The Storm Warriors 風雲II

The Storm Warriors (風雲II), sequel to the 1998 film The Storm Riders (風雲), AKA the semi-disastrous comic-to-movie adaptation that helped to usher in even more freakish HK comic-to-movie adaptations like "A Man Called Hero (中華英雄)" and the one that finally dropped the ball on the genre, "Dragon Tiger Gate (龍虎門)". The above sentiment might prove to be debatable to many, as common consensus dictates that sacrifices to the source material are somewhat mandatory while conducting the transition, with examples like Peter Parker developing his webshooter as another manifestation of the radioactive spider effect or Wolverine having his claw laced to his knuckle in a distinctly different manner. On both accounts, I agreed and thought of it as stylistic indifference. However, in the case for these Chinese Manhua adaptations, the alteration seemed to fit no one but probably the Costume Designers (to justify his existence) , the Writers (for exercising his forte by running wild with their creativity on the source materials) and the Directors (for banking on the source material's existing fanbase to cash out the cheque). It's 2009, and we have seen "Sin City", "The Dark Knight", "Ironman" and "Watchmen". With the Pang Brothers at helm (right after their abysmal Hollywood outings) and a seemingly sound plot line to follow, can HK's adaptation of their proud culture relic, Manhua, keep up? Judging from the snippets, I'm afraid to say that keeping fingers crossed seemed to be an optimistic way of looking at it. The trailer seemed okay notwithstanding the fact that it 's not really showing much, but the snippets are indeed worrying, to say the least. A cheap knock-off of 300 if you ask me. Nevertheless, with stroke of genius like the casting of the Nameless Wu Ming 無名 (何家勁 Kenny Ho, who successfully portrayed Hero Hua in the 1990 TV Drama adaptation of "A Man Called Hero (中華英雄)" and its 1991 sequel) and one of the best storyline in Hong Kong's Manhua history, Let's keep that finger crossed.

High Kick Girl

You seriously just can't get more literal than this. Presenting to you what Warren Ellis called, THE GREATEST FILM TRAILER EVER.

Who Wants to Be Filthy F#&%ing Rich

In light of the real life's all-consuming "Final Crisis" and the heavily acclaimed film, "Slumdog Millionaire" that is all the rage these days, one can't help but brings to mind Rage Against The Machine's iconic music video in 2000, Sleep Now In The Fire. Directed by then relatively-unknown (pre-Bowling For Columbine) Michael Moore, the video interweaves scenes from a caricature of the then-popular TV game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", aptly named, "Who Wants to Be Filthy F#&%ing Rich", with footage taken when the band played right in front of the New Year Stock Exchange with Michael Moore and cinematographer Welles Hackett in helm. The infamous performance resulted in the detainment of Moore (for an hour and slapped with threat for arrest) and the unprecedented impromptu lockdown of the NYSC's Doors for fear of crowd gathering. Oh, and there's a real cute quote by Gary Bauer (a Republican Politician doing their routine shit-stirring) at the end of the video, "a band called 'The Machine Rages On' - er - 'Rage Against the Machine', that band is anti-family and it's pro-terrorist"

Who Watches The Watchmen? We Now Know The Japanese Will.

A truly interestingly alternate (in every sense of the word) take on the trailer for the upcoming "Watchmen", courtesy ofTrailerAddict, featuring many sequence that is unseen on the official trailers and teasers like, for starters, the death of Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl, if I guessed/remembered correctly.

Doraemon VS Resident Evil

You had to see it to believe it, and hell, it sure seems like a kick-ass 2D game... if it's an actual game, that is.

The End Begins...

With the divergent continuity explores itself in all its glory (in TV's Sarah Connors Chronicles), will it still interests you on whatever happened to our good ol' original suppposed messiah, John Connors in the story proper? Probably, you should, with the TV series dropping subtle nods to the movie's ongoing continuity and that reportedly, the latest sequel gonna drop some not-that-subtle nods back.

It's That Time Of The Year Again, Jackass!!!

Wobbly wriggling while withering in the ever-as-efficient-as-it-is-goddamn-overloaded morning train to whore myself yet again, I find myself incapable of wiping that silly smirk off my face when I saw this ad. Wondering what time of the year had delighted this merry family of three generations gathering in front of the X-Box 360? Wonder no more. Ahhh, the delights of drunk driving, are just one of the many vices that you can indulge in Grand Theft Auto IV, a fact made famous by a stark-raving organization with a strangely appropriately named acronym, MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

風雲決 AKA Storm Rider Clash of the Evils Trailer

Some crappy pseudo-anime trailer.