Turok: DVD Hunter

guns blazing on a dino's back
Seriously, what is cooler than riding on the back of a dinosaur and bustin caps!

Turok the Dinosaur Hunter would make a great movie, and it is coming direct to DVD.

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Imagine a John Woo double fisted ballistic shoot-out between humans and dinosaurs without the limit of a SF buget…

image from Turok Dinosaur Hunter #8, 1994

Posted by Fred on October 21, 2007 @ 11:04 PM Under: Comics

This is what I get for posting rumors…

cant fight the links

The rumor that the funeral scene that involves Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight, if false. Instead it is a funeral for the recently deceased Gotham Police Commissioner leaving a vacancy for one James Gordan.

Follow this link for more detail including details on a Funeral Crasher who attempts to assassinate the Mayor of Gotham.

It’s funny I write this stuff as if it is real and not a comic book based movie.

Link: http://www.mania.com/55857.html

Posted by Fred on August 31, 2007 @ 11:46 AM Under: Comics, Links

Breaking Links: Death in the DC Movie-verse

With this being the first week of school there may not be a webcomic update today, so just to be safe I present:

dead kid

More dead DC characters!

After talking about deceased DC comic characters, now the movies are following suit.

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According to Film Ick someson, or I mean someone will die in the sequel to Superman Returns.

Link: http://www.filmick.co.uk/2007/08/whats-gonna-come-of-man-of-steel.html

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As if Batman needs any more death in his life…

It has been reported by Rich Johnston at CBR that Morgan Freeman will attend a funeral where he is not wearing a suit, instead his picture is wearing a fancy frame.

Link: http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2870

Posted by Fred on August 29, 2007 @ 10:39 AM Under: Comics, Links

Doomsday: September 18, 2007

If you don’t want to read my babble, just watch the movie – trust me it is worth it.

One of the greatest comic book events ever was the Death of Superman in 1993. What was seen as a marketing gimmick lead the way to the greatest Superman stories of all time: The World Without a Superman and The Return of Superman.

The death may have been a way to boost sales, but looking at a world that was used to having a Godlike savior cope without him is pure genius! These comic books gave me the appreciation for a hero, for what a hero should be, and made me realize that too many people in todays world have no clue as to what a hero truly is. The World Without a Superman and the connected stories are closely treasured by me, on on my birthday these stories will become what looks to be a great animated movie.

Posted by Fred on August 9, 2007 @ 10:48 AM Under: Comics

The Real Optimus Prime lives in my hometown!

Maybe not my hometown, but one town over less than 10 minutes away.

Maybe not the Optimus Prime you are thinking about, not the one from the ’80s cartoon or this summer’s movie… its some dude.

Some dude actually changed his name to Optimus Prime. Not some fat thirty-something fanboy who still lives in his mother’s basement. No this dude is in the frickin military and married with kids, not what most would expect.

It all started in the ’80s, when Scott Edward Nall was just a little tyke and loved playing with Transformers toys. Of course, Optimus Prime was among his favorites. So, for his 30th birthday, Nall decided to transform a bit of himself, legally changing his name to match the action figure.

A couple of years before he left for Iraq in 2003, with Ohio’s 5694th National Guard Unit from Mansfield, he made the switch. While serving the country, he bore his new name proudly on the chest of his uniform.

from the Ohio.com/Beacon Journal 7/06/07

See him for yourself
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Posted by Fred on July 7, 2007 @ 11:11 PM Under: Comics, Other

Transformers – Suprise! It was good.

Last night we opted out of watching fireworks to watch a predicted bomb. Little did we know this little dud was the exact opposite.

Transformers, not to be mixed up with the ’80’s animated “Transformers the Movie“, was quite good. When I first heard that this movie was going to be released I was ecstatic, until some of the Autobot designers were posted on the net. I started to get used to designers, but after watching the bombs that were this summer/spring’s comic based movies I was giving this movie no hope.

To make this post shorter here are some good and bad points from the movie, according to me:

The Transformations were quite believable, and less CGI looking than Spider-Man 3
The old cartoon noise was included with the first transformation of the movie
The organic look made for a great movie, even though when the images were first released I disapproved. I have to slightly defend the organic look because thats how they looked on Cybertron in the cartoon and in other generation cartoons.
The reason for coming, and even staying on Earth was the same as the cartoon… I wish they would have kept the name “Energon Cube” instead of “All Spark”

Separated at Birth!
Bumblebee

Bumblebee was awesome and quite likable. Not since Johnny 5 have I cared for a robotic creature – seriously if this was a chick flick I would have cried.
For all who complain about the people in this movie saying that it should have been all robots as main characters… shut up. The people were corny, their scenes were cliché, and most were there to be the comic sidekick but it was all necessary. At the end of the movie during the crazy robot battles you see that the Autobots care about the humans in the same manner that I cared about Bumblebee. Humans in this movie were supposed to look silly and weak compared to the Transformers, except the few who stand up against the Decepticons… it gave meaning to the whole aspect of humans are worthy of saving.
All the Transformers had masks… yeah masks. For example when not in battle Optimus Prime had a nose and moving mouth, but during battle a shield came up in-front of his nose and mouth resembling the ’80s cartoon. see image below
Lastly, Optimus Prime having Peter Cullen’s voice. WOW!

prime fool!