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. [...]
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. [...]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been tying up loose ends on BELOW THE ICE (needs a new name) and talking about what’s next.
What’s next really means, what do we think we can sell? And what we think can sell is a big action-y shoot ‘em up with a heart of gold. Luckily, I wrote [...]
“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 [...]
Saw many movies. Two stand out: “Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen” and “Inside Deep Throat.”
Transformers 2: it was beyond bad. Horrible. Spectacular special effects, though. The part I liked? When that one blur of pixels attacked that other, same colored blur of pixels? Yeah… that was cool.
I’m not alone in the criticism. There’s a [...]
Summer is over. A chill is in the air. Well… not really here in Houston. Here are the numbers to date.
You can read all the details in Variety.
I’ll be out in LA in a few weeks.
M A R K
By now the trailer has become one of the most watched in Apple history. James Cameron’s AVATAR is due to hit theaters in December 18th, 2009. About four months from now.
Just after the trailer came out, AVATAR DAY occurred — a limited run of a 15 minute version of the trailer in 3D IMAX.
in both [...]
Sunset from my office window.
Sternberg’s women. All of them.
My interview in Playboy.
Mr. Martin Scorsese.
Mozart’s Brandenberg concerto’s.
Collecting $200 for passing ‘Go.’
Roots. The book. Not that television horseshit.
Women on beaches.
– Mark Winslow
That’s a mouthful. It’s also, according to Total Film, “the worst line ever delivered in a mainstream Hollywood film.”
I don’t know about that. I’ve heard some doozies. Last weekend, we watched all 3 Matrix films on blu ray. They looked / sounded fantastic and the special effects hold up (they were great!).
Before The Matrix, [...]