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Sometimes we get tired of complaining in audio and video format. This is where we come to post our finger rants.
Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Awesome:
- Keanu Reeves arrives on earth in a slimy spacesuit that is described as “like a placenta.”
- New York City is nearly completely destroyed by a giant cloud of robot nanobugs.
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Rorschach To Play Freddy?
According to BBC News:
Actor Jackie Earle Haley has signed up to play iconic killer Freddy Krueger in a remake of the 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, reports have said.
Industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter said the Watchmen actor has landed the starring role, which was originally played by Robert Englund.
If this is true, then this is a remake I would actually want to see. Didn’t care for Watchmen as a movie, but Haley was awesome as Rorschach. And I can actually see him as Freddy.
Sean Penn to play Larry in Farrelly Bros. “The Three Stooges”
MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for “The Three Stooges.”
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.
The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe. (from Variety)
My brain is preventing me from having an emotional reaction to this news, clearly protecting me from the inevitable confusion embolism.
Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Awesome:
- Sam Shepard in a western is always awesome. Even that silly one about history’s most famous gunslingers stuck in purgatory.
- Brad Pitt is a pretty menacing and unstable Jesse James.
- Casey Affleck’s Creepy Nervous Smile™.
Lucas Wanted Indy To Be A Pedophile
As if you needed another reason to think ‘ol Georgie was a gigantodouche, now it looks like he wanted everybody’s favorite archaeologist/adventurer to commit statutory rape. According to a transcript of a story meeting between Lucas, Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan, George expressed his windowless-van-full-of-candy side: Continue reading Lucas Wanted Indy To Be A Pedophile