New Trailer for DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

I feel that not only will DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES deliver just as touching and thrilling a story as the first one, but also ALL the feels for the Ape families will up the drama ten fold.

Ceaser is back. And he's got plenty of company.  The apes have built themselves a really cool community.  Meanwhile the human society has fallen apart.  But humans will be human, meaning they can't learn anything from their tragedy.  Of course they go after the apes, but I don't think they are ready for an ape army that can fight back.  I'll be looking forward to seeing this in July.

Wednesday Versus: LUTHOR VS JAMES BOND

Lex Luthor has a plan to take over the world with a mind controlling satellite system. He almost has everything he needs to initiate his scheme.

The United States and England only know vaguely of Luthor's intentions. Therefore, they send in their best, most successful secret agent to infiltrate and possibly stop the corporate titan before everyone becomes a Luthor Zombie. Armed with the most advanced spy technology and the coolest car seen yet, Agent 007 sets out to spy, disrupt, seduce and karate chop his way to Luthor's inner sanctum and destroy the machine before the final countdown. IT'S:

LEX LUTHOR VERSES 007 JAMES BOND

Who Would Win? It's up to you all to choose which favorite versions of both go head to head.

GSB After Dark: STERLING, RACISM AND 200 NIGERIAN GIRLS

In this episode, the Five Nerdy Venoms got into great discussions on the recent remarks of Rod Serling, racism and the horrible situation where over 200 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped and now it's reported that some were sold off as wives / sex-slaves to neighboring countries.  Illumeenous headed the conversation with her fellow Venoms.  And not only are these injustices happening, but all over the world there are people being terrorized and killed. But where is the news coverage? Why aren't these young girls' plight being covered by news sources like the recent missing airplane?  I hope you find the discussion enlightening.

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ROSEMARY'S BABY 2014! A Two Part TV Event!

So what's the word on the new NBC Mini-Series remake of Rosemary's Baby?  How many of you are looking forward to watching it?  I like that instead of making a horrible film remake, the studio instead created a two part TV Event.  It seemed for a time only a few networks were willing or had courage to do a mini-series. Syfy channel has been especially successful with their choices.

In case anybody isn't familiar with the story, Rosemary and her husband move into a beautiful place in the city with lovely neighbors.  But why do the neighbors and the elderly couple that own the place have such a special interest in them, especially Rosemary.  When she becomes pregnant, things get even more weird.  What's so special about Rosemary's Baby?  This story is based on a novel by Ira Levin, which was also made into a 1968 feature film starring Mia Farrow.  It's a horror classic for you fans of the genre.

I'm kind of looking forward to Zoe Saldana playing the role of Rosemary.  I think she will kill it, and I'm not tired of seeing her appear in film after film yet.  Though Hollywood is starting to saturate themselves with her as the 'it' girl with a little color added in.  I would have been interested to see what it would have been like if the husband (played by Patrick Adams) had been of Dominican descent also.  Visually I mean.  The characters could be of any cultural background as far as the story is concerned.

What about you guys? Do you like the idea of a two part TV special?  Who else would you have liked to have seen as Rosemary if not Zoe?  I guess we will see if it was really worth it when the mini-series premieres May 11th.  You can check the trailer unless you don't want spoilers of any kind.

GSB Flashback: FORBIDDEN PLANET

One of my favorites classic Sci-fi films of all time is FORBIDDEN PLANET.  This movie had a great mix of a spacecraft, a robot, a space damsel, a twisted doctor and a deadly creature on a distant planet.

The movie starts out with a military spaceship receiving orders to check if there were any survivors of a lost colony on the planet Altair 20 years prior.  When the crew comes close to the planet, they are surprised to hear a warning from the only survivor.  Not heeding the warning, Commander Adams orders the ship to land, and is greeted by a robot. The famous Robby the Robot. Robby escorts him and his 2 officers to Dr. Morbius and his 18 year old daughter Altaira.  Morbius explains that the rest of his party were killed 20 years earlier by a mysterious force.  But even though the doctor warns Commander Adams that he should take his men and leave, fearing this force will return, the commander is bound by orders to investigate.  And it didn't hurt that Altaira was a space hottie. Well, that’s where the fun starts.  Impossible murders by an unseen monster, and the discovery of an ancient dead alien race called ‘The Krell’ makes this movie continually more interesting as the story unfolds.  I don’t want to give any of the juicy parts away so I’ll just stop spoiling it here.  Don’t get fooled by the trailer… it’s a good flick:

Afro-Commentary: BLOWN AWAY!

Movies today are spectacular, awesome, ingenious, mind-blowing, eye-popping digital miracles.  From the first scenes of Terminator 2's T-1000 shifting and oozing in his 'polymetal' form to the life like yet totally imaginary beings of Avatar, movie magic has brought us to a place of awe and wonder.

For me this isn't the first time that I have witnessed movies that changed my perception of what was real and what was fantasy.  I was born in the 60's, and grew up in the 70's.  Cinema was very different when I was young.  But the lack of CG or digital film scores didn't mean that I missed out on experiencing the same feeling of awe that audiences are mesmerized by today.

The seventies was a era where the term 'Blockbuster' was coined.  Mainly it came about because people were lining up around the blocks to get tickets.  People were showing up in droves.  But not because they were starved for entertainment. In the seventies, movies changed in a way that audiences had never seen before.

My first experience of this was when I went to see JAWS in 75'.  I was pretty young, but my parents thought it was okay.  "It's just a shark movie."  I laugh now when I talk to younger generations and tell them that JAWS scared the crap out of me.  Yes, that's right little Geek Soul Brother was scared of a rubber shark.  Shoot, I still don't like swimming in the ocean!  Laugh it up, it's okay.  But take a mental trip back to that time and imagine that the worst scary movie up until then were monsters in rubber suits slowly walking towards their victims.  Or before that, giant insects or sea creatures attacking cities.  That was pretty much the height of fear; though I don't think they really scared anybody.  PSYCHO was an exception.

Back to the 70's.  Yes, JAWS was a hit.  But it was just the first in a line of cinema breakthroughs that just kept pounding people's imaginations one after another.

Everything increased in its own special genre.  Horror got more scary, Scifi got more imaginative, drama became more... dramatic!  I didn't see THE EXORCIST in the theater cause I was too young.  But even today it is considered one of the scariest movies of all time.  For me everything changed in horror when I went to see ALIEN for the first time.  It was a man in a suit, yes, but not the corny rubber suit of yesteryear.  From that point on, the sub-genre of Sci-Fi/Horror took on a whole new meaning.  And new genres were being invented by that time.  'Slasher' became a standard.  Suddenly buildings on fire and earthquakes became 'Disaster Movies'.

And above all, the genre that had me officially 'BLOWN AWAY' was Science Fiction.  Better special effects technology and camera movement allowed film makers like Lucas and Spielberg to create moments of imagination that were only previously in the minds of book readers. I have to say that no one was ready for what they first saw in  STAR WARS.  Even the commercials gave us a clue that we were seeing something new.  Fights with Swords made of light and ships that could fly so fast the stars streaked past them had people walking out the theaters wondering how all that was possible.  CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND made people feel that not only could aliens exist but they could be wise and knowing.  And SUPERMAN brought the most famous comic book character to life.

I'm glad I got to experience the beginnings of the way movies changed and evolved.  Sometimes I look at younger people and wonder if they will ever feel the way we did in those days.  It was a 'first time' for many things in film and I don't know if it will ever impact people the same way again.  But if it does, I hope the coming generations aren't jaded to the genius in filmmaking that's coming down the road.  What was the movie moment that had you Blown Away?

GSB Podcast: ANIME 2: KAIJU BOOGALOO

The Five Nerdy Venoms revisited the topic of Anime! It's been like 2 years.  But instead of going over the classics, they talked about what they liked and hated now.  Our newest Venom JD (she still has to walk the rice paper) listed some age appropriate anime.




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