Pete Holmes has already taken Ryu to task about the new standards and practices for Street Fighter, now he has to do the same for Chun-Li.
Let’s just all accept that growing up playing Street Fighter we did not always pick Chun-Li because of her fighting skills, but because of her short skirt, long legs and her need to do many split-legged attacks.
God, that Street Fighter movie was straight from the devil’s taint. Sorry, random thought.
Here are the quick hits from the world of movies, TV, video games, air fresheners, bowling shoes, whatever catches our fancy.
Fletch
Jason Sudeikis is in talks to take over the role of Irwin M. Fletcher in Warner’s reboot of the Fletch franchise. Chevy Chase played the role twice (perfectly) in Fletch and Fletch Lives. Go back and watch them and realize that Sudeikis will own this role.
Fantastic Four
It seems the hunt for Doctor Doom has been narrowed to four actors. They are Toby Kebbell, Sam Riley, Eddie Redmayne and Domhnall Gleeson. Never heard of them? Good. I think more unknowns should get some of these comic roles going around.
The LEGO Movie
Chris McKay has been picked to direct The LEGO Movie 2. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors of the first movie, will return as producers. McKay has directed Adult Swim shows Moral Oral and Robot Chicken. Let’s get Seth Green involved and everything will be awesome.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
A new IMAX poster has just been released for the robots in disguise. You could take off the Tranformers graphic and put Titanfall on it and it would work.
iZombie
Rose McIver has been cast as Liv, the lead character in The CW’s show based on the DC/Vertigo comic. Gwen is the character’s name in the comic so who knows about the name change. I read Volume 1 of the comic a couple of years ago and found it entertaining. It does lend itself well to a TV show.
The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon, Penny, Leonard and the rest of the gang will be around for at least a decade. CBS has renewed The Big Bang Theory for three more seasons taking it through season ten. I will never complain about more Bernadette.
Mario
Mario will be invading Happy Meals at McDonald’s in March and April. For those adults (me) that will be buying them, just remember they have double hamburger meals with them for us fatties. I got fat off of regular Happy Meals, I shudder to think how much larger I would be if I could have gotten double hamburgers in them when I was a kid.
That above is the official logo for Fox’s new series Gotham, the series that focuses on a young Jim Gordon as he tries to be a good cop in a corrupt town that will birth one of the greatest heroes ever.
Don’t think me crazy, but I wish this show was actually airing on The CW because it would get a fair shake. I think we all know that Fox is known for their penchant to cancel shows that might thrive on other networks. Let’s hope Gotham is good as it promises to be and shows it in the ratings.
Here is the synopsis for the show. It is wordy.
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world’s greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon’s story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world’s most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?
“Gotham” is an origin story of the great DC Comics super villains and vigilantes, revealing an entirely new chapter that has never been told. From executive producer/writer Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist,” “Rome”), “Gotham” follows one cop’s rise through a dangerously corrupt city teetering on the edge of evil and chronicles the birth of one of the most popular super heroes of our time.
Growing up in Gotham City’s surrounding suburbs, James Gordon (Ben McKenzie, “Southland,” “The O.C.”) romanticized the city as a glamorous and exciting metropolis where his late father once served as a successful district attorney. Now, two weeks into his new job as a Gotham City detective and engaged to his beloved fiancée, Barbara Kean (Erin Richards, Open Grave, “Breaking In”), Gordon is living his dream – even as he hopes to restore the city back to the pure version he remembers it was as a kid.
Brave, honest and ready to prove himself, the newly-minted detective is partnered with the brash, but shrewd police legend Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue, “Sons of Anarchy,” “Terriers,” “Vikings,” “Copper”), as the two stumble upon the city’s highest-profile case ever: the murder of local billionaires Thomas and Martha Wayne. At the scene of the crime, Gordon meets the sole survivor: the Waynes’ hauntingly intense 12-year-old son, Bruce (David Mazouz, “Touch”), toward whom the young detective feels an inexplicable kinship. Moved by the boy’s profound loss, Gordon vows to catch the killer.
As he navigates the often-underhanded politics of Gotham’s criminal justice system, Gordon will confront imposing gang boss Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith, The Matrix films, “HawthoRNe,” Collateral), and many of the characters who will become some of fiction’s most renowned, enduring villains, including a teenaged Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman (acting newcomer Camren Bicondova) and Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor, “The Walking Dead,” Another Earth).
Although the crime drama will follow Gordon’s turbulent and singular rise through the Gotham City police department, led by Police Captain Sarah Essen (Zabryna Guevara, “Burn Notice”), it also will focus on the unlikely friendship Gordon forms with the young heir to the Wayne fortune, who is being raised by his unflappable butler, Alfred (Sean Pertwee, “Camelot,” “Elementary”). It is a friendship that will last them all of their lives, playing a crucial role in helping the young boy eventually become the crusader he’s destined to be.
“Gotham” is based upon characters published by DC Comics and is produced by Warner Bros. Television. Heller wrote the pilot, which will be directed and executive-produced by Emmy Award nominee Danny Cannon (the “CSI” series, “Nikita”).
The first image of a fully-costumed Flash has just been released by The CW. Grant Gustin is playing Barry Allen who was introduced earlier this season on Arrow.
The costume was designed by Oscar winner Colleen Atwood who has worked on Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago and Alice in Wonderland.
All I can say is that she did a damn fine job and ramps up my excitement for the series.
SWEET BABY BEARDED JESUS, THEY DID IT.
WWE took a hold of the Daniel Bryan train and pointed that son of a bitch right at the main event of WrestleMania.
With Mania being only four weeks away, I am sure I was not the only one thinking that Bryan would be facing HHH and they would stick to their guns and have Orton and Batista get booed out of the building.
Someone realized that by staying the course, WrestleMania would have been the biggest shit taken on New Orleans since Katrina. Whoever that someone is…thank you. If you will email me and tell me who you are I will buy you a very nice seafood dinner.
Of course, the WWE could have been trolling us the entire time and they are doing Chris Cooper’s maniacal laugh from The Muppets at what fools all of us “internet” fans are. I could not give less of a shit. We got what we wanted for WrestleMania.
Now don’t think I am saying Bryan is automatically winning the title. I could see Batista winning just as easily, setting him up as the main heel of the company. But this is also not a normal WrestleMania either. It is WrestleMania 30. It is like a big anniversary for your parents and you want it to end with them hugging and kissing while the family “awes”, not with your mother calling your dad a drunken loser and your dad saying he bang his secretary ten years ago.
We also officially got Cena vs. Wyatt set for Mania last night. Now we just play the waiting game of Wyatt bitch slapping Cena for four weeks on the mic then have Cena overcome all the odds…blah, blah, blah. Same shit, different decade.
This could be a star-making, career-defining moment if they let Wyatt go over, but I think we all know better than that. It is like going to the dog track and betting all of your money on a chihuahua when he is racing against Clifford the Big Red Dog and getting pissed when he loses.
The Undertaker graced us with his nine minute entrance and thirty second promo. It’s all cool, cause Uncle Paul was there to carry the load. I loved how he compared Taker’s streak against the other greats who have come nowhere close. Whenever I hear Heyman on the mic selling the hell out of a match between a guy that only wrestles once a year and another guy who is not even there, it makes me wonder how much better the past five years could have been if he had been with the WWE full-time.
Hell, he probably could have gotten Ryback a world title if he had been his voice the entire time. As frightening as that sounds, that’s how good Heyman is.
The rest of Raw was used for a slow burn of feuds we hope pay off at Mania. The Shield had another great match with The Rhodes Brothers, who took time away from playing with WWE Lego’s in the back to give The Shield their win back from last year. With only four weeks left, they are going to have to start making that crack they keep talking about into a full-blown explosion.
Unless…they have decided to keep The Shield together past WrestleMania, which is juuuust fine with me.
BROTHER, BROTHER! WWE UNIVERSE! WWE NETWORK! CHRIS LEMMON! BROTHER!
OK, I do like the idea of the Andre the Giant Memorial 30-Man Battle Royal. It gets a lot of guys who would be in the back eating catering on the card and pays respect to the legacy of Andre. Anyone else thinking a Big Show win?
Sheamus and Christian wrestled…again…again. I applaud these two for working hard the past few weeks even when no one in the crowd seemed to care. That wasn’t the case last night. Their Memphis Street Fight was damn fun to watch. Christian went a little 12 Years a Slave on Sheamus’ back with that kendo stick. Doesn’t help he is basically a six foot five inch bottle of Elmer’s glue either.
How about that Brogue Kick through the bass drum?
If you did not watch the match last night, that sentence made it sound like I just jumbled words together like the little magnets on the refrigerator.
Once again, Cesaro has become an afterthought on Raw after his match with Cena last month. Seems like I predicted that would happen, but I won’t get a dickish and say it…wait.
He and Swagger are headed for splitsville and will be lucky to have a match against each other on the Mania card. I swear they better not pre-show Cesaro. You did so much right last night WWE. Don’t cock it up.
Here is the updated card for WrestleMania 30 after last night:
Randy Orton vs. Batista vs. (Daniel Bryan?) for the WWE World Heavyweight Title
John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt
The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar
HHH vs. Daniel Bryan (if Bryan wins he is in the main event)
Andre the Giant Memorial 30-Man Battle Royal
Till next week!
If Helen Mirren twerking did not make your day, I can’t help you.
Here are some quick hits in the world of movies, TV, games, Halloween costumes, French-Canadian affairs, whatever catches our fancy.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
If you love Paul Giamatti, don’t expect too much of him in the next Spider-Man releasing next month. Director Marc Webb has said that Rhino will only appear in the sequel for four minutes. His character is in the planned third movie also so just watch Sideways a lot until it comes out in 2016.
Cosmos
Want to see why we need more programs like Cosmos on the air? Take a look at this.
Game of Thrones
Here is a new trailer for the new season of Game of Thrones which returns April 6th. Plan your parties accordingly.
http://youtu.be/xIASaUUwklk
Constantine
Will Constantine be a smoker on his new show? Writer and producer, David S. Goyer, gives an “answer”:
“That’s a tricky one on network TV. We’re negotiating right now. He will have his signature trench coat and skinny tie. I would say that the show clings more closely to the source material than the film did. Even though the film was interesting.”
Tricky my ass. That is one of the character’s main crutches. That would be like the CW pitching Arrow and saying he only shoots Nerf arrows at enemies because real ones hurt.
The Talking Dead
CM Punk will be making his first public appearance since leaving WWE in January on this Sunday’s The Talking Dead. He was announced using his real name, Phil Brooks, on last night’s episode.
Gone Home
The popular PC game will be making its way to consoles in 2014. This excites me almost as much as Titanfall tomorrow. That is saying something.
Titanfall
The game will run at 792p resolution when it launches tomorrow. If this concerns you, go crawl in a hole and stay there. Absolutely zero fucks should be given if the game is fun.
Here are the quick hits from the world of movies, TV, games, drink machines, Cobra Kai, whatever catches our fancy.
The Jungle Book
Idris Elba has been cast as the voice of Shere Khan in Disney’s CGI/live-action version of The Jungle Book. In related news, I will now being seeing the shit out of The Jungle Book. It releases on October 9, 2015.
Matthew McConaughey
A video showing how to make healthy lunches on a budget for the Oscar winners’ just keep livin’ Foundation. Guy Fieri has to be holding back the need to yell “WHAMMY BOOM BAMMY” or see if he can deep fry celery.
Archer
FX has renewed Archer for two more seasons. 26 more episodes of sex, cocaine, Danger Zone, other Barry, LLLAAANNNNAA and Pam. Sploosh.
The Walking Dead
Here is a homemade Michonne figure made out of a Barbie doll. This should be a real thing. I will let you check my man card at the door as I go and buy one.
Infamous: Second Son
Watch the new live-action trailer for the PS4 exclusive here. It releases on March 21st.
http://youtu.be/jHzh96ehv4A
Tomb Raider
The game turns one year old this week and it should pass 6 million units sold by the end of the month. Tell Square and their insane sales expectations to go fuck themselves.
Xbox One
Twitch streaming will be coming to the Xbox One next week. Major Nelson shows you how use it.
Here are the quick hits today in the world of movies, TV, games, cd rates, ammunition sales, whatever catches our fancy.
Annie
Here is the trailer for Annie starring Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Rose Byrne. Be warned: once you watch it, you can’t unwatch it. Personally I am waiting on the remake of Pootie Tang with Robert Downey, Jr., Jonah Hill and Zachary Quinto.
Captain America: The Winter Solider
Watch a four-minute preview of the new Marvel movie over on Fandango.
Game of Thrones
There is a rap album based on Game of Thrones. Not just that, but it is funded by HBO. I can’t make this shit up. It features tracks by Big Boi, Common and others. The title? Catch The Throne.
You can listen to Big Boi’s track “Mother of Dragons” here.
LEGO The Hobbit
The newest trailer for LEGO The Hobbit is in the style of Ocean’s 11 and you will be a better person for watching it.
Mario Kart 8
Nintendo will be releasing a limited edition of the Wii U game with a blue Koopa shell statue. It will look perfect next to my other shelves of limited edition game items I get for some reason.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Seems Scarlett Johansson went and got herself knocked up. She is due this summer and a growing belly does not exactly work with her costume in the Avengers sequel. To make sure they get her scenes in, she will begin filming her parts April 5th and finish as quick as possible so it will not affect the rest of the movie and Ryan Reynolds can cry himself to sleep knowing he is not the father.
Frozen
As popular as the song “Let It Go” is from Frozen, there are some times you just don’t sing the Oscar-winning tune. Here are some examples. Be prepared to laugh (or cry).
Gotham
The series has cast its young Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. David Mazouz will play Bruce and Camren Bicondova is Selina.
Fargo
Here is a new trailer for the FX show based on the Coen Bros. movie. It is pretty much a normal shopping day in Alabama.
http://youtu.be/FBD-ZCiUd5A
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Today, finally, see the release of Obsidian’s South Park: The Stick of Truth. We will have our review up as soon as we make our way through the demented adventure.
HBO Go
HBO Go launches today on the PS3 at long last. Now you can watch all the True Detective and Game of Thrones you want on your Playstation. Murder and incest for everyone!
Playstation 4
Sony has announced that the PS4 has sold over 6 million consoles since its launch last November. With sales continuing to be strong, could Sony get to 20 million by year’s end?
Raw was in Chicago last night. The big show they were dreading and the one everyone of us was looking forward to the most.
Rumors broke a few days ago that CM Punk could possibly be returning to a hero’s welcome. Well in the realm of “shit that didn’t happen” that rumor reigned as king last night.
Yep, Punk was a no show.
OK, so Punk is still at home sulking and getting ready for his @midnight appearance. It was all good because WWE put on a really good show and even managed to use the whole “Highjack Raw” for their favor when they sent out Daniel Bryan to acknowledge it and use it to his advantage.
Trolling in its highest form. Bravo, WWE.
Raw managed to move forward a lot of its storylines last night despite the loud Chicago crowd. Let’s be clear, the crowd was insanely loud and chanted “CM Punk” most of the night as we knew they would, but it did not feel like the post-WrestleMania Jersey crowd that created absolute magic.
Bryan faced Batista and even slowing down his pace, Big Dave looked winded after about five minutes. This may be reason enough to put a third man in the main event of Mania. How good a match can he have with Orton if he is pulling a Warrior and getting blown up on his way to the ring?
It does look like it will be HHH and Bryan after last night. I still think WWE was holding out a few weeks to see if they could salvage something out of Punk, but now they have to look forward to salvaging WrestleMania.
The interesting part of last night is that I get the feeling that the Bryan/HHH match will lead to more. Something to the effect of “if Bryan can beat HHH, he gets in the main event at WrestleMania” sort of thing. He could overcome HHH with all of The Authority trying to screw him then he gets in the main event where you have Batista pin him, setting Captain Naval Tattoo as the main heel of the company as Bryan chases the title.
What is a shame right now is that Orton does not feel like he is anything of importance despite being champion. Feels like going into WrestleMania 25 where he was booked so weak and had a disappointing match with HHH.
Cesaro and Swagger played the blame game costing each other matches before hugging it out by the worst looking Ari Gold impersonator ever. Looks like Cesaro’s great run will end with a match against Swagger at Mania. That is if Swagger doesn’t fuck up again before the PPV like last year.
How fucking great was that Shield/Wyatt match?!!
It had just the right elements of tag matches and brawling and it made the crowd actually cheer and chant for the guys involved.
I loved the Rollins leaving bit. It was unexpected until he explained that he could not be the glue that kept the group together anymore. If they have a triple threat at Mania, get ready for a show.
Paul Heyman proved again why he kept ECW in business for so many years despite having no money.
How big a target was on his back being sent out first (to Punk’s music!) and talk about the tattooed, straightedge elephant not in the room and segue that into Lesnar’s match with The Undertaker. Whatever they pay him, it is not enough.
Fucking brilliant.
I loved Lesnar’s destruction of Mark Henry. It makes sense with Henry still looking for revenge for his broken arm and makes Brock look like the maniac he is for putting Henry down every time. That F5 through the table was good as well.
I have noticed that when WrestleMania comes around, no table is safe.
What I thought would happen a couple of weeks ago with John Cena and Bray Wyatt came to be. Cena came out and cut his normal cookie-cutter promo we have heard for a decade, then Wyatt appeared on screen and bitch-slapped Cena verbally with no chance of saving face.
This will continue because no one can touch Wyatt on the mic.
Paul Bearer in the Hall of Fame. This is the definition of right.
The Usos winning the tag titles was a good move. We knew it was going to happen and I think the WWE wanted to hold off a bit longer, but they used the Chicago crowd to pop for a title change. It helps the Outlaws gave them their best match since coming back.
#Emmalution #Emmataining
Aaron Paul should be on Raw every week. Ziggler will be champion inside of a month.
How out the door is Del Rio? He is past Batista and now he lost in two minutes to Ziggler to get a pop for the guest host? We all know he is heading back to Mexico so WWE is doing what they do; make him look like a loser on the way out.
By the way: why the hell even have Paul on if he is not going to say “bitch” once??
If you have the WWE Network and have not watched the NXT Arrival special, you are missing two hours of great wrestling. I enjoyed it more than I have any PPV over the past year. Just watching the Emma and Paige match shows the disconnect between Divas matches on Raw and NXT. The wrestled for 15 minutes and I was entertained by every moment.
Till next week!
