Tarantino Announces His Intention To Make Kill Bill 3 http://bit.ly/4kohvW
James Franco to guest star on 'General Hospital' - http://bit.ly/EXBdy
Ski resort sets helmet rule after Richardson death - http://bit.ly/17AMGy
Roger Avary sentenced for fatal crash 'Pulp Fiction' writer pleaded guilty to manslaughter http://bit.ly/3NFzaL
Stallone Talks Death Wish Remake, Poe, Cliffhanger: http://bit.ly/2bDIO7
Review: The Anarchist’s Wife: http://bit.ly/wKr7C
Six New High-Res Avatar Images http://bit.ly/B1ymm
Transformers 3 Coming in 2011 http://bit.ly/3E1Suk
Watch This: Jim Henson's 'Time Piece' http://bit.ly/4ccaBf (I've seen, this, really quite interesting stuff, it's just a short so won't keep you long)
Jessica Alba joins Meet the Parents franchise in Little Fockers. Read more here: http://shar.es/1cRP9
Dakota Fanning is a Barbie Doll? http://bit.ly/RZnnW
Josh Brolin Steps In For Sean Penn In Cartel http://bit.ly/1P5EOx
First Look at Seth Rogen's 'Green Hornet' Costume http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/10/first_look_at_seth_rogens_gree.php
Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson And Quinton Jackson Film 'The A-Team' http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2009/10/01/bradley-cooper-liam-neeson-and-quinton-jackson-film-the-a-team
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Showing posts with label Jackson. Show all posts
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Thursday, 1 October 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009
The Spirit
Superbly beautiful movie, though doesn't quite have the charms of Sin City.
Synopsis
Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When a Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans. He's going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader
Starring: Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson. Directed by: Frank Miller
Fantasy take
Perhaps not so much a fantasy movie as a romance, but the graphics will denote a fantasy feel to the movie...
Storyline: 3 Stars
Quite a good storyline being from a graphic novel, though I found it quite tedious throughout...
Graphics: 5 Stars
Absolutely beautiful graphics! Completely uncomparable... if you're really into proper graphic movies, this is certainly the movie for you!
Acting: 2 Stars
The cast was superb, though I believe their performance was slightly dwarfed through the inexperience of the director.
Emotions: 2 Stars
Yeah it was a love movie, but I didn't really have enough time to get to know and feel for the characters, so a lot of very emotional moments were lost, because I just plain didn't care about the characters...
Action: 2 Stars
As with all good comic book movies, this movie has a great fight scene at the end! But I thought there just wasn't enough action in the movie... My suggestions would have been to get rid of the PG-13 rating and fill it with loads of violence and gore!
Conclusion
It really is a beautiful movie (the below being an example), but it just wasn't Sin City!
Friday, 29 August 2008
The Hobbit Reconstructed (Part 2)
Continued from here
Warning contains spoilers, do not read if you haven't already read the book!
The travelers leave Rivendell.
They will have to go through the mountains (right inside! I'll remind you that in all Del Toro's works there is a little bit where they are in a series of underground passages, so it will be avery Del Toroesque moment)
Down in the caves they are brought before the king of the goblins (or Orcs), popularly rumored to be played by Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
The Party is split accidentally and Bilbo finds himself in Gollum's gloomy home (Gollum will be again played by Andy Serkis) and they start to play a game - a game of riddles. Perhaps this may sound like a boring part of the movie, but Del Toro seems to believe that it's going to be one of the best parts of the movie, so I can only wait and see how he brings that part to life.
While Bilbo is down there, he finds a mysterious golden ring which seems to make people disappear if they wear it on their finger... I think we might have heard about this ring in another movie (Ha ha) ! Yes it's the Ring of Power.
They make it through the mountains, but not without difficulties.
Before they get to their destination they encounter a strange creature called Beorn (possibly to be acted by Doug Jones, who plays The Faun in Pan's Labyrinth and Abe Sapien in Hellboy).
They will also to pass through the evil forest of Mirkwood, where some great evil dwells. There they will come across some very big spiders (this is the part where we'll have to look away because it's going to be super scary!), and they will meet with a band of Elves, and we will get to see Orlando Bloom again for a little while as he reprises his role as Legolas.
Then finally they will come to their destination... to the den of Smaug the Dragon! (voiced by either Christopher Lee or Ron Perlman)
And to top it all, we've got a huge battle at the end: The Battle of the Five Armies. I'm sure we'll have some nice battle action from Legolas and Gandalf. What I do know is, this battle sequence is going to be superb... so look forward to it!
There's my vision of what Del Toro and Jackson are to do with the movie, now lets have a few opinions on it! I'd love to hear what you think! The visuals are going to be superb, and I'm sure that there will be a lot of fantasy creatures for us to look at. It seems as this movie will be like Lord of the Rings crossed with Pan's Labyrinth, two of the most popular fantasy films ever, now this has got to be good!
These events are not necessarily going to be what happens in the film, but is what I believe to be likely from info that has been given and from studying of the talents Directing and producing the films!
Warning contains spoilers, do not read if you haven't already read the book!
The travelers leave Rivendell.
They will have to go through the mountains (right inside! I'll remind you that in all Del Toro's works there is a little bit where they are in a series of underground passages, so it will be avery Del Toroesque moment)
Down in the caves they are brought before the king of the goblins (or Orcs), popularly rumored to be played by Ron Perlman (Hellboy).
The Party is split accidentally and Bilbo finds himself in Gollum's gloomy home (Gollum will be again played by Andy Serkis) and they start to play a game - a game of riddles. Perhaps this may sound like a boring part of the movie, but Del Toro seems to believe that it's going to be one of the best parts of the movie, so I can only wait and see how he brings that part to life.
While Bilbo is down there, he finds a mysterious golden ring which seems to make people disappear if they wear it on their finger... I think we might have heard about this ring in another movie (Ha ha) ! Yes it's the Ring of Power.
They make it through the mountains, but not without difficulties.
Before they get to their destination they encounter a strange creature called Beorn (possibly to be acted by Doug Jones, who plays The Faun in Pan's Labyrinth and Abe Sapien in Hellboy).
They will also to pass through the evil forest of Mirkwood, where some great evil dwells. There they will come across some very big spiders (this is the part where we'll have to look away because it's going to be super scary!), and they will meet with a band of Elves, and we will get to see Orlando Bloom again for a little while as he reprises his role as Legolas.
Then finally they will come to their destination... to the den of Smaug the Dragon! (voiced by either Christopher Lee or Ron Perlman)
And to top it all, we've got a huge battle at the end: The Battle of the Five Armies. I'm sure we'll have some nice battle action from Legolas and Gandalf. What I do know is, this battle sequence is going to be superb... so look forward to it!
There's my vision of what Del Toro and Jackson are to do with the movie, now lets have a few opinions on it! I'd love to hear what you think! The visuals are going to be superb, and I'm sure that there will be a lot of fantasy creatures for us to look at. It seems as this movie will be like Lord of the Rings crossed with Pan's Labyrinth, two of the most popular fantasy films ever, now this has got to be good!
These events are not necessarily going to be what happens in the film, but is what I believe to be likely from info that has been given and from studying of the talents Directing and producing the films!
The Hobbit Reconstructed (Part 1)
Warning: Contains lots of spoilers, don't bother reading if you haven't read the book!
I thought it might be quite interesting to see if I can construct the way in which I believe, at this moment in time, how the Hobbit movie is going to turn out.
My sources are taken from news, and understanding how Del Toro and Peter Jackson work, and also by what will really sell the movie, and obviously by reading the original source: the book.
So here it goes, I'd like to hear what you think... and I'm sure this movie will be 10 times better on screen than in writing.
A couple things to note before we start: The visuals will be very stunning, probably the best visuals to come out on screen, it'll be a beautiful film. The music will also be spectacular, as both Del Toro and Peter Jackson rate it as essential for the movie!
The movie will open with Ian Holm narrating about the way in which Illuvatar created middle earth, a pure world, but then in comes the rings, trying to take over, and he will again narrate the story of the great battle of the ring where Issildor defeated Sauron.
We see old Bilbo was telling the story to a few of the young hobbits at his 111th birthday party (as in the Lord of the Rings)
Ian Holm will not play the younger Bilbo though...
Gandalf (cofirmed to be played by Sir Ian McKellen) tells Bilbo that he's going to help them on an adventure.
In time Bilbo meets with the dwarves (it is my feeling that there will be a few less dwarves as too many dwarves would be hard to keep track of)
And the set off on their adventure.
By chance they are caught by Trolls, and if you have read the book you will know how they were rescued. (you can see an example of Del Toro's vision of a troll by looking in the Troll Market in Hellboy 2)
They come safe to Rivendell and we will again see cameo roles from Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler, with perhaps a reference to Aragorn too.
Elrond presents them with weapons, this will be a good time the get all emotional and understand a bit about the characters, as these weapons will one day save their lives!
Continued here
I thought it might be quite interesting to see if I can construct the way in which I believe, at this moment in time, how the Hobbit movie is going to turn out.
My sources are taken from news, and understanding how Del Toro and Peter Jackson work, and also by what will really sell the movie, and obviously by reading the original source: the book.
So here it goes, I'd like to hear what you think... and I'm sure this movie will be 10 times better on screen than in writing.
A couple things to note before we start: The visuals will be very stunning, probably the best visuals to come out on screen, it'll be a beautiful film. The music will also be spectacular, as both Del Toro and Peter Jackson rate it as essential for the movie!
The movie will open with Ian Holm narrating about the way in which Illuvatar created middle earth, a pure world, but then in comes the rings, trying to take over, and he will again narrate the story of the great battle of the ring where Issildor defeated Sauron.
We see old Bilbo was telling the story to a few of the young hobbits at his 111th birthday party (as in the Lord of the Rings)
Ian Holm will not play the younger Bilbo though...
Gandalf (cofirmed to be played by Sir Ian McKellen) tells Bilbo that he's going to help them on an adventure.
In time Bilbo meets with the dwarves (it is my feeling that there will be a few less dwarves as too many dwarves would be hard to keep track of)
And the set off on their adventure.
By chance they are caught by Trolls, and if you have read the book you will know how they were rescued. (you can see an example of Del Toro's vision of a troll by looking in the Troll Market in Hellboy 2)
They come safe to Rivendell and we will again see cameo roles from Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler, with perhaps a reference to Aragorn too.
Elrond presents them with weapons, this will be a good time the get all emotional and understand a bit about the characters, as these weapons will one day save their lives!
Continued here
Monday, 25 August 2008
Del Toro and Peter Jackson to script The Hobbit on their own.
People online are crazy about this "new" news... but it's been out for ages. If you look back at my previous post back in July, I gave a comprehensive list of all the people that were lined up to be working on The Hobbit movie... and there I specifically mentioned Del Toro and Peter Jackson as script writers... that list is still current, there has been no changes... My Blog Is Up-To-Date!
Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens will be lending their aid in script-writing too!
Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens will be lending their aid in script-writing too!
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Halo: Fall of Reach
So a while back Del Toro and Peter Jackson were in talks to create a movie based on the Halo video games... that didn't happen.
But Stuart Beattie has decided that it's a good idea for a movie, and has written a spec script hoping to get it properly adopted!
read on here
What do you think? Is Halo a good idea for a movie?
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Current Team and Cast expected Lineup for The Hobbit
Here is a list of the people expected on the production team of The Hobbit, and of the expected Actors. I thought it would be useful for everyone to see it all in an easy to read format!
Guillermo Del Toro - director, script
Peter Jackson - producer, script
Fran Walsh - script
Philippa Boyens - script
Howard Shore - music
John Howe - conceptual design
Alan Lee - conceptual design
Acting
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Cate Blanchett - Galadriel
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
Christopher Lee - Sauraman
Sir Ian Holm - Narration (?)
Liv Tyler - Arwen
Andy Serkis - Gollum
It is also to be expected that Doug Jones and Ron Perlman will act in this film, but who they will play is uncertain as yet.
Please tell me if I have missed someone.
Guillermo Del Toro - director, script
Peter Jackson - producer, script
Fran Walsh - script
Philippa Boyens - script
Howard Shore - music
John Howe - conceptual design
Alan Lee - conceptual design
Acting
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandalf
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Cate Blanchett - Galadriel
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
Christopher Lee - Sauraman
Sir Ian Holm - Narration (?)
Liv Tyler - Arwen
Andy Serkis - Gollum
It is also to be expected that Doug Jones and Ron Perlman will act in this film, but who they will play is uncertain as yet.
Please tell me if I have missed someone.
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