* Here at ADDTF I enjoy taking credit for being right, since it happens so infrequently. Regular readers may note that I’ve been defending The Incredible Hulk against sight-unseen unfavorable comparisons to Iron Man and kvetching about the supposedly prima-donnaish behavior of star Edward Norton for months now. So I feel some vindication in reading my friend Zach Oat’s rave review of the movie at Television Without Pity and good ol’ Harry Knowles’s report that Norton is, in fact, doing press for the film (in roughly the same capacity he’s done so for most of his other movies). Speaking of, here’s a roundtable interview between Norton, director Louis Leterrier, and soul-crushingly pretty co-star Liv Tyler at Moviefone. I bet you I like this movie.
* Fun fact I learned from Zach’s review: Lou Ferrigno voices the Hulk in the movie! Fun fact I learned from the roundtable interview: The RZA was on set! Fun fact I learned from the roundtable interview number two: Liv Tyler knows Gizmo’s little song from Gremlins by heart! (Even if she calls the movie Goonies.)
* Grant Morrison’s implied suggestion that fans with beef over the continuity blips in his Final Crisis #1 should be so kind as to sit on it and rotate went over like gangbusters with me, but some other folks are more skeptical. Tom Spurgeon says it’s unfair to fault fans conditioned for functional continuity to expect it, while in a lively comment thread on thishyere blog Jim Treacher argues that by working on a story completely dependent on continuity and then rejecting pleas for said continuity, Morrison’s trying to have it both ways. Sean of the late, lamented Strange Ink and Bruce Baugh weigh in with counterarguments in that same thread.
* In other Morrison news, Big Sunny D (!!!) muses on the Mad Scot’s oddly absorbing Batman run.
* At Wizard’s Indie Jones blog, my compadre David Paggi posts his MoCCA report (with photos), and ends it with a phrase I never thought I’d hear uttered by anyone who didn’t grow up on my block during the ’80s.
* The New York Times reports that nine inch nails’ Trent Reznor is indeed planning a TV series based on his dystopian concept album year zero with producer Lawrence Bender. (Via Pitchfork.)
* In the “interesting-looking reviews of films I haven’t seen yet,” CRwM of And Now the Screaming Starts takes a look at blogosphere favorite Inside.
* Curt Purcell of The Groovy Age of Horror continues his exploration of supernatural horror with an in-depth examination of the linguistic underpinnings of Freud’s conception of the Uncanny.
* A multitude of my League of Tana Tea Drinkers horrorblogging compatriots tackle Evil Children in horror.
What Spurge said. Plus I always love an excuse to point out that the Sam Henderson panel in his logo is a character based on him yelling at a character based on me.
Thanks for the link – don’t think I’ve ever warranted so many exclamation points, but I’ll take ’em!
The Morrison Batman run is an odd thing isn’t it? Your wee overview made me reread the series, and you’re right, it does feel a lot more purposeful when taken as a whole. That sense that there’s something really big going on just outside of your perception… it’s something Morrison does well, even if it can be frustrating at times.
And yeah, the whole Final Crisis continuity thing. It’s hard for me to care, but I reckon I might feel differently if I’d spent a whole wack of cash on Countdown etc. I’ll admit that I’ve been surprised by the level of confusion the story itself seems to have generated. Johnny Bacardi’s ‘wait and see’ response seems most apt to me, but I guess this goes back to the exciting/frustrating nature of Morrison’s storytelling choices, so fair enough.
I have a copy of Inside if you wanna borrow, dude.
BUT, you gotta let me borrow that horror doc you gots.
Plus a million other prized Collins treasures.
(Comics.)