I've Seen SPIDER-MAN 3

I saw SPIDER-MAN 3 tonight, I am glad to say that I was part of the opening weekend stats. I thought the movie was great. After watching this movie it is hard for me to say which of the three films was the best, or even which one I like the best, I like them all. I am the type of person that could sit down and watch super hero movies all day everyday. I will say one thing about this movie, in the the other two films you see the Peter Parker's inner struggle, but in the one it's an inner battle. Over all I think it was a great movie, I just wish they had more time to develop the stories surrounding all the characters included in the movie.
I wish I could say more but it say more about it, but the movers show up in two days and there is still a lot of packing to do.

I think Spider-Man 3 is a movie that is definitely worth seeing.

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Super Stamps

Just when I thought that there would be no reason in the world why I would ever need to go to the post office or mail a letter, I find out that the US Postal Service is getting into the Super Hero market. As part of the 2007 Commemorative Stamp Program the US Postal Service is coming out with a Marvel Comics character stamp series.
Characters included are

• Spider-Man
• The Incredible Hulk
• Sub-Mariner
• The Thing
• Captain America
• Silver Surfer
• Spider-Woman
• Iron Man
• Elektra
• Wolverine

Also included in the collection with the ten characters are ten covers featuring the characters

• Amazing Spider-Man #1
• Incredible Hulk #1
• Sub-Mariner #1
• Fantastic Four #3
• Captain America #100
• Silver Surfer #1
• Marvel Spotlight #32 (Spider-Woman)
• Iron Man #1
• Daredevil #176 (Elektra)
• X-Men #1

Here's a quote from Geek Speak about the X-men #1 being featured:

About the only curious item is "X-Men" #1. Saunders notes it's the one from 1963. Thing is, we all know Wolverine wasn't in that issue.
Whatever. If you can get a stamp of the first X-Men comic and a stamp of Wolverine, so much the better.

I think is totally awesome that the Post Office is doing this, I just might have to start collecting stamps.

As a bit of old news, last July the Post Office came out with DC Comic stamp commemorative series.

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Captain American is No More

I am the barer of bad news, I read today that Captain America is killed in the latest issue of his namesake comic. Quoting the article:

"It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941. Over the years, some 210 million copies of Captain America comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in 75 countries."

I don't understand why things like this have to happen, to me the great thing about the super hero world is that since it's an imaginary world those characters within it can potential live forever. I know there are those out there that say comic books can closely relate to the real world, but I say if that was true where are all the real costume wearing heroes running around. There are rumors out there of a "resurrection", but if the writers are going to go through all the trouble to set up Cap. being killed only to later being him back, what's the point. If he was able to survive being frozen in a block of ice back in the 40's and then being discovered by the Avengers as the block began to melt, his ultimate end should have been a little more "heroic" then being a snipers target.
One brighter piece of news about Captain America is that "even if Captain America turns out to have met his end in print, he may not disappear entirely: Marvel is developing a Captain America movie." I am sure that this new movie will be a whole lot better that the old school Capitan America movie.

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Green Archer Misses the Target

It has been a while since I visited myLot (which is one of the reasons that inspired me to create this blog) and I came across a discussion that was asking for your favorite characters from the comic world. The person that started this discuss named his favorite characters as: Green Archer, Wolverine, and Silver Surfer. At first I thought to myself "who is this Green Archer character, I have never heard of him before," and that's because the Green Archer doesn't exist. I think the character that he meant to say was Green Arrow, although he was close keeping with the whole archery theme. Growing up primarily with Marvel comics it took me a while to realize that DC's Green Arrow was the equivalent to Marvel's Hawkeye (one of my favorite characters). I just thought Green Arrow had a bow and basic arrows. I think it would be awesome to have trick shoot challenge between Hawkeye and Green Arrow.

Saving the world one post at a time.

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The Incredible Hulk eh?

I found a story on Hollywood North Report site that reported that the Universal/Marvel Entertainment production team "has been scouting studio locations to set up shop in either Toronto or Vancouver." So the new Hulk movie is going Canadian eh? The rest of the article just goes through the background of the Hulk and the other two main characters that have been talk about for this movie "Thunderbolt" Ross and Abomination (aka Emil Blonsky).
I think if the production team does decide on filming in Canada that one of the outtakes should be the Hulk saying "Hulk smash everything eh?"

Update:

Torontonians beware! The Incredible Hulk is coming. The city has been chosen as a principal filming location for the upcoming Marvel Studios production of "The Incredible Hulk." "The Incredible Hulk" is expected to begin shooting this summer for about four months. (source)

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Ghost Rider Blazes Across the Silver Screen

Comingsoon.net had this to say about Ghost Rider's opening weekend:

"Despite less than stellar reviews, Sony's Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage playing the Marvel Comics character, found a huge audience of fans this weekend, as it grossed an estimated $51.5 million over the four-day weekend in 3,619 theaters. With an astounding average of over $14 thousand per theater, Ghost Rider easily beat previous holiday weekend records set by Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates and Ghost Rider director Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil. Having made $44.5 million over the three-day weekend, the action-thriller also set a new opening record for its star Nicolas Cage, whose previous high was $35 million with 2004's National Treasure."

I have to admit that I was a little worried about how well this movie would do. Ghost Rider is not as well known as some of the other characters in Super Hero movies. I am really glad that it did well, it probably helped to have some well known actors playing the title characters.

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WOLVERINE MOVIE: Will It Include Brian Cox

Ain't It Cool News is asking the question if Brian Cox, who played William Stryker the main villain in X2, will be appearing in the up coming Wolverine movie. The movie is set to be 17 years ago and Brian said that maybe they can do to him what they did to "Professor X" (Patrick Stewart) and "Magneto" (Ian McKellen) at the beginning of X3, be CG Young-ified. He knows his character is in the film and they have asked him to be in film, but it is yet to be seen how things work out.

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The Hulk: Reborn

The latest news on the new Hulk movie, The Increadible Hulk, is that director Louis Leterrier has said that the main villian in this movie will be "Thunderbolt" Ross, but Emil Blonsky (aka Abomination) will also be in the film. The movie is scheduled to be release June 27, 2008. He also said: "The title character will also show feats of strength." Since it's a movie about the Hulk I figured that was kind of obivous. It is still unclear who will play the leading role of Bruce Banner; Eric Bana, who play this role in the first movie most likely will not fill this role. There were also rumors that Prison Break's Dominic Purcell (aka Linc) would play the leadings role but those rumors have been comfirmed as false by Dominic himself.

It will be intersting to see how this movie turns out. I have heard that this movie is not supposed to be a sequal, it is suppose to be more of a new start because the first movie didn't do so well. I guess we'll just wait ot wait and see how things turn out.

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News FOUR You

In a recent interview with the iFMagazine.com, Michael Chiklis talked about playing The THING in the Fantastic Four: Rise of teh Silver Sufer. Here is part of what he had to say:

What's fun about this time around, we didn't have to lay down the same amount of origin tale track. We could just get right into it. In this kind of situation they have to take certain liberties with the original, but it still adheres to the point where any hardcore FOUR fan is going to be satisfied and SILVER SURFER fans are going to be psyched out of their minds. Weta is doing the effects and they're an impressive house, just what I've seen so far of their effects is spectacular.

I think this movie is going to be totally awesome, just from watching the teaser trailer. It will be interesting to see what else they will reveal about the movie in the trailers to come. Check out the link above for the full article.

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Ghost Rider - Done

It has offically come down for the director of Ghost Rider himself, Mark Steven Johnson, that the movie is completly finished. This is what he said on the Superhero Hype! message board:

I thought you might like to know that I have officially finished Ghost Rider! That's right -- the movie is done and DONE! And it looks and sounds absolutely beautiful. I can't wait for all of you to see it!

Check out more of what he said in this message board.

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FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Just in case you didn't know, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is coming out in theaters June 15, 2007 (but if you are here reading this post you probably already knew this). I have known that this movie was coming for quite some time now but what got me really excited was the first preview for the movie. Check it out here at quicktime trailers website. I have to admit that I don't know too much about Silver Surfer, basically I knew that he was all silver and rode around on a surf board; but after seeing the preview, I caught the Silver Surfer wave. I'll give you the basic run down from Marvel.com:

Silver Surfer:

One of the noblest and most tormented cosmic entities in the universe, the Silver Surfer treasures freedom above all else, but has often sacrificed his liberty for the greater good.

The Silver Surfer wields "the power cosmic," absorbing and manipulating the universe's ambient cosmic energies. He can augment his strength to incalculable levels, and is almost totally indestructible. He can navigate space, hyperspace and dimensional barriers, and can fly at near-limitless speeds on his board, entering hyperspace when he exceeds light speed.

This is only the tip of the iceberg when it come to the Surfer. You can read more about him here. I really hope that the movie does well, if the preview is any indication of what the movie will be like (it should be, that's the whole point of a movie trailer) I think it will do well. At least it will be cool to watch a guy fly through the air on a board, like a glorified Back to the Future hover board. I will try and update the blog with any major news or reviews I find about the movie.

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Create Your Own Comic

There is an article on cnet.com that reviews the the new software Marvel Heroes Comic Book Creator where you can create your own comic. The heroes to choose from are Spiderman, Elektra and Wolverine along with their evil doer counterparts; booster packs are being created to introduced new characters and scenes to the software package. The programs provides the user with a whole bunch of character and scenery art as well as the classic "BANG", "BOOM" and text bubbles. The software is very easy to use after a few minutes of trying things out the author of the article found that he could make good looking comic pages with only a few minutes of experience and a little trail and error. You can even look at the comic that he created.
I think it would be totally awesome to be able to create your own comic, you could create those scenes that you always wished for. Unfortunately I lack the talent of being able to draw well, so with this program I could create my own stuff. Sometimes, as I was reading through I comic, I would think to myself, what would the rest of the story be like if they decided to do this instead; now I would have the power to create that alternate ending. The possiblities of this software is endless, only limited by your imagination.

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