Doctor in the Hallway News Report 06.10.06
Posted by Ben Moser on 06.10.2006
Transformers, Hulk, Commies, and more! Read it or find Snakes on your next flight!
Alright kids. The 'Canes are up two and there's no game tonight. Some of the sharper of you may have noticed that I didn't provide the promised Scrubs DVD review. Here's the short version:
It's fantastic. Go buy it. It's the best season of one of the best shows ever. The extras are mostly just kinda there unless you really care about the number of dogs that have lived on the set. The gag reels and alternate lines are worth a watch. Honestly, though, this would be worth twice the money if the extras were just file footage of the cast discussing that nasty cold they passed around where everyone did cute little "double-sneezes" (they sound like "achoo-choo").
Right. News. Now.
Doesn't look like much. Maybe it's more than meets the eye!
Ladies and gentlemen, let the hype begin. The latest Transformers movie has its website up. You can check that out by clicking here. There's not a whole lot to it right now, but you can sign up for updates, whatever that means. What is there does look pretty snazzy, though. I remain giddy about this movie in spite of Michael Bay's name being on it and Soundwave being a helicopter rather than a cassette deck. I will remain this way about this movie until I actually see it. After I see it, I could very well be reduced to a puddle of a man sobbing in the corner and muttering about how my childhood was raped. Until then, though, optimism is the name of the game!
Senator McCarthy, stay out of our bedrooms.
Kate Bekinsale has said she will star as the unknowing wife of a Russian spy in April 23rd. She did not have any details about a director or any co-stars for the movie, set in the cold war era.
Now that's relationship problems. I thought I had found some pretty dysfunctional relationships in my time, but at least I'm pretty sure none of them were plotting death to America in the name of the glorious USSR. Then again, for biggest part of the cold war that I lived through I believed in cooties. So the girls I shared a bed with probably wanted death to America in the name of something else. Like rock n' roll.
'Till death do us part, commie!
Hulk wants mulligan!
First, he spilled the beans without saying much about Wolverine and the future of the X-Men franchise. Now Avi Arad is talking Hulk sequel with iFMagazine, and it's sounding more remake than sequel. According to Arad, "It's a do-over. I loved the Hulk movie, it was just a different approach, and it wasn't exactly the comic. We want to be much closer to the comic. It's what we would rather do."
While I wasn't the biggest fan of Ang Lee's version of the big green guy, I'm concerned that they already seem to be running away from it rather than building on its original ideas. Is this because they feel like they can make a better movie from scratch and people will still watch? Or is it all just from fan boy backlash? If it's the latter, expect a new Spider-Man to come out where the emphasize the awesomeness of Peter Parker building his webshooters himself.
Homer mad that "Dogs of War" story elements included in Ang's movie!
Operation: Ah, Screw It
Variety is reporting that Valhalla Motion Pictures and Legendary Pictures have wrapped up the rights to Matthew Bogdanos' book Thieves of Baghdad. The book is an account of Bogdanos' investigation into the location of items looted from the Iraq National Museum. Bogdanos served as Manhattan assistant district attorney, earned a Bronze Star, and has served two tours in Iraq.
This guy has led a pretty interesting life. I have no doubts that I'm going to find this movie boring anyway. There are better movies that can be made about Iraq. For example:
- A district attorney investigates the location of the missing WMD's
- Saddam Hussein and a cartoon dog discover the true meaning of Arbor Day
- An Iraqi who wants to give American troops candy and flowers and an Iraqi who wants to make a run at a group of them while wearing a designer bomb get trapped in a elevator together. The duo come to understand one another and become unlikely friends who go to the fair to win a tag team watermelon eating contest
I still call it "Japanimation," so that's what I know.
Imagi Animation Studios will produce a feature-length CGI-animated version of the anime favorite Gatchaman, or Battle of the Planets. (source: Dark Horizons)
The franchise, featuring five young ninjas defending the world's resources, has 30 years of history including 205 TV shows, one feature, and three direct-to-video releases.
I have never heard of this, but it seems to me that Gatchaman should focus more on a super hero that wears really bright, mass produced friendship bracelets. He attacks evil by jumping from around the corner, surprising it, and shooting it with paintballs(see what I did there?)
No, really. I'm a space ninja.
Comic book movie!
After a bidding war, Universal is the big winner of the rights to produce a movie based on Boom Studios' comic book Talent. The story is about the sole survivor of a plane crash that discovers he has gained the abilities of everyone else who was on the plane.
This is the kind of comic movie that needs to be made. It doesn't have years of backstories for fan boys to pick over and complain about being wrong. Talent was a 4-issue mini. A darn good one, too. And it's perfect movie fodder.
This is not to say that I think someone needs to go and make a movie out of every self-contained mini that's ever been drawn up in the funny books. Although I'm sure there's one guy who is just waiting to spend $8 on a Spawn vs. Batman movie.
I'm glad it's too late for my Legend of Zelda intervention
This is great. This article from WRAL tells us all about a video game rehab clinic in Amsterdam. This place is going to have a wait list a few years long once the over-worried mother community gets wind of its existence. I'm not saying that this addiction isn't real, I'm just saying that a lot of the kids that end up visiting will just be awkward kids who have trouble with social situations. Two months of rehab probably isn't going to help them. As for the kids who are actually addicted, I question the wisdom of sending a kid that's prone to addiction to Amsterdam.
This week's SNAKES ON A PLANE moment
We're getting closer and closer to Snakes on a Plane arrival to the big screen. Can you stand it? I'm going to camp out for this one dressed as a plane with snakes on it. However, even my love for this upcoming cinematic masterpiece is nothing compared to what Sam Jackson himself has to say about it when you click on this link. Sammy hearts Snakes on a Plane. Who can blame him?
That's it for this week, kids...
Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals are Saturday night. Watch them. If you don't watch them, at least try not to do anyting I wouldn't do...
