otherwise, i just thought the movie poster with angelina looked pretty cool.

There are more than 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world and terrorists only need one to kill millions of people. How worried are you about this threat?

"Countdown to Zero," a new documentary written and directed by Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) and produced by Academy Award winner Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth), examines the Cold War worries about "the bomb," and reveals the modern dangers of a nuclear disaster.

Nine countries currently possess these weapons of mass destruction, but rogue nations and terrorist groups are continuously trying to obtain such capabilities on the black market. To find out what is being done to stop them, the filmmakers interviewed world leaders, such as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as security experts like former U.S. cabinet members Robert McNamara and James Baker III, and former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

listened to an interview this morning with the main guy behind this movie, who's the producer behind An Inconvenient Truth, and actually found what he was saying to be pretty damn interesting... kind of scary to think that it's actually more dangerous these days, at least on the nuclear front, than back in the Cold War era between the US and Soviets — the biggest concern obviously being some terrorists get their hands on a nuclear weapon... hence all the concern about Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea.

so did anybody go see this over the weekend? heard it was fucking awesome and definitely worth going to the movie theater to see up on the big screen... i had too much shit going on this weekend, but figured it'd work out since i tend to prefer waiting for some reviews first — mostly because i really don't like actually going to the theaters as much these days... but on some movies, it's really worth it.

less than an hour into it i was having a hard time keeping my mouth shut, and was really kind of getting pissed... and words like "depressing", "sad", and "shocking" came to mind even though they didn't even come close to describing it all... it really is all kinds of fucked up, and to sit down and watch it was really unnerving.

anywho, like i said, i never heard of it before lastnight and think it's totally worth watching... think it's on HBO right now, but there's a free viewing of it on PBS and i'm sure you'll be able to rent/netflix it as well.

According to this New York Craigslist ad, a company called Megamonolith Pictures is holding an open casting call for a film entitled "Titanic 2: Mermaid Saviors." And yes, they claim that the action in their movie will pick up right where after the Titanic sinks.

So, in essence, there may be a sequel made, but it won't be from any of the original people from Titanic. In other words, James Cameron is not involved. Although, reading the synopsis of the movie, it's not hard to imagine this film springing from his imagination after witnessing what he came up with in Avatar.

Again, according to the ad, "the film begins moments after the sinking of the Titanic. All who have drowned are brought back to life by a futuristic race of mermaids, called the Mantocks, who welcome the humans to their underwater paradise. Soon after, JACK DAWSON is elected king of the underwater humans. DAWSON requests that all humans be returned above water, a request that is denied by KING MANTROCK. The humans are slowly brainwashed into worshiping their mermaid saviors. Meanwhile, the sunken TITANIC has become a haunted underwater wasteland inhabited by RAGGARO and his band of mermaid pirates. Will the humans ever free themselves from their mermaid slavery? Will the mermaid pirates wage war on Mantock?"

man, just just can't make this shit up... wtf? *chuckles*

probably because the singer reminds me of Jack White.

so what band is getting heavy rotation for you of late?

wonder how many of ya have already seen it? friend of mine went to the midnight showing of it lastnight, and while i'm excited to go see it and all... not sure i'm that gung-ho about it. *blink*

since he's the guy behind Lost — great show, but stopped watching it a couple years back — and i really liked what he did with Star Trek, i'll be curious to see what he's got in store for us... produced by Speilberg, too.

update: not sure what's going on with the youtube videos, but if it's now showing up for you in chrome don't panic — it isn't coming up for me at the moment either, but working just fine in firefox... kind of ironic.

Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau used to see himself as a master at surpassing low expectations. "Nobody expected anything of the first Iron Man movie," he says. "In fact, they rolled their eyes at the thought of launching a franchise with this obscure hero, thinking we were pushing the comic book genre too far."

Then Iron Man came out two summers ago and made $585 million. Suddenly Favreau, the actor-turned-writer-turned-action-movie-mogul, is feeling a new kind of challenge: He has to make the fanboys happy. [...]

Once on board, the Method-trained Rourke learned to speak Russian, spent time in a prison studying the lore of incarceration tattoos and had a gleaming set of metal-plated teeth implanted in his mouth. “My idea was this sort of the Eastern Promises underworld figure, and Mickey added all the other stuff on top of it,” Favreau says.

holy shit, mickey rourke doesn't fuck around does he? damn, i really need to stop reading these articles, posts, and videos about it — probably spoiling the shit out of the movie for me.