Finally saw The Avengerss on Blu Ray, it was a great movie!!!

We bought it and haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I'm certainly looking forward to it.

I hate to be stupid, but why buy a movie you've not seen yet?

Because I don't live alone, and even if I end up not loving it, my girls have seen it and they did.

Well, Ok dookey then.

Johnny Depp in make-up?

You don't say!

You mean Depp is Tonto? Oh man, I thought he was gonna be the Lone Ranger. I'll tell ya, I like Depp and think he's a good actor but yea, does he always have to choose roles in which he can have make-up on? I beginning to think he enjoys it.



Btw, RR where have you been? Did you give up politics?

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Nope, I just don't want to be Andrew Breibart Part 2.

Remember when Jennifer Lopez, asides from an insanely successful recording career, was also a popular movie actress? Now she's slumming apparently in Jason Statham movies. That's so...hilarious. Sorry, never cared much for J-Lo so I can't say I feel bad for her downfall. (Of course OUT OF SIGHT was awesome, we must give her that.) Directed by Taylor Hackford.

Why does Hollywood have a hard time with Richard Stark/Donald Westlake books? I mean Parker's appeal is that he's a ruthless, resourceful son of a bitch who'll prevail over the other hoods who (usually) screw him out of his owed loot. He doesn't have a code of honor, he's amoral and that's why we love him.

OMG, I should hope not.



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Teaser trailer for the new DIE HARD movie is now online.

(5th DIE HARD movie produced in 4 decades. Incredible. Thank You Jesus.)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews...medium=referral

Too bad it won't be R-rated. Oh how I miss thee magic words...

i have to ask. why is action movies rated PG-13 now? i mean even some upon release on dvd/blu ray end up being unrated.

I had no idea they were making another Die Hard movie. The original is one of my favorites, tho I've seen them all. Don't know if I'll go to the movies to see this but I do like John McClain character. Yippee Ki Ya




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The suits would tell you because they don't want to lose those teenage ticket buyers. Which is silly because I remember growing up with big budget R-rated movies making fortunes and nobody batting an eye at the rating.

The only non-comedy R-rated genre movies out recently was the forgettable PROMETHEUS and the terrific shoot-em-up DREDD, and both considered financial disapointments* are being blamed on the rating.

Of course I could easily say that PROMETHEUS' problem was it wasn't that good and bad WOM killed it, and that DREDD's problem was nobody in America knew of Judge Dredd (a British comic strip character), and if they did, they knew that shitty Sylvester Stallone movie.

I think what makes that fear of the R rating even worse is the dearth in modest budget movies. Anymore Hollywood is only willing to fund expensive blockbusters (which have to broad and universal in their appeal) that sell lunchboxes and only make a profit apparently if they gross a billion bucks. Or micro-budget independent movies that which quite frankly studios lose nothing in backing them. (MAGIC MIKE cost $5 million.)

*=How a movie grossing $400 million is a disapointment, I can't understand but that's Hollywood accounting for you.

If the current box-office trackings continue, TAKEN 2 could very well make $50 million this weekend. I wondered if there would be a dropoff because of the bad reviews its getting, but this seems to be a "critic-proof" movie. Sorta like the late 80s when Stallone/Seagal/Schwarznegger and all that bunch had action movies that made money despite the critics usually not caring for them (yet the masses don't care, they want what they want.)

Good grief.

CGI 'Peanuts' movie coming in '15 from ICE AGE filmmakers

http://www.avclub.com/articles/charles-s....the-most,86465/

So in this new movie done as the usual CGI toons today, Snoopy will have adorable fart jokes, Charlie Brown references President Romney, but hopefully Lucy will still be a total bitch.

Meanwhile, Bill Watterson will feel smug for know what he was doing in not selling away the 'Calvin & Hobbes' rights.

That new Denzel Washington Movie, "Flight" looks pretty good. Just saw previews.




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This Tippi Hedren interview conducted by Andrew Goldman about Hedren's run-ins with Alfred Hitchcock and the film which depicts them has caused some stir in the twitterverse. A female author (Jennifer Weiner) accused Goldman of being a sexist for asking Hedren if she had ever considered sleeping her way to the top. Goldman responded that perhaps Weiner wished she could have had the opportunity to consider it. And then it was on ...

If religion is the opiate of the masses then bad action movies are heroin.

Last night's episodes of Modern Family were outstanding.

Modern Family has just started its new series here!

Brilliant stuff.

Did anybody catch the debut of ARROW on CW this week? The new series based off the DC superhero archer Green Arrow*, the pilot was actually quite decent.

Told in a BATMAN BEGINS-esque down to Earth set-up, which is appropriate considering GA started out as a shallow Batman knock-off. I do enjoy how in fantasy we can easily accept as flight of fancy a playboy marooned on an island for 5 years would in that time train himself to not just be a master archer, but also a total badass fighting machine who goes all Punisher on the local hoods when he returns home.

So yes its an EQUALIZER, LEVERAGE sort of vigilante, sticking it to the man fantasy. There's alot of characters and avenues to which to explore for episodes to come (at least based off my memory of the character from the comics.)

*=Why not just call this program GREEN ARROW then instead of just ARROW? Is DC/CW afraid people will confuse this for a Martian porno?

I had already seen the first series but Sky Atlantic are now showing all 5 series in a row. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. Very good. Ticks all the main boxes for me...football and pretty ladies

Saw FRANKENWEENIE today. I've been soured on Tim Burton in recent years, but this was pretty good. A funny, moving kids movie without fart jokes or forced pop culture references, and the movie is in Black & White.

No fart jokes????

"Alex Cross" is an interesting exercise in back-engineering, a prequel that takes us back to the days before the psychologist-police profiler was the sage, solemn and inscrutable sleuth created for the screen by Morgan Freeman over a decade ago.

This Cross is cocky, a bit trigger-happy and prone to revenge -- and this Cross is played by Tyler Perry.

He's also less interesting. When you fill in a character's back story, you strip away some of his mystique. When you focus on the flippant in a film about a frantic hunt for a psychopathic assassin, you diminish the urgency of the hunt and remove the gravitas of the character.

And when you make Tyler Perry run and point a gun, you remember why nobody's ever used him as an action figure before.
Alex Cross

^^^^^^^^
Tyler Perry is terribly miscast when playing anyone other than a 6 foot 5 southern black woman.

Theo Kojak was the coolest tv cop ever.

Random thing to say, but this is random post whoring .