Friday evening, cheerfully hypomanic

[cleolinda]

Okay, I have a date with Prince Caspian tonight, so here's a backlog of linkspam accumulated while I lost my mind over the first two Twilight books:

Woman indicted in Megan Meier MySpace suicide case; Inside The Megan Meier Hoax (The Smoking Gun). Praise the Lord.

Einstein's 'God' letter fetches $400,000.

Do Your Part to Save 'Happy Birthday' From Eternity of Copyright Hell.

Nobel winner Doris Lessing: Prize 'a bloody disaster.'

James Frey "Hit One Out Of The Park," Says Janet Maslin; Because They Never Love You More Than When You’ve Fallen Down.

Moonlight Fans: Don't Write Me!

Newsweek: Mixed legacy of 'Sex and the City'; The Five Charges Against 'Sex and the City.'

New J.J. Abrams Series 'Fringe' Billed By Fox As 'Felicity With Smoke-People'; Watch J.J. Abrams' Mad Scientist At Work .

Fan Rant: The PG Rating for 'Prince Caspian' Is Ludicrous; Steven Knight Writing 'Dawn Treader'; Barnes: Caspian Is Lost Soul; We Go Dress Shopping With ‘Narnia’ Beauty Anna Popplewell.

We've got a shitload of images and trailers right now, so hang on:

New Joker Poster for 'The Dark Knight'; Tons of New 'Quantum of Solace' Images; 'Punisher: War Zone' Finally Gets an Official Teaser Poster; 'The Love Guru' Poster Too Annoying for Thorough Commentary; The Mummy Teaser and New Photos; The New One Sheet For 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'; 'City of Ember' Poster Premiere; New 'Incredible Hulk' Images (Plus a Peek at Captain America); 'Hancock' and 'Jennifer's Body' Set Photos; New Photos of Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's 'Che.'

Third TV Spot for 'The Dark Knight'; New 'Wanted Behind-the-Scenes Featurette (also: 'Wanted' Officially Goes Viral); 'The Happening' R-Rated Trailer, Plus: A Scathing Review; Crazy Restricted Trailer for 'Tropic Thunder'; 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' Teaser Trailer; New Clips from 'Sex and the City' Hit the Net; New Clip from 'Mongol.'

trailer_spot: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, City of Ember, Elegy, Monster Camp, X-Files 2; Edge of Love, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Cannes, Human Contract, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Jon Favreau Not 100% Signed for Iron Man 2?

Different Challenges For Daniel Craig's Second Turn As James Bond; Leo DiCaprio to Play Bond Author Ian Fleming?

Is 'Indiana Jones' secrecy hiding bad news?; Skull worship inspires new 'Indiana Jones'; Is Shia LaBeouf’s Mutt Williams The Future Of The ‘Indiana Jones’ Franchise?; Shia LaBeouf Talks Downtime On ‘Crystal Skull,’ Knife Addiction.

Spider-Man 4 & 5 to be Shot at the Same Time?

Cloverfield Kishin Manga, Part 4; Cloverfield Sequel Not Certain?

Worst Batman Will Star In Eco-Monster Movie.

Daniel Day-Lewis in talks for 'Nine.'

Lena Headey Brings More Darkness to the Big Screen.

Spielberg Filming Lincoln Movie After Tintin.

Frank Miller Blogs About 'The Spirit', NYCC, and Hitting on Eva Mendes. Of course he does.

Okay, I can't help it--a few Twilight links. (In case you're wondering why the Twilight blogging has suddenly exploded across LJ, it's because the first trailer started running last week in front of Speed Racer, which means that everyone's suddenly going, "Okay, I've heard of these, now I need to check them out." That's what happened with me, at least.) And you know, I was sitting there thinking about the trailer today, "Man, I would like to see the harness they had to rig up for Stewart and Pattinson to go leaping all over the place" (no, really, I was sincerely thinking this), and MY WISH HAS BEEN GRANTED. (What? I love behind-the-scenes stuff. It's a sickness. Also, almost every single picture made me laugh out loud. There's something about this movie that I just find endlessly hilarious even when I can't figure out why.) Also, from mycenae: Robert Pattinson interview, in which he is totally on our side; ‘Twilight’ May Look Sexy On-Screen, But The Only Action On-Set Involved 'Runny Noses' And 'Hail Globs' (wait, the vampires are "reimagined as rock stars"? Pics here); 'Twilight' Rides: Meet Carlisle Cullen's Slick Mercedes.

Theatrical Release of Uwe Boll's 'Postal' Cancelled. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Comments

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

I think I'm the only Twilight fan who thinks that he is a HORRIBLE Edward.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

OMG NO WAY I'M THE FIRST COMMENT? I've been reading your blog for like THREE YEARS and I've NEVER been the first to comment.

Sorry, it's been a boring day around here...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, my awareness of the characters didn't really start until after I'd seen the casting, so that's all I've seen in my head while reading. (Well, Jasper has better hair in my head.)

[mercat.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Twilight fan, but I think he's a horrible Edward, FWIW. ;P

[kth524.livejournal.com]

In my English class, my teacher takes, like, ten minutes out of the beginning of class for us to talk about "anything new or exciting" in our lives. And we have one crazy Twilight fan and several other not-as-crazy-but-still-crazy Twilight fans in our class. So when the movie was first announced, naturally she was like, "TWILIGHTMOVIEDECEMBEROMG!" and I was like, "Oh yeah, didn't they cast the guy that played Cedric as the main guy?" and she was like, "Edward? They cast the guy that played Cedric as EDWARD?" and I was like, "Yeah" and at least five heads all turned and glared at me, like I was the casting director or something, for about a minute before flipping out about how he was going to be horrible.

[threeparts.livejournal.com]

I just don't find his looks appealing, at all. Also, he has an enormous head. I'm not sure what the fuss is about.

[emisi.livejournal.com]

I have a way better casting decision! Cast the guy who plays PRINCE CASPIAN as Edward! He's so hot.

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

Ill say this about Prince Caspian. That man is VERY. PRETTY.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I'm pretty unconcerned about the quality of the movie itself, so long as I get to stare at him for at least an hour's worth of screentime.

[evilprodigy.livejournal.com]

Cosigned. It's like the main thing on the casting call was "supernaturally hot."

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Agreed. But I still feel weird perving on him, because I grew up with Caspian being a curly-haired little boy. D:

I saw Prince Caspian at midnight...

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

...and I LOVED it. :D Put a review up at my journal, as well; I'm eagerly awaiting your review to refresh my memory of good stuff that I missed.

Re: I saw Prince Caspian at midnight...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hey, did they show a Half-Blood Prince trailer? I'm dying to find out.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Worst Batman Will Star In Eco-Monster Movie.
What the shit? George Clooney was the worst Batman! I really liked Val Kilmer!

(In case you're wondering why the Twilight blogging has suddenly exploded across LJ, it's because the first trailer started running last week in front of Speed Racer, which means that everyone's suddenly going, "Okay, I've heard of these, now I need to check them out." That's what happened with me, at least.)
Aaaah, yes, that makes sense.

Theatrical Release of Uwe Boll's 'Postal' Cancelled. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Heeeeee.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Val Kilmer was my Batman for a long time until Christian Bale came along.

And plus, Batman Forever is a much better movie than Batman & Robin... Though that doesn't say much, as B&R was TERRIBLE.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

There's a link off the smoking gun site to the Defamer (IIRC) were they have some spoilers for M. Knight "What a tweest!" Shyamalan's latest, "The Happening".

Their verdict is that he's angling to be the next Ed Wood.

It's kind of sad, a friend of mine went to school with him, and said all he ever did was talk about making movies, I wish he'd concentrate more on the "good" part.*

*
Sixth Sense: Good, would have liked more had a friend not blown it for me.
Unbreakable: Good
Everything since: don't get me started... or I'll be grinding my teeth about coyotes for hours.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

I loved Signs right up until the end, when I rapidly devolved into some proto-human only capable of screaming "Water?! WATER?!?!" at the screen.

Same kinda deal with The Village: I loved it right up until the "twist" at the end. That single new fact completely reorganized my interpretation of the film (as it was intended to do), but made me hate the elders of the village for their cruelty.

[melayka.livejournal.com]

RPatz interview: "I hardly get to do any vampire stuff, I don't get to kill anybody. I keep trying to convince them to let me... I just want flip out once and get to kill a whole crowd."

Oh thank the Powers That Be, somebody, SOMEWHERE in the grand tapestry of batshit insanity surrounding this film has some sense about what the hell a vampire is! XD

On top of all the other awful things about these books (as so eloquently mentioned in the previous entry) one of the biggest frustrations I have is how Meyer dares to call the Cullens "vampires" when she shows absolutely no awareness of/respect for the genre.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Oh thank the Powers That Be, somebody, SOMEWHERE in the grand tapestry of batshit insanity surrounding this film has some sense about what the hell a vampire is! XD

-Exactly! Trailer: "They sparkle in the sun!" Me: "Sparkle? Not catch fire and burn and scream and die?!"

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Haha, that is so funny - I was going to alert you to the Happy Birthday thing, because it's on the main page of the GW Law site right now. Brauneis was my Awesome Copyright And Trademark Professor! You know, the one I asked about potential issues with your parodies, way back in the day? The one who thought your parodies were hilarious and considered using them as some kind of example in class? That's him! He's great.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Hee.

[kosher-jenny.livejournal.com]

Admittedly I haven't been following the Quantum Solace news (an attempt to stay spoiler-free), but I took a peak at the image gallery in one of the links, and found some very unfortunate hair (http://www.cinematical.com/photos/quantum-of-solace/801185/). The fact that the guy looks like Trey Parker doesn't help either.

Ahh, I forgot that Caspian was opening today. All the summer movies are sneaking up on me, it seems.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

MST3K icon pwn.

nice :)

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

I went to see Caspian this afternoon, and thought it was a mess, but it's been getting a lot of good reviews, so that might just be me. All the same, I'm now kind of glad they're apparently only making three movies, because this one made me weep for my childhood.

[callie-girl.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. I gave it an overall, "Meh, not bad. Okay, I guess." But the first 45 minutes are boring.

[hana-ginkawa.livejournal.com]

OMG. Spider-man 4 and 5?! DO NOT WANT.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

I think Robert Pattinson is way hot- maybe he's more appealing to gay guys than straight girls?!

Is it wrong that now I really, really, want to see THE THAW? (Although I don't think George Clooney is actually in it *g*)

btw- Cleo, what was the name of Bradbury's sequel to his terrifying story "The Whole Town's Sleeping"?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh crap--it's in [i]Bradbury Stories[/i], a big anthology. Let me go try to find it and get back to you.

[somewhatmoot.livejournal.com]

:( @ Postal.

How sad is it that I was looking forward to it?

On other things...One one hand, I'm happy that Cloverfield 2 might not happen. Loved the movie, doubtful that a sequel would be any good.
On the other hand, since the Kinshin and the rest of the ARG doesn't seem like it's going to give us any answers..what now?

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

On that Robert Pattinson G4 interview, he's saying how he doesn't get to do much "vampire stuff," which was my one major criticism about the whole novel, no actual...vampire stuff. You know, blood-sucking and that. Good to know he's on the same page. ♥

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think I love that interview to pieces. I love how he just goes on about how stupid and melodramatic the whole thing is, but in the most polite, well-spoken, "Thank you for my paycheck" way possible.

[dreamingreader.livejournal.com]

The RP interview cracked me up: he sounds kinda creeped out by the entire Bella obsessive love thing and he thinks Edward is an idiot. So much love, RP, so much.

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

I have a date with Prince Caspian tonight,

Saw it Saturday night myself.

Oh, Narnia, why do I ever have to leave you?