Across the Ist-a-Verse
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.
- Joel Silver's trying to make a Sgt. Rock movie, but for some reason there's some kind of hold-up. We don't know why. It's a comic book! Hollywood loves the comic book movies these days. Sadly, Lee Marvin is dead, and Clint Eastwood is too old, so casting the Sarge will be hard. Who else could possible be tough enough??
- Ooh, another pic from the upcoming Iron Man movie! It's Robert Downey Jr. forging the Iron Man suit. Sweet! (Via)
- Normally we wouldn't link you to the website of Glamour Magazine, but they've got a list over there of the sexiest love scenes of all time - with pictures included! Sadly, they are all SFW (technically, anyway; by which we mean, no naughty bits are visible). (Via)
- We can't say we've respected Paul Verhoeven very much since we saw Showgirls, but the people of his native country (that being The Netherlands) apparently respected him enough to knight him. That's right, he's now a knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, so it's Sir Verhoeven to you from now on.
- Neil Marshall's sci-fi thriller Doomsday is sounding cooler and cooler. This is the movie set in the future, after a horrible plague has swept the Earth, killing a large chunk of the population, and was only stopped when the infected were walled off in a quarantined area. But now the infection is spreading again, and an elite team must do their best to stop it. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig, and now Malcolm McDowell.
- Yee-haw! It's a trailer for Uwe Boll's latest masterpiece, BloodRayne 2: Deliverance! This time the vampire lady is getting into showdowns in the Wild West - although where the suspense is in a gunfight between vampires, we don't know. Anyway, let us know if you're able to get the whole trailer to load, because it keeps hanging at 0:27 for us. (Via)
- Joystiq has some fun new screenshots from the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
- What is it about Mario that makes people want to build gigantic representations of him? Here are some pictures of a Mario mosaic made out of 1502 fridge magnets that took its maker 12 hours to create. Nice. (Via)
- Every time we think Sony has made its biggest marketing blunder, and the company just can't do anything worse, they do something like decapitate a live goat at a party and ask attendants to reach inside and feast on its innards. We're hoping this story turns out to be fake, but with Sony, you just never know.
- Now that the Buffy Season Eight comic is doing so well, Joss Whedon's going to do a 12-issue miniseries of Angel Season Six. We think the last episode of Angel was one of the best last episodes of a series ever, but we wouldn't mind reading more about our favorite vampires with souls.
- Why is Chris's Invincible Super-Blog talking about closing up shop?! We're sad and afraid! His intro is a bit vague, but we're hoping this means he's headed in exciting new directions on the internet (maybe a new site?), instead of just leaving us alone forever. Sounds like we'll find out what's going on this coming Thursday.
- If you want to mark your calendars now, the Sci-Fi Channel has just released its summer schedule for new and returning series. We'll be keeping an eye out for Flash Gordon and Doctor Who season 3.
- We're not sure there's a comic book movie coming out that David Goyer doesn't have something to do with, and now he's signed on to direct Magneto. Cool! The movie, if you don't know, is a spin-off/prequel to the X-Men films, and will feature Magneto's origin story, and how he came to meet Professor X. The movie will also feature the killing of Nazis, which is always fun. Anyway, the only sad bit about this is that Ian McKellen probably won't be involved, as both Magneto and Professor X will be played by actors in their 20s.
- Have you got annoyingly loud neighbors? Why not take audio retribution on them with the Revenge CD, which features such memorable tracks as "Violin Practice," "Orgasm," and "Newborn." It comes with earplugs, but we'd think your best technique would be to turn it on and then run away - like you're setting a sonic bomb! (Via Editor Jill)
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NOOOO! The ending of Angel was perfect! There is no reason whatsoever to continue the story.