First Look at AMC's Preacher

Last weekend AMC premiered the trailer for a new TV show, Preacher. For those not in the know, Preacher is a comic that ran in the late 90s early 2000s, under the Vertigo label at DC. I have like 30 issues and I can't remember a thing about it. I'm sure it's good otherwise I wouldn't have collected it for as long as I did. Also it was written by Garth Ennis who is a pretty good writer (he's responsible for my favorite Punisher run ever). I'll have to sit down and reread the comics.

This is pretty amazing analysis right here, isn't it?

The trailer itself looks interesting enough. A preacher who's into kicking ass, what's not to like about that? AMC has a pretty good track record with it's dramas, even the ones I don't like still get critical acclaim (looking at you Mad Men) so I'll check out the first few episodes at least.

Ash vs Evil Dead: The Review

For the sake of this review lets say I added Starz to my satellite TV package and didn't download this episode by elicit means...

Last night after the kids went to bed and my wife was still on her way home from the Sounders game, I sat down and watched the first episode of Ash vs Evil Dead. Talk about a show that delivers exactly what it promised. It's 45 minutes of silly, gory fun. A perfect mix of the gore and horror from the Evil Dead 2 and the humor and adventure of Army of Darkness. (Minor Spoilers to follow)

There's a scene in the first half of the episode where Ash, still working as a stockboy, is told by his overbearing boss to carefully put away a box of lightbulbs. In classic Ash fashion, he almost immediately spills them everywhere. With a lot of writers/actors/directors that's the end of the joke. Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell extend the joke by having Ash step on more bulbs in an effort to discreetly dispose of the broken bulbs in the most half ass manner you could imagine. It extends the scene by all of 20 seconds but it takes what could easily be a throw away physical joke and turns it into a character moment. It's that kind of detail that has made all the Evil Dead movies so special and it's exactly what I wanted to see in this series.

This isn't to say the series is perfect or going to be perfect. In the first 20 minutes they were dangerously close to Stifler in American Pie 3 territory, where Ash is almost a parody of himself. They pull him back in the last third so no harm no foul. I'm looking forward to how the story unfolds over 10 episodes (plus the second season they've already been renewed for!). Writing for a TV show is much different than a movie but both of the Rami's have a lot of experience with TV so I don't see any reason not to be bullish on Ash vs Evil Dead.

10/10. Would torrent subscribe to Starz again.

No Man's Sky has a release date?

So the winner of the DevilDinosaur.com most anticipated game not named Half-Life 3, No Man's Sky has a release date! Kind of. It's been announced that it will be released in June 2016. Sure there's no exact date, so the actually likelihood of seeing it in June is about 20% but it's a start. Also there's a new Sony Playstation branded trailer. It's really similar to the previous trailer but this one hints at a bit of a plot.

I'm not going to lie to you, the fact that I've been seeing and reading about No Man's Sky for like 3 years now doesn't fill me with a ton of hope. Especially after I read that big article about how the story in Destiny was taken to the woodshed just months before it was released. We're still pretty far from Diakatana or Duke Nukem territory but I'll admit I'm getting a bit nervous. On the plus side 8 more months totally gives me time to get my PC up to snuff. I just installed a solid state hard drive so I'm on the right path. You should see how fast Windows boots.

Hey, Look at that Joker

A couple days ago Empire Magazine, who I'm pretty sure only exists as a magazine so they can be the first to leak superhero movie pics, premiered a cover that shows Jared Leto in full on Joker costume from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.

I like it, I don't love it or anything but the more I see of him dressed as the joker the more I like. Sure he looks ridiculous but pretty much every on screen incarnation of the Joker looks ridiculous. I think people are freaking out just because it's so different. Also I'm guessing the stories of Jared Leto being a wackjob on the set of the movie probably don't help. It's like nerds want him to take the role seriously but no TOO SERIOUSLY. I don't know, I'm still excited for the film. If DC has to make their films all dark and gritty they might as well make a movie about a bunch of killers teamed up to fight even worse killers.

Supergirl the TV Show the Review

Hopefully you were able to catch the premier of Supergirl last night because I didn't. Stupid Monday nights. There's too many shows on Monday nights. The wife wants to watch Dancing with the Stars (which honestly I don't mind) AND the voice (which honestly I can't stand), so there's no room for Supergirl. I guess I can watch it on line, but I like watching shows on TV vs the computer. There's a CBS app for the Roku but I think you have to be a subscriber. I could watch it on Amazon but that means paying like 2.99 per episode.

First world problems, am I right?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Trailer

I'll take "Things that are about 5 years too late for 200, Alex"

Many Bothans Died

Jessica Jones: The Real Trailer this time... for Reals

After teasing us with teasers and sneak peaks Netflix finally came up with the good stuff. A full two minute trailer for Jessica Jones. Sorry, MARVEL'S Jessica Jones.

I really hate it when they do that. We get it you're Marvel.

Looks rad, one interesting thing of note. Jessica Jones is essentially a former superhero that quits the cape and tights biz to be a private investigator. If I remember correctly, the very first story arc of the comic book Alias (which this is based off of) has Jessica Jones getting involved in a conspiracy against Captain America. Given that she's a former superhero she has a lot of interaction with other Marvel heroes like Cap, Daredevil, Spider-Woman, etc.

It isn't until something like the 20th issue of the series (and the very last story arc) that we learn about why she quit being a superhero and what her beef with The Purple Man (played here by David Tennet) is all about. So what I find so interesting about the trailer is that it looks like this first season is going straight to the Purple Man. Also it kinda looks like they're skipping the whole "she knows a lot of superheroes" thing. At least that's what I gather by her interactions with Luke Cage at the bar. That's supposed to be Luke Cage, right?

I'm actually ok with all the changes, I'm not one of those nerds that gets caught up in the details. Find the heart of the character and make the story work for TV, that's what they did with Daredevil. Hopefully that's what they've done here too.