If there’s one comic book movie geeks everywhere are looking forward to seeing, it definitely is The Dark Knight Rises. The final part of the Chris Nolan Batman film trilogy, Batman (Christian Bale) will face off against Bane (Tom Hardy) and possibly Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) as Catwoman. There are also rumors of a young Ra’s Al-Ghul, Talia Al-Ghul, and a Lazarus Pit in the film.

And now, Twitter user @simps just tweeted the teaser poster of this much-anticipated film.

Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is all I can say.

So, over on Tumblr, Marga asked me what I thought of X-Men: First Class. I was planning to give a quick and concise answer, something along the lines of “It wasn’t the best comic book movie, but it completely captured the spirit of the X-Men quite right and for that it’s great,” but I ended up writing a mini-review already. I thought it was best to post it here anyway.

I’m not much of an X-Men fan, but I know that they took a lot of liberties with the comic book canon (EXCEPT FOR BEAST, THOSE WEREN’T THE FIRST X-MEN! XAVIER LOST THE USE OF HIS LEGS IN THE ARMY, BEFORE HE FORMED THE X-MEN! THERE WAS NO SEXUAL TENSION BETWEEN MAGNETO AND XAVIER! MAGNETO’S REAL NAME IS NOT ERIK LENSHERR!), and I’m okay with that. Unlike Green Lantern, which tried to closely follow the comic book canon but completely missed what made the comics so great, X-Men: First Class understood what made all these characters tick, and told a compelling story to boot. (continue reading…)

Comicgasm editors Ade and RJ have seen the much-anticipated movie adaptation of the fan-favorite comic book series, Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds as the title character. Was it the best comic book adaptation ever or was it a steaming pile of turd? Read on to read the editors’ opinions about the movie.

As always, this review will be FULL OF SPOILERS. If you have not seen Green Lantern yet, do not read on.

Ade: Honestly, I didn’t go in the theater with high expectations. The costume sucked, Ryan Reynolds never struck me as the perfect guy to play Hal Jordan, and the movie has an embarrassing 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. With that, I kept my expectations low, and went in hoping for an entertaining dumb flick along the lines of Green Hornet. I can’t believe that hoping for an entertaining movie was asking too much.

RJ: To be honest, I kinda needed this movie to work. And by “work”, I mean “NOT SUCK”. The Green Lantern books have been so disappointing lately (and by “lately”, I meant ever since “Brightest Day”) that I needed something to, forgive the pun, Recharge my faith in Green Lantern. Emerald Knights helped, it helped a LOT. But then they gave us THIS? Really, DC? REALLY? I wasn’t asking for something that’ll blow my mind, just a movie that doesn’t TOTALLY SUCK DONKEY BALLS. It’s like you WANT me to be ANGRIER at you, DC!

Ade: Before anything else, though, let me just say: I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE WHO TALK IN MOVIES. Yes, I am talking about you, woman who was loudly describing everything that was happening on screen as it was happening to her boyfriend. Also, your boyfriend too, the idiot who did not put his phone on silent and talked to his mom for a good five minutes. Choke on a bag of dicks, you two.

RJ: It’s like the entire day was made just to piss us off. The weeaboo horde at Toy Con (wait for our Toy Con experience post!), 1:43 posters, assholes seated behind us, and to top it all: the Green Lantern movie. It really was a good idea that I wore my Red Lantern shirt that day.

Ade: At first glance, this movie looked like the one fanboys everywhere have been clamoring for: awesome special effects, a stellar cast, an amazing director, and a very faithful, almost reverent, adaptation of the comic book mythos. So why the hell does this movie suck? (continue reading…)

Okay. Pretty much EVERYONE is angry at DC right now, and for good reason. But let’s take a blue ring and sooth that RAGE for now and see something GOOD for a change.

I’m talking about Green Lantern Emerald Knights, DC’s latest direct-to-video feature film. And it is oh so very good. So good that I went back to liking Geoff Johns for a while. Man, that is crazy! Warning: this review is spoilerrific!

You know why it’s so damn good? Because it’s not centralized on just one character, *COUGH* HAL JORDAN *COUGH* but about the diverse members of the Green Lantern Corps. Hal got to be the story teller to an animu-looking rookie Arisia though. *insert statutory rape joke here*

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Oh man, oh man, oh man. The new Green Lantern trailer is out, and i’m supposed to write a nice filler paragraph here explaining how excited I am for the new movie, also how much I hate Hal Jordan’s costume because really, fuck that shit that costume sucks. Anyway here’s the part where I’ll try to do a random segue so I can actually finish writing and just get on to the video, because, really it’s that awesome. I haven’t had decent sleep for a week already so please forgive my meta blogging jokes.

Finally: HAL JORDAN/SENESTRO SWORDFIGHT! KILLOWOG TALKING! MORE OF THAT MYSTERIOUS YELLOW CLOUD!

What do YOU think?