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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Geek Heroes & Villains Wrapping Paper

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:30 pm, May 19th, 2012


For all your geeky present needs! (via Paper Source) 

  • The Frisky reviews the Maggie Gyllenhaal starring Hysteria, (that movie about Dr. Mortimer Granville and his creation of the vibrator.) and doesn’t like it as much as they wanted to.
  • Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, a long-time comic fan, has seen The Avengers and reviewed it on his blog. He enjoyed it but disagrees with my thoughts on the film in one big way. He wrote, “Scarlett Johanssen looked great in that outfit, but she seemed to be there only as eye candy.”  (via MTV)

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is paying homage another DC video game, Batman: Arkham City, in their latest promotional shots. Head over to Major Spoilers to see Joker and Robin.

  • Details of The Avengers blu-ray releases have been announced, and boy are they going to be full of extras. Collider has the full rundown.

Eight girls from Presentation High School in San Jose, California made a very pointed statement via their senior yearbook quotes. Alexandra, Angela, Angelica, Elizabeth, Emily, Isabella, Madeline, and Vi all share the last name Nguyen and it was Isabella’s idea to play a harmless prank. Separately, the girls submitted just one or two words as the quote to go under their picture and name on the page. But when put in alphabetical order by their first names, the words added up to a sentence which read, “We know what you’re thinking and no, we’re not related.” (via Daily Mail)

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  • Anonymous

    I can’t say I’m too surprised by the Hysteria verdict. It sounds like it’s perpetuating the myth that the vibrator was invented solely for medical purposes by finicky Victorians who didn’t no anything about sex. Their was some medical influence, but almost immediately after it’s invention, vibrators were sold to, and bought by women, for the same purposes as today. And the evidence that suggests the vibrator was “invented” to cure hysteria is murky. The Victorians knew how to have sex, and Victorian women knew how their clits worked.

  • TKS

    I, a male comic book fan, totally agree with your take on Black Widow, you know, the only one to trick the god of mischief.  If anyone was relegated to the role of eye candy in that movie, it was Hawkeye.

  • http://cosplaylibrarian.blogspot.in/ Katy Squiggles

    I think almost everyone in the Avengers was there for eye candy. Because… Well come on. They all looked amazing enough to eat. But I think Black Widow did play a good role in this movie and I’m still waiting for her to get her own movie. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Fitzgerald/100000045257462 Michelle Fitzgerald

    Agreed. It was like ‘SO MUCH PRETTY!’ *drowns in her own drool.*

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