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I'm totally psyched for these adaptations. Much more so for The Judas Contract and New Frontier but I'll get this nonetheless.

Anyone read the books? I think I remember hearing about them, but never picked any of them up. This all seems a little Anne Rice to me.

I"m up for anything with a Star Trek movie. It's not like any of the others have been very good. Except Wrath of Khan. That was bitchin'! I'd like to see an expansion of the universe but if they were to do a movie based on any of the TV series I would only want to see DS9: the only one of the series worth watching all the way through.

Seeing as there is no difference in the way he portrayed the characters I'll go with Ted because at least that movie had a decent sequel. Keanu plays the same character in Point Break, B&T, Matrix and even Dracula. Of all the big star actors, he has to be the worst.

That was great! An entire episode without Hiro, Sylar and, for all intents and purposes, Claude and it was still awesome. These are my favourite characters. Matt is becoming a very cool character. There was just something so comic book about Matt and Mr. Bennett's telepathic communication that it was so goddamn fantastic!

Goddamn you different day and time mixed with the Oscars!!! I hope they replay this tonight or I'll have to torrent it.

My thoughts exactly. One of the greatest actors of our time. Carrey has shown his chops dramatically before but a crazy conspiracy-laden insane crime thriller is what I really want to see him excel at.

Say what you like about the Oscars but I ruefully watch them annually. They are long boring and often ridicuously stupid. But they have clout. This year I was actually impressed by Ellen DeGeneres and the song Will Ferrel and Jack Black did was awesome. The big story, for genre fans, was Pan's Labyrinth. I'm doing an audio rundown for the podcast but the nominations and awards this movie got will give del Toro a lot of room to breathe in Hollywood. It should have gotten the Best Foreign Language category instead of a German film no one will remember next year but the "Academy Award Winning" banner at the top of the DVD case will sell a whole wack more to people who would otherwise pass it up. A lot of nominations for Children of Men and Prestige and the performance of The Departed made it a good year for GOOD genre film instead of the regular Peter Jackson shit. Thoughts?

That's it!!! Your're banned :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :grumble:

Yeah guys! Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah-nyah!!! We don't get to make fun of his age until he turns thirty!

To you too of course.

Cheers Mike! Thanks for everything you do for the site and podcast (not to mention the editing and banner making for Reel Dread that is always top-notch). Happy birthday!!!!!!! And everybody else: shut up! If Mike's old then I'm not any different.

I think he means the whole Magneto was dead, then, Xorn turned out to be Magneto, and finally it turned out that not only was Xorn an imposter Magneto, Magneto was still alive, and apparently Xorn wasn't even the real Xorn. I apologize if this makes anyone's head explode It just makes me mad to think about how Morrison's run was treated after he left. Chuck Austen was given the duty of tying up his run? What a slap in the face!

I also forgot to mention that were any wallpaper to win beside Det Chimp I would be screaming "FIX!!!" I get 3 or 4 compliments a day from students and colleagues alike.

Yup! There was zero discomfort in the banter. You guys did well. Bring on the 2007 Earth Deuces! That's what I'm calling them, anyway.

Thanks. I think that was James. Shit! Sorry James. I thought he mentioned Kellen's name before that and I was listening at work. I was developing curriculum and fending off boring conversation from colleagues at the same time.

Mike, Your contributor of the year award was well deserved. It's why I voted for you. Forget the site, the podcast and If I Ran Marvel do it by itself. Kellen calling my work ethic Chris Benoit-like is worth it all. The Canadian Crippler was a hero growing up. Congrats everybody!

The point is: people are lazy. Seeing a Spider-man movie won't get a kid into a comic store, it'll get a kid into a Spidey Tshirt. Spend a couple million dollars on a deal with Cineplex Odeon/Famous Players/Other bigname theatre conglomerate and put floppies and trades under the glass countertop at the ticket counter. Then, if people buy the book, they may be more likely to go to Amazon.com or to Borders or, God forbid, their LCS to buy more books.

I only partially agree. They don't need to promote character awareness and neither does Marvel in the case of Spider-Man but they DO need to sell more comics and for any company whose licensing division is getting big budget movies made it is the job of the comic company is to take advantage of that and say "you like that? want more? read these."

I'm sorry, I'm just a little surprised by the fact that Marvel is actually doing something intelligent to promote the comics when movies are coming out...

Wow...thanks CV. I was just so damn happy to not have my expectations ruin a perfectly good movie again. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised once in a while. Of course the problem with my review is that I hope it hasn't oversold the movie to those who haven't seen it.

I'm not fucking around or paying lip service, guys. If a better horror film comes out this year I'll be surprised. I believe the curent date for a theatrical release is March 16th for those of you near a large urban centre but it won't be in theatres long so the DVD release shouldn't be too long after that. I'll be buying a copy for the commentary alone!

1337 This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard:

i have no idea what that means either...fill me in.

hehe! That made my day. Wife and baby are doing fine and big brother is at daycare. I'm actually working on some Reel Dread right now. Thanks for all the nice comments guys and especially Yoda for the mainpage thing, Meg loved it.