That is all.
-James
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I never knew Dr. Doom surfed...
This is the Dr. Doom I know. The one I grew up loving and wishing he'd get rid of the Fantastic Four once and for all.
See, it's weird. I think I'm one of 7 people who enjoyed the first Fantastic Four movie for it's corny comic book ham. Nothing wrong with that. It knew not to take itself too seriously and I thought the chemistry between The Thing and the Human Torch was great.
My big complaint about the first one was Dr. Doom. And I'm not a Julian McMahon hater. I actually like him a lot on Nip/Tuck. But that kind of acting doesn't work for the super genius of Dr. Victor Von Doom.
Eh.
So I go and see the new Fantastic Four movie for two reasons. The second reason is that I'm a huge fan of the Silver Surfer and any storyline in the Marvel Universe that deals with the power cosmic and space stuff. I think that's one reason I loved the recent Planet Hulk storyline. Conan mixed with cosmic shit.
Movie kind of drags a bit. Jessica Alba is hot and not as annoying in this one. Ioan Gruffudd was his usual boring self, which is perfect for Reed Richards. But the dancing... I don't want to get too much into that.
Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans as The Thing and Human Torch were great again.
And the body movements of Doug Jones and the voice of Laurence Fishburne as The Silver Surfer fit perfectly. I enjoyed it immensely... only thing I didn't like was that they explained the source of his power cosmic was from the Surfer's board.
Lame.
Two complaints though.
1) Kerry Washington as Alicia Masters. I mean, she has to be the worst actress to play a blind person ever. I mean, the only way she could've been good was if they poked her eyes out.
2) Julian McMahon goes through something I didn't think was possible. Sucking even more. Dr. Doom was suckier than in the first one. A surfing Dr. Doom. With bad one liners. Ugh! Just makes me shake thinking about it. I mean, I laughed my ass off with the whole surfing gimmick. I just didn't think they'd go through with it.
*shudders*
So go see it. Let's make this movie do well so maybe we can see a good Silver Surfer movie. With Thanos as the villain. Makes me all excited thinking about it.
Oh, and Galactus wasn't terrible. I won't say why or why not... but you do see a quick glimpse of his helmet. So the whole cloud thing was played out by spoilers everywhere: not entirely true. Just see it and be the judge.
I'm just a film fanatic.
-James
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Spacey no more?
Kevin Spacey has decided to not act anymore and instead choose to direct and keep on doing theatre in London and maybe here in NYC as well.
It's sad... but at least I won't have to see another K-Pax again.
Latino Review put up a picture for the new bat suit from Entertainment Weekly.
September 25th is Dario Argento day, well, according to Blue Underground that is. They've been picking up the Anchor Bay Argento library as of late, and this time around they'll be releasing Cat O'Nine Tails, Opera, Stendhal Syndrome and Suspiria. Yes, for the millionth time, someone is releasing Suspiria. Eh, I'll pass this time around... I have the Anchor Bay 3 disc edition with the Goblin soundtrack.
And the more Third Mother stills I see, the better I feel. I think Masters of Horror helped wake up Dario Argento a bit. Here's hoping this is a throwback to Suspiria or Inferno and not The Card Player.
Oh, everyone must go out and buy the trade paperback for Planet Hulk so you can catch up to the greatest event since the Infinity Gauntlet. And that is World War Hulk.
I've always loved the Hulk. And it's only going to get better with the new movie that's been announced. Yes, I was one who liked the first Hulk movie.
Night night.
-James
It's sad... but at least I won't have to see another K-Pax again.
Latino Review put up a picture for the new bat suit from Entertainment Weekly.
September 25th is Dario Argento day, well, according to Blue Underground that is. They've been picking up the Anchor Bay Argento library as of late, and this time around they'll be releasing Cat O'Nine Tails, Opera, Stendhal Syndrome and Suspiria. Yes, for the millionth time, someone is releasing Suspiria. Eh, I'll pass this time around... I have the Anchor Bay 3 disc edition with the Goblin soundtrack.
And the more Third Mother stills I see, the better I feel. I think Masters of Horror helped wake up Dario Argento a bit. Here's hoping this is a throwback to Suspiria or Inferno and not The Card Player.
Oh, everyone must go out and buy the trade paperback for Planet Hulk so you can catch up to the greatest event since the Infinity Gauntlet. And that is World War Hulk.
I've always loved the Hulk. And it's only going to get better with the new movie that's been announced. Yes, I was one who liked the first Hulk movie.
Night night.
-James
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Billy Connolly is one fantastic zombie
Went to an advanced screening for the film Fido which comes out next week, June 15th.
All I can say is one word, really: Fucking Brilliant!
Yes, that's two words. I'm going for comedy here. But seriously, any movie that satirizes the 50's americana bullshit we've seen attempted at in films like Pleasantville but actually ties in a zombie story within it is the cat's meow to me.
Billy Connolly plays the title zombie character, Fido, who is just like any zombie in this alternate reality: A slave to the system run by the company known as Zomcon. After the Zombie Wars, which was caused by a radioactive gas and brought back the dead as flesh eating zombies, this company was the first to realize that shooting them in the head was the way to their deaths. Then, even more economical, was to put a collar on them and make them our servants for all the menial labor we wouldn't do, but don't mind seeing a whole group of people do instead.
Carrie Ann Moss and Dylan Baker play the parents in this 'ideal' world and their son Timmy, played by K'Sun Ray (a perfect name in Hollywood) who is a bullied and picked on by the youth of the town. He just doesn't fit in and wonders if the zombies are really that dead after all. A troubled youth? Not at all, in fact, he's probably the most sane in the town.
Mr. Bottoms (played by Henry Czerny) is the new man in town. A new sheriff in town, really, because he is the head of defense for Zomcon and a war hero with over 500 kills in the Zombie Wars and now lives across the street from the Robinsons. He's a bit overbearing too, but I won't dig too deep into each character, just some nuances and whatnot. His daughter, Dee Dee, has a bit of a crush on Timmy, and plays a big role in the movie later on.
When Helen Robinson (Carrie Ann Moss) gets a zombie for the house to fit in with the rest of the neighborhood, you know something bad is going to happen. Bill Robinson (Dylan Baker) hates zombies with a passion (he had to kill his own father when he turned into one at the age of 11) yet loves funerals with a passion and can't wait to give his family the funerals he's been paying off for years. Headless, of course... so you don't come back.
So in a nutshell, the movie has some zombie kills (by Fido, but I won't say who), some more zombie massacre, lots of colorful 50's kitsch, great vintage looking commercials for Zomcon products, learned not to trust old people (ever), love affairs with zombie (a wonderfully creepy and upbeat Tim Blake Nelson), some heartache and a pretty twisted and loving ending.
Just have to give two shout outs to Andrew Currie (the director/writer) and Billy Connolly, who came to the screening here in NYC, courtesy of Forbidden Planet. He was fantastic and spoke highly about everyone in the film, even his body double, who supposedly died of an overdose the same day he was hired. I couldn't help but laugh and he smiled at me and then said, "Well, come to think of it, it isn't funny at all. But I thought you fucking dead looking people wouldn't mind that story."
His performance is especially great, considering he doesn't utter one word, and being known as a comic who speaks more often than Robin Williams, that's some good acting.
Go and see it next week when it comes out. Not only is it a funny movie, but it has zombies. And it's not some bullshit tie in with another franchise or a shitty sequel/ remake that's coming out soon (Day of the Dead, I'm talking to you!).
Just do me that favor and see it.
Until next time,
James
All I can say is one word, really: Fucking Brilliant!
Yes, that's two words. I'm going for comedy here. But seriously, any movie that satirizes the 50's americana bullshit we've seen attempted at in films like Pleasantville but actually ties in a zombie story within it is the cat's meow to me.
Billy Connolly plays the title zombie character, Fido, who is just like any zombie in this alternate reality: A slave to the system run by the company known as Zomcon. After the Zombie Wars, which was caused by a radioactive gas and brought back the dead as flesh eating zombies, this company was the first to realize that shooting them in the head was the way to their deaths. Then, even more economical, was to put a collar on them and make them our servants for all the menial labor we wouldn't do, but don't mind seeing a whole group of people do instead.
Carrie Ann Moss and Dylan Baker play the parents in this 'ideal' world and their son Timmy, played by K'Sun Ray (a perfect name in Hollywood) who is a bullied and picked on by the youth of the town. He just doesn't fit in and wonders if the zombies are really that dead after all. A troubled youth? Not at all, in fact, he's probably the most sane in the town.
Mr. Bottoms (played by Henry Czerny) is the new man in town. A new sheriff in town, really, because he is the head of defense for Zomcon and a war hero with over 500 kills in the Zombie Wars and now lives across the street from the Robinsons. He's a bit overbearing too, but I won't dig too deep into each character, just some nuances and whatnot. His daughter, Dee Dee, has a bit of a crush on Timmy, and plays a big role in the movie later on.
When Helen Robinson (Carrie Ann Moss) gets a zombie for the house to fit in with the rest of the neighborhood, you know something bad is going to happen. Bill Robinson (Dylan Baker) hates zombies with a passion (he had to kill his own father when he turned into one at the age of 11) yet loves funerals with a passion and can't wait to give his family the funerals he's been paying off for years. Headless, of course... so you don't come back.
So in a nutshell, the movie has some zombie kills (by Fido, but I won't say who), some more zombie massacre, lots of colorful 50's kitsch, great vintage looking commercials for Zomcon products, learned not to trust old people (ever), love affairs with zombie (a wonderfully creepy and upbeat Tim Blake Nelson), some heartache and a pretty twisted and loving ending.
Just have to give two shout outs to Andrew Currie (the director/writer) and Billy Connolly, who came to the screening here in NYC, courtesy of Forbidden Planet. He was fantastic and spoke highly about everyone in the film, even his body double, who supposedly died of an overdose the same day he was hired. I couldn't help but laugh and he smiled at me and then said, "Well, come to think of it, it isn't funny at all. But I thought you fucking dead looking people wouldn't mind that story."
His performance is especially great, considering he doesn't utter one word, and being known as a comic who speaks more often than Robin Williams, that's some good acting.
Go and see it next week when it comes out. Not only is it a funny movie, but it has zombies. And it's not some bullshit tie in with another franchise or a shitty sequel/ remake that's coming out soon (Day of the Dead, I'm talking to you!).
Just do me that favor and see it.
Until next time,
James
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Monday, June 4, 2007
A new post, a different night
Just caught up with the fantastic comic book series The Boys by the brilliant and demented minds of Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson. Such a sick and twist comic book, my good men. It's basically about a group of blokes and a gal whose job is to make sure superheroes aren't being too 'super' with their powers.
It shows super heroes in such a depraved light, you can't help but gasp and laugh all at once. It's up to issue number 7 and this is only after being cancelled by DC Comics for being a little too liberal in it's trashing of supers. But they sold the rights back to the creators and now it's back and better than ever.
Buy the trade paperback. Do it now! You must do it in order to live a proper life.
-James
It shows super heroes in such a depraved light, you can't help but gasp and laugh all at once. It's up to issue number 7 and this is only after being cancelled by DC Comics for being a little too liberal in it's trashing of supers. But they sold the rights back to the creators and now it's back and better than ever.
Buy the trade paperback. Do it now! You must do it in order to live a proper life.
-James
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
Sitting here, wearing a luchador mask
Contemplating a few new scripts. Sounds intriguing? It isn't. Not at all. It's actually a complete annoyance that drives me bonkers, but hell, I guess that's how you know you're a writer and not some loon from the bin.
I have one idea for a short film, just came to me this moment as I was typing this. With these constant toothaches I've been having the past week or so, wouldn't it be sickening and fascination to have a man in a room, just minding his own business, eating some caramel. Or some rock candy. Chewing down hard on those suckers when suddenly, crack! A sound and sonic boom occurs through the man's body and you know with an extreme close up of one of his teeth that it's been cracked in half from the candy.
Pain starts to shoot up to his head and down his spine and he doesn't know what to do because of it. He tries some anbersol. It doesn't work. Tries some aspirin, any type of pain killer in the house that he has. Still doesn't work. Tries to drown the pain by rinsing his mouth out with whiskey. Still does not do anything for the man.
He spies a pair of pliers from across the room. He laughs at the very notion of using them. He calls his dentist, sorry, no answer. It is a sunday and dentists are closed those days. He contemplates some more. He can last the day, can't he? The clock ticks. He starts to sweat. Those pliers are only a few feet away, and hell, it won't be that bad. The pain can't be worse than what he's feeling now. He gets up, grabs those pliers, goes to the bathroom. Lights out. Scream. Maybe we'll show the tooth being pulled. Probably not, considering that gore effect is actually pretty pricey.
Cut back to him sitting in his chair, with a wad of bandages in his mouth, red from the blood. Cracked tooth with the pliers are on the table. He smiles and inserts another piece of candy in his mouth. We hear another crack.
Roll credits.
The End.
Yes, I know. A bit too much. But that could be a very effective 3 to 5 minute movie. Better than those On the Lot folks.
At least I think so.
I have one idea for a short film, just came to me this moment as I was typing this. With these constant toothaches I've been having the past week or so, wouldn't it be sickening and fascination to have a man in a room, just minding his own business, eating some caramel. Or some rock candy. Chewing down hard on those suckers when suddenly, crack! A sound and sonic boom occurs through the man's body and you know with an extreme close up of one of his teeth that it's been cracked in half from the candy.
Pain starts to shoot up to his head and down his spine and he doesn't know what to do because of it. He tries some anbersol. It doesn't work. Tries some aspirin, any type of pain killer in the house that he has. Still doesn't work. Tries to drown the pain by rinsing his mouth out with whiskey. Still does not do anything for the man.
He spies a pair of pliers from across the room. He laughs at the very notion of using them. He calls his dentist, sorry, no answer. It is a sunday and dentists are closed those days. He contemplates some more. He can last the day, can't he? The clock ticks. He starts to sweat. Those pliers are only a few feet away, and hell, it won't be that bad. The pain can't be worse than what he's feeling now. He gets up, grabs those pliers, goes to the bathroom. Lights out. Scream. Maybe we'll show the tooth being pulled. Probably not, considering that gore effect is actually pretty pricey.
Cut back to him sitting in his chair, with a wad of bandages in his mouth, red from the blood. Cracked tooth with the pliers are on the table. He smiles and inserts another piece of candy in his mouth. We hear another crack.
Roll credits.
The End.
Yes, I know. A bit too much. But that could be a very effective 3 to 5 minute movie. Better than those On the Lot folks.
At least I think so.
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