I Can’t Believe I Am Going To Say This … We Need To Talk About The Jem And The Holograms Trailer!

So what the heck was that?!  It wasn’t Jem and the Holograms!  There was no supercomputer named Synergy.  No crazy super earrings.  This a was just a terrible looking Disney Channel movie.  No wait, I take that back.  Disney probably would have made a rock and roll superhero movie, but they would have modernized it, still bad, but not this.  This has the 80’s glam but none of the superhero antics.  <sigh>  Speaking of antics, where are the Misfits?  Who is supposed to be trying to throw these girls off a cliff to become the number one band in the world even though they are in a completely different genre of music?  No one?  Just bad teenage relationship angst?  No thanks.

Universal could have had a fun crazy superhero movie targeted to young girls.  The first one that I have heard of.  They could have owned that market, but they blew it, and instead they made a generic looking bore fest.  Jem and the Holograms deserved better.  Watch the old cartoon it is bound to be more fun than this looks.

Well The Most Nervous Time Of Year Is Over!!

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There is one time of year I am always running on high alert.  I have my phone strapped to me at all times, and that time of year is PAX Prime ticket season.  Oh man.  The tickets sell out so fast, and it is a tradition that I go.  Even in the down years it is something to see.  Well yesterday the notification came out, and my friends and I where on the ball, so sometime in September look for our hands-on wrap up PAX Prime 2015.  They say they are making several changes this year.  We will see if they are for the better or not.  If you were able to get your tickets in the fiftyish minutes they were available maybe I will see you there!  If not, watch this trailer for Netflix’s new show made by the Wachowskis.  It might make you feel better.

Can’t Wait For A New Bruce Timm DC Cartoon! Though It Might Not Be What You Expected…

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I love the Bruce Timm DCU cartoons, so it is good to have him back, but if you were expecting something light an cheery, think again!  This online show features a Superman that is Zod’s son and a vampire Batman just to name a few changes, so things are a little screwed up.  It would be best to think of this as an Elseworlds tale.  That being the case it still looks pretty great, and I can’t wait to watch it!

While DC has some story telling issues with their comics every now and then, I do enjoy the fact they let creators run wild with even their top tier characters from time to time.  It helps if you are the best comic book cartoonist around, but they let people that aren’t Bruce Timm play too.  Sure that is why they have to reboot things much more often than Marvel, but I think it gives DC a much more broad collection of stories.

Who Will Martin Freeman Play In Captain America: Civil War?

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Well in very late casting news Marvel has announced that Martin Freeman will be joining the cast of Captain America: Civil War.  Considering that movie’s production is well underway it is odd to cast such a high profile actor.  I am guessing he is going to be Tony Stark’s head of the hero registration.  Freeman is a world class pencil pusher, but that is no fun, so who does Shmee what him to be?  How about Captain Britain?

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Why not?!  You can introduce interdimensional travel, and you could still have him on Tony’s team pushing pencils.  It is like a story telling double whammy.  They need more heroes for the Civil War, and Britain would give Tony a symbol to stand behind that shows he is just as ‘good/righteous’ as Steve Rodgers.  Then as an added benefit Marvel could team him up with Dr. Strange, and then the Sherlock buddies could cast magic and kick butt through the many dimensions of time-space.  How great would that be?!

Pretty great.  We will see shortly what Freeman is up to, and I am pretty sure Captain Britain is not it, but a Shmee can dream can’t he?  Here is to the Dr. Strange/Captain Britain/Sherlock buddy movie of our dreams.

The Suicide Squad Is Ready To Roll, But Who Will Make It Back Alive?

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Well we finally got the big cast reveal for the Suicide Squad, and they look pretty good in my opinion.  We won’t really know how they turned out until we see them on screen, but they are very close to their New 52 counter parts.  They are as follows from left to right: Adam Beach rumored to be Slipknot (not the band), Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, in front of Cara is Karen Fukuhara as Katana, back up to Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg,  Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, and last but not least Jay Hernandez as El Diablo (well maybe least, in the running with Slipknot anyway).  Plus just for kicks here are Will Smith’s Deadshot and Jared Leto’s Joker in their full garb:

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Now that we know the cast the fun part is to try and figure out who will die!  This is the Suicide Squad after all, and if they are going to do the comics any justice at all at least three of these people will not make it out alive.

Poor El Diablo doesn’t stand a chance.  He dies in every version of the comic book.  He is as good as dead.  Next up I am going with Katana.  Sure she is not a villain, so you would think the heroes make it through, but you would be wrong.  She is donezo.  The last for sure one to go is Slipknot.  Adam Beach is a great actor, but the fact we don’t even know if he is Slipknot, plus the fact I had to look up who Slipknot is, means he is dead in the first thirty minutes.  My last prediction is that Rick Flagg will not make it.  Again a hero, but the Suicide Squad belongs to Deadshot, so it can’t have two leaders.  If Tom Hardy had still been in the movie, he would have lived.  Now that it is Joel Kinnaman, Dead.

As for the rest of the cast, I am not sure Enchantress or Killer Croc can physically die, and Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, The Joker, and Harley Quinn are way to popular to kill off, especially in the first movie.  We will see of course, but I am pretty sure they are all safe.  I hope this movie is fun.  Because even though the Suicide Squad Comic is dark and violent, it is always very funny too.  So here is hoping!