(Alien Vs Predator) VS el Público

Está claro que el público está cansado de estos dos personajes. Están de capa caída y han saturado el mercado con una pelis más bien maluchas. Que dejen ya de hacer esas películas, ¡por Dios! con 17 (68%) votos es el ganador de la semana. Le sigue el terror espacial Alien con 5 (20%), y por último, el pobre cazador interplanetario, con más recursos tecnológicos que James Bond. ¿Antes de salir de caza, también les dará Q esos artilugios tan chulos? Me encantó el disco-partetodo.

En la imagen podemos apreciar toda la gente que protestó el día del estreno de la nueva entrega de la saga, para que los guionistan escriban cosas mejores.

Free Mirage

You know how I'm always telling you about Top Cow's Madame Mirage? The story written by Paul Dini and illustrated by Puerto Rican artist Kenneth Rocafort? Well, Top Cow has provided Newsarama with the full first issue for free, so if you want to check it out, just follow this link. Enjoy!

Unremarkable

It is official: January has not been a good month regarding movies. Every single film I've seen has left me indifferent, if not sick. Last Saturday I went to see Untraceable, and it's just more of the same: a meh movie.

Untraceable stars Diane Lane, Billy Burke, and Colin Hanks as FBI agents working for the cybercrime division. When a new website that offers live murders comes up, it's all they can do to find the elusive website's creator and deranged murderer and stop his killing spree. If it sounds like a thriller, that's because it's supposed to be one. However, there are not many thrills to be found, to be honest.

Untraceable is well acted and competently directed by Gregory Hoblit, but the problem is that the script is unoriginal, quite formulaic and very predictable (and it took three people to come up with it!). I won't spoil anything for you here (of course), but I'm sure you could guess at least a couple of "major events" and the movie’s resolution without even knowing anything else about the film. And this predictability means murder for a thriller (lame pun intended).

Still, I thought the movie was entertaining, but hardly worth the admission price. It's a good movie to see on a Saturday afternoon, wrapped in a blanket at home, when it airs on TV and you have nothing else to do. I'm not sure it deserves more than that, really.

Organic #24

Bienvenidos una semana más a Organic. Por fin ha llegado el momento de la verdad (o uno de ellos), y Tomatito le explica a su hija qué demonios está pasando. Pese a que todavía queda alguna que otra cosa por aclarar, al menos Koori ya empieza a hacerse una idea de por dónde van los tiros. ¿Qué pasará a continuación? Sea lo que sea, os aseguro que no será otro tríptico, porque mira que me ha costado. Y siento que al montar las tres partes no haya quedado del todo bien, pero bueno. Pero divago. Como decía, ¡tú decides lo que pasará la semana que viene!

Bonus: echadle un vistazo a la versión pre-plumilla si os interesa:
Parte 01
Parte 02
Parte 03

The King is Back

Duma Key is at long last out, and I of course have already bought it. I still haven't read it (I've been watching too much TV --more on that soon), but it's sitting on my shelf waiting for me to open it. But if you want to know a little bit about the book, check out this live interview with Stephen King, in which he talks about Duma Key and discusses other topics related to his work. Enjoy!

Tease me Baby One More Time

Or two, as it turns out. Just a short post to show you a couple of teaser trailers that may or may not make you drool in anticipation. The first one is Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC. I know I've seen a longer version in theaters, but here you have the teaser. I usually like Emmerich's movies, despite how widely despised he is (he reminds me of Michael Bay in that regard). And, let's face it, this one looks really cool. We only need to wait until March 7th to find out.

The second one, and related to this week's poll, is the new Star Trek movie. The teaser has just been released, but it doesn't really show much of anything. However, the phrase "under construction" was never more fitting. Will this J.J. Abrams movie rock? We'll find out on December 25th.

Bloody Barber...

It took me a month, but I finally went to see Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Tim Burton's newest gothic fantasy. As is almost de rigueur, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter star as the two deranged main characters. Depp is Benjamin Barker, a wronged barber that comes back to town to set things straight. And by that I mean that blood is about to splatter everywhere. Literally. Helping him is Bonham Carter's Ms. Lovett, a woman that claims to make the worst pies in town. And judging by the sorry state her kitchen is in, I tend to believe her.

The best thing about Sweeney Todd is how stylish it is --it is, after all, a Tim Burton movie. The sets look great, and everything is dark and shabby and creepy and fairytale-esque. The actors (both the main characters and supporting actors such as Alan Rickman or the priceless Sacha Baron Cohen) are great, and the story is sad and dramatic and twisted.

The worst thing about Sweeney Todd is that it's a musical. I knew it before I went to see it, and I was ready for it to bother me; and even though it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I wish they had talked more and sung less. I would have liked it much, much better if there had been no songs.

So there you have it. If you like Tim Burton and musicals, you'll love this movie. If you like Tim Burton but musicals aren't your thing, chances are you'll still enjoy the movie. But if you really dislike either one, save yourself some money and read a good book instead.