Posts Tagged 20 minutes into the future
Comics Week: Choose Your SURROGATE
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Movies, Trailers on June 27, 2009
Here’s to catching up in the eleventh hour.
When thinking on all the comics to movies projects that’s hit the screens in the last few years, we discovered we couldn’t think of a one to hit the screen this summer. Sure, Transformers 2 and GI Joe have had many turns as comic book series, but the truth is we can’t be bothered with their movie counterparts. A quick shout out to Twitter taught us all we needed to know.
SURROGATES, a Bruce Willis helmed film based on the Top Shelf Productions comic of the same name.
In the year 2017 humans live in isolation and interact only via robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. Several humans are murdered when their surrogates are destroyed, and cop (Bruce Willis) investigates the crimes through his own surrogate. After a near fatal encounter, his surrogate is destroyed, which forces him to bring his human form out of isolation and unravel a conspiracy behind the crimes.
The viral site is up. This, of course, means that you can create your own surrogate.
There’s a trailer after the jump.
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Late Tuesday Tease: A Spicy City is a Tasty City
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Just Freaking Neat, Television on March 24, 2009
In the twilight of the 1990s, the animation age continued to walk deep inside the ghetto a chosen few forced upon it. Adults, in their infinite wisdom, relegated drawn motion to that of child’s play. The rest of the world did not and does not have the same ideas on this attitude. Recently people are taking notice that a well animated film does not mean that it is destined for a 6 year old eyes. From time to time we will do our part in breaking the rest of lazy America’s assumptions.
Spicy City was a Ralph Bakshi creation that lived on HBO for one season in 1997. We have a love/hate relationship to many of Bakshi’s projects. His need to push Americans out of their entertainment comfort zones is what keeps him on our radar.
The episode “Tears of a Clone” is always our first memory of the short lived series. Sometimes we are quite sentimental in our storytelling tastes. No need for worries that our snark will lose all its teeth. The sentiment always passes.



