This is some serious shit, folks. Â Ever since Telltale announced that Christopher Lloyd would reprise the role of Doc Brown (in voiceover) for the new Back to the Future videogame, nerds have been waiting with bated breath to hear who’d play Marty. Â They’ve secured the likeness of Michael J. Fox, but presumably he’s not well enough to actually play the role. Â
Enter AJ LoCascio. He sent Telltale an mp3 of himself doing Marty and it was so good they gave him the job. Drop everything and check out the video below. It’s about as flawless as anyone could hope for. Even Bob Gale says so. I think I’m officially out of things to worry about, this game is going to be brilliant.
Wait, so Mel Gibson is going to have a cameo as a tattoo artist in The Hangover 2?* What happened to moving back to Australia with his ex-wife and fighting wild dingoes?** Will Gibson manage to once again sneak another comeback by us?*** Will he hopefully punch Zach Galifianakis in the face?**** And will I ever run out of goofy Mel Gibson photos to run?*****Â
* It’s true.
** I made that last part up.
*** My guess? Yes.  Yes, he will.
****Speaking of Galifianakis…
*****Nope:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the state of comedy:
Yes, you are looking at the first picture of Adam Sandler as “Jill” from the upcoming romantic comedy Jack and Jill that we first told warned you about back here. Clearly, this film will be the height of comedy…in 1998.
In an extraordinarily rare show of common sense, WB has decided NOT to release part one of the final Harry Potter film in 3D, because they “were unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality.”  So they ran out of time, which isn’t exactly like saying “there was no reason for this to be in 3D in the first place” but I’ll take it.  Hollywood’s no stranger to rushed 3D conversion jobs, so it’s nice someone finally had the guts to put the kibosh on one.  That doesn’t mean part two won’t be in 3D, however, so you’ll still be able to enjoy the magical wonder that slightly increased depth of field will bring to Ron Weasley’s hair.
Director Adam Green with Hatchet's Victor Crowley.
Although I don’t have an AMC theater in my neighborhood, I was excited to hear that they had agreed to start showing “Unrated” movies. This is really something that’s overdue in the film community, as most filmmakers will tell you that the MPAA is basically a big joke run by Hollywood bullies (Case in point: This Film is Not Yet Rated and Matt and Trey’s battle with the MPAA over the South Park movie).
And now it looks like they’ve struck again…maybe. Mere days after opening last Friday, AMC pulled Adam Green’s Hatchet II, and nobody seems to know why. AMC released a statement saying, “At AMC theaters, we review all films in all of our theatres every week and then make our business decisions based on their performance.” Gee, that’s nice and all, but do they realize that they didn’t even let this movie play for a week? Writer/Director/Awesome Guy Adam Green stepped in with the most logical explanation: The MPAA is out to get him.
“All signs would point to AMC being unhappy with how vocal I was about the MPAA and not wanting to deal with the controversy- which if the case, is their given right. Had the film grossed millions, maybe it would be a different story with them,” he said in an early statement. If true, this makes me pretty mad. I’m not going to sit here and type a long rant about how corrupt the MPAA, mainly because it’s all been said before by people who are far more articulate than myself, but I will say this: Fuck you, MPAA.
Friday is Chevy Chase Day around the world, which means that this week I’m going to be talking about Chevy even more than usual! (Editors note: Apologies.)
I thought I’d kick things off right by talking about a little seen classic Chevy bit, such as this short one from the 1974 skit film The Groove Tube. The film itself is just a lame, early version of The Kentucky Fried Movie, with Chevy only showing up twice (three times if you count his hands). However, it’s worth digging up just to see him and pal Ken Shapiro perform “Four Leaf Clover”. The two would later regroup to make Modern Problems. I think we all know how that turned out.
Anyway, sorry for the VHS-ish quality of this video, but it’s the best one I could find. You can always come over to my place if you want to catch it on DVD, complete with commentary and laugh track from me as well. Enjoy!
Sorry for the exceedingly late post, kids.  Real life got in the way today.  To make up for it, enjoy this 15 minute short film.  It’s not really very good.  But Rider Strong’s in it, so you can pretend it’s a Cabin Fever sequel and it’s suddenly brilliant!
You know, that film that made a ton of money last year but wasn’t Avatar? Â Well, I loved it, and this news has me chomping at the bit for the sequel.
Apparently Jared Harris, who Critical End! fans will know from both Mad Men and the second Resident Evil movie, will be playing Moriarty. Â And, in news that slipped by me somehow, Stephen Fry will play Mycroft, Sherlock’s older brother! Â Both of these announcements are huge, as these are some damn fine British actors set to play classic British roles. Â Which leaves me wondering how Downey’s passable-but-not-outstanding accent will fair in their company.
Either way, confirmation that both Holmes’ arch-nemesis and oft-forgotten brother will appear in the second movie makes me think that they’ll continue to strike a nice balance between literary fan service and modern action. Â And that is alright by me.
The idea of a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel has been around for a while.  Last time Zemeckis talked about it, he said Roger would definitely be in 2D, but just for fun, here’s some blurry video of a CG Roger test done 12 years ago.
There have been rumors to this affect for a while now, but it appears that it’s now somewhat confirmed.  The James Cameron/Schwarzenegger classic True Lies will be morphed into a prime time TV series for ABC.
Honestly, I’m excited to see what they come up with. Â The spy-with-a-family-life premise still has some juice (though, J.J. Abrams’Â Undercovers is treading very similar ground), and Cameron is no stranger to producing TV shows, though they haven’t traditionally lasted very long. Â Let’s just hope we don’t all have to buy 3D televisions to watch this.
The big question mark is who will take over Arnold’s role.  My pick?  Arnold.  But that’s mostly because I’m anxious to see him get back to acting.  He could at least cameo as a rival spy or something, right?  Ease back into things a bit.  Actually, rebooting old Arnold movies as TV shows could be a great new trend!  Imagine Last Action Hero as a Saturday morning cartoon.  Each episode, Arnold and the kid go on a new crazy adventure in a different movie.  It’ll be like the animated version of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures but without all the annoying, government-mandated learning!
One of my favorite bad trailers of all time is My Bloody Valentine 3D. The trailer does a fine job of advertising for the film; it’s not until the end of it when things go horribly awry. You see, according to the trailer fire is going to fly out of the screen. Observe this still:
“But wait, Logan, ya lovable trickster,” you say. “That’s just advertising the fact that the film is 3D!” Then I ask you: Why are the people looking up?  I’m no expert, but I don’t quite think 3D works that way, Lionsgate.
But it seems that Lionsgate never got my memo, as now they’ve gone and done it again with the new Saw 3D trailer. No fire this time. This time? Oh, this time one of the characters is actually going to come out of the screen, reach into your theater, and pull you into the movie.  I’m not making this up.  Let’s watch:
People, this is blatant false advertising. In fact, if I go to see Saw 3D and the theater has NOT equipped my seat with a spiky torture device thingy that comes over my head and locks me in place…oh, I’m going to be mad.
Welcome back, kids! I trust you all had a great Labor Day weekend and didn’t almost die watching the new Danny Boyle film.  I thought about posting some of the usual crap to slowly ease you back into your working week, then I thought, “Screw it. I’m going all out.”
Thus, I give you the first image from the upcoming Telltale Back to the Future game:
BAM!
Is that freakin’ awesome or what?! Ryan gave us some of the first news on this five episode series back in June. Word on the net is that the first episode of the game is going to come out sometime at the end of the year to coincide with the 25th anniversary release of the series on Blu-ray.
I can’t wait to play this game. Hell, I’d play that picture if they put a Start button on it. That’s how pumped the image has me for the game. It also helps that I was almost expecting something more along the lines of this:
With Labor Day weekend at hand, I thought I’d cram a lot of awesomness into one mega post.
First up, James Cameron thinks he owns the concept of 3D and takes it upon himself to call out Piranha 3D as “exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D.”  This prompts Piranha producer Mark Canton to point out that not everyone can “take ten years using other people’s money to make and market a film.”  All I can say is that there was ritual mating in both movies and the fish film did it right.
Shamelessly stolen from cbsnews.com
Elsewhere, I Watch Stuff reports that CBS reports that 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair report that nobody gives a crap how evil Mel Gibson is.  76% of those polled said that the scandal would have no effect on their likelihood of seeing a new Mel Gibson movie. If America can separate Gibson the man from Gibson the actor, I suppose I can start going back to my favorite Starbucks, despite that one barista’s outspoken views on abortion.
Here’s Doctor Who favorite David Tennant from the upcoming remake of Fright Night. Â I’ve never seen the original, but you can pretty much take any beloved genre actor and cast them as a magician and I’ll see that movie. Â Just ask The Prestige.
Speaking of awe-inspiring images, Juan Pablo Bravo made a HUGE size-comparison chart of just about any Hanna-Barbera character you can think of, 600 in all. Â Click the tiny sample below for the full shebang.
Almost as cool as knowing the exact relative heights of the Hair Bear Bunch, is Conan O’Brien announcing the name of his new TBS show. Â It’s a good thing he’s getting back to work. Â With that beard, he looks like he’d be on the streets with a beaver puppet, leaving angry voicemails for Oksana Grigorieva if he didn’t have something to keep him busy.
And finally, let’s usher in the holiday weekend with everybody’s favorite weekend activity. Â DANCE PARTY!
