Amusing
Spider-Man arrested due to assault on Hollywood Boulevard. Now that's a headline!
MTV dedicates reality show to douchebags. Wow. This looks like an entirely new level of awful. Like there wasn't enough self-absorbed ego-driven douchebags on reality TV already!
A handy comic guide for anytime there's a shooting spree in America. (Although personally, I think B should've been video games, since that gets blamed far more often.)
Another comic, this one accurately represents how I manage my finances.
Entertainment
The apocalypse comes early for Joss Whedon's DOLLHOUSE. It's canceled. No surprise. Getting a second season was the surprise. The question now is whether to bother watching the remaining episodes or not? Oh well, like I often find myself saying, "One less show to watch."
Oh, and don't think it'll be heading for SciFi, errr, Syfy: Syfy PR beats fans to the punch on Twitter: “I don’t think we’ll pick it [Dollhouse] up”. The poor schmucks who work there must grit their teeth anytime one of the major networks cancels a sci-fi (or semi-sci-fi) show knowing people will be hoping SyFy will scoop it up. Don't the fans realize they don't have time for things like DOLLHOUSE? Their schedule is full of GHOST HUNTERS "shhh... did you hear that?", movies, and ECW wrestling.
V week 2 drops 29% -- where'd all the viewers go?. Maybe they were underwhelmed by the premiere, or tuned out given the slow pacing of the second episode. My nostalgic love for the original makes me want to watch this, but the whole thing just feels so by the numbers and soulless. It's a bit boring. (In fact, LOST aside, it's a perfect example of a typical ABC assembly line drama. Take away the alien aspect and you've got something like THE NINE, which shared two cast members with V. That show had an idea that sounded a bit interesting and was like watching paint dry. It seems ABC is only successful with primetime soaps like GREY'S ANATOMY and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, or dancing celebrities. Or, put simply, shows aimed at women. When they try concepts that might attract male viewers or an even balance of males and females, they don't seem to know what to do with them.) For the most part the characters are bland and uninteresting (compared to the original) and the Visitors don't seem as menacing as they should. Hopefully the new show runner can turn things around. He's got a good track record (CHUCK and THE SHIELD), but between how boring it's been so far, and the long gap after the initial four episodes, I might not return.
Kevin Williamson talks influences and creative direction for SCREAM 4: torture porn and TWILIGHT? I saw the first SCREAM in theaters and liked it. (Even bought it on laserdisc and later on, DVD.) The sequels were awful though.
Rachel McAdams as Black Cat? Yes, please. Another day another super hero movie casting rumor.
Check out the teaser trailer for KICK ASS. Seems very faithful to the comic, unlike WANTED (same writer for both comics).
Dumb
Netflix may delay new release movies by a full month. Why? Because the studios are bribing them to do so. Seems like a dumb movie on the movie studios part. People who wanted to rent the movie and not buy it are more likey to either wait for it to hit rental or just download it and not wait. Either way, delaying rentals wouldn't boost sales.
Video Games
Microsoft banning up to 1 million modded 360s. What's interesting about this is that they're not just banning people who modded their console (via firmware flashing) to play copied games. They're also banning people who replaced the hard drive with bigger hard drives themselves by cracking open the casing and installing a bigger hard drive. Rather than pay the ridiculous markup for the proprietary official 120 gig or 250 gig drive. (Seriously, you can get a hard drive of the same size for much much less than buying the official Xbox add-on drives.) So basically, people who want more storage space for the things they pay to download off of Live, or to copy their games to the hard drive for better performance and less wear and tear on the console are being treated the same as people who are playing copied games they downloaded. The funny thing is the people playing copies just do a "retail swap" where they buy a new console, swap out the innards, and then return the banned console to the store. All this will do is make pirates have an unmodded 360 for Live and a modded one for playing offline.
MODERN WARFARE 2 sells 4.7 million in one day. That's insane. Good game, although the single player is way too short. It seems like more and more game companies are focusing on multiplayer and single player is becoming almost an afterthought.
Splinter Cell Conviction to feature in-game advertising during torture scenes. The only equivalent I can think about would be having Jack Bauer stop to talk about how refreshing a can of Diet Coke is before crushing it into an object to gouge out a terrorist's eye out with during an interrogation on 24. It all seems a bit incongruous.
Spider-Man arrested due to assault on Hollywood Boulevard. Now that's a headline!
MTV dedicates reality show to douchebags. Wow. This looks like an entirely new level of awful. Like there wasn't enough self-absorbed ego-driven douchebags on reality TV already!
A handy comic guide for anytime there's a shooting spree in America. (Although personally, I think B should've been video games, since that gets blamed far more often.)
Another comic, this one accurately represents how I manage my finances.
Entertainment
The apocalypse comes early for Joss Whedon's DOLLHOUSE. It's canceled. No surprise. Getting a second season was the surprise. The question now is whether to bother watching the remaining episodes or not? Oh well, like I often find myself saying, "One less show to watch."
Oh, and don't think it'll be heading for SciFi, errr, Syfy: Syfy PR beats fans to the punch on Twitter: “I don’t think we’ll pick it [Dollhouse] up”. The poor schmucks who work there must grit their teeth anytime one of the major networks cancels a sci-fi (or semi-sci-fi) show knowing people will be hoping SyFy will scoop it up. Don't the fans realize they don't have time for things like DOLLHOUSE? Their schedule is full of GHOST HUNTERS "shhh... did you hear that?", movies, and ECW wrestling.
V week 2 drops 29% -- where'd all the viewers go?. Maybe they were underwhelmed by the premiere, or tuned out given the slow pacing of the second episode. My nostalgic love for the original makes me want to watch this, but the whole thing just feels so by the numbers and soulless. It's a bit boring. (In fact, LOST aside, it's a perfect example of a typical ABC assembly line drama. Take away the alien aspect and you've got something like THE NINE, which shared two cast members with V. That show had an idea that sounded a bit interesting and was like watching paint dry. It seems ABC is only successful with primetime soaps like GREY'S ANATOMY and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, or dancing celebrities. Or, put simply, shows aimed at women. When they try concepts that might attract male viewers or an even balance of males and females, they don't seem to know what to do with them.) For the most part the characters are bland and uninteresting (compared to the original) and the Visitors don't seem as menacing as they should. Hopefully the new show runner can turn things around. He's got a good track record (CHUCK and THE SHIELD), but between how boring it's been so far, and the long gap after the initial four episodes, I might not return.
Kevin Williamson talks influences and creative direction for SCREAM 4: torture porn and TWILIGHT? I saw the first SCREAM in theaters and liked it. (Even bought it on laserdisc and later on, DVD.) The sequels were awful though.
Rachel McAdams as Black Cat? Yes, please. Another day another super hero movie casting rumor.
Check out the teaser trailer for KICK ASS. Seems very faithful to the comic, unlike WANTED (same writer for both comics).
Dumb
Netflix may delay new release movies by a full month. Why? Because the studios are bribing them to do so. Seems like a dumb movie on the movie studios part. People who wanted to rent the movie and not buy it are more likey to either wait for it to hit rental or just download it and not wait. Either way, delaying rentals wouldn't boost sales.
Video Games
Microsoft banning up to 1 million modded 360s. What's interesting about this is that they're not just banning people who modded their console (via firmware flashing) to play copied games. They're also banning people who replaced the hard drive with bigger hard drives themselves by cracking open the casing and installing a bigger hard drive. Rather than pay the ridiculous markup for the proprietary official 120 gig or 250 gig drive. (Seriously, you can get a hard drive of the same size for much much less than buying the official Xbox add-on drives.) So basically, people who want more storage space for the things they pay to download off of Live, or to copy their games to the hard drive for better performance and less wear and tear on the console are being treated the same as people who are playing copied games they downloaded. The funny thing is the people playing copies just do a "retail swap" where they buy a new console, swap out the innards, and then return the banned console to the store. All this will do is make pirates have an unmodded 360 for Live and a modded one for playing offline.
MODERN WARFARE 2 sells 4.7 million in one day. That's insane. Good game, although the single player is way too short. It seems like more and more game companies are focusing on multiplayer and single player is becoming almost an afterthought.
Splinter Cell Conviction to feature in-game advertising during torture scenes. The only equivalent I can think about would be having Jack Bauer stop to talk about how refreshing a can of Diet Coke is before crushing it into an object to gouge out a terrorist's eye out with during an interrogation on 24. It all seems a bit incongruous.
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