The King

Game of Thrones is my favorite show on TV right now. I still watch How I Met Your Mother, even though that's a show that mostly now pines for its former glory. Girls and the tragically canceled Enlightened are my other favorite live action shows. Archer and Adventure Time are two of my favorite animated series. I tried The Walking Dead for a while, but I just got bored with the characters halfway through season two and never could get back on board.

I'd appreciate a bit of elaboration on why you think that. What specifically about the trailer or your knowledge of the movie makes you think it's gonna suck, and what exactly do you mean by that phrase? It might be a total failure as an adaptation, but still be a successful movie in it's own right, which would give it a certain element of suckiness. If you could get a bit more specific I'd appreciate it.

We've known for the past year that World War Z would be an adaptation in name only. In spite of that I'm still excited for it because it looks like a zombie movie on a truly epic scale, which I love, and that Brad Pitt has been doing pretty much only quality movies since 2006. The guy has just developed a great eye for scripts. This storyline may seem a bit trite--One man versus the apolcalypse...for his family!--but this looks pretty exciting. I can understand the decision to switch over to fast-moving zombies. I think that Max Brooks did a great job making his slow-movers work by explaining why an organized military response to them failed, but that's much more difficult to accomplish in a visual medium, so switching to fast-movers just makes sense to up the scare level of the zombies. Plus, using slow-movers is a great way to get compared to George Romero, and such comparisons rarely leave a movie looking good. Even good zombie movies look weak compared to Night of the Living Dead. While I would love to see a faithful adaptation of World War Z someday because I truly believe it to be one of the best pieces of zombie literature ever made and a great example of how to do the apocalypse right, I refuse to let my love for it taint my excitement for what looks like a pretty exciting movie, and it's not like you can't see a few touchstones in the trailer. I imagine the bus flipping as zombies swarm is the Battle of Yonkers, and it wouldn't be surprising if the assignment Pitt's character is asked to take is heading up the Alpha Teams. I'm pretty psyched for it.

I'd say Ryan Gosling and Michael Fassbender are the two best young actors out there by a bit. Both have great versatility in their roles, and they play their roles with incredible nuance. They also tend to take really great scripts.

It's from "Hot Fuzz." I thought that Drive was one of the best movies of the year. Highly polished, reminiscent of an 80s action movie (about which they make a bit of a meta joke at one point in the movie). The action is easy to follow with the naked eye, unlike a lot of action movies, and the style and music just make the movie pop like none other. I'm really excited to see von Trier's "Melancholia," but I'll probably have to wait a couple of weeks for it. Von Trier is a beast of a director, and there's no one whose apocalypse movie I would rather see.

If you have the opportunity to see them, two movies I would definitely recommend are Tree of Life and 13 Assassins. Tree of Life is a very singular movie, and slightly esoteric at times, so I would really recommend looking around and getting a feel for what to expect of it before viewing. 13 Assassins is an excellent action movie. Think 7 Samurai, but if Kurosawa had been disdainful of the samurai code. Takashi Miike does a great job, and the 45 minute sword fighting climax is a bloodbath in a fairly literal sense, but it never feels over the top. I've heard good things about the indie sci-fi flick Another Earth, and am very much looking forward to a chance to go see it.