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‘SIN CITY 2’ May Shoot This Summer, And Other Rodriguez Tidbits.
Oh, to dream of Sin City 2. There was a day when the merest mention of the movie got my little noir ultra-violent core most excite!!!!, but not anymore. I’ve been deceived too many times. Told the film was on its way to fruition over and over again. Now at SXSW, Robert Rodriguez is trying to get my hopes up. Again.
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‘THE AVENGERS’ JAPANESE TRAILER: New Footage, Same Soiled Underwear
More footage! Always more footage! A new nation, new footage. This time we have the Japanese trailer for The Avengers, and it’s got some sexy new glimpses into the Wunder-Marketing-Synergy-Kapow Flick.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Walmart Launching Exclusive DISC-TO-DIGITAL Service Next Month. Hint: Don’t Use It
Walmart is banking on one of the essential facts of Western Rot-Gut civilization: the average folk will pay for someone else to do a remedial task for them, no matter how easy the actual task may be. I mean Jesus Christ, would you pay Walmart to convert a DVD into a digital file for you?
Strange Moments in Solid Movies: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, Butch Cassidy
Though it is unquestionably a great film in my mind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a strange beast of meshing tones, genres, and storytelling techniques. Dynamic as hell, it has the ability to jump at a (strange) moment’s notice from farcical, tongue-in-cheek roguishness more fit for a straight comedy to pensive, anti-western mythmaking more in keeping with late 60s-early 70s westerns. A particularly fitting example is when the protagonists escape to Bolivia: there, we are hit with the wonderful irony of Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and Sundance Kid’s (Robert Redford) professional transmogrification from bank robbers to payroll security; but before this can be relished, both characters are confronted by outlaws not unlike themselves (albeit more lethal), which rapidly culminates in a slow-motion shootout analogous to Peckinpah’s bloody masterpiece The Wild Bunch. The shift is shocking–as one of such a violent nature should be.
‘THE AVENGERS’ CHARACTER POSTERS Are Definition Of Meh! Plus MIDNIGHT TICKETS
Oh golly! Some typically barf-esque character posters for the Avengers have been released. Plus!, midnight showings are now on sale.
Hit the jump for all the uh, glory.
Warner Bros. In Talks To Make ‘THE DARK TOWER’ Movie, Bardem Still Involved.
Warner Bros. is looking to get into The Dark Tower game. That book series by that Stephen King guy, which has been pronounced as a multi-movie, multi-TV season extravaganza. It’s going to be such an amazing disaster, and dammit I want to see this monstrosity birthed to life.
‘HUNGER GAMES’ Producer Talks SEQUELS, Respecting The Author
There’s an excitement in my loins for the Hunger Games flick, and almost 33% of it is due to reasons other than Jennifer Lawrence running around in a skin-tight track suit kicking ass. Oh god, that track suit. Unless you’re a dullard-dunce you know that after Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins churned out two sequels. What is going on with them?
Monday Morning Commute: Bakula’s Packin’
Hello there, `fraidies and gentle-hams. My name is Rendar Frankenstein, and once upon a time I was one of the captains of the fine vessel known as Omega-Level. With Caffeine Powered, I helped steer this nerd-craft through the Interweb Ocean, fending off the ever-present threat of vibe-pirates and soul-trolls. In those early days, I’d write reviews and drink casks and even occasionally lend my word-vomit to the back of comic books.
But these days, I’ve taken to the dark underbelly of SPACESHIP OL. I like it here, where I can chat with the suspected mutineers about their murderous visions and incorrigible bloodlusts. And no, I wasn’t demoted to chomping on fish-heads and tossing the shit-barrels overboard by the powers-that-be, I volunteered for this spot. It fits me just fine.
Because the fact of the matter is that I’m Rendar Frankenstein — the hack writer extraordinaire who wears a heart on his sleeve that bleeds so profusely you’d swear he’s menstruating.
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This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, a weekly show-and-tell session that promotes the cross-pollination of all things in the pop-nerd sphere. To get things started, I’m going to show you the various ways I’ll be staving off workweek ennui. Your job is to then hit up the comments section and share what you’ll be watching/reading/eating/playing/drinking/doing to exorcise the forty-hour-a-week demons.
Let’s do this.
‘SKYFALL’ SET PHOTOS Bring The Javier Bardem! Plus! New Info.
Ya’ll want some Skyfall set photos upside your dome-pieces as well as some new information from the flick? ‘Course you do. Unless you’re just here to stare at Daniel Craig’s happy trailer. Sadly this is the one batch of pictures that don’t feature it.
