More action coming to screen near you

Reading up on some news I came across some interesting news.
Filmschoolrejects.com seems to be bringing most of the fun to the table for me. Big news about J. Statham and 2 of his upcoming movies - Crank 2 and Transporter 3.
While Crank 2 might be a bit unnecessary to the table as the original was great and story seems to be finished I wouldn't mind the second if just for the action. And as it seems that it have similar budget... it should be a great movie to pass time with.
On the other hand Transporter 3... I loved the first one, so I hope this will keep to the roots of it as the second one it seemed that someone is trying to hard which made the movie a big disappointment for me. It had some good action, but the story was not that good and action scenes and CGI didn't go too well together...
Another great movie Underworld 3 is on its way as well... and that is something I don't want to miss either if for nothing else than tight leather outfits .. ;)

On the other things nice and shiny - Fast and Furious 4 is set to bring back Vin Diesel and Paul Walker... so one can hope that this will bring some entertainment and quality back to the franchise...

Update: It seems that Kate Beckinsale is not returning to Underworld any time soon... Andthis leaves me wondering if it will be worth watching the the new movie...

DX11 gets the sack

theinquirer.net is reporting that MS has decided to cut DX11 mandatory support form Windows 7. While this might seems as a big thing I believe this will benefit the industry more than having DX11 locked in Win7 on release. The benefit this an bring is that DX11 should be available for Win Vista, just as DX10 should be available for Win XP. Granted that MS claims XP and DX10 are incompatible, and XP has lived for 2 DX releases already - 8 and 9, so it is time to move on, but it would be a mistake to make DX11 Win7 exclusive. People like to have choice and forcing people to upgrade is not a way to go - especially when u see falling market share and have good products from competition out there.
Another big question is when is it coming out... If 7 comes in 5 years... well nobody wants to wait that long for DX11, while on other hand if it comes next year... well it will be simply to early as the games are not even mature for DX10 yet and forcing everyone to upgrade is not a way to go.

Either way.. whenever a new DX comes it has to be open and not force users to upgrade to new software. It would have been much better incentive for gamers to upgrade to Vista if XP had DX10 support while at the same displaying the DX speed improvements in Vista over XP... then at least someone could say - buy Vista, it is faster than XP!