List of Geeks

MOST BADASS GEEKS IN FILM:

10. CLARENCE WORLEY - True Romance
"I don't like to barter. I don't like to dicker. I never have fun in Tijuana. That price is non-negotiable. What's in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth that much."9. DONNIE DARKO - Donnie Darko
"Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up".4. NEO - The Matrix
"I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you."
3. PETER PARKER - Spider-Man
"If somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied."
2. ANAKIN SKYWALKER / DARTH VADER - Star Wars
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."1. HIRO NAKAMURA - Heroes
"Every ten year old wishes he had super powers. And I get them. Me of all people. Last in my class. Last on the sports field.
I'm not a loser anymore."
Source: www.alwayswatching.org

5. Steve Carrell as Andy Stitzer in The 40 Year Old Virgin
"the painfully earnest expression, the terrible haircut, the little kid shirt and, of course, the no sex. For 40 years". 4. Michael Cera as Evan in Superbad and Paulie Bleeker in Juno
"neither Paulie nor Evan seem to be especially popular in their respective high schools, but they earn their spot on this list by personifying exactly the sort of unspoiled misfits who are just on the verge of coming into their own as confident young adults"3. Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
"in all those damn Harry Potter movies the Harry Potter Nation has been watching the slow cinematic transformation of their favorite wizard from bespectacled young misfit to post-pubescent master of his wand in a mounting hormonal frenzy" 2. Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent in Superman I-IV
Clark Kent: "I can give more than I take".1. Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 1-3
"My wife and my female friends think he’s hot. My gay friends think he’s hot. Mary Jane Watson (personified by smokin’ hot, soakin’ wet Kirsten Dunst) thinks he’s hot".
Source: nerve.com

Happy belated B-day to Clark Duke!

-"I'm too legit to quit smoking" (Clark & Michael)

More bizarre pearls by Clark and Michael in their show:

-"It's just blatant disrespect, and it's tacky. I guess I'm not used to it because I was raised like a gentleman [throws cup] Like a classy gentleman" -Clark.
-"I notice you've been saying amigo a lot, that's very spanish of you" -Michael.
-"This is that weird time a day when nothin's on...TV...It's just like animal shows"
-"How can you go wrong... on The Internet?

-Clark: This is hard to say, but you've gotta get your act together!
-Michael: I'm going out!
-Clark: Well when are you coming back?!
-Michael: NEVER! (slams door).
-Clark: "I can't believe they canceled this show".

More "Clark and Michael" related stuff in my previous post: DOUBLE ENTENDRES

MTV movie awards

"Teen comedy "Superbad" is leading the nominations for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards after picking up five nods, including Best Movie. The high-school comedy, directed by Greg Mottola, also scooped nominations for the film's stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, who will compete in the Breakthrough Performance category along with their co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Hill is also up for Best Comedic Performance. But "Superbad" will be going up against Oscar-winning "Juno" - which Cera also stars in -for the Best Movie prize, while the actor is also recognized for his efforts in the teen pregnancy film with a nomination for Best Male Performance. Meanwhile, the big-screen adaptation of Transformers is nominated for three awards: Best Movie, Best Male Performance for Shia Labeouf and Breakthrough Performance for Megan Fox. And Enchanted star Amy Adams also received a trio of nods for the Disney film - Best Female Performance, Best Comedic Performance and Best Kiss for her smooch with Patrick Dempsey. The winners for the 17th Annual MTV Movie Awards will be unveiled on June 1 at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California".
Source: www.imdb.com/news

Read my review of "Superbad" again
and Go to the MTV list of Nominees to vote!

Arrested Development happening

-I got a call from Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator, and he said "so have you heard about this movie we're supposedly doing?" and I said yes. And he said he was in and it was great. And Jason [Bateman], when he was doing all the Juno press, he basically just talked up [Arrested Development] the movie. He got the publicity going before anything was real. So Mitch talked to Ron Howard, who said he would direct it, and he's down. So I think Mitch was like, "I guess I'll write it then," and that's what I think he's doing now. And yes, I'm involved. I think everyone is.

-Except Franklin [Will Arnett's racist puppet], right?
-[laughs] Maybe not. I think Franklin was thrown away by Fox executives.

-Who do you see most often from the cast?
-Sadly, I don't see everyone that often. I see Michael Cera every now and again, but he's famous now so he doesn't want to talk to me.
-He doesn't pick up your calls anymore?
-No, not as much. It's fine. I'm handling it well. [Laughs.] I'm kidding! -I saw David Cross once when I moved to NYC five months ago. He was really great when I called him and I think he was really proud that I moved to New York. My entire life is to make David Cross proud of me, though. David Cross with Sarah Silverman.
Source: www.radaronline.com

-They're just trying to keep the flame burning. Speaking of which, Gaydar has done interviews with some of your former castmates.
-Who?
-Jeffrey Tambor and Michael Cera.
-Will Arnett: I've never heard of either of them. They were on the show?
[...]-Sounds like a new high for you. Speaking of high points and low points, I saw in an interview that you said Arrested Development was the best pilot you've ever been in. That makes me wonder, what's the worst?
-I remember there was something really snarky I said in that quote. Something to the effect of: "And I want every other pilot I've been in to know that." Source: www.radaronline.com

-What did you think when you found out that your character on Arrested would fall in love with his cousin?
-I was actually really excited that I would get to have something strange to play off. That was awesome to me.
Source: www.radaronline.com
-When you were first reading the script, it said that you kissed your cousin right?
-Right. It's made very clear.
-What did you think of that?
-It was interesting, and obviously when you're reading the pilot you don't know how long that storyline will be sustained for. But I was really excited when they kept the crush going for so long and they kept drawing the incest joke out. That's the most fun thing to do. It's insanely awkward. And she knows it's awkward and I know it's awkward, and I have to hide it from my dad. It was so much fun to do.
Source: brianpalmer.com

"The first trailer for Rainn Wilson's The Rocker has debuted. "Office" fans are definitely going to enjoy this. The movie is about a drummer from a failed 80's band that joins a high school band to live his dreams of becoming a rock superstar. It stars Rainn Wilson as Robert Fishman, the drummer who joins the band. Superbad's gorgeous Emma Stone also stars and even Will Arnett has a cameo, too. I'm not sure this is going to be one of the best comedies of the summer, but I definitely think it'll be one of those better-than-the-others comedies. It also reminds me a lot of Hot Rod but with Rainn Wilson as a rockstar instead of Andy Samberg. Take a look at the badass new trailer below and let us know what you think! Source: www.firstshowing.net

On the set of "Nailed"

"We’re not sure how we turned into Access Hollywood today, but our source on the set of the movie “Nailed” just keeps on giving … and the lastest news is this: For the first time in a career spanning four decades and over ninety movies, actor James Caan has walked off the set of one of his films. Citing differences with director David O. Russell, Caan left the set of the film last night and will have to be recast". Source: www.fitsnews.com

And this is not the first time the director David O. Russell has had conflicts with some of the actors in his films, in this video during "I heart Huckabees" he had a fight with the actress Lilly Tomlin:

New affiliate Michael Cera Source

Michael was chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2007. Source: michaelcerasource.netJake was chosen the 10th sexiest man alive in 2006.
Source: www.people.com

"My mom says that I'll alway be a perpetual teenager, and I hope she is right about it. [...] So highschool is like an embryo of how your adult life probably will develop. It's the time you secretly begin to take notes in your mind about things you didn't suspect they existed" -read the whole sappy post in Rian Johnson's forum. I wrote these lines and I still feel almost the same that I explained then, maybe those jv years marked me so hard that after watching "Brick" I developed a crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt, remember? and now, well, we have umpteen videos being uploaded by me dedicated to Mike Cera, so let's see, it seems to me this can be called a new crush in Weirdland. Kendra is in love again after watching two "high-school" movies as "Superbad" and "Juno", which partially were about pre-college days, both starred by Michael Cera. I resisted at first (mainly because he's way younger than me -although don't be fooled, my mental maturity is far away from my age- so that balances things a bit, k?)
This canadian blonde guy Mr. Awkward Character reminds me of my high-school crush with whom I shared my little luxurious world at the time, he conquered my insouciant teen soul when he played -he actioned the play button- in a secret session a song that tuned my heart (although my heart got hurt in the process). Just in the moment we (very shyly) started to dance together I had this crazy thought of when the peak of the song would come maybe I couldn't stand it, that's why I was hurt, I was afraid of that moment coming, that could become real, because I realised maybe no other moment, no other song, no other person would make me feel so crazy, so hurt, so beautiful... and there was a kiss -you forget all when that moment of the song (the tower of song) and that kiss collision in your mind- my thoughts melted, because not only that irreal moment (immarcessible, inmesurable in time) mustn't be true, I couldn't be true either.

how many times does the dull mute soundtrack outside of weirdland make me remember that song that melts my thought, that dissolves my fears?

MICHAEL CERA LEAVES ME "BREATHLESS" VIDEO:

Bryan Lee O'Malley

"The FCBD story introduced Scott and his friends to first-time readers and it also provided fans with another adventure that they'd embarked on. Wallace Wells, Ramona Flowers and Scott are characters that would appeal to the average American reader, and O’Malley reiterated what he said before that the characters were originally loosely based on himself, his girlfriend and his roommate when he was then 23 years old. “But I'd like to think they have since grown into their own unique personalities. I certainly don't think of them as myself, my roommate and my girlfriend anymore, but I do think "what would he say in this situation?" or whatever, when I feel stuck.” Source: www.newsarama.com

"MAYONEGG" VIDEO:

The "Scott Pilgrim" influence is not only in digest-format indie books, but in a lot of new comics that blend together a lot of different pop-culture touchstones that the creators are interested in, in the same way that you blend together manga, indie rock, video games and so on.

Brian O'Malley: You know I sometimes worry that it's like a cultural dead-end if everyone's just kind of regurgitating. I know I'm kind of part of a scene of stuff like that. Even Edgar Wright, who's doing the adaptation, is kind of in the same area in terms of creating a synthesis of everything else that's gone into you as a younger person and turning it into your own art later. But is it really you, or is it just regurgitation?

-What is your take on Scott himself? He's a good guy, he's a funny guy, but he's also kind of an unrepentant slacker.

Bryan O'Malley: He's a profoundly lazy person. He never really goes after anything-he just lets it all fall in his lap. You sort of highlight the worst parts of your own personality. I was a gifted kid, and when I was growing up I didn't want to do anything unless it was easy. It's the same thing with comics for me. Comics were the only things that were easy enough for me not to give up on through high school and university. Scott is just like that, but turned up to 10. He never does anything but stuff comes to him anyway. He's just really lucky.

-So he is a reflection of you in some way.

Bryan Lee O'Malley: Yeah, definitely. He's some aspects of me that I like and others that I really don't like.

He's also the archetypal stupid character. It's fun to write a stupid protagonist because you don't really have to know anything.

-Do you feel that Scott's grown over the course of the volumes?

Bryan Lee O'Malley: The idea is that he will have grown by the end. Hopefully. [laughs] I don't think it's very apparent yet. Any growth that he's made has been relatively minor even though he would think that it's major.

Volume Four addresses that more. Source: www.comicbookresources.com

"In cheekily appropriating his title from the Smashing Pumpkins' epic third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, O'Malley is winking at Billy Corgan's pretensions, but that doesn't mean he avoids repeating them". Source: www.slate.com

In fact, there are notable similarities between the two Infinite Sadnesses. Each is an artful, ambitious third release by an artist who flourished on the fringe and whose work is suddenly being recognized by the mainstream.

Volume three even includes a list of tunes for a "mix CD" that was O'Malley's soundtrack while working on the book. "I don't feel like I'm a big authority on music," he admits. "I'm not a 'tastemaker.' Source: cgi.sfbg.com

O'Malley was a big anime geek in high school, though, and his trademark visual approach in Scott Pilgrim is a blend of manga-style eyes and actions and a very North American sense of

melancholy. "Lost at Sea" was a dreamy, introspective book that plunged into the depths of its characters’s psyches to drag truths to the surface, one at a time. I think that one of the reasons why this first volume of Scott Pilgrim instantly worked so well for me is that it doesn’t try to be Lost at Sea 2: Still Lost but instead goes wildly in a different direction. Scott Pilgrim is fast and goofy, catapulting Scott from one situation to the next.

From the cast of characters that Scott gets to interact with to the scenes just with Scott, there was always something to bring a smile to my face, be it the little “ratings” that appear next to each character as they’re introduced, to the dry wit where the reality of the world is casually noted in contrast to Scott’s crazy actions.

That’s not to say that there isn’t any seriousness in Scott Pilgrim. Scott’s first extended encounter with Ramona Flowers, for instance, starts off silly but gradually moves into something that shows a great amount of maturity. If it had just shown up that way it might have felt out of place, but O’Malley slips these moments into the book so perfectly and gradually that it never feels like the tone of the book has shifted until you stop and think about it afterwards. Of course, lest you think it’s ever gotten too serious, O’Malley responds with rock-and-roll-meets-Nintendo fight scene to end all fight scenes. (You may think I’m making this up. I’m not. And it’s wonderful)

In the end, the writing for Scott Pilgrim is just good old plain fun.

The art is unsurprisingly strong in Scott Pilgrim. At a casual glance it might be easy to categorize it as being “cartoony” but there’s a lot more going on here.

From the opening page with Ramona’s head tilted down as she walks across the snowy lawn, to her wide-eyed expression of terror as she shows up unexpectedly to Scott’s front door, there’s a lot of variety and energy in the art. These aren’t loosely-drawn characters because O’Malley has no choice; it’s a very deliberate drawing style, able to bring a lot of depth of emotion onto each of their faces and bodies as they appear on the page. Additionally, O’Malley brings Toronto to life as a living, breathing location in Scott Pilgrim, with each location coming across as more than just a background, but as real neighborhoods and places that our characters are moving through.

Little details like the ever-growing snow that Scott and Ramona plunge through comes across almost like part of a dream, with the sudden diving down towards the door amidst the assault of the elements on our characters. It’s absolutely gorgeous, and it gives the entire book an extra high quality level with its entire look and feel. Sources: www.readaboutcomics.com and destroyerzooey.livejournal.com