Yikes!! The first pics of Snake Eyes from the upcoming G.I Joe movie are floating around. He looks pretty darn awesome I think. He also is pretty scary looking too. Snake Eyes is played by your favorite cut in half Sith, Ray Park. I’ve never seen Ray Park’s face without a mask or paint but I assume he has some kind of awful scar because the guy never gets to play a role with his face showing.

The movie is supposed to be coming in 2009 so we gotta a while to wait but I always loved G.I Joe so I’m excited about it, really excited after seeing these pics.

Check out another pic after the break

via Cinematical

We’ve heard it all before “MOVIE GAMES SUCK!!!” Unfortunately that is really true. I’ve tried to think of one good one and I really can’t. Maybe the Iron Man game will be good? At least this video looks pretty good. It’s pretty and action packed. Worst thing about the upcoming game and movie…. we will all be sick of the song “Iron Man”. Enjoy!

Video after the break

Fox and NBC Universal little video site Hulu.com is up and running. It’s been in beta for about 4 months and went live this week. If you haven’t signed up yet what are you waiting for? It’s pretty great. I’ve spent the last couple of nights catching up on shows I’ve missed.

The site has both TV shows and movies that are free to watch. I found the TV show database to be pretty good so far and according to Jason Kilar the sites CEO it is just going to grow. It’s got everything from some great new shows like The Office and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Some old classics like Doogie Howser M.D and my favorite The A Team. Even some great cartoons like Exosquad. It’s all paid for by ads so you will have to sit through 3 commercials for a 22 minute show, which is less then a real TV show unless of course you use Tivo. The quality is really good and except for a couple of buffering incidents it runs great.

Right now there are some shows that don’t have their entire catalog up yet hopefully they will soon. The movie side of it isn’t as extensive yet but still no bad at all. Although I haven’t done it yet you can cut parts out of any show or movie and share it anywhere. If this little Hulu thing works out it could put quite dent in the DVD sales of classic TV shows.

With nothing good on actual TV right now it’s the perfect time to try Hulu and catch up on episodes you may have missed.

Check out the video after the break

Well I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Without HD DVD as competition Blu-Ray would increase in price. According to Pricegrabber.com Blu-Ray players are starting to creep back up in price. Granted they are about the same price as what they were a year ago, they average around $400, but they are still to much.

Imagine for a minute if there hadn’t been HD DVD at all. The price for Blu-Ray would be insane, well even more insane then they are now. As long as your gonna be buying a Blu-Ray player might as well just buy a PS3 it’s the same price.

Thanks Gizmodo 

What is it with Nintendo and Sunday releases?  Do they have something against Jesus?  Either way Super Smash Bros Brawl hit retailers yesterday to much fan fare, and word on the street the game is good – or dare I say super!  Also this week is Condemned 2, hopefully still chock full of creepy mannequins and dead birds.

If you are a movie fan, Best Picture Winner No Country for Old Men hits DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) [Google It]

3/12
Buzz! Junior RoboJam (PS2) [Google It]
Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz (PS2) [Google It]
Condemned 2: Bloodshot (PS3, 360) [Google It]
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (DS) [Google It]
FlatOut: Head On (PSP) [Google It]
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (Wii) [Google It]
Incesticide (DS) [Google It]
Lost Empire: Immortals (PC) [Google It]
Nanostray 2 (DS) [Google It]
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (360, PS3, PS2, PSP, DS) [Google It]
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters (PS2) [Google It]
Seven Kingdoms: Conquest (PC) [Google It]
Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory (PC) [Google It]
Wild ARMs XF (PSP) [Google It]
World Championship Cards (PSP) [Google It]

DVD and Hi-Def
No Country for Old Men (also on Blu-Ray)
Bee Movie (also on
Hitman: Unrated (also on Blu-Ray)
Dan in Real Life (also on Blu-Ray)
Independance Day (Blu-Ray)
I Robot (Blu-Ray)
Michael Clayton (HD DVD)
Fletch (HD DVD)
Stargate: Ark of Truth

Theater
Dooms Day
Horton Hears a Who!
Funny Games U.S.
Never Back Down

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Way back when we posted that Kristin Kreuk would be playing Chun Li in the upcoming Street Fighter : Legend of Chun Li movie. Now the cast is growing. That uber-hottie Chris Klein will be playing the part of Nash [aka Charlie]. You may remember Klein from such master-pieces as RollerBall and the American Pie series.

Also joining the cast is Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog. You may remember him as the large black man in the Green Mile and he played Kingpin in Daredevil. Duncan has quite a few video game voice acting jobs under his belt also.

Also Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas will be in the movie, Rick Yun, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, and Cheng Pei Pei were also added to the film.

As much as we’ve seen of the whole Steampunk trend you’d think we would be tired of it, right? Well I’m not yet tired of it and it’s mostly because of sweetness like this Iron Man.

Usually AgentZero posts this kind of stuff, but I had to post this. It makes me even more excited for the movie that comes out later this year.

Thanks Gizmodo

So it might just be a rumor but it really feels more like a “DUH!” moment. With the death of HD DVD it’s a no brain-er that Microsoft would be looking into switching over to Blu-Ray. According to the Australian site Smarthouse , Microsoft will have a Blu- Ray player by May 2008. Maybe even a Xbox with a built in Blu-Ray player.

We shouldn’t be surprised that this is gonna happen. The more surprising thing is that Microsoft already had a Blu-Ray player in development. Looks like Microsoft saw the writing on the wall much earlier then we thought.

Thanks Smarthouse

Personally I’m looking forward to it.

Captain’s log star-date May 8th 2009, the new Star Trek movie will be released to the masses……but wait a sec wasn’t it supposed to come out Dec. 25th 2008? Yea that’s right Trekkie’s you’ll have to wait for J.J. Abrams to ruin your beloved Star Trek. I’m sure it has something to do with the writers strike being over and he needs more time to change the script.

Oh yea by the way THE WRITERS STRIKE IS OVER!!! We haven’t said anything about that yet but it’s over. The damage has been done though and we’ll have to wait for some of our favorite shows to come back next season.

I’m getting off track though. Back to Star Trek and J.J. Abrams. Although I give him credit for started a great show in Lost I still think his movie Cloverfield was a waste of time and money. He seems to have great ideas to start but can never seem to figure out how to finish anything. He left Lost unfinished and the show suffered, so much so that like myself people left and haven’t come back. Cloverfield was a great idea and could have been great but it was an unfinished movie that really gave us nothing in the end.

Anyone wanna defend J.J.? I’ll listen to ya so bring it on.

Thanks Variety

How’s that $99 HD DVD player you bought for Christmas doing? Watching all those sweet HD movies on your nice Toshiba HD DVD player? Well enjoy it while you can because it’s just about over for HD DVD.

Today Netflix users were informed that Netflix will be only stocking Blu Ray titles from now on. Fear not you will still be able to get HD DVD’s that happen to be stock but they will be phasing them out over the next year. The reason of course is that most of the major studios are going Blu Ray so of course it makes sense that a movie rental service would go that way.

So this day seems pretty awful for the HD DVD camp, could it get worse? Guess what it gets worse. Best Buy has announced that they will also be pushing Blu Ray. Starting in March the company will push all Blu Ray hardware and software even to the point of suggesting it when asked which is better.

Is anyone still hanging on to hope that HD DVD will make a stand and not die? Well this pretty much puts the last shovel load of dirt on the grave. Goodbye HD DVD we hardly knew ye.

Thanks Engadget

Rumor has it that Venom may get his own feature film. IESB reports that “Marvel is moving forward with a new stand alone film” and that it has been confirmed that “the studio” has met recently with several “A list writers” about a spin-off film. I am so glad. I was disappointed with Spider-Man 3’s Venom. Come on…Topher Grace. Are you serious? I don’t know who they’ll get to play Venom. Maybe Vin Diesel? You never know. I just hope I’m not let down again.

I’m pretty stoked on the upcoming Iron Man movie. The Hulk movie not so much but hey I never even bothered to see the last one so I really have no expectations. It looks like there will be a cross over between them though. Marvel will have S.h.i.e.l.d agent Nick Fury popping up in Iron Man, oh yeah it’s Sam Jackson by the way. Then in The Incredible Hulk guess who’s stopping by, none other then Robert Downey Jr or Iron Man himself.

William Hurt drops some tid bits on the movie in a recent interview with MTV. He gives a few spoilers so beware, but you can see it all here.

Thanks Rotten Tomatoes

Heath Ledger was found dead today at his Manhattan appartment. Discovered by the housekeeper and a masseuse who arrived in the afternoon for an appointment. [About.com Sci-Fi/Fantasy Blog] Signs pointed to a suicide or an accidental overdose, police sources said. [NYTimes City Room Blog]

For an even more detailed and in-depth rundown of the events of today’s tragedy, go to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Not to sound cold, but, where does this leave the upcoming batman sequel The Dark Knight? Well, Ledger recently completed work on The Dark Knight. The movie wrapped principal photography in November and is currently in post-production. Meaning we’ll all still get to see his gritty portrayal of the Joker, except now it’ll be just a little more creepy.

Tragic!

This is pretty much how the entire movie looks. Awesome.

I just got back from the much hyped (over hyped) Cloverfield monster movie. First, you probably want to know if this article will contain spoilers, right? No, no spoilers here, as there is nothing to spoil. That’s right, if you’ve seen any number of trailers or the first three minutes of this movie, you’ve seen about all the plot you’re going to see in the full length feature. No big news, but, there’s this giant monster terrorizing the city of New York, because that’s where monster hangout. The Statue of Liberty loses her head. Then there’s these people and they run from the monster. The end. Thanks for coming, I hope you enjoyed wasting ten dollars and two hours of your life.

Seriously. I’m being one hundred percent honest. That’s the movie. From start to finish the camera shakes only slightly less than riding down a rocky mountain on top of a washing machine strapped to a paint shaker. Slightly less. I highly recommend not eating before you see this movie. Then again, I highly recommend not going to see this movie in the first place.

Maybe if they would’ve put as much time into a story as they did the “mystery” of marketing Cloverfield it could’ve been good. Oh, and they never even tell us why the freakin’ movie is even called Cloverfield. Seriously! And the Star Trek trailer before the movie does NOT make up for the craptasticness of the movie. It’s more of a teaser than a full trailer.

Am I noticing a trend with J.J. Abrams? Like the fact that he can’t end a story maybe? He started Lost, it was great. Never ended it, and left before he could be blamed for never revealing anything. Before that he started Alias, also great. Then he left before that had a real ending. Now Cloverfield. Someone stop him before he ruins another good idea.

Fail!

We mentioned it in our podcast this week that Warner Brothers had until the 15th to decide the fate of the Justice League movie. Well its fate has been chosen…. it’s delayed. The official word is that Warner didn’t get the official word on the tax breaks it wanted from Australia and that the script needed some work and that was not possible with the strike going on.

The actors who were committed to the movie were informed that their contracts have lapsed. Although it seems that all who were cast are still wanted for the movie. How long the delay will be is unclear at this point but we’ll keep you posted. There is allot of buzz around here about the movie. Personally I don’t mind the wait if it will make it better. With the glut of crappy super hero movies we’ve had recently I don’t want another.

Well file this under no surprise. Make a game that everyone praises. Put it in a great atmosphere with a great story and next thing you know its a movie.

This comes for Joystiq they said:

” A reliable source within a major film production company has told Joystiq that the two have been getting along famously, with a movie adaptation of 2K’s successful franchise already being discussed by the Big Daddies internally.”

I could make the usual “video game movies suck” speech but hey you all already know they suck.

OK so they made an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. It has done very good in the box office, so you can bet they will make a another. That’s not what this post is about. This is about the beating David Cross has been taking for being in the movie. Mr. Cross is a fine comedian. I’ve enjoyed his work, most notably his work as Dr. Tobias Funke on Arrested Development. That show being canceled was one of the worst things to ever happen. Anyway David Cross has been building up his indie cred for years, but in just one movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks, he seems to have lost his cred.

David fired back in his blog with this statement:

“It was a little more than I had budgeted for [ a new home] but it was definitely worth it. I asked the owner if he’d take some of my credibility as payment. He looked at me as if I was an alien with A.I.D.S. speaking some intergalactic gobbledy-goo. I had to patiently explain to this country bumpkin about my indie hipster cred, and I would now like to cash it in. This rural rube was so backwards and ignorant that he couldn’t even conceive of how financial markets work and simple free market capitalism. I tried again to explain the concept of the value of “credibility” and “artistic integrity” but he refused to take it in exchange for the house. This guy was a f***ing idiot! But what could I do? He wouldn’t take no for an answer. If I wanted that cottage I would have to pay him money. Sigh. So I used my “Alvin and the Chipmunks” money to pay for the down payment.”

Unfortunately though he rips on his Alvin co-star Jason Lee a bit, who I also enjoy. Check out the whole blog entry from David here.

This is something I have been thinking about lately even before this story hit the net. It stemmed from the DVD release of Underdog and the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. I admit Jason Lee has made 2 movies that I have to question but I still enjoy his work and when I saw that he and David Cross were in the Chipmunks movie I figured it would at least have a couple of good moments. What if Jason Lee decided to make those movies for his young children, is that wrong? Please remember folks that an actor like David Cross doesn’t have the luxury of picking and choosing only 5 star movies and golden TV shows. He states that he hadn’t worked in 6 months so he needed to work. I would love for David Cross to only do good movies because he is usually the best part of the movies he is in.

Even the biggest movie stars of today had to make some really crappy movies before they can choose only good roles. If you gotta rip on someone rip on the big movie stars that make crap. Not truly funny actors like David Cross.

Please say it’s not so. I’m sorry to report that the latest word on the upcoming Star Trek movie’s cast is the worst yet. It seems Mr. Black woman in drag himself, Tyler Perry, has a role in the film. Perry will be playing the head of Starfleet Academy. I know, you’d think he would at least play an alien or something. Maybe his character is somewhat of a Hoover type. You know, the type that likes to dress in drag.

Lame!