tease

steven spielberg and empire magazine are evil, evil, evil. here is proof. this is a little game empire like to call what's this detail from? and it's from tintin, obviously, snowy white dog, tintin's blue sweater, and captain haddock's jacket. the yellow is probably background or some kind of paper. they're going to release little bit's of a picture piece by piece until they've revealed the first image. it's like having the gorgeous love child of benedict and matt performing a strip tease in front of me and only taking off one little bit of clothing every hour. except, obviously, a lot less erotic.
i remember watching episodes of tintin in french class, in french obviously, and loving it despite the fact i really didn't understand anything that was going on. imagine how much better it's going to be with steven moffat and edgar wright writing the screenplay... i can't wait, really really really can't wait. it's going to be so good. well at least the writing, i'm not so sure about all this motion acting crap. when you have great live actors that look like the characters then why not just make it live action? we've already seen cartoon tintin. i guess if it turns out anything like watchmen it would be kind of cool. i just don't understand why, if it's based on a comic series people feel the need to make it look all cartoony.
animation should be reserved for films that need animation. animation is a way to create a new world, to make something purely driven by imagination and to blur the boundaries of realism. tintin is set in the real world, so why not make it in the real world?
jamie bell should be good though. god i can't wait for a trailer or at least some form of complete image.
next year is going to be an amazing year for film nerds. tintin, the final harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2, thor, captain america, green lantern, sherlock holmes allegedly starring steven fry, the green hornet, a film adaptation of jack keroac's on the road which shall allegedly have steve buscemi, kirsten dunst, kristen stewart, amy adams and viggo mortensen in it, and neil patrick harris starring in the smurfs. of course australia probably won't get a majority of these films until 2012, by which time i plan to be travelling the world so i'm going to have to save an extra kitty of moneys for movie tickets whilst in country's as behind the eight ball as us.
the harry potter countdown begins. the midnight screening at imax is already sold out. i'm going to have to get some people together to go at 7am thursday november 18th. or just wait like a non-nerdy person and see it some normal time.
but where's the fun in that?

good news or bad...

so, it seems that after a recent episode of the sarah jane adventures that the doctor has 507 regenerations. see what happened was, matt smith guest started and as they're crawling away from some sort of impending doom, mickey asks the doctor how he can keep changing his face and all. the doctor starts explaining and jokingly [as far as i can tell] he says he can do it 507 times. will this be how the bbc are going to get around the whole 13 doctors thing, because the question of how this series will continue does come up when we get to number 11 and the doctors are averaging 2 season a piece and nobody wants it to end. now i'm happy doctor who will now be able to continue on at least as long as i live, but i had kind of hoped that they'd just force the doctors to stay on longer and we'd have matt smith for at least 10 more seasons. at least. i like to perve on him. he's a honey.
speaking of honey's, benedict cumberbatch has been cast as frankenstein and his monster in danny boyle's adaptation of the mary shelley classic. that's right, both. the production is set to be for the stage and benedict will alternate the roles each night with jonny lee miller. can someone get me some tickets to england please...
i also found a video of lovely mr cumberbatch being extremely candid about wanting to be the doctor. he was actually asked if he wanted to be on an episode, but he seemed more like he wanted to take over the role. i heard a little birdie say that he actually auditioned for the role of the doctor and matt smith for sherlock but moffat had them switched. i think it's because he wanted cumberbatch for the master. how brilliant would it have been if smith had, in return, been moriarty...
my nerdy little dreams would have been coming true. i don't know how i feel about professor moriarty the way he was in the final episode. he's a bit fruity. i'm still not really coming to terms with it. i need to do some more extensive reading on the subject. i went to borders [i know, if you knew me years ago you know i wouldn't have been caught dead in there, but hey, it's a book shop and you can't knock that] today looking for a study in scarlet but they didn't have it. so now i'm going to look for some sort of box set. i'd like to read them in order, because i started reading the adventures of sherlock holmes and watson was going on about something and i didn't know what it was because i can't remember anything about sherlock holmes from when i read it as a kid.
also, while i was in borders today, rosso from merrick and rosso was signing books and no-one was going up to him. there was even a spruker, it was really sad. i smiled. he still looked pretty, pathetic. i didn't want to use that word but it was such bad timing. it was hot, people were coming in for specific things [like sherlock holmes] and not really wanting to stop. on the way out a lady stopped for an autograph and she even bought a book.

what a nerd

I am so nerdy in fact that if you look closely [and if you like playing word games] the titler of this blog is infact an anagram of "dear kendal", me being kendal and dear being a cool way to have nerd and dalek using the letters of my name.
so i had a blog a while ago that started out being a place for me to rant about all the things that were annoying me so that the people i know and love didn't have to hear about it, but as i started exploring my somewhat new found love for doctor who it became a place for me to blog about my viewing of the greatest series of all time. as i am about to graduate from a media degree at rmit and thus have my library borrowing privileges revoked so, in the next couple of months [because i think it lasts at least until graduation which isn't until december 15] i am going to be borrowing as much old doctor who as i can and watching as much as i can. and i shall use this space to be all nerdy and talk about it and have a basic love fest for steven moffat and matt smith [and if he transcends the sherlock holmes thing and does decide to become the master, benedict cumberbatch shall feature in my 'omg nerds are so hot these days' section].
i mean seriously, yum sandwich much?

and if you want to add more flame to the firey rumour that benedict is going to become the master then just check out out sizing up one of the doctor's past regenerations.

if it does happen i think i might die.
i am a little ticked off with steven moffat at the moment however for letting mark gatiss finish series one of sherlock off like that and making us wait until next year to see it. nice moriarty though. very fruity. i thought perhaps he would remain a mystery though, you know how people tended to think that perhaps sherlock went a bit tyler durden on our arses and was moriarty himself. i don't know which interpretation i like best, and i shall have to wait until next year to get any real insight. and also, screw you channel nine for playing it on a sunday, then the next monday and then the sunday after. buzz kill much? things are so much more exciting when you have to hold on week to week, don't you fools know anything? take bloody two and a half men off the air, then sit down and have a real think about the quality of television you are airing and think very long and hard about how you treat really top notch, first rate television. if you can't do this then i think you should quit and go into a profession a little more lenient on the old brain cells and let me take over programming.