So, Peter Jackson has been given a 7 figure advance to produce the movie debut of the massively popular Xbox game. No word on who will direct it, whether it be Jackson or the other lucky man to be offered a advance for producing, Fran Walsh. I'm not sure if the issue here will be ' Will this movie suck?'. Peter Jackson has shown that he has a falre for making a good movie. I'm not touting up LotR, though most fans would agree that it was a great set of movies when compared to the books. J...
I had heard that there was a Final Fantasy movie hitting the streets that took up the story of our favorite heroes from Final Fantasy VII. Well, all ecpect that one dead girl anyway. The point is, after a long silene, FF VII, still a benchmark in videogame amazement, was coming back in style. There are, also I might add, a couple of games that are also coming out that revisit parts of the FFVII mythos, one in particular, Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerebus. This first person type perspective ...
What can I say that hasn't been said a million times over the time since Batman Begins came to the big screen until now? Nothing. There is nothing to say. I was a little scepticle about the re-invention of the whole series. After all, wasn't the original Batman good? Didn't it give us all hope that there would be a good future for comic book movies until they disappointed us with Batman Forever? The success of BB has aleady lead to the signing of the cast for another movie and I assume the...
Well, it seems that someone decided to release a new version of one of my favorite trilogies in five parts. Yes, last week, nation wide, HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released to the masses. I was so excited, I read through all five books like I would before any major movie production that spawned from a book. Just wait for November when I re-read all five Harry Potter books. To say that I enjoyed the movie would not be a lie. For what it was, another hollywood glossover, it was ...
YOu have probably hear, through amazingly great sources and people that can be trusted to give you the low down on the latest entertainment news and they are reliable. Of course they are. I talk to hundreds of people a day that are 'experts' at everything on the geek side. From various opinions on how the next Star Wars movie is goign to be, scene by scene, to people telling me exactly where the flaws in Windows Longhorn will be, I have to sit back and sift through the hundreds of pounds of c...
okay, Doom, everyone's favorite resource hog for the PC has been optioned for a movie. Not only that, but the script is in final working stages. For some reason, it doesn't involve Mars, Hell, or things that connect the two. I think this is a horrible idea, and once again brings into question the intelligence of the people tha make moves. But that is my opinion. Please, discuss.
a new year is upon us in movie land and that brings a host of bad, good, and all the rest as far as movies go. Whetehr it is a movie that is given a award before it has hit the theater (The Aviator), or another Marvel spinoff fight fest (Elecktra), there is something for everyone this year. Elecktra : Let's start here, shall we? A spinoff from the worst grossing Marvel comic adaption to date, Elecktra is the tale of a woman that has mystical powers and fights some bad guys. When script ap...
I think it all started back during Episode I. Yeah, you all know what I am talking about. The excitment and the hype had built up over the year.." OMG, a new, brand new Star Wars Film!" The excitment in the air was too much. Like many people, I wasn't born to see the first one in the theaters and the other two I was too young to remember. Even the re-screening of the 'mediocre' Special Edition was fine, but the additions were not really worth the cash that was raked in. I personally loved...
Sam Raimi has decided we all need to take a look back at a simpler time. A time before the Power Rangers and Spiderman made him a super star. I'm talking about when a little-known director and a little known B-actor named Bruce Campbell filmed a cult classic called The Evil Dead. the premise of the movie surrounded a cabin and the book of the dead, the Necronomicon. Bruce loses some people, death ensues, and it spawned two sequels that went on to be even large cult classics. So, now, w...
First off, check out this link : http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16285 The second... Robert Englund has just finished wrapping up a update of the old series V, and then moves onto...you guessed it. Freddie Vs Jason 2. And, according to scripting, our beloved Ash as actually been introduced into the scene, ready to kick some ass. Posted on the same page, and this is the kicker....Evil Dead 4 is said to be shot after! Check the link: http://www.creature-corner.com/?type=ne...
A long time ago, George A. Romero made three movies about what might happen when a meteroite hit the earth. These three classis movies were Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. These movies are classics in my own mind and in the minds of various other movie buffs. With the re-interest in movies that include Zombies, these including 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, the Remake of Dawn of the Dead, and the cult film Shaun of the Dead, Romero has decided to make the ...
Long befor ethe Blair Witch Project made its way into theaters with the novel idea of claiming that the movie was real, there was the Texas Chainsaw Massacure. This is the story of a group of teenages that made the wrong move of hanging out in the wrong place. In the new movie, the mistake was picking up a hitch hiker that narrowly escaped from a crazy family. We are all familiar with Leatherface, the villian of this movie. It is interesting to note that the myht of what happened in Texas...
One of the things that I miss about living in a big city is not the noise, or the people, or anything like that. It is the ability to go see a movie when it opens in the theaters. The theaters in my new town leave something to be desired. For instance, the local theater here just got Hero and THe Princess Diaries 2. The second week I got here, Alien Vs. Preditor was here. So, any chance of seeing Resident Evil: Apocolypse on opening night was dead in the water. I had planned to see it wit...
I still remember the night I was introduced to a little budget indoe film by a then unknown director named Kevin Smith. Clerks was the reason I wanted to get into the writing or movie industry. There was a movie that showed that there is a attraction of audience to that kind of humor. I mean, the writing alone was amazing and top notch. Hot on the statement that ViewAskew (Kevin's production company) might not make it through the year, it is disappointing to know that all the man's wor...
Before I go into what would be a rant about movies, I would just like to state my position on movies in general: I love movies. All movies. I have watched some of the worst dreck imaginable, but did it again and again. Why? Maybe it is the fact that it is easy to get lost in the visual representation of someone's imagination. Hell, I OWN the DVD copy of Masters of the Universe, what does that tell you besides the fact I might have questionable taste? I reported earlier, there were talks wi...