May 09, 2008
IRON SKY: "Nazis...in Space!"
I heard about this eons ago on Warren Ellis.com. Never got around to logging it myself. This trailer is beautiful.
I hope the end product holds water.
(via iwatchstuff, http://www.ironsky.net/)
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May 08, 2008
In Japan, HOT FUZZ Gains an Extra Dimension of Cool
(via edgar wright)
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May 06, 2008
WATCH: Spider
It has nothing to do with those 8-legged bastards. First, you'll think, "Holy FUCK!" Then you'll be in shock. Last, you'll know he got what he deserved.
Damn good short film, that.
(via fun & games you yube)
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April 29, 2008
Bootleg Dark Knight Trailer Makes Me Feel Dirty, Excited
Sure whoever made this highly illegal and unorthodox bootleg could have had the decency not to talk during the damn thing or to turn the blasted auto focus off.
Having watched the new Dark Knight trailer, I officially have this to say: Hell. Fucking. YES!
(via idon'tlikeyouinthatway)
UPDATE: well that didn't take long. The Suits have reached across the Internets and stopped the signal.
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April 27, 2008
Alternative Fuel Source Found: BLOODCAR
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.bloodcar.com/
I hear it was shot in Atlanta a few years ago and that it's Netflix available. My curiosity is growing.
(via thinking red you tube)
Posted by Groonk at 08:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Trailers
April 19, 2008
Black 20 Renewed My Faith in Creativity
Well only this one trailer thus far. I have a hope for more.
(via black 20)
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April 14, 2008
WATCH: The Wheel
And so it seems The Internet crowdsource has caught up on an animated short I viewed a little over 2 years ago.
(via digg, Rad Google)
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April 13, 2008
Robots Like to be Pretty Too
WATCH : Doll Face (high res)
(via neil gaiman, pretty robot you tube)
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April 01, 2008
Dr Horrible vs Dr Sleepless
The Dr Horrible movie poster is up featuring The NPH decked out in his "operating" gear.
Separated at birth? A ripple in Ideaspace? An homage?
You decide.
(via dr horrible and dr sleepless)
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March 27, 2008
Reflections on Heath Ledger's Joker have Begun
And the movie's not even released yet.
"It was punk, it was 'A Clockwork Orange', it was druggie. It was this kind of fantastic, anarchic look to him. This character who had absolutely no rules whatsoever," said Christian Bale, who returns as rich guy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman. "That's not like any Joker I've ever seen before, what I saw Heath do."
[...]
Ledger's performance floored two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine, who reprises his role as Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred. Caine's first glimpse of the character came when Ledger emerged onto the set from an elevator; in an interview last September, four months before Ledger's death, Caine said he was so startled that he forgot his lines.
"He came out of the bloody lift like a whirlwind," Caine recalled. "They said, `It's your line, Michael.' I said, `What is it?' Extraordinary. It will be one of the characters of next year, the Joker as played by him."
[...]
"You can tell Jack Nicholson was having fun doing that, but you can see Heath probably put his soul into it," said "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee. "That's why it's scary. You see the trailer, just a few shots of him, you have to see the movie. ... I'm anxious to see it. I'm afraid to see it. I don't know how I'll respond to it, but you have to see it."
Heath Ledger. The guy could act. It was usually tiny bits. The subtle things that made him worth watching.
(via yahoo news)
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March 11, 2008
3:19 Movie Title Sequence Fills My Mind with Awesome
The most beautiful (see gorgeous) movie title sequence I've ever laid eyes upon.
(via drawn!, forget the film watch the titles)
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March 05, 2008
I AM LEGEND: The Ending That Didn't Suck
You should follow that link before the Long Arm reaches out and snatches it off The Internets.
Now that ended a movie I would have been proud to drop 10 bucks on. It's not perfect but it was something worth a tinker's damn.
Stop messing with my Sci Fi, you Suited Fuckos.
(via buzzfeed, firstshowing)
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March 03, 2008
IRON MAN Movie Continues to Generate Love, New Trailer
Don't let me down, Jon Favreau. You've done questionable things in the past. Try harder to change that.
(via gizmodo, jon favreau's myspace )
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February 27, 2008
Guess Who's Getting Fucked Now
In reverse(cowgirl) order:
I think that's everyone. We now have a Hat Trick of fuckery. No more, please. Leave the fucking joke alone.
(via /film, affleck's you tube, damon's you tube)
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February 21, 2008
Red Band Trailer: FATAL MOVE
Gotta love Andrew Cunningham and his love of ultra violence martial arts flicks.
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February 06, 2008
Moby's Giving Away Music
If you want a Moby fueled video project, you're in luck.
this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short.the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license...
(via ontd, moby gratis)
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January 24, 2008
Sundance gets Access to One Last Shot
Last year it was that "What's Your Crime?" bit. This year, it's polaroids of celebrities.
"I forgot to bring my deodorant, so I've been checking all day to make sure I'm not too offensive!"
-Transsiberian star Emily Mortimer on forgetting to bring one of the must-have items for a grueling day of press interviews.
"I'm trying to keep it all inside, but I could not be happier!"
-Colin Hanks to reporters at the premiere of The Great Buck Howard, which was produced by his famous father, Tom.
I'm not as amused as I was with last year's scheme, but professional photos of "celebrities" always tends to draw my eye.
(via ontd,instyle magazine, One Last Shot Project Polaroids )
UPDATE: more Sundance polaroids
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January 21, 2008
Let's Take that HELL RIDE Together
Movie one-sheets have been dismally unimaginative the past, let's say, decade. So when I see one that stands up and asserts itself in badassery, I take notice. HELL RIDE. Quentin Tarantino backed the movie. Larry Bishop wrote it. I'm ready to see it.
Bring it!
(via iwatchstuff )
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January 20, 2008
JJ Abrams Reflects on the Obvious
Abrams glanced upon something I mused on before walking into the CLOVERFIELD theater.
Stirring up uncomfortable feelings is not entirely without purpose for a monster movie, Abrams notes. It's a standard of the genre. "'Godzilla' came out in 1954 in the shadow of the bomb being dropped in Japan. Culturally, you had people living with this terror they had experienced - but in the guise of something absurd and preposterous. My guess is that it enabled people in Japan to have a catharsis."
Even though I had a few issues with CLOVERFIELD, I will say it ran circles around the hot mess known as 1998's GODZILLA.
Posted by Groonk at 09:19 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Only in Japan, Quotables
January 07, 2008
CHOCOLATE will Kick Your Ass
Andrew Cunningham always shares the best violence.
3 minute promo reel of CHOCOLATE
24fps has updated their posting on Chocolate with a link (via Deknang) to a 3-minute promo reel. It fleshes out the story of the autistic girl (Nitcharee Wismitanant), showing her developing uncanny muay thai and martial arts skills at an early age, as well as getting jacked up on chocolate M&M's candy, hence the name of the film.The girl's mother is injured by a yakuza (Pongpat Wachirabunjong), so when the little girl grows into a fighting machine, it's the yakuza she comes to blows with.
More info after the candied kick.
(via P&P, Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
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January 03, 2008
Best Movie Posters of 2007
Somehow I missed/never even heard of number 10 here:
scare me to celibacy then
10. Teeth
Not too many people saw this small release that played well at Sundance, but it certainly has an interesting premise: A girl’s vagina grows some teeth and starts terrorizing her lovers (and for that matter, her va-jay-jay doctor.) The poster doesn’t tell us that — it also doesn’t tell us that this movie is more of a horror movie than a comedy. But that’s what I loved most about it — sometimes deceptive is the right way to go.
The other 9 are after the fall.
(via ontd, official TEETH site)
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December 21, 2007
KUNG FU DUNK: Curious and Watchable, but Why?
(via b ball fu you tube, iwatchstuff)
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December 17, 2007
JJ Abrams is Geek Baiting: 5 Minutes of Cloverfield is Shared
In the beginning Abrams announces the widget that gets the most clicks will win a hometown screening of CLOVERFIELD.
Oh, the ideas are turning.
I'm still calling your movie MONSTROUS though.
(via ontd)
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December 12, 2007
BLIND CLICK 19: Because you forgot
That hurt me so much that I am compelled to hurt others, too.
That's the human way.
(via last year)
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November 20, 2007
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Redband Trailer Ruins Me for other Movies
I thought I knew what a movie trailer was until I viewed this red band trailer for the Coen Bros new movie NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.
On top of that, Rotten Tomatoes has a 95% fresh rating for their latest effort. If you're into that kind of thing.
The NCFOM official site has better sound and all that. It makes me wonder. Have the Coens decided to kick ass again?
Please say yes.
(via NCFOM official site)
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November 19, 2007
MOVIE: "Persepolis"
Because actual films like this can't afford to crash into your living room boob tubes, highway lcd billboard monstrosities, and please me meals like some other black and yellow jacketed insect. I bring you Persepolis:
Yahoo has a full and proper trailer that's currently unsharable. Tsk Tsk. What the hell are you thinking, you Yahoos?
MAIN SITE: http://www.sonyclassics.com/persepolis/
(via iwatchstuff, yahoo movies, eye of youtube)
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November 17, 2007
MOVIE: "Look Who is Watching"
Looks better than that hot mess Soderbergh forced on us a ways back.
"A high school English teacher tries his best to be a decent husband, a department store floor manager uses the warehouse for more than just storage, a Mini-Mart clerk has big dreams, a lawyer struggles with a sexual dilemma and sociopathic brothers ruin the day of random strangers they come in contact with. Look tells five private stories which unfold before the prying eye of the covert camera to chilling effect."
(via Look official, ontd)
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November 06, 2007
DANGER: DIABOLIK Old School Comic-2-Movie
Funny the things you learn when you're not looking for them.
(via diabolik google video and film junk)
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October 26, 2007
Dark Horse Indie is doing Interesting Things
And they roped in Phil of the Future for the ride.
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) and his brutal young henchman, Yates (Talan Torriero). Once there, David becomes haunted by the spirit of Jonathan (Connor Ross), a former inmate who met a mysterious end; a mystery whose resolution could very well be David's only way out..............
The movie's called Driftwood and looks to be released directly to DVD this November.
One of a few direct to DVD projects I've seen that seems worth a watch.
(via dark horse myspace)
Posted by Groonk at 04:08 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of DVD, Movies, Trailers
October 23, 2007
All Bruce Campbell. All the Time.
Bruce Campbell talks about insane fans, the birth of "My Name is Bruce," and when will it escape into theaters/DVD world.
Q. Bruce: You're really generous with your fans. What have you understood about managing your fan base that maybe other genre superstars haven't?BRUCE CAMPBELL: Well, the one thing that I've learned is that nothing is a slam-dunk -- because I've had a movie or two bomb that I absolutely thought was going to be a slam-dunk.
And I didn't realize that you can force-feed fans sometimes. You gotta feed 'em a balanced meal. You feed 'em too much meat, they fall asleep; too much dessert makes 'em hyper, and then they crash. You've got to dole it out.
We're hoping "My Name Is Bruce" is a fanboy's wet dream: It's all Bruce, 24/7 -- his snotty, obnoxious self.
(via oregonian)
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October 22, 2007
The Evil Dead can Dance and Sing
There's something I need to see this Halloween.
(via Evil Dead the Musical, interview with theater Ash, Ryan Ward)
Posted by Groonk at 04:32 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Interviews, Movies, Video
October 19, 2007
The Big Fucking Lebowski
(via egg radio and college humor)
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September 24, 2007
WRISTCUTTERS still on My Must See List
WRISTCUTTERS is a love story. It has Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, and Tom Waits to name a few.
I think I'm gonna like it.
(via ontd my wristcutters space)
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September 15, 2007
FANBOYS Trailer. Not the Kiwi One. The USA One.
Yeah, it's all a bit confusing when you overthink like me. A New Zealand short film called Fanboys hit the internets in 2003. Damn if I didn't recall it until I read the copy on wiki. Then it all came flooding over me like carbonite in a freezing chamber.
What I know about the new FANBOYS is that Veronica Mars(Kristen Bell, y'all.) graces it with her awesomeness, the new Jimmy Olsen(Sam Huntington was hands down the best actor in SUPERMAN RETURNS) has a lead in it and, of course, the funny looking Star Wars loving/parodying trailer have me saving up 8 bucks for January 2008.
(via ontd)
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August 28, 2007
Klaatu Barada Nikt-eww...Damnit!
Hey. It's ok. No one makes their first jump.
Look at what lives on Google video:
I bring this up because there are rumors Keanu Reeves will be in the remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
Which is perfectly fine if Reeves is playing Gort. Tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.
(via ontd and googlevideo)
(This post wasn't really about snarking Reeves acting "ability." I just wanted to keep up with TDTESS for later watching. Consider the snark the toy surprise in your Cracker Jacks.)
Posted by Groonk at 04:30 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Video
August 15, 2007
James Bond is Stuck in the 60s
No duh, Mr Damon. The recent CASINO ROYALE was a good effort in renewing my Bond movie interest, but it's been boring before that. Not to mention silly and nonsensical.
"Bond is an imperialist and a misogynist who kills people and laughs about it, and drinks Martinis and cracks jokes," he told reporters.[...]
"The Bourne franchise is not about wearing Prada suits and looking at women coming out of the sea with bikinis on," Damon said. "It's about essence and truth, not frippery and surface."
Good job of pushing your movie. Extra points for using "frippery" in a sentence.
(via bbc)
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August 07, 2007
Joss Whedon Teaches Kids New Words...and Talks SERENITY
And maybe, just maybe, SERENITY II.
WATCH: Joss Whedon 'Serenity' Q&A Session in Australia Part 1
Part 2-6 you have to suss out on your own. To the singing that happened at the end of Part 6.
Stop it.
Don't doubt I won't fly down under and rip the tongues from your mouths to stop it. Your eyes you'll keep and I'll tell you why. How else would you buy and enjoy the visual wonder that are FIREFLY and SERENITY DVDs?
(via the unstoppable signal youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 04:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Interviews, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Video
July 30, 2007
R Rated Trailers Give You that "Special Feeling"
You know what I mean? It's like you're watching stuff too dangerous for regular movie goers eyes. Stuff so horrifying that only the internet is where it finds safe harbour.
Or maybe I'm reading way too much into this new 30 DAYS OF NIGHT trailer.
Get More Terror at TerrorFeed.com
It does look better and better with each passing trailer.
(via terrorfeed.com, horror movies.ca, and The Engine)
Posted by Groonk at 07:45 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Trailers
July 27, 2007
Nerd Prom 07: Yes, That is a Real One-Legged Model
Now that's true Grindhouse marketing. For unknown reasons she modeled for DEATH PROOF rather than PLANET TERROR.
The height of this re-sized picture is 666 pixels. I don't know. Just sayin'.
(via San Diego Dreaming)
Posted by Groonk at 03:12 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Movies
July 05, 2007
BEHOLD: When Schoolgirl Zombies Attack
You *will* waste 2 minutes of your life watching this if only because you're curious.
(via stacy youtube)
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June 01, 2007
The Necessary Evil Myspace Presents:
(via neil gaiman)
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May 30, 2007
Who's Dead Again?*
No time to watch "Human, All Too Human," a documentary about Frederick Nietzsche. Dropping it here for later review.
(via smashing telly)
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When SUPERBAD gets KNOCKED UP, Funny Happens
It looks like Judd Apatow decided to parody the I HEART HUCKABEES disaster that leaked on the intertubes many moons ago. Apatow's parody is basically an advertisement for the Heigl-icious comedy movie KNOCKED UP that's hitting a theater near me soon. I Watch Stuff explains:
This one imagines Michael Cera of Arrested Development and the upcoming Superbad as the original star of Knocked Up who gets fired for being difficult.
Katherine Heigl, you know I could watch you sit at restaurant tables all day. Twice on thursday. But my observation focuses on Micahel Cera.
Hearing Michael Cera say 'fuck' is like watching a smurf...well...fuck, right before your eyes. You're amused by what you just saw/heard but you can't help but think some part of your soul just died. You're gonna have to work hard to shed that ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT George Michael-image.
Otherwise, Judd Apatow, you're just a damn genius. As are you, Michael Showalter.
(via iwatchstuf.com)
Posted by Groonk at 10:35 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Movies, Video
May 28, 2007
LISTEN: There Be Pirates, Lads and Lasses
Sing along with me. Cause I'm singing like a pirate full of rum and wandering ambition.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage…
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler’s Green!The bell has been raised
from it’s watery grave…
Do you hear it’s sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high…
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.
(via stealth fiction)
Posted by Groonk at 11:18 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies, Music
May 25, 2007
Blinky, Flashy Transformers Shirts Aim to Hide General Displeasure
Too tired to snark. If you want to afflict your eyes with 7 more of the Bruckheimer Transformers movie marketing machinery via body wear, you can follow the link to ONTD and make your own jokes while I do my best to coax my childhood memories out of the fetal position long enough to pry that bottle of Jack Daniels out of his hand.
Did I say I was too tired? I meant I was too tired to snark effectively.
(via ONTD)
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May 22, 2007
BLIND CLICK 10: Believe in Harvey Dent
(via ONTD)
Posted by Groonk at 04:26 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Movies
May 11, 2007
In Belarus, They Hand-Paint Hollywood Movies to Winful Effect
Also: For reasons unknown, SHALLOW HAL is called EVIL LOVE in Russia.
More movies after the hop.
(via ontd and englishrussia.com)
Posted by Groonk at 04:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Culture, Movies, One Sheets
May 10, 2007
HOT FUZZ, Because HOT BUSH was a Too Porn-y
Pardon me, Mr Pegg...Simon? ATM does not mean "Anal to Missionary." Just a thing I know. No more questions.
Ever.
Infatuated with new media streaming movie thing NGTV.COM. And Carrie Keagan. She's the smart Pamela Anderson, you know.
(via ngtv.com)
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Bruce Willis Re-affirms Awesomeness Nominally Awesome, Trashes Michael Bay
I was troubled about bad-mouthing Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS effort even before I watch the movie. It was uncomfortably fanboy, even for me. But Bruce Wills lets me know that I'm not being overzealous. Not one bit. And that my Michael Bay assumptions were pretty much on the mark.
"I would rather eat a live baby in front of my grandma than have Michael Bay direct a DIE HARD movie. I would rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than let that car engine in a human skin leave his satanic fingerprints on John McClane. In fact, this new PG-13 thing is the only part of ruining modern action movies that Michael Bay is not personally responsible for. The rest of it is all him. Don't even fucking say those words in the same sentence, you’re only gonna give them ideas for part 5. It's like saying Candyman in front of a mirror, that motherfucker will show up and snort John McClane's soul right in front of you and then piss it out on your shoes,"wrote Willis. "Would have ruined DH4. Few people will work with him now, and I know I will never work with him again."
--Bruce Willis
This would be the second quote on the blandness of movies these days(first quote was by Scott Wiper). The family friendly trend which is runing it for those of us who want R rated action every now and again. Hello, Mr Hollywood. Not everybody in the wide world has children or needs curse words cut and graphic violence tamed. Entertainment should rise above the age of 18 now and again.
(via iwatchstuff.com)
UPDATE: So Willis is not as awesome as I thought he was and I'm a little less awesome than that. Seems the striked bit was from some random AICN forum poster.
But because I like reading what that guy said so much, I'm only striking it and adding that Bruce Willis did not say the crazed ranting bits. Willis only said Bay would have ruined DH4, people won't work with Bay, and he'd never work with Bay.
In the long run, I think Bay came out better after the rantings of some crazed AICN forum guy.
Posted by Groonk at 01:27 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Quotables
May 04, 2007
Oh, Dip!: MONSTER SQUAD on DVD
release date: July 24, 2007
DVD Empire's selling it for $14.05.
Waves of awesome are washing over me, right now. It's not as dirty as it sounds. But it feels good in that dirty kind of way.
20 years, though. Goddamn. I'm getting old.
Previously on GNET:
(via ONTD)
Posted by Groonk at 08:09 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of DVD, Just Freaking Neat, Movies
May 02, 2007
Scott Wiper Talks THE CONDEMNED and the Hard-Boiled Action Movie
Scott Wiper's got a knack for the ahrd-boiled type of movie. The flicks that are over the top, but not in that Roger Corman type of way. Mostly in that John McClanekind of way. He entertained me with a flick(A BETTER WAY TO DIE) I saw on HBO, or Showtime, some time ago.
But I felt there was a vacuum as an action film, I don’t see any “Die Hard”s – rated R. “Lethal Weapon” – rated R. “48 Hours” – rated R. All I was seeing was these PG-13 action films made for $80 million and they have to entertain everyone from my two sisters to my mother. So when I first pitched how I would do this movie, I said, first and foremost rated R. It’s the whole essence. There’s a whole faction of people out there, and they’re not just men, and they’re disappointed with action films because they’re sugar coated.
--Scott Wiper
(via joblo.com)
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May 01, 2007
Disney Releases 9 Minutes of Ratatouille
Ratatouille is the latest Brad Bird effort being created via Pixar. Now Bird is one of my favorite directors ever. Nothing can stop that man from putting out a good story that lasts. He did The Iron Giant and The Incredibles.
Hmmm. maybe he should call it The Ratatouille, just in case.
(via iwatchstuff and disney)
Posted by Groonk at 01:12 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies
April 28, 2007
Dracula gets an Approved Un-Dead Sequel
I don't know how I feel about this:
In this sequel set 25 years after the original Bram Stoker novel, it features all the surviving protagonists, including Jonathan and Mina Harker and Professor Van Helsing, along with Inspector Cotford, a character cut from the original manuscript. The Stoker family has officially recognized the screenplay, the first adaptation to receive such approval since the original 1931 film.
(via ontd and firstshowing.net)
Posted by Groonk at 05:50 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies
April 24, 2007
Jake Gyllenhaal Sums Up ZODIAC with Cell Phones
"Well, I actually believe that this film [Zodiac] is - you're probably going to look at me like I'm a madman - but I think it's about the advent of the cellphone. It would be a 25-minute movie if there were cellphones in the 70s. Because all the things that go wrong, if there had been a means of communication on your person that had been as quick as text message or a phone call, I think they could've solved this. This movie is a lot about the lack of technology."
The strange thing is I had those exact thoughts while watching ZODIAC. The 70s cellphone. The apparent lack of technology in 70s crimefighting. Yeah, I thought my angle was crazy til he said the same thing.
(via ontd and the guardian)
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April 23, 2007
40 Songs I Can Never Use in Any of My Movies
AKA Rolling Stones list of "40 Songs that Changed the World."
All of these tunes have been done to death in any movie you watch. Sad thing is, I agree with 90% of the list only where is Jeff Buckley or Weezer?
Thank you Rolling Stone. It's nice to know where the movie cliche dangers lay.
1. Elvis Presley “That’s All Right”
2. Ray Charles “I Got AWoman”
3. Chuck Berry “Maybellene”
4. Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
5. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie”
6. The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
7. The Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”
8. Martha and the Vandellas “Dancing In The Street”
9. The Rolling Stones “(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction”
10. Bob Dylan “Like A Rolling Stone”
11. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever”
12. The Velvet Underground “Herion”
13. Aretha Franklin “Respect”
14. Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze”
15. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love”
16. James Brown “Get Up (I Feel Like being a) Sex Machine”
17. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
18. John Lennon “Imagine”
19. David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust”
20. Bob Marley “I Shot The Sheriff”
21. Joni Mitchell “Help Me”
22. Bruce Springsteen “Born To Run”
23. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
24. The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
25. The Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK”
26. Donna Summer “I Feel Love”
27. The Sugarhill Gang “Rappers Delight”
28. Black Flag “TV Party”
29. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”
30. Prince “When Doves Cry”
31. U2 “Pride (In The Name Of Love)”
32. Madonna “Like A Virgin”
33. Dun DMC and Aerosmith “Walk This Way”
34. The Cure “Just Like Heaven”
35. Guns N Roses “Sweet Child O Mine”
36. Public Enemy “Bring The Noise”
37. Dr. Dre “Nuthin’ But A G Thang”
38. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
39. Britney Spears “…Baby One More Time”
40. The White Stripes “Fell In Love With A Girl”
(via ontd and rollingstoneextras)
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April 22, 2007
Cee Gee's Nazi War Mecha Completely Blows My Mind
If the greatest generation were going to fight WWII with giant warbots, I know it'd play out just like this.
(via medicmike and cee gee and emotional design)
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April 18, 2007
Gillian Anderson Curses Up an Insightful Interview
Gillian Anderson, oh how I've missed thee. IN the following, she talks a bit about her new film Straightheads.
Anderson sits and regards me, a shade suspiciously, through unblinking cornflower-blue eyes. 'I think it is a very poignant comment on the dilemma women find themselves in,' she says. 'And not just women. It's as though people increasingly feel that the only way they can vent their anger and frustration at their powerlessness to do anything about what's going on is through violence.'
'But isn't it just saying that revenge is not only desirable, but even necessary?'
'No!' says Anderson. 'It's not saying that at all. My character is completely f—ed by the end. Emotionally, I mean. She's not redeemed in any way by what she does.'
By now Anderson, who's famously combustible, is already starting to smoulder round the edges. 'I don't understand why you're asking me this. I mean, in the film Man on Fire why didn't anyone ask Denzel Washington what it was like to stick a bomb up someone's arse and then explode it?'
'I have no idea,' I say truthfully.
The rest of the interview is just as boss. Although I find it suspect when an actor bad-mouths television. Especially when television was the means to their success.
(via ontd, stella magazine)
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April 13, 2007
Michael Dougherty Sends "Season's Greetings"
A neat little short via Michael Dougherty's(co-writer of X2: X-Men United and Superman Returns) MySpace.
And a teaser one sheet for TRICK OR TREAT:
(via ontd)
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April 10, 2007
The Grindhouse Keeps On a Churnin'
Goddamn you, Tarantino and Rodriguez.
Look at what you've fucking done.
Hope you bastards are happy.
I am.
(via i want more of it YouTube; that above embed is a real Grindhouse trailer btw. all other links are current fan-made ones.)
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April 08, 2007
PBS Under Fire over World War II Documentary
Hispanic groups unhappy with an upcoming Ken Burns documentary on World War II are stepping up pressure on PBS because they say the series omits mention of the role Latinos played in the war.The American GI Forum is appealing to Hispanic veterans and other Latino groups to write members of Congress and their local PBS affiliates about the documentary, "The War," which has been six years in the making.
(via military.com)
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DEFENDERS OF STAN has Comedy Inside
Usually geekfest shortfilm comedy falls tragically short of it's goal of "laugh with me" and falls snugly into the category of "laugh at me." Maybe it's the drugs I forgot to take but this bit of comedy fell into the "laugh with me" slot:
episode 4
WATCH: all the DoS episodes on Channel 102.
(via dannyhearn21 and stole it from Superman YouTube)
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The Typography of PULP FICTION
Bloody marvelous this is:
HI RES version here.
(via texted YouTube and jarrat moody )
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April 06, 2007
WATCH: Tyger
Tyger is a beautiful blend of puppetry, animation and visual effects.
Higher Res version on Guilherme's site.
(also via neil gaiman. people send him such lovely things. and burning bright youtube)
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March 27, 2007
Trailers for the Future
Movie: THE TV SET (David Duchovny's got new awesome. Most excellent.)
Two other favorable trailers through the rabbit hole.
Movie: HOT FUZZ (which finally has a proper website)
Movie: 28 WEEKS LATER (Reserving judgement for now.)
(a fair bit more collected at ONTD)
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March 17, 2007
Jeffbots has a Gallery of Silver Screen Robots
I went looking for web mentions on the SATURN 3 movie robot, Hector. I was making comparisons to Dexter looking just as murderous as the fictional Hector.
What I found was some fellow's quaint collection of robots in film. He mentions robots from Judge Dredd to Buck Rogers penis-head stutter bot to Vincnet and Bob from Disney's BLACK HOLE, this guy has logged them all on the intertubes.
(via www.jeffbots.com)
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March 02, 2007
New PAPRIKA Trailer Stuns My Brain with Beauty
This has to be the one movie I'm looking forward to this spring. Aside from 300, of course.
The trailer's only at the Apple site right now. You Tube doesn't have it yet.
Damnit.
And if this is the intro to PAPRIKA...holy shit, man!
(via warren ellis, first PAPRIKA trailer, second PAPRIKA trailer)
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February 28, 2007
Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime!
And if I find that Michael Bay's noggin is ensconced inside...you get a cookie. I take that back. I'd rather find a decent fucking Transformers movie script inside.
This is a first look at the Optimus toy via Hasbro.
"they should have left me inside the Matrix"
Still not looking forward to this new movie Transformers adaptation. But that's ok. I have my memories of the 80s toons to keep me warm. That and a bundle of 90s Marvel comics in the fireplace. They burn like a brushfire in California in summer with the distinct scent of failure rising from the embers.
(via empire movie news)
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February 27, 2007
HOSTEL 2 Poster Shows off Nipples and "Lovely" Violence
Recall this noise comparing what the MPAA found too offensive to run:
Now look at the what was shown at the New York Comic Con to the controlled masses:
I'm just making a mental reminder to see what poster gets released to the general public.
(ontd)
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February 06, 2007
WTC VIEW has My Attention
UGLY BETTY watchers know him as Marc. Indie movie watchers know Michael Urie from director Brian Sloan's film: WTC VIEW.
This has to be the first 9/11 film I'd make a point to see. All the other Big Hollywood versions struck me as pretensious twaddle.
(via ONTD, wtc viewable YouTube, wtc view official)
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February 05, 2007
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is all about the Girl who came to Stay
Gods help me, another musical I wouldn't mind seeing. My brain must be degrading into a hot mess. At least it will be a dancy/singy hot mess.
(via ONTD, yahoo movies, beatlemaniac YouTube)
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February 04, 2007
Everything's NETWORK (Same as it Ever Was)
I'm partial to this wonderful rant by Peter Finch via the film NETWORK. yet this here bit(The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves)is also good.
What does it mean when a movie made 30 years ago seems to reflect society now moreso than ever?
(via warren ellis mad as hell YouTube, woe to us YouTube)
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January 29, 2007
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie has Burning Chickens
(via iwatchstuff and #1 in da hood, g, youtube)
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Surreal Documentary on Power, Control, CIA Brothels and LSD
The doc talks about the CIA hosting brothels in San Fran and secretly dosing "johns" with LSD just to see what happens.
There are 4 parts to this documentary at Realitysurfer on youtube.. Part 1 includes Groucho Marx on LSD, and a CIA Brothel. The Documentary is by Aron Ranen. He currently teaches at DVworkshops.com.
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January 18, 2007
Boyle's SUNSHINE is on the Horizon
I never plan to have these video posts. They just freakin' happen.
As for SUNSHINE, it looks like more good stuff from Danny Boyle.
(via fox searchlight, iwatchstuff, and SUNSHINE official)
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January 12, 2007
NOT THE BEES!
Things I learned from this "Best Scenes from THE WICKER MAN":
1) Nicholas Cage likes hitting women.
2) Nicholas Cage likes hitting women while dressed in a bear suit.
3) Bees do not tolerate Nicholas Cage. Period.
a) We can learn much from bee sensibilities.
"Oh god. My eyes. My eyes! Arrrrgggh!!!"
My acting skills are better than yours.
(via livejournal ellis and how DID it get burned youtube")
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January 10, 2007
80s Endings Fill Your Cup with Awesome
I can't tell you the memories of John Hughes films that washed over my Members Only brain.
(via ponzu and the long missed atomfilms)
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