Odds & Ends
Sunday, December 24, 2006
The Daily Grind
The trailer for the Tarantino / Rodriguez collaboration Grindhouse can be found here, or at a much lower quality on the embeded link below. I suspect the trailer is more fun than the movie will be, but then I said that about Kill Bill. I like the irony of them advertising two movies for the price of one after Kill Bill gave use one movie for the price of two. Perhaps it's their way of clueing us in that the movie will be overlong. Labels: trailers Posted by Stephen Rowley @ 24.12.06 - 0 comments  
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Die Hungry
I believe the original Die Hard is one of the all-time classic bits of action cinema, but have no high hopes for the fourth film in the franchise, because, well, I have an ounce of common sense. It's going to suck like the vacuum of space. Beyond that, all I will say is: a) "Internet Terrorists" = Lame. Alan Rickman's gloriously Eurotrashy Hans Gruber would have hung their nerdy hides out to dry. b) It's a shame John McTiernan's not doing it. Even Die Hard with a Vengeance was pretty good until the script finally fell apart completely in the last third. c) This is only notionally a Die Hard film. Bruce Willis could be anybody: he's John McClane only because the Die Hard brand has more name recognition than any of his other franchises. If Striking Distance was his biggest hit, this would be Striking Distance 2: Strike Further. At least Renny Harlin's first sequel was recognisably a partner for the first film, with the same characters and some continuity of premise. d) Live Free or Die Hard may be the worst title since, well, Die Hard 2: Die Harder. So, the trailer that prompted these thoughts: And, with a nod to Jaime J. Weinman, Ben Stiller's take from The Ben Stiller Show, nearly 15 years ago. Labels: humour Posted by Stephen Rowley @ 21.12.06 - 0 comments
Saturday, December 09, 2006
The Monkey Remark
What's the best ever bit of editing? Eisenstein's Odessa Steps in Potemkin? Robert Wise's work on Citizen Kane? Or is it, just possibly, the following clip that is currently spreading on the net? (Before you go to the clip - it relates to Michael Richard's racist outburst the other day, so beware of potentially offensive language / comments, and comedy that jumps off from what a racist mongrel he proved himself.) One thing that always fascinates me about people when they get pulled up for making racist comments: they always apologise for saying something stupid. Nobody ever picks them up on the fact that if they've been stupid enough to reveal their deep seated racial hatred, its the latter that's the real problem, not their stupidity for revealing it. Labels: humour Posted by Stephen Rowley @ 9.12.06 - 0 comments
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