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This Week in Geek

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  • Lucasfilm, under Disney, plans to release 2-3 movies every year (Huffington Post)
  • Could Tyrese finally be arriving in The Walking Dead? (EW)
  • American Horror Story has been renewed for a third season and Jessica Lange is returning. (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
  • A new synopsis for The Wolverine has been released. (Collider)
  • The king of movie makeup, Rick Baker, is finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (The Mary Sue)
  • David Yates wants Alexander Skarsgard (Eric from True Blood) to be his Tarzan. (Variety)
  • Tom Cruise wants Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun) to direct Mission: Impossible: 5. (I Watch Stuff)
  • The Kickstarter for an animated The Goon film set a record for the site. (MTV Geek)
  • Apparently they are making a film based on the video game, Splinter Cell, and Tom Hardy is set to star. (Latino Review)
  • If you see The Hobbit in IMAX 3D, you’ll catch the first nine minutes of the horribly-titled (IMHO) Star Trek Into Darkness. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Zack Snyder says that his Superman in Man of Steel is a “more serious version.” (Splash Page)
  • Season three of Game of Thrones has a return date. (io9)
  • Is The Wasp going to be in Iron Man 3? (Screen Rant)
  • If I proposed to Cindy with this R2-D2-inspired engagement ring, I think her “yes” would have changed to a “let me think about it.” (Geekologie)
  • Could George Clooney and Brad Bird be teaming up for Bird’s secret sci-fi flick, 1952? (Vulture)
  • We get our first look at Malekith the Accursed (Christopher Eccleston), the villain of Thor: The Dark World. (Splash Page)
  • Brandon T. Jackson (Tropic Thunder) is set to star as Axel Foley’s son in the pilot of Beverly Hills Cop television series produced by Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and Eddie Murphy (TVLine)
  • James Wan is in talks to direct a MacGyver movie. (Latino Review)
  • A pair of Brits, Elizabeth Henstridge and Ian De Caestecker, have joined the cast of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D television pilot. (Bleeding Cool)
  • Marc Webb confirms that Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) is in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel but not if she’s playing Mary Jane Watson. (Splash Page)
  • New trailers for Oz: The Great and Powerful, House of Cards, Europa Report, The Host and Warm Bodies

Movie of the Week: The Dark Knight Rises

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After the credits rolled, I wondered aloud if The Dark Knight Rises was even better than The Dark Knight. I walked into this movie expecting to be entertained but also mildly disappointed. The Dark Knight was probably the pinnacle of comic book movies. I don’t even like to call it a comic book movie. I prefer “crime thriller using characters originated in a comic book.” It really deserves it’s own category. To prepare for the final part of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, I re-watched the first two Batman films. I realized I may have thought too highly of The Dark Knight (TDK) and not highly enough of Batman Begins. As amazing as Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker was and as intense an experience watching that film was, there were some things that bothered me that I may have ignored in my previous viewings. The movie went a little downhill after the Joker was defeated (truth be told, it should have ended there). While The Dark Knight Rises (TDKR) definitely had it’s flaws, I think it was a more consistent film from start to finish.

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Movies I’m Interested In Seeing: Summer 2012

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Despite having movies I have been anticipating for years, this looks like a pretty lame year for summer tentpole films.  This year, “summer” starts on March 4th.  I don’t imagine that I’ll be seeing a lot of movies this summer but I am definitely going to try and see these five.

5. The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3)

Even though Spider-Man 3 was pretty bad, I still hate how quickly they rebooted it (I know there are legal reasons they needed to do it but still).  I think Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone (as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy respectively) are well cast and appreciate that they are going back to the mechanical web shooters (which highlights Parker’s intelligence) but tying Parker’s parents into the origin and that horrible suit have me shaking my head. All I know if J. Jonah Jameson appears in the sequels, they better get J.K. Simmons back.

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Movie of the Week: Inception: The IMAX Experience

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Is this the best movie I’ve ever seen about dreaming? No. That’s still Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Is this the best heist movie I’ve ever seen?  No. That’s still Heat.  Is this even the best movie I’ve seen this year? Nope.  Toy Story 3 is still number one in my book.  But this is easily the most ambitious movie I’ve seen in the last few years and for that, I loved it.

Actually, as I sat down to write this, I found myself in two places: how I felt as the credits rolled and how I feel now that I’ve slept on it and have thought about it.

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