Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this article on digg. Short summary: Ridley Scott is making his first sci-fi movie since Blade Runner and Alien, based on the Joe Haldeman Book, The Forever War. This was the movie he was gonna make after Blade Runner, but something happened with the rights to the book and [...]
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Forever War.
17-Oct-08Movie Viewing, Lately.
12-Oct-08As you may know, there was a time when I watched about 10-12 movies a week. That time was my idle 20s.
Last few days though, I got pretty close to that kind of saturation. Here is what I watched:
#1)Iron Man. I never would have thought that Robert Downey Jr. could have carried this off as [...]
I think I watched this movie when I was in high school on channel 12, while I was fasting for a weigh in the night before a big race. I never got over how awesome it was.
RIP Paul Newman.
Australia, What Fresh Hell is This?
27-Aug-08
Revisted The Proposition on TIVO recently. Its an understatement to call this a brutal and harsh film. But it is mesmerizing.
The original score was done by Nick Cave(also wrote the screenplay) and Warren Ellis(of the Dirty Three). It perfectly sets the tone of the film.
The director, John Hillcoat, is currently adapting Cormac [...]
NINJAS!
04-Aug-08This one takes me back. A coworker pointed out that Hulu.com is now hosting movies. They have frickin ENTER THE NINJA up there. I watched that in my friend Johnny C’s basement in like 6th? maybe 7th grade? The VCR we watched it on had one of those spring loaded containers on top. The control [...]
Why does Riccardo Ricco, aka ‘The Cobra’ immediately make me think of Cobra Kai from the Karate Kid?
Sweep the leg, Johnny.
heh.