Archive for April, 2009

Dem Trailers: G.I. Joe

Still looking pretty bad in my book but that’s just my humble opinion. CGI looks pretty dollar store but look, if there’s a few scenes of Snake Eyes kicking ass, then that’s all I’m gonna need. Anyways, check it out and let us know if you think this is just another attempt by Hollywood to rape our childhood memories or ill this be the film that erases what Michael Bay did with Transformers… but deep down inside you know it’s gonna suck, right? *sigh*

Disney arrives at Hulu, ABC shows to start appearing soon

This morning brought the announcement that Disney has bought a reported 30% stake in Hulu and will soon start providing a sizable chunk of their programming for everyne to stream through the site. NBC, Fox and now ABC are on the site, which we reported about back in December 2007, and is steadily becoming the place to go online to view your favorite TV shows you might have missed.

Disney will soon begin streaming the following programs for free on Hulu, in full-episode form: Desperate Housewives, General Hospital, Greek, Grey’s Anatomy, Hope and Faith, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Less Than Perfect, Lost, Phineas and Ferb, Private Practice, Scrubs, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Ugly Betty, The View, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

The question now is where will this leave DVD sales, advertising dollars & all the other areas of money to be made. It’s going to be an interesting transition, indeed. Now if only the newspaper industry can find a working model like this that would save them from extinction.

Random Goodness: Batman has a yard sale

The guys at Funny Or Die have put out another entertaining video featuring all-around old man & former Batman thespian Adam West slanging his gear outside the Batcave in order to visit Arby’s & buy himself some lunch (didn’t Venture Bros. already do this?). DAMN YOOZ, BERNIE MADOFF! Look what you’ve reduced our once proud superhero into… a groveling, desperate sack of shit! You’ll get yours, sir!

Zero Punctuation: Siren Blood Curse review

Leakage: New ‘Transformers 2′ Trailer

Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

More characters, more Megan and more Michael Bay.  More better?  We’ll see.

Random Goodness: Heineken + Biz Markie = WIN

Wow, it’s been a pretty slow news week or I’ve just been looking in all the wrong places. But one thing that stood out from this weekend’s drunk-scapade Blogger Olympics was this commercial I kept seeing late at night that made me sing everytime. And the ending is pretty damn good, too. After bumping The Wackness soundtrack to death last Fall, I might have to put back in rotation just for this song. Biz is my homeboy!

Random Goodness: No headline possible to describe this video, just watch

Just what I needed to go to sleep with a smile on my face: a Japanese commercial hocking… fuck, I don’t know but if you’re as simple minded as I am, then you will probably laugh at this. Pure awesome! [via Videogum]

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 announced for XBLA & PSN

We got Street Fighter HD Remix late last year, Street Fighter 4 was was released a few months ago and now Capcom is blessing us with another high demand game with Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Oh. My. Gawd. I will be spending a good amount of time playing this once it is released that’s for damn sure! With Xbox & Playstation 2 copies going for around $60 (even Dreamcast copies can fetch a premium) at the low end on teh eBayz, this release will be killing that market and make it accessible for everyone and now seems to be including online play. It’s a good time to be a nerd right now, indeed. And on a side note: Is there anyway that the arcade can make a comeback? Cause there was nothing like beating people face to face but nowadays with online play, something gets lost in translation, man. Never the same…

Dumb Drum devastates all at Blogger Olympics ‘09

I rather like all the other bloggers here in town, which made it that much harder for me to eviscerate them all and consume their hearts to gain their collective blogging prowess this past weekend as the 2009 Blogger Olympics went down. Mike Oz & everyone at the Fresno Beehive went out of their way to help put on the event and it was a great time for everyone involved. Check out the full recap of the events over here at the Beehive, check out some pics from Moral Threat over here and be sure to keep an eye on the Beehive as Mr. Oz will be posting more stuff from the competition during the week. This one’s for the nerds that never got any and never will because they participating in something called the Blogger Olympics but at least I got a giant trophy and kinda saucy with some fine folk! [Thanks to Mike Oz for the video!]

Fresno Foto Friday #4

Every Friday I’ll post a Fresno pic that I find interesting for any number of reasons

It’s been talked about a lot recently. But who’s gonna do something about it? (click above to view the full photo)

Hey, have you ever seen…District B-13?

Damien:
You really think the government would kill two million people just for having a few problems?

Leïto:
Six million died for not having blonde hair and blue eyes.

Luc Besson.

Now that I have your attention, try and catch up with this flick before it gets a thorough American remake violation.  District B-13 (Or Banlieue 13 in the native tongue) combines things we all know and love – dystopian futures, fight sequences, class struggles, French people, Luc Besson penned script, parkour, and inexplicably (if briefly), tuner cars – into a pretty damned watchable action flick.  Who doesn’t want to watch French guys running up and down walls and whatnot?  You’re only fooling yourself.
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