While the first Captain America film was fantastic, I think this film will be so in an entirely different way if the tone set by this clip is any indication. Much has been made about the high speed hand held format for the shooting, but I found this clip at least to be acceptable. The film is certainly going to be more gritty and modern, obviously being set in modern time this time. It looks like the Captain is learning how to put his skills to more and better uses than before for sure.
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Follow up! Sam the Eagle has arrives and he’s awesome (see the show links)! This leads to a bit of muppet talk of course. And don’t miss, GLaDOS tells us all about the difference between Fusion and Fission. Idris Elba has been cast in Disney’s live action ‘The Jungle Book’ as Shere Khan, which seems just about right. And while TJ thinks the ‘Annie’ remake looks fantastic, Chad is quite a bit less than thrilled. TJ suspects he has had his heart removed. And the primary review is ‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’ which was better than TJ was expecting but not as good as Chad would have liked. So they met in the middle.
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As you may have heard on Episode 81 of The MovieByte Podcast, I had to work hard to convince TJ to see this film rather than the much manlier 300: Rise of an Empire, which I have absolutely no interest in ever seeing. That being said, I was hopeful that this movie would be worth the money to see it in the theater, both for TJ’s and my sakes. While it may not have been as good as I had hoped, I do think that it ended up being a pretty decent family film that I would certainly say is worth the money. Note: a few spoilers ahead, but no major ones.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman…
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Hey guys. As you should know, the film adaptation of the first book in Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, titled Divergent (duh), is set to be released next week. The trailer alone didn’t get me interested at all even though I felt like I should be excited for what looked to be “the next Hunger Games.” In an attempt to remedy that, I read the whole trilogy this past week and loved it! For some non-spoilery thoughts on the trilogy as a whole, head on over to my site to read the full review. Here’s the general gist of it:
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It was the stupidest idea I had ever heard. [Sony chief] Amy Pascal brought it up to me and I thought it was crazy! But of course I was a Spider-Man fan, but more of Peter Parker. It was a tricky time. I had just finished ‘500 Days of Summer.’ I didn’t know what to do next. And those movies, which are really sacred to people, weren’t that old. They gave me a script I didn’t like. And Amy said, “You can’t turn down Spider-Man.” And she was right. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Should have went with your first instinct bud.
Read The RestIn the first movie I was a little too reserved with…
I posted the first trailer for this film in November then promptly forgot about it. But it’s back on my radar with the new trailer and I’m still interested. I admit to my shame of having no knowlege of the events that the film is based on. There seems to be an expectation that everyone in the world knows about the “well known West Memphis murder trial” where three teens were wrongly accused and imprisoned for the murder of three children. At the time it was believed to be a part of some sort of satanic ritual.
The film looks to me like it has the potential to be pretty good. We’ll find out…
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It’s not much, but if you’re like me, you lap up most anything Marvel throws at you. In’s just a couple short weeks until Marvel kicks off their cinematic year and I can’t wait. At the risk of repeating myself, Captain America: The First Avenger was easily my favorite pre-Avengers Marvel film and I’m hoping that despite all the tonal and directorial differences we’ve been hearing about, Captain America can stay high on my list.
I like Steve Rogers as a character and I like Natasha Romanoff as a character. And the idea of putting the two opposites together in one film as co-stars should make…
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It’s hard to call Season 6 the best season of TNG, but it had a lot of good episodes, and we got to see James Doohan reprise his role as Scotty so definitely call that a win! This season also included great episodes like:
It’s great to see a great show getting remasterd in glorious HD and I look forward to watching these in HD somehow, even though it would be cost prohibitive for me to buy the entire series — again.
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At the end of last week’s Agents of SHIELD, we met Larelei who stole one half of a newlywed couple so that he could do her bidding. In this opening clip from the upcoming episode Yes Men airing Tuesday, Lorelei takes over a biker gang.
Lorelei is an Asgardian from the comics, but since I’m more into the cinematic universe and not the comics I don’t know much about her except that she’s sort of not a “good guy”.
Agents of SHIELD has sort of been like a snowball, continuing to build as it rolls along. I have loved the show since day one but it’s been getting better and better.
While they obviously can’t use the name GLaDOS because of rights issues, and the computer equipment doesn’t look a thing like GLaDOS, by getting Ellen McLain to voice the A.I. and using the same voice processing that Valve used on McLain’s voice for GLaDOS, it’s obvious what’s going on here. And I mean, evil A.I. voiced by Ellen, what more evidence do you need? Also, the sarcasm and personality sure seems to be GLaDOS’s.
It’s also a video obviously for kids, but that doesn’t mean the video isn’t fun (and informative). I love GLaDOS!