X-Men 3: Holy Crap

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my glorious pleasure to present to you some storyboards of the new X-Men movie tentatively titled: X3. As you may or may not know, Brett Ratner is directing this sequel. You may know him from Rush Hour 1 and 2, or Red Dragon. If you don't, then you're dumb. Normally, I tend to stay away from knowing too much about a movie I'm anticipating too much in advance. X3 would fall under the category of such a movie. However, when I found out about these storyboards, I just had to see them. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if I really wanted to, I could find out about the plot in detail, but that is something i will most definitely NOT do. But, as these storyboards show, some pretty exciting things are in store.

The first trio are from a scene where Magneto is releasing a bunch of prisoners from their cells:

Man he rocks. Just look at him. Bursts through that hallway and just keeps on walkin.

The following pair of storyboards I'd have to guess also involve Magneto, though I can't actually see him in the picture. Can you guess what's happening in these pictures?

If you guessed that the above storyboards were depicting the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge followed by its redirection to Alcatraz, then you were right! Good job. I don't know about you peoples out there, but that is going to be one crazy scene. The movie's not supposed to be released until May 26, 2006, so for all we know this scene may very well be cut by then. But if it's not, you can say you heard it here first...unless you didn't.



...drunk and tone-deaf, never a good combination

Search Entries Update

So here are all the search entries that have brought people to my blog since the last time i made such an update. I excluded "niblog" because it was coming up a lot, and upon further investigation, i discovered that it was my sister's doing. So here it goes:

- she makes a pez dispenser out of him
- curl http_referrer spoof
- over the river and through the woods music
- mahtab good charlotte
- www. the effect of first impressions
- band queen origin of name
- get paid to watch movie previews
- soundbytes from revenge of the sith
- over the river through the woods broadway
- muniba
- tyler goes to the bathroom
- what happened to chivalry
- clerks campaign slogan
- batman begins soundbytes
- antonia banderas

Tyler goes to the bathroom. That's just weird.



...he killed his whole family one weekend and then the next day killed five people that looked like his family

The Brink of War

That’s where we’re at right now and the masses don’t even know it. Allegiances have already been established. The two camps are ready for battle. In a few months time, businesses will be destroyed, companies will strike each other with poisoned tongues, people will pick sides against their own brothers and sisters, and the destruction will not end until one side succeeds in obliterating the competition. I speak of none other than the format war with the next generation of DVDs: the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

If you’re one of the losers who hasn’t been following all the breaking developments, then you’ve come to the right place. For I, too, am a loser and I’d like to welcome you. You’ve been missed. So Sony and Phillips began developing the Blu-Ray while Toshiba and Hitachi have been working on the HD-DVD. Both formats, by the way, have plenty of support from major companies…but more on that later. When you get down to brass tacks, the Blu-Ray can hold almost twice as much data, which obviously makes it a lot more expensive to produce. There have been plenty of unsuccessful negotiations between the two parties to try and reach a compromise. There were even talks of a Summit being held with all the major players. It’s pretty much gotten to the point of no return though, with each assemblage of companies gearing up for this inevitable all-out brawl. Ultimately, you will be the deciding judge in a battle the likes of which have never been seen. Not even Aragorn and his army of the dead can help us now. .

From all that I’ve read so far, my bet would be on the Blu-Ray. However, I am strictly against gambling…so if anyone who is reading this isn’t, just put down some money on the Blu for me. Thanks. Here are some of the reasons for my prediction:

1. Sony, its developer, will be releasing their PlayStation 3 in a few months. This piece of hardware will be the first machine to make use of the Blu-Ray. And if the PS3 can do everything they’ve been bragging about, well then…it won’t be pretty for Toshiba. Microsoft has said that it will eventually develop an HD-DVD-compatible version of the Xbox 360.

2. Blu-Ray has the backing of Dell and Hewlett-Packard, who together control something like 30% of the computer industry. Oh, they’ve also got Apple on their side.

3. It can hold more. Somehow they’ll find a way to stuff over 40GB-worth of information on them and sell them by the buttload because that’s just what we like. There’s no such thing as “too much” in the technological and/or entertainment industry. Sad sad world.

Honestly though, I don’t see how the image quality can get any better for movies. How much more detail do we need to see? At what point does sharpness become ludicrous? It seems like a change in the ways movies are actually shot would also have to come about. Having to take into account the fact that audiences will be able to see the most tiniest of pimples on the super sexy female in a resolution of 1080 really changes things.

Right now, it would make more sense to me if it was just strictly a video game format. Especially since the Blu-Ray can hold such a ridiculous amount of data. Now that I think about it, it may very well end up that way. Maybe the HD-DVD will win in home theater and the Blu-Ray in video game entertainment. Only time will tell.

I don’t know man. It’s gonna be ugly. Money will be the only deciding factor in this war. Godspeed. May the best coalition win.



...do you think the average storm-trooper knows how to install a toilet main

Chick-Flicks

So I really had no idea how long it had been since I last updated this baby until my sister left me a kindly reminder comment saying, and I quote: “Post something new! It's about time, no?” So I’m posting something new. I can’t think of much to say since I really haven’t had any reason for complaints lately. Not to say that I should ever have any reasons for complaints because I mean we should all be thankful and all that jazz, but yeah.

So as I said, I really don’t know what to say, so I’m going to step back a moment and mentally brainstorm some topics for a bit. If you’ll excuse me….
…Alright got one. At least a general idea: movies. Something that has always bothered me is the term chick-flick For some reason I’m thinking I might have mentioned this before here, cause I know it’s something I’ve been meaning to write about. But anywho. Chick-flick. Who the hell came up with such a horrible term? I have problems with this phrase on two levels. First off, I cannot stand the use of chick as a substitute for any of the following: girl, woman, female, she, her, gal, lady, miss, doll, missy, man’s opposite sex, man’s better half, wife, fiancée, girlfriend, and any other words I might have missed that are better than chick. For me personally, chicks have always been and will always remain to be the offspring of a hen and a rooster. Thusly, the only time you will ever hear me speak of chicks is when I recount to you the very sad tale of how my 3 pet chicks died in China. sigh.

Then there’s the compounded term in its entirety. Allow me to illustrate how it might be used in an overly generalized day-to-day scene:

Secure Man: Hey man, you ever see that movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?
Stereotyped Man: What? Hells no. that’s a stupid chick flick! I wanna see bombs and #@!% blowing up!

But there are problems with that statement. Chick-flick is not a genre. No matter how much people want it to be, it’s not. It is simply an overused label which I believe was first given by irrationally insecure males who feared the ridicule their fellow hunter/gatherers could possibly attack them with for the enjoyment of a story regretfully believed to be only accessible to womankind. This is then further promoted by the monster known as the media; expanding its use to immeasurable degrees. Such is the sad sad state of the world we live in. Where people who claim to love all movies shut down and refuse movies simply upon hearing that it is a “chick-flick”. Like that’s a bad thing. A good movie is a good movie. That’s the motto I live my life by. There’s nothing else to it. Unfortunately, society has reached a point where it is a most heinous crime for a male of our species to externalize any emotion not directly related to anger, arrogance, or violence.

I had stepped away from what I was writing for several hours. I have no idea where I was going with all this, so I’m just gonna call it a night and post this as it is. Love is all you need.



...I take no pleasure in taking life if it's from a person who doesn't care about it