Nnnnngh

[cleolinda]

I got my hair did, I got my ha~air did! God, I feel human again. Also, I was up fairly late last night recording a podcast with some fine folks (I'll let you know more about that when it's available for download), so I did spend much of the afternoon asleep under a hairdryer.

Linkspam!

Read Neil Gaiman's 'Neverwhere' for free.

Ben Rosenbaum's "The Ant King" sf collection as a free CC download.

'Potter' publisher seeks new phenomenon. This just in: sky also blue.

Donner Steps In To Save Superman's 'Birthplace.'

Has Brent Spiner Gone Andy Kaufman?

The Secret Fear Of Rose Tyler [Doctor Who].

Toronto lineup holds less Oscar potential this year.

Images: A First Look At Dragonball's Live-Action Lord Piccolo (JAMES MARSTERS WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU); New 'Dragonball' Poster and Screenshots (additional note: James Marsters and James Marsden really need to go into some kind of Redundant Department of Redundancy Thunderdome and work out this name thing. Two Marsders go in, one Marsten comes out); This 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' Poster is TOO HOT (boring) 4 AMERICA; Appaloosa character banners (scroll down); Exclusive New Looks at 'The Brothers Bloom.'

Trailers and clips: Must Watch: Gus Van Sant's 'Milk' Trailer; 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' Trailer; Exclusive 'Ghost Town' Clip; 'Transformers 2' Set Video, Complete with Explosions; 'Zack and Miri' Make a Red Band Trailer; new 'Choke' clips.

trailer_spot: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Passengers, Real Time, Max Payne, Flow: For Love of Water.

Quidditch Ron, Tonks, Burrow Attack and More in UK Calendar Scans; Emma Watson: It's hard growing up in the spotlight; But What Daniel Radcliffe Really Wants to Do Is Play Hermione [Casting Spells] (WHAT is going on with that picture, y'all); Top 9 Harry Potter Mash-up Videos.

Wall Street Journal Takes Another Look at Meyer’s Decision Not to Publish 'Midnight Sun'; Play The New ‘Twilight’ Trivia Game Filled With Fan-Submitted Questions; xlormp: The Most Popular Book in the World:

There were three thoughts I was thinking, that I was absolutely positive were accurate thoughts:

One, Xlormp was a space alien.

Two, there was part of him, and probably it was all of him, that wanted to blow up my planet.

And three, I was really, really hungry for quesadillas.

Bond Swaps Martinis For Coke Zero (*facepalm*); 'Quantum of Solace' - Official Blog Report #24; James Bond Awesomeness: Ask Daniel Craig and Marc Forster a Question! (WHY ARE YOU SHILLING COKE ZERO, DANIEL CRAIG?)

IGN's 5 Worst and 10 Best Batman Villains.

'Watchmen' Trial Set For January.

'Lost' Creator Damon Lindelof Wants to Take On Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower'; 'Dark Tower' Movie Update: Seven Films?

'Benjamin Button' and the Curious Stories Surrounding Him.

Stephen Sommers Directing 'Tarzan.'

What's Missing From Edward Norton's 'Incredible Hulk'?

Chuck Palahniuk Says ‘Lullaby’ Director Wants To Ditch Flash Forwards From Novel.

Bruce Springsteen Sings for 'The Wrestler' ... and Judd Apatow?

Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him.

Tim Roth to Star in 'Skellig.'

Eric Stoltz Heads to 'Fort McCoy.'

Seyfried Out-Foxes 'Jennifer's Body.'

The Light of the Green Lantern -- Conceptually, Anyway.

‘National Treasure 3’ May Head To New Orleans, Says Nicolas Cage (my mother is downstairs doing a National Treasure happydance right now, y'all); Nic Cage Reveals ‘Ghost Rider 2’ May Team With Church For Euro Adventure. Awww, he thinks they're going to make a sequel, you guys!

Clive Barker Puts a Rusty Knife in PG-13 Horror; Clive Barker Applauds ‘Hellraiser’ Remake, Declares War On PG-13 Horror.

Ray Park To Join With Ray Harryhausen For Sword-Wielding ‘Necronauts.’

Wouldn't You Like A Nice Alien Tentacle Massage? [Found Footage]

Makers Put As Much Effort Into 'The Spirit' Toys As Frank Miller Put Into The Movie.

'Cleavagefield' Puts J.J. Abrams' Shaky Cam To Better Use.

Comments

[notashamed.livejournal.com]

James Marsters talked about Dragonball at Dragon*con last weekend and he was so charming and adorable and winning that it made me think "Wow, I should see that!"

[bienegold.livejournal.com]

I am right there with you on a Marsters v. Marsden deathmatch. I get confused.

[r-a-black.livejournal.com]

Wait, a podcast? About what and for what and where and why? I wanna knooowwww...

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Ah! You found Neverwhere too! Just finished it and posted the link and a semi-coherent review on my LJ. He's amazing.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

Can they be shirtless?

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Yes, please!

In fact, neither one has to die. Just show up shirtless. >.>

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

AH JAMES MARSTERS. WHY ARE-AUGH. Noooooooooo.

This just makes me sad.

[misachan.livejournal.com]

You're not the first person on my flist to be agog at the Piccolo pics, let me tell you. He looks like the Willem Defoe in Shadow of the Vampire. I mean, he isn't even green. And yet, despite Piccolo being my favorite character I can't work up any outrage; everything about this movie is out there and wrong. I'm just staring at the whole thing in eyebrow raised bogglement.

And how does motherfrakking Bane get #5 when Riddler doesn't even make the list?! Catwoman's not even a villain for crying out loud! Read Hush, illiterate list makers!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Clive likes it gory huh? I watched The Ring on Halloween night when I was 7 months pregnant and couldn't sleep.

then I could not sleep the rest of the night and refused to let my husband turn off either of our two TVs for days.
The movie was PG-13.

[natwamblz.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to feel about a third national treasure? Is it going to be as cool as Back to the Future 3

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, The Ring was the one where I staggered out of the theater white as a sheet. The scene that did me in was Naomi Watts falling into the well, which was terrifying in a huge dark theater with only eight other people in the whole room. I wanted to leave the theater but I literally could not stand up, so I started hoping I would just die instead. A lot of people have said they didn't find the movie scary at all, so I have no idea why it freaked me out so bad.

I think part of what's going on here is that "terror" and "horror" are two different things. "Terror" doesn't require blood at all; it's the sensation of being afraid something will happen. "Horror" is what you feel once that thing has happened, which could, in fact, require a great deal of fake blood. And obviously, seeing "horror" can make you feel terror that something else bad is going to happen, so they can get mixed up together. But really, terror isn't dependent on gore at all, and is probably most highest when you're waiting on the gore to get there.

[cherrynorth.livejournal.com]

but so much of what makes Palahniuk's books so great is that awesome and terrifying moment when all the pieces fall into place in the reader's head. without the flashforwards in Lullaby, the audience will be missing half the pieces...

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Getting one's hair done is always such a wonderful feeling (unless, of course, it was an experience like the last one in which the stylist was running 30 minutes late, there was no place to sit while waiting because of 2 assholes who were sitting around waiting for a friend to be done, and then the late stylist did a horrible job to boot).

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

WAIT A MINUTE. WAIT.

... This may explain why I have always been so confused about James Marsters/Marsden. There are TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE involved.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....I see. Terror is ususally what scares the ever living out of me. Horror? Not so much. I will sit there and go, "Huh, that zombie just tore that girl open." or when I watched Planet Terror, "HAHAHAHA!! Fergie just got her chest and organs ripped apart by zombies. Awesome!!!"

Oh and I love that Traci Lords is playing a porn star named Bubbles in Zack and Miri Make a Porno. :D

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Horror movies don't bother me at all. Movies with a lot of terror? I end up with my hands clamped over my eyes.

(Which is why I've NEVER seen The Ring, and don't plan on changing that. I like sleeping, thanks.)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Chuck Palahniuk Says ‘Lullaby’ Director Wants To Ditch Flash Forwards From Novel.
What...the fuck?? A) I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY FINALLY MAKING A MOVIE. I asked Chuck Palahniuk himself years ago if they would do it, and he said Hollywood was scared of dead babies. I guess they've gotten over it. B) What...the fuck?? Why would you do that? Like Fight Club, a lot of the awesomeness of Lullaby is the non-linear storytelling. And it would make for a pretty great reveal if the director could pull it off.

[edoraslass.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've had a really crappy day and you just made me laugh so so hard. Thanks. :)

[ironic-sun.livejournal.com]

"Crowning Moment: Crippling Barbara Gordon was certainly a hoot, but the greatest Joker moment was when he beat Robin (Jason Todd) with a crowbar and blew him up."

Interesting choice of words, there.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I love that book and was thinking it would make an awesome movie (I really want to hear the culling song...and not die). But it's less fun if you play it straightforward. Like the article says, part of the fun of Palahniuk is discovering in what crazy way the narrator is proved to be unreliable this time.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

There's also a JASON Marsden who does a lot of voiceover work.

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

I am so ridiculously pumped for Milk, I can't even TELL you.

[sapphires13.livejournal.com]

'Lost' Creator Damon Lindelof Wants to Take On Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower'; 'Dark Tower' Movie Update: Seven Films?

YES, YES OMG YES.

Ahem, now apart from that initial reaction, being a big fan of the series, I must say that 7 films aren't necessarily necessary.
Much of book four is backstory, and could be worked in in various places, without necessarily focusing a whole film on it. Books 1 and 2 could certainly be squeezed together into one film, without much damage being done. And the non-backstory laden parts of book 4 could be put with book 3 into another film. 5 and 6 could go together, with book 7 getting its own film. That's four films.
But honestly, given the sheer length and depth of the series, I think it would adapt better to an HBO series than to a film series. The backstory of book 4 could be spread throughout the episodes in a series of flashbacks, and each book could be divided into 3-6 episodes.

[swordmage.livejournal.com]

I squealed when I saw that.

Despite owning the novel, the tv series, and the comic book version (yes, i love neil), I'm tempted to download the pdf so I can thrust it on people at a later date...

[nore-fortuna.livejournal.com]

I don't care what anyone else thinks, I'm psyched for a new National Treasure movie. They are fun and Justin Bartha is cute. =)