It. Is. On.

Go here to check out the trailer for the new movie, NINJA. Oh, yes, this is happening.

Undisputed

I'm proud to say that saw Undisputed in the theater. Recently, I saw it again. It was still awesome. I'm not joking. There's too much snark in the world as it is. I really like this movie. The premise is a little out there, but who cares? Basically, Wesley Snipes is the boxing champ in this inter-prison league. Ving Rhames is the heavyweight champ of the world who's sent to prison. They fight. Again, it is awesome. Undisputed was directed by Walter Hill who's done some great movies and while this may never make anyone's top ten, it accomplishes everything it sets out to do and does it well.

Not quite as awesome, but still entertaining, is Undisputed 2. This features Michael Jai White taking over the Ving Rhames role and he gets sent to prison in Russia (this guy's luck is BAD) where he has to fight their resident bad ass. This moves away from boxing and into the mixed martial arts world, which is cool. There were definitely some budget constraints on this one, but it's more than made up for with the frenetic fights and camera work.

I understand that there's an Undisputed 3 in the works. I will go out on a limb and give it a pre-awesome.

Chuck Norris is 69 today

That is all.

The Thing From Another World (out of costume)

Jim Wynorski (movie director extraordinaire) posted these photo of James Arness on the set of "The Thing From Another World" over at Retromedia Forum, which is run by Fred Olen Ray (also a movie director extraordinaire).

I love seeing these old school Hollywood pics of sci-fi films. It looks like all the guys in the background just stepped out of a mill somewhere and they have no idea what the hell's going on.

FYI James Arness and Peter Graves are brothers. Mind blowing!

They stopped showing videos, but at least they have this.

MTV's Splash Page is a surprisingly good site with a lot of up-to-date info about comics-related movies.

I only say surprisingly becaues MTV really does suck for the most part. Really.

*This image from WE3 has nothing to do with anything other than it's awesome.

Watchmen costumes. Mmm, okay.

I'm looking forward to the Watchmen movie. As far as the Halloween costumes go? In the words of Rorschach, "Hurm."

Ozymandias (L) The Comedian (R)

Lots more Watchmen movie news here.

Mythos!

This is an awesome book that re-tells the origins of some of Marvel's most well-known characters. The stories are great and the painted pages are beautiful to look at.

I especially dig the cover showing all the characters. Why are they all hanging together? Dangerous threat? Natural disaster? Birthday party?

Definitely a birthday party.