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long rambling movie preview cant go in the living room coz some bitch is sleeping entry.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/large.html
thats just...jesus. its weird, i'm one of the few who loves mel gibson and tom cruise a lot more since they went nuts.
there's a movie called burden of dreams from the late 70s. its a feature length making of about the production of a werner herzog (famous great german director who has a movie coming out with bale and zahn) period movie about a rich guy who goes to south america. whats interesting about burden of dreams is that it is a thousand times more well-known then the movie it was about, which no one saw, for this reason: for the section of the film regarding his character's attempt to have natives pull a riverboat from one river, over a mountain, to another river, herzog decided to film just that. they built a riverboat and had natives do that fucking insane thing. its a famous documentary about this director's insanity and burden of dreams, get it?
thinking about mel gibson these days, i can see him becoming werner herzog. and i hope he does, coz man we dont have a truly crazy director anymore. this movie is in the mayan or aztec language with subtitles. looks awesome.
in other news...
there's an article at aintitcoolnews about how awesome warner bros is getting. it talks about V FOR VENDETTA, which everyone says is an incredible "true sci-fi" political dystopian action movie that about terrorism vs patriotism vs freedom vs. propaganda written by the wachowskis adapted from a graphic novel by alan moore who one of the best ever. because its at the wb, they could really go after fox with its political content. there's a scene where they kill off a bill o'reilly-like dude. could become a classic from the hype. here's a preview for THAT:
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer_2.html
but also, warner bros just picked up another comic adaptation thats been in limbo: THE WATCHMEN. The Watchmen is considered one of the 2 or 3 best works of the comic medium ever.
also for the wb..."Then there's Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN, Linklater's animated adaptation of Phillip K Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY, Zach Snyder's adaptation of Frank Miller's 300, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of POSEIDON, M. Night's LADY IN THE WATER and that tiny film by Bryan Singer, SUPERMAN RETURNS. And right now... Right now - I've just gotten word through the nefarious contacts I have throughout this awesome world of film - that Brad Pitt's Plan B and Warners are teaming up to produce Mark Romanek's adaptation of James Frey's A MILLION LITTLE PIECES!!!"...which from the sounds of it is another fight club. Mark Romanek is the guy who rivals spike jonze for music video direction, devil's haircut, 99 problems, the perfect drug, hurt, just look up his director's series dvd. so they're rocking ass.
one of the things they mention is 300.
Let's talk about 300.
The Battle of Thermopylae is the greatest battle in history. 7000 Spartans and other Greeks fought A QUARTER OF A MILLION Persians for 3 days at a mountain pass called Thermopylae - The Hot Gates. After this battle there wasnt another invading army to come into Europe as big until D-Day. Whats coolest about this is a lot of stuff. The Spartans were a people that we really would have hated. They were hardcore kill-to-survive non-democratic ugly-baby-killing child-starving bastards. There's a deformed Spartan exile that's basically Fredo from The Godfather in this story. Decaps. Last day of the battle was 1000 Greeks, then 300 Spartans just killing as many Persians as they could before they all got killed.
300 is a graphic novel about it by Frank Miller, and it kicks ass. He did Sin City, and The Dark Knight Returns, which is another contender for best comic work ever.
I'm already excited from just all that, but get this: Zach Snyder is directing it. Now that might not mean anything until I tell you that Zach Snyder directed the new Dawn of the Dead. And he's doing this one the same way as Rodriguez did Sin City. Full CGI backgrounds. This is gonna make me buy new pants for two reasons. but they just started the website and released the first production journal and i just watched it and it looks ILLLLLL. http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/300/journals/journal1_hi.mov
the fountain looks like pure kubrick at his best: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain/large.html
lady in the water with paul giamatti by m night shymalaan. please be unbrakeable and not sixth sense. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/ladyinthewater/
pirates 2: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/piratesofcaribbean2/
this just looks good: http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/tristramshandy/large.html
i'm just gonna keep going. willem dafoe is a dick cheney character who tells a george w character (dennis quaid) to be a guest judge on hugh grant's american idol show to boost his image, while mandy moore competes on it against an arab kid who's been asked to take a bomb into the final round with which to assassinate the president. could go either way. "they dont call me the torturer because i dont like to torture people." http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/americandreamz/large.html
watch this one just for the old guy at the very end, who's awesome. looks kinda blah otherwise. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/the3burials/trailer/
see my mom's lame imposing redneck semi-friend came over and just said she was sleeping on the couch til 6 so i have to hang out in my mom's room. so i'm basically gonna be doing this til i go to bed. lucky you.
pink panther with steve martin, kevin kline, beyonce, and JEAN MOTHERFUCKING RENO. it looked eh until the end and then i laughed hysterically like 3 times. robby you'll like this. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thepinkpanther/high.html
just saw the preview for the new world, with farrel and bale about john smith and pocahantas. christopher plummer says, "i beg you. let not america go wrong her first hour." in the midst of all this indian killing and you just go, man, thank god for classicly-trained actors.
what do you get when you mix ben kingsley, michael madsen, billy zane, and meat loaf? probably an awesome movie. unless uwe boll (house of the dead, alone in the dark) directs it. then you get the certainly-awful adaptation of the video game bloodrayne. it is largely agreed that uwe boll is the worst living director. he only does video game movies. after this he has dungeon siege, far cry, hunter: the reckoning, blah blah poop. this looks so bad even the voiceover in the preview sounds shitty. like the purposefully made a shitty preview to make sure you dont pay money to see this. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bloodrayne/trailer/http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bloodrayne/trailer/
the latest in the most surefire go-to genre, the inept-or-military-trained-guy-taking-care-of-kids-movie, so i'm excited, also the latest in another awesome franchise. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/bigmommashouse2/large.html
david schimmer. judah friedlander from best week ever. 2005 sundance selection. looks nice. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/duanehopwood/trailer/
this one looks weird. could go either way, really nice or really unwatchable. those are the two ways. shot with like, the most consumer digital camera possible and it sounds like thats how the got the audio too. naomi watts tho, who just impressed the hell out of me in king kong. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ellieparker/trailer/
another johnny depp movie. it says in the preview "the most controversial film of the year is coming soon". if anybody cared about this shit maybe. http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/thelibertine/trailer/
they need to rename these underworld movies, "BLUE: THE BLUE MOVIES".
peter sarsgaard (kinsey, jarhead, shattered glass, the skeleton key, the salton sea) in a film noir about hollywood and homosexuality. i'll probly see it. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/the_dying_gaul/trailer1/
movie star stalks a fan whose gf he likes. ribisi, joshua jackson, jason lee, vaughn. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/iloveyourwork/trailer/
This is funny. Here's how to get me to not see your movie.
"A moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. As characters from one story reappear in supporting roles in others, Rodrigo Garcia interweaves a grand tapestry of universal resonance that hinges on performances from an incredible ensemble. By depicting nine different characters at emotional crossroads, NINE LIVES examines how we so often find ourselves captive in relationships, both past and present."
this is ridiculous i gotta worry about fucking dealing with this bitch sleeping in the living room and my mom wants to sleep soon. wtf.
this looks stupid, paul walker sucks. fuck paul walker. http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/running_scared/rs_apple_tr_lrg.html
x3. beast. juggernaut. angel. damn. gambit is in the movie but i dont know if he's in the preview. he might be the guy to the right of magneto in the forest. the part where magneto opens juggernauts container at the mutant prison. whew. not gonna be as good as the preview tho. i studied this one quite a bit. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/large.html
new pixar. filmforce did a list of the 25 best animated movies ever and incredibles was only number 8. finding nemo beat it. finding nemo?? looking at blue for 2 hours beat the incredibles? fuck that. http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/cars/index.html?size=fullsize&mLeft=-43&mTop=380
laurence fishburne in a spelling bee movie that isn't the matrix. http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/akeelahandthebee.html
we need an embargo on japanese horror.
okay i dont know how i missed this one. its called the warrior, its ACTUALLY ABOUT a warrior (the barbarian invasions is about a dying canadian dude, wtf) AND it won the british academy award for best british film. http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/thewarrior/trailer/
are we really still making movies about alienated youths? there's only one barely-important thing to say about alienated youths and the graduate said it already. you know how many decapitations you're not showing every time you put an alienated youth in a movie? TOO FUCKING MANY! You can never show enough decapitations i know, but damnit you can try. we can't build utopia, but we damn try!
looks awesome. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/monster_house/high.html
billy connolly is a squirrel http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/open_season/high.html
oh man i just saw brendan gleeson being the manliest he could be (manlier than you could be) in a giant fat bird suit. mix that with a movie jamie rasso would love and you have this, cillian murphy is getting a lot of consideration for it. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/breakfastonpluto/trailer/
and finally, a batman update.
it was looking awesomely like the next batman movie was gonna be the joker. we were hapopy. then there's this news that the penguin is in it. that's right. SHITTY.
or so you might think.
but it seems as though the people making this movie are me and my friends because they've made this penguin idea into the only thing it could be that would be good. and not just good, now me and joe are really actually ecstatic with what this is becoming.
okay here it is.
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN is being considered for the role of the penguin. he's probably gonna win an oscar for capote, and he looks like he's gonna be awesome as the new mission: impossible villian. the other contender for the role is BOB (ROGER RABBIT, UNLEASHED) HOSKINS.
awesome but its still the penguin, who is stupid.
but then they reveal the penguin is only going to be involved as a background villian, like falcone and jonathan crane in batman begins. so that's better.
but they actually make the penguin pretty cool, the only way he could be, by revealing that he's going to be an arms dealer, and either russian or british. that means also that "the penguin" will probably also be an underworld nickname that probly will come from the character's taste for tuxedos or something. so essentially when you take that realistic decent version of the penguin and you put one of those two amazing actors into it and he operates in the background, as the mood of the joker introduction story, that's probly gonna be awesome.
also liev shrieber (sp?) who was the white guy from the new manchurian candidate and the scientist from kate and leopold will probly be harvey dent and then two face, and sam rockwell is now trying to get consideration to be the joker, even though its probly going to be paul bettany or this unknown guy who was in the matrix sequels for a few scenes. yeah so thats all cool. sam rockwell was one of my choices for the joker. but bettany would be awesome. bettany, thewlis, fiennes, and there's a guy i saw in something like the other day who i cant remember oh fuck it.
you're welcome.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/apocalypto/large.html
thats just...jesus. its weird, i'm one of the few who loves mel gibson and tom cruise a lot more since they went nuts.
there's a movie called burden of dreams from the late 70s. its a feature length making of about the production of a werner herzog (famous great german director who has a movie coming out with bale and zahn) period movie about a rich guy who goes to south america. whats interesting about burden of dreams is that it is a thousand times more well-known then the movie it was about, which no one saw, for this reason: for the section of the film regarding his character's attempt to have natives pull a riverboat from one river, over a mountain, to another river, herzog decided to film just that. they built a riverboat and had natives do that fucking insane thing. its a famous documentary about this director's insanity and burden of dreams, get it?
thinking about mel gibson these days, i can see him becoming werner herzog. and i hope he does, coz man we dont have a truly crazy director anymore. this movie is in the mayan or aztec language with subtitles. looks awesome.
in other news...
there's an article at aintitcoolnews about how awesome warner bros is getting. it talks about V FOR VENDETTA, which everyone says is an incredible "true sci-fi" political dystopian action movie that about terrorism vs patriotism vs freedom vs. propaganda written by the wachowskis adapted from a graphic novel by alan moore who one of the best ever. because its at the wb, they could really go after fox with its political content. there's a scene where they kill off a bill o'reilly-like dude. could become a classic from the hype. here's a preview for THAT:
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/trailer_2.html
but also, warner bros just picked up another comic adaptation thats been in limbo: THE WATCHMEN. The Watchmen is considered one of the 2 or 3 best works of the comic medium ever.
also for the wb..."Then there's Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN, Linklater's animated adaptation of Phillip K Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY, Zach Snyder's adaptation of Frank Miller's 300, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of POSEIDON, M. Night's LADY IN THE WATER and that tiny film by Bryan Singer, SUPERMAN RETURNS. And right now... Right now - I've just gotten word through the nefarious contacts I have throughout this awesome world of film - that Brad Pitt's Plan B and Warners are teaming up to produce Mark Romanek's adaptation of James Frey's A MILLION LITTLE PIECES!!!"...which from the sounds of it is another fight club. Mark Romanek is the guy who rivals spike jonze for music video direction, devil's haircut, 99 problems, the perfect drug, hurt, just look up his director's series dvd. so they're rocking ass.
one of the things they mention is 300.
Let's talk about 300.
The Battle of Thermopylae is the greatest battle in history. 7000 Spartans and other Greeks fought A QUARTER OF A MILLION Persians for 3 days at a mountain pass called Thermopylae - The Hot Gates. After this battle there wasnt another invading army to come into Europe as big until D-Day. Whats coolest about this is a lot of stuff. The Spartans were a people that we really would have hated. They were hardcore kill-to-survive non-democratic ugly-baby-killing child-starving bastards. There's a deformed Spartan exile that's basically Fredo from The Godfather in this story. Decaps. Last day of the battle was 1000 Greeks, then 300 Spartans just killing as many Persians as they could before they all got killed.
300 is a graphic novel about it by Frank Miller, and it kicks ass. He did Sin City, and The Dark Knight Returns, which is another contender for best comic work ever.
I'm already excited from just all that, but get this: Zach Snyder is directing it. Now that might not mean anything until I tell you that Zach Snyder directed the new Dawn of the Dead. And he's doing this one the same way as Rodriguez did Sin City. Full CGI backgrounds. This is gonna make me buy new pants for two reasons. but they just started the website and released the first production journal and i just watched it and it looks ILLLLLL. http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/300/journals/journal1_hi.mov
the fountain looks like pure kubrick at his best: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain/large.html
lady in the water with paul giamatti by m night shymalaan. please be unbrakeable and not sixth sense. http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/ladyinthewater/
pirates 2: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/piratesofcaribbean2/
this just looks good: http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/tristramshandy/large.html
i'm just gonna keep going. willem dafoe is a dick cheney character who tells a george w character (dennis quaid) to be a guest judge on hugh grant's american idol show to boost his image, while mandy moore competes on it against an arab kid who's been asked to take a bomb into the final round with which to assassinate the president. could go either way. "they dont call me the torturer because i dont like to torture people." http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/americandreamz/large.html
watch this one just for the old guy at the very end, who's awesome. looks kinda blah otherwise. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/the3burials/trailer/
see my mom's lame imposing redneck semi-friend came over and just said she was sleeping on the couch til 6 so i have to hang out in my mom's room. so i'm basically gonna be doing this til i go to bed. lucky you.
pink panther with steve martin, kevin kline, beyonce, and JEAN MOTHERFUCKING RENO. it looked eh until the end and then i laughed hysterically like 3 times. robby you'll like this. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thepinkpanther/high.html
just saw the preview for the new world, with farrel and bale about john smith and pocahantas. christopher plummer says, "i beg you. let not america go wrong her first hour." in the midst of all this indian killing and you just go, man, thank god for classicly-trained actors.
what do you get when you mix ben kingsley, michael madsen, billy zane, and meat loaf? probably an awesome movie. unless uwe boll (house of the dead, alone in the dark) directs it. then you get the certainly-awful adaptation of the video game bloodrayne. it is largely agreed that uwe boll is the worst living director. he only does video game movies. after this he has dungeon siege, far cry, hunter: the reckoning, blah blah poop. this looks so bad even the voiceover in the preview sounds shitty. like the purposefully made a shitty preview to make sure you dont pay money to see this. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bloodrayne/trailer/http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bloodrayne/trailer/
the latest in the most surefire go-to genre, the inept-or-military-trained-guy-taking-care-of-kids-movie, so i'm excited, also the latest in another awesome franchise. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/bigmommashouse2/large.html
david schimmer. judah friedlander from best week ever. 2005 sundance selection. looks nice. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/duanehopwood/trailer/
this one looks weird. could go either way, really nice or really unwatchable. those are the two ways. shot with like, the most consumer digital camera possible and it sounds like thats how the got the audio too. naomi watts tho, who just impressed the hell out of me in king kong. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ellieparker/trailer/
another johnny depp movie. it says in the preview "the most controversial film of the year is coming soon". if anybody cared about this shit maybe. http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/thelibertine/trailer/
they need to rename these underworld movies, "BLUE: THE BLUE MOVIES".
peter sarsgaard (kinsey, jarhead, shattered glass, the skeleton key, the salton sea) in a film noir about hollywood and homosexuality. i'll probly see it. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/the_dying_gaul/trailer1/
movie star stalks a fan whose gf he likes. ribisi, joshua jackson, jason lee, vaughn. http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/iloveyourwork/trailer/
This is funny. Here's how to get me to not see your movie.
"A moving exploration of the individual experiences of nine women as told through nine single unbroken takes. As characters from one story reappear in supporting roles in others, Rodrigo Garcia interweaves a grand tapestry of universal resonance that hinges on performances from an incredible ensemble. By depicting nine different characters at emotional crossroads, NINE LIVES examines how we so often find ourselves captive in relationships, both past and present."
this is ridiculous i gotta worry about fucking dealing with this bitch sleeping in the living room and my mom wants to sleep soon. wtf.
this looks stupid, paul walker sucks. fuck paul walker. http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/running_scared/rs_apple_tr_lrg.html
x3. beast. juggernaut. angel. damn. gambit is in the movie but i dont know if he's in the preview. he might be the guy to the right of magneto in the forest. the part where magneto opens juggernauts container at the mutant prison. whew. not gonna be as good as the preview tho. i studied this one quite a bit. http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/large.html
new pixar. filmforce did a list of the 25 best animated movies ever and incredibles was only number 8. finding nemo beat it. finding nemo?? looking at blue for 2 hours beat the incredibles? fuck that. http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/cars/index.html?size=fullsize&mLeft=-43&mTop=380
laurence fishburne in a spelling bee movie that isn't the matrix. http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/akeelahandthebee.html
we need an embargo on japanese horror.
okay i dont know how i missed this one. its called the warrior, its ACTUALLY ABOUT a warrior (the barbarian invasions is about a dying canadian dude, wtf) AND it won the british academy award for best british film. http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/thewarrior/trailer/
are we really still making movies about alienated youths? there's only one barely-important thing to say about alienated youths and the graduate said it already. you know how many decapitations you're not showing every time you put an alienated youth in a movie? TOO FUCKING MANY! You can never show enough decapitations i know, but damnit you can try. we can't build utopia, but we damn try!
looks awesome. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/monster_house/high.html
billy connolly is a squirrel http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/open_season/high.html
oh man i just saw brendan gleeson being the manliest he could be (manlier than you could be) in a giant fat bird suit. mix that with a movie jamie rasso would love and you have this, cillian murphy is getting a lot of consideration for it. http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/breakfastonpluto/trailer/
and finally, a batman update.
it was looking awesomely like the next batman movie was gonna be the joker. we were hapopy. then there's this news that the penguin is in it. that's right. SHITTY.
or so you might think.
but it seems as though the people making this movie are me and my friends because they've made this penguin idea into the only thing it could be that would be good. and not just good, now me and joe are really actually ecstatic with what this is becoming.
okay here it is.
PHILLIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN is being considered for the role of the penguin. he's probably gonna win an oscar for capote, and he looks like he's gonna be awesome as the new mission: impossible villian. the other contender for the role is BOB (ROGER RABBIT, UNLEASHED) HOSKINS.
awesome but its still the penguin, who is stupid.
but then they reveal the penguin is only going to be involved as a background villian, like falcone and jonathan crane in batman begins. so that's better.
but they actually make the penguin pretty cool, the only way he could be, by revealing that he's going to be an arms dealer, and either russian or british. that means also that "the penguin" will probably also be an underworld nickname that probly will come from the character's taste for tuxedos or something. so essentially when you take that realistic decent version of the penguin and you put one of those two amazing actors into it and he operates in the background, as the mood of the joker introduction story, that's probly gonna be awesome.
also liev shrieber (sp?) who was the white guy from the new manchurian candidate and the scientist from kate and leopold will probly be harvey dent and then two face, and sam rockwell is now trying to get consideration to be the joker, even though its probly going to be paul bettany or this unknown guy who was in the matrix sequels for a few scenes. yeah so thats all cool. sam rockwell was one of my choices for the joker. but bettany would be awesome. bettany, thewlis, fiennes, and there's a guy i saw in something like the other day who i cant remember oh fuck it.
you're welcome.