LING LING PASSED AWAY

Aww, I just found out LING LING passed away. He was Japan's oldest giant panda at 22 years old (70 in "human years"). Now he's the big cuddly panda in the sky. Rest in peace, Ling Ling!

MORTAL KOMBAT FATALITIES (YES, ALL OF THEM)

DARK CITY - DIRECTOR'S CUT

Hey, July 28th the director's cut of DARK CITY comes out on dvd!

It's about 15min longer than the original and includes improved FX and "new & improved" sound mix. I'm going to have to check this out.


Previous "Matrix Ripped Off Dark City".

MARVEL HAS RUN OUT OF IDEAS

The "Anti-Venom",
set to debut in August's Amazing Spider-Man #568.

Other Symbiote characters:
Venom: The first, on Eddie Brock
Carnage: Venom's son
She-Venom II: Clone of the original Venom Symbiote
Scream: Child of Venom, sister to Carnage
Phage: Another child of Venom.
Riot: Another child of Venom.
Lasher: Another child of Venom.
Agony: Another child of Venom.
Hybrid: A combination of Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.
Toxin: Carnage's Son
Dreadface: A symbiote.
Krobaa: Some dude wearing a symbiote(??)

LAME!!!!
Venom should have been the first and last... and been done with after McFarlane.

NEW HULK TRAILER

Click HERE to watch it, because Digg failed to work. bah!

Hulk still looks too CG-rubbery and too human in the face. I prefer the 70s/80s Marvel version of the monster. And the Abomination looks horrible, like a bad video game movie reject. Still, I'll check it out as it looks better than Ang Lee's disasterous attempt.

X-WING KITE IS PRETTY SWEET

JOKERIZED DARK KNIGHT TRAILER

OCTODOG ! ! !

BATMAN COMPARISON TRAILER

Fanmade trailer editing Tim Burton's BATMAN to be in synch with the DARK KNIGHT trailer.

NEW SLEESTAKS STAY TRUE

Check out the SLEESTAKS in the upcoming movie adaptation of LAND OF THE LOST (starring Will Ferrell). Sure, the movie will most likely blow, but I'm giving props to the creature designers for not only looking to the Source Material, but staying true to it!

JEDI KIDS GIF

*if gif is not playing, click HERE

LAME BATCYCLE POSTER

More new Dark Knight posters HERE.

COKE ZERO: EYEBALL & TONGUES

"G" IS FOR "GENERIC"

Sorry for the delay on this one, but vacation plus busy schedule and all...

Above are the costumes for the live-action GIJOE movie showing Scarlett, Duke, Ripcord, Hawk, Storm Shadow & Baroness, and Cover Girl.

Apparently there was a sale at Bland Mart. I mean, really? How hard is it to make the Joe costumes... the costumes were already designed 25yrs ago... why go generic and boring? I understand staying 100% to the original costumes can be tricky (you don't want it to be silly). But if Superman, Spiderman and Batman can successfully make it to the Silver Screen while "staying true", I don't see why the Joes can't either.

Scarlett, Duke and Ripcord are wearing Batman's undergarments... atleast she has a crossbow, tho!! Cover Girl is ready for her "Guns & Ass" calendar photo shoot... and Hawk stole Van Damme's Street Fighter outfit. Baroness is atleast all in black, but sans COBRA EMBLEM. And Storm Shadow... the Matrix Twins called - they want their clothes back. Seriously, he's a WHITE NINJA. How does one fuck that up?!!!

I don't mind some tweaks, variations and "updates" of costumes. But come on, atleast make them look like the iconic characters they are - it worked for Snake-Eyes. It's like making a Superman movie but without the cape, S-emblem and in a black leotard. I mean, I'd be happy with just keeping the color scheme... like so (keep in mind, these were done in hurry!):

*Click Image to Enlarge*

SCARLETT & DUKE: Just keep with their original color schemes, more-or-less.

RIPCORD: Camo under the armor.

HAWK: Keep to his original look; green camo pants, brown leather jacket.

STORM SHADOW: White. Ninja.

BARONESS: Red Cobra Emblem on chest, and round glasses. Done.

Compare Pic: Click Image to Enlarge

By simply keeping with the color schemes of the characters, I think the current movie-versions are improved and actually feel like the characters... instead of bland character-X. A tragic missed opportunity to bring classic, awesome designs to the silver screen in a live-action movie.

Larger sized images here.

NEW MEDICOM VINYL ALIEN

WANTIE!!!!!
You can preorder yours HERE for $70.
(est shipping: 3rd Qtr 2008)

BATMAN BEGAN POSTER OF GINCHY

DARK KNIGHT POSTER OF AWESOME

VENTURE BROS SEASON 3 TEASER

THE FANTASTIC FOUR BY NORM MACDONALD

*AUDIO ESSENTIAL*

MARVEL'S "THE SENTRY" IS LAME

"I am an experiment? I am a freako?"

APOLOGIES FOR THE CAT POST....

But good lord!

COMPLETE MAKING OF INDIANA JONES

Found this over at Andrew's blog.... this May will see the release of the new book "The Complete Making of Indiana Jones", which covers all 4 Indy movies. Click HERE to see some sample pages, including test footage of Tom Selleck & Sean Young as Indy & Marion... and Tim Matheson as Indy! Nice find, Andrew!

NIN: DISCIPLINE

Trent Reznor is giving away NIN's newest song, "Discipline". Below is the clip via YouTube. But if you'd like to own the song, for free, simply click HERE. You just need to enter in your email address and zip code, and will then be given special code to download the mp3. New album is in progress.

WHEN VADER ATTACKS

You can't make gems like this up... from Geekologie:

Barney Jones is the founder of the Jedi Church. One afternoon he and his cousin were doing their typical thing, you know, filming themselves playing with lightsabers in the yard, when Arwel Wynne Hughes jumped over the garden wall donning a black garbage bag and cape. He had recently put down a 10 liter box of wine, and was wielding a metal crutch. He yelled "Darth Vader!" and hit Barney in the head with his makeshift lightcrutch. Laughing, he then beat Barney's cousin in the leg for good measure.

Hughes could not remember the incident and only realised what had happened when he read about it in local newspapers, the court told. Defending, Frances Jones said alcohol was "ruining (Arwel's) life" and he had no idea where he got the crutch from.

Arwel has since been convicted of two counts of assault, and one count of very poorly impersonating a Star Wars villain.

Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault [bbcnews]

ALIEN NATION: ULTIMATE MOVIE COLLECTION

Sweet! Finally, Fox has released the ALIEN NATION TV Show MOVIES...
in one complete dvd set!

The set includes DARK HORIZON, BODY AND SOUL, THE ENEMY WITHIN, MILLENIUM and THE UDARA LEGACY.

The set is available now!

BATMAN LAW & ORDER

*thanks, Milly!

EMO LINCOLN & SPARTAN JACKSON

DANICA PATRICK WINS JAPAN 300

CONGRATS TO DANICA PATRICK!!
Who won the Japan 300,
making her the FIRST FEMALE winner in IndyCar history!

LEAKED CLONE WARS TRAILER

Click HERE to watch. HURRY before its taken down! Some cool, fun looking stuff.... looks better than the live action prequels. And really?... Jabba's son? Come on. Must EVERYTHING be linked? Jesus.

IT'S NOT EVEN SUMMER YET . . .

(Regular Unleaded)

MIGHTY MUGGS MOLA RAM

KALIMAR! KALIMAR!
um num shiva um num shiva

KOTOBUKIYA BOUNTY HUNTERS

Each 13" Bounty Hunter comes with a body part to build Vader!
I didn't want to get these before, but now.....
Check out that rad Dengar!!!

BROTHERS STRAUSE INTERVIEW

You all know my thoughts, feelings and hatred regarding AVP-R.

Well click HERE to read a mind-boggling interview with the directors, "The Brothers Strause" (as they now prefer to be called).

The pic is appropriate, me thinks.

SOME HULK & IRON MAN PICS (you've probably already seen)

The Hulk's coloring is better than the Ang Lee version (less saturated). But he's still freaking way too tall!!! Source material, people. Source material.

I'm still "looking forward" to this, but don't have high hopes (when do I?). IRON MAN is higher on my list.... although I read that Iron Man will be in the Hulk movie! Sweet.

AWARENESS TEST

ARCHANGEL RETURNS ? ! ? !

O man O man! Looks like Santa got my letter.... ARCHANGEL -metal wings, blue skin, horseman costume-is returning in X-Force #5. Even if its just for the one issue.... or just the cover, I'm stoked!!! Yay!

Previous "Archangel was cool" post.

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*thanks, Jas!

OPTIMUS PRIME CANS

"Megatron hates these cans! Stay away from the cans! Get away from those cans!"

Originally posted by Scott over at his KingFilm. Thanks, Scott!!!

BACK AND MISERABLE

Back from my much needed recovery vacation!

Unfortunately, this next project I'm on will be requiring more of my time and attention, so JimSmash will be a bit slower than usual for the next few months. No abandoners, please!

Ok, and now onto some postings.... if I can find something fun to post....

...oh yeah, and Charlton Heston died while I was away. Omega Man... Planet of the Apes.... Ben Hur... Moses.... gun..... cold dead hands...

JIMSMASH VACATION

After working 14 hour days, 7 days a week since mid-january, Jim is going on fucking vacation!

JIMSMASH will be INACTIVE for the next 2 weeks as Jim tries to recover his mental and physical health.

The odd posting may appear from time to time, so check back occassionally. And what better time to revisit older posts in the Archives!

Otherwise, I will see you MONDAY APRIL 21.
Mark your calendars!

MEATY GAMMA ARMS OF MIGHT!

This is a pic from the [upcoming?] Incredible HULK game. I think its a pretty cool looking Hulk, myself! Here's the trailer:

FRICKIN' INSANE AWESOME THOR

Check out these preview pages for the upcoming double-sized Thor one-shot, "THOR: AGES OF THUNDER" by Matt Fraction (writer), Patrick Zircher & Khari Eveans (art) with covers by Marko Djurdejevic.

Man, dig that bloody Mjornir!!!

Look for it this month (April)!