Seems that Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles” is officially coming to the big screen again! (Now THAT, my friends, is a serious vampire series – none of that sparkle in the sun shiz!) And it is rumored that none other than Robert Downey Jr. is in talks to play Lestat (move over Tom Cruise…you’re about to be “remade”! HA!)!
I have to say though, I never quite recovered from Gary Oldman’s portrayal (Bram Stoker’s Dracula…obviously a different book/movie, completely riveting and why exactly haven’t I made a video for this movie yet!?!).
Can’t imagine what Ironman would be like, Oldman was plenty devastating, both are quite excellent actors…
They may as well start handing out the oxygen masks now…
So Orphan Is Pretty Much the Best Movie. Ever.: ”This is a movie that uses a black-lit aquarium as a plot device! And when you see what said black-lit aquarium reveals, the absolute batshit insanity of it all will make your head explode. Twice. And that’s just tip of the crazy iceberg.”
Legally Blundering: “I knew the moment I saw this, there would be trouble. Why? Because not only did it obviously not feature the original character (always a sign of bad things to come), but furthermore the words “An ABC Family premiere event” were emblazoned across the top of the ad.”
It’s gonna be a loooong wait though…but I think well worth it. Geez…who better than Tim Burton to bring this story TO LIFE! (I may never sleep again! *grin*) I mean, seriously…this is one hallucinogenic, drug fueled, fantasy trip. I’m not sure anyone BUT Tim Burton, with his very twisted sense of reality, could even begin to pull this one off! If the movie is as good as the trailer looks, then this will be an epic win for Burton. He just keeps getting better and better…
UPDATE:Now…if you had a movie that you wanted to generate interest in…say, something on the level of THIS ONE…wouldn’t you want all of the lovely FREE ADVERTISING that comes with viral marketing? I mean, say everyone loved your upcoming movie so much that they wanted to post it all over their own Youtube channels…you’d let them, wouldn’t you? I mean…if your head didn’t reside exactly inside your ass…maybe. But no. Disney is bent on world domination and total control and has severed all links to any Youtube uploads of “Tim Burton’s: Alice” and to that I say, I’M GIVING YOU FREE ADVERTISING ANYWAY!
I hope that the 13 people who frequent my blog will spend their hard earned $9.75 on your movie and enjoy it. I know I will…in spite of your anal compulsive ways. Forkin’ Disney. >:(
Friday night I took my youngest out to see “E.T.” – the movie that was being shown at our local “Movies Under the Stars”. We brought our own popcorn and soda…we even had Mike & Ikes! It was fabulous! even when it seriously threatened to rain on us (big, fat drops came pouring down on us about 20 minutes into the movie, but they subsided quickly and the sky cleared just over us). What a great night, especially since my youngest had never seen it on such a large screen.
The next movie is in a couple of weeks and it will be “Grease”. I like “Grease” for the most part but I have to say, I am rather disgusted that Sandra Dee comprised herself to become the slutty girl Danny always wished she would be. Changing everything about yourself just to please some stupid boy? Ick. Talk about low self-esteem. Danny was nothing but a walking hormone anyway…but what boy that age isn’t? Seriously, what boy isn’t at any age past 13? I digress.
Anyway…we had a wonderful time. There was something truly magical about sitting under the stars as the “moon” scene appeared. I kept wishing a little bit that our moon was as big as the one on the screen…but how freaky would that have been! O_o
See what I mean? She doesn’t need any “enhancements”. Stay away from the collagen Brittany!! You just don’t need it sweetie. ;) Though…she is looking a little alarmed by the group of 14 year old boys crowding in on her.
You know, my town is not a big town. It’s barely even a mid-sized town. So imagine my surprise when I head over to my favorite local restaurant to pick up lunch for me and several co-workers only to find a filming crew blocking the entire street and basically keeping me from my turkey bacon avocado croissant and caramelized onion bisque (sounds good no? mmmmm…it was!).
I drive up and notice ‘Hey! there’s a spot right out front! SWEET!’ then it changed to a ‘Wait a minute…ALL the spots are open…what’s going on…’ then I noticed the dude in kaki shorts and Hawaiian shirt sporting a lot of id tags and a stop sign waiving traffic to the side parking lot (about half a football field’s length away from the cafe – would have been SOOOO much nicer to park right out front *pout*). Ugh. I pull in and walk on over but as I approach the street where filming seems to be happening there is another very nice person with a lot of id tags, a clipboard, and headphones who stops me saying, “I’m sorry, we’re filming.” So I asked him, “Well, can I still get to my restaurant?” He let me through ’cause they hadn’t actually started yet.
I get to my cafe and they tell me, “Ya…it’s a Bridget Murphy film called ‘Something Wicked’.” I thought Bridget Murphy? Who the heck is that? Then someone from the back hollered “BRITTANY Murphy, geez.” So now, the title of the movie makes perfect sense, lol! though ‘Something Injected’ might make better sense. ;) (Okay…that wasn’t nice. I just don’t understand though, why a perfectly beautiful girl like Brittany Murphy has to “enhance” herself that way…don’t make no sense to me)
So anyway…I hobble outta there with two large sacks and an ice tea (juggling is an art) and just as I’m coming out I hear, “STAND BY!” They’re getting ready to role and fortunately, the camera is facing the other way- I’m in no danger of wandering into the shot. But I’m walking up the street and find that HEY! I’m watching a Hollywood film being made! And it’s kinda cool. “QUIET ON SET!” So I slow down a bit to watch them film. That’s when the 2nd guy with all the id tags and clipboard and headphones jumps out at me from nowhere and kinda scoots me to the side. He did make sure I still had a good view though. This was the scene:
Camera is set up in the middle of the street and is about three feet behind the tailgate of an old, dusty, beat up, red truck. There is some dude covered in faux-blood (looked like Robert Blanche; I *heart* IMDB, the knower of all movie-things!) laying in front of the camera on a platform. Director (Darin Scott) says, “Annnnnnd ACTION!” (Do they go to a special school and learn how to say that just right? Seems like they do.)
The truck peels out, dust flies, and bloody guy throws himself in a sideways, Captain Kirk kind of roll onto the ground where he just lays there. And twitches. He twitched a few times. It was very humorous. It looked the the second half of a scene where the bloody guy gets hit by the truck and we see him as he lays on the ground and twitches while the truck rushes off into the distance. ”CUT! We got it!”
And that was it. I came back and Googled “Something Wicked” and honestly…looks like a POS film but I’ll probably see it anyway since I saw one of the scenes filmed in front of me. Very cool!
P.S. I am determined to become a Hollywood actress in my old age…just like these gals.
(I did a quick fix on the cover just to see how bad it actually is. Ya…he really pissed someone off! LMAO!)
Uh…hmmm. There are just so many different things to say about this Photoshop job that I’m kind of at a loss as to where I start. Maybe I should just leave it up to the Fug -Girls who have it completely right…dude has become his own bobble-head (though I have to say, the “facial hair” is a nice touch). ;)
I wonder what he did to piss off both the photographer and the Photoshop artist (unless, indeed, they are one in the same which actually makes better sense). I’d be willing to bet money the shirt he wore into the shoot was originally white and later “enhanced” in post production. Seriously…I haven’t seen blue check like that since Dorothy’s dress in the Wizard of Oz! Or, you know, my grandmother’s kitchen (she actually alternated between red and blue check, not that doing so would make Efron’s picture any better, just a side note *wink*).
Perhaps it’s merely a statement about a possibly overblown ego running amok. Nah…what am I thinking? That NEVER happens in Hollywood. :D
Seems as though he equally pissed off the hairstylist too. What’s with the swirley-do? I mean…on a normal looking sized head he might look okay even if he’s over-reaching a bit for a James Dean kind of thing (pssst…someone is trying too hard!), but instead…
Coincidence? I think not!
Note to self: If ever I am invited to do a photo-shoot for any magazine she said as she was laughing hysterically – ya, THAT’LL happen LMAO!, bring coffee and donuts for EVERYONE on the set. And Mike & Ikes. Everyone loves Mike & Ikes. ;)
A remake to the 1984 Kevin Bacon-starring film, “Footloose”, has been set to be directed by Kenny Ortega, the helmer of Disney’s “High SchoolMusical” series. It is expected to start its principal photography in Atlanta sometime this spring with a budget over $20 million and a possible 2010 release.
Cinema-sacrilege! Say it isn’t so!! How can they do this to one of the most cheese-tastic movies of all the 80′s? I have to do something…I…don’t…I…gotta…CUT LOOSE! FOOTLOOSE! Kick off my Sunday shoes…Geez…Louise…I have a feeling that this will not end well.
Scroll down to “Listen Now”, click it – it’s a podcast from Lillywhite Sessions. It is a taste of the remade soundtrack for the new “Footloose” movie. The new version of “Footloose” starts at 2:42. My head exploded at 3:55, and frankly, I’m surprised I lasted that long.
Update 10AUG2010 – look at what I found…
(O_o Clearly this is a joke.)
I take it back…I’ve got plenty of words, lol. From this music it is to be assumed that Ren is a suicidal EMO timidly tip-toeing around campus as he seethingly whispers; “everybody cut! everybody cut!”
And “Dancing in the Sheets?” It’s great, except it might make you think you’ve ingested some kind of methamphetamine as you time-traveled back to the Beatles recording session of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
The only slightly luke warm spot is “Almost Paradise” and that’s not to say it’s even close to a passable remake. It’s so whinny…it’s like “Almost paradise but I decided to kill myself instead…please, please LOVE ME! I just need you to LOOOOOVE MEEEEE!” Far too desperate in all the wrong ways. I mean, if Ren was desperate it was because he was trapped not because he was melodramatic! He needed to get out of that stinkin’ small town but he couldn’t so then he had to save that stinkin’ small town and HE DID! And good for him.
If this soundtrack is a harbinger of things to come, then we can fully expect Ren to be nothing more than a stripped down version of Pete Wentz whose biggest ambition is to silently whine and moan about how badly he wants to do something about something but he’s just so depressed that he can’t figure it out so he’ll just go write about his feelings instead of taking it out on an abandoned warehouse like a real man does.
The only way this thing might (and that is a really big “might”) be salvaged would be if Kevin Bacon assumed the role of Reverend Shaw Moore (Bacon makes everything better, right? Maybe that’s just with food…though I have to admit, I think it’s true of movies too). :D Sadly, I have a sneaking suspicion that he won’t be going near this thing with 22 1/2′ pole.
Today, as you know, is Friday. It is also the 13th. In my house…Friday the 13th is code for MOVIE MADNESS & MIDNIGHT MILKSHAKES (aka MMMM13)! And we prefer cheese-a-rific Sci-Fi B-Flicks. *grin*
I take my girls to the store so they can pick out the ingredients for their special milkshakes…and when midnight rolls around…they are awakened by the sounds of the blender and the opening credits of a most excellent Sci-Fi B-Flick. Then we all stay up until about 2 am making fun of our movie and when it’s over, slink off to our respective beds to dream sugarplum visions of Mothra and the Luminous Fairies and how they helped Godzilla defeat the evil Monster X (ominous lookin’ devil, isn’t he!). A family holiday that is full of awesome!
For our last MMMM13 (last month), we watched the 1980 release of “Flash Gordon” – an absolutely cheese-tastic movie if ever there was one. My favorite scene was the ‘football fight scene‘ in which Flash shows everything he learned from The Capt. Kirk School of Hand-to-Hand Combat…and yet, he still manages to get kicked in the nutsack (not even Kirk had to endure THAT humiliation). Sad to say, but he is no match for the red and gold goon squad whom I mistook for the USC Trojans. Best part is when Dale turns into a cheerleader/aerobics instructor at 1:49, “Go Flash! GO!…Go Flash! GO!” She must have special powers in them flappin’ arms of hers because it wasn’t until then that Flash flipped into football mode and took down the entire goon squad in superb bowling-style action (a total contridiction in images, I know). This ain’t yer ordinary cheese…this is pure melted, two-foot stretchy, mozzarella cheesy goodness.
Look for some ornate, multi-colored Oompa Loompas at :54. They are positively pastelicious!! LOL!
And for as long as we’ve been celebrating MMMM13, it never until now occurred to me that the OBVIOUS movie match-up would be pretty much anything in the archives of Mystery Science Theater 3000. My girls have not a clue as to the delicious stupidity and hilarity coming their way tonight. I can’t wait! Here’s a little taste of tonight’s feature: ”Time Chasers” a la MST3000!
P.S. Yes…I am aware of the irony of MMMM13…the fact that waiting until midnight actually makes it Saturday the 14th. Oh well. ;)
