Mutants, Lightsabers, and Boobs

It was a pretty big day in movies today.

First off, Bryan Singer has stepped in as director of the new X-Men movie "Days of Future Past", which is excellent news.  As much as I liked "First Class", it'll be good to have the man behind the camera that first introduced the cinematic world to the X-Men.

Oh, yeah, and this happened...

Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion

The Mouse House is consolidating their grip on all the things I loved during my childhood.  First, they bought Pixar.  Then, the bought Marvel.  Now, they've bought Star Wars.

I think this is a good thing, because it means that George Lucas will get out from behind the drivers seat of what was once my favorite franchise of all time. 

I wonder who they're going to get to direct one of the new Star Wars movies....

In non-geek related yet still Star Wars related news, Natalie Portman is in Austin filming a new movie, and she and Michael Fassbender were at the t.u. game a few weeks ago.  Here's a gif....

Evidently, motherhood has been very good to her...at least to her chest.

Just a quick note...

Just got seeing The Amazing Spider-Man, and I've got to say, it was pretty good.  I went in with pretty low expectations, but I was impressed.  The story was a lot more emotional than any of Sam Raimi's movies, and I can't wait to see what they do with the story from here on out. 

Last week, I went and saw an advance screening of Hit & Run.  It was an okay movie, with great car chase scenes, but no real plot to speak of.  It's obvious that Kristen Bell & Dax Shephard are a real life couple...their chemistry is great.  But there wasn't much to the story, and there was no ending to speak of.  Parts of Bradley Cooper's character were great, but again, no real development. 

I'm probably going to go to the dollar theater tomorrow and catch some films that I didn't get to see when they were out, like Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter or Snow White & the Huntsman.  It all depends on what the GF wants to see. 

I'll post more in-depth reviews later, but I've been pleasantly surprised with the last couple of movies I saw.  And there's news that Disney might be rebooting The Rocketeer...that makes me excited.  It's probably one of my favorite movies from childhood. 

LET THE NERDGASMS COMMENCE

I've got to post these trailers on here, because they are to three movies that I'm really looking forward to this summer...I bet you can guess why.

I'm not even going to comment on them...just let their awesomeness wash over you...

UPDATE: the futility of TRAILER PARK TRASH

As much as I love the idea of TRAILER PARK TRASH, I can see it's inherent flaws.  Case in point...yesterday I watched In Time, a movie that had it's trailer reviewed here on Movie Dork as part of the TPT segment.

You murdered me by 109 minutes, Amanda

This movie is probably one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever seen.  The only reason I kept watching was because 1) I was bored, and 2) I kept hoping to see more of Amanda Seyfried's cleavage.

The movie seemed like it had one plot at the beginning of the film, and an entirely different plot at the end.  Did they play Mad-Libs to try and figure the story structure on this one?  And what I thought was a cool story point (the idea that TIME is used like money) turned out to have so many holes in it, it was like a piece of Swiss cheese that had been eaten by rats & shot with a shotgun...in other words, LOTS OF PLOT HOLES.

I'm looking forward to tonight, hoping to get into a sneak peak of Rampart starring Woody Harrelson.  And I'm hoping to write on this blog more.

UPDATE OF THE UPDATE:
Again, the futility of Trailer Park Trash has been proven to me by seeing the first 10 minutes of One for the Money, which I couldn't even sit through the free showing of the first ten minutes.  It was that bad.  Even Katherine Heigl as a brunette couldn't make me watch more of that garbage.

And I hear she's a lovely person