Wednesday, March 26, 2008

"What are you lookin' at, butthead?"



This is the logo which will hopefully adorn the background of a drawing I am working on...on which I am working...whatever. I'm not done with the main drawing and, to be honest, this didn't come out as I'd hoped. It was fine on paper but went weird when I scanned it into Illustrator. Oh well, lesson learned. Anyway, not very timely (no pun intended), but it's one of my favorite movies, so back off! Final drawing soon!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Summer movie excitement!

I just realized we're less than two months from May 2nd, the opening date for Iron Man. So that got me all excited for summer movies and I thought I'd throw down the top five movies I'm looking forward to this summer. Most are a part of franchises (i.e. Batman) or solid name brands (i.e. PIXAR), but I'm not ashamed. After seeing the trailers for these five movies, I can say that I think they're all going to be pretty great. I usually build these movies up too much and then get let down big time when they suck (see Spider-man 3), but I can't help it. This summer looks like it's gonna be great. Below are my top five and their trailers.

5) Wall-E (June 27): It was a toss up between this and The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton. Hulk loses points because the last one with Eric Bana was so horrendous. Wall-E lost some points for looking too much like Johnny 5, but it's PIXAR and that's a good guarantee this'll be good.



4) Iron Man (May 2): I was never big into any comic heroes other than Batman or the X-Men, but Jon Favreau's adaptation of this fringe Marvel character looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Also, the Dude himself plays the villain, which is super.



3) Pineapple Express (August 8): After 40 Year Old Virgin and Superbad, I'd follow Judd Apatow and his gang pretty much anywhere (I don't know about You Don't Mess with the Zohan though...). This one, starring Seth Rogen, looks really funny and boasts a title song by Huey Lewis ala Back to the Future. The following trailer is red band, which means it has some foul language, so this one is not for young-uns.



AND IT'S A TIE FOR THE TOP TWO SPOTS! I couldn't decide between Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (May 22) and The Dark Knight (July 18). Everything about Batman seems wonderful and director Christopher Nolan knows what he's doing. Still, even though Indy has the potential to go south (mainly due to George Lucas's involvement), it IS Indy. The first three movies are still my all time favorite movies. I'll be really let down if it's no good.





That's it! I have been considering drawing something up for each of these movies. I might do that over spring break in a few weeks, so look for that.