Gerard Butler joins "Watchmen"? - Mar 07, 2007 - 05:10pm
Yup Wondercon was in San Francisco this past weekend and it really was fun; it was great being able to walk from Wondercon to Chinatown and see the Chinese New Years parade. Snyder said that the studio had problems understanding why there should be a R-rated superhero movie. Granted Watchman should not be a horror movie, but it definitely has enough violence and adult themes to necessitate a R-rating for a even semi-faithful adaptation. I wonder what was cut out of the script being considered this time around? I've got a feeling most of the subplot with the Minutemen and that crazy pirate comic will never get to screen. I should hope that 300 will be a big enough success that the studios will want to greenlight Snyder's Watchmen without hesitation. I think Butler could make an interesting Dr. Manhattan; he has that idealized look that Manhattan should have. Paul Giamatti for Rorscharch; Giamatti is great at playing wierd, angry characters.

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"Blockbuster Total Access" - Feb 09, 2007 - 04:17pm
Jimjum made some interesting points about whether Blockbuster is losing money in the long run with this deal, and I wonder the same. It is however a good deal that is availabe now, so I take advantage of it while I can. I do think that the review is too generous though considering the poor availablility of movies that are not mainstream. There are plenty of movies that I cannot find in a video store at the top of my Que that I have been waiting months to become available and sent. They are generally quick at sending the available movies on my list, except for maybe 2 to 3 times when I waited about 4 days for movies to be sent. The design of their website needs some serious tuning, it is way too difficult to get the list of movies releasing that week. If you go to manage/edit myQ, it takes way too long to move movies up or down on the list or even just to delete it from the list. Btw, returning the DVDs in store is only good for in-store DVD rentals, not game rentals. The Ecoupons you print out is good for one game rental per month.

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Jeff Bridges joins "Iron Man" - Feb 08, 2007 - 05:45pm
Road to Perdition was based on a comic and that was a pretty decent movie. The Crow was an entertaining movie and the comic it was based on is brilliant by the way. From Hell was an OK movie based on Alan Moore's comics. Actually based on this track record, I have to agree that there have been no comic book movie that has matched the quality of its source at its best (except probably Sin City which was such a literal adaptation of the comic). Batman Begins was great, but no where near as good as Dark Knight Returns or Batman Year One.

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