Mom thought letting her baby weight train was cute until she got caught in his triangle choke.
As if to save me from the evil robot baby in the last story, I found this story about a toddler with a rare genetic mutation that makes him super strong.
A three-year-old Michigan boy is super-strong. He can move furniture, hold five-pound weights, and do sit-ups with ease. Liam Hoekstra likely has a condition called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy, which means his body has very little fat and enlarged muscle fibers that make him exceptionally strong. Because Hoekstra is so strong — he falls, for instance, without getting hurt – he is not learning the appropriate fear judgment of a child testing his or her limits.
Super strong and without fear? Quick, get him some spandex! So anyway, I clicked on the video all ready to see muscle baby here perform feats of strength, but all they did was talk about psychological effects and potential health problems and lame crap like that. Talk about lazy reporting. You could at least break a two by four over his back.
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This picture gave my computer AIDS. :-(
Variety reports that Brett Ratner is attached to direct a film adaptation of “Youngblood”, not based on the awesome Patrick Swayze hockey movie of 1986, but rather a shitty comic book that sounds like a mashup of every other shitty comic book. In essence, the perfect Brett Ratner project.
Youngblood was a high-profile superteam sanctioned and overseen by the United States Government. The members of Youngblood include Shaft, a former FBI agent and archer whose bow uses magnets to propel its arrow instead of a string; Badrock, a teenager transformed into a living block of stone; Vogue, a Russian fashion model with purple-and-chalk-white skin; and Chapel, a government assassin. [Wiki]
Wow, that sounds, um… awesome. Reached for comment, Ratner said, “I’m pretty excited about this, y’all, but don’t expect miracles. I don’t know if I’ve got another X3 in me.”
There have already been three X-Men movies, and even while the last one was pulling random mutants like a dude who throws sticks and a gay guy with angel wings out its ass, there was no Gambit. Gambit’s finally in the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and here we have our first picture. As you can see, he’s played by Canadian Taylor Kitsch, previously of Friday Night Lights. I think the character would be more fun if instead of cards he carried around a sack full of baby chicks
[Empire via Wearemoviegeeks]
After The Dark Knight and Iron Man made for a pretty solid comic-book-movie summer, it’s sad to remember that the X-Men franchise is still in the hands of the studio who made The Happening, Babylon A.D., Meet Dave, X-Files 2, Mirrors, Space Chimps, Max Payne, Jumper, and The Rocker. The latest news is that they’re developing something called X-Men: First Class with The OC/Gossip Girls creator Josh Schwartz (who was offered the directing job but declined). And yes, the concept is basically Muppet Babies.
Fox has been leaning toward using the younger characters introduced in the previous pics in future installments — teenagers with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. [Of course they have, Fox is terrible. Just be thankful they haven't figured out how to write the Jonas Brothers into this. -Ed.]
Pic joins other “X-Men”-related projects already in the works at the studio. Fox is actively developing a standalone “Magneto” pic, as well as considering a “Deadpool” spinoff, based on a character played by Ryan Reynolds in “Wolverine.” Shuler Donner is producing “Magneto.”
Regular slate of “X-Men” pics would provide Fox with a reliable series of movies that perform at the B.O. and not repeat a dismal summer sesh like the studio experienced this year. [Variety]
Superheroes! Teen drama! Together! How could it not work? Oh I can already picture it. Mutant High, first day of school:
OMG! Did you guys see the new kid?
Yeah, he’s like, hot. I wonder his mutation is?
He’s from Chino.
Sorry, wrong Fox
That’s the question Variety asked the studio that released The Happening, Babylon A.D., Meet Dave, X-Files 2, Mirrors, Space Chimps, and The Rocker. Their top movie this summer? What Happens in Vegas. To any intelligent person, the answer to why Fox is failing is “horrible movies.” But just for fun, here’s what Variety said:
The strategy of being cheap and eschewing top-tier filmmakers came back to bite the studio: Although Fox has been the envy of many for its remarkable box office consistency and profit margins, many producers, agents and managers have been less than charmed. Complaints about the studio’s tendency to lowball talent — particularly writers — and Rothman’s micro-managing of productions have become widespread. A broad spectrum of reps say they are reluctant to place clients on Fox projects, citing a talent-unfriendly atmosphere.
Yes, “talent-unfriendly” is certainly a good way to describe them, or pretty much anything that sucks. But don’t worry! They have a plan!
On the agenda, Fox will mull the possibility of more “X-Men” spinoffs, including a young-X-Men project as well as “Deadpool,” based on a character played by Ryan Reynolds in “Wolverine.” The studio is even considering reviving the “Daredevil” property.
Ooh, young X-Men. Keep your schedule open, Jonas Bros. Magneto can’t handle their powers of… abstinence!
And on paper, the year-end looks good with “Australia” and “Marley and Me,” and so does next summer, with the studio releasing no fewer than three tentpoles: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” on May 1, “Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian” on Memorial Day weekend and “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” on the Fourth of July weekend.
To recap, they’re staking their box office hopes on a Baz Luhrmann epic and a dog movie with Jennifer Aniston in it. And if that doesn’t work they’re going to redo Daredevil. Really, I can’t see how this plan could possibly fail.
