As Prisco and SLW continue to provide the Comic-con coverage the other movie blogs are ignoring, we’ll also continue to post the trailers, the news, and the movie posters that the blogosphere echo chamber is covering, too. But I’ll do it 3,000 miles away from Comic-Con. It’s not the same, people: You can look at the posters for Sucker Punch on your computer, but you can’t experience them the same way, losers.
This is me, grinning and bearing it. Excuse my passive-aggressiveness.
During a panel with J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon officially announced what everyone has already known for months. He will direct The Avengers. I know this wasn’t exciting news, but that’s because you weren’t there to hear Whedon announce it in person. (Slashfilm)
The Pixar folks are being brought in to consult on the new Muppet movie. Oh, wait. That wasn’t even announced at Comic-con. That’s from (The Hollywood Reporter)
Here’s the new movie poster for Matt Reeve’s Let Me In (the remake of Let the Right One In). If you were at Comic-con, you could’ve actually touched this poster. Or at least the glass encasing it. Pwned! (MTV)
At a Battle Los Angeles panel, Aaron Eckhart revealed that he and Neil LaBute have discussed the idea of maybe one day possibly doing an In the Company of Men sequel. (FSR)
This is actually kind of cool: The USA Network is developing a movie prequel to “Burn Notice” that revolves around Bruce Campbell’s character. I’m very sorry you’re only hearing about this now; if you’d been at Comic-con, you’d have had this information 12 hours ago. (Deadline)
Finally, here’s a crapload of character posters from Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch, which Warner Brothers released on the Internet several hours after people who are cooler than you got to see them in a lobby of a convention center.
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Well, I'm indoors, in the cool dark, with a roast in the pot, and not sweating in a crowd in California, and I'll still get to see the movies. How that would not be considered winning I can't imagine.
"Insert generic male interest comment for Sucker Punch here"
Posted by: D-Day at July 23, 2010 10:45 AM
I wish they'd put the actresses' names on the Sucker Punch poster. All that photoshop has rendered them irrecognizable. Unless if they're just not known actors? I think Madame Gorski looks like Carla Gugino but I can't be sure.
on behalf of the estrogen brigade:
OH MY FAVORITE GIDDY AUNT! Bruce Campbell? In a prequel to Burn Notice? Detailing Sam Axe's military past? I have to go lie down now, blood flow mysteriously rerouted from brain...(sigh).
Posted by: blondefire at July 23, 2010 10:50 AM
"Blondie"
I've seen the pictures, and that chick is no "Blondie."
Posted by: Kballs at July 23, 2010 10:51 AM
Sucker Punch. I am sold!
Posted by: peanut at July 23, 2010 10:52 AM
Damn you Rowles, I wish I was at Comic Con getting the latest news coming out of Hollywood. But then again what’s a Comic Con without a bunch of guys drooling of movie posters and not getting laid?
Posted by: Pookie at July 23, 2010 10:53 AM
So for those who care:
Amber - Jamie Chung (disney channel girl)
I was right about Madame Gorski being Carla Gugino (she fine.)
Rocket - Jena Malone (I seriously don't see it.)
Baby Doll - Emily Browning
Sweet Pea - Abbie fucking Cornish (seriously, they could have gone easier on the photoshop)
Blondie - Vanessa Hudgens (I would not have placed her either but that's because I don't really think of her as an actress so much as just Disney Channel spawn.)
Amber: Jamie Chung
Rocket: Jena Malone
Sweat Pea: Abbie Cornish
Baby Doll: Emily Browning
Blondie: Vanessa Hudgens
Madame Gorski: I guess Carla Gugino though the character has a different name at IMDB if so and I would never have known from the poster. I was getting an Evan Rachel Wood vibe.
I have no idea what this film is about. Should I have heard of it? Should I be ok with the oh so typical outfits these women are wearing?
Last post about this I promise. Apparently, Jamie Chung is NOT a disney channel girl but she was on Real World, which is probably where I first saw her.
Oh I missed that it was Zack Snyder. Meh, won't be running to see it. Possibly a slow walk, maybe a dawdle. If I stop for an ice cream maybe I'll catch it on DVD instead.
logar I assure you I have girlie parts (we're the Pajiba majority).
Posted by: Scully at July 23, 2010 11:23 AM
Oh huzzah.Yet another movie featuring yet more posters of chicks who have been airbrushed beyond recognition into looking like plastic dolls with stupid, impractical costumes. Yay.
Sucker Punch is giving me very strong Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow vibes. That is not a good thing.
I'm more annoyed/concerned with the sexualization of the vampire in Let Me In. Or am I reading too much into the image of the attractive brunette pre-teen lounging in a bathtub full of blood in her nightgown? Whatever, I love the original and I can find no earthly reason to watch the remake. But it still strikes me as crass and I wonder how the tone of the movie is going to play.
This is the plot summary from IMDB: Sucker Punch is a movie about little girl who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. Story is set in 1950's.
What? It's set in the '50's and the little girl imagines other girls dressed like that? In the 50's?
Posted by: Smokey at July 23, 2010 1:57 PM
So in other words Smokey, it's Alice without the drugs.
Posted by: LordNinja at July 23, 2010 2:02 PM
Yeah, I'm with Smokey. Little girls in the 1950's do not imagine themselves or other little girls dressed like that. They imagine themselves in LAYERS and LAYERS of crinolines and lace. I know, because I was a little girl in the 1950s.
Pervy old men imagine little girls dressed like that, but then again, I suspect that is the intended audience. Them, and pervy young men.
Posted by: BWeaves at July 23, 2010 2:03 PM
The Let Me In poster makes it look like a little girl, instead of more androgenous. I wonder if they are going to show the castration scar?
Posted by: BWeaves at July 23, 2010 2:05 PM
BWeaves, apparently American audiences can't handle an androgynous child character, so they went ahead and just made her a girl in the remake, the character's name is now Abby.
Posted by: Even Stevens at July 23, 2010 3:09 PM
I'm crying on the inside at the Let Me In poster. It really is a perfect accompaniment to the gratuitously gory dance metal trailer. The original film was austere and poignant. This is going to be along the lines of every other PG-13 J-horror disaster 'Splodywood has birthed.
Why did they rename the movie in the first place? Let the Right One In conveys so much more. Let Me In just sounds like amateur porn about a horny housewife whose lust for double pepperoni must be sated.
Looking over the SUCKER PUNCH posters and reading some of the comments on the thread, I kept thinking back to the I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE thread, regarding the poster and Anchor Bay's blatant sexploitation.
Does Zack Snyder get a pass even though most of the women shown are depicted in a highly sexual and considerably young looking appearance?
Just curious if others have any opinions or thoughts on the topic.
Posted by: Barnes78 at July 23, 2010 4:01 PM
Even Stevens, yeah, I was afraid they were going to make the vampire a girl. The whole point of the original is that you think it's a girl, but it tells the boy that it's not a girl. I like the abiguity of it. Is it trying to say it's a vampire, or just that it's not a girl. Cause it's not a boy either anymore. So, does that mean, pervy old guy is now going to be humping the little girl? I can't believe Americans couldn't handle a castrated crotch scene. They could handle it in every Hostel, Saw, I spit on your grave movie they could watch, but not this one? FOOKIN PRAWNS.
Posted by: BWeaves at July 23, 2010 5:04 PM
Pervy old men imagine little girls dressed like that, but then again, I suspect that is the intended audience. Them, and pervy young men.
Posted by: BWeaves at July 23, 2010 2:03 PM
Speaking for pervy old men everywhere, I'm OK with this.
Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 23, 2010 9:44 PM
i just hope to god that no one tries to pass those outfits off as steampunk, because i for one will pitch an absolute bitch fit if they do.
@Jay : Well, I'm indoors, in the cool dark, with a roast in the pot, and not sweating in a crowd in California,
It was about 70 degrees today in San Diego, the sun was bright in the sky, a nice and steady breeze blowing off the ocean (which is where the convention center is, right on the ocean).
And we got to see all the cool shit you did not, then go to a beach and throw one back while watching various impossibly attractive people walk past. Just sayin'
(San Diego native, in case it's showing)
-Frob
Posted by: frobme at July 24, 2010 2:45 AM
This line is from another web site, but I stole it because it more than adequately expresses my feelings for those Comic-Con elitist fucks:
"We are not returning Eddie Murphy's calls," del Toro said to the crowd, who whooped and hollered and farted giddily into their skid-marked Admiral Ackbar underoos.
Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 24, 2010 6:20 AM
I.
must.
see.
sucker punch.
Posted by: Dr. Mario at July 24, 2010 11:24 AM
Sucker Punch has Jon Hamm in it. Suddenly I am interested.
I hear you, BWeaves, I hear you. The ambiguity of it is a significant part of the original. Seeing that they renamed the character Abby was my first indication that this probably isn't gonna turn out very well.
Well, I'm indoors, in the cool dark, with a roast in the pot, and not sweating in a crowd in California, and I'll still get to see the movies. How that would not be considered winning I can't imagine.