The Avengers is out in a few days, and is getting rather stellar reviews so far. We always knew it would be a big Marvel vs. DC, Disney vs Warner Bros. showdown, and it’s impossible to tell who’s coming to come out ahead as the better superhero film, Avengers or The Dark Knight Rises.

Both suffer from impossibly high expectations, but I think TDKR even more so as it’s Chris Nolan, who does NOT make bad movies, and because TDK made SO much money and was exceptionally beloved by fans. We’ve seen very, very little from the film, and this new trailer is promising to be the “final” one, despite the movie’s release being two months away in July.

What do you think? For me it’s intriguing, but doesn’t quite send chlils up my spine the way the Dark Knight’s spots did. Something like the recent new Prometheus trailer had that effect on me, while this did not. Not to say the film won’t be good, but I don’t know, something just seems missing to me.

They’ve clearly cleaned up Bane’s voice quite a bit so it’s perfectly understandable, and I think that was necessary for final release, as I couldn’t hear a word he was saying in the older trailers. Class warfare is certainly a relevant topic, but I’m still not exactly sold on Bane as a villain. Perhaps what I’m most curious about however, is what Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s true role is. We’re not seriously believing that he’s just some random cop, right?

Update: Alright, I’ve watched this a few more times, and it is rather fantastic, I admit.

The Batman Complex is a trailer for a fake movie which posits a very interesting question. What if Bruce Wayne wasn’t Batman at all. What if he invented the entire superhero fantasy world as a way of dealing with the trauma of his murdered parents? Sounds plausible enough to me, and fortunately Christian Bale starred in another movie about paranoid schizophrenia, The Mechanic, and that footage is able to be used here for this trailer.

It’s a cool idea, and even if it lost me a bit once it started merging with Inception, I’d still love to see it explored. But it’s more than likely it would exist in a random offshoot alternate universe comic book series rather than a film. That would be just fine with me however. Surprise twist ending: He really is Batman and Scarecrow was just messing with him the whole time.

Yeah, I know it’s about five years too late for a Sin City mashup, but trust me when I say this is worthwhile. Using a combination of Beauty and Beast, The Great Mouse Detective, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and many, many more, this video shows what it might have looked like if Disney took the rains instead of Rodriguez and Tarantino.

It’s funny, the creator of the video describes it as “an experiment that didn’t work out,” but I’m not sure anyone who watches it could agree with that. The syncing is great, the characters chosen are perfect and coming from someone who has seen hundreds of trailer re-edit attempts, this is definitely one of my favorites. Check it out for yourself above.

Fun fact: I’ve never played a Crysis game. That really shouldn’t be a huge surprise, as I’m not a PC gamer at heart, and my computer has trouble rendering 16 zerglings on the screen at a time, much less the game with the most acclaimed visuals in history. I didn’t even bother.

But I think I may have to pop in a new graphics card for Crysis 3, which from this gameplay trailer, looks just too cool not to play. Visuals aside, the ruined NYC solarium dome idea is probably one of the best video game setting ideas I’ve seen. And not just because Escape from New York was an awesome movie.

Watch for yourself above.

George Lucas should not watch this video, lest he get any ideas about making the next Kinect Star Wars game singing-based, but for the rest of us, it’s a pretty fun mash-up.

In an effort to get their pop song a bit of attention, Hot Problems decided to lip-sync it to all six Star Wars movies. As it turns out, they did a pretty good job, and it’s the most fun Star Wars has had in years. Even the prequels look like a good time with this song in the background.

Check it out above, and play it during your next monthly Star Wars costume party. What, you guys don’t have those? Me neither…

I don’t have a particularly profound video to share with you today (I leave that to TJ in his earlier motivational video post), but I bet I’ve got something that’s an easy way to get you to laugh.

Since TV Thursday is no longer remotely humorous, and that includes many recent episodes of Always Sunny, check out the blooper reels from seasons 3, 4 and 5 of the show, which often times turn out to be even funnier than the final product.

When you have that much ridiculousness going on in each scene, I imagine it’s impossible to keep a straight face. As such, I bet these reels are the condensed version of a thousand times this has happened on set.

You could replace “devoted fan” with “crazy person,” because I think that’s what you’d have to be to spend a month arranging Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 into 114 minute, 178 minute and 196 minute movies, respectively.

But that’s exactly what he’s done. YouTuber MorphinAPG has created about eight hours of Uncharted films using only in-game content. It really is pretty well done, or as well done as it can be when much of it has to be done with a third person camera.

You can watch the first film above, and the other six hours worth are below if you REALLY want to kill some time at work.

If not, it’s pretty damn close. Crysis has always been the benchmark for graphical perfection when it comes to PC gaming, and now with a new engine, they’re looking to top themselves to an even great degree.

This video is a short demo for the CryEngine 3 SDK 3.4.0, and shows that game graphics, if you have a good enough system, and getting dangerously close to complete and utter photorealism, almost entirely indistinguishable from reality. It will likely take quite a bit longer for these sort of graphics to reach consoles, but in another five years or so, I bet we’ll get there. And after that? Who knows. Once games become as real as reality, what makes a real, boring life worth living for some?

You know, technically that title should read “A Borderlands Pokemon Mod.” A Pokemon Borderlands mod would have masked bandits rampaging through Pallet Town, and Professor Oak would sell acidic shotguns.

But no, it’s the other way around. Someone modded Borderlands on PC so that you can summon Scags with Pokeballs to fight with you in battle. It’s exactly as awesome it sounds. It would be cool if you could open it up to ALL the creatures in the game, though I guess that just means Rakk, those electric crab things and those jumping armored insects you have to shoot in the ass to kill. Not exactly hard to catch ‘em all in that case. Still, a pretty awesome idea and one that once again begs the question WHY ISN’T THERE A POKEMON CONSOLE GAME?

Prometheus is shaping up to have the best viral campaign of the year, although The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t seem to really even be trying this time around.

We’ve already seen the faux TED talk with Guy Pearce, and now we have a new promotional video showcasing Michael Fassbender’s android, David. It’s incredibly creepy, and I’m not just saying that because I saw Shame and now can only think of Fassbender’s O-face when he’s onscreen. Rather, the short clip walks us through what makes an android happy, sad and probably likely to end up killing us all.  Maybe he’ll be nice and try to break out of the killer robot stereotype like Kevin Spacey’s GERTY from Moon. I love that smiley little guy.