Cool Movies for a Hot Summer

Well, folks, the summer movie season is almost upon us. This is my favorite time of year and it looks like we've got an excellent crop heading our way. I thought it would be a good time to post a calendar. I got the dates from http://www.comingsoon.net/ so you can go there for info and trailers. I'm gonna try and see as many of these as I can, so when I do, expect a review to pop up here.

May 2: Iron Man (I still can't picture Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, but I could be wrong)

May 9: Speed Racer (Check out the trailer. Total hardcore eye candy.)

May 16: Prince Caspian (The first Narnia film stunk, but I'm hoping this one will be better.)

May 22 (?): Indiana Jones (No commentary needed. This one speaks for itself.)

June 6: Kung Fu Panda (Looks like it could be the best Dreamworks cartoon since Shrek 2.)

June 13 (Friday The 13th! Oooohh, creepy!): The Incredible Hulk

June 20: Get Smart (If you never watched that show, you've been seriously deprived)

June 27: WALL-E (Pixar's latest also speaks for itself. Check the trailer.)

July 11: Hellboy II: The Golden Army (It's about damn time!)

July 18: The Dark Knight AND Space Chimps (DK speaks for itself, but poor Space Chimps doesn't stand a chance and that's a shame cause it looks good.)

July 25: The X-Files 2 (This is a must-see. Nuff said.)

August 1: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Wait, what? What does China have to do with mummies? I'll be seeing this one to see if it's as good as the last one of these they did. Fingers crossed.)

August 15: STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (No comment needed.)

And that's it. Not a bad lineup, eh? If half of these flicks are as good as they look we'll be in for some great times.

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And So It Begins...

Hi all! Welcome to my world. After reading other people's blogs for years, I thought I'd chime in with my own. I have always been a massive pop-culture junkie [comic books, movies, videogames (mainly retro stuff), fantasy/scifi/horror, cartoons, you name it I'm probably a fan of it] and so this blog will be me giving a geek's perspective on things.

To start this thing off, I found out this morning that Marvel had to pull the trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men and remove it from Youtube and everywhere else because it seems that the Foo Fighters songs in it were used without permission. Reportedly, the band is considering a lawsuit.

Personally, I think that would be excessive. Yeah, Marvel screwed up but the vid's already been taken out of circulation. A lawsuit wouldn't accomplish anything at this point. I, of course, had the foresight to snag the trailer when I first saw it, so I and anyone else who did that can still watch it whenever but it's a shame that no one else can cause it really is an awesome video. The show is supposed to be on the Nicktoons Network in 2009 and I wonder if maybe they pushed it back to then to let the controversy (however small it ends up being) blow over. Oh well.

Speaking of X-Men, I found a nifty bit of treasure yesterday. Remember the old X-Men arcade game? The one that, for some reason, was based on a pilot that failed rather than on a series that succeeded? Well, some cool person ripped the audio from the game to put together a soundtrack! After giving it a listen, I'll say that it's your typical early-90's videogame music, but it sounds great and is very enjoyable. If you're a True Believer like me, than get thee to http://nexusdarkblue.blogspot.com/

Excelsior!