Dave’s not much into Superman but I am, and I have to say that I was really hoping for someone other than another old villain for the next movies.

Honestly, General Zod was never much of a villain in the comic, yet somehow he is the main bad guy in two different movies.  I guess this is more proof that Hollywood cannot come up with anything remotely new for anything.  It’s not like there aren’t other villains who can give Superman a run for his money.  Brainiac alone makes for a really good story because he is so smart, and if you just want life threatening mayhem go with Doomsday.  I just think General Zod was so well done in the other movie that there is no need to rehash his character again.

This cool Braniac picture comes from Dave’s DC comic t shirts.  I think I am going to have to get one for myself.

Of course, really when you think about it I don’t know if Lex Luthor was really treated fairly in Superman Returns.  Sure, he was pretty cool and I thought Kevin Spacey both did a great job and had the man parts to actually go bald unlike Gene Hackman, but Lex Luthor is supposed to have a ton of super science backing him up.  I want to see Lex in a super powered armor suit flying around blasting Superman with Krpytonite autocannon shells.  Also, what the hell was the deal with his secret plan?  He wanted to raise a new continent, killing half the world population, and then sell barren salt encrusted rock real estate to the half that didn’t drown?  I mean sure he might do some damage, but did he really think that no country in the world wouldn’t have an aircraft carrier survive the aftermath and wouldn’t air strike him to death?  Also, while appearing before the UN to claim the land he just created don’t you think someone might have asked him some tough questions about the billions of people he just killed in order to make it?  Just dumb, really.

Back on Zod.  The question I always had at the end of the last one was shouldn’t Lois Lane have had super powers after the whole switcheroo machine went off?  For that matter, if the three of them could have killed Superman why did they take the chance on him pulling some kind of fast one?  I’d be like “Well, we could let him use his equipment in his Fortress of Solitude where ever single wall and piece of furniture looks alike, or we could just remove all his internal organs and launch the remains into the nearest black hole.”

Also, what is up with a human having sex with Superman?  I mean, aside from the fact that he would most likely tear her in half in the first two seconds, how is it he feels any sensation from her?  It would be like having sex with a woman made out of tissue paper.

Damn, I just wrote a Dave length post.  Don’t get used to it.  I did find this really funny blog cast of General Zod talking to his defense attorney before being sentenced to the phantom zone.  It’s really good.

Jason

After Dave wrote his review for Hunger Games I went and checked it out.  I liked it.  Fun and entertaining.  But I was reading on line this morning that it looks like they are hiring the director who did I am Legend, a pretty lame movie.

The thing is, if you read the book I Am Legend (or Omega Man) was a pretty grim story about the end of humanity.  Francis Lawrence managed to miss the real point of both the book and Charlston Heston movie and instead made a dumb zombie survival movie.  The entire reason they called it I am Legend is the main guy is the legendary last human, bane of zombie culture.  In the movie Lawrence made there is no reason at all for the title.  Just another mediocre movie.

Lawrence also made Water for Elephants.  I didn’t see it, but Dave did and according to his review it sucked.  Other than there is no real reason why this guy should be working on he sequel to one of the biggest single movie openings in history.  Is it that hard to hire someone good?  Seriously, with enough money you could hire Scorsese.

That zombie shirt comes from Dave’s zombie t shirts, by the way.

Jason

Dave was talking about how many people tell him his review are good and fun to read and I decided the time has come to either reinforce his ego or put him in his place.  I normally just go to Rotton Tomatoes to see if a movie sucks or not and have decided to compare Dave’s score the the tomato-meter to see how close he really is.  Here are the top 10 movies right now:

1.  The Hunger Games.  RT gives it 85%.  Dave gave it 9 stars and 5 black holes.  He did say it was fun but I think he might have missed what the audience was looking for.

2.  Wrath of the Titans.  RT 25%.  Dave 2 stars and 12 black holes.  Looks like he’s on target there.

3.  Mirror Mirror.  RT 49%.  Dave 4 stars, three black holes.  Dead even.

4.  21 Jump Street.  RT 85%.  Dave 11 stars, 4 black holes.  I think I should probably go see this.

5.  The Lorax.  RT 58%.  Dave didn’t rate it with black holes, but said it was pretty dumb but worth taking your kids to see.  I don’t know if he matches here or not.

6.  John Carter.  RT 51%.  Dave gave it 10 stars and 6 black holes.  I think he was too much in love with the source material.

7.  Salmon Fishing in Yemen.  RT 68%.  I don’t think Dave has seen it, the lazy git.

8.  Act of Valor.  RT 25%.  Dave gave it 9 stars and 4 black holes.  I think his patriotism got to him.

9.  A Thousand Words.  RT 0%.  Dave 3 stars and 8 black holes.  He must have been in a good mood that day.

10.  Journey 2: the Mysterious Island.  RT 42%.  Dave gave it 7 stars and 4 black holes.  To be honest I was surprised when I read that.  Not sure what he was drinking that night.

So it is obvious that Dave is generally in the same direction as a lot of the other viewers, but odds are his nerd perspective give him a slant when it comes to certain movies, like John Carter. I guess he has to be true to what he is.  This talk nerdy shirt I found in his huge pile of nerd t-shirts.  I think it’s funny.

Jason

So I heard online a rumor that Transformers maker Michael Bey is looking to remake the whole Halloween series.  I am more into horror movies than Dave is, and honestly don’t hate Michael Bey like he does either.  I know there are too many explosions in his films, but I generally find them entertaining.  At least, the first and third Transformers.

However, as a horror movie fan I have to say Michael Bey is probably one of the worst choices to remake these movies.  The last horror movie he did was that horrible Nightmare on Elm Street remake a couple years ago.  It was really worthless and boring.  He just doesn’t really care enough to do a good job IMO.  I don’t do the research for these that Dave does, but Rotten Tomatoes gave it 14%, which is god awful.  He doesn’t do a lot of horror, so why does he need to regurgitate this one?

Honestly, I would have Rob Zombie do it.  I like his films, and at least as far as horror goes he is in it to win it.  As a real fan I think he would make a decent run at it, and at least he would bring along a dedicated fan base.  I don’t think Bey has generated any fans who will go see anything he does, like with me and Sam Raimi.

This Micheal Myers image I found in Dave’s horror movie t shirts.  Good image in my opinion.

Jason

I read online today that Angelina Jolie has passed on doing the sequel to Wanted 2.  Good move in my opinion.  I mean, her character died at the end of the last one.  Were they going to add in some kind of resurrection or twin or something?  What is this, Marvel?  The Hulk shirt comes from Dave’s Marvel comic t shirts.  I couldn’t find any of the guys who died and resurrected, but you get the idea.

I remember seeing this movie and liking it.  Dave was saying that while bendy bullets are theoretically possible they got the physics wrong, at least for the last one.  However, I don’t remember this movie doing amazingly well but somehow it took in over $341 million.  How is that possible?  I guess overseas sales.  Angelina is pretty popular around the world.  How is this movie going to do without her?  Dave liked it too, but he has been doing nothing but groaning about bad sequels this year.

I’m glad they are making this movie.  I will probably see it and enjoy it, although I will leave the review to Dave.  He loves writing.  I get bored after 10 minutes, which is why I do the short blogs.  I’d probably just say it was good and walk away.

Jason

So I was reading a little about the new Kick Ass sequel this morning and actually did something I hate doing, which is research.  It seems that at first the original director, Matthew Vaughn, was not going to do it which is always the first recipe for suck.  However, it looks now like he is going to step in as a producer.  I don’t really know what the difference is between those two jobs or how much more influence the producer could have, but this is promising.  Dave is the one who pays more attention to these sorts of things, but I always thought the director did 90% of the work and the producer made sure the staff had enough coffee and donuts on hand.  However, if he is involved in any way that lends promise to the sequel.

By the way, I found out Dave does not have any Kick Ass t-shirts on his site, but I did find this pretty kick ass Bruce Lee shirt in his movie t shirts.  Seemed appropriate, given how much ass Bruce kicked in his life.

Anyway, unlike most of the posts I do about sequels where I think they are a dumb waste of time, I am looking forward to this.  Normally 11 year old girls beating the hell out of adults bugs me, but this one made it work, and Chloe Moretz has said she is going to do it, so that is very cool.

Jason

Before I start, I need to say that Dave lectured me on the importance of expressing my opinion as my own rather than doing it for big groups, as I did when I wrote in my post about Green Lantern.  He’s not my dad, but technically he is my boss so I guess I have to listen to him.  It is my personal opinion that the first GL movie sucked, and if they keep all the same writers and actors the next one will pretty much do the same.

The image I got from Dave’s comic book t-shirts.  He sure has a lot of Green Lantern ones.

However, I just read that they are making a Tom Sawyer movie.  This seems cool, but then I read that the story will be of Tom and Huck as adults, and feature supernatural elements.  You know, one of the greatest and most racist stories of American literature done as a Scooby Doo cartoon.  How does this make sense?  Do the hacks in Hollywood really think they are better writers than Mark Twain, and therefore have license to write stories about his characters he never wanted to do?  Maybe the supernatural element is them trying to channel Mark Twain’s ghost and writing what he wanted to write but never got around to.

Actually, a really funny story would be about some idiotic writers trying to pervert a classic novel and the ghost of the writer coming back to kill them as they sleep, like Freddy Kruger.  In that case, however, I think I would go with Edger Allen Poe.

Jason

It looks like Sly Stallone and the rest of the producers for the Expendables 2 are caving into fan pressure and making the movie rated R.  I am actually cool with that, as I am personally responsible for some of that outraged fan pressure.  I posted twice on this blog bitching about it and am glad to see that sometimes spinelessness works for the little guy.

Now if only we could get George Lucas to actually listen to his fans and ex fans and maybe make a movie that doesn’t suck.  Actually I would be cool if he just undid all the horrible stuff he did to the original trilogy like making Greedo shoot first.  You know, George, listening to what the people who put money in your pocket want really isn’t a bad thing to do.

This Lego Star Wars shirt image I found in Dave’s Star Wars tshirts.  I played the game and it is weirdly fun.

The other thing I want Lucas to not do is not make a Star Wars TV show like he plans to and not have it involve time travel so he can use every era he created.  These things always suck.  Talk about beating a dead horse.

Jason.

I have been reading a bit about the new Green Lantern sequel.  Any fan of comics will tell you that the first one sucked.  While I don’t pay attention things like writers and directors like Dave does it seems they are making a few positive changes and then a massive number of negative stay the sames.

The GL shirt I found in Dave’s DC comic t shirts, incidentally.

First off, they are apparently firing the director, Martin Campbell.  Good move in my opinion.  He really chocked it.  However, they are keeping the same writers.  How does that make sense?  I mean, do they really think the writers from the first one did such a great job, or that they have some kind of connection to the Green Lantern story?  If this was an original character they created that might be a good idea, but really the original creators all are the comic book writers.  Get any lame hack in the world he he will have as much connection.

They say they are going to be relying less on CGI.  Good move.  There was way to much of it in all the wrong directions.  But the biggest mistake they are going to make is they are keeping smarmy sleaze bucket Ryan Reynolds as the main guy.  Is it remotely possible to hire someone who might take the part seriously and not smirk at the camera all day long?  Maybe someone who understands comics.  He wears a mask.  He doesn’t have to be the biggest hearth throb in Hollywood.  Get rid of him.

Jason

So I have been seeing a lot of trailers about the new movie Prometheus, and I can’t for the life of me figure out what the hell is going on.  Is it an Alien prequel?  That seems to be the main thrust, and it does show the ship from Alien and some guy with something clamped to his face, but they don’t actually show any aliens.  I see a lot of explosions and guys running around in space suits, but while the aliens are seriously implied they are never really shown or directly mentioned.

I for one would really enjoy a movie about aliens, but if this turns into one of those things where there is a lot of drama leading up to the appearance of the aliens and they only appear in the last 2 minutes I am going to be pissed.  You know, kind of like the whole Star Wars prequels was supposed to be about Darth Vader and instead we get to see some whine emo kid acting badly, and the only time we actually see Darth Vader is at the end when he acts like a whiny emo kid who can’t act.  Don’t do this to me again, dammit.

This cool Alien shirt I found in Dave’s movie t shirts.  Talk to you soon.

Jason