First, a big ol’ thanks from Logan and me for making this year’s Oscar Live Blog our best yet. The snark was flying fast and funny, from us as well as from a record number of commenters. If you spent the night with us, we certainly appreciate it and hope to see you again next year (or perhaps sooner, we’ve always talked about doing more live blog events). If you missed it, check out the full replay here.
Now let’s see how the rest of the net’s feeling this morning:
Well, not so much free…and the sex part is mostly a lie too. Come to think of it, what that should probably read is “Reminder: Oscar Live Blog with Logan and Ryan Sunday Night”, but you wouldn’t read about that now, would you?
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Oh yes. It’s back. This Sunday (5PT/8ET on ABC) James Franco and Anne Hathaway will awkwardly tag-team the Oscars, and–for the third year in a row–so will Logan and I.
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There’s been talk/threats of a reboot of my absolute favorite childhood cartoon, Thundercats, for quite some time. If you’re not familiar, this is what the original badass Thundercats were all about:
Recently, there’s been some buzz around a new animated series that’ll look like this:
So anime it hurts!
Ugh right? They took that neat hand-drawn style and replaced it with boring ol’ anime. What a disappointment.
But then there’s this little relic. Test footage from a scrapped Thundercats CG movie:
Wow. Suddenly I’m psyched for the new cartoon. It couldn’t possibly be worse than that.
It’s no secret that we really dug Disney’s TRON: Legacy. Sure, it didn’t make either of our top films of 2010 lists, but it was definitely one of last year’s highlights.
Which brings us to the DVD/Blu-ray release…or I should say, the DVD/Blu-ray/Digital/Blu-ray 3D/DVD+Blu-Ray/DVD+Blu-ray+Digital/DVD+Blu-ray+Digital+Blu-ray 3D/DVD+Blu-ray+TRON release. That’s right, Disney, known for overkill releasing style, plans to drop a staggering nine versions of TRON: Legacy on home video, two of which will feature a bare bones version of the original TRON. The only thing missing is a laser disc version.
While I’m all about variety, this is mostly ridiculous. It would be one thing if you were getting something different on each disc, but how many formats do you really need the same film on?
Let’s ease into this week shall we? Don’t worry, we’ve got two, count ’em two podcasts coming to you in the next couple days, but until then how about we all enjoy the comedy stylings of Donald Glover talking about the short-lived online campaign to make him the first black Spider-Man.
I sure do love me some Stephen King. I own every book and have gone out of my way to see every lame movie adaptation. As a fan, I can say that this week’s news of both a theatrical remake of The Stand and the possible casting of Javier Bardem as Roland in the Dark Tower films and TV series is all absolutely wonderful. I have full confidence that things are looking up in the Stephen King film world.
That being said, I will shamefully admit that this trailer is my all-time favorite King film low. The best part? It was brought to us by (a mostly high) Stephen King himself.
Look. I tried to find a picture for this story but Screened used the only good one and WordPress is really annoying me today with its finicky attitude toward two images sharing the same line.
Anyway, the guy who directed Brick, which was awesome, is collaborating with the guy who directed Primer, which was awesome. They are working on Brick guy’s movie about time-travelling-hitmen. Or maybe the hitmen themselves don’t actually travel time. They just get their victims FedEx’d to them from the future so the bodies can be disposed of without a trace. Sounds pretty great to me!
Welcome back, kids! Long time, no see. Did you enjoy our 2010 wrap-up show? I know we sure did!* Anyway, a lot has happened since we last spoke. Anne Hathaway was cast as Catwoman**, Tom Hardy was cast as Bane***, and it appears that Regis Philbin will be retiring soon****.
However, what the net is most abuzz about are the 2010 Oscar nominations. There really aren’t many surprises this year. I’m glad to see that Christian Bale finally got nominated. I really hope he’ll win so we can watch him accept the Oscar as Batman or John Connor or whoever the hell he thinks he is that week. Meanwhile, I may be the only person in the world who is happy to see that The Wolfman got nominated for Rick Baker’s makeup.
The full list of nominations can be found here. Now is the time to start preparing for the big night by watching the last few minutes of TheNaked Gun 33 1/3.
*Lie.
**Meow!
***Who and who?
****There is nothing funny about this. The man is a legend.
Remember, kids, you can check our respective IMDb pages (Logan hereandRyan here) year round if you want to see what we gave a particular film. But here, for your reference, is each of our complete ratings for 2010. And below that, our respective best and worst lists.
To hear us chat about this year in movies, make sure to catch our 2010 Wrap-Up podcast.
All ratings are on a 10 point scale.
LOGAN’S LIST
A Nightmare on Elm Street – 4
Alice in Wonderland – 4
Altitude – 2
American Grindhouse – 5
Babies – 7
Black Swan – 6
Centurion – 5
Clash of the Titans – 6
Devil – 3
Easy A – 5
Edge of Darkness – 7
Faster – 6
From Paris with Love – 5
Frozen – 6
Furry Vengeance – 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – 5
Hot Tub Time Machine – 5
How to Train Your Dragon – 6
I’m Still Here – 4
Inception – 8
Iron Man 2 – 5
Jonah Hex – 4
Kick-Ass – 8
Knight and Day – 4
Legion – 4
My Soul to Take – 1
Paranormal Activity 2 – 4
Piranha – 5
Predators – 6
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – 4
Repo Men – 5
Resident Evil: Afterlife – 7
Robin Hood – 6
Salt – 5
Saw 3D – 6
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – 8
Shutter Island – 4
Skyline – 3
Tangled – 7
The American – 5
The A-Team – 5
The Book of Eli – 7
The Crazies – 6
The Expendables – 5
The Final – 1
The Last Exorcism – 7
The Last Song – 4
The Losers – 5
The Possession of David O’Reilly – 5
The Runaways – 5
The Social Network – 7
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – 6
The Wolfman – 7
Toy Story 3 – 7
TRON: Legacy – 7
True Grit – 8
Valentine’s Day – 3
Vampires Suck – 3
When in Rome – 6
RYAN’S LIST
A Nightmare on Elm Street – 4
Alice in Wonderland – 5
Black Swan – 7
Clash of the Titans – 6
Cop Out – 5
Date Night – 6
Despicable Me – 7
Devil (2010/I) – 4
Edge of Darkness – 7
From Paris with Love – 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – 8
Hot Tub Time Machine – 6
Inception – 7
Iron Man 2 – 7
Jonah Hex – 5
Kick-Ass – 7
Knight and Day – 6
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole – 5
MacGruber – 4
Marmaduke – 3
My Soul to Take – 2
Paranormal Activity 2 – 5
Piranha – 7
Predators – 6
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – 4
Repo Men – 6
Resident Evil: Afterlife – 6
Robin Hood – 5
Salt – 5
Saw 3D – 5
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – 9
Shutter Island – 8
Skyline – 3
Tangled – 7
The American – 6
The A-Team – 6
The Crazies – 5
The Expendables – 4
The Last Exorcism – 6
The Losers – 5
The Social Network – 8
The Tourist – 5
The Wolfman – 5
Toy Story 3 – 8
TRON: Legacy – 7
True Grit – 7
Logan’s Best of 2010
1. Inception
2. True Grit
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Kick-Ass
5. The Social Network
Logan’s Worst of 2010
1. My Soul to Take
2. Devil
3. Skyline
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Alice in Wonderland
Logan’s Yearly Average – 5.10
Ryan’s Best of 2010
1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Social Network
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
5. Shutter Island
Ryan’s Worst of 2010
1. My Soul to Take
2. From Paris with Love
3. Skyline
4. Marmaduke
5. Devil
Episode 1 of TellTale’s Back to the Future game has now come and gone, scoring some pretty positive reviews along the way. Meanwhile, there are a few of us who are pretty pumped about the upcoming Jurrasic Park game that they announced a while back. Nothing official has been posted online yet, but Game Informer magazine (Remember magazines? They’re all made of paper and junk) recently ran an article which featured the first screenshots. Needless to say, it was only a matter of seconds before generic Fanboy #684 scanned them all into his parents computer. Let’s have a quick look at a few, shall we?
Nothing breathtaking, but it looks like Telltale knows the world and has got another fun ride in store for us. See all of the scans at lazygamer.
Once again, a strange lack of interesting entertainment news has flooded the internet. Isn’t it time for for another celebrity to die or something? What about Gene Hackman? He hasn’t done much these past few years.
All kidding aside (seriously Gene, we loved you in 2004’s Welcome to Mooseport), the internet is buzzing with the news that James Bond #23 is finally going into production (yay!). This reminded me of a video some online nerd put together of all the James Bond “Gun Barrel Openings” from Dr. No to Casino Royale. I’d forgotten that Sean Connery wore a hat in every one of his openings. It’s also fun to notice how the theme changed over the years.
Argue if you want, but my personal fav is still 2002’s Die Another Day where Bond actually shoots down the barrel of the gun. Now that’s my James Bond.
