Much like Tim Burton making Alice in Wonderland, the thought of Ridley Scott making Robin Hood bores the hell out of me. And to top it all off, casting Russell Crowe (remember him?) as the title character pretty much guarantees that you’ll fall asleep during the first reel. In fact, this may be the first trailer that I’ve watched for an unreleased film and thought, “Haven’t I seen this movie already?”
Check it out for yourself and feel free to start placing bets on how many Oscars it will win in our comment section.
Oh look! Mr. Postman brought us something from John Travolta. Let’s see here… Ah. He mailed us some garbage. REVIEWED: From Paris with Love. PLUS: Apparently, the Super Bowl?
I’m pretty sure Logan and I have mentioned the movie Hard Ticket to Hawaii on the podcast at some point. Suffice it to say that it’s one of the best, awful, borderline pornographic, low budget spy/action drama/comedies of its day. Oh, and it’s got a scene where a dude is killed by a Frisbee with razor blades taped to it.
Well, a group of brave YouTubers have recreated this classic scene on digital video and fed it to the internet. Now, normally I’d encourage you to watch the original before the remake, but I’m going to make an exception. First, take a look at the fan version:
Pretty great, right? But surely, they cheesed up the acting for comedic effect. And obviously the real movie’s special effects were more convincing, right? Let’s see for ourselves…
Yes, it turns out that the fans got it pitch perfect. If anything, their version is somehow less absurd than the one that hit theaters. Well done. For added fun, try starting both clips at the same time.
Bruce Campbell has announced that he will star in a follow-up to My Name is Bruce, in which he played a comically exaggerated self-deprecating version of himself that saves a small town from a demon. In the sequel, Bruce Vs. Frankenstein, he’ll wind up in Europe where he, presumably, will save a small European town from a mad scientist and his monstrous creation. I’m not sure what got Campbell going on this, but if he wants to remake the rest of Abbott and Costello’s oeuvre while he’s at it (Bruce Campbell Chainsaws the Mummy, Bruce Campbell Wrestles the Invisible Man, The Wistful She-Bitch of Wagon Gap, etc.), I’m completely on board.
Honestly, though, My Name is Bruce wasn’t all that hot. It was hokey, like a lot of Campbell’s work, but it lacked the Sam Raimi execution that makes that kind of thing work. And Ted Raimi turned in four performances that made me realize why Sam usually limits him to cameos. Here’s hoping they pull it off a bit better this time.
Vampires: Grim and gritty supernatural killers or creepy angsty stalkers? To make the call, we pit the Spierig Brothers’ latest against a movie we never thought we’d see. As Bela Lugosi put it, “I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.” REVIEWED: Daybreakers, *cough*Twilight*cough*
I was pretty jazzed when Ryan Reynolds was cast as Green Lantern, but I figured it severely slimmed the chances of his reprising his role from X-Men Origins: Wolverine in a Deadpool solo flick. But, apparently, Deadpool is still a go, and the Zombieland guys are writing it. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (authors of my second favorite film of the year) have demonstrated an excellent mastery of dry wit and dark comedy, making them a solid choice for a successful adaptation of Deadpool.
And this will make Reynolds the first big name I can think of to headline as both a Marvel and DC hero (although, I guess if you count his role in the third Blade movie, he was there already.) All we need is a competent director, maybe somebody willing to let Reynolds improvise here and there, and this thing might turn out alright.
Hey, ladies...come a little closer and let me link my ponytail to your banshee.
I can’t quite explain why Avatar is still number one at the box office and is well on its way to breaking records. I also can’t explain why a lot of this is apparently due to repeat business. Do people really want to sit through that film twice? All 162 minutes of it? Sigh.
Whatever the case may be (Personally? I think that a lot of people are just plain dumb, but what do I know?), Cameron has announced a longer version of the film when it finally reaches DVD/Blu-Ray. I’m sure this makes a lot of you dateless losers very excited, but before you go pitching a tent in your pants, consider this great quote from Cameron in regards to the laughable sex scene that was merely hinted at in the theatrical version:
“We had it in and we cut it out. So that will be something for the special edition DVD, if you want to see how they have sex.”
Yes, that is a actual quote from Cameron…and he’s not kidding. I couldn’t make this crap up. CHUD has the full story, which goes into slightly more detail.
Catching up on 2009 movies for our big year end wrap-up, I finally saw G.I. Joe. During my viewing, Dennis Quaid gave me a message that he wanted me to pass along to you. He says to…
Is Robert Downey Jr. hording all of this money in a basement somewhere, fully aware that his star could fall again at any moment? Or is he like “What the hell, I can always make a sequel to Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree!” REVIEWED: Sherlock Holmes. PLUS: More musings on the trials of theater-going, including the secret world of the Kiosk Gnome.
They live in a secret world touched by magic and surrounded by nature, and the only human who has ever been there, must now fight to save it. This is the story of FernGully: The Last Rainforest. REVIEWED: Avatar. PLUS: Bye Bye Squeaky.
