Are you stoaked for X3?

This is the #1 movie for me coming out this year:

Jack Black is set to star in Michel Gondry's eccentric comedy "Be Kind Rewind," playing a junkyard worker whose brain is magnetized, destroying every tape in his friend's video store and forcing the pair to remake the lost films. Focus Features International has nabbed international sales rights to the under-$20 million Partizan production, which begins a two-month shoot Sept. 6 in New York. In the film, Black plays Jerry, a man whose headaches lead him to believe his brain is melting. His brain is magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of movies in his friend's store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with signs of dementia, the pair re-creates a long line of films including "The Lion King," "Rush Hour," "Back to the Future" and "Robocop." Producer Georges Bermann of Partizan said Gondry, who has partnered with Partizan since 1989, came to him in November with several ideas. "Michel is a super-fast writer," Bermann said. "He handed in a draft three weeks. Focus was interested the second they heard the pitch and made the deal within a week."

Well, having read that maybe it won't come out this year. But I'm still psyched.

I'll definitely be seeing this in the theaters. I used to love the comics and (maybe for that reason) the first two are definitely two of my favorite hollywood action movies of recent years. They're not great movies, but along with Lord of the Rings and the ridiculously underappreciated Serenity, they are the only big-budget action/effects spectacles of the last five years or so that I would give an unqualified thumbs-up to.

That said, the buzz on X3 is really bad. I don't take that as fact and will definitely give it a shot, but the word is not good. I will definitley miss Brian Singer (I would be very surprised to see anything like the homophobia metaphor from X2 popping up here). I'm a bit spoiled on the plot, and its pretty ridiculous how heavy handed and irreverent they are getting with the traditional X-Men mythology. That could end up being a good thing though.

The Juggernaut (bitch!) and the Beast (Kelsey Grammar?!? Should have been Larry Fishburne) are two of my favorite characters so I'm excited to see them on the big screen, and the previews do look cool, so I've still got some hope that the buzz is wrong.

The preview really sucks, they tell you half the plot. I mean, it's not like it wasn't obvious there would be a Phoenix, but really...