If this is half as funny as The Other Guys, I'm in. That movie is SORELY underrated. One of the few times I didn't hate Will Ferrell.
Red Band trailer for the new Evil Dead. Holy fucking shitballs, does this look violent: NSFW NSFW tags because Redband and because holy fucking shitballs, does that look violent.
This I am actually looking forward to, because a) It has HEAVY approval from Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, which means a lot. b) No Ash. No actor except Bruce could ever be Ash, and I'm glad they're using new characters on the old spin. c) It's not going to hold back like so many remakes do. For this to be as hardcore as the original, it has its work cut out for it. The original (budget: $130,000) is one of the grossest (and imaginitve) horror movies ever made that won horror fans over by combining the best primal elements from OTHER horror films (Night Of the Living Dead, Suspiria and House on Haunted Hill to name a few). It was a deliriously fun and gruesome rollercoaster ride for those who aren't gentle souls. I am a loathesome horror movie snob, meaning I love horror films but not very many of them: most of them ARE crap so when good ones do come along (like V/H/S and Drag Me to Hell) I spring up in my seat like the porn channel just accidently unscrambled. I will see this. I can tell right now it won't suck.
To add to the horror, I just have to say... WHAT. THE. FUCK: ...and to at least MY pleasure, the sequel to my favourite horror movie of this year, which will be called S-V/H/S will be out in 2013. I reeeeeally hope it doesn't suck.
Well my autobiography is coming out. I definitely approved of the man they got to play me. I was so happy I got this covered up in the media, but fuck, cats out the bag now.
Yes and no. They are the same character from the same series as books. All the novels are stand alone. Payback was based on the first book. This one is based on the 19th book. Both movies are independent from each other.
Both of these look pretty damned good. Gangster Squad looks a bit cheesy, but they have too many good actors for it to be a wash. Also, "42" has about the longest list of character actors in a trailer of all time.
Here's another 42 Trailer: That one includes a scene that's not in this one. A bunch of it was filmed in Georgia, and I drive by this location several times a week: That is an old store off a paved road. In one day, the film crew changed it to a dirt road for that scene, also taking down a fence. By lunch time, the dirt was gone, the road restored, and the fence was back up. I also have a friend whose restored car appears in the movie. He is giddy about it. All the little personal connections aside, it looks like a fantastic movie.
JJ Abrams to direct the next Star Wars http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/j-j-abrams-to-direct-next-star-wars-movie/?hp
I mean I guess anything that isn't the prequels has to be an improvement. It still feels like they are using the current paint by numbers summer blockbuster tactic, that creates high box office numbers with"meh" movies. His Star Trek reboot was fun but nothing close to a classic. I hope he is a little more pragmatic about his approach to the movie than he was for Star Trek.
I'm actually okay with the choice of Abrams. One of the things that Abrams is good at is creating a universe that keeps people interested (see: Lost) or working within a stale universe to make it interesting again (see: Star Trek). That won't be an easy task with the Star Wars universe, because most people lost a lot of interest after the prequels weren't anywhere near as good as they had been built up to be. That is the problem with Star Wars itself, actually. Even without a single commercial, without a single bit of promotion from Disney or the filmmakers, it will still be one of the most hyped films ever, and it is incredibly difficult to live up to the kind of hype that this next Star Wars film will have. Every single aspect of that movie is going to be analyzed and scrutinized before a single frame of film is even shown to the public. There will be arguments galore before they take a single shot. "What do you mean they're bringing back Carrie Fischer and Mark Hammill? They both look awful!" "But how can you do it without Luke and Leia!?" "Recast them!" "You can't recast those roles! They're iconic!" "Make it an all Han Solo movie!" "Bring back Boba Fett!" "How could you cast THAT guy/girl as a Jedi/Sith?!" "Will it follow the extended universe novels?" "Who gives a fuck? Give me more Lens Flares!" Honestly, I can't think of a lot of directors that could possibly handle this kind of film, with the hype that is going to surround it, but I think Abrams is one of them. Nolan could've done it, too, but he turned them down, likely to focus on the DC Universe that they're attempting to build.
I think just adding back you know memorable characters with stand out personalities. There wasn't a single character that came close to Han Solo as far as fun and memorable in the prequels. Instead there were characters that were referred to as rascals by other characters without much substance from the character to prove that.
He wont be, and it's the same reason why Lost took a nose dive in the last season. A lot of pomp and circumstance, light on substance. I figured either him or Spielberg would take over anyway. Now some really crazy news would have been if someone like Christopher Nolan or David Fincher was going to direct.
If they are going to redo Star Wars, just do it, and do all of us reality-based movie fans a favour: don't listen to even a single opinion of the Fat Fucking Fanboys. Don't tell them you're tarnishing the image, picking the wrong actors, over-using CGI, or telling you that you can't make a fuscha lightsabre. The Fat Fucking Fanboys will be be up no matter what they do with the series, so they had better just take their hundreds of millions of dollars and make something action-packed and fun without Ewoks, Jar-Jar or Hayden Christiansen in the cast. Dude has the acting range of a fucking ashtray. Thank you.
I agree with all of this, except for the ewoks. I want fucking ewoks. I want a Jedi Ewok, and I want him to be right on the edge of the line, fucking people up.
I don't know I think he should at least watch Mr. Plinkett's reviews of the prequels to see how George Fucked it up and not do it like that.