(Least sexy shoe-cam photo ever.)

Terminator Salvation wasn’t the worst movie in the world.  It had some cool action sequences, but it followed them up with Christian Bale yelling for no apparent reason and a final 15 minutes that challenged the last 15 of Indy 4 for dumbest ever.  When I saw it I got so mad I punched the wall and lava came out.  Now Halcyon has filed for bankruptcy and is selling the franchise.  Problem is, no one wants to buy.  But that didn’t stop McG from planning two more movies.  He made the comments during a special event in which people who bought the Blu-ray could listen to live commentary from McG.  Sadly we don’t have the transcript, just a pretty great live blog from Gizmodo.  Poor McG.  He seems like a good guy who’s just a little too stupid for his own good.  He’s like the friend who really wants to be in your band, and you’d totally let him, only he can’t play an instrument and keeps drooling on the tambourine.  Also, he seems strangely cocky.  McG, I mean.

6:55: McG just compared his movie to The Dark Knight.

6:57: Audience question: how do you feel about making the horrible Charlie’s Angels films?

6:57: McG: “I really like those movies. If you don’t like them you can f-ck off.” [He later added, 'You're stupid and ugly and this is all just a defense mechanism.' -Ed]

6:59: “I want feedback from the audience if you want another movie or not?”

7:00: From the comments the director’s making, it seems like McG isn’t really a fan of subtlety. I don’t want to get too negative or anything…but yeah. [Editor's note: think of this as foreshadowing.]

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The Guy Ritchie/Brad Pitt/Jason Statham classic Snatch comes out on Blu-Ray tomorrow, and in support of its release, they asked if I would sponsor a giveaway for wheel less caravan. Of course I told them, “WhattafuggIwantwiddacaravanat’sgotnofugginwheels?”

So instead I get to give away the Guy Ritchie Blu-ray three pack, which includes Snatch, Layer Cake, and Revolver.  I don’t really know what Layer Cake has to do with Guy Ritchie, but it is a kick-ass movie.  First person to send me a funny gypsy/pikey-related photo or photoshop gets it.

MONDAY 3:40 EST: Contest closed, Mighty Fek’lhr wins with the first entry.

The fine folks behind the new Batman: The Movie special edition Blu-Ray disc have graciously provided me with a free copy. Originally released in 1966 starring Adam West and Burt Ward, I can only hope it contains scenes like the one I’ve included above.  At the very least, it will be so packed with 1080p resolution graphics and special features that watching it will make you shit blood for a week.

Since I don’t have a Blu-ray player or a Playstation 3, I thought I’d offer it up free to the first person who emails me.  Or how about this, I’ll give it to the person who sends me the funniest picture they took or found on the internet.  No other restrictions apply (though if any attractive ladies want to send me naked pictures of themselves, obviously they will automatically win… and also earn immediate sainthood for their willingness to expose themselves in the name of a DVD of an old-ass movie).  "Contest" ends Thursday.  

I was waiting for an interesting way to cover the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray battle that’s happening, and I thought this Hitler video was a worthy jumping off point.

Basically, it’s looking like HD DVD will be going the way of beta, with only Paramount and Universal still making titles for it, and even they will probably switch to Blu-ray as demand grows.  Meanwhile, us poor people will continue to subsist on boiled shoe leather and gruel, watching our non-HD DVD titles on our non-HD TVs inside our caves and hovels.   

Oh, and the clip is from Der Untergang, a German movie about the last days of Hitler from 2004.  It was actually pretty good.