Category Archives: Movies
Nightcrawler’s Coming Back!
A new Nightcrawler has been cast in the next X-Men flick, X-Men: Apocalypse. I haven’t really written much on X-Men casting because, well, there’s been a lot of it, and none of it is very exciting. If they cast Multiple Man or Mimic, I’d be all over that. But the only interesting thing about casting a new Cyclops, Jean Grey or Storm is that maybe this time the franchise won’t poop all over Cyke.
Anyway, the new Nightcrawler will be Kodi Smit-McPhee! Director Bryan Singer announced as such on his Instagram yesterday. I don’t know Smit-McPhee from anything, but I’ve heard he was in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, so good for him.
He’s definitely got the look of a Nightcrawler down. Hopefully he can inject even half the charm Alan Cumming brought to the role in X2: X-Men United.
I also like the idea that they’re kind of redoing the original franchise. Maybe Nightcawler will be a more permanent X-Man this time. But, obviously, what I’m really interested in is Multiple Man becoming a more permanent X-Men instead of a one-off bad guy in the franchise’s most hated film.
Hope springs eternal.
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Enjoy Some Fan Trailer Wackiness
The intrepid people of the Internet are at it again! I found a couple of fun fan trailers to spruce up our Tuesday!
First up is a pretty neat LEGO trailer for Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It comes courtesy of Brickflix, who sound like this is what they do for a living, thereby making me extremely jealous.
Next up is a trailer for the Suicide Squad movie, done up by our friend and fan trailer aficionado Alex Luthor. It’s also pretty neat.
The important thing is that you enjoy this Tuesday. Of course, you might not all be as buried in snow and below zero temperatures as I am.
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If We’re Going to Have Spider-Man Again, Let It Be Miles Morales
Peter Parker has had his chance on the big screen, and he’s done an amazing job. But when Spider-Man debuts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year, it should be Miles Morales behind the webs.
It’s time to try something new with Spider-Man, and this deal between Marvel Studios and SONY is the perfect opportunity to make the change. Granted, I don’t necessarily think this has a chance of happening, but the only way it will happen is if enough voices cry out for Miles.
You’re goddamned right!
In the end, SONY still has creative control over Spider-Man going forward, and they don’t care about how innovative and forward-thinking Miles would be for the movies. All SONY cares about is money, and keeping the straight, white guy in the lead guarantees more money than the black, Hispanic youngster. That’s just how the world works…or at least that’s how they think it works.
But man, how cool would it be to get Miles Morales on the big screen?
Join me after the jump to find out why!
Quicksilver Solves Everything
How X-Men: Days of Future Past Should Have Ended…
Man, they switched over to the Batman/Superman diner stuff pretty quickly, but at least they went back to the actual movie this time. And those were definitely some better ways that X-Men: Days of Future Past should have ended. I bet there’s a very vocal section of their fanbase that just demand more Batman/Superman diner scenes.
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Professor Snape is More Tragic Than We Ever Realized
This video was originally posted more than a year ago, but it’s only now making waves on the Internet. I watched it the other day and it brought tears to my eyes, so I definitely wanted to share it with the rest of you. Surely a bunch of you are Harry Potter fans, right? This video is all of the important Professor Snape scenes in chronological order, set to some moody music, detailing the life and tragedy that was Severus Snape.
All credit goes to Youtuber kcawesome13, who has quickly become an Internet sensation for this video. It’s just so haunting and brilliant.
Also, major shout out to my dad, who loved the Harry Potter books just as much as the rest of us and turned me on to the secret that Snape was actually a good guy long before he ‘killed’ Dumbledore. That guy’s theories really made me think.
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