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by Slapnuts, Level 71
Last updated at July 27, 2009, 8:10 am
I am back from a weekend hiatus in Chicago filled with Fat Tire, deep dish pizza and friends puking in Wrigleyville bars.  Speaking of Chicago, knock on wood, my Cubs are now in first place and starting to play some consistent baseball.  Hopefully it holds up.  Say hit to Eva Haberman and the Book of Eli.  +1

Today is going to have a bunch more movie/entertainment news now that Comic-Con is a wrap including such greatness as this Clone Wars Season 2 trailerMadalorians are coming to the Cartoon Network:


Yep
We've seen the arm bra, the hand bra and now the flower bra.  Thanks for the Eva Haberman recommendation.
AT&T and 4chan are butting heads as of this past weekend.  Word from around the web is that various AT&T users are finding that 4chan boards /b/ and /rk9/ are being blocked by the internet provider.  You may not like 4chan and the constant crap it may be filled with but this does not bode well for the freedom of speech and providers should not be regulating content.

A whole mess of Kick-Ass movie coverage courtesy of Comic-Con.  The movie doesn't have a distributor yet but if the response is any indication then Hollywood big wigs will be paying out the rear to get this one off of Matthew "Layer Cake" Vaughn's hands.  Check out Hit-Girl on video along with Vaughn over at Latino Review and also check out Mr. Beaks reactions to the footage over at AICN.  I am curious to see what studio takes a risk with this "hard R" flick with an 11-year old female assassin, and will they keep the title? 

Texas is in the middle of a nasty drought as I mentioned in the "Win a free Nissan Altima" the other day.  Things are so bad that police in San Antonio and other employees are patrolling the city fining people for illegal uses of water.  If they could get all the illegals to tote in their own damn water across the border maybe things wouldn't be so bad? :D

Henry Gates has agreed
to have a beer at the White House with Officer Crowley over the whole "racial profiling" nonsense.  Crowley is in a lose/lose here imho.  I imagine meeting with Crowley over this won't be all that "educating" for him and if he doesn't go he comes off as an ass.  Poor guy.

Dark Horizons
spent some time chatting up Jon Favreau regarding next year's Iron Man 2 which just wrapped up principal photography.  Some interesting tidbits including Iron Man 3, tying in to Avengers and expectations.  The reactions were pretty positive to the sequel footage and even War Machine made an appearance.  Hopefully this leaks online at some point.

This is the Tron: Legacy concept footage which was shown to the studio to help give the sequel a green light.  I dig it.  It may not be what the final art style looks like though I suspect it will be pretty close.



Numerous folks sent this one in so thanks to all of you as I would have missed it for a few days being out of town and all.  Here is the upcoming Denzel Washington post-apocalyptic flick, "The Book of Eli":
     
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Fenkarn
Fenkarn Jul 27, 2009 at 8:14 am
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Sabella
Sabella Jul 27, 2009 at 8:15 am
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Sabella
Sabella Jul 28, 2009 at 4:51 am
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great, haha

it's almost as if she was directly addressing her internet viewers, although I'm shure that we keep our faces at least somewhat better under control than that guy
Ronin
Ronin Jul 27, 2009 at 8:47 am
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What is the story behind The Book of Eli? Looks interesting.
Slapnuts
Slapnuts Jul 27, 2009 at 8:51 am
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the trailer and this IMDB synopsis are about all I know.  The links in my PM box were the first I'd heard of it so I haven't read up on it yet.

"A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across
America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to
saving humankind.?
Tipme
Tipme Jul 27, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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so they're not in a post apocalyptic world anymore I'm guessing
Shadowlol
Shadowlol Jul 27, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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it's after an apocalyptic event so you'd be guessing wrong
Tipme
Tipme Jul 27, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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What if the secrets of the Sacred Book is like, How to Grow Trees, and How to make Cows.
Shadowlol
Shadowlol Jul 27, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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if they need a book on how to plant trees then there's no saving em
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Remind Jul 27, 2009 at 9:09 am
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the book of eli


chyeah looks boss
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Arirang Jul 27, 2009 at 9:13 am
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I love Denzel Washington, I really do.  But that movie, I am not sure.  For one, I don't think I can name a post-apocalyptic movie that I actually like.  The vision of the ****** up world isn't hard to create.. Resident Evil, Terminator, and I am Legend have done an excellent job creating that environment.  But... I don't know.. most of them just kind of flop dead when it comes to character development and story.

Tron looks great.  I don't even know the first movie.  Friend told me about Tron and I googled to find the flash game of it.  Total of 6 levels, the last 6th level is like retarded.  Just sheer frustration against a computer, I suppose I can beat it after investing more time on it.  But ****.. I'm not too obssessed.  But that Tron game itself is really well designed.  Simple, but fun.  I'm sure you can play against others and have a lot of fun.  It has strategy, map control, and finesse.. good game.

Here's something that caught my eye today.  Maybe many already know?  They're making Marvel comic heroes into Japaense animation (anime) style series.  Can't say I am impressed as I love the unique style of American animation (I love the guy who made Samurai Jack.  I also believe he made Clone Wars? Fantastic stuff).  I think lot of Japanese animation look very generic and tasteless.

Here's one for Wolverine.. which I think is really bad.
There's another one for Iron Man, which seems little better.
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Vir Jul 27, 2009 at 9:25 am
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The vision of the ****** up world isn't hard to create.. Resident Evil,
Terminator, and I am Legend have done an excellent job creating that
environment

Those really aren't the good examples of a ****** up world.  Ever read 1984?  Or watch the movie?
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SixFootSix Jul 27, 2009 at 9:45 am
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Don't forget Children of Men too, if we're talking recent. And the movie of The Road will be out soonish I believe, that's looking fantastic.
Arirang
Arirang Jul 27, 2009 at 9:58 am
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The Road..I believe that's the novel adaptation?.. Same author that made No Country for Old Men?  Good stuff..  Children of Men was like..okay.. If that's the one with no children being born for last whatever years.. meh..
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Godsmak Jul 27, 2009 at 11:03 am
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Arirang said
The Road..I believe that's the novel adaptation?.. Same author that made No Country for Old Men?  Good stuff..  Children of Men was like..okay.. If that's the one with no children being born for last whatever years.. meh..
The Road is a excellent book and I hope the movie does great.

There isn't a post apocalyptic movie I dislike. My favs are the oldies, A Boy and his Dog, Omega Man and Planet of the Apes.
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Arirang Jul 27, 2009 at 10:03 am
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Vir said
The vision of the ****** up world isn't hard to create.. Resident Evil,
Terminator, and I am Legend have done an excellent job creating that
environment

Those really aren't the good examples of a ****** up world.  Ever read 1984?  Or watch the movie?
I know I read the book.  I think I saw the movie as well..quite sure I have.  There are a lot of post-apocalyptic vision I guess.. the one 1984 suggests is little different than the ones I picked out.  But yeah, that vision is scary.

It's just,  I can name very little films that uses the theme of post-apocalyptic world and it's good.  In fact.. I don't think there are any.. maybe aside from Bladerunners and Matrix.  Oh gawd.. you know what was really bad.. ******* tank girl.
Vir
Vir Jul 27, 2009 at 10:06 am
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It's just,  I can name very little films that uses the theme of
post-apocalyptic world and it's good.  In fact.. I don't think there
are any.. maybe aside from Bladerunners and Matrix.  Oh gawd.. you know
what was really bad.. ******* tank girl.

I agree.  I  just find something like 1984 more scary because it's fairly realistic.  The original Matrix was cool on the 'freaky' level, and bladerunner was pretty awesome.  I haven't seen tank girl.  In fact, I've missed a few popular post-apocalypse movies that I should have seen, like mad max.
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Shadowlol Jul 27, 2009 at 10:37 am
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1984 wouldn't translate well to movie, it's one of those books that are perfect as a book. 

I think the best post-apocolyptic movie I've seen (other than the Matrix which wasn't really about life outside the matrix) was 28 Days Later.
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Vir Jul 27, 2009 at 10:40 am
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Shadowlol said
1984 wouldn't translate well to movie, it's one of those books that are perfect as a book. 

I think the best post-apocolyptic movie I've seen (other than the Matrix which wasn't really about life outside the matrix) was 28 Days Later.
They did one awhile back.  It's not bad.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940&ei=NbxtSrPcN8rdlQfdt8lw&q=1984&hl=en
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facebiter Jul 30, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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vision of a ****** up world? apocalypse now portrays a pretty ****** up world and it's genre didn't even have to be post apocalyptic.

i am legend, resident evil(film) are really bad.

the new tron film looks pretty terrible(im not impressed by some special effects followed by a cliche), iron man 2 will be good hopefully
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Slapnuts Jul 27, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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Hrm, that anime doesn't really interest me.  It just isn't grabbing me as a must watch.  I prefer more faith adaptions when it comes such things.  One of the reasons I never got in to say "Xmen Evolutions" or "Batman Beyond" (though I did watch a bit of this at was more a future storyline)
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rossco Jul 28, 2009 at 2:23 am
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I BEAT LEVEL 6 OF TRON WHICH ONLY 5.23% OF PLAYERS CAN WITH ONLY 30 LOSSES MANY OF WHICH WERE ON PURPOSE OBVIOUSLY
Zinterax
Zinterax Jul 27, 2009 at 9:14 am
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Godsmak
Godsmak Jul 27, 2009 at 11:04 am
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Zinterax said
Fallout 3. The Movie.
heh yea.
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Budbrew Jul 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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Godsmak said
heh yea.
Thats what I keep thinking as well when I see trailers like this... Even the clothing they are wearing reminds me of the game. 

Would be kind of cool to have a art deco(sp?) style to a movie.
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Godsmak Jul 27, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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Budbrew said
Thats what I keep thinking as well when I see trailers like this... Even the clothing they are wearing reminds me of the game. 

Would be kind of cool to have a art deco(sp?) style to a movie.
Supposedly there is licensing for a real Fallout movie, so who knows if it's in the works or not.

Along with a Fallout MMO.
Slapnuts
Slapnuts Jul 27, 2009 at 3:01 pm
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facebiter
facebiter Jul 30, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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fallout 3 the movie? lol the first thing that comes to mind is a movie that's 200 hours long with someone going round with a huge armament of guns and bottlecaps killing monsters, but eventually dieing of radiation at the end.
Nabukun
Nabukun Jul 27, 2009 at 9:17 am
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Woot. Clone Wars Season 2. When's the premier?
Fett
Fett Jul 27, 2009 at 9:22 am
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latest rumor is Oct 2nd.   Dont believe lucasfilm has verified yet.
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falckjazz alt Jul 27, 2009 at 9:24 am
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Nabukun said
Woot. Clone Wars Season 2. When's the premier?
LOL SOME CARTOON STAR WARS HEEHEHEHHEHEHEEHEH
i cant wait for season 7 btw
briyan
briyan Jul 27, 2009 at 9:19 am
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I would be interested in having sexual relations with Mila Kunis
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KillerTree Jul 27, 2009 at 9:34 am
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Ugh idiot 4chan users.  ATT shut down pipes to /b/ to stop a massive DDOS attack routed through their servers for the last 2 weeks.



ATT is helping you, 4chan.
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neLson Jul 27, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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4chan is the worst thing on the internet
windrunner
windrunner Jul 27, 2009 at 9:36 am
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i didn't know they were making a fallout 3 movie
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Slappywag Jul 27, 2009 at 10:10 am
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I thought about that while watching. Fallout would be a ******* sweet movie but that isn't anywhere near.

Seriously, enclave / super mutants / ghouls / raiders / ****** up mutated wild life. You'd only have to have a vaguely interesting story to have a ******* good movie.
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