Sometimes, you hear a pitch of a concept and you go “aw, c’mon. Really?”
What almost always twists my spine is the thought “they’re making THAT crap instead of making BETTER crap.” Only so many movies can be made a year and only ONE THING motivates a studio to make a movie: PROFIT.
Everything else is secondary. [...]
This is an insane business. IN-SANE.
Robin Hood opened to mediocre numbers. Especially mediocre given the enormo budget (230M, some report). Apparently, it’s supposed to make up for its lackluster domestic BO with some gonzo world-wide numbers. As of this writing, six days into its run, the tally is 45M domestic, 75M international.
According to NY Mag, [...]
RAINBOW IN THE DARK
When there’s lightning – it always bring me down
Cause it’s free and I see that it’s me
Who’s lost and never found
I cry for magic – I feel it dancing in the light
But it was cold – I lost my hold
To the shadows of the night
There’s no sign of the morning coming
You’ve been [...]
Sweet Jesus a lot of stuff us going on. In rapid succession I…
Wrote a 17 page outline on HOT METAL, then I wrote the slam-bam-thank-you-ma’am take on The Birds, then I went golfing for 2 days, then I went into SaveOnBrew mode, and now I need to get back to Hot Metal (and some other [...]
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Am I the only one that doesn’t see the resemblance!?
I’m just saying…
Is Mike Myers pulling a Tootsie?
And… uh.. to keep us relevant: Dead Ringers is an excellent movie. Hear they might remake it. Don’t think it’ll fly.
M A R K
Jason’s kills. Up through Friday the 13th part 8, Jason Takes Manhattan.
I don’t know if it’s a record. First, the criteria. It has to be a bi-pedal human-esque character to inflict the carnage. Second, it can’t be a war movie (including Rambo). Third, no kung-fu movies.
With my self-imposed rules, I would put Freddy up there. [...]
You have to wonder sometime, you know?
“Ugandan king turns 18, takes full control” reads the headline.
Here was the king a few years ago. I guess he was about 8 or 9 in this pic:
The full article is HERE. Here’s a quote:
“As a minor, kingdom officials had appointed a board of advisers to help him [...]
The azaleas are blooming.
Come back next week.
M A R K
This is a dracula fish:
I’m not making up the name and that is a real picture. Every year, TENS OF THOUSANDS of creatures are discovered. What a weird, wondrous place we live in, huh?
M A R K
P.S. – Don’t worry. It’s less than an inch long. How much could it really eat?
“You’re all just over analyzing sht writing.”
– Quote from IMDB message boards.
What do you get when you take the director of Charlies Angel’s and the writer of Catwoman?
But of course! You would get
TERMINATOR: SALVATION (aka Terminator 4)
It was really really bad.
There were some cool things. Sound. Set design. SFX. But geez. Spend a few bucks [...]