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Over the weekend, The Dark Knight came out. To say it's the greatest movie ever may be an exaggeration...
...but not by much. I may or may not write a review after I see it again, but if you haven't seen it yet, for the love of all things awesome, go. Now. Seriously, call out of work and get it done.
...and we got ourselves a new video clip that can be found by going to Gotham City Pizza and clicking on the jiggling 'ha.' Or, you can just go to the video directly, if you're a massive wiener.
Just when you thought Comic-Con was the only place to go Klingon Hunting...
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IRON MAN
Directed by Jon Favreau |
Spoiler-tastic review coming tomorrow, but one bit of advice: stay until after the credits. A majority of the idiots audience left during 'em, even though the lights still didn't go on, and missed what will likely be one of the most talked about things regarding this movie.
Gotta admit, I quite enjoyed this 'live blogging' thing, made much easier by CoverItLive.com. If you want to do one of these things, I whole-heartedly recommend them (although the lack of a spell checker is a bit of a downer, but not an insurmountable one).
Jump after the break to read the replay of the insanity that is my Oscar live blog.
As I am wont to do, here are my picks for the Academy Awards tonight, which I will be live-blogging (for at least a half hour, or until I pass out from boredom). Titles with an asterisk next to them indicate movies I've seen, which wasn't many of 'em. As the night goes on, I'll cross out which picks were wrong and italicize the ones I got right, showing just how inaccurate my random guessing can be.
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Louis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
BEST ACTRESS: Ellen Page, Juno
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
BEST PICTURE: No Country For Old Men
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Persepolis
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): Peter And The Wolf
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): At Night
ART DIRECTION: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
CINEMATOGRAPHY: No Country For Old Men
COSTUME DESIGN: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
DIRECTION: No Country For Old Men
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Sicko
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Freeheld
FILM EDITING: No Country For Old Men
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 12
MAKEUP: Norbit
MUSIC (SCORE): Ratatouille*
MUSIC (SONG): Choose one from Enchanted
SOUND EDITING: There Will Be Blood
SOUND MIXING: Transformers*
VISUAL EFFECTS: Transformers*
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): No Country For Old Men
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): Juno
The Dark Knight. Iron Man. A new Harry Potter. Speed Racer. Hellboy II. There seems to be something I'm missing...
...oh, that's right. Indiana-freakin'-Jones, who's teaser trailer premiered on Good Morning America today. Happy Valentine's Day to me, fo' sho'.
Just watch it. You can thank me later.
Heath Ledger, who (as you should know by now) is set to play The Joker in The Dark Knight, died yesterday. He's also well known for his Oscar-nominated part in Brokeback Mountain, the "gay cowboy movie."
Taking advantage of that fact? The Westboro Baptist Church, a group that is well known for their hatred of gays, Jews, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Canadians, Americans, the Irish, the British, the Swedish, black people, white people, hispanic people, asian people, puppies, babies, kittens, rainbows, and The Muppets.
According to this flyer that was posted on the Dark Knight boards on SuperheroHype.com, the group plans on picketing the actor's funeral because he played a gay cowboy. They've picketed the funerals of other homosexual people, as well, but this could be their big thing: the funeral of a famous actor with a huge summer blockbuster coming up is surefire press! Especially an actor who was in the "sordid, tacky bucket of slime seasoned with vomit" that is Brokeback Mountain! (One wonders why they didn't use that pull quote in ads for the movie, I might add.)
Well, here's hoping these tools come off looking as dumb as they actually are; if not, let's hope the funeral is in The Village, since the day a group of flaming New York homosexuals can't outchant out of a bunch of old whiney intolerant white people from Kansas is the day I start eating Canadian bacon with every meal. And, for the record, the only thing I hate more than the Westboro Baptist Church is Canadian bacon, so that's saying something.