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- UPDATE: Oops! We forgot one important thing: this Emerald Nuts commercial is our pick for the best Super Bowl commercial. It's pure-burning comedy brilliance. Enjoy!
- First of all, let's get the crushingly depressing news out of the way: Joss Whedon is no longer working on Wonder Woman. From the text of his official announcement (which you can read if you click through), it sounds like he and the folks at the studio just had different ideas of what the movie should be, and they agreed to go their separate ways amicably enough. Well, at least there's no animosity involved, but as Table of Malcontents points out, the chances of this movie turning out good just dropped precipitously.
- In more very similar and incredibly depressing comic-book-to-movie adaptation news, the guy who wrote Batman Begins and Dark City (David Goyer) quit working on The Flash, and they've replaced him with the guy who made The Pink Panther remake and Cheaper by the Dozen (Shawn Levy). ARGH!! Why does God hate geeks?!
- Meanwhile, looks like Witchblade is heading for a movie adaptation of its own - and they're already planning a franchise for it, of course. Hopefully it will be better than the cable TV adaptation.
- We have huge amounts of respect for Julie Taymor for directing Titus, a fantastic and incredibly courageous film adaptation of one of Shakespeare's least-performed plays (because it's insanely violent and melodramatic). Now she's directed a new movie based on the music of the Beatles, so obviously we're going to have to go see it. Here's the trailer; it's called Across the Universe, and it's got Evan Rachel Wood in it! (Via)
- We've never seen Cannibal Holocaust, but of course we know of it by its reputation as one of the most horrendous, disgusting films ever made. And now someone's come up with the bright idea of remaking it! Wha?!
- The latest Vista news: it doesn't play well with iTunes and the iPod! What a surprise!
- You want your internet video fix, but you don't feel like jumping around to all those different websites to see all the latest hilarious clips featuring poor singing, lightsaber fights, and brutalized cats. Maybe you should try Vdiddy, a simple, plain website that just collects all the top videos from all the big video sites. Nice. (Via)
More after the jump...
- Good news! Jack Thompson might face disciplinary action, up to and including disbarment! Woo hoo!
- As we mentioned in TelePhillyist, "Lost" is finally back this week, after a long hiatus. Care to see the new opening credit sequence*, complete with brand new theme song?? *Warning: this is not actually the new opening credit sequence. Thank God. (Via)
- Look on this image, ye geeks, and weep, for it is the geekiest image you may ever see.
- Speaking of geeky things, we're copying ToM and following up last week's TARDIS USB hub with the Dalek USB webcam and microphone! Prepare to be exterminated by its awesomeness.
- It really is hard to believe that a Jaws rip-off flick starring an evil Cthulhu-esque octopus, along with John Huston, Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda, and Claude Akins, actually exists, but ToM dug up the trailer for it and everything. Although, we must say, they undercut their claim of it being "the most gripping suspense you'll ever experience" by following that up immediately with the phrase "rated PG."
- The bunnies haven't yet released their Bond medley, sadly, but they are teasing us with some fun outtakes.
- What do you call yourself when you control your DJing software with your Wii remote? DJWiiJ, of course!
Photo of Wonder Woman marrying a monkey by Flickr user monoglot
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I feel like that may have been the ONLY good Super Bowl commercial last night. So disappointing!
I kind of liked the insane new Careerbuilder ads where they essentially put an office in the jungle. And that ad with Oprah and Letterman was funny. I was also pleasantly surprised by Prince's performance.
I actually liked the Bud commercial where the depressed white dog gets splashed with mud and ends up leading the parade with the dalmatian. In all seriousness, that's way more original at this point than people getting hit in the face, people falling over, talking animals, celebrities, and all the other vacuous, trite crap that pervades Superbowl ads.