What's a blog without a weekly links post? Nothing, that's what!


Inglorious Basterds Poster:
Posterwire Has a pretty cool little article in which they talk to James Goodrige about is unused Inglorious Basterds poster.


Avatar Reluctance:

The awesome trailer for what Elisabeth Rappe refers to as "Cameron's technological opus" (Avatar)is a hype machine worthy of Billy Mays' approval. It has stimulating visuals, intriguing plot lines and lots of shouting. But is it really worthy, or rather, should we believe the hype? Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical isn't so sure. In her article she discusses here experiences with Avatar Day, and the coming expectations for the Q4 film.

PS3 Slim Review:

The PS3 slim comes out in a few days and Engadget has the skinny on the skinny new console. Check it out if you're interested in getting your hands on one. I would personally much rather have an older back-compatible model.

Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore's latest film, has a new trailer. It features plenty of Moore's patented badgering and a cameo by Indiana's own Baron Hill. Capitlism is a look at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the incoming Obama Administration and the outgoing Bush Administration. Yawn.


Gamer starring 300's Gerard Butler is an action movie that puts forth some interesting questions about the future of video games. Gamer is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people...for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Truth be told, I'm not all that interested in this one; it smacks of Running Man. Never the less, it's probably relevent here.

Avatar has been a mystery to me, as it has been with most of you, I suspect. The recent attempt to juice excitement for the movie by having a ticketed sneak preview of the film trailer in 3d at select theaters around the country failed as hardly anyone knew about it. Good one Fox! I found out at the last minute and failed to get tickets. But, it has been making a pretty large splash online. Preceded by heavy marketing online the trailer shattered the record for most views on Apple's Itunes trailers.
Comingsoon.net reports,

Twentieth Century Fox announced today that the AVATAR teaser trailer has become the most-viewed trailer ever on the popular iTunes Movies Trailer section of apple.com, which Thursday hosted the long-awaited public first look at writer-director James Cameron’s motion picture epic. The teaser registered over four million streams in its first day on the site, shattering the previous record of 1.7 million.

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.