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I didn’t even know a Trigun movie was in the works until I saw it on Anime News Network last night, but now I’m really excited. View the high quality trailer here. It opens in Japan on April 24, 2010. I haven’t seen a U.S. release date yet. Hopefully by the end of the year, perhaps to coincide with Funimation’s Blu-Ray release later this year? Please?
io9 has a link to the trailer (posted on YouTube). I didn’t even know a Tekken movie was in the works. (Ignorance, after all, is my strong suit.) It’s only natural that Meredith Woerner would invoke the recent, hidious Street Fighter movie in the headline, but the real question is: How could a fighting game adaptation get any better than Corey Yuen’s D.O.A. - Dead or Alive? Seriously, now. Since video game adaptations like this barely function as anything other than meager attempts at mainstream fanservice anyway, what could top the already over-the-top, luminous ludicrousness of a film where a bunch of megahotties team up to take down Eric Roberts? The keys to success were Yuen’s sense of humor about the project (which was shared by most of the cast, although Devon Aoki looks like she’d get lost somewhere between the shower curtain and the shower basin if someone didn’t draw her a map) and his outstanding fight choreography, both of which laughed at the risible T&A quotient and reveled in it. You rarely see a B-film so comfortable being what it is, and doing it well. As I understand it, the choreographer for Tekken is Cyril Raffaelli, who coordinated the action for District B13, its sequel, and Hitman.1 One can also hope that he learned a little something from Yuen while working as a stunt coordinator on the first two Transporter films. I’ll certainly see Tekken eventually, if only because it’s fun to see how much gravitas Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa can wring out of cookie cutter cartoon villians.
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- Hitman was a terrible movie, but the fights were pretty okay. ↩
"I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by mistake. You don't realize how incredibly breakable you are."
Via the Flick Filosopher, one astute movie watcher finally took the trouble to delineate exactly how OMYEDWARD and his pedowolf pals are guilty of domestic abuse. An excerpt after the break: Read the rest of this entry »
Last Friday in his blog, LOST star Jorge Garcia charted the (d)evolution of a signature, ruminating in accessibly eloquent fashion on entropy and the travails of signing autographs in a timely fashion. As always, his blog post was a witty, down-to-earth perspective on the intersection of stardom and being a bloke with regular needs,1 but potentially quite devastating as well. What Garcia perhaps doesn’t realize is that he just gave the entire Web-surfing world the ultimate blueprint to every possible variation of his signature.
You know what this means.
It means that first thing tomorrow, before you can say “wholesale fraud,” I’m going online and buying up a shitload of LOST merchandise, slapping that signature on every last item, and reselling it on eBay for a great deal of money. So thanks to Dispatches from the Island, I’m going to be able to pay off the rest of my five-year car loan in about 2.5 hours. Ha-ha!
Your move, Garcia.2
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- Such as retaining the functionality of all one’s digits on one’s writing hand. ↩
- I do not actually intend to commit fraud. That would be wrong, illegal, and I’ve already made plenty of bank by petitioning the federal government for a “new blog bailout.” Turns out that they’re willing to fork over tons of cash so long as I agree never to mention how the Federal Reserve is stimulating the economy with imaginary money. Funny how that works. ↩
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