Microsoft's Fiesta One

Welcome to a dazzling edition of the Friday Film Fiesta!

Remember how each Fiesta used to be sponsored by something and used as a tie in for various products? Like Burger King Free Fry Friday or Transformers Friday? In a bit of a shocker, Microsoft remembered and purchased the rights to the Fiesta this week! In fact, here's Don Mattrick with a special announcement for those of you waiting for the WELPies!



"We have a WELPies Award Show for those who want it posted. It's called the 37th Annual WELPie Awards."
And here's Our Boy An-Day with an exclusive Andalysis!



"If you spend $400-500 on a new video game console, you are a fucking loser."
Welp!

Box Office News: The Purge is so hot right now! Meanwhile, could we be seeing the end of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's unique brand of comedy?

Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 300: Rise of an Empire, and more!

In Theaters This Week: This Is The End and Man of Steel

Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: 21 and Over, Jack the Giant Slayer and Movie 43

GOLDEN GLENN repays me for my record (?) three links sent in for the Walk:

30 Awful Movie Names

Behind the scenes of awesome movies

HOLLYWOOD IS IMPLODING, sez Spielberg and Lucas

Ah-Nold will return for Terminator 5

Great news for those of you who enjoy Vice and Portlandia

Bad news for those of you who were looking forward to the Dumb and Dumber sequel or watching ESPN in 3D

Weekly Streaming Update

Disney Movie Update

WHAT COULD BE THE MARVEL MYSTERY MOVIES OF DOOM~!!!???

Trans4mers is filming in and around my hometown of Pflugerville, Texas. Here is some video. I would go film their filming myself, but meh.

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Movie!

8 Bit Star Trek 09

And that brings us to this week's poll.


Are you sad that the end appears to be nigh for 3D TV's and Home Video?
Yes
No
Meh
It isn't truly over until WWE attempts it

The Government is Reading This

Thank God SOMEBODY is reading the Fiesta.



BLOG NOTES OF DOOM:
- The WELPies ARE coming. But as for when, who knows. Maybe if I get motivated to write them, hint hint? An-day offered me $5 but then rescinded the offer and told me he was going to kick me in the balls. That's not positive enough, sir!
- Speaking of An-day, I believe he is going to Justin and Scott this thread with some sort of Metallica tribute thread this weekend, so send him your top 5 or 10 favorite Metallica songs.

Last week you were asked what you wanted the future of the Fiesta to be, and I WILL POST THE WELPIES WHEN I AM DAMN WELL READY. And maybe there are still a few fiGUESTas in que...

• Box Office News: The Fresh Prince ain't that fresh anymore
• Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for , , and more!
• In Theaters This Week: The Purge and The Internship
• Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, Snitch, and Oz: The Great and Powerful

• Glenn sends along an awesome link detailing the evolution of the Star Wars logo

• Google is spying on us and turning the data over to the Government, but will they soon be able to predict how much money movies will make?
• Netflix Updates: Bye Bye, Viacom. And as pointed out by Jope, we need to watch these movies, apparently
• Twas a record May, it was
• WHO WILL PLAY YOUNG HILLARY CLINTON?!?
• Remember Oz? It's back! In IMAX form!
• The next season of Eastbound and Down will be its last
• Samuel L. Jackson fights Alzheimer's Disease... by Breaking Bad?

And that brings us to this week's poll.


Would you drop Netflix for Amazon simply for Viacom shows?
Yes
No
Meh

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND I'LL FIESTA IF I WANT TO!

Welcome to the Jeditab Birthday Bash!
Even though there should be a Fiesta this week...
Let me share one of my presents with you!
Perhaps it's some sort of awards show?
It's going to be a good surprise.
Everybody should be satisfied.
So let's click the cutaway to see what it is!



HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU FELL FOR IT! I'M JUST POSTING A REGULAR FIESTA! YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT I WOULD POST THE WELPIES?


No poll last week because I had no Internet and couldn't forward the FiGUESTa to Glenn. No poll two weeks ago either because Baddie hates all the polls.

-- Box Office News: Fast 6 and Jobstocena dominate the third rerelease of 2009's hit comedy film The Hangover!
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Planes, Percy Jackson, Absence and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: After Earth and Now You See Me
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: A Good Day to Die Hard, Identity Thief, Escape from Planet Earth and Breaking Bad Season 5 Part I

-- TV: Coming up next, The Flintstones meet WWE! Bart: Oh no, I smell another crappy cartoon crossover
-- Speaking of WWE Films, who will direct their upcoming Leprechaun reboot starring Hornswoggle?
-- Netflix is removing expiration dates from streaming titles, thus ruining your plans to watch movies just before they expire
-- Oh for crying out loud... from the creators of Jack and Jill comes a movie about a cat! HIP HIP HOO FREAKING RAY. The ONLY meme that should be turned into a movie is Bad Luck Brian. And maybe Socially Awkward Penguin
-- Coming Soon: Original Content on Amazon Streaming
-- Do we really need Bad Santa 2?
-- New photos have been released of a redesigned Optimus Prime and a redesigned Bumblebee, which will be seen next year in Trans4mers
-- Ah-nold speaks about his future
-- The cast of Human Centipede 3: Bree Olson, Tiny Lister (ZEUS!), and the mobster from The Dark Knight
-- Disney and Pixar Animated Release Dates, through 2018

And that brings us to this week's poll.


What should I do with the Fiesta going forward?
Keep the Jeditab Fiesta
Keep the FiGUESTas, stay on Hiatus
Bring Back Jope
Who cares, just post the WELPies!

Beware the Ides of March

Et tu, Brute?

I once had a teacher that made us read Julius Caesar in March because of the Ides, and in typical high school fashion, we got to act it out during class. I was Brutus... and then I stabbed the guy! Then I went back to thinking about Wrestlemania because that was back when the hype made you want to actually see the show. Wasn't yet old enough to drive or have money, so it was all there was to do!

This Cool Story has been brought to you bros by the Vote Fiesta for Column of the Year WELPie Committee.

Last week I asked you who the better War Machine is and you answered Don Cheadle. Considering my not-as-controversial-as-I-thought-it-would-be comment about the Wizard of Oz, I should have asked something about that.



-- Box Office News: If you ignore all the other movie earnings last weekend, the WWE production Dead Man Down was a box office success! And if Michael Cole says it's awesome, you know it's true!
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Scary Movie 5, Tomorrow You're Gone, and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: The Call and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: The Hobbit, Les Miserables, Zero Dark Thirty, and This Is 40

I am, therefore I Glenn:
-- What would you put in a movie theater museum?
-- Glenn wants you to know about the Kick Ass 2 trailer
-- Glenn also wanted to be the first to inform you of the Veronica Mars movie kickstarter, but YOU RUINED IT, R8DR. YOU RUINED IT. WHY DO YOU HATE THINGS, R8DR?

-- So farewell Then, Steven Soderbergh
-- A more efficient way to search for Netflix movies?
-- Speaking of Netflix, they have some new competition
-- That's my movie role, and come this Sunday, I'll be needing it back
-- Will we see The Most Electrifying Episode in Star Wars Entertainment? in 2015?
-- OH GOD WHY
-- Sounds like Disney is rebooting Beauty and the Beast
-- Imagine if Game of Thrones was made in the 90's. Now imagine if the Walking Dead was made in the 90's.

And that brings us to this week's poll.


Do you like the Batista casting in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Yes
No
I don't watch movies with wrestlers
I only watch WWE Films films



Content Note: There may or may not be a Fiesta next week if I need extra time to sit around and do nothing write the WELPies. If there is no column, enjoy the movie InAPPropriate Comedy, which looks as if it will be a box office smash and win lots of prestigious awards!

Oz: The Fiesta and Powerful

Yo Sup, remember to vote in the 3rd Annual Welpie Awards. You are probably nominated! A list of nominees along with details can be found HERE.


Put your ruby red slippers on, grab some courage and get ready to beat the crap out of some flying monkeys because it's OZ week here at your jolly ole Fiesta!

Okay, just kidding. CONFESSION TIME: I do not care for The Wizard of Oz. We're actually broadcasting LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA THIS WEEK! G'DAY MATES!


Jope is a bogan, Andy is a sook, and I'm planning on getting gutted sometime this weekend after I eat off of the barby! Oy!

Last week, I asked you which 90210 was better, and you tied saying both Beverly Hills 90210 and Meh at 41.7 percent each.



-- Box Office News: Obi-Wan and the Beanstalk climbs up the monetary beanstalk HAR HAR HARDY F'N HAR. In other news, look for Nicholas Hoult to star in everything for the next year, and then go away, just like his predecessors Sam Worthington and Jeremy Renner!
-- Monthly Box Office Report: You did not see the movies Hollywood wanted you to see
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Iron Man 3, The Hangover Part III, Rapturepalooza, Much Ado About Nothing, and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: Oz: The Great and Powerful and Dead Man Down
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Life of Pi, Rise of the Guardians, and Hitchcock

LINKS GLENN SENT ME LAST WEEK THAT STUPID ME FORGOT (plus some from this week):
-- Just how do those sound editors edit that sound?
-- Movies are happening! Maybe!
-- Read me this article, it's the one that says Pulp Fiction on it

-- Netflix gets updates! And takeaways!
-- ComingSoon previews films to be shown all week at South by Southwest. As a resident of Austin who has to deal with SXSW crowds every year, I say STOP COMING TO MY CITY AND MAKING TRAFFIC EVEN WORSE!
-- The Tribeca Film Festival announces its full film roster
-- A university study shows that the closing of Megaupload positively affected digital movie sales. It certainly stopped me from downloading from that awesome RAW archive posted here a long time ago
-- Could the Justice League movie be seeing some early justice against bad film making?
-- Here's a look at how Disney purchased Lucasfilm
-- Speaking of Star Wars, the main characters are coming back, allegedly
-- Check out Sofia Vergara's hawt bewbage
-- Next time you want to write a story, follow Pixar's rules if you want it to be successful
-- Terrence Howard Sez: Iron Man killed my career
-- HULK NO SMASH
-- The Chinese Gonna China
-- Jon Stewart will be taking a break from the Daily Show to direct
-- Sam Mendes will not return for Bond 24
-- We close with MTV attempting to do something involving movies

And that brings us to this week's poll.


Who is the better War Machine/Rhodey?
Terrence Howard
Don Cheadle
Meh

Let's Get Comical! - Week of March 6, 2013

Another week, another Wednesday, another release of new comic books!

yet another light load this week with only two pickups. Loving these light weeks, as otherwise I'd still be buying Green Lantern, Superman, and like 3 other DC series I just have no interest in reading. Plus it's much, much lighter on my wallet. Would you rather drop $6-8 dollars weekly or $20-30? Thought so.

This Week's Pickups:

- Superior Spider-Man #5
- Legends of the Dark Knight #6

Beware of Spoilers, as usual!

NO GIMMICKS NEEDED FIESTA

Hey fools, remember to send in nominees for the WELPie Awards by 11:59 PM CST tonight! NO EXCEPTIONS. Find a list of nominees in last week's Fiesta because it's not that hard to scroll down some, click a link and then scroll down some more.

Oh and send them to tbanks531 AT gmail DOT com or via Facebook


Welcome to a version of the Fiesta that NEEDS NO GIMMICKS.

Which in itself is a gimmick. BUT WHO CARES.

Last week I asked you if you were going to watch the Oscars and over 60 percent of you answered no.



-- Box Office News: Great news for fans of the hit film Identity Thief, which is pretty much everyone but R8DR!
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Planes, The Conjuring, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Erased, and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: 21 and Over, Jack the Giant Slayer, Stoker, and The Last Exorcism 2
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Wreck It Ralph, Red Dawn, and Playing For Keeps

-- Screened takes a look at the original Planet of the Apes
-- Speaking of Planet of the Apes, Gary Oldman will be fighting those damn dirty apes in the Rise sequel!
-- No new Hulk movies are on the horizon
-- Flags at half staff everybody: 90NEW10 has been canceled, thus proving that Aaron Spelling's 90210 is the superior 90210
-- The third Hobbit has been delayed
-- Apparently there's still going to be a third Ghostbusters
-- Here's a lost documentary about The Empire Strikes Back
-- Spider-Man News: They casted a girl! And a guy! And a new suit!

And that brings us to this week's poll.



Which 90210 was better?
Beverly Hills 90210
90210
Melrose Place
Meh

Let's Get Comical! - Week of 2/27/13

Get behind what?

Yes, I meant to post a column featuring last week's comics, but it was a big load and some of the comics were really hard to read. So I'll be posting that ASAP. But for now let's TRY to stay caught up with this week's three comic load, including what might be a historic issue.

This Week's Haul:
- Aquaman #17
- Avenging Spider-Man #17
- Batman Incorporated #8

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Oscar the Fiesta

Welcome to the Fiesta, the only column that could ever possibly confuse the Oscars with Oscar the Grouch!

Last week I asked you what the best Die Hard movie is, and a whopping 68.4 percent of you answered Die Hard



-- Box Office News: Yippie Ki-Yay, Mister Falcon! Despite this, Identity Thief continues to promote itself as the Number One Film in America.
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Hunky Dory, The Silence, Stoker and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: Dark Skies and Snitch
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Chasing Mavericks, The Master, and Twilight, meaning we can finish off the Twilight roundtables!

-- If you give a shit about the Oscars, here are the nominees. Screened makes their predictions
-- One director reveals how he voted for the Oscars
-- Speaking of the Oscars, hope you weren't looking forward to that 007 reunion
-- And for you Horror fans, JoBlo compiles a list of horror movies snubbed by the Oscars
-- Hollywood hates YouTube
-- Speaking of hate, more proof that Michael Bay hates you: Meagan Fox cast as April in new TMNT movie
-- Coming Soon: sequels you may or may not want
-- Let's close things with the WEEKLY STAR WARS ROUNDUP

And that brings us to this week's poll.


Will you be watching the Oscars?
Yes
No



BUT WAIT! It's finally here. Time to send in your nominations for...


Send in FIVE (5) nominations for the following categories to tbanks531 AT gmail DOT com by Friday March 1 at Midnight CST

Funniest Poster of the Year
Breakout/Comeback Poster of the Year
Most Underrated/Underappreciated Poster of the Year
Rookie of the Year***
Best Recurring Reference/Gag of the Year
Avatar of the Year
Best Avatar Use of the Year
Best Blog Bromance
Feud of the Year
Best Gimmick Poster
Regular Column/Segment of the Year
List/Tournament/Special Thread of the Year
Rant of the Year
Poster of the Year
The fos4545 Lifetime Achievement Award

*** No need for nominations, the Board of Directors will award Rip Em with the award in a special ceremony

Again, you have until NEXT FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT. May the best poster be nominated!

Valentin Valentino Presents: A Valentine's Fiesta

Err, you know what, I was going to do a gimmick this week about an Italian named Valentin Valentino hosting a Valentine's Day themed Fiesta, but man, typing that one sentence of hovertext was difficult.

So screw that, welcome to the Fiesta!

Last week I asked you if you thought the days of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone movies were over, and 54.5 percent of you answered no.



-- Box Office News: It was spoiled by R8DR because he JUST CAN'T WAIT UNTIL FRIDAY! But in case you missed it, Identity Thief cruised to an easy victory to the delight of nobody on the Blog
-- Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for The Numbers Station, The Internship, The Company You Keep, Two Mothers and more!
-- In Theaters This Week: A Good Day to Die Hard, Safe Haven, Beautiful Creatures, and Escape from Planet Earth
-- Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Argo, Sinister, Anna Karenina, and Fun Size

-- Glenn comes to us with a late Valentine's Day treat: FREE MOVIES ON HULU THIS WEEKEND

-- Screened has a list of seven underappreciated things about Die Hard
-- Screened also takes a look at great romantic movies
-- Alien 3 has some conflicting views
-- This chart should satisfy both fans of Quentin Tarantino films AND fans of charts
-- A Lannister always plays the villain
-- Tag! You're... a movie?
-- Here's an interview with Aaron Sorkin that's just as hard to interpret as his TV shows!
-- Information on the next 007 films
-- On adapting books to film
-- The 'E is cruising for a bruising
-- There are only three ways to design children's movie posters

And that brings us to this week's poll.

Not counting the newest one, which is the best Die Hard?
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Live Free or Die Hard