Chadzilla

While I enjoyed Avatar for the populist Hollywood spectacle movie that it was, this review is spot on and hilarious:

So he just showed up, is what you're saying?

And he has every right to be. But... I have started wondering. When the lawyers called with the news, did they as they told him: Hello Mr. Director... Time to play a game, a game called payback. It is time for you to suffer as those that have watched your film have suffered. You thought you chose the safe path to a career, you didn't. Now you will know the meaning of pain, as you attempt to navigate your way out of this torturous trap called the making of Saw VII 3D.

Cross posting alert: This will also be on the Saw VII 3-D thread, as it applies to it as well. Lionsgate "orders" Saw VI director to make Saw VII 3-D and he is pretty pissed about not getting to make Paranormal Activity 2. The quote about making a horror movie that his 83 year old mother could watch is priceless.

Cross posting alert: This will also be on the Paranormal Activity 2 thread, as it applies to it as well. Lionsgate "orders" Saw VI director to make Saw VII 3-D and he is pretty pissed about not getting to make Paranormal Activity 2. The quote about making a horror movie that his 83 year old mother could watch is priceless.

Which is exactly why I loved him... So. Damn. Much. Not only am I going to be getting the Avatar mech toy, but I'm also getting a Colonal Quadritch (sp?) action figure. Yeah, he was one dimensional as hell, but Stephen Lang just took that single dimension and played the hell out of it. He knew that he was playing a 2nd tier pulp villain and clearly said to himself, "To hell with it, I'm going to Disneyland!" and had fun with it. I just loved-loved-loved that final fight. I kept thinking, "He's indestructible! He's a human terminator! DAMN! Now, that's a knife!" It says something that, when talking about the movie for the first time at the local comic shop, I could not restrain myself from reenacting the "take a deep breath, kick down the door, and shoot after the helicopter scene" in the middle of the store. We were all talking about that guy with big, goofy grins on our faces and we just could not keep from laughing. Yeah, he's a fun as hell villain. He also has the best line in the movie: "If there's a hell, then you might want to go there for some R & R."

"They need warm heat." I needed that laugh.

Caught the trailer before The Book of Eli, it convinced me that I did not to see it.

You know, I cannot dismiss that theory out of hand. One of the things the series was noted for (as in NOTICED) was how the later films plucked the smaller parts in the earliest films to expand/continue the series mythology. If I were an actor, I'd be thrilled if I were cast in the three line bit part of DESK SARGENT in Saw VII, as that could mean my character wakes up in a trap in Saw IX or X. Hell, it might even lead to my character becoming the protege of Jigsaw's protege's protege! Woot-woot!!!

Evidently a post credit "additional ending" has been added to the DVD release of Saw VI. If you are interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfMPwiMQUw&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfMPwiMQUw&feature=player_embedded

In regards to whether or not the story is padded, it is. Terrance Dicks, in a documentary/interview feature on the DVD of Horror of Fang Rock (a personal all time favorite of mine) discussed all of the padding that he put into this particular episode ("Lots of running and getting captured and escaping and running again and getting captured again and running again," to paraphrase his comment) because they had run out of scripts/stories and the production had to make an episode quota. The reason that it doesn't play (or feel) like padding is due to the fact that Dicks was/is a damn fine storyteller.

While I doubt that it will be slavishly faithful to the source material (although that certainly would not hurt) there is at least a good two or three seasons of material in the first 50 issues alone.

It's just that, after hearing that SM3 cost something like 250 million, and Avatar cost about 500 million, and this summer block buster cast 175 million and that 190 million, to hear 80 million is like... "Huh?" I know it's still a lot of money, but the financial waste that has set a precedent just made me blink and shake my head.

80 million? I know that all the super-bloated budgets (mostly due to paying the superstar actors and director, Terminator 2, once you sliced off Arnie and Cameron's paychecks, only cost 64 million to actually make) are making it sound dirt cheap, but 80 million. Then again, Sherlock Holmes had an announced budget of 90 million.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/spider-mannews.php?id=8998 They are moving on this quickly. *cough* Twilight *cough* Hiring a rom-com director does not fill me with confidence. Yeah, 500 Days was cute, but it...

Took advantage of the 3 fo $20 deal at Blockbuster: Taking Woodstock (One of the better films I saw last year) and two that are proof positive that I'll buy any old shit on DVD, if it's cheap enough: Terminator: Salvation (it does have a giant robot that spits out killer motorcycle thingies, so there's that) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (an unapologetic big cartoon of a movie)

Cameron's best director win was also completely undeserved, when compared to the brilliant work that Kathryn Bigelow did on The Hurt Locker. Give that woman the Oscar, please!!!

Yeah, my fiance is totally into that. She buys the discs, then downloads the digital copies into the computer, then transfers them onto her iPhone.

Watched The Hangover last night. Moderately funny, I think I laughed all of three times. Maybe. What was it about that movie?

The irony of this announcement is gold: SAW VI director hired to direct Paranormal Activity 2, which is slotted to open NEXT year, on the same weekend as SAW VII 3-D.

Friday the 13th: Pamela's Tale #1 & 2 (of 2): Mama Voorhees gets her back story in a great, and surprisingly slavish to the series mythos, origin story. Great stuff. Depression: cured. Comic Books: 12 Trades: 1 Graphic Novels: 1

Arkham Reborn #1-3 (of 3) and Charles Burns's Black Hole. Great googly-moogly, I picked the wrong reading for a rainy day. I need some sunlight, pronto. Sheesh. Black Hole is simply awesome, while Arkham Reborn is a slick and smart homage to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Great stuff, but man did their one-two punch depress the hell out of me. Comic Books: 10 Trades: 1 Graphic Novels: 1

The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan stars in a movie that could have been made by Disney in the 1970s. Come to think of it, I think I saw this very same film several years ago, only it was called The Pacifier and it starred Vin Diesel.

Star Trek (2009) man, it sure held up to a second viewing a lot better than I thought it would.

One of my fiance's friends is like that. Weird.