Superman Likes Tea, Who Cares?

Henry Cavill was cast as Superman today, which poses an interesting question : "Who the hell is that guy".

I'll do my best to answer that...Superman is an alien who crash landed in the country, was raised by farmers, has a secret identity that involves glasses, and can fly/lift stuff/burn stuff with his eyes/reverse time by spinning the earth backward and is basically has no vulnerabilities. Bad joke aside, I hate Superman. He's as vanilla as comic book characters come.  The "only weakness is Kryptonite" thing is played out.

More Spider-man Reboot Stuff

Some of the action scenes from the original Spider-man movies looked  like a PS2 game.  Complete garbage.

It looks like they're looking to fix some of those issues in the reboot by shooting more practical effects, which I think is awesome.

Here's Spider-man doing some real Spider-man type stuff.  I'm pretty sure this clip will need some color correction before it makes it's way to theatres.

I'm back!

After spending a week in warm and sunny California, I'm back in cold and miserable New Jersey.  Unfortunately, California had way less Snake Pliskin then I was hoping for, and for some reason Avocado is in everything they cook.

Thanks to Anderson for a weeks worth of "work".  Now if we could only teach that kid what a line break is.

Spoiler after the jump.

Jerry and Kal-El are friends

If you've ever watched Seinfeld, it's pretty clear Jerry is a huge Superman fan.

A few years back, he did an American Express commercial with the man of steel.

Here is the full feature from this legendary hang.

Snow Wars

Snow is coming down in Philly today.

So go out..shovel, sled, or make this...

Snowy trench run from Aaron Dabelow on Vimeo.

Train Dodge

Teddy Duchamp, you have just been one-upped.

This guy from Russia decides to film a train passing over him. I hate to encourage this kind of behavior by blogging about it but

1. It's pretty amazing
2. It does beat kitten videos

It still is really dumb and desperate.

Cinema's Greatest Slaps

In honor of the oscar nominations being released today, I thought I'd share my favorite part of the ceremony. The Douger would like to think that it would be the acceptance speech or red carpet. He loves imagining me curled up on the couch with my pjs on, big bucket of popcorn in hand, and saying things like "You deserve this!" or "Enjoy this moment!".

That's just not true.

My favorite part of the awards show is the montage. Every year they do anywhere from 2-4 montages throughout the show. Usually a recap of the nominees, some sort of themed retrospective and always the "people who died this year" montage. Some are better than others but almost all I enjoy from an entertainment and editing perspective.

In the spirt of that I will try and share some of the other sequences you won't see at the awards show.

Courtesy of the other great place to see a montage, You Tube.

CINEMA'S GREATEST SLAPS