. That must have just beat out "Babies... generally considered adorable," "Babies = Cute," and "Hey, look! ...Babies!"... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    Bryan Singer, seen above desperately trying to convey that he has directed X-Men movies, is directing another X-Men movie. Says First Showing: Bryan Singer announced to reporters and an audience (including the guys at FlickChart) following the live stream of the premiere on Us... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    Avatar Director: James Cameron Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez Good if you want to see: James Cameron return to sci-fi adventure; blue cat people; Delgo comparisons; who are we kidding, you know what Avatar is Did You Hear About the... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    (Left to right) Douchebag, sex offender, just some fat asshole, affable retard, failed experiment, doable. Go here if you want to see them bigger (you don't want that).... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    Just days after Disney canceled the disastrous-sounding Robin Williams comedy Wedding Banned in the wake of Old Dogs' meager box office returns, Variety is reporting another miserable idea is being scrapped. Production on Wild Hogs 2: Bachelor Ride, the old guys on motorcycles ... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    They can! Here's the trailer for The Runaways, starring Twilight Girl as Joan Jett of the groundbreaking girl band. If you thought Tia Carrere in Wayne's World was the first hard rock lady, this film will prove you wrong. (She was the second.)... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    USA Today has provided us with the first visual portent of huge dog comic strip icon Marmaduke's upcoming live-action/CGI movie. Haha, would you look at that? Marmaduke is so enormous that, in order to fit into a very small car, he has to stick his massive head out the sunroof!... / Continue →
  • December 17, 2009
    Iron Man is back, and this time he's brought along his buddy, Grey Iron Man with Bonus Gun Attachment. There are now Iron Men! And believe me, we're going to need them both to fight off Russian Whip Man:... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    It's like H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, except the time machine is a hot tub, and instead of Morlocks there are tired jokes about how the '80s were hilarious. Also, John Cusack, Darryl from The Office, Rob Corddry, Michael Cera's friend, and some sort of party bear are there.... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    All of your Disney Princess DVDs are probably haunted now. Roy Edward Disney, the nephew of Walt and a key figure in some major events in the Disney company, died today at 79. The LA Times reports: Roy Edward Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney whose commitment to his uncle's cr... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    Either Jennifer Aniston or Gerard Butler is a bounty hunter who catches the other, then they fall in love as the one is bringing the other to justice! Or, if you don't like that, how about Ryan Reynolds is a jewel thief being pursued by detective Drew Barrymore? No? OK, how abo... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    Just because a movie is shot in three-dimension-vision doesn't mean shit needs to constantly be pitched at the screen like I'm a sitcom husband being chased out of the house by his angry, throwing-things wife. Tim Burton disagrees:... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    Entertainment Tonight, still somehow respected enough by movie studios to be granted exclusives, will be airing new footage from Iron Man 2 tomorrow (or maybe tonight, since this is probably from yesterday?). Here's a trailer for that, featuring Don Cheadle the Robot shooting t... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    I've always said that all movies involving a grumpy old white guy and an Asian kid are essentially the same. This is the proof.... / Continue →
  • December 16, 2009
    I don't know who originally made this, but if we ever get stuck on a world composed entirely of Morgan Freemans (perhaps a Sliders scenario), this is the order of things, alright Morgan Freemans? Sorry, Driver Morgan Freeman, but it turns out you're lower than Prisoner Morgan F... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    "Hey, you all liked that last Christopher Nolan movie, right? That one with a bat-man? Well, here's another Christopher Nolan movie that depicts the back of a weapon-wielding man in the middle of a city street! Maybe this is a new Batman movie! We won't say one way or the other... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    So where does "murder a toddler and keep its severed feet as a grotesque trophy" figure into that order?... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    Ut-oh, is Spider-Man going to be playing Hobbit-Man? Perhaps! Latino Review says: Tobey Maguire was having a conversation and was asked which director he would like to work with next? Tobey’s answer? “Guillermo del Toro” Know what else Tobey said? "We may have something her... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Quantin Tarantino has revealed his picks for the top 8 films he's seen thus far in 2009 (he notes there are some recently-praised films he's missed). Those hoping for a handy guide to the year's best obscure, foreign genre films are ... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    A grey, not white, background? White, not red, text? Heads that appear to actually belong on the actors' bodies--and that aren't airbrushed into smooth, unrecognizable ovals with eyes? What gives? Is this a comedy or not, guys? Come on, throw me an Eddie Murphy or something.... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    Ah, the Golden Globes: our most precious Earth effigies. Who will be given the chance to add one to their mantelpiece this year, proof that they'd have rather have won an Oscar? Here are your nominations, with commentary added as needed:... / Continue →
  • December 15, 2009
    It's Robin Hood time, everyone! Director Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe have again teamed up to bring us a new telling of the legendary thief, and now there's a trailer for us to judge. No word on how long until Mel Brooks will have a spoof version prepared.... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    Prepare to have your preconceived stereotypes about vikings blown the shit out of the water! Massive, bearded men? Try massive-headed and unable to grow more than a strange little goatee thing! From Variety: Mel Gibson will direct and Leonardo DiCaprio will star in an untitled... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    Mom still doesn't understand why Batman is saying such vulgar things, but since you're young and in-the-know enough to know this is actually Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy in Kick-Ass, enjoy the new poster and this clip of a man shooting his daughter with a handgun:... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about. I've watched the trailer a few times now, and if I had to guess, I'd say a warlock and his shy-guy ninja friend are using zombies and Tampon Head (above) to get some sort of rune from a girl and a nerd with a sword, and also R... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    Your box office top five: 1. The Princess and the Frog - $25 million. It turns out not everyone is as princess-racist as I am. 2. The Blind Side - $15.5 million. $150 effing million total. A friend told me he heard some frat boys at the theater this weekend asking for tickets... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    A few months ago, Disney announced they were making a romantic comedy about Robin Williams and Diane Keaton stopping Anna Faris's wedding, and that they were calling it, what else, WEDDING BANNED. It was destined to be man's greatest blunder--one that would be relived week afte... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    Hey, guys, check out all this concept art this guy did for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. It's like seeing the movie again, only this time there's no sound and the entire film consists of only 20 hand-drawn images, and you're 10 pounds heavier because you suddenly gave up entirely some... / Continue →
  • December 14, 2009
    Oddly, a child beckoning towards his crotch is still not the most ridiculous element of Back to the Future Part III. (via reddit)... / Continue →