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Part of me wants to be cynical and say that this won’t be as revolutionary as the first.  Of course, there’s the other 80% of me that’s beating that part over the head and burying it in the desert.

Tags: 3D, Awesome, movies, Tron

A while back I wrote a review for Ghostbusters, the video game.  I was playing a PC copy on my system and was really disappointed by how badly coded everything was.  If you don’t remember my review of it, I invite you to read it again before moving on with this entry.

All done?  OK.

Since writing that entry, I’ve had the chance to play the game again, only this time on an Xbox 360.  I’m very impressed with the game overall now, and would like to revisit some of the points I made earlier.

Tags: Ghostbusters, PC Port, PS3, video games, Xbox

According to the New York Times, Disney has made a bid to purchase Marvel Comics for $4 billion.

Walt Disney Company said Monday it has agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment, the storied comic book company that owns the rights to such popular characters as Spider-Man and and the Fantastic Four, in a cash and stock deal it valued at $4 billion. The deal comes more than 10 years after Marvel was at the center of a bruising and highly public takeover battle between two feisty financiers.

Shareholders at Marvel will need to approve the transaction, which boards of directors at both companies have already approved.

Tags: Avengers, comics, development hell, Disney, geeks, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, movie, Selena Gomez, superhero, Wasp

This was originally shown in a rougher form at ComiCon 2008 to a crowd of completely stunned fans (who hadn’t even been told what they were going to be seeing).  It had actually been put together to prove to Disney that no one would be interested in the project.  Well, they should have shown it at the RNC then, cause you don’t show something like this in front of a room of geeks and not expect a reaction!

The polished, final teaser was released yesterday.  Here it is (warning, you may need a change of pants).

On a recent cruise vacation up the coast of the Western United States I found myself in Seattle WA. After the normal visits to the Space Needle, and Pike’s Place market, we found ourselves back at the Seattle Center. While there we found an incredible building. It was the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. They had numerous authentic, and replica, pieces of memorabilia from throughout the history of Sci-Fi. Despite their lack of Doctor Who it is a must for any geek.

http://www.empsfm.org/

Since the new Star Trek launches tonight, I thought I’d open up a thread to discuss what everyone thought of it.  In an effort to help people who haven’t seen it yet, I’m going to create a thread in the forums as well.  If you want to talk spoilers, go to the forums.  If you want to talk about stuff that does not qualify as spoiler material, go ahead and post in the comments section below.

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I just saw this new trailer for Transformers 2. I’ve got to admit, it’s looking pretty cool.

Tags: 2009 movies, Transformers

This past Friday I saw the movie that claims to start the summer, X-men Origins: Wolverine. For years the back story of Wolverine has been incredibly confusing. However this all changed a few years ago with a min-series entitled, “Origins”. This finally put the beginnings of one of the Marvel universes most celebrated characters. The movie holds close to this part of the story. However when it comes to other bits of Marvel history it is far less faithful. There will be a few “spoilers” but lets face it, no one who goes to see this movie was expecting The Usual Suspects.

Tags: Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, comics, Doctor Who, geek, Harry Potter, marvel universe, movie, movies, Pixar, spoilers, star trek, Terminator, Transformers, Up, wolverine, X-Men

I love Pixar movies.  In my mind, that studio can do no wrong.  Eventually their streak will come to a screeching halt but I’m guessing that their new movie, Up, won’t be the one that does it.

On a side note, is the kid in this movie asian or just chubby?  We’ve been debating that at my work today.

Tags: Pixar, Up

So let me come right out and say it, there is a lot of digital blue penis in The Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan, one the stars of the film, is a man made of energy who is naked for almost the entire movie. For a small time he’s in human form, and when out on a mission sports a banana hammock. I’ll be honest that I felt a little uncomfortable seeing a flaccid blue dong on the IMAX screen repeatedly.

Right now that’s out of the way, on to the review.