THIS is a phenomenal concept. someone went through a trove of movie trivia, picked some of the greatest movies ever, and generated movie posters using the actor who was originally cast in the role, who started filming the role and dropped out, or who was just the director's wishlist for the role.

i think the above is super ironic and awesome, which is why i posted it, but my favorite is the temple of doom one.

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nuff SAID.

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i have THOROUGHLY enjoyed the "toy story" movies, and the long-overdue reunion, in "toy story 3," is due out next june.

HERE'S the teaser, which played in front of "up," and note that "TS3" will be in PIXAR 3D. sweet.

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well, today's the halfway mark of the IM2 filming, and favreau and rourke were quoted in THIS article with some great details...

+ "Favreau hinted that Rhodes, now played by Don Cheadle, will be tooling up big-time when he dons his own armoured suit as War Machine. 'Rhodesy is definitely stepping up in this film. Let me put it this way: Tony's not the only person with technology in the film.'"

+ "'I'm having the time of my life!' [rourke] enthused about joining the Iron Man franchise. 'It's been really brutal, because my Iron Man suit weighs 23lb. It's sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing, with lots of Russian tattoos, because [Whiplash is just] out of a Russian-zone prison.'"

7 may 2010, people.
mark it.

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greatest thing i've ever seen in my life, right fuckin here. a local hobo has encased himself and his motorized wheelchair in a cardboard box with cut-out windows and signage all around...



there's a cup hanging off the front there, and he rolls around begging from within. the way it's set up, you can just see this shadow of a face when he approaches you, but for the most part, you can't see SHIT. which is 333% more awesome.

also note that he's currently charging his chair off that green light pole.

i've named him "MOBO." MObile hoBO.

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great poster.
lame cobra commander.

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ok, first of all, a 3D movie costs as much as an IMAX ... $15. which is pretty fuckin sucky until the movie opens with you floating just barely on the rings of saturn and your entire innards shudder with joy at the feeling of being in space.

i haven't been to a 3D movie since "friday the 13th, part 3," which was released in the 80s glut of 3D-ery ... jaws 3D, pirannha 3D, and so on ... and at that time, only certain portions of movies were produced for 3D. i vividly remember jason firing a harpoon gun at the camera, moments after first donning the iconic hockey mask, and really, i don't remember much else being very impactful. whereas nowadays, in addition to MUCH higher-quality 3D glasses, the entire MOVIE (in this instance) was filmed for 3D, and is shown as such. perhaps this is only economically feasible in an animated movie, but either way -- SICK.

so i highly recommend the 3D experience.

now, the movie itself was also very good, though i'll admit straight away that i'd have not been all that impressed with it in 2D. this may be by virtue of the fact that i've YET to find a dreamworks movie that can rival a PIXAR movie. they're both exceptional and entertaining, but DW just doesn't have the same level of savvy risk-taking or incredibly well-concepted and well-executed character design that PIXAR does, and it shows. though they get better with every outing, and this was by far the best.

meteor crashes to earth and lands on a bride, who's AT her wedding, which will be to a total douche. she grows to 50 stories high, which makes for a great snapping-garter scene, and the army snaps her up and drops her in with other "monsters" that they've collected over the years. it's just "safer" to not let john and jane q. public know that "monsters" exist. as she meets the other monsters, voiced by will arnett, seth rogen, and hugh laurie (who are all super engaging characters, sort of cutting a swath through the social makeup of our expected existence -- the ladies man, the doofus, the brain), she learns that she won't be getting out any time soon.

then we meet galaxor, who's searching the universe for the element which crash-landed on this grrl. he drops a giant robot onto earth and the president (an AMAZINGLY well-cast turn by stephen colbert) orders his highest-ranking general (an almost unrecognizable kiefer sutherland's voice) to get the monsters to fight it.

so she (and the other monsters) DO get out after all.

beat the robot, fight galaxor himself, everybody lives happily ever after.

i think some of the real joys of this movie came from the subtleties. stephen colbert as the president was something that would be lost on most young kids, but which hits anyone from about 20 to 40 right between the eyes with jabby little subtle humour. the newscaster who notes that aliens only ever land in america -- another sweet little jab at the american collective consciousness that we all share, where we're the only place in the world. these things were GREAT.

as san franciscans, (SG)f and i also really dug on the attention to detail in the whole first act of the movie, which took place largely here and in the surrounding areas. the city skyline was "right," the bridge was perfect with the exception of the obvious intentional cartoonization of the towers -- there was even an abandoned blue fixie with black bullhorns on a deserted SF street. now THAT'S worth a CLANK! or three right there by itself! one particular exchange of great delight to me was when the ship full of monsters landed to fight the giant alien robot and as the ramp is lowering, you can see candlestick park just to the right. geographically, this was spot-on, which stoked me. then two seconds later, as ginormica (susan, the grrl who grew) heads off to the city proper, dr. cockroach warns her to "steer clear of the tenderloin -- it gets pretty dicey there!" perfection.

the movie is clearly about susan's search for independence and freedom from the expectations of others and the limitations of trying to live up to them. as she fights and wins against giant enemies and as she saves countless lives by herself, she comes to realize that she's the shit. this is imporant for the kids (and the adults, for that matter), as a developmental lesson, which most animated movies are pretty good at including at least one of, much to my delight.

in the end, though, i'm afraid to report that it's just an average movie. i didn't find anything that rocked me to the point of ecstasy (with the exception of the 3D experience), but i was greatly entertained.

so 8/10 CLANKS! in 3D and 6/10 CLANKS! by itself. and a special shoutout to the president rocking out "axel f," in an attempt to communicate with the alien robot.

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Man I love the incongruous nature of pirate stuff for kids.

http://www.galison.com/Pirate-Treasure- ... 397C0.aspx

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"Quaking schoolgirls try to hide from an allosaurus - actually the puppet of an Australian art performance group - running amok at the National Museum in Singapore."

That's pretty sweet. Though, this being Singapore, if you lost your shit and kicked it, you could have that leg forcibly amputated by the magistrate's decree.

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I don't think I've seen this site mentioned here before. I apologize if it's a re-run.

Insect Lab

Quoting from their front page:

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