Ok heres, your chance. Don't ruin it...

A few months ago I read an article that said Keanu Reeves' agent acquired the movie rights to a COWBOY BEBOP movie, my favorite anime and pretty much the only one I watch.  Now comes the OFFICIAL word from 20th CENTURY FOX (who's coming out with the DRAGONBALL movie) that Keanu Reeves hired a writer, his agent will be a producer, and he will play Spike, the main character.  At first I was severely upset.  But now, I don't think it will be so bad, if i dont take it so seriously.  Ill just have to lower my expectations.  What will happen?  Well I think FOX will try to make it like a straight scifi movie, instead of the jazzed up, film noir, scifi, western that the original series was so great for.  And thats ok, It'll just be a 'different interpretation'.  The only thing Im curious about is who are they gonna cast for every other character?  I think Vanessa Marcil should play Faye, and if anybody else plays Faye itll be a crime.  Just look...

AAAAAAANND...

Seeeeeee...?

ALSO, for Vicious, I think Sam Riley (From CONTROL, the movie i told you all to watch) would be perfect.



Anybody else wouldnt fit.

And just for reference:






I dont know who should play Jet, i blanked out. But if i think of anything ill come back in the mean time, lets just imagine...

NO NO DAMMIT NO!

I have subscribed to EGM on and off for the past 9 years or so. Ever since 6th grade my friends and I would all check our mailboxes every day until our EGM arrived then bring it to school to discuss and debate the ratings and articles in the current issue. Many a day was spent with my friends Chris, Garrett, Gavin, and Tobi discussing video games during classes. When everybody else was learning about proper nouns and peer tolerance, we were learning about graphics and the future of gaming consoles. I remember when the DREAMCAST issue came out in 1999 with an all orange cover and the release date '9.9.99' stamped on the front we were all pumped, especially since our friend Garrett had pre-ordered one and was having a launch party. I remember when EGM used to have inserts in its magazine with a quiz about video games and if you answered it and sent it in, you could win a barrel of useless video game swag. I never won. A year or two ago a friend of mine sent me a link where the EGM publisher was offering free subscriptions for the first 1000 people or so to sign up, and I did it. It was a small sign of things to come, that EGM and magazines in general were suffering. For money and readers. Then this past year I renewed my subscription for $10. Quite a bargain for 12 issues that are normally $5.99 on newsstands. Today I read that EGM will be no more. Their parent company ended the magazine a week ago and laid off most of the staff. The final issue, which was due out soon, wont even get to be printed and sent. So, if you got last weeks EGM with wolverine on the cover, cherish it. It will be the last. So bid farewell to a giant in videogame history, and please share your stories and experiences with the mag here in the comments zone.

ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY

1989-2009

WOLVERINE.

No. I haven't seen the new WOLVERINE trailer, or 'X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE' as its now being called. Correction; I haven't seen the trailer in theaters. I saw the trailer on YouTube. I saw footage that was shown earlier this year at comic-con, and the new trailer has some of that in it. Trailer looks decent, even though I still think it's an unnecessary movie, I still want to watch it. Why? Well frankly I want to see more MARVEL characters in movie form. Speaking of which, my all time favorite X-Man is going to be in this movie. Gambit. Yup, he's in this movie somehow. And while I can't wait to see him explode all kinds of mutant ass with his badass bow and playing cards, I cant help but notice how they FUCKED UP THE CANON. What's canon you ask? Well canon is the established timeline of things. Example; Star Wars canon is that Luke trains with Yoda before he fights Darth Vader. Well fucking up canon would be saying that Luke fights and defeats Vader, then trains with Yoda. SO why does the Gambit thing matter? Well, WOLVERINE takes place LOOOONG before the first X-Men movie, somewhere in the 50s or 60s I bet, and Gambit is there. So that means that, should there ever be a continuance of the X-Men movies, Gambit wont be there. He wont be there to hit on Rogue. He wont be there to shoot the shit with Wolverine. He wont be there to piss off Cyclops. Instead he'll be in some asian country, or whatever. Co-starring with Will.i.am and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool without his mask. Still...I'll be at the midnight showing.

NEW GUNS N' ROSES.

I did it. I bought the new GUNS N' ROSES album. I won't spend this entire post on a review, but the album is very good. Not to say there aren't some things that don't work, cause some stuff doesn't. Some of the songs feel a little too death metal, sorta LAMB OF GOD stuff, but luckily it doesn't show up alot. The album feels like a 'greatest hits that never came out', like its a retrospective album with music thats never been released. Because you can definitely hear the different musical styes present in the songs that were present 10, 7, and 4 years ago.

That said I want to comment on an article that I read in ROLLING STONE about the way BEST BUYs are handling the release of the album. Obviously this is a big album. The first GNR album in 14 years, tons of delays, album leaks, and an almost mystic frontman who nearly never speaks about it. And the only store to carry and sell the album is BEST BUY. With it being a big album you'd think it would be a big event, but it wasnt. The article reports on a new york best buy location where the album release was really just boring. No music, no midnight release, and no special promos. Which was the same here in Arizona. I was excited when I went to BEST BUY to pick up my copy. I was expecting to fight people for a copy, have loud music playing EVERYWHERE, and other cool shit, but there was not. All there was was a small standee in the front of the store advertising the album. And with a standee that says what it said, they should have made a way bigger deal about it than they did...



That sign got me super pumped, until I enterd the store. The most anticipated album EVER was purchased in less than 3 minutes. No lines. No crowds. No midnight release. Thank you BEST BUY for making a landmark day in music so insignificant.

COMING DISTRACTIONS

Sorry for the delay. I've had some Internet troubles... Anyway I didn't want anybody to think I had stopped posting, there will be TWO new posts coming on wednesday, and another Movies You Havent Seen article coming after that. Thanks for holding on. It's coming...

ALL WATCHMEN. ALL THE TIME.

I apologize for all the WATCHMEN news on the site. It seems more like a WATCHMEN fansite than a blog, but its not. Its just that, besides other things, WATCHMEN is prolly the biggest thing in my life right now. That being said the new trailer for WATCHMEN has been posted on yahoo movies, and its 10x better than the last one, check it out. Also, I was reading an interview with the film's director and he said that the ending in the book is different from the ending in the movie. While that is going to piss a lot of folks off, I agree with the decision. People need to understand that comic books and film are two very different story telling meduims. While some elements can work in one, they can't work in the other. WATCHMEN is a prime example. The ending to the novel, while outlandish at first, is very appropriate, it makes sense, it makes the story fit together like a watch (that was two references in one, if you can guess which two, I'll send you a t-shirt). But that ending will not work in movies. At least not right now. All the more reason to read the book. This is my one final push to get you all to read the book BEFORE the movie comes out, and then I'll stop. Also I wrote all this out on my iPhone. Solely so I could say that statement, and to show how hard I work for all of you. Because it was murderously hard without a goddamn mouse.

SOMETHING I READ, AND HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY WATCH.

SUPERMAN RETURNS came out a few years ago and the WARNER BROS. hoped that it would reignite the franchise and spawn sequels. But the film didn't make as much money as WB had hoped, and the reviews were mixed with critics and fan alike. Personally, I liked the film but not for what I saw, but for what I WANTED to see. The movie had potential that it didnt get to fully realize. The one main problem? The villian was Lex Luthor. Again. After 3 movies of Superman fighting Lex Luthor they needed a bigger, stronger, and more monstrous villain. If they wanted to keep Luthor as the villain they should have taken inspiration from the comics to mold him into something audiences and SUPERMAN hasn't seen yet. That being said, I think the next SUPERMAN movie should be...

That's right. Superman is Communist. This is a 'What if?' story. The story of what the world would be like if Superman had crash landed in Soviet Russia, instead of Smallville USA. And it serves for a great story. Though Superman is not a villain, her is percieved as one by the other nations of the world. He is seen as a threat, and the other nations work to protect themselves. Superman becomes the ruler of Russia and thats when the story takes off. As Superman struggles to run Russia, save the people of his country and the world from peril, and spread his ideals to other nations, Lex Luthor is hard at work trying to bring his empire down. But this is a differnent Lex. He is now a top scientist, and probably the smartest in the world, working for the US government developing creatures and weapons to destroy Superman before he can invade and take over America. The story is about Lex Luthor as much as it is about Superman (you'll find out in the end), and its just as much a psychological battle as it is a physical one between the two. As long as people can be open minded and accept this as a 'What if' story instead of a 'we're going to throw out the traditional origin' story, it could be quite the film to see on the big screen. Its a fresh story that people arent familiar yet, so the twists and turns will wont be expected. It keeps enough of the main Superman mythos so that people wont feel distanced from the Superman they know. Check out the graphic novel yourselves and see if the story doesn't instantly compell you all the way until the end.