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Race To Witch Mountain


Watchmen


Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince


Star Trek


HOLY SHIT!!

First Look at Mad Hatter

Here's the first image of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter for Tim Burton's upcoming re imagining of Alice and Wonderland, this movie will probably suck but make tons of money...

Grabbag

• The Trailer for J.J. Abrams ' "Star Trek" comes out November 17th with Quantum of Solace
• Jaden Smith (Will Smith's son) will be the new "Karate Kid" in a remake of the 1984 classic
• The Wayans Bros. just finished up their final draft on a film script for "The Munsters"
• Here's a cool poster for "Astro Boy"... comes out October 2009
  

Role Models

God, this movie was hilarious. I mean, just SO funny. A lot of WTF moments, but I think that was maybe the funniest comedy tactic they used. It's dirty, it's rough around the edges, but ends up having some heart. Plus, most importantly, its got McLovin!! Cast is hilarious, writing is amazing, everything worked for me. If you like "Superbad" you'll enjoy this one. Ok, now get up and go watch it...

Hellboy 2

OK this is gonna cut to the chase. I liked it. I like Hellboy 1 slightly more. It didnt suck, but it wasn't mind bogglingly good either. Not to say if you like the first don't see this one, on the contrary, GO RENT IT. The thing with this franchise is that... although I've seen Hellboy more times than Fantastic 4, Superman Returns, Batman Begins, Spiderman 3, and Xmen 3 combined... I never really saw it as Great. The second installment is a perfect sequel because it too isn't great. On top of that, as beautiful as some of Guillermo Del Toro's visions are, he used a few too many in this film (What I'm trying to say is that too many characters look more "Pan's Labrynth" than "Hellboy"). Look, if you are smart enough to have seen the first one already then kick back, throw on part 2, have a brewskie. Cheers and crossed fingers to a third film. (Hellboy 2 hits DVD Tuesday Nov 11th)

Get Smart

Waited til this hit DVD to give it a chance. I dug it. It's a really pleasant classic comedy. "Get Smart" is based on the 1965 Mel Brooks TV show starring Don Adams that parodied secret agents. Its a typical good (CONTROL) vs evil (KAOS) superagent story. Maxwell Smart is the bumbling yet lovable secret agent who, with his partner Agent 99, must stop KAOS from destroying humanity. Hilarious antics ensue along the way. The movie does a great job of paying homage to the original show while being modern enough and individual enough to appeal to today's audiences. The cast is absolutely great; Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne "the rock" Johnson, and Alan Arkin all fulfill their characters perfectly. If you've never seen the show, the film is comparable to any other Mel Brooks comedy (although the film was made without any involvement by Brooks). Its just a simple, enjoyable comedy. Nothing out of the ordinary. I'm a nerd so I give it alot of extra points for all the nuance to plot points from the old show, and even incorporating old cast members into this new version. They even throw in some old gadgets and cars from the original production. Wikipedia's got a nice compilation of all the References made, if you are at all interested. I think in today's Hollywood its really important to respect source material, and this movie does a perfect job of that. The charm and appeal of the original was that they didn't take the story too seriously and you could tell it was something fun to make. That's reflected in the film. It's successful because it doesn't try to be too serious or go too far. It is what it is. Respek.

UP

yay Here's the first long trailer for Pixar's next film "UP"

South Park: About Last Night

Here's the episode of South Park that aired on November 5th. Funny how they were able to put this together just the night after the election, its all about what had just occurred the night before

Obama's Eleven :D

Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a Continent...

Monsters Vs Aliens

FINALLY The trailer to Monsters Vs Aliens. This looks HILARIOUS. Im so excited for it!

Genesis: Apes

Chud.com is reporting that there is a script making the rounds that is a reboot of "Conquest of the Apes". That would be AMAZING. Here's the article:

"Tim Burton killed Planet of the Apes. His film, while technically profitable, left moviegoers with such a bad taste in their mouths that Fox never bothered revisiting it in a sequel. The franchise, which had seemed poised for rebirth, lay dead for years.

But right now, in the halls of Fox, there is another new version of Planet of the Apes that has been kicking around for the last year. It's not a sequel to the Burton film, and it's not another remake of the original. To the general audience it's a prequel to Planet of the Apes, but for the initiated it's something totally different.

It's a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

Yup. It's the story of Caesar, the ape who said no, the first ape with speech who started the events that led to a world where monkeys were on top and humans were dumb beasts.

Things are different in this script, written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, which is called Genesis: Apes. Fans will know that Caesar in Conquest is the result of a massive temporal paradox - his parents escaped to 1973 from a far future Earth. Further, Conquest takes place in a dystopian 'future' - 1991 - while Genesis: Apes is set in the modern day.

In this version Caesar is the result of a genetic scientist fooling around with the nature of things. When the baby monkey exhibits intelligence and the ability to talk, he takes the cuddly thing home to his wife, who is unable to bear children. Things go surprisingly well for a number of years until Caesar grows up and sees mommy getting attacked. The dutiful son steps in and accidentally kills the attacker.

Here's where it takes off. In a scene paralleling Charlton Heston in the cage in the original Planet of the Apes, Caesar ends up in custody at an Ape Conservatory where he and the other apes are abused mercilessly. Caesar finds himself a primate without a world - he's as smart as humans but will never be one of them (and is in fact tortured by them) and he's initially rejected by his monkey brethren.

You're on Caesar's side, understanding where this poor outcast is coming from. But then the script gets really ballsy and, just like in Conquest, Caesar begins a campaign to unite the apes and overthrow human society. And his plan isn't a Martin Luther King Jr series of marches, speeches and sit ins - Caesar and his apes take to the streets violently.

Again, it's like Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which brilliantly modeled its ape riot scenes on the Watts Riots that had happened just a few years before. But Conquest was set in a future where America was ruled by a fascist society. Genesis: Apes is set today, in this world. The regime that Caesar overthew in Conquest was made up of bad guys. The Caesar of Genesis: Apes is coming after you.

Maybe this is why the script has been languishing all this time. You just can't have your hero working to tear down our modern society. It's too radical! Plus, Fox remains notoriously unfriendly to good genre ideas.

Still, imagine if the film had come out this year. It's the 40th anniversary of Planet of the Apes and The Dark Knight proved that mainstream audiences are ready for something edgy and challenging. The country is polarized politically in a way that would almost guarantee this film major media coverage and controversy, which would sell tickets. You could probably have liberals and conservatives, whites and minorities completely outraged by this movie.

And it's the perfect way to get the franchise back up and running. Everybody knows that the Planet of the Apes used to be Earth. Everybody knows that the mute humans are our distant descendants. Everybody knows the Statue of Liberty is buried in the sand. So just skip all that - get to something new. That was one of the major problems with the Burton version, that it tried to recapture the shock of the original, the most spoiled movie of all time. But Genesis: Apes lets us get back into this world of apes and do what the four sequels to the original did - craft great science fiction parables that had gut puncher endings. Only Planet of the Apes had a 'twist' ending; all of the others just had 'Holy shit!' finales.

It's likely that Genesis: Apes will sit on a shelf forever and ever, but here's hoping that somebody at Fox is paying attention and realizes that even Mark Wahlberg can't keep this franchise down forever."

More Sarah Palin Silliness

aw, I don't feel bad for her at all...

Vote Palin in 2012!!

Chantix

I would rather have a hole in my throat than take Chantix. WTF?
"Vivid, Unusual, or Strange Dreams" "Suicidal Thoughts" ?????

Angels & Demons Teaser

Twitter. The Devil's Tool.

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Twitter as a Terrorist's Tool?

POSTED: 11:18 AM ET, 10/29/2008 by Derek Kravitz

TAGS: intelligence, military, social media, terrorism

The social networking Web site Twitter could be used by terrorists to communicate as they execute a potentially catastrophic attack, according to a military intelligence report obtained by the Federation of American Scientists.

The draft reported, published Oct. 16 by the Army's 304 Military Intelligence Battalion Open Source Intelligence Team, provides three hypothetical scenarios of terrorists co-opting the Twitter social networking tool, citing the use of Twitter by activists during the Republican National Convention to update each other on police movements and arrests and Hezbollah-organized "tweet" feeds.

"For example, terrorists could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the US as an operation tool," the report said. "However, it is unclear whether the same theoretical use would be available to terrorists in other countries and to what extent."

The three Twitter scenarios described in the report:

Scenario 1: Using cell phones and a Google maps/Twitter mash-up to plot where they are, terrorists use Twitter to communicate near-real time to update each other about troop movements and plan an ambush.

Scenario 2: The first terrorist has two mobile phones -- one for using Twitter and another which is connected to an explosive device or a "suicide vest." The second terrorist also has two mobile phones -- one for Twitter and the other to detonate the bomb. They communicate using Twitter to coordinate the "precise" time for the attack.

Scenario 3: A cyber-terrorist finds the Twitter account of a member of the armed forces. The terrorist gets information out of the target and uses it for identity theft, hacking or physical attacks.

PC World's Ian Paul examined the feasibility of these scenarios and deemed them "far-fetched."

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, told InformationWeek that the report was more like "a student exercise, not as a serious threat assessment."

"Terrorists can use credit cards and can openers, so they can probably use Twitter too," he said. "But that doesn't make it a national security concern."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, did we just give them 3 great ideas or what??