Spider-man reboot already?!

Yep. You read right. Spider-man is already (not even 10 yrs old) getting a reboot. I'm baffled. While delighted that the scream worthy rumors I had been hearing are now dead, these new ones make me twitch. I mean, seriously? WITH ALL the movie worthy titles marvel has - they want to reboot Spider-man?

Well given they've done, what, four reboots of the comic in the last two years. Why not add the movie to the list? Makes me very sad. They had something going, three was horrid but that didn't mean four couldn't recover. With Spidy there is a lot of martial to work with, lots of ground you can cover. You can find the link after the jump.

Still around..

This past week or so has been crazy. And I know I've been lacking in updates, but when so man cons going on - that many companies feel the need to debue games at, run trailers at and sneak out information its been a lot to digest and consum. So in some attempt to return this information to you my brain has gone to mush.

E3, SDCC and Blizzcon with in the last month (or coming up) and those are just the BIG events. That doesn't include all the smaller events were side line stuff is sneaked out. My brain is about to explode!

So here's the run down of what I got for you - that I can remember - I'll organize my thoughts and put them all together better.

The nightmare on elm street movie is in production as we speak, without Robert England *cry*, but fear not they are attempting to stay close to the core but reinvent the nightmare just a little different for the actor attempting to fill his shoes. Only time will tell if this is going to crash and burn or breath new life in to Elm Street.

Blizzard has once again announced a full length movie done based on Warcraft - not new news but they actually have a director attached this time around. Many people agree that they really need to just do this them selves with the help of a director. Lord knows they have the skill and technology to wow crowds, but rumors are they want to opt for a live action feature. That makes me sad. There are enough man made elves running about, give us some digital goodness dammnit!

Fox still has a brain - thanks to the fellow at TR for this tid bit that made my day - they worked out contracts with the ORIGINAL Futurama cast rather then replace them like they have been threatening to do these last weeks with casting notices for the key characters of the show. THANK GOD!

Moving on from that thought my heart was broken to hear that while Riddly Scott is returning to direct the new Alien movie - supposed to be a prequel - to the original but apparently its not all that it should be. Trying to go back to the original ship - assuming he means the one that is found empty in the first - and go in to how the aliens were originally made. Really?.. REALLY? I thought you covered that already? I mean didn't this get touched upon Ooooh some where in the second or thrid? How bout those piss poor excuses of movies AvP? Yeah. People make me sad.

I was uber excited about the Blood the Last Vampire movie - but from reports at Bloodydisgusting.com it fails to really do the series justice. I've not had the chance to see it for my self cause while it was released in the states - no theater within driving distance picked it up. So I must wait for the DVD to make a call about this. Most of the reports about the story I expected - slacking and not explaining much. But the original anime didn't explain much either. What worries me is the apparent abusive of CGI blood over realfake blood. Time will only show..

Tron trailer that they slipped us last year was true, rumors was floating it was something just to give people hope but no! It looks like we will be getting some Tron action in the coming months. Disney is evil - but hey aren't all movie companies now?

Iron Man 2 looks to be as good as the first, I am more eager though for Robert Downy Jr.'s role as Sherlock Homes. Supposed to be out with in the next months, I will actually leave you all with the trailer for it if you have not seen it yet. Its worth it. Nice to see how well he is returning to acting seriously and being seen seriously as an actor.

Seriously WHAT THE FUCK?

Girl admits to rosting Kitten as a prank

I'm at a loss for words. I thing the girl should be put in an oven her self to see how well she likes it. Its just beyond inhumane to do something on this level. I get locking the cat in a closet or some place just to irritate the owner as the girl "claimed " she was trying to do. But CRANKING up the oven and putting a defenseless kitten inside? Then leaving cause you didn't want to hear the poor thing beg for its life.

She deserves to be locked in a psych ward for the remainder of her life. She sounds like the type of girl to put out posion laced tuna to kill the neighborhood cats.

Epic Geek Fan Made Trailers = WIN

So I've been off playing WoW - trying to get gear and raid like a good little girl. If my guild wasn't full of jackass's I might be better off. But they often ignore me and I don't care anymore.

But more and more the fans seem to have better eyes and visions for how movies should be then how they are getting made. It makes me cry right now that they are REMAKING Alien and Buffy. Not the Buffy TV show - the movie that predates the tv show. WHAT THE FUCK?! Okay okay.. I can see Buffy. It was fairly corny, cheesy and was meant to ride on a special actors 90210 fandom. Fail there.. But Alien? ZOMG FAIL NO. NO.

What makes me think that fans have better eyes for what should be done? Well thanks to Topless Robot post. I can bring you this :

And I quote from TR :

Fillion himself has seen it and deemed it "awesome," so you know it's good. I swear, I know Warner Bros. probably wants to cast somebody young like Chris Pine or Bradley Cooper in the role of Hal Jordan, but I don't know how you can look at Fillion's square jaw and not think of Hal Jordan.

I WHOLE HEARTILY agree sir. Most whole heartily. More geek fan made goodies after the jump..

These are just proof that Hollywood really needs to listen to the fans. YES, they need to make a movie that everyone can see/understand. But they fail to acknowledge a good portion of those dropping the money opening weekend are the fans they need to please. Cause as the please the nerd friends, they tell non-nerd friends to see it. Who then are drawn to what originally made the film. Least those with a brain and the natural human curiosity still working for them.

And yes.. I know there are HUNDREDS of HUNDREDS of bad fan made trailers. But I still think when Hollywood see's ones like those above.. they need to stand up and pay attention to the makers of them. Seriously.

DC's new MMORPG a rip off?

So it was brought to my attention ( Ty G4 for still doing SOMETHING) that DC Comics has decide to venture in to the world of MMORPG's. No, you can't play Batman or Wonder Woman. From the looks of it, I am afraid to say, it looks like a knock off of City of Heroes and Villains. Just with a DC Spin as well as our favorite characters being NPC's in the city.

So, its my understanding. DC is expecting people to buy a game, already available for public consumption by a different name and has a dedicated fan base. BRILLIANT!! I never knew they could be so creative...Please pardon the sarcasm.

Now this is nothing new, as the original project was announced back in 07'. But the recent video I caught on G4, made me wonder what was the point? Why not link up with the Heroes and Villain's world - crafting a special edition server in which people can make characters suited for the DC Universe? Minus the else world versions, I'm sure.

I'm sure you could call this a bitch post. But in the economy right now, its a huge risk to ask people to invest in a game that doesn't change up anything that's not already found in CoH&V. I'm sure they will get their share of die hard DC fans buying it, but these are the same fans reeling from the R.I.P event that went - in my opinion - weird and wrong. The last issue in the arc NOT the last issue? Why didn't you explain that maybe FOUR months ago so that everyone was aware of the situation you were putting them in for.

Here I am though talking about a Comic Company that has yet to truly launch them selves in to movies like their competitors have done such a brilliant job doing. Maybe they hope to hit a home run by getting to the MMO play first before Marvel, I'm not sure. Here are some key points of the game thanks to MMOCrunch

• Highly customizable characters. You can even base them off of DC characters with 1 click of a button, then modify them if you want.
• PvP Combat in a Open World.
• Quests are called Cases and Capers depending if your a Hero or Villain.
• Fighting along side or against some famous DC characters. Superman, Batman, Joker, etc.
• Environment Manipulation, stuff like throwing cars
• Fast Movement/Traveling, depending on your powers

Now, I like the quest name change/creativeness. That's cute, something I'm surprised CoH&V didn't touch on. And while you can MODEL your character off a existing DC Hero of Villain, you can not PLAY that character. I doubt that will stop people from making a Trillion Batman, Superman, Jokers and Ra's al Ghul.

The world PvP is a concept that's decent, I base this more off what the fellows at MMMOcrunch theorize. As a Hero you make have to protect someone, yet as a Villain your Caper may be to kill that same person, thus allowing for PvP action.




How do they account for the Environment Manipulation? Someone throws a car, but it magically resets an hour later? Isn't this the issue that AoC ran in to when wanting to give players the ability to destroy the environment. They were unable to make it a reality. Blizzard has pulled it off and for the moment I think it may be the only way to do it without it glitching out horribly.

What they did for WoW was in the new area is a Zone in which ever couple of hours the Horde and Alliance fight for control. Destroying the apposing fractions stations, building on the Battle grounds they put in during Burning Crusade. It allows players to earn marks, and when there fraction has control over the zone buy things that they can not get anywhere else. Giving players a reason to want to control the zone. Once the battle is done I believe ( because despite being on a PvP server, I'm not big on PvP)the zone resets, in favor of the controlling fraction to allow for Vendors and such to respawn.

That being said, I can't even imagine how they are going to come up with an ability for throwing cars and such that doesn't kick people in the area/zone off or cause a massive server reboot so that items and objects can be returned to their coded place. While I'm curious to see it happen, the over all game doesn't pull me in. Without something that makes WoW, CoH&V and the already existing MMo's look like child's play, they may not cause any ripples at all in the community's established.

I'm not calling fails yet, simply I see the same thing happening with it as with so many. Curiosity seekers looking for something different giving it a nice starting charge, but nothing that lasts long once they (the players) realize that they are playing a game they've played before already, only it has a shiny new finish and different names for things. Stick to what you know.