Posts from — May 2008

The Metropolitan Museuem of Art unveiled it’s latest exhibit this week: “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.”

The show has three areas of concentration: original costumes, fantasy costumes created by designers, and sportswear inspired by superheroes. The curators deliberately juxtaposed the movie costumes with the fashion designer creations. I think I need to plan a trip to NYC so I can see these outfits up close.

If NYC is too far for you, you can check out photos of the exhibit at DVICE.

At the Black Ghosts concert last night, I saw a hipster with one of those neat-o vertical camcorders.

I think it was a Sanyo Xacti HD1000. It was so sleek and compact, it mesmerized me in all of its simplicity. It put my walkman cell phone camcorder to so much shame that I lost all desire to use it.

Most of the vertical camcorders I’d seen were those cheap Flip Photo or Aiptek ones you can buy at Walgreens. But the Sanyo models seem okay, almost cool even! They film in HD and use decently large flash memory cards. Now, if I could just find $600-$700 dollars lying around, I too could post youtube concert videos like this one.

Summer blockbuster season has begun and this week we have the Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer.

Trailer Check:

Emile Hirsch stars as Speed, the wholesome racing hero from the 1960s cartoon “Speed Racer”. Speed races against his arch enemy, Racer X, played by Matthew Fox. And Christina Ricci is Trixie, Speed’s girlfriend. I dunno, it’s not really impressing me. The trailer just makes everything seem too campy. I’ll probably see it eventually, since the I do own all the Matrix films.

Learn more about the Speed Racer with the behind the scenes interview in this week’s SciFi Weekly.

I finally watched AVP 2: Requiem last night and was sorely disappointed. The first AVP is waaaaaay better.

My main problem is that it was boring!!! Why would I want to watch the Predator get all CSI up in the spacecraft of his dead comrade? They go so far as him re-living the last moments of the dead Predator, grasping for clues. Predator doesn’t need to be logical, he’s a natural tracker. He can find the aliens and shoot ‘em up in his sleep.

All they had to do is keep the plot simple and lean. But no, they had to mix in some “7th Heaven” style family melodrama with a war vet mom returning from Iraq to reconnect with her daughter and some stupid teenage love triangle that wouldn’t hold up on “Dawson’s Creek”. Don’t care about the characters, especially if most of them are gonna die.

The key thing to good horror and sci-fi is to keep it simple and to the point. Alien and Predator battling it out. End of story.

I should have listened to FourFour’s advice and skipped it and just settled for watching his “fierce” Alien vs. Predator 2 montage.

Son of Rambow finally hits US theaters tomorrow on May 2nd.

It’s looks like a cute, British comedy that I can watch if Iron Man sells out.

Earlier: The Brits called him Rambow