I’m going to assume that you, dear reader, are among the majority of people who did not bother to watch (or even hear about) “The Impossible” earlier this year; a spectacularly awful disaster-melodrama about how a tsunami briefly interupts a middle-class white family’s vacation – killing thousands, but these people got out okay and learned something about themselves so it all works out. Blegh.

Snapped from the CinemaCon trailer, this is either Wolverine fighting Silver Samurai or Wolverine fighting some kind of robot presumably in the employ of Silver Samurai. Not sure which, but either way it’s finally something cool-looking from this (still pretty dour-looking, overall) movie and almost by default the most visually interesting thing Wolverine has been involved in in the entirety of the “X-Men” movies so far (excepting, obviously, scenes where he might’ve been onscreen at the same time Mystique was.)

Well this looks… different, but not so different that it’s not immediately identifiable as yet another “Quirky Indie Crime Movie,” though this time fused with the burgeoning “Otherwise-Typical-Teen-Girls-In-Criminal-Scenarios” genre: Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan are the titular hitwomen, James Gandolfini is the “Regular Mob Movie” street-cred, could be fun:

More rebootings.

Hat-tip to BAD and Twitch for putting this one on my radar: “Mr. Go” is a Korean sports comedy(?) about an oversized gorilla who joins a baseball team:

Yup. That’s about all that’s needs saying, but hit the jump for a… “making-of trailer,” I guess (is that a more commonplace thing in Korean theaters?) that shows off their motion-capture tech (anyone who reads Korean care to tell me who Go’s mo-cap performer is?) and a little more of the plot – apparently there’s a second, presumably “evil” gorilla in there, too…

Warner Bros. has released the previously WonderCon-exclusive longer trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim,” which closes on a shot that – in a just world – should end up being the single most memorable image of the entire 2013 schedule. Holy. Shit….

I remain REALLY worried about the prospects for this one. Oh, it’ll almost certainly be a magnificent film… but I feel like the studio and others might be way overestimating the prospects for it. I’m loathe to admit it, but all the military/LeBeouf/Fox douchebag bullshit that Bay etc piled on top of “Transformers” is what got that first movie to open as a mainstream blockbuster instead of a niche nerdstalgia property. “Rim,” on the other hand, looks like much more of a “pure” version of what it is – a movie aimed at monster/robot/dinosaur/scifi-fixated 10 year-olds (and adults who never outgrew it) without much interest in getting “Fast & Furious’s” (unironic) audience into seats. That’s commendable, and will likely make for a better movie… but I can easily imagine Hollywood’s precious teen-bro demographic saying “This looks GAY!” and taking a pass.

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe “The Avengers” has changed the game already in that regard. Does anyone reading this have kids and could maybe attest to whether or not they’re running ads/promos for this on Cartoon Network daytime or Nick or whatever? Because I think what’ll make the difference on this one is if it become a pre-release “must-see” among the actual children at whom this kind of material is always best received when done right. We’ll see.

Brutal, mean-spirited and kind of awesome.

“Intermission” is a bit about “Dragon’s Crown.” Because.

ScrewAttack.com’s gaming con, SGC, is returning June 21 – 23 of this year and I’ll be a guest: Doing some panels, hanging out and I’m hoping to have a supply of books to sell and/or signby then as well.

Registration is still open, and if you do it through THIS LINK you’ll be directly supporting me and The Game OverThinker series. So… think about doing that, please 🙂

Things that could use rebooting.

This will be showing up in front of “Iron Man 3.” There’s not especially much to report other than “bigger, darker, the gang’s all back, etc.,” (7 to 1 odds says Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster doesn’t make it out of this alive, I’d wager) but we do get a look at Malekith the Accursed, and it’s nice of them to wait for the final shot to answer everyone’s top question. Director is Alan Taylor, late of a bunch of “Game of Thrones” episodes.