Over here in the Americas, Avatar is still ruling the box office at number one for the 7th week in a row. Seriously, I can't remember a movie staying at number one for that long. The fact that it's number on for five weeks strong in Japan isn't an easy feat either. It is a geek movie, no matter how you want to rationalize. I'm just surprised it's the James Cameron Avatar movie that's scoring so well. A little intimidating when M. Night Shalmalamamamanarayaran put's his own Avatar out there in a few months.

1. Avatar. 5th week, pulling in $5.75 million.
2. Oceans. 1st week, pulling in $3.76 million.
3. Surrogates. 1st week, pulling in $1.52 million.
4. Sayonara Itsuka. 1st week, pulling in $1.47 million.
5. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. 1st week, pulling in $1.46 million.
6. Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Act 1. 6th week, pulling in $1.21 million.
7. Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie: Super Fusion! Bonds That Transcends Time. 1st week, pulling in $1.15 million.
8. Where The Wild Things Are. 2nd week, pulling in $940k.
9. Bandage. 2nd week, pulling in $787k.
10. Up. 8th week, pulling in $780k.

It's been a really long time since a distribution company took us seriously. Last time any company wanted to do anything with us was for that way convoluted OVA Karas. Yeah, it's been that long. Well, after hounding companies to send us free shit to review, it finally happened but... it's not really anime. Then again, I'll take what I can get. After spending today at the beach reading comics, it helps that when I go get the mail, there lies waiting a screener to Planet Hulk, coming to dvd this Tuesday! So, just because I get free shit, do I necessarily give it a good review? No, but then again, I've always been more of a comic book fan than an anime fan. Sorry.

So. Planet Hulk. It's based off of a run from Greg Pak'sstory in Incredible Hulk where the Illuminati (Proffessor X, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Mr. Fantastic, Namor and Iron Man) send Hulk to a planet of vegetation so Hulk can be left alone, only to change course and land on a savage world of gladiators... you know, until Hulk takes over the world, leaves some kids to eventually come back to try to kill him some time later when Hulk returns to Earth to start World War Hulk after the Civil War ....... ok, I'm getting too far ahead of myself. This is just the story of Hulk on a gladiator world. Let's stay there for now.

The movie's version of the Illuminati shows Tony Stark and Dr. Strange in clear enough light and you can kinda make out Reed Richards but the rest of the group are still shadowy. The movie navigates the original storyline pretty well and though you really don't care much about the characters, we get what we came for. HULK SMASH! Whatever you throw at him, the angrier he gets and the angrier Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets. And is it me, or did I see a Skrull in there? Natch! The fact that one of the warrior's, Korg, origin lies in the very first enemy Thor ever fought in the comics and even went so far as to use Beta Ray Bill in this movie! Although, I do have to say that probably because 20th Century Fox owns the property of both Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer, we don't see Reed Richards in the Illuminati and that Beta Ray Bill was substituted for Warrior Silver Surfer. Still, as a substitution, Beta Ray Bill kicks ass!

So, geek favor aside, is it any good? Yeah. It's good. It's really damn good! Better than Hulk vs., Wolverine & the X-Men and at the caliber of Ultimates. But that's just Marvel animation and as any comic cartoon fan knows, all comic animation has to meet the standards of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. This movie stacks among some of the best Justice League stories based on the beautifully orchestrated tragedy that rang trough out both this comic run and movie. The movie is solid and makes me nostalgic in remembering how good a story this was when I was reading this about 5 years ago or so. I highly recommend this for people who know nothing about the Hulk and recommend it even more for fans like me. I've only been reading Incredible Hulk as far back as the late 1980's Peter David and Todd McFarlane's run, after all. I'm a jaded asshole. If I say it's good, that might mean something.

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Well, I got the 5 comments I was looking for to see if this website is still worth doing and it appears 5 people at least like the place enough to not want it to slip into obscurity. True, we have become very obscure since before our website got hacked by a former "friend" and killed off our popularity. It also doesn't help that I know nothing about Joomla and only know how to use the blog and tag links. Video? Anybody out there know how to use Joomla? So for now, this place is safe but that all depends on you.

The good news is that I have a job that pays rather well and I can keep paying for this site as long as I find it enjoyable and that people actually visit the site, read the front page and comment every once in a while. If anybody out there is willing to contribute to news stories, reviews, editorials then please send them in and I'll post it on the front page. Please surf the forum. Hell this site has now been in existance since 2000 and I only got here in 2004. I love this place, despite my occasional viceral tirades.

The bad news is for one, I don't own this site, my now ex-wife does. She rarely visits, let alone does any updating of our banners (her work) or changing interfaces (her work) or compile screencaps for reviews (her work)  and general welfare of supporting this site. I don't know how to do most of that. So because of this, I still haven't got a clue how to post video... at all. Bad news is that back in January 2008 (before the hack) we could have as many as 700 people on the site at the sanme time. Now, we're lucky if we top 12. It's disheartening to work on something so hard, only to have it implode because your former "friend" defected to a comic/anime convention promoter who had a serious hard on against me and hacked the site. We were down 3 months.

So, in short, if you want to keep this place safe then participate every now and then. If you're an artist then send me your work and every week I'll make it a feature on Friday. Post comments, give me content and I'll kiss your sweet ass. Seriously, I will kiss you right in the button hole.

And for Lex Geass, Sugarplum48, Sesshomaru/rin and SCat, thank you for letting me know this place doesn't suck enough to tear it down. Thank you for the kind words. As for Shacuyo, special thanks for the double edged sword. Even with the profanity laced condemnation really made me smile because of the hate... and later some kinder words. Idon't care if you love me or hate me, just so long as you're not indifferent. You can read the comments from the deleted post by clicking on "Read More."

 Looking forward to the future in 2010. Hope you stay with us. Thanks everybody.

 I know you've read my bitchiness below (requitting smoking, sorry) and it seems that this here website will be getting a reprieve. I thank you for those with kind words and for the troll telling me to go fuck myself, I actually thank you the most! I like the vitriol and hate because it means you actually feel something about this site. Better that than indifference. And hey, I'm dying to have somebody out there to contribute and I don't mean money. No, I mean content. Reviews, anime news, opinion and editorials. This is YOUR WEBSITE people. If you want it to continue, help out. If you can't do anything, just post a comment. A simple comment like "go fuck yourself" willmake me a very happy panda.

 Umm... oh yeah, here's the top ten in Japan. Does it surprise you that the furry movie is still number one? Yeah, me neither.

1. Avatar. 4th week, pulling in $5.61 million.
2. Nodame Cantabile: The Final Score - Part 1. 4th week, pulling in $1.54 million.
3. Where the Wild Things Are. 1st week, pulling in $1.54 million.
4. Bandage. 1st week, pulling in $1.47 million.
5. Up. 7th week, pulling in $1.35 million.
6. One Piece: Strong World. 6th week, pulling in $1.06 million.
7. A Good Husband. 1st week, pulling in $887k.
8. This is It. 12th week, pulling in $512k.
9. Free And Easy 20: Final. 4th week, pulling in $422k.
10. Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010. 6th week, pulling in $324k.

Face it, inasmuch as anybody who owns an iPhone and love the hell out of them, Apple as a whole are cheap bastards that hate the fact that our unlimited bandwidth plans use way too much bandwidth and just doesn't want us to watch streaming video.

Flash. Apple hates streaming Flash and aside from the horrible streams from their Youtube App, Apple just doesn't want to deal with it. I've seen Flash work on a jailbreak iPhone but I won't do it to mine because that insurance I'm paying for gets voided if I do jailbreak it. But it works, it totally works. Really, if you go to our website on your phone and look at our banner, you just get a simple "Flash doesn't work for you asshole" logo in place.

Well, Crunchyroll has given us a present in the form of their own App! The video isn't entirely atrocious and the unfortunate aspect that you have to make sure that your phone only plays these videos if you have a WiFi connection. Check the Speed Test App to see if it's even worth trying to stream Crunchyroll. Hook up to a Starbucks, a friend's hope or the airport then you're good to go. Waiting in a traffic jam, you're shit outta luck and have to rely on the Go Manga! App.