June 08, 2007
June 07, 2007
Movie Goodies
Speed Racer's Mach 5!
Finally it looks like an adaptation is willing to trust its source material, with this first shot of the Mach 5 from the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer movie looking quite similar to the anime original. I admire how faithful they're staying, but part of me wishes they'd gone with something more similar to a '94 Ford Taurus wagon. Maybe then people would stop the mockery once they saw I was just a paint job away from driving the Mach 5, instead of a '94 Ford Taurus wagon.
Michel Gondry- First Image from
'Be Kind, Rewind'
I wouldn't usually post a single image from a movie that's not coming out for almost a year (April 2008, to be exact), but since this one's from Michel Gondry, who directed one of my all-time favorites, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I'll give it a pass. Plus, it's got a delightfully strange synopsis:
With generally recognized badasses Jet Li and Jason Statham involved, War has a good chance of joining Miami Vice and Rush Hour as my favorite movies about interracial homosexuality in a crime setting. Do these two look in love or what?
Shoot 'Em Up trailer
Real men (and butch women) should watch this new trailer to Shoot 'Em Up. It's like someone finally listened to me when I said, "There should be a movie where there's this awesome dude who's, like, an expert with guns and shit, and he goes around with all these sweet guns shooting bad guys." They even cast Clive Owen as the awesome dude, who we all know is ok to have a bit of a male crush on!
30 Days of Night Teaser poster
In 30 Days of Night, based on the graphic novel series, some vampires move to Alaska to take advantage of the month of darkness geography provides the area, allowing the bastards to drink blood all day without the burden of daylight. It's probably the most clever move in vampire history.
I feel like the poster really captures the mood of, "Arrrggghhh! I'm sick of this! It's been like a month of darkness, plus we've got these vampires, so it's not just the lack of light bothering me!" Looking again, I think it's actually a vampire, so maybe the mood is more, "Arrrrggghhh! I am really loving this 30 days of night! Best vampire idea yet!" You decide.
I Am Legend poster
In I Am Legend, Will Smith plays the last man in New York City after a virus turns everyone into vampires, and here's its poster. I have two issues with it:
1. It reminds me too much of The Condemned poster,
which was already a pretty bad poster.
2. It reminds me too much of Will Smith's involvement in a capacity higher than as a fresh prince, which is as much as I'll tolerate of him.
Your thoughts?
Finally it looks like an adaptation is willing to trust its source material, with this first shot of the Mach 5 from the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer movie looking quite similar to the anime original. I admire how faithful they're staying, but part of me wishes they'd gone with something more similar to a '94 Ford Taurus wagon. Maybe then people would stop the mockery once they saw I was just a paint job away from driving the Mach 5, instead of a '94 Ford Taurus wagon.
Michel Gondry- First Image from
'Be Kind, Rewind'
I wouldn't usually post a single image from a movie that's not coming out for almost a year (April 2008, to be exact), but since this one's from Michel Gondry, who directed one of my all-time favorites, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I'll give it a pass. Plus, it's got a delightfully strange synopsis:When Jerry becomes accidentally magnetized while trying to sabotage the power plant he believes is melting his brain, the magnetic field he gives off ends up erasing all of the tapes in the video store where his best friend Mike works. Now Mike may lose his job, and the only way the friends can think to save it is to keep the one regular customer they have - a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality - from recognizing what has happened. The way they do this? By recreating and refilming every movie that she decides to rent of course! From Driving Miss Daisy to Ghostbusters to Rush Hour, these two friends become the biggest stars in their neighbourhood by starring in the biggest movies in the world.War poster
With generally recognized badasses Jet Li and Jason Statham involved, War has a good chance of joining Miami Vice and Rush Hour as my favorite movies about interracial homosexuality in a crime setting. Do these two look in love or what?
Shoot 'Em Up trailer
Real men (and butch women) should watch this new trailer to Shoot 'Em Up. It's like someone finally listened to me when I said, "There should be a movie where there's this awesome dude who's, like, an expert with guns and shit, and he goes around with all these sweet guns shooting bad guys." They even cast Clive Owen as the awesome dude, who we all know is ok to have a bit of a male crush on!
30 Days of Night Teaser poster
In 30 Days of Night, based on the graphic novel series, some vampires move to Alaska to take advantage of the month of darkness geography provides the area, allowing the bastards to drink blood all day without the burden of daylight. It's probably the most clever move in vampire history.I feel like the poster really captures the mood of, "Arrrggghhh! I'm sick of this! It's been like a month of darkness, plus we've got these vampires, so it's not just the lack of light bothering me!" Looking again, I think it's actually a vampire, so maybe the mood is more, "Arrrrggghhh! I am really loving this 30 days of night! Best vampire idea yet!" You decide.
I Am Legend poster
In I Am Legend, Will Smith plays the last man in New York City after a virus turns everyone into vampires, and here's its poster. I have two issues with it:
1. It reminds me too much of The Condemned poster,
which was already a pretty bad poster.
2. It reminds me too much of Will Smith's involvement in a capacity higher than as a fresh prince, which is as much as I'll tolerate of him.
Your thoughts?
June 05, 2007
Lion vs. Buffalo
A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
June 03, 2007
Life Insurance
Here's a nice little student film from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The storytelling and atmosphere works well throughout, but make sure you watch all the way to the credits -- it's the very end that makes the film.
Directed by Roy Iddan
Israel, 2005
Directed by Roy Iddan
Israel, 2005
Rope Dance
It has a pretty simple set-up and it completely exploits the pictorial space in a way only animation can.
Directed by Raimund Krumme
Germany, 1986
Directed by Raimund Krumme
Germany, 1986
Orville Redenbacher reborn with computer generated 3D imagery!
A Commercial directed by none other than David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en)
Swiss Family Guy
Why can’t Fox take a joke? The network’s overpriced lawyers are throwing their weight around and coming down heavy on Swiss Family Guy Robinson, a small stage show by Canadian Brian Froud, that blended the characters of Family Guy with the 1812 novel Swiss Family Robinson.Froud’s one-man show debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival and was an immediate hit with fans and critics alike. He turned it into a regular performance and started touring the show. All good, right? Not exactly. Despite Family Guy being the king of the meta reference, Fox didn’t see the humour in the show.
"When we learned that this production had made unauthorized use of the Family Guy characters and material, we asked that the producers cease and desist and they have complied. Protecting our intellectual property and copyrights is something we take very seriously at Twentieth Century Fox Television," says Chris Alexander, vice president of media relations for Fox Television.
It seems the network that is famed for broadcasting and then canceling creative shows – Arrested Development, Futurama, Greg the Bunny, Titus, Undeclared, Action, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Firefly and Family Guy twice – is now concerned about protecting its artistic integrity (investment). The oddity of this is Family Guy wouldn’t exist without the plundering pop culture’s past. Each episode is a pastiche of other people’s movies and TV shows that if the same cease and desist was applied to the show it would never have made it on the air.
Froud doesn’t get it either: “We are huge fans of the show ourselves and would never do anything to harm it's stellar reputation. We simply want to frolic within the hysterical realm of the freakin' sweet madness created by Mr. Seth MacFarlane,” states the comedian on his blog.
Seems that Fox doesn’t want anyone else getting a piece of the pie now that the show is lucrative.
Thanks to Culture Popped for the info.
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