The Media

Mickey Senses Tingling!

Monday, August 31st, 2009
by Tony

The Walt Disney Company is buying Marvel Comics… Not sure about how I feel about this. Granted this is a great opportunity for Marvel get out of the financial issues it’s had since the late nineties. I’m a believer that the only way DC has survived this long was the ownership by Time/Warner. Maybe this will be a good thing… as long as next company crossover isn’t “The House of M vs The House of Mouse.”

Thoughts on GI Joe

Thursday, August 20th, 2009
by Tony

So I saw GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra the other day and I realized a few things:

1. Sienna Miller looks better as a brunette. So much better that I think she could have kept her man if she looked like the Baroness all the time.

2. I need to stop reading movie spoilers on Wikipedia. I knew the entire movie going in, and sat there anticipating specific scenes.

3. Kung fu fight scenes involving children made the movie for me. One kid even pulled a knife out on the other. Hot shit!

4. Technically GI Joe: The Movie was overall a better movie then this one. But you can accomplish so much more in animation then in live-action.

and 5. Snake Eyes mask reminded me of something… really can’t put my finger on it but…

I Heart BBC Shows

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
by Tony

Since I have a bunch of time on my hands now, I’ve been trying to catch up with media I’ve been downloading and finally have a chance to watch. In the midst of all the porn, I downloaded a little British sci-fi/drama show about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing an apartment. Hilarity does not ensue. Not sure how I came across the name of the Being Human but I chalk it up to nerdy accidentally discovery like East of the Eden.

I Just Don’t Get It

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
by Tony

Wolverine & The X-Men

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
by Tony

So I just recently came across some advance episodes of the new Marvel animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. From watching just the first episode, you can tell that this series pulls a lot of its influences from the X-Men Movie Trilogy, the X-Men Evolution animated series and several poignant X-Men story arcs like Days of Future Past, and Joss Wheden’s Astonishing X-Men. Set against the de facto back drop of fighting for a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men find themselves lost without the tutelage of their beloved leader/mentor, Professor Xavier, whom along with X-Men long stay, Jean Grey, who disappeared in an explosion at the X-Men’s home, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. With human-mutant relations escalating to a boiling point, its up to Wolverine to pull the team of mutants back together and save the world from the brink of destruction.

Without giving away any more spoilers, its great to see that most of the characterization is spot on; Cyclops is very brooding and lost without Jean, Emma Frost is a manipulative bitch, and Storm has a ethereal regality about her. While some of the characterization is great, some are not. Some mutant powers are either forgotten or not present for the art of story telling. Character back stories has been alter to either have it appeal to a broader audience or maybe to avoid continuity all together. But than again I could just be nitpicking. Either way I believe that anyone from the guy who remembers watching Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends growing up to the die-hard Marvel Zombie would be able to enjoy this series. Its just a damn same that it won’t be broadcast in the U.S. until January 2009 and on the Nicktoons Network of all places.