27 posts tagged “film”
Yes, I’m a huge nerd and also a World of Warcraft addict.
And if you’ve never played the game (or any MMO, for that matter) you won’t get the jokes in the animated image above.
N00b.
My favorite part has to be that they suspect Boromir of being a ninja. “I get plate drops kk?”
Conforming to Hollywood’s recent trend of raping our childhood memories, E! Network’s The Soup gives us an exclusive look at the next big blockbuster based off of another classic cartoon from the 1980’s: Rainbow Brite.
I predict already that it will outsell Transformers and Spider-Man 3 COMBINED. The casting decision to play Rainbow Brite herself is genius, and I couldn’t have picked anybody better.
I think i’m gonna have a nightmare about it tonight.
This is a short film from 2005 that finally proves the theory everyone always knew to be true: Batman is a cockblocker. And kinda pervy too.
The video is a short film starring Sam Rockwell (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) as Bat-Man and Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard, Accepted) as the Boy Wonder. It centers around Robin meeting a female friend who he is interested in dating, but as he is waiting for her to show up at the restaurant Bat-man shows up and starts harassing poor Robin and hitting on his date.
Sam Rockwell absolutely steals the show as the lecherous, creepy, and kind of pathetic take on the Dark Knight character, but Justin Long has his moments as well like drinking milk while everyone else has alcohol, or the awkward tug of his uniform trying to cover up his green man-panties.
I really don’t have to say anything else other than this:
Kick Ass.
Long time, no see, eh?
I realize my absence may have been unnoticed by some, but I also know that some of you Interwebians wondered. Let me put your basest fears to rest. Not dead, not incapacitated, and only marginally closer to the stroke that’s been impending for about 7 or 8 years now.
No, what sent me on my electronic hiatus was a trailer. One simple, short, well-disguised travesty of justice. The trailer in question is, as anyone who knows me is probably aware, Rob Zombie’s “re-imagining” (his words, not mine) of the epic slasher flick, Halloween.
For the uninitiated, the Halloween mythos follows the bloody, screamy story of Michael Myers, the preeminent slasher figure of modern film-making. The original film, written and directed by horror legend John Carpenter (who, by the by, also composed its prolific theme music), follows the story of Laurie Strode (played into cinematic history by Jamie Lee Curtis), a teenager being stalked by Myers for, at least in the beginning, unknown reasons.
As the story goes, Michael Myers viciously murdered his own sister, who apparently was not a very nice girl, with a butcher knife. In the original film, Myers’ motivations are vague, and somewhat supernatural. He stalks Laurie and her requisitely moronic friends until they’re dead and she’s saved by the inestimable Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), who has treated Myers for years. Not much of a plot, eh?
The beauty of Halloween was not the plot, or the acting (although Pleasance is decent and Curtis is passable), or even the quintessential theme. It’s the cinematography that elevates this film beyond a simple horror flick. There is no more gripping scene than that of Dr. Loomis, standing silent and aghast as he looks down from the balcony of the old Myers house, at the pile of leaves where Myers’ corpse should be. This scene, among many, is one of the reasons I’ve always admired this film. In point of fact, critics and moviegoers of the time (the film was released in 1978) agreed. Not only does it rank as one of the most critically well received of the horror genre, but has become a part of popular culture.
Now get ready to flame, Interwebians.
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Dead Like Me was a two-season show that ran on Showtime a few years ago, about a group of grim reapers who acted more like social workers than the typical cloak and scythe type we’re all familiar.
Moviehole.net is reporting that Dead Like Me is returning in a direct-to-DVD movie, hopefully featuring the entire cast returning. This is great news for fans of the show (like myself) when Showtime canceled the series after only two seasons.
In addition to having a top notch cast that included Mandy Patinkin, Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Rebecca Gayheart, and Jasmin Guy, the series also had excellent scripts and direction as well. The story centers around 18 year old Georgia who lived a shallow slacker life, dropping out of college, and living with her overbearing mother until on her way to a temp job she gets nailed by a toilet seat that had fallen from a Russian space station. Hell of a way to go.
George (as she’s called on the show), or Peanut (as Rube called her), then has to live the rest of her existence as an 18-year old Grim Reaper. It’s not as traditional as you might think–other than the opening credits, the a-typical Death doesn’t actually appear anywhere in the show. Instead the “Grim Reapers” are supposed to take the souls of those that are about to die to spare them the pain of their own death.
Unfortunately for poor George and the rest of the crew, it’s a non-paying job. Who would you collect a check from, anyway? I don’t see any banks cashing checks from GOD, or even Death for that matter. So they must make due with crappy temp jobs, or as Mason (Callum Blue) does, which is petty theft and mischief to make ends meet.
Source: MovieHole.net
I have officially joined the technology of the 21st century. I found a hell of a deal on a 27″ HDTV online and couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so I shelled out the money and couldn’t be more pleased. Now I just need to switch my cable box out for an HDTV unit, and I’ll be one happy camper. It’ll come in handy next weekend when I get my wisdom teeth pulled and will be stuck on the couch hopped up on goofballs. Good times.
Here’s This Week In Links for Friday, April 20, 2007:
A remake of a John Waters film? John Travolta dressed in drag as an overweight woman, AND married to Christopher Walken? Cinematical has your first look at the remake of HAIRSPRAY! [Cinematical]
Lawrence Fishburn, previously rumored to be voicing the planet-eating giant Galactus in the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, has actually been cast as the voice of Silver Surfer instead. [Hollywood Reporter]
Joystiq has coverage of the art gallery exhibit honoring all that is great in the old school video game world: The “I am 8-bit” art exhibit. Over 200 attended the showing, some of which had “questionable hygiene”. [Joystiq]
For the IMAX release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros is modifying the last 20 minutes of the film to be displayed in IMAX’s 3D technology. The last film broke IMAX box office records when released in 2005. [Sci Fi Wire]
Matthew Fox (Lost, Party of Five) is in final negotiations to play Speed Racer’s competition and long-”Lost” (heh, get it?) brother in the Wachowski Brother’s Speed Racer adaptation. If cast, he will join Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, and John Goodman who recently joined. [Sci Fi Wire]
IGN had an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card about his adaptation of his most famous work, Ender’s Game. Despite numerous stalls and script rejections, he still is planning to move forward with the film, even if it means producing the film independently. He also reveals that the movie will be a combination of the novel and its mirror novel, Ender’s Shadow. [IGN]
Remember the tweener books series “The Hardy Boys”? Well turns out, they’re making it into a movie… sort of.
The Hardy Men features the dynamic duo of sibling detectives which are being played by Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller, set to take place after the Boys have become Men–several years after their initial adventures.
Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) has been tapped to do a revamp on the screenplay that has yet to satisfy the movie studios, and I can understand why. Not only is the story not based on any of the books, but it’s also supposed to be a comedy with Tom Cruise and Ben Stiller. I haven’t laughed at anything either has done in years, except for Cruise’s wooden performances in the last few movies.
The series began in 1927 and has been written by several ghost writers throughout the years, including a 1970’s TV series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
The studio is eyeing a January 2008 start date for filming.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
I’ve been in a movie-watching mood lately. I saw Grindhouse last Saturday (which was hella-awesome, and deserved a bigger payday at the box office. Stop giving Will Ferrell money, people), then saw 300 a few days after that (also amazing, but millions of you already know that.) Tonight I’m going to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. I’ll probably be one of the few people over the age of 22 seeing the movie, but I don’t care. I love me some [adult swim].
Here’s This Week In Links, for Friday, April 13, 2007:
USA Today has a first look at Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in their spy gear for the upcoming Get Smart film adapatation. Anne looks awesome in the white Agent 99 trenchcoat, but couldn’t they at least give Steve a shoe-phone to talk on? He just looks like Michael Scott [USA Today]
Christina Ricci as Trixie in the Speed Racer movie? Strange, I always had a weird attraction to the character in the cartoon, but picturing her as the chained-to-a-radiator-sexpot we saw her as last, my thoughts about Trixie suddenly got that much dirtier. [Sci Fi Wire]
iTunes signs a deal with MGM Films to offer their line of movies in the online store that is destroying all others in the marketplace. You can now download Dances with Wolves and Rocky via the iTunes Store. Joy. [apple.com]
Shia Lebouf (Transformers, Disturbia), currently being cast in every single movie in production, has also joined the cast of Indiana Jones 4. After denying the rumor for weeks, he finally revealed why: he was ordered by Speilburg and Lucas to keep quiet. [USA Today]
Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) puts the pwnage on the everyday internet troll on Cinematical’s website section in response to a snarky comment someone left in discussion of his proposed horror flick, Red State. He not only responds, but starts answering other random questions by the other commenters. I’m glad Kevin only “likes” ponies, too. Scroll down to the “comments” section to see the craziness. [Cinematical]
Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are in discussion to revisit Dan Brown’s religious universe in the prequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons. It’s rumored that Hanks (and his hair) will receive the largest payday for a single actor if he signs on.
Angels & Demons, set before the events in The Da Vinci Code, centers on a murder involving the Illuminati and the Vatican.
The Da Vinci Code did quite well in the box office, despite being a somewhat mediocre film. Howard did his best, of course, but the movie really lacked a definite flow. It’ll be interesting to see what he will do with the follow up.
Let’s just hope that they give Hanks a better haircut this time.
Source: Sci Fi Wire
