Now that Livejournal's back up...

[cleolinda]

So... for tonight's linkspam, rather than end up with Giant Paragraphs of Death, I'm giving Images and Trailers each their own listy sections, and... ignoring almost everything else, because that's a ton of stuff to catch up on right there.

Deaths:

Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dies.

Sculptor Robert Graham dies at age 70.

Rock songwriter Delaney Bramlett dies at 69.

Wasserman, 'Man of La Mancha' writer, dies at 94.

'Mockingbird' director Robert Mulligan dies.

Suzanne Simmons/Elizabeth Guest Has Passed Away.


Watchmen court case gets worse: Fox to Seek Order Delaying 'Watchmen' Release; Watchmen's March Release May Be In Trouble After All.

I have a feeling that this will not be a popular suggestion in some quarters, but I would be more than willing to lead a "Give Us Our Damn Movie or We Boycott 'Wolverine,' You Assholes" campaign.


Images:

First Look: Weasley Wizard Wheezes, New Slughorn Photo in Empire Magazine.

Empire Debuts Photos from 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'!; Even More 'Transformers 2' Photos Online!

American Wasteland - Two New 'Terminator Salvation' Photos; Check Out the New 'Terminator: Salvation' Teaser Poster.

First Image from James Cameron's 'Avatar' Finally Revealed.

Look! An Elderly Man and a Rotund Child! From Pixar's 'Up'!

The 'Curious Case of the Better Benjamin Button' Poster That Never Was.

OutNow: 17 Again (2009); Pandorum (2009).

A Coraline buttons poster over at Neil Gaiman's journal.

First look at X-Men Origins: Wolverine toys!

They're Not Dolls, They're Action Figures! Oh, Wait. They Are Dolls. And They Rule! [Star Trek]

EXCLUSIVE: 'Land of the Lost' Poster Premiere!

First Look: Paul Giamatti in Sophie Barthes' 'Cold Souls.'

New Set Still from Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoey Deschanel's new movie, '500 Days of Summer.'

Check This Out: Final Poster for Summit's 'Push.'

Odette Yustman in Esquire (Jan '09) + new poster for 'The Unborn.'

Two New Photos from 'My Bloody Valentine 3D.'

'Fast & Furious' Poster is Reasonably Fast & Furious, I Guess.

First Look: Kanji Nakajima's Sci-Fi 'The Clone Returns Home.'


Trailers and clips:

Must Watch: First Trailer for Russell Crowe's 'State of Play.'

'From Paris with Love' Teaser: John Travolta Shoots a Rocket Launcher.

Teaser Trailer for Tim Burton’s CGI Animated ‘9.′

Must Watch: DreamWorks' Second Full 'Monsters vs Aliens' Trailer.

'Lesbian Vampire Killer' Trailer Delivers The Lipsticked-And-Fanged Goods; 'Lesbian Vampire Killers': This Year's 'Snakes On A Plane'?

'Underworld: Rise of the Lycans' TV spots.

Must Watch: Japanese 'Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li' Trailer.

Trailer Battle: ‘Street Fighter’ vs. ‘Dragonball.’

Official US Trailer for Oscar Hopeful Italian Film 'Gomorrah.'

Worth Watching - Sundance's 'Taking Chance' Trailer.

Teaser Trailer for Polish Brothers' Sundance Film 'Manure.'

Fake Thundercats Trailer - Name the Source Material.

First Look at Nikki Reed in 'Chain Letter.'

'Butterfly Effect 3' Trailer Turns Your Brains Into Time Traveling Goo.

French Mutants Will Attack Your Space Kitties [Cult Movie Worship].


And a couple dozen more links on FriendFeed, just because I couldn't keep up with everything otherwise. Browse at will.

Comments

[alierakieron.livejournal.com]

LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS????!!!

I am so there.

[sweet-pessimism.livejournal.com]

I know, I'm pretty excited to see how made of fail it is!

[cleojones.livejournal.com]

I'm just DAZZLED by Fox's stupid, in this matter.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I'm dazzled by Warners's stupid, myself.

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

If you tell me to turn on the Wolverine movie, I will. Just point me in the right direction. I'd much rather have Watchmen.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather have Watchmen.

So agreed.

[starcaller888.livejournal.com]

Good Lord how many more icons are we going to loose this year. Just in the last month we've lost greats like MAjel Roddenberry (1st lady of Sci-Fi) and Ertha Kitt. It's like 2008 is trying to take out as many greats as possible in what little time it has left

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Speaking of another kind of icon... yours earned a hearty guffaw from over this direction, thank you!

"The blowtorch???"

[threeparts.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well. Bugger.

Also, I quite like that Benjamin Button poster.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Must we have another Butterfly Effect? Have we not been punished with enough crappy cinema?

[niiicko.livejournal.com]

Apparently we're in for much, much more punishment. x_x
ugh.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

This whole Watchmen thing is depressing. It's the first movie I've really looked forward to in years. As in, planning to see it at the theatre instead of being cheap enough to wait for the dvd to come to the library.

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Best comment I've seen so far on the "Watchmen" thing:

"Somewhere, Alan Moore is laughing his creepy, bearded butt off."

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Maybe WB can market Watchmen as a big summer movie? I don't really care when it comes out, as long as it eventually does.


Did there really need to be an American remake of State of Play?? David Morrissey >>>>>>> Ben Affleck.

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

and John Simm>>>>>>>>>>Russell Crowe, for this role, although I love them both.

The Benjamin Button stuff has all been bahleeted already!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was very funny while it was there. Sigh.

Re: The Benjamin Button stuff has all been bahleeted already!

[thisiamdenied.livejournal.com]

I know, I wanted to see it!

[saramiskismet.livejournal.com]

Those Rise of the Lycans spots made me soooo excited. I loved Michael Sheen in the first one so much.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

All I know about Watchmen is the trailers I've seen, but even so I find it horrifying that 'Chun-li: Streetfighter Extraordinaire' is probably getting a release before it. That seems wrong on some profound level.

[greedyskunk.livejournal.com]

Crap always seems to find its way through the sieve of good taste. It's inevitable.

[moogleybacon.livejournal.com]

I just read Watchmen, like, a week ago, and I'm really looking forward to it now. They just can't do this to us. It's... unconstitutional, or something. (Though, I'm not looking forward to it enough to boycott Wolverine; if I had to choose, I'd choose Wolverine.)

In other news, I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. It was really, really good. I was worried it might be confusing, what with the weird plot, but it wasn't. The pace was really nice; not too fast, not too slow, just perfect. Also, it was three hours long, almost to the dot. I didn't even notice that, though; I looked at my watch when I got out and went "holy shit, it's been three hours".
And, that John Travolta trailer? Awesome. And hilarious. I would totally see that. lol

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

They just can't do this to us.

They're targeting capes?

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that this will not be a popular suggestion in some quarters, but I would be more than willing to lead a "Give Us Our Damn Movie or We Boycott 'Wolverine,' You Assholes" campaign.

Already on it. (http://community.livejournal.com/watchdom/12778.html)

Plus, I'm already convinced they've probably ruined Gambit, anyway.

This is what FOX can do. (http://www.cracked.com/blog/fox-can-eat-several-dicks/)

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

This is what FOX can do.

Hooray for cracked.com. :-D

[mudpuppy83.livejournal.com]

It's funny. I heard about Lesbian Vampire Killers before, but I can't recall if it was before or after I started work on a screenplay called "Dracula's Daughter vs. The Swamp Monster", which features--of course--a lesbian vampire.

Anyways, it looks fun. Wonder when we'll get it stateside?

[lemonade8.livejournal.com]

The animated short seems to be made by Shane Acker, but apparently is being lengthened to film by Tim Burton?

I love animated shorts. I hobby 3D imaging, so this is very cool to me. I just wonder which programs he used. /geek/

Anyway, thanks for the link, that was good!

I've been waiting for this for soooo long....

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

have you seen the short itself?

SO AWESOME. I saw it at the Animation Show a year (two years?) back and it was incredible. I was riveted for the entire thing!

re: deaths

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

2008, still committed to sucking, right up to the bitter end.

Re: deaths

[lemone.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to get real scared that some hardcore bad shit will go down on the 31st to make this accursed ass year go out with a bang. A suck bang, if you will.

Have you ever seen Vampiros Lesbos?

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

I just watched it tonight. It's a 1971 German movie set in Turkey about a vampire lesbian countess, loosely based on Dracula. It's kitschy and good at the same time and a real period piece. I recommend it.

Re: Have you ever seen Vampiros Lesbos?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh! OH! No, I haven't, but it's ringing some bells now. I may have read about it in my Great Big Vampire Book of Vampires, come of think of it.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that those aren't the final Trek dolls. The only Trek characters with necks that long are Cardassians. But they're lizard-people so it makes sense with them.

[reebchan.livejournal.com]

I have to ask: is there any chance these guys are the same people who canceled Firefly?

If not: did they kill Bambi's mother?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think they may be. Firefly was on Fox, wasn't it?

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing Benjamin Button (I still have tears in my eyes), and I think the alternate poster would have been great. Benjamin's relationship with Taraji P. Henson's character is central to the character and the movie's theme. It really is an amazing movie - given the reviews I've read, I went into it expecting to admire the movie from an emotional distance, but it snuck up on me somehow. By the end I was crying and trying to catch my breath.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I am utterly shameless in my adoration for the original The Fast & The Furious - so I am all a-squee at the original cast being back. Dom/Brian OTP, I swear to you. ::flail::

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

My brother is the same way, and I gotta admit, I'll probably be seeing it too.

[thekatiefactor.livejournal.com]

I would consider watching Lesbian Vampire Killers at some point, due to my enduring dedication to the original case of The History Boys.

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

'Butterfly Effect 3' Trailer Turns Your Brains Into Time Traveling Goo.

...

There was a second one?

[chocolat-violet.livejournal.com]

Lesbian Vampire Killers has no business comparing itself to Shawn of the Dead. I can accept it as the new Snakes on a Plane, but the new Shawn of the Dead it is not.