Ugly....Ugly Things Are Amdist

Especially the way how I make new blog posts. Too simple and looks a lot like Word. Stay classy Google.

• Well lets get to some news. I usually don't go into theme park news, but I feel this should be brought up. Especially when things become as horrid when a theme park doesn't know how to entertain their guests anymore. It's especially troubling when Disney doesn't know how to.

Disney wanted to bring something Tron related to their park when they become nostalgic and they put out a sequel to their almost 30 year (wow 30 years!) film. So they created a light show to perform at night called ElecTRONica and created a replica of Flynn's Arcade in California Adventure's Hollywood Pictures Backlot (Or now Hollywood Land. Not joking). I found it impressive and I really would have liked to have visited it one day. I also would have liked Daft Punk to perform there one day, but that probably wouldn't have happened. Could have, but didn't. It looks like Disney had a great show to keep there since I heard many great things and brings the right audience. So to completely avoid the 30th anniversary what does Disney do? Take it out and design a new Alice in Wonderland show which looks like everyone belongs in a gang or some stupid club.

                                                  And apparently look like Wildman.

Its not gone yet, but soon will be in mid-April. But really, what a missed opportunity. You had an adequate light show Disney, until you thought of this crap. Not only a missed opportunity, but you skewered the image of Alice in Wonderland even more. Just think about it Disney before you make the absolute decision of removing ElecTRONica. Stay classy Disney...

 ...I need to kill stuff...

At least Cars Land is looking pretty swell (yeah, not proud of it either). They should have used the CGI Pixar money from Cars 2 to help out with more Cars Land stuff. I mean how much did that movie make?

• Now we go on to Six Flags which has been bugging me lately with all the changes they have been doing. I haven't been to the park lately, but I do know when you turn dark world of Gotham City Backlot into the very much colorful and flamboyant DC Universe Land (its just DC Universe, but you get the gist). I don't know if I would have enjoyed this when I was a kid, since I know this is aimed towards kids and probably teens (to some capacity, no idea what they like honestly its weird, don't ask. Just look whats on Cartoon Network or Nick lately). But its just too colorful and they really try to stuff every popular member of the Justice League into this place.

I mean here we have the infamous quick change Superman phone booth with the new colored building in the backround. Also this will probably be removed to coincide with the new 52 mythos.

Speaking of New 52 they probably will change this a lot to coincide with that. I still don't like the new 52. Too many things have changed and its just wrong. Guh, nothing is going to get me to like the new theme change nothing.

Haha, clever, but your not gonna get me with a Plastic Man trash can.

 ...bastards.

• Oh and forgot to mention this...well...Six Flags. You are now going to Hell:

Now...for some damned reason, Six Flags has to, for some reason, promote the Three Stooges movie. So what have they wrought? Damnation. Utter Chaos. A Blood Bath. Just...no other words can describe this insanity. I can't look at it anymore...

My god...wait a minute...isn't Six Flags owned by Warner Bros.? Why is Warner Bros. doing a promotion for FOX? Perhaps that is the greatest mystery of all...

...no it isn't. Its just bloody idiotic. Seriously though, what the hell is going on here? Who's in charge here?

• Lets end on a lighter note shall we? Here's a look at the villains for The Avengers in the new TV spot. Apparently we still don't know what they are from that though...

E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial 30th Anniversary Blu-ray

With Jaws on its way, its only fair that Spielberg release a little something extra for us this year as well. We'll get more Spielbergian movies, but Jaws and E.T. are great titles to enjoy at the beginning of the new year.

Now we come to the not so great part. Spielberg may have decided to go back and edit out his previous changes, but he decided to change the box art. Oh, boy. What a bad idea. Very little thought was put into it. The photoshop may not be as bad as my banner, but well check it out:



As you can see, a little too much is going on here with different color hues going on. Where's our famous fly across the moon image? It may serve as a back cover image, but it looks like its gone. I'm pretty anal about my DVD covers. There are some pretty fantastic (with a hint of bizarre)covers (I'm a fan of simplicity), to the just plain awful (I should have chosen a well known movie, but Val Kilmer's stretched head will suffice for now). E.T.'s cover is an an example of just being bad. Its not awful, but it isn't good either.

I can't imagine Mr. Spielberg would change it to the out of print DVD cover, which is pretty fantastic since the Disc represents the moon. Or the single disc cheap Special Edition cover, which is a mix of two classic E.T. posters. I guess he just wanted to go with something new. Its not amazing, but I guess I can live with it. At least you can't go wrong with Jaws.

So It Begins…

- An internet battle was fought today as the FBI had shut down the infamous site “Megaupload” amid the SOPA blackouts yesterday to protest the bill. (Read here to learn about SOPA to keep in the loop) The internet was shocked and horrified as this took place. Employees were arrested and all of their assets confiscated. Yes, Megaupload was a huge site for online Piracy, but it was also a place once used just to easily move huge files from one place to another. Hell, most of us have used Megaupload in the past, its no secret. So it’s a huge blow to all of us. This was all done without SOPA or PIPA passed as well.  (Actually there are rumors that it has been passed, but hasn’t been put into effect yet) This will be the start of bigger things to come. Especially since…

Update: Is this the reason why?

- The Internet Hackers, Anonymous, launched a massive counter-attack against the websites of: MPAA, RIAA, DoJ, and even the FBI adding fuel to the fire. This all just taking place 15 minutes after the shutdown of Megaupload. All websites were down for a good while and sure pissed MPAA off. It took FBI out for a good hour and proved Anonymous can take down just about anyone. But can they really do it for good? Or are these just empty threats by the elite group of Hackers? What does this all mean today? Nothing is certain for now. All this proves that the internet is a very powerful and dangerous place.

- Next I think we should get back to normal news. Here’s an ad for Sony:

 

-Now here’s an actual trailer for the next chapter of Resident Evil:

- Today DC comics revealed their new logo. Didn’t they just touch up on their old logo recently? I guess it wasn’t enough for them so they decided to make it completely different and to correspond with every major superhero they have licensed.

I don’t really know what to say. I guess it looks like it has DC somewhere in the logo. I honestly don’t see a “D” though. All I see is the peel effect they tried to do. Its really bothering me as I look at it. I really don’t mind the execution, its just designed pretty awful. I sorta like the Watchmen logo, but to an extent. Its just bloody awful, I’ll leave it at that.

More on that here.

- Now I leave you with a sound heard around the world and is so strange that all this will probably destroy us sometime this year. Goodnight everybody!

Some Evangelion Movie News

Been waiting to hear the official title of the new Evangelion 3.0 movie? Just so I won’t delay it, the new title is: You Can (Not) Redo. And now a very important image:

Looks like the plug suits now get helmets with cat ears. Teaser images for sure as we have no word on plot yet but expect to see the movie in the fall of 2012. The beginning of the end really and seems fitting. The 4th movie doesn’t have a title yet, but there is a website for it with a question mark next to Japanese characters I can’t or haven’t seen a translation for. Can not wait for the final two movies.