Catastrophic Success

Bryan Singer is video blogging (vlogging?) the filming of Superman Returns at bluetights.net.

“Issue” #22 includes film of his visit to the San Diego ComicCon and a piece of the 20 minutes of film he showed during his presentation.

“Issue” #23 includes a shot from behind of Mr. Spacey dressed as Lex Luthor (dressed as Dr. Evil?)

I feel giddy, Oh so giddy. I feel geeky and breezy and gay!!!

um … except for the gay part… cuz I’m not, y’know… AM NOT!!!

Heard on the Internets last night that Kelsey Grammar is cast as the blue-furred Beast in X-Men 3. Personally, I like the choice since Beast is extremely erudite, kind of effete and upper-crust sounding. In fact, I won’t be able to read the books without hearing Grammar’s voice now. I just hope that they CGI the Beast. Otherwise it could look like this (scroll down to Courtney Cox-Zuckner’s post.

James Joyner has a good post over at Outside the Beltway.

This was my emailed review of Revenge of the Sith. Thought I should post it here since with the box office gross this weekend, no one who wants to see it hasn’t seen it. Not that this is spoiler-ridden, but I don’t want anyone to say there was no warning.

I liked it. I really liked it.

Hated Anakin + Padme together.

Liked them apart.

Loved Obi-Wan Everywhere.

Yoda is Da Man.

Emperor is a bad bad dude.

Needs more Vader.*

Chewy!!!!

In all, certainly didn’t suck

*I think this applies to nearly everything

Kevin Smith (that lucky geek-god bastard) got to see Episode III before everybody else. He posted a spoiler-laden review. Read the rest of this entry »