Monday
Jul042011
Episode 67 - FIGHT!
Monday, July 4, 2011 at 12:00AM
Wow, everyone gets a little feisty and starts picking each other apart. But it's all in good fun, kind of. This week Cyrus has a few too many and rips on Shia LaBeouf being an idiot, free online games and MySpace being sold for $35 million. Put your dukes up and prepare to laugh your ass off.
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Show Notes
New Releases
- This Week:
- Movies - Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Larry Crowne
- DVDs - Beastly, Sucker Punch, Lord of the Rings Blu-ray, The Warrior’s Way
- Games - Super Street Fighter IV Arcade, Sniper Ghost Warrior, Dynasty Warriors; Gundam 3, Call of Juarez: The Cartel
- Next Week:
- Movies - Horrible Bosses, The Zookeeper
- DVDs - 13 Assassins, Hobo with a Shotgun
- Games - Earth Defense Force: Insect Armegeddon
Summer Movie Game
News
- Movies - MoviePass: Netflix for Theaters?
- $50 for unlimited movies in theaters: night, matinee, 3D, IMAX, etc.
- Only in San Fransisco for now; also offering 4 movies for $30
- http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2011/06/moviepass-a-netflix-for-theaters.html
- Movies - Tom Hanks says Toy Story 4 in the works
- Hanks told BBC Pixar is working on part 4
- Just released Cars 2; working on Monsters Inc. 2
- http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/6/27/toy-story-4-is-in-development-according-to-tom-hanks.html
- Movies - Green Lantern 2 confirmed despite bad returns
- Fell 66% in box office; only $18 mil this weekend
- Has made $89, cost over $200 mil to make
- http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/6/26/green-lantern-sequel-still-in-the-works-despite-disappointin.html
- Movies - Harrison Ford calls Shia LaBeouf a “fucking idiot”
- LaBeouf said Indiana Jones 4 was not good; he dropped the ball
- Ford says you should always back your moviehttp://geektyrant.com/news/2011/6/29/harrison-ford-calls-shia-labeouf-a-fuing-idiot-for-trashing.html
- Comics - Protest march scheduled for Comic Con
- A march is scheduled for July 23 to protest the new DC Comics Reboot
- DC has decided to reboot all of their comics to #1 in the coming months
- http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/nerd-hordes-to-march-on-comic-con-in-protest-of-dc-comics-reboot
- Web - MySpace sold for $35 mil
- Sold for $35 to ad network, Specific Media
- News Corp. purchased MySpace in 2005 for $580 mil
- http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=myspace-sold-for-35-million-2011-06-30
- Web - George Hotz hired by Facebook
- Hotz aka Geohotz settled with Sony after hacking & publishing info on PS3
- Also known for hacking iPhone; not sure what his role in Facebook is
- http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/6/28/facebook-hires-sony-playstation-hacker-george-hotz.html
- Games - World of Warcraft / Team Fortress 2 join City of Heroes in free play
- World of Warcraft free trial now unlimited until Lv 20
- Team Fortress 2 went free last week; pay for upgrades
- City of Heroes is also now free to play with purchased upgrades
- http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/06/29/world-warcraft-trial-now-unlimited
- Games - Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D is unreplayable
- Game will have save files that can not be deleted
- People buying it used will have to play on the old game save
- Games - Supreme Court says games are protected by First Amendment
- CA. law banning sale of Mature games to minors unconstitutional
- Goes against free speech; no different from movies, TV, books, etc.
Pre-show
- Bully vs Casey: Street Fighter Edition
- The Wolverine starts filming in Oct.
- Thor 2 set for Summer 2013, no Branagh
Plugs
- BigKevsView - http://www.bigkevsview.com/
- TheAtomicGeeks - http://www.theatomicgeeks.com
- Geekscape - http://www.geekscape.net
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