AICN‘s Moriarty has written an excellent column titled the Geek State Of The Union. It’s a lengthy but excellent run down of all the movies on the horizon that the readers of this site should keep an eye out for.
Category Archives: Movies
“Daredevil” movie news
While we’re talking about Marvel comic to movie
adaptations, we might as well mention
Daredevil. The official press release
from 20th Century Fox is available on
Ain’t It Cool News. I have to say, with a
January release date planned, it doesn’t sound
promising. Add to that the writer and director
who has never handled this sort of movie before
(although he has done good work in other genres)
and Ben Affleck as Daredevil, and I’m not sure
what to think. I like the idea of Jennifer
Garner as Elektra and Michael Clark Duncan as the
Kingpin, but I’m really not sure about the
project as a whole.
New “Spider-Man” trailer online.
Those who read my review
of the Spider-Man novelization know I’m
pumped for this movie. The new
trailer hasn’t changed my mind at all.
LOTR DVD out in August, but wait until November
The full details on all four releases of Lord
Of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring are
available at
DVD File. The two disk sets released on
August 6 sound like the regular two disk sets.
One will be widescreen, and the other will be
butchered. The November 12 editions both include
the director’s cut (which runs just short of four
hours) with two disks of extras. In fact, the
only drawback to the November editions I can see
would be that the movie doesn’t fit on one disk
(since it has three commentary tracks.)
Oscars: Beautiful Mind More Beautiful Than LOTR
Alexius
writes, I Know We All wanted The Fellowship
Of The Ring To Succede, But Apparently Sauron’s
Forces Are Too Strong, Er Something. Here‘s
A Decent List Of Oscar Winners. Alexius
just saved me the trouble of finding that myself.
I’m disappointed with LOTR missing the major
awards, as well as Memento‘s losses in
both the editing and screenplay categories.
2002 Razzie awards given
We reported on the Razzie nominees some
time ago. The worst films and filmmakers of
the year are listed below, or here.
As always, sci-fi and
fantasy entries are marked as such.
Knight Rider: The Movie.
David Hasslehoff and the talking car with the weird blinkenlights are reportedly gonna get their own movie. I haven’t decided if this is a good thing or not, but I’m leaning towards “not”. Anybody remember “Knight Rider 2000”? Yeah, thought so.
Final Spiderman Trailer March 27
According to the
official site, the final Spiderman trailer
will launch online on March 27.
Geeks IRL trailer
Alexius writes, Black Cat has finished the trailer for ‘Geeks IRL’, A Mocumentary Of Geeks in Pittsburgh. It’s A Large Download, But Pretty Entertaining.
(Yes, I’m Biased, You’ll See How Biased When You Watch It.) The trailers are too large for me to download and watch at work. (They are 39 and 104 megabytes) but I’ll definitely take a look when I get home. In the meantime, what do you people think?
ET 2 – Spielberg makes sense
Cinscape
is reporting on Spielberg’s response to the
suggestion of a sequel to E.T.. The
quote: “It ended exactly where it should have
ended. There is no postscript to it.” The
Cinescape article says a bit more. Suffice it to
say that there is at least one person in
Hollywood who needs more than a financial success
to convince himself to do a sequel.