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.

already pre-orderd it on amazon, so it should be sitting on my front porch when i get home later tonight... also found it weird that the movie was being released on thursday instead of the typical tuesday, but then heard about it being postponed a few days so that it was released on Earth Day.

guess i can understand it... but whatever.

on this day........

1993 – The first version of Mosaic ("spinning" logo pictured), created by computer programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was released, becoming the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client.

also read that Joss Wheaton will be directing the new Avengers movie that'll be coming out in 2012, just before the world comes to an end... that should be sweet as well.

...but what i'm really looking forward to is a really kickass movie based on Thor, who's always been a cool badass... i just hope they do a movie on the level with something like Iron Man, and not another one like Daredevil — don't know if i'd ever forgive them for that.

p.s. speaking of movies, Kick Ass comes out today, and looks pretty good... just not sure if it's worth dropping the money to go see in the theater, or wait for it to come out on dvd in a couple months. hmmm...

...but i'm curious, did anybody go out and buy this first round of LOTR on blu-ray?

even though i really want the extended edition, i'm almost tempted to buy this version just so i can chill out and see the movies in all it's HD/1080p glory... shit.

p.s. already pre-ordered a copy of Avatar on blu-ray, which comes out the 22nd.

movie quote of the day:

Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Marko: [after a long pause] Good luck.

so good... heh.