Look at him rippin that butt!

This is the coolest news of the day for me thus far.  I gotta say that I’m quite impartial to John Carpenter and his movies.  He’s a horror fan, and I’m not as you all well know.  The only movie of his that I am a huge fan of… “They Live“  featuring the Rowdy Roddy Piper.  The movie rocks, but the rest of his “films”… I no like!

BUT…. this idea sets my pants on fire, my friends.  Here’s the Abby poo mcgee from firstshowing:

Devin recently spoke with Jeremy Passmore, who is writing the script for The Prince along with Andre Fabrizio. “We were trying to do Unforgiven as a gangster movie, because we’re both just huge fans of that.” So far so good – but what is it about? “The premise is that this guy was the most [badass] gangster of all time in Las Vegas, and he’s left the life and created this whole new world. His wife died but he’s raising his kid. He’s living in the middle of nowhere and he’s this very religious, trying to live a straight life guy. His daughter is now going to school at UCLA and she disappears, and he goes looking for her. The trail leads to Vegas and he has to go get her, and the entire city kind of comes down on top of him.”

I love movies where peeps come out of hiding to seek revenge upon those who trespass among in places they shouldn’t be.  David Cronenberg’s “A History Of Violence” perfected that idea, and there are a ton of movies like that.  But I think we have yet to see a gangster flick to bring us such delights… I’m interested in seeing where Johnny can take this idea… Hopefully it works out well, and he can ween himself off low budget horror baskets.

Taking place in Vegas is perfect… I hope we get to see some knuckleheads tossed about and thrown into slot machines where millions of dollars in pennies come rushing out into the hands of an old lady in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette!… And dammit… We better see some fuckin craps being played heavily in this movie film……

DOLLAR YO!!!

Here’s the first trailer for the new remake of Race to Witch Mountain starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and two little alien children.  It looks like a kickass upcoming sci-fi movie…. I really hope Dwayne J can finally deliver The “Peoples elbow” or “eyebrow”… It needs to be… Here’s the trailer gang:

I know you’re not excited… Don’t lie

OK , so Starsky tipped me off to this one.  Watch the trailer…you’ll know why I’m posting this.

Who will like it:   I can’t imagine anyone actually thinking this is a “good” movie, however if you watch it with tongue firmly in cheek (the way it’s meant to be viewed) you’ll have a good time.  I suggest renting it with friends and not letting them know what it is about. It’s a riot!  And the lead, Jess Weixler, gives a perfect deliriously twisted performance….I’m sure we’ll be seeing much more of her in the future.

-Hutch

So…….  I saw the new Bond movie this weekend. Didn’t think it was as great as Casino Royale, but it was a pretty good flick.  Granted the theater was packed with annoying Wesleyan students, I had a horrible seat and I fell asleep about 4 times (past my bed time), so I can’t really provide an accurate review until I see it again. If you are going to see this movie do not under any circumstance sit close to the screen. Craning your neck to see the huge screen is a pain in the ass already, but the quick jump cuts throughout every action scene makes it impossible to know what is going on. Also do not sit next to someone who has shoes that smell like they have been out in the rain for months.

Casino Royale is one of my fav movies, so it would take a lot for me to come out of the theater thinking QoS was better. Plus personally, I love long movies…to me, if I’m paying $10 to see a movie, as long as it is good I want to be in there as long as possible to make it worth it. Basically I need to go back during the afternoon, so I don’t fall asleep, in an empty theater, so that no one bothers me, and watch it again, but as a stand-alone film without thinking it is going to be the second coming of Casino Royale.

Anywho…on to the reason I’m posting today.  I have a man-crush on Daniel Craig…he can do no wrong in my P.O.V. He’s a great actor and I can’t wait to see what he comes out with next. Which brings me to Defiance. This is the next Craig movie coming out and it looks pretty damn good. It’s an Epic movie written and directed by Edward Zwick, who did the Last Samurai, Glory and Legends of the Fall….all movies that rock my shit. I love Epics, love Zwick, love Criag, so it goes without saying that I’m amped for this thing to come out. Take a peek…

I can already tell that there are going to be haters out there who are going to cry about the Russian accents. But really what are they supposed to do? Film the whole movie speaking in Russian with subtitles? That would be lame. Should they play the characters with American or English accents? Even more lame! The only real option is to get the actors to speak English with the Russian accent that everyone seems to hate on.

Another pretty damn cool thing about this flick is that Paramount Vantage is pushing this for awards season. Because of this, if you check out the website you can not only find the trailer, photos and bios on the actors, but they have the entire screenplay available for download!!! They also have the soundtrack available to listen to and a full media kit you can download.  Check it out here:

PARAMOUNT VANTAGE

Enjoy!

-Hutch

Why won’t this fucking weekend come sooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!

So… it’s a bit unclear as to what is going on right now with a very popular movie blog site.  Themovieblog is an amazing site which has been one motivation to me starting this site.  As of recently, apparently, they have yet to be paid for the past month or so which is absolute frippery!!! Whoever is at the helm of the cash bunny… Pay the men the money they’re owed please.  If you haven’t checked out themovieblog… Head over and check it out.  They are the hosts of the longest running movie related podcast on the internet and have quite the sense of humor.  All of us here hope that everything works out and this is just some sort of misunderstanding that they can laugh about in the future.  Good luck amigos!