Zach Snyder's Superman reboot has finally produced a promo image. (There are also set photos of Henry Cavil as Clark. With the curl. Go figure.) It really bothers me that they're adding all this texture to superhero outfits. The Spider-Man reboot is doing the same thing. It just looks dumb and not at all shiny like I kind of imagine and love ( Read more... )

I got to see The Colbert Report yesterday, and I'm in love with Stephen Colbert. The real one. He's a TOTAL NERD. Before each show, he comes out to answer questions not in character. I was a little embarrassed at the silence my question generated, but I had to know if he was seriously going to be the POTUS in the new Avengers movie series. He said ( Read more... )

This:

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, someone brilliant who I think was glvalentine because she's this sort of brilliant posited the theory that Hugo Weaving is on a mission to be in every franchise. At the time this theory was born, he had, to date, been in The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, and god alone knows how many other sci-fi/fantasy films. I think the joke was ( Read more... )

On my way to the library before work today, a woman walking with a cane came across the intersection perpendicularly to where I was waiting to cross. She looked like she was saying something to me, so I popped out a headphone to be sure. She seemed to have stopped speaking, almost seemed to be waiting for my response, so I said something ( Read more... )

trinityvixen: I have had a random thought brought on by watching too much sci-fi/fantasy at your place. I think being in the same place has scrambled my brain for ideas and the weirdest things occur to me as a result.
trinityvixen: This morning I was thinking about Star Trek III for whatever reason, and it occurred to me to ask myself, "Hey, does McCoy get to have his ( Read more... )

The DM of the Rings

I don't even play RPG tabletop games, and I'm dying over some of these installments.

Oh, and thanks so much chuckro: you linked to TV Tropes a week or two ago and I've been serially checking out entries ever since. (Which is how I found this link.) I'll never have my life back!!!