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Gorgeous Image of Discovery Before Her Final Launch.
You need to click this pig to get a full sense of her majesty. This is an image of the Discovery, taken a few weeks ago. Tomorrow, Discovery is taking her final voyage into space. Sloughing off the shackles of our niggling orbit and ascending to the cosmos. Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy notes that “barring this and one more flight of Endeavour later this year, it’ll be a while before we can put humans into space at all.”
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'Source Code' Trailer #2; It's Like Assassin's Creed But Hotter.
The second trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming flick Source Code dropped today. He’s only directed one movie, but I’m already a frothing Jones fanboy. If you use your powers of intellect, you’ll figure out that means I’m pretty excited for anything regarding this movie. The premise is gimmicky sci-fi, and that’s cool by me. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a character who is inserted into the last eight minutes of a man’s life on a train that was victim of a bombing. He has to try over and over again to figure out who the culprit is, while he falls in love with an obviously doomed passenger. Cue meditations on fate, destiny, the ability to change the future, et cetera. It also reminds me a lot of Assassin’s Creed and the animus, but that’s another story.
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New ‘Captain America’ Photos; AVENGE STUFF WITH UR SHIELD DUDE.
Not to be outdone by the cadre of new Thor pictures, Captain America got himself some new photos as well tonight. Dude straight up told Marvel Entertainment, “Listen, it’s obvious as a blue eyed, blond haired dude I am clearly not the America dream, but the Nazi posterchild. I will make this shit public if you don’t give me some pub” and thus they did. I really don’t know what I’m taking about. Hit the jump for the pictures.
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‘Sucker Punch’ Trailer #2 Has Arrived. Swords and Sex.
The second trailer for Zack Snyder’s adolescent boner dream has dropped today, and it’s more of the same. Thankfully for me, more of the same is over-the top-action, midriffs, and over stylized bullshit. For all of these, I am a sucker. I dug the trailer while trying to not realize how inherently sexist it is to presume that a girl’s dream world would find her running around with her stomach showing, a short skirt on, and her hair done up in blow job handles. No, Zack Snyder, if I had to guess that’s definitely not how a woman would envision empowering herself. It’s how permanently adolescent fucking pigs like you and myself would. Hit the jump for the trailer.
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New Thor Official Images And Hilariously Dumb Character Photos!
Marvel has released a couple of new official images from the Thor movie, and goodness me am I gooey over this flick. I can’t tell who I find sexier, Natalie Portman or Chris Hemsworth. My girlfriend and I release simultaneous sighs of appreciation whenever we catch a Thor trailer, and she said during the Super Bowl debut that she would be okay if I left her for him. I’m in the clear! Also in here are a bunch of hilariously awful character photos. Completely out of context bullshit shots with awful photoshop in the background. These photos are destined to adorn shitty posters in Hot Topic and school folders. Hit the jump for the full load.
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High-Res Photo Of The Moon Is Swank; Where’s The Face?!
There’s the face of the moon in all its high-res glory. This picture was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Wide-Angle Camera’s and is the mosaic culmination of over 1,300 fucking pictures. If that isn’t technological welcome to the future bonery, I don’t know what is.
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D.J. Caruso Confirms In A Tweet That He’s Directing ‘Preacher’
It was rumored, now it's confirmed. D.J. Caruso is going to direct Preacher. The magical blathering mind behind Disturbia and Eagle Eye is now going to handle one of my top ten favorite comic book series of all time. Well fuck. First Baz Luhrmann does the inexplicable in announcing that he's taking Gatsby to the world of Goofy Glasses and Gimmicky Bullshit. Now this. Caruso announced it in a tweet today.
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Tom Hardy Talks About Playing Bane In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
When it was announced that Tom Hardy was going to be in The Dark Knight Rises, I was fucking pumped. Dude has crazy acting chops, and he’s studly like woah. When it was announced that he was playing Bane, I was like, okay cool. There’s no consternation emanating from me regarding any choice that Nolan has for his final Batman. No sir. He’s earned the pass. Others wondered how he’d incorporate a muscle-bound 1990′s reject character into his mythos. They worried. They fretted.
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Kevin Costner To Be In Zack Snyder’s Superman? Let’s Do This!
Faster than a speeding douchebag, I’ve become a bit intrigued in Frat Boy Rock’s Superman. Word out of the Hollywood Hype Machine is that Kevin Costner of all people is up for a role in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot. If Snyder is just going to go bananas with this movie, then I can get behind it. He wanted Lohan in the flick, and now he wants Costner.
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The Full Milky Way Over Switzerland Is Space Erotica.
Good lord is this ever the shining paradigmatic example of space porn. That is the Milky Way galaxy and much, much more shining across the night sky in Switzerland.
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The Great Gatsby Is Being Filmed In 3D. Baz Luhrmann Sucks.
I love The Great Gatsby more than I love Watchmen, and the trainwreck that was that adaptation devastated me. This is only going to crush me. Now only does Baz Luhrmann suck, but he just upped his fucking blowitude to the next level. He’s filming The Great Gatsby in 3D. Fuck. Fucking. Fucking shit.
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Billy Mitchell Opens A “King of Kong” Arcade. Pro Mode Douche!
Billy Mitchell may not be the literal king of Donkey Kong anymore. But that doesn’t stop the enterprising motherfucker from cashing in on the flick that made him the biggest douchebag awesometron Vader motherfucker in the video game world. No sir. Mitchell has opened a King of Kong-themed arcade at the Orlando International Airport. Most amazing part of the entire arcade? According to Joystiq, “there’s not a Donkey Kong arcade machine to be found within the joint.”
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Launch Photo From International Space Station Is Swag.
Fuck church, how about some existential masturbation on a Sunday? We are currently on a Blue Rock, floating through the cosmos. This launch photo from the International Space Station underlines such a righteous fact.
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COMIC BOOK OF THE WEEK: – S.H.I.E.L.D. #6
The final issue of the first volume of Jonathan Hickman and Dustin Weaver’s Shield came out this week, and it struck me at the very core of my philosophical soul. An imbecile dabbling in impracticality, I spent a good portion of my twenties floundering through school and accumulating credits in various philosophy classes. Modern philosophy, medical ethics, existentialism, Ancient Greek, Medieval, and Social Ethics among others. I absorbed them all but I did so with a problem lingering in the back of my head. The brightest philosophers, the most powerful thinkers, my very heroes; they were all, to an extent, full of fucking shit. In ways both gorgeous and clinical, Hickman and Weaver make this argument in the final issue of the first volume of Shield. In a way I never could. I don’t have the components, I lack the wiring. But I know a classic when I see it.
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THIS WEEK IN VIDEO GAMES: Zombies Got Nothing On The Great Gatsby.
THIS WEEK IN VIDEO GAMES, NEPHEW. FEATURING PRINCESS PEACH GETTING RAILED, SUPERMAN, DYING GIRLS AND ZOMBIES, PLUS JAY FUCKING GATZ. WUT!
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Marvel Sneak Preview of FF #1; Spidey and The Fantastic Go Future Foundation.
The final arc of Fantastic Four had some serious fans around OL. Serious. Fans. Rendar threw inter-splooge all over the final issue in I&W, and I dedicated a good five-hundred words to fawning all over it. That ultimate arc paved the way for the forthcoming FF #1, where Reed and the rest of the family along with Spider-Man set up to solve tomorrow. The Gods at Marvel, or perhaps more specifically the Marketing Gurus, have seen fit to drop the first six pages on our gaping asses. They’re fantastic, and I can’t help but be slightly aroused when Sue Storm calls Peter Parker “young man.” Hit the jump for the preview if you’re so inclined.
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Diablo III Originally Took Place In Heaven; Here’s Some Screens.
If there’s a God – and there’s probably not – we’ll be playing Diablo III this year. I’ve been sweating this game since the first expansion pack for Diablo 2. There’s been a fucking ten year dry spell. I need more Diablo III, and I need it now. What the fuck has taken so long? We may finally have an answer. This week, shit has leaked out regarding a canceled iteration of DIII.
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The Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 Isn’t Productive, But It’s Sexy.
Hubble dropped an image today of NGC 2841, a pretty swank spiral galaxy. This galaxy has some poor self-esteem though, ’cause it’s remarkable for a sad reason. They note in the article that it “currently has a relatively low star formation rate compared to other spirals.” Impotence. I know it all too well. Don’t get down dude. NGC 2841, you’re still beautiful to me. If you’re interested in breaking down this galaxy further, Bad Astronomy got yo ass covered.
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Henry Cavill Auditioned For Superman In Reeves' Suit.
Slashfilm has a sneak peak at a Superman article from the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly. Forget the news that the film lacks a third act, and get totally excited over omfg – gossip. Apparently, when Cavill auditioned for the role of Superman, Snyder had him try on a replica of Christopher Reeves’ suit. Oh Frat Boy Rock, you’re bananas!
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Adrianne Palicki Cast As Wonder Woman. This TV Show Now Feels Real.
Adrianne Palicki has been cast as Wonder Woman for the forthcoming NBC series. All of a sudden it actually feels like the show is real. I mean sure there was a script for the pilot and everything, but fuck, this is actually happening. Well then. I don’t know Palicki’s work, but according to my powers of reading, she was in everyone’s favorite television show, Friday Night Lights. I realize I fail because I haven’t seen that show (yet), but here’s hoping she’s astounding in it.
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