The fourth Terminator film (and the first of a new trilogy is this does well) has been hype ramping for the last few months. The trailers are great, Hot Toys 1/6 figures look hot, Christian Bale’s on-set meltdown was great, co-star Sam Worthington is getting alot of buzz as the cyborg, rumors of Linda Hamilton AND Arnold making cameo’s/voiceovers/digital acting all make it look like the ultimate Terminator sequel. It just got slapped with a PG-13 rating though, but that shouldn’t hurt the action, which it looks full of.
Even with no comic book movies outside of Wolverine this Summer looks to be fun and get ready Hong Kong as Terminator Salvation hits us 1 week after the US release. Get ready to book tickets on May 28, 2009.
Here is a round-up of 3 TV commercials now airiing in the U.S.:
Samsung launches 6 new home theatre systems in Hong Kong.
If you want quality sound, leave it up to the global leader Samsung to do the work for you. They recently released a total of 6 home theatre systems for your living room. All of these feature bio kelp technology to make sure that you get crystal clear sound with natural tone balance. Let’s take a look at them:
1. HT-BD1255
This is Samsung’s blue-ray home theatre system. It offers 1000 watts of output power and 5.1 surround sound to produce life-like audio. It also has wireless networking capabilities for convenience. Furthermore, Samsung’s BD Wise technology adjusts the blue-ray picture to best match your TV, so you’ll always get the best picture quality possible.
The future of e-papers may be more than what it seems like. Bridgestone showed us this with their new 13″ e-paper display. This is probably the only time you’ll have to accept the fact that a tire company can make decent electronics…
E-papers are extremely thin– almost as thin as normal sheets as paper. However, before this, e-paper manufacturers were only able to create decent black-and-white e-papers (like the Amazon Kindle), or color e-papers with extremely slow refresh times. This full-color, 13-inch e-paper display from Bridgestone has a very fast 0.8 second refresh time (very fast for color in this size), and even accepts pen inputs!
The only downsides we could see at the moment is the picture looking a little dim. However, this is definitely a big breakthrough into harnessing e-paper technology. It doesn’t look like it’ll be replacing anything very soon, but its future looks promising.
There doesn’t seem to be any price or release date information on this product yet, as it seems only like a prototype. But hey, it looks like The Daily Prophet from Harry Potter would eventually become real! There is a short clip of this e-paper if you want to check it out:
The 4th X-Men movie is fun, but a slap in the face to hardcore fans.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine might not have the number “4″ in it, but it is the 4th film featuring the most popular mutant of all time: Wolverine, as played by the charming Hugh Jackman. It opens today in Hong Kong.
There are 2 ways you can read this review: as a typical movie-goer that loved the first 3 X-men movies, and then the hard-core comic book fan that has read all of Wolverine’s comic appearances from 1974 till today.
If you are in the former group you will probably like it or love it. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a fun, no-brainer movie that skips through the Wolverine origin to give you some fun action and lightly tying it into the first X-Men movie. Most likely you will forget about it as soon as the credits roll, but you will be entertained for its 107 minute running time.
If you are the latter, then you will despise this film with all of your inner being.
We tweeted that Hot Toys would be doing the Resident Evil 5 figures awhile back, and here they come courtesy of Hot Toys!
Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar 1/6 scale figures will be coming hopefully by this Summer from Hot Toys. The price for each is HK$980 and will be available in July. Clark’s Comics is taking pre-orders now with a cut off date of May 8th. To help you make up your mind quickly, you can check out these images of the 2 main characters from what is Hong Kong’s best selling Playstation 3 game of 2009 so far.
Ok this is a Xbox 360 commerical for the game from Japan, but its still cool:
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