Mark Millar will Make Fantastic Four reboot – Kick Ass September 27, 2012
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The upcoming Fantastic Four reboot is getting some real talent behind it.
From the press release:
“As someone who has spent his entire life obsessed with both comic-books and movies, this is essentially my dream gig as it’s a unique combination of both,” stated Millar. “I spent ten years working at Marvel and am really happy with the work I did on the comic side of things so the idea of working with these characters now in a brand new medium is enormously exciting for me. I really like the Fox team, love this bold new direction they have for their franchises and am proud to be working alongside some of modern cinema’s biggest talents. James Mangold is incredible, Matthew Vaughn’s one of my closest pals and Josh Trank gave us, in my opinion, one of the greatest superhero movies of the last decade with Chronicle. The invitation to join this crew was maybe the coolest phone-call I’ve ever had.”About Mark Millar
Mark Millar is the writer of Civil War, Marvel’s biggest-selling series of the fifteen years, Ultimate X-Men, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four and The Ultimates (described by Time magazine in 2010 as the best comic series of the decade).
Big Bang Theory Season Six Episode 1 – Funny but not a Classic episode.. September 27, 2012
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Yeaah it was funny and it was great to see the inside of the International Space Station…
but no truly memorable scenes or lines in this episode.
how come none of the gang called up to ISS? Why doesn’t Sheldon have some massive experiment of his own that he sent along with Walowitz? surely that great Dr. Sheldon Cooper had something he wanted in space…?!
Anyways still good fun, we laughed (a little) and as always this still remains one of our favorite shows of the week.
Fringe Season 5: Why We Hope It will Be the Best Season EVER September 26, 2012
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Yes we loved the first three seasons of Fringe.
We did not like (most of) Season 4 though – it just didn’t make sense – did it?
that’s why we can’t hardly wait for Season 5 to get started…it has a chance to right the wrongs of Season4 and end this show on string of awesomeness.
The first three seasons were all about the ‘pattern’ the alternate universe and closing the gap. The fourth was about….? what? it was all over the place. If the show had ended right at the end of the third season it would have worked for us.
But the show still has legs, Walter is still an amazing character (as are peter and olivia) and the future world where Peter has just been thawed out from the amber that Season 4 will be all about is really really cool.
here’s our first sneak peak at the first episode and it’s looking sharp. Fringe, Season 5 – Fringe starts this Friday.
Star Wars Darth Maul Death Sentence #2 – Maul is a Good Guy?! September 26, 2012
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ok so Maul is back – he’s out with his brother and he’s looking to get revenge…
simple plot?
Not Quite.
You see the dude that wanted Maul dead isn’t so nice, even though the Jedi support him.
So in one of the greatest twists we have seen in a Star Wars comic in some time….
DARTH MAUL IS NOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
Maul is now going to help the displaced inhabitants of a planet against their Jedi backed overseers.
Nice twist.
Well executed plot, stunning graphics and an overall vibe made this a comic that we impossible for us to put down before reading cover to cover…
twice!!
Judge Dredd 3D 2012 FAILS at the Box Office. Makes only $6.3 million in its opening weekend September 24, 2012
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On Friday the new Dredd movie opened and we wondered if it would eclipse the 1995 Stallone version of Judge Dredd.
THAT ISN’T GOING TO HAPPEN.
Dredd opened with an Epic Fail that would make the Megacity 1 bad guys laugh at how pathetic the LAW man’s movie is.
At only $6.3 million in its opening weekend Dredd 2012 is a major disappointment and it’s also likely the end of Dredd on the big screen.
Dredd failed because so many people figured it’s just another reboot of a movie that wasn’t that great to begin with. Doing reboots often fail – yet Hollywood continues to try…
Star Wars Errant Knight Escape #4. Odion Takes the Helm. AWESOME issue September 24, 2012
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Yeaah we know we’re a little behind on our comic review (but we’re catching up!!).
Knight Errant: Escape #4 is good solid fun.
Odion – the Sith we all love to hate is at his worst, making ppl kill each other, taunting Kerra and oh yeah – now wearing an ancient sith weapon of great power on his head too.
We also finally see more of Kerra’s parents – in a holorecording…
It’s clear that they no longer live…but there is another…
a brother?
a sister?
we’ll likely find out in the in the final issue coming up.
we’ll also see if Kerra finds her way out of the Odionate and what Damian will do to her…if he catches up to her that is..!
Star Wars Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison Series Finale : AWESOME September 23, 2012
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The final issue of Ghost Prison was a really great read. We knew that Vader would return to Coruscant with the Emperor and sure we knew that Gentis would get his arse kicked. We just didn’t know how.
Amazing twist with the Vader teaming up with Moff Tarkin (and hey isn’t he a Vader rivaL too?)
Great story overall – was fun to see how Vader dealt with the Ghost Prisoner in the end…perhaps a bit brutal and merciless but hey ..that’s Vader!!
Doctor Who Season 7: A Town Called Mercy REVIEW September 23, 2012
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OK we’re a little behind on Doctor Who Season 7, but thanks to iTunes we’ve just caught up on a few episode. With episode 3 – A Town Called Mercy – we knew from the trailer that we’d see ‘The Gunslinger’ a futuristic cyborg killer. We knew it would be a Western Theme too.
All Good.
As always an awesome Doctor Who Matt Smith twist too – with the monster — not really being a monster.
the only thing we didn’t care for was the lack of screen time for the Ponds. Both Amy and Rory really got short changed..but we know that in coming episode this season..the Ponds will get more than their fair share.
Star Wars Ghost Prison #5 – Vader unleashes the Ghosts to retake Coruscant September 20, 2012
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Only one title that we’re really looking forward to this week.
Star Wars Ghost Prison #5 – This series is almost done…we’ve now got the ‘ghosts’ from Anakin’s past imprisonment on Vader’s side, the Emperor is on the mend..all that remains if for Vader and the Empire loyalist to retake Coruscant…
So far this has been an interesting series. We see Vader on the run, we get a bit of Anakin back story..and we see another side to the young days of the Empire…
an empire that sees the Emperor for what he is and aims to replace him…
Star Wars Detours Set to Debut in 2013. Star Wars goes ‘stand up’ (comedy) September 19, 2012
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ok we all love Robot Chicken and sure love the Family Guy Star Wars parodies too..but how about a Lucasfilm Animation developed and produced parody…series?
Yeaah it really is happening…and it’s set to debut in 2013.
Star Wars Detours™ is an animated comedy that explores what daily life is like in a galaxy far, far away. There are no Empires striking back or attacking clones here. Instead, Star Wars Detours focuses on the universe’s regular folks and their everyday problems… which, to be fair, do frequently involve famous bounty hunters, crazed Ewoks, and even a Dark Lord of the Sith.
So far there is the main trailer – which is absolutely hilarious and there are now 6 additional clips too…
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Darth Maul Returns and he’s Angry. That’s Right, Chopped in half and still not dead September 19, 2012
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Ok – we knew this was coming (and yeah we have the Dark Horse comic waiting to be read too) and sure we’ve been a little behind on the Clone Wars animated series lately too…
but wow.
this new trailer for a special director’s cut of the Return of Darth Maul (Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Season Four
Brilliant stuff and yet another reason why we’ll be spending the next few weeks catching up on the great show that is Star Wars The Clone Wars.
LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out – and oh yeah Darth Maul is now in the movie too.. September 19, 2012
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Forget about who shot first..(Han!) ; In the never ending saga of Star Wars updates – Darth Maul is now in the new Star Wars Lego version of Empire Strikes Back – titled The Empire Strikes Out.
Set to debut on September 26 at 8:00 p.m.on the Cartoon Network – this looks like good fun…and unlike many of the Star Wars Lego games – this isn’t a silent adventure…oh no we’ve got fully voiced Lego minifigs here..
Check out Lego Darth Maul and his six-sided Light saber….AWESOME…
Judgement at Proteus. The final Quadrail Novel is the worst one? WTF Happened to the Modhri? September 18, 2012
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It’s the fifth book in Timothy Zahn’s innovative Quadrail series. Previous to this we have reviewed the Domino Pattern (back in 2010, so this has been a two year wait..) and no the wait was not worthwhile.
We weren’t huge fans of Domino Pattern, though we were big fans of the previous three books: Odd Girl Out, The Third Lynx and Night Train to Rigel. The Quadrail series set out an innovative view of the future, where rail-like travel extends throughout the universe, run by a shadowy group (Spiders/Chawyn) that is fighting an even shadier group of bad guys (modhri).
And at the top of the story is our protagonist and narrator, Frank Compton.
Judgement at Proteus has two parts, the bits on Proteus and then ‘everything else’. The challenges that Compton faces at Proteus are interesting, but taking up half the book was a bit drawn out. The second half of the book makes up for it with awesome pacing, a half dozen Quadrail stations and the Shonkra-Laa attacking at every turn.
And that’s the problem. Compton defeats them every time. It’s just dumb. Only in the end does he kinda/sorta get captured only to be saved by [SPOILER ALERT..}
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the modhri.
Yes that was an interesting twist, but the path to get there was brutal (for us the readers). The modhri kill his own polyps so the hosts can attack the Shonkra-laa. and someone they are able to kill them all.
Really.
It just didn’t add up for us and left with a sour taste. It would have been much more interesting to see some kind of double cross, or some other kind of interesting Shonkra-la battle, but no such thing occurred.
The final ‘battle’ really kinda felt like it ended on a whimper. With little detail after we suffered through so much in the front half. Though we waiting two years for this book, it really felt like the ending was rushed.
Yes, we did see many of our ‘old’ friends from previous books – which was a ‘nice’ touch too.
Considering that apparently this is the final Quadrail book, it really is kinda disappointing the way this whole thing ended (and of course we want more…). The Chawyn end up as the ‘bad guys’ and we still really know so very little about them…how bout a book on them? Or more on the halkans/jurians or…?
In any event – we remain fans of the Quadrail, of Frank Compton and of author Timothy Zahn. We just know he can do (much) better.
Star Trek NX:01 with William Shatner? It Could have happened… September 13, 2012
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Long time readers of ShowMeSciFi.com know that we have no love lost for the Star Trek Enterprise show.
It wasn’t a good show (for the most part, though it did have some great moments). The Mirror Universe episode of course was awesome as was the cameo when Cmrd Riker (J.Frakes) came on board too. There could have been one other cameo that would have given that show another awesome moment.
William Shatner making an appearance as Capt Kirk. Wouldn’t that have made sense in the Mirror Universe episode? Especially since they capture the NCC-1701 from the future, which should have been Kirk’s ship?
According to Brannon Braga – it could have happened.
He tells this tale in a recent interview:
The only crossover that was exciting was there was a brief time when we were going to put Captain Kirk on Enterprise, and we even met with William Shatner, but it just never happened. We had some story concocted about why Kirk was there and how he got there. I don’t remember. I think Shatner had a pitch. It was actually going to be a pretty cool two-part episode. I don’t know exactly what happened. It might have been that we couldn’t make a deal with Shatner or something like that.
Doctor Who meets Firefly/Terminator in Awesome Western Theme Cyborg killing Gunslinger. September 12, 2012
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Doctor Who has no shortage of enemies..bad guys like the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master (remember him?)…
and no new Doctor – Matt Smith – will face an Arnie Schwartzenegger like Terminator, decked out in Westworld type western firefly garb…
sure looks like great fun…the episode airs this Sat on the BBC.
Star Trek Into Darkness – the new name for Star Trek 2013 September 10, 2012
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Ok we’ve got a name for Star Trek 2 (reboot). No it’s not the Wrath of Khan, thought he original Star Trek II remains the best of all Trek films.
The name is
Star Trek Into Darkness.
Let’s all hope that the Darkness include some Klingons this time…the release version of Star Trek was missing them…
At this point, all of the principal photgraphy for Star Trek Into Darkness has been completed and the film is in Post Production.
Star Trek Into Darkness is set to be released on May 17, 2013.
Planet 51 – Good Family SciFi fun…. September 9, 2012
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Yeaah we know that Planet 51 was out in the theatre a couple years ago, but we never got around to watching it, till last night.
That’s the magic of Netflix, somehow that movie surfaced into our ‘Top 10’ so we figured..why not?
it’s an interesting spin on the Alien Invasion theme, nothing too heavy, a few laughs and an ok way to spend an hour or so. It’s not a cult classic and not likely something we’ll ever watch more than once though….
Google Doodle for Star Trek at 46 is Pure Awesome September 7, 2012
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the good people at Google lov Star Trek.
Today for the 46th anniversary of Trek the doodle was an interactive Google Logo of the bridge of the classic enterprise. By clicking through different clickable areas eventually you to a spot where your security guy shoots a Gorn.
After killing the Gorn you get this page:
Is Looper the next big SciFi Classic? September 6, 2012
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We’re big fans of Bruce Willis in SciFi flicks here on ShowMeSciFi.
We loved the Fifth Element, Armageddon and 12 Monkeys ..and know it looks like he’s set to star in an instant classic.
Time travel is always a solid SciFi concept, but one that is rarely executed properly. So far as we can tell, the concept behind Looper is a solid one. Time traveling hit men who go back in time to erase their victims from history. But what happens when that victim is supposed to be your future self?
Great idea, great premise and we can’t hardly wait for the official opening on Se
Star Trek 2 (new canon) Opens May 17 2013 and it should be massive September 5, 2012
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No we don’t know the full plot yet for Star Trek 2 of the new canon..
but Chris Pine – aka the Kirk that is not Shatner – has started to do some media interviews.
In one published this week in UK pub total force he said:
“The force [the Enterprise crew] are met with is much more frightening. It’s relentlessly action-packed and in terms of character development it goes places you’d never expect. The arc is huge for all the characters. It’s a really big story – I can’t hype it enough!”
Places you’d never expect hmm…well we’re still hoping to see some frakkign Klingons and we sure hope to see Kronos too.
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