I ve mentioned Babylon A.D before, and the fact that I was worried about the quality of it. Mathieu Kassovitz is 50/50 as a director in anyone s book.
He broke in as a director with the fantastic La Haine then came Crimson Rivers which was a decent thriller, but for his US debut dropped the stinker that was Gothika . I m not sure how much you could blame him for how that film turned out as it reeked of a Halle Berry vanity piece but regardless it made me wary that he might have lost his directorial skill as soon as he left his home country (we call this The John Woo effect)
Anyways..
so Kassovitz has been working on Babylon AD a futuristic action thriller starring Vin Diesel that seems to have been filming forever (they re still going according to a fan page currently shooting on set in Prague), I chuckled before at the plot synopsis.. and i ll do it again.
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Combat veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.
heh. yeahhpp..
still funny.
So to the point of this article, some video has cropped up via a Vin Diesel Fansite that was supposedly shown to audiences in Cannes and it doesn t look terrible. I m still reserving judgement but i m happier after watching the footage than I was before I d seen it finger crossed it s more Children of Men than Robocop 3
Totally on purpose the designers of the new poster for the Jason Statham/ Jet Li flick War , have ripped off the poster for 1986 Hulk Hogan film No Holds Barred .
well maybe not, but i m gonna start propagating that rumour all around the interpipe. Talking it up in chat rooms. Whispering it in Second Life.
Emailing your mum about it.
If the Hulkster new about this you could bet there would be some beatings going down, he d stare out the graphic designer..
get in his face destroy him mentally then choke slam his ass.
The for War looked so bad I might dig out my old copy of No Holds Barred on VHS and watch the Hulkinator and Zeus take it to the mat one more time instead of going anywhere near the cinema when this is released.
Oscar s back, bringing the smack down to The Karate Kid .
. his Mum, a good friend of mine, sends me these portions of genius via email and with this one added He made me watch the end about 10 times
It was really good I mean it was brilliant. I didn t like the bit when the bully punched Daniel in the eye twice.
On the beach when the bully came on his motorbike and destroyed the radio with this wheel. The funny part was when Daniel said to the teacher Here are my buddies and the bullies didn t like that and they ran away! But when the bullies chased Daniel it made me cry because that was scary.
But Mr Miyadi arrived and helped the kid.
The part that is my favourite too is when Daniel does a special move and he wins and he kicks the bully s chin and he lands on the floor. It s a good movie because it teaches you to trick bullies because if they bully you you have to say Here are my buddies and you take them to a tournament and do a
Oscar doesn t let fear exist in his dojo.
. and that s a fact.
Although there s been a bucket load of spy photography from The Dark Knight set banded around, apart from Heath we ve yet to see any official photography from the film.
So this (above) image cropped up over at , in an article discussing the IMAX version of The Dark Knight and yes we ve seen the masks before, but the image much like the Ledger one just means that we re starting to see more from the film and hopefully come mid-summer we should see a trailer.. yay!
The is actually an interesting read if you have 5 minutes..
The director s sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, will become the first feature film to be partly shot in the IMAX format, an expensive and cumbersome process that typically is the province of documentaries and short films.
Nolan will shoot four action sequences — including the introduction of the Joker, played by Heath Ledger — on IMAX.
The move is one of Hollywood s most pronounced steps yet in its embrace of IMAX theaters, which are increasingly showing commercial fare on their giant screens.
There s simply nothing like seeing a movie that way, Nolan says.
It s more immersive for the audience. I wish I could shoot the entire thing this way.
While we re on the subject there s also odd image from russian site kino-govno but it looks a hell of a lot like a photoshop job to me.
People of the UK don t be fooled Paradise Lost (released this past weekend) is really a film called Turistas .
16% on . Need I say more? OK.
. I ve seen it and 16% is generous.
Here s me getting all excited when I saw the poster in the cinema foyer thinking it was early promo art for the John Milton adaptation (was at one point rumoured to star Christian Bale, now speculation suggest Craig and Ledger are both up for ) even though it hasn t even started filming yet well a boy can dream can t he?
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