Never Not A Nerd

David Tennant is pretty awesome as an actor, and just seems like a really cool guy in general.  So seeing him dressed up for the Fright Night remake as Peter Vincent is pretty damn cool.  I’d make a harsh Criss Angel joke if I wasn’t such a Tennant fan and this didn’t look so damn sweet.  This first image revealed of the remake paints a picture for me that is of this being a pretty great movie.  Shit man, look at that lightning.  He’s conjuring lightning in his hands!  You’d swear I’d never seen something like this before.  It’s like David Tennant invented lightning.  But that was Ben Franklin: Lightning Master of Nightmares.  I was not a history student.

Here is a poster by comic artist Simon Bisley for the awesomely violent film Centurion.

The film is currently available on demand, Xbox Live, Playstation 3, Amazon, and Vudu. It will be coming to theaters August 27th.

The new Tron: Legacy trailer was released and every trailer makes this movie look better and better until I can’t control it.  It’s crazy how good this looks.  In fact, I’d go as far as to say that this movie looks irresponsibly good.  If I don’t end up seeing this movie in an IMAX theater I am going to be furious and I might crash my bike into a wall of light out of hatred and chaos, causing a hellstorm of energy and rage.  Check out the glorious trailer on the next page.

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Drake Bell, what are you doing?  You are not a ten-yea-old boy with fairies.  You have no reason to be wearing all pink.  You do not have a terrible history of dentistry.  No, no, none of this adds up at all.  To think, Nickelodeon will waste money on a live action Fairly Oddparents movie (with Cosmo and Wanda played by Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines, mind you) but they won’t give me the Hey Arnold movie wherein Arnold goes to the jungle to find his parents.  Sometimes the universe is just not at all fair.  God, I’d have taken a Pete & Pete reunion over this WAIT I ACTUALLY WANT THAT, GET ON IT NICKELODEON.  News thanks to TV Guide.

Eric Powell’s The Goon is coming out as a movie, and as proof of this, the first footage of The Goon has been released.  And might I add that the inclusion of Goon and Frankie driving a car through the air with flaming zombies smashed into the front is a delightful touch that I appreciate greatly.  It isn’t much just yet, and there’s no indication of any real main characters that aren’t Goon and Frankie, but this is a really good start.  I pray that the reason Powell hasn’t done a damn issue of The Goon in such a long time is because of his involvement in this movie.  I miss the comic so very much.  Check out the footage on the next page.

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Over at Collider the first few shots of the new movie starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul, have been revealed.  The movie is about Pegg and Frost traveling across country enjoying the wonders of Comic Con.  I love both of them, and I love comics, and I think there’s aliens involved in the story as well, so I’m pretty excited for this movie.  If you look at the pictures it seems like they have the sense of what being at a convention is like.  They look so happy!  Yeah, I definitely want to see this movie.  I’m a huge fan of Pegg and Frost and I think they work very well together.

What’s a way to say “not good” but not actually mean “not good”?  One this is, I just don’t think it works.  This is the problem with having the costume be entirely CGI.  The mask is horribly shaped, the costume looks too much like it’s covered in LEDs.  In fairness this cover doesn’t permit us to see if there’s much of a division of the costume between green areas and black areas.  It’s just… it’s covered in lines!  Why is it covered in lines?  What the hell?  Look, I haven’t seen this in action yet, so I’m trying to be reserved but what the hell is with the lines all over his costume?  I’d have been totally fine with it being an actual costume Ryan Reynolds wore, looking exactly like in the comics.  There should have been no problem with that at all.  But instead… lines!

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Okay, I was totally all about Thor’s costume until it became apparent that everyone else would have just variations on his costume.  First off, Odin’s eyepatch.  Just a little gold manhole on his face to keep from falling into where Anthony Hopkins’ eye once was.  Then there’s Loki.  What the hell is up with his lack of horns, man?  I wanted gigantic horns on this bastard.  But no, all we get is a bunch of overlapping steel and a green cape.  Weak.  I’m still holding out hope for Thor, I’m just so afraid that I won’t be able to take too much of it seriously.  It’s just a shame is what it is.

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First off, I’m gonna say I’m wondering why in the big fat obese humongous hell Edward Norton won’t be back as the Hulk in the Avengers movie?  They claim it’s not a money issue and that it’s more of a situation regarding Norton not being a “ensemble” type of guy, but I don’t know… there was too much dispute after the Incredible Hulk came out to be sure.

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Here’s your new Spider-Man for the reboot set to hit theaters July 3rd, 2012. His name is Andrew Garfield and I can’t say I remember seeing him in anything. I can’t really complain about his age, because he’s only a month older than Donald Glover (they’re both 26). I think out of all the people they said auditioned Josh Hutcherson might have been the most age appropriate, but hey whatever.  We’re going to have to wait 2 years to see how this turns out anyway.