Loves to see the World Destroyed: 2012

Roland Emmerich is at it again with his new film 2012 set to hit theaters this November. Emmerich apparently loves to destroy the world in his movies and after the recent 4th of July holiday made me think about some of his previous films such as: Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. This film of course has to do with the end of the Mayan calendar which is actually going to happen in 2012, so this movies is based upon an interesting concept. People who actually believe the world will end in 2012 will probably not see this movie, but I think it looks like a fun ride based on the recent trailers. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harelson, Danny Glover and others are going to be starring in the upcoming disaster movie. So till then, I leave you with the trailer.

Happy Fourth of July!!

It's been a while since I posted, but you can blame that on being super busy. In honor of Fourth of July I bring you this video. Enjoy and Happy Fourth.

The Hangover

I saw the Hangover on opening night and I have to say that it was one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time! This film achieved so much with a very basic story about a group of guys in Las Vegas for a bachelor party that goes bad! It was a great take on any comedy that takes place in Las Vegas! The characters were all so funny and their conversations were very similar to Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen comedies. Finding out what they got themselves into that night is the best part of the movie because it's so crazy and they all have no recollection of the night! The part with Mike Tyson is absolutely classic! I especially enjoyed the end credits montage as it showed all the crazy pictures they took that night and completely forgot about it until the end!
The characters were all so original and they were easy to relate to. They were just regular guys trying to go to Vegas to be like other guys that have gone to Vegas in movies! Director Todd Phillips threw in an homage to Road Trip, one of his earlier films, in this movie that really sold the theme of the chracters trying to be different! The surprises in this movie are everything, so I won't say anything about that! I would highly recommend this movie as I predict it to be one of the summer's best comedies!

This Week's Movie

Snatch

Guy Ritchie did it again. Two years after the previous movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ritchie comes back with another comedy with a bunch of boneheaded underworld types. The story involves an 84 ct. flawless diamond, a pack of gypsies, boxing, a man that dodges bullets and a man the has a few in his mouth. Ritchie not only directed this one but he wrote this as well. So much like LSTS it is very complex. Not too give to much away, the movie stars Jason Statham and Vinny Jones again. Statham is a promoter of illegal boxing matches who is just trying to get by and buy himself a new caravan (trailer). Jones comes along much later so just watch and see who he is. Trouble arises early on when Statham tries to buy a caravan from the gypsies and his prize fighter is knocked into next week by a lanky Irishman played by none other than Bradd Pitt. To make a long story short without giving away any details, Pitt decides to fight for Statham. Now onto the other story involving the diamond. Benicio Del Toro steals the diamond and then has the diamond stolen from him. Thats as basic as I am willing to make it. Just watch the movie and you can figure out what I mean.

Reasons to watch:

1. Guy Ritchie: The man is a genius when it comes to envisioning a story and capturing it through a camera lens. The movie is complex yet easy enough to follow for most viewers. He shows you everything up his sleeve and doesn't leave a briefcase with a golden glow up for interpretation.

2. Fight Club: Did you like watching Brad Pitt beat up people in Fight Club? If you are thinking to yourself "Yeah I did enjoy him beating up guys twice his size", then this is a movie you have to see. The man is unstoppable. Well at least the character he portrays it unstoppable. He bare knuckle fights two men bigger than him and another with gloves on. Definitely not to be missed.

3. Re-watch: The movie should be watched twice I know I saw this a while ago and forgot about it but coming back with the goal of promoting has made it stick out in my head. Watch it again before you recommend it to friends. Or not.

4. Review: Check out the reasons why to watch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I would say the same reasons apply here.

Trailer Time!!!!

Finally, I am actually making a post on Sunday. Although I did contemplate posting it tomorrow and changing the Sunday posting into a Monday one, but then I decided not too. So anyway, down to business. This week I bring the trailer to a foreign film. To be brutally honest, I have no idea who the director or any of the main actors are, but the film had an interesting title so I viewed. It starts off with a simple premise; some college kids travel to the mountains of Southern Norway to spend their Spring Break. While there they uncover an old box of treasure and awaken zombies. But these are not ordinary zombies. No sir. They are Nazi zombies. Yup, you read that correctly. These poor college kids have to fight off Nazis that have been turned into zombies. Except these zombies run. Making them much more dangerous than the standard zombie. I am not a huge fan of horror movies, but this one looks cheesy enough that I might check it out. Of course it pulls some interesting tidbits from the German invasion of Norway during WWII and that piqued my curiosity. So check your local theatre to see if this odd foreign film will be opening in it, and enjoy the trailer.



-Peter

Another Batman Fan Film

By way of Topless Robot, an excellent blog that I read every weekday, I bring you another Batman Fan Film. While the production values on this film are quite high, it is done in the same vein as any of the Frank Miller films, it is not exactly a Batman film. It does not focus on Batman and instead on a simple street thug. The film is quite dark, both visually and in the content, but tells an interesting story. There are a number of cameos in the film by a couple of main villains from the Batman universe. The makeup in the short film is quite good and once again shows that though this is a fan made film, the production values are quite high. Now for the kicker, it is French. You read that correctly. This film is a French made film so obviously there are going to be subtitles. I am not fluent in French, but it seemed like there were a couple of times when the subtitles were slightly off the mark. Making it a little difficult to figure out what exactly was happening. If you can get past the fact that this film is French, then I think you will enjoy it immensely. This is an awesome film and kudos to the makers. Enjoy

Batman : Ashes to Ashes HD
by JULMOK

-Peter

Trailer Time!!!!

This week I present to you the newest Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino is known for his bloody and violent films, and this looks to continue that same tradition. I'm not the biggest fan of Tarantino, although I love Pulp Fiction, but I am pretty interested in this film. The film has a number of big name stars attached to it, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Pitt, Mike Myers (surprisingly), and Cloris Leachman. Brad Pitt is in the starring role as Lt. Aldo Raine and one of the coolest things about him is the accent, especially the way he says Nazis.



While it does not come out until August, I'm still excited for it. Hopefully everything fits together, although with any Tarantino film it does not need much of a story to provide the audience with blood and guts.

-Peter

Terminator Salvation: Salvation for the series

In one of my previous posts I was concerned about the fate of the tremendously popular Terminator series. I have to say that I was very pleased with this new installment. Christian Bale did use his Batman voice for his John Connor voice, but his performance was pretty powerful. I was very impressed with Sam Worthington's portrayal of Marcus Wright. I believe that he stole the scene from Bale in almost every scene and it makes it all the more incredible that he was an unknown before this film!
This film had incredible special effects and non stop action! The storyline was very solid and any fan of the series will be able to spot out many of the homages to the previous films such as, music from the Guns n Roses featured in T2 with young John Connor, the scar that John Connor gets post Judgment Day and more! I was also impressed with the amount of heart and emotion that this film had that was very much absent from Mostow's T3. Cameron's T2 was the first film that depicted a machine learning the value of human life and Salvation went back to Cameron roots to add this powerful theme back into the formula of the film!
Definitely a great film filled with some great moments and certainly a crowd pleaser for any Terminator fan. Now this series has a completely new direction to go into and I hope the series will continue on in this new and highly entertaining style. The post apocalyptic world that Cameron depicted in the first Terminator is very much alive and incredible in this powerful fourth chapter of the series. Good work McG!

Green Lantern Movie? Here's to hoping.

I like Nathan Fillion and I like comics. This wonderful video combines the awesomeness of Nathan Fillion and the Green Lantern Hal Jordan. While I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to things Green Lantern, in fact I really do not know much about any of the DC Comics properties, I would go see this without a second thought. Of course this all rests on the hope that the movie producers and the studio which currently holds the rights to make movies based on DC properties do not completely trash it first. Nathan Fillion is an excellent actor and I think he would do great as the Green Lantern. Now, while watching this well made trailer (made by fans of course) try to name all the movies that the makers used to create this trailer. I do not blame them in the slightest, as they probably did not have the resources that the creator of that amazingly beautiful Arkham trailer I posted a few weeks ago has. Either way it is still a great watch. Enjoy.



-Peter

In Theatres?

So I realized the other day when I was doing this up-coming Sunday's post, (Don't say overachiever because I'm not) I have been doing movies that have been on DVD for at least a year or two. Last night I had the opportunity to go and see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian with some passes. For those who don't know this is a sequel. Surprise. The original starred Ben Stiller and Robin Williams. Stiller plays a night watchman at The Natural History Museum in NYC who really wants to be an inventor. Williams was a wax model of Teddy Roosevelt in the museum. The whole movie revolves around this tablet that allows the exhibits to come to life. To make a long story short for the sake of catching people up, the old night watchmen try and steal the tablet and Stiller along with the help of the museum's exhibits stop them.

Flash forward two years when the sequel takes place. Stiller is a successful inventor with his own company. He still routinely visits the museum to visit at night, one night he goes and finds out the exhibits are being shipped off to the federal archives at the Smithsonian Institute. Stiller tries everything to keep them from being put into storage without the tablet but he fails. After they have left one of the exhibits calls him saying they are being attacked. Stiller rushes off to try and help. He runs into another security guard played by Jonah Hill (surprise he is in everything). The battle ensues between Stiller and bad guys throughout time. Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible, or awesome (played by Christopher Guest) and the leader of the bad guys Kahmunrah (played by Hank Azaria who has two other roles in the movie).

Overall the movie was pretty amusing. I laughed out loud throughout most of the movie. If you liked the first one then you will like this one even more because it is better than the first. Go check this movie out and tell me what you think.

-Bob