So I got this press release in the good ol’ inbox alerting me to some site called Spill.com doing animated reviews of Comic-Con. Animated reviews, huh? Before I pimp something out, I like to see for myself if it is full of the awesome sauce or the suck… um… sauce. So I hopped on over and checked out their review of Hancock.

Okay, I’m sold. Pretty sweet review, decent animation, and now I really want to see Hancock. So Spill is heading to Comic-Con and will release daily (?!!) animated wrap-ups of each day. They’ll also be hitting five panels of awesomeness:

Here are just a few of the events Spill.com hopes to cover during SDCC 2008:

• 1. Warner Bros.: The Watchmen (Friday 11:55 – 1 pm) | One of the year’s most highly anticipated films.
• 2. Family Guy: The Cleveland Show Sneak Peak (Friday 3:30 – 4:15 pm) | An early look at the Family Guy spinoff.
• 3. Terminator Salvation (Saturday 1:15 – 2 pm) | Terminator is back and Spill.com will have the scoop.
• 4. Sony: First Looks at Underworld, Quarantine, and Pineapple Express. (Saturday 5:30 – 7 pm) | First looks at some of Sony’s most anticipated upcoming films.
• 5. Lionsgate Films: The Spirit and Punisher: War Zone | See what’s planned for these two huge comic-book adaptations.

If you’re going to be at SDCC, be on the lookout for Spill.com. If not, make sure you tune into Spill.com throughout the show for ongoing coverage of one of the year’s biggest events!

You know, these days Comic-Con is more like Movie-Television-Gaming-Toys-and-maybe-some-Comics-Con these days. It’s awesome and fun and all, but srsly, where’s the comics?

Anyway, Spill, yes, quite good. I’m looking forward to what they’ve got cooked up for Comic-Con. And I’ll be checking out more of their reviews. Nuff said!

[Via Spill]

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I’m going to post two of the reactions I’ve gotten from people who saw the advanced screening of Dark Knight.

Figured I’d pass some input on the Dark Knight along to fellow enthusiasts. A friend of mine caught some of the tickets for the Las Vegas showing of the Dark Knight in IMAX last night, which opened up at: http://whysoserious.com/kickingandscreening/.

We went, I watched. My Jaw Dropped. My pants, my seat, and my socks became crunchy. It was a 2hour and 22 minute geekgasm. It does in fact surpass the hype.
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Absolutely amazing!

~ Colloquialist

And here’s a text I got from Nick last night.

a true hush over everyone. tdk unpredictably superior. i can’t speak. all 4 of us cant even talk about it now. powerful beyond and somber and superior.

‘Nuff said.

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AZM regular Tyler Anderson sent over a short review of the Gotham Knight and Justice League: New Frontier DVDs.

So, you probably don’t need my opinion on em, but I just picked up Justice League: New Frontier and Batman: Gotham Knight and they’re both absolutely awesome. I got them on the Blu Ray format and everything looks just so crispy and sexy and full of awesomesexysauceyness. I’ll give you the links to trailers, but I really highly reccommend both of these. Justice League is done more in the American style of animation while Batman jumps around but is pretty rooted in anime. Figured you might be interested ^ ^

Here are the trailers for both.

Definitely liking the JLA action although the classic Superman symbol is pretty menacing. I haven’t read the comic it’s based off of, but it certainly looks fun. And I know I said no more Dark Knight posts, but this doesn’t count. I put this bastard on Netflicks so it should come our way in a few weeks, but I might just pick it up at the store sooner than that.

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So here’s a short review of the Transformers that reader Sammy Dixon sent in:

I know you have heard goods news about this movie but I can promise you one thing, if you are looking for anything from the original cartoon you will only be finding the voice actor for Optimus Prime in common.

The movie is 2 hours and 10 minutes of human interaction, with 5 minutes of the Autobots being 10 year old children playing hide and seek and then 8 minutes of actual robot on robot hot sex fighting action. Optimus Prime has his big pouty lips that are always sad and 1 of the autobots was so gangsta that he should have been wearing a necklace of solid energon cubes.

It’s an entire movie showing that advanced artificially intelligent machines are only as advanced as a 5 year old ADD child on a Sugar rush. For god sakes bumble bee pee’s on a man.

Hmm… think I’m going to hit a matinée. Sounds like a lot of puny humans and not enough robot smashy. Ah well. I’ll get around to it sometime, probably after I catch the wizard movie.

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Reader Dave “Torso Boy” Reimer sent me this review of the Silver Surfer movie. I guess it contains a minor spoiler, but I doubt it will ruin the movie. Sounds like the movie ruins itself. Take it away Dave!

Jami, I have to say, I wasn’t impressed with the FF movie. And that’s coming from a guy who’s been generally pleased with the Marvel movies so far (save for Electra). I’m not a comics guy, but I “know about” all this stuff and read up about these guys from time to time. I don’t claim to be a comics expert by any degree, so I tend to have an opposite opinion than most fellow geeks when it comes to these movies. But I have to say, I was kind of left with a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ll give the movie ONE thing… and it’s not what you’d expect. It’s about the Surfer. For a good portion of his screen time, he’s off his board and has lost his chrome finish. He’s sort of a matte, dirty metal for a while, and this is actually where he looked best. The animation for the blingy Surfer was dodgy at best, and would fit well in a Pixar movie, but his dull form ROCKED. I mean, it looked like a make-up job for a lot of it. The eyes really set it apart too.

But that’s just a single digital effect and does not redeem a whole movie. The premise for the action was expected, but it certainly could not be crammed into one movie, which it was, and failed at horribly. I felt more scared that the world would actually end while watching Armageddon. Doom rocked his stuff for a while, but even he was kind of a throw-away bit to the movie. It just lacked substance in almost every area. I just refuse to believe that this movie shares the same universe as the Spider-Man and the X-Men movies.

And Stan Lee’s cameo was as STAN LEE. Not some random background character. He named himself as STAN LEE, and not just by name, but by reputation… “But you don’t understand, I’m STAN LEE!!!!” Ballsy or what?

I’m trying to look through an overall bad movie experience here and be unbiased. The guy next to me would not shut up, so I was irritated for most of the movie, but I tried to focus on it as best I could. I thought the first one was a decent one-off (please refer to my initial statement), and while I can easily place this one next to it as a FF movie, it just didn’t make me feel I spent my money well. I would like my money back.

Consider this me saving you money in case someone tries to persuade you to see it.

Oh, I will give it one more thing that actually knocked my socks off. When Galactus is approaching Earth, he passes over Saturn and you see a shadow of the front-most part of him cross over Saturn, and it’s in a rough shape close to the comic-style helmet. It’s just supposed to be a looming space tornado or whatever, so the shadow is just supposed to be random cloudy bits, but it’s a pretty decent easter egg in my book.

Thanks Dave. I wasn’t planning on seeing this anyway as I truly abhorred the first one and you’ve convinced me to stay way the fuck away.

Oh, and for everyone else, feel free to send me any movie review and I’ll post it up. Let me know if you care about me revealing your name or not.

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