In my opinion Venom's a pretty weak character anyway (he's literally the exact opposite of Spiderman, yet he's used as a massive deus ex machina, changing sides and allegiances solely to fit the story - the character's effectively a blank slate), but Topher Grace ruined him even further in the movie. Venom and Eddie Brock are supposed to be built like fucking tanks, which Topher Grace emphatically is not.

Hospitalised after flipping his car.

Fixed ze image link.

Starring Hayden Chrisihtihsihtishtensen and directed by "The Guy Who Did Torque".

So not holding out much hope, really. Shame. The book is all kinds of awesome.

Blurry, and the only bit that made me make a fanboy squeal was Gambit.

Does look a bit by-the-numbers, though.

Or "TR2N" as they're calling it.

Blurry cam trailer here.

Jeff Bridges is back, baby!

Also with Jada Pinkett-Smith, Karl Urban, John Hurt and Sean Connery as the voice of "M2P".

Also Ricky Gervais for some reason.

My thread was a whole 15 minutes before yours! Ppptttttthhhb!

But yours has pictures, so I guess you ultimately win this round.

Here's a bit of an odd one for you.

Bats done gone crazy.

if you haven't seen the film yet. you might think its just a publicity stunt. but watching his performance will change your mind.

True enough, which is why my initial post clarified it was an unfounded assumption. I'm willing to bet I'll eat my own words once I finally get around to meandering cinema-wards.

But still, with all due respect for the deceased, the circumstances surrounding his tragic death couldn't have been more perfect for the redtop press. It was vague enough for them to make any conclusion they really wanted, whether it was accidentally mixing prescription meds, accidental overdose by drug abuse, or outright suicide. "HEATH LEDGER, KILLED BY THE PAINS AND STRESS OF CELEBRITY - WHAT A SHIT SOCIETY WE LIVE IN" cry the rags. "ALSO, LINDSAY LOHAN NIPPLE SLIP ON PAGE 4", they continue, oblivious to the irony.

I agree about Oldman based on the strength of the first movie, though. Him and Cillian Murphy were the secondary highlights to Chris Bale's rendition of Bats for me.

Oh, it wasn't anything against his performance (which I admittedly haven't seen and I'm sure is fantastic), more that it's a fairly common theme for unmitigated praise to flow in posthumously. I'd argue that it's a combination of hype and the mainstream press bandwagon jumping.

Anyway, Oscars became irrelevent after Uncle Marty finally won his overdue one in 2007 for Departed. Finally awarding him that shiny golden manstatue meant that I could no longer get furiously annoyed at him being shunned by the commitee, and a lot of the drama of the whole rigamarole was lost for me. Good for Uncle Marty, bad for my rage duct. It almost resurfaced when I heard talk of Will Smith being put forward for I Am Legend, but anger at someone (potentially) winning something they shouldn't just isn't the same as anger at someone not winning something they should. I say they should take Uncle Marty's Oscar away, just to bring back the tension.

I wish to court controversy and make a wild, unfounded assumption that there would nary be such buzz had he not misread his prescription labels.

I pitched New Line a new Friday 13th movie and it was AWESOME.

Basically, the remains of Jason Vorhees from the end of Jason X are drifting through space, and fall through a wormhole and end up back in the Cretaceous Era, so Jason starts killing dinosaurs and shit. BUT THEN another wormhole opens and the nanomachines pour out all over the dead dinosaurs, but because there's no metal they use bits of rock instead, so you've got like, half-rock, half-dinosaur things vs Jason, BUT THEN another wormhole opens and some pirates come through, and they get fucked up by the rockosaurs and Jason, but then an asteroid lands on them and everyone dies, BUT THEN the nanomachines reassemble everything so you've got a Pirate JasonDinosaur also with bits of asteroid stuck in him, that prolly has some alien shit or whatever, I dunno. BUT THEN another wormhole opens and out come some androids and some ninjas, and this is the moment when they told me my pitch was over and that I was being escorted from the building.

[Cloverfield]

Cloverfield



Deja Vu



Falling Down



The Core



Dune



The Mist



Casino Royale

[10. Maverick clearly has sex with a woman.]

10. Maverick clearly has sex with a woman.

Alright, fair enough, this doesn't necessarily prove much. He may be bisexual. Maybe he's in denial. BUT HE STILL DOES, DAMMIT, and with Kelly McGillis, so you can't run with the whole "but she looks like a man" theory that may work if she was, say, Sarah Jessica Parker (who looks like a male horse). Plus they're together at the end of the film, so it's obviously a carefully considered decision, and not a wild night of drunken abandonment.

9. Male Bonding is not gay.

What's gay about a game of beach volleyball, often cited as the main point of homosexual inference by the movie's detractors? Nothing, that's what. They're having time off from an otherwise stressful and intense career. Tell me you don't go and shoot pool or have a few beers with some chums after your hard, relentless day in whatever minor deskjob you do, chuck. Now times that by A HUNDRED. Beach Volleyball, man.

8. The F14 is fuckin' awesome.



LOOK AT IT

Without wishing to descend into stereotypes, the F14 is not colour co-ordinated, has no cup-holders, no CD player for The Best of the
Weather Girls and requires you to blow up Russians. I re-iterate, blow UP Russians.

...okay, so I did descend quite rapidly into stereotypes. I'm sure my lawyer will be thrilled.

7. The soundtrack kicks ass.

HIIIIIGHWAAAAY TO THE DANGER ZONE

C'mon. Probably the only superior 80's movie rock is The Touch from Transformers. YOU GOT THE TOUCH....duh, duh, duh...YOU GOT THE POOOOWAAAAAH

...

Anyway. Also, Righteous Brothers (who are probably more responsible for unwanted pregnancies than any other band) and Goose (who, incidentally, is married with children) giving an energetic performance of Great Balls of Fire. Additionally, the Top Gun Theme was recently released as a track for Guitar Hero, which is the most Heterosexual Game Ever.

6. Michael Ironside.



5. Tarantino is a known liar.

When the topic of Top Gun comes up, most people point to Tarantino's snappy 'lil dialogue in Sleep With Me. Okay, but his pop-culture rants in his films have been known as incorrect before. His "Like A Virgin is about big cocks" spiel in Reservoir Dogs? Lies! All of it! Madonna even sent him a note telling him so. See, that's the wonder of intent and interpretation. The two may not be the same thing.

4. You try losing your wingman and not acting a little strange.

So after they had to eject from their nosediving F14, Mav cradles Goose in his arms. Okay, but if you haven't noticed, they are in the water and Goose is unconscious, possibly dead. He's not just gonna go "Well, I don't know if you're still living or not, but y'know, bearhugging you is a little too fruity for my tastes, so let's assume it's the latter and I'm not drowning you".

Standing around in his pants quite randomly afterward seem weird to you? HE JUST LOST HIS BEST FRIEND, YOU HEARTLESS DICKHEAD.

3. Michael fuckin' Ironside.



2. So-called innuendo is not actually innuendo.

"You can be my wingman anytime."
"Bullshit! You can be mine."

What do they mean by this exchange? Are they making reference to being the giver and receiver? No. No they are not. They are saying they have now established a line of mutual trust between fighter pilots, and would gladly fly knowing the other is backing them up. And by backing them up, I don't mean backing them up.

1. I have watched the film a zillion times, and I am not gay.

I feel this is definitive proof. I may currently be single, but none of my ex-girlfriends were men. So there.

DEFINITIVE.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have a lavender bath and exfoliate.