Monday, December 19, 2011

Craig Bond

Produers at Universal at trying to entice Daniel Craig into doing three more Bond films.   Currently he's is shooting Skyfall - the next installment of the long running 007 movies - and while Cowboys & Aliens did not do so well, and everyone involved is crosses their melodramic fingers to see how Girl With the Dragon Tatoo will do, it's not stopping producers from making the offer.  No word yet on if Mr. Craig will accept, but we at the Hideout hopes he will.   We love James Bond, Sean Connery will always be the original and the one who defined the character - but Danial Craig's bat-shit crazy James Bond rates a close 2nd.   No gadgets, but lots of willingness to do what it take to get the job done without the cheesiness of prior films and the resistance to the urge to make a less then scholarly hottie fit a role no one would belive her in.   If Daniel Craig is aboard, the Hideout support the idea.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Marvelous Battle

A comic book writer and a comic company editor goes to a message board.  Oh yeah not only is this joke for real but the punchline even better.  And when they fight who wins?  Well, anyone with a sense of humor did, that's who.  It was J.Michael Straczynski creator of Babylon Five, writer of Thor, Spider-man,  a couple of issues of Superman, and current writer of nothing of particular note Vs Steve Wacker a senior editor at Marvel Comics who is, in fact, currently editing stuff on everyone's favorite hate filled message board Comic Book Resources - aka CBR.   The great back and forth started when J. Michael posted a graph showing Amazing Spider-Man sales since he left the book, and the lines on the graph dug a hole to China.  Included with the graph were the words, "I'm just saying."  This pissed off the Senior Editor who posted a reply worthy of a geek twenty-seconds after seeing Phantom Menace.  Needless to say after Wacker's spark of a post hit the gas and everything exploded.  Regular CBR posters were so shocked it actually took them 30 whole seconds to start posting replies filled with the usual brand of venom one comes to expect from the usual CBR posters.  The only surprise was Dan Slott's "give peace a chance" post and Mark Waid's imitation of a teenage female Facebook member as he posted his "oh no you didn't" response to J. Michael.  By now some or all of the incendiary posts might be pulled but there's about 200 Pop Culture news sites and blogs currently duplicating them to report the story.  Find it, read it, enjoy the insanity of so-called professional going all unprofessional and shit.