I've Got Another Post Up on Cinemaways About 10 Movies That Are Secretly Holiday Movies

I occasionally contribute to other sites and I have a new post up on Cinemaways. It was a fun one to write where I discussed 10 movies that are first blush don't seem like holiday movies, but totally are once you think about it. Give the article a read and let me know what you think in the comment section over there or you can always comment here.

I've Got a New Article Up at Cinemaways

Readers of my blog may recall I've at times contributed to the movie website known as Cinemaways. Well, I've got a new piece I wrote there, go read it now! The article deals with 10 remakes that are better than the original. Some of my choices may be controversial, but I stand by them! Thanks as always to Cinemaways for liking my writing enough to have me contribute to them.

I've Got Another Article Up, "Cinemaways," For Ya'll to Read

I told/warned everyone I had more stuff coming on the Cinemaways website I contributed my first piece to recently. Well, just yesterday my article was published discussing, "10 Movies so Bad They're Actually Great." I loved writing it because it gave me the opportunity to talk about, "Showgirls," and any day where you get to discuss the beautiful train-wreck that is, "Showgirls," is a day well spent. I will keep you all of course informed of anything else I write for Cinemaways or any other website because it gives me an excuse to promote myself and hopefully find even more people who want to pay me for my ravings.

Thoughts and Links AKA Before Watchmen? No, Just No

Before Watchmen: The Event No One Wanted At A Time It's Not Needed

We have this event, called, "Before Watchmen" that is happening. It's a prequel bunch of comics to Watchmen. When I first heard about this I thought the announcement was about a series of one-shots so I thought, "this is probably a shameless cash-grab, but a little companion trade-paperback to Watchmen could maybe, just maybe, be interesting." Then I read this link and learned how we are getting a ton of issues. 30+ books? Really? Do I need to remind anyone the original Watchmen was 12 issues? Alan Moore may be a bit cranky sometimes but is of course correct in pointing out how its sad that DC is mining his ideas from 25 years ago for new material. Then, as David Brothers discusses, someone has the nerve to argue out that Alan Moore being pissed is somehow a good thing? I don't know why David Brothers even reads Newsarama.

I think it is the nerve of DC to do this that boggles my mind. They just did a huge re-launch they should be focusing all their creators and money on, and instead they decided to try and exploit this old property with the idea that maybe they can maybe make some cash or another movie from it (note: just a theory about a movie). Watchmen worked best as a tale about a bunch of washed-up heroes who were an ensemble, and now we're going to expand something without the creators guys who made it so special being involved one iota. What. The. Fuuuucccckkkk?

You may be asking, "David, I get it, you're annoyed and a bit pissed, but are you going to check out any of the books?" No, not really. The only one that seems the slightest bit promising is the idea of Brian Azzarello writing Rorschach as he does a good job with gritty, crime-stuff. Then again, couldn't Mr. Azzarello just make his own amazing crime caper without trying to mess with Watchmen? 100 Bullets was pretty good, why not make another thing like that instead of grabbing Alan Moore's baby and shaking it until all the money in its diaper has fallen to the floor? I know I'm mixing my metaphors horribly, but the point is Watchmen worked best a 12 issue series and now DC wants to do this...yuck. Also, who wants to take bets that somehow Straczynski ends up not being able to finish his Dr. Manhattan book for some reason and they need someone else to take over?

Link-mania

In less annoying and more heartwarming news, but which still oddly involves a comic company jumping around in a series' time-line, Archie is going to have a baby with Valerie of Josie and the Pussycats in his comic set in alternate futures. Some people are making a fuss as the baby will be multi-racial. He has a future with Veronica, Betty, Valerie, they had a comic with gay character Kevin Keller getting married...it boggles my mind Archie comics got so progressive. They are selling though, so I guess it all works out.

In sad news, the creator of Soul Train, Don Cornelius, died. Soul Train was an awesome show and beat the lame American Bandstand in awesomeness hands-down.

Donald Trump endorsing Mitt Romney...hmmmm. Is an endorsement form Trump really something you want?

Apparently some people  don't believe a groundhog has the power to predict how the season will work out. You are all non-believers; of course a small mammal that burrows underground controls the climate!

An airline added a $2.00 fee for, "Unintended consequences." You know, I hated flying before security got even more crazy, tickets went through the roof, and shit just generally went right into the fan in regards to airline industries. Imagine how I feel about going to the airport now.

I hated how Iron Man 2.0 ended. Well, maybe there was a lot more going on behind the scenes than I realized to make it so terrible, as one of the artists, Ariel Olivetti revealed in an interview.

I will never be as clever as Tucker Stone, or his friends he gets to help review things like movies.

That's the end of that.

Some interesting links, pointless events, there we go.

The Newest Rant Official "Moving To St Louis" Playlist/Mix CD

So, I"ll be moving to St Louis, and I need jams for when I'm packing, driving, and unpacking. I have created the ultimate CD of songs I've been newly listening to, and songs I've listened to forever. Let's check it out!

The Last Of The Comic-Con News Which I Have Many Opinions On

Let's wrap up the news from Comic-Con, now that it is early the day after it ended, shall we? Click after the cut for updates and my opinions attached to them.

A Bunch of Comic News From The Convention's First Official Day AKA The Twelve Is Actually Back?

Time for some big news resulting from Comic-Con or which happens to sync up with it. The top story in my opinion is shocking news about long-delayed Marvel comic, The Twelve. What is that news, click the cut for that and more!

Comic News From Today, Movie Trailers, Plus A Diatribe About Marvel Comics

Things have been announced as Comic-Con sorta-kind starts (officially beginning tomorrow).

• Guillermo Del Toro is invovled with the adaptation of a comic involving vampires. I would be completely uninterested, but it has the twist of the vampires being a virus and I always love stuff like that in fiction.
• A Dead Rising-related comic? Hm, zombies are mostly played out for me, but I did love the first game.
• War, Politics, And Superheroes. Could this book be any more up my alley?
• DC Comics is going to be using the same PR company as the currently in deep trouble Rupert Murdoch? Huh, odd.
• Did you know there was a Dark Knight Rising trailer? You didn't? Odd.
• There is also one for the Spider Man movie. I'm more interested in Dark Knight Rising.
• I don't get this whole Marvel Season One idea. I'm seriously getting burned out on Marvel and more pumped up on DC. I could be DC's wet dream of the fan who drops most Marvel stuff and picks up the DC titles as I am cutting back drastically on comics and the new #1 issues in the kinda-sorta new Universe make a great jumping-on point. I was a huge Marvel reader for so long, but very little books are appealing to me outside of a few key characters and titles. I should discuss this in-depth in a podcast.

Random Songs I've Been Listening To.

Because I felt like sharing, let's discuss the random music I've been listening to lately. Note that not much is super-new, because I hate a lot of today's new music.

New Thoughts On The DC 52 In September--No, Just No

There are the DC books that scream, "We really needed 52 books to fill this month," and these are those. Be they bad ideas, bad creative teams, or just plain...bad, this are the books I would avoid like a dog that had just rolled in dead animal.

New Thoughts On The DC 52 In September--Not Interested

There are those DC books coming out this September that aren't necessarily bad, I just have no interest in reading them for some reason or another. Let's look at that big and odd assortment.

New Thoughts On The DC 52 In September--Will Try The First Issue

There are the DC books that you may not be sure are worth getting an arc of, but you're willing to try the first issue. These are the ones I'll give a shot for various reasons.

New Thoughts On The DC 52 In September--Must Buy

What are those books DC has coming out in September that you've just got to purchase? I dunno, it depends on your taste. I'll tell you what ones I've gotta have though!

Newest List Of iPad Apps I Recommend .

There are more snazzy iPad apps I've been messing around with, be they games or useful tools, and I thought it would be good to share what I think about them.
Also, to make things easier I'll link you to my first post about iPad apps here and my second post here.

Plans For The Blog (6/21/11-6/26/11)

Alright, here we are on Tuesday and I thought it might be fun to give a little peek into how I like to try and plan things out for the blog to a certain degree. I'll say what I am thinking of doing throughout the week and you can keep score at home of how well I do this or terribly mess it up.

Tuesday/Today: 

•  Get a review up of "The Cape" which was a comic that had nothing to do with the television show.
• Record and edit podcast, either posting it today or tomorrow. Main subject, the variety of video-games I have played recently (in random order: Duke Nukem Forever, LA Noire, Arcanum). Ended up being posted very late Friday.

Wednesday:

• Post a review of the 1st issue of the Screamland ongoing.
• Post a long-form writing about Arcanum and why an old game many may not know that I bought via GOG.com (they are cool, as I've said) is so awesome and one of the best role-playing games ever.

Thursday:

• Put up another small list of apps I've newly started enjoying, consider creating a master-list post in the future combining the top apps into one ultra-post. 
• Post a review of issues #0-3 of "After Dark" the comic that was published by Radical Comics.Going up Saturday.

Friday:

• Film Friday or Flashback Friday post on a topic to be determined. Ended up being on Invincible Ultimate Collection Volume 1.

Saturday and Sunday

• Who knows what I"ll be posting? Seriously, who? Tell me so I can figure out something. Maybe I'll bitch more about how most of today's popular music is terrible, that's always fun for me at least.

As always I could tack other things on, alter the order of posts, change everything suddenly, or whatever else is needed as the week calls for it. This is just a rough sketch of what I'm thinking that I thought, you, my readers, might be interested in. Maybe you aren't intrigued at all and I just bored you, in which case I'm sorry.

I Break Down the New DC Books

I'm going to list the new books DC has annouced by how interested I am from ones I am absolutely going to buy to those I won't be touching with a ten-foot pole. Some I'll just list other ones I'll have a little note to go along. This should be fun...

June 2011 Previews--Parade Of The Awful

There is the good in Previews, and then there is the stuff that just makes you shake your head in shame and/or sadness. These items are the latter. Not a ton to mock this month, but of what there is, hoo boy...

June 2011 Previews--What Looks Especially Good

Time to discuss what is looking particularly snazzy or noteworthy for some reason in this month's Previews.

Talking About Magazines I Like--Part Two

As I discussed a bit earlier, there are various magazines I like to pick up now and then or subscribe to and I thought I would share them with you because...well, just because I feel like it, I guess. Anyways, this our second installment where I talk more about video-game, cultural, and music-related publications. I hope I inspire you to maybe check them out.

Talking About Magazines I Like--Part One

I like to pick up/subscribe to various magazines about a variety topics, from video-games and technology, to politics or music. I thought I would post a review of what I think of the magazines overall--note that I am not reviewing an individual issue--and we would otherwise have a grand time sharing. Shall we?