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THE AVENGERS: In This Together Now… Some More Than Others

Geeks — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:24:19 +0000

How awesome is this!? The creator of such cancelled gems as Firefly (Fox) Dollhouse (Fox) and Angel (Fox) now has the big screen bravado of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark and Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury speaking his sarcastically delicious dialogue in the biggest superhero movie of all time. A helluva step up if you ask us.

Sure, it looks more like Iron Man 3 with some Chrises Evans and Hemsworth cameos, but you can’t help but love the way Tony admires Dr. Banner’s work.

Plus, Tony keeps wearing a Black Sabbath shirt, which is pure Iron Man.

~Matt + Nat

TRANSFORMERS 3: More Twisted Metal and Bay-splosions in 3D!

Geeks — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:51:40 +0000

Now, we’re not saying there’s anything WRONG with twisted metal and 3D Bay-splosions… in fact, making a film in 3D seems to have slowed down Bay’s editing pace considerably. But if you were expecting maybe third times the charm for Bay and the Transformers source material, you’ll be just as disappointed by this one as all the others. There’s barely enough to recognize your favourite 80′s cartoon was the basis of this 2.5-hour romp, but after it leaves you exhausted at the credits, you’ll need to watch the original cartoon to remind yourself what the Ark was and that Shockwave has a broader vocabulary than a cockroach.

~Matt + Nat

GREEN LANTERN REVIEW: Ring Capacity About 50-50…

Geeks — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:01:04 +0000

One of Matt’s all-time favourite super heroes comes to the big screen with a huge ad campaign and word of a sequel already greenlit by a Warner Brothers and DC who couldn’t be greener with envy over Marvel’s box office streak and impending Avengers movie… but before sequel and Justice League talk gets out of hand, was “Green Lantern” actually any good as a movie of its own or as an adaptation? Well, Matt’s nickname for the film was “Green Lanturd” if that’s any hint… but what did you think?

~Matt + Nat

PIRATES 4 REVIEW: Yes, But Are They BETTER Tides?

Geeks — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:24:11 +0000

No Orlando and no Kiera? But we get McShane and Cruz instead? Sounds like a good recipe, but going back to the well after the trilogy has been told is risky. We’re hearing any subsequent Pirates films will be strictly one-offs, so let’s talk about how they set the precedent with “On Stranger Tides”!

~Matt + Nat

THOR REVIEW: Best Marvel Cast to Date

Geeks — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:24:36 +0000

With THOR, summer comicbook movies are open for business. From Hopkins to Portman the cast was phenomenal, and Chris Hemsworth is officially perfect casting as the God of Thunder. But the big surprise was just how expertly Kenneth Branagh managed to direct a film that spans an Ice Kingdom, Asgard and New Mexico! What did you think?

~Matt + Nat

BATTLE: LA REVIEW: We’re Back!

Geeks — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:49:39 +0000

It’s taken some time, and a bit of externally-imposed radio silence, but we’re both back with the new YourGeekNews! We’ve made some changes because we’ve both made some changes, and we’re excited to continue rambling about our favourite geeky movies by any means necessary!

~Matt + Nat

NEW GREEEN LANTERN TRAILER: Ok, so it finally looks good.

Geeks — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:41:18 +0000

We’ve been worried about this one for a while… the first trailer looked like one quarter Dark Knight, one quarter Ironman and one quarter Van Wilder. Yep just three quarters. But now we get 100% epic intergalactic battle.

What do you think?

~Matt + Nat

CONAN TRAILER: But where’s Conan?

Geeks — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:49:10 +0000

We honestly didn’t give a geek’s goddam about this movie until we saw Momoa in Game of Thrones. We know he was in Stargate, but after seeing him essentially play Conan for HBO on the small screen, we’re pretty sure he can do it for Lionsgate on the big screen, too.

But it’s not like you’d know that from this trailer that he’s hardly in.

What do you think?

~Matt + Nat

WALKING DEAD REVIEW: Mini-Series/Season 1

Geeks — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:21:06 +0000

It’s not a movie per se, but with six episodes in Darabont’s mini-series based on Robert Kirkman’s comics, AMC’s Walking Dead is definitely geeky enough to warrant a thread for us all to chat about it!

And once the DVD comes out in the Spring, we’ll be giving it a Matt + Nat review just like we would for any geeky/genre/comicbook movie!

~Matt + Nat

TRON LEGACY REVIEW: A Nearly Ideal Sequel

Geeks — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:17:37 +0000

One look at the newly redesigned lightcycles in Tron, and you know this movie is going to be a wild ride. And it performs surprisingly well as a better-late-than-never sequel that takes advantage of new actors and technology (and pushes it a bit past where it can actually go). But for his first feature film, Kosinski made the most common kind of mistake: story.

~Matt + Nat