Awful Battle… Who’s The Badder Bad Guy?

This might not be much of a battle, but it’s certainly about a pair of awful people!  Without further hesitation, allow me to introduce you to:

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

"First the atmosphere, then the world!"

"First the atmosphere, then the world!"

Powers: Mechanical engineer and chemist that attended Cornell

Crimes Against Humanity: Discovered dichlorodifluoromethane (the CFC dubbed Freon) and added tetraethyllead to gasoline (and called it “Ethyl” even though it was essentially “lead”)… We all know what CFC’s did to the ozone and what lead does to people.  According to a unnamed source on Listverse (apparently Wikipedia):

He is considered to be the man that – “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.”

Current Whereabouts: The ground.  He died in 1944 after getting tangled in the cords of a contraption… that he designed.

Thomas Leopold

threesome

A dose of his own radioactive medicine.

Powers: Radioactive (after being given radioactive iodine, natch)

Crimes Against Humanity: Well… the dude’s a pedophile.  He’s been charged with five accounts of downloading indecent pics of kids since 2006, and 87 prior to that, but the extra crap part is this:

In 1993 he left the banking world to set up The Tutors Group at Blythe Hall School.  It employs more than 600 staff and works with more than 3,000 children, teaching infants to A-level students study skills, essay planning and examination technique.  (via DailyMail UK)

Current Whereabouts: Unknown.  He escaped trial and was almost captured on his way to Ireland from England, but he flashed his radioactive card and they released him.  Let’s see… this happened a long time ago, way, way back in… February.  Of this year.  Yikes!

AWFUL BATTLE… GO!

How Big Furry Bad Ass Does This Look?

Finally!  A full preview for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are (sorry, Maurice Sendak!)

There were a lot of concerns popping up all over the TripleDoubleU regarding the making of this film, but it looks like those concerns were not warranted.  Plus, I’m glad they decided to show the Wild Things so clearly in the trailer, and not pull a Godzilla (but in this case, maybe a Gremlins would have been nice).

I mean, look at all the worrying done over the film adaptation of Watchmen, and see how well everything turned out.

Vodpod videos no longer available. Did you know that the music was done by Where the Wild Things Arcade Fire?

 

 

Next, someone should adapt this Google guy’s book into a flick:

Happy birthday very hungry guy!

Happy birthday very hungry guy!

In My Brain While Sleeping… Watchmen Anxiety

In case you’ve been living under a rock or in a coma (which in the cases of you really being a hermit or a recently awakened patient, then I’m sorry about the sarcasm), next March may or may not be the month that “Watchmen” gets marched out (see what I did there with the, um, doubling months thing).

There’s still a lawsuit pending between Fox and Warner Bros. over the rights to the story, but little did I know how much this affected me.  All night I dreamt about this movie.  My brain tried to convince me it was going to be crappy, too.  I saw images of the film being projected on screen as though it were still a comic book graphic novel.

It was comparable to this:

(from DarthsandDroids.com)

(from DarthsandDroids.com)

Or even worse, the first “Hulk” flick

What follows at the bottom of the post is the most recent preview for “Watchmen.”  It can’t be bad, can it?  Like “Sin City 2” “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2” “The Spirit” level bad?

All I’m saying is Fox better not fuck this up for me… I don’t know if I can take more nights of tossing and turning and seeing the Comedian so sad (he’s the guy with the moustache at the start of the preview).  The kicker is Fox doesn’t even want shared profits – they don’t want it released!  Fox owes me for cancelling many-a-splendid shows, such as “Arrested Development,” “Firefly,” “Futurama,” “The Tick,” and “Profit.”

They sure as hell better not cancel “Watchmen.”