What’s Up Wednesday!? - 9/12: Pilots, Explosions and Threequels

[AZS]

What’s up Wednesday – 9/12: Pilots, Explosions and Threequels

Recapping the week in geek.

All the hot Pop Culture news we scoured from around the web, so you don’t have to.


This is a new ongoing article series for the PopRealms section that will be going up every Wednesday.
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This Wednesday: Iron Man Trailer, top 100 TV, a Dark Knight explosion


In case you were under a rock this week, the Iron Man movie trailer (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/) hit online, and it is awesome. Go watch it again.


Looking forward to some of the new geek/scifi TV shows premiering this season?
You can see some of them early. The pilot episodes for Chuck, Journeyman and Bionic Woman are On Demand on Comcast Cable (and some other cable TV providers), for free! Listed under: Network / NBC.
CBS and ABC have short previews of some of their fall shows as well.


And speaking of fall TV, here’s a list[/url of when and where all the shows are airing. By Title and by Date.


And how much TV do you watch? How many of these [url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1651341,00.html] Time Magazine’s Top 100 best TV Shows of all Time (http://www.thetvremote.com/2007-fall-season-premiere-schedule/) have you seen?
I’ve probably seen half, and actually heard of ¾. I suppose a few are from before my time.


A spectacular building destruction (http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=4207595) as part of the filming for the Dark Knight. With video from 3 angles.


The Superman/Doomsday direct to DVD movie comes out next Tuesday. Go to the Official Site (http://www.warnervideo.com/supermandoomsdaydvd/), or just check out the trailer on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3keuiWzY-Q)
Here’s to hoping Booster Gold has a heroic cameo!


Quick Bits:
Indiana Jones 4 got a title (http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html) this week: Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Uh… yeah. But it could be worse, it could have been Indiana Jones and the Phantom Clone War Menace.
Here’s a hint for the Trivia Question of the week; The 4th Rambo Movie (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1651341,00.html) is slated to open January ’08. I know you all have been waiting with baited breath for this one.


Trivia Question of the week:
Name all the actors who have starred in 2 separate Trilogies. (That’s 2 instances of 3 movies. For example, Harrison Ford has been in Star Wars and Indiana Jones.)
‘Trilogy’ can denote any series of 3 movies, and not necessarily something with a continuous narrative. Series with more than 3 movies are ok.
Some of these can range from the obvious to the very obscure.

[theanalogkid]

Yes! Rambo IV: First Hip Replacement is only a couple months away!:cheeky: Thanks for the news, AZS.

[FoxInStocks]

I like "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". Sounds pulpy, and no more cheesy than "Temple of Doom".

[AZS]

I like "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". Sounds pulpy, and no more cheesy than "Temple of Doom".Are you sure you want to make that comparison? I thought ToD was an awful movie!

[St. Cuthbert]

I guess I HAVE been under a rock this week, because that was the first time I saw the Iron Man trailer. Thanks for the link.

Also, I'm amazed that the top 100 TV shows didn't have Firefly. It had Arrested Development, so it's not limited by quickly canceled shows...I just was surprised is all.

[JacinB]

Name all the actors who have starred in 2 separate Trilogies. (That’s 2 instances of 3 movies. For example, Harrison Ford has been in Star Wars and Indiana Jones.)
‘Trilogy’ can denote any series of 3 movies, and not necessarily something with a continuous narrative. Series with more than 3 movies are ok.
Some of these can range from the obvious to the very obscure.You've got Ian McKellen, the guy who played Magneto (X-Men, X2, and X3) and Gandalf (the Lord of the Rings Trilogy).

Sticking with the X-Men trilogy for a minute, you've got Patrick Stewart, who played Professor X, who was also in three Star Trek movies as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Tobey MacGuire comes close with his roles as Spider-Man and the voice of Lou the Beagle (in Cats and Dogs), but the Cats and Dogs movies are only two movies at this point.

Mel Gibson has the Mad Max trilogy (with a fourth film rumored) and the Lethal Weapon movies.

Christopher Lambert might qualify, with the Highlander movies and the Mortal Kombat series.

Sean Connery has a series of James Bond movies, along with a couple of Highlander appearances, a couple of Robin Hood movies (though, not part of the same series), a couple of King Arthur movies (again, not part of the same series), and appearances in a number of single movies that fall within trilogies (including The Hunt for Red October, which was part of the series of Jack Ryan movies, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).

Robert DeNiro has been in the 'Meet the Parents' trilogy (to be concluded with 'Little Fockers' in 2008), but has failed to appear in three other movies (his closest being a brief appearance in the Godfather Trilogy, and the Analyze This / Analyse That duet).

Bruce Willis has the Die Hard Trilogy (well, now it's four movies), but I'm not sure if he gets credit as his nearest follow-ups were two 'Whole ... Yards' movies (only two at this point), the Look Who's Talking series of movies (where he was Mikey's voice), and a couple of M. Knight Shyamalan movies.

John Travolta also falls a bit short as he's got the Look Who's Talking series, too, along with Get Shorty / Be Cool.

Who have I missed?

[AZS]

Who have I missed?Lots. Also considering the 'halfway there's don't count. There's got to be a hundred of those!


But specifically fitting the criteria of the trivia question, there's probably about a half dozen or more left.

[JacinB]

I found them (by cheating and using Google). I should've caught a couple of those as they tie in with other movies I'd referenced. :noid:

[AZS]

I found them (by cheating and using Google). I should've caught a couple of those as they tie in with other movies I'd referenced. :noid:I hope you were better at cheating than that in school!

Sean Connery was only in 1 Highlander.
There haven't been 3 MK films.
Robert DeNiro does even come close. He was in 1 film with a sequal. :rolleyes:


One of the actors was given a specific clue in the WuW post!

Also, think of the threequels out this summer. Two of them qualify one actor.

[Rokk_Krinn]

I'm pretty sure that AZS is dying for someone to say Sylvester Stallone due to Rambo/Rocky...but let's keep him waiting. :)

Assorted members of John Carpenter's "mainstays" can be seen in all three films of his "Apocalypse Trilogy" and assorted films in the "Halloween" series but that may be pushing it. :laugh:

Oh, and you have Matt Damon - the summer hint - for the Ocean's films and the assorted Bournes.

[nevismusic]

What’s up Wednesday – 9/12: Pilots, Explosions and Threequels
And how much TV do you watch? How many of these Time Magazine’s Top 100 best TV Shows of all Time (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/completelist/0,,1651341,00.html) have you seen?
I’ve probably seen half, and actually heard of ¾. I suppose a few are from before my time.


that was very cool. nice to see the best dramas ever made it: "homicide: life on the street' and "the wire"

also lots of other faves like the prisoner, prime suspect, the office and mystery science theater 3000.

[Grinner]

Trivia Question of the week:
Name all the actors who have starred in 2 separate Trilogies. (That’s 2 instances of 3 movies. For example, Harrison Ford has been in Star Wars and Indiana Jones.)
‘Trilogy’ can denote any series of 3 movies, and not necessarily something with a continuous narrative. Series with more than 3 movies are ok.
Some of these can range from the obvious to the very obscure.

I have to say that I am very surprised that no one on this site listed Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead/Spider-man).