DvD: Case Designated Cloverfield

Well, I got my first look at the Cloverfield DVD last night. I enjoyed it very much. So, if you’re apprehensive about buying it, here’s a small guide to what you’ll be purchasing.

1. While nauseating in theatres, it is very watchable on the home television.
2. You get 3 alt. endings, which aren’t much..they really suck. But they are interesting.
3. Bloopers. Pretty much the funniest thing ever.
4. Deleted scenes. A bit more of the funniest thing ever.
5. A look into the making of the monster

That’s all really. Nope, no big thing that tells all the answers, but there is a directors commentary which I will watch when I get the DVD myself, which may give some clue as to the answers.

Worth your money? Well, I think $25 for a DVD is ridiculous. But there are places where it’s only $20. For the hype, I don’t think the Special Features are good enough.  You may want to wait for the price to go down a little or wait a few months for the Special Edition DVD (if one exists, but most big movies do that to generate more hype).

Metal Meets Alloy + new Indy Trailer

Ok, well I was kind of putting off this post because I wasn’t sure how to expression my opinion in words.

Ironman was all in all a great film. The character was superbly written. Cocky and condescending. Its cleverly written and very anti-war pro-peace, portrayed with violence and science. I don’t want to go in and explain the plot because I’m likely to go spoiler nuts and make you read a huge block of text. So here is my Pro Con list for the movie, starting with con.

Con:

1. The pacing sucked. It just kind of went everywhere all at once and it annoyed me. It settled out fine in the end, but the beginning just drove me nuts.
2. It was portrayed in all the trailers as a BOOM EXPLODE IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOM type of movie, and i wanted to see IRONMAN MAKE BOOOOOM!  There were some explosions, but it was advertised as a kind of free-for-all explosion frenzy where Ironman was like “Hulk go smash!” Except he isn’t the Hulk. But he still would go smash. It’s good that they focused mainly on the plot, but it didn’t seem to have a good balance of both.

Pro:

1. Amazing dialog, acting, graphics, and camera angles. I was stunned.
2. The music score was intense. Brain pounding metal, heck yes!
3. The overall story line was very good. It seemed like I’ve seen it ten thousand times before, but it was originalized enough for it not to matter.

So, it’s super awesome. It should totally been seen in the theaters, especially one with surround sound and HD screens.

In other news, tagged onto the Ironman movie was a new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In this trailer, Indy himself gives a voice over explaining the Crystal Skulls. Then we get a better sense of the plot when his new nemesis, (A soviet! AHA!) has captured him and commands him to bring her the skull.

So, it seems that most of my predictions were correct so far. I called the Soviet thing 3 years ago. And that someone would want something of great importance and try to get Indy’s help. Of course, we all know Jones isn’t going to help the Russians. I personally think that once he refuses to help them, they decide to go on their own, sing a more brutal force than he would have, thus causing him to go after them and get the skull before they do to stop them.

The Movie of the Month is coming later this week!

New Indy Trailer on Ironman and McKellen

First of all, I just found out that there’s a new Indiana Jones preview before Ironman. After some serious freaking out, I discovered this : http://www.theraider.net/news/fullstory_indy4.php?id=745

Thanks Raiders ;D

In other news, Mckellen is officially Gandalf. We all knew this already, but they still felt the need to report on it. And a major mistake on their part : Empire magazine’s Web site quoted McKellen as saying that director Guillermo del Toro told him he would again be playing the white-haired wizard. Correction, Yahoo Movies, Gandalf is Gandalf the Gray in The Hobbit, seeing as it proceeds the LotR trilogy. Nice try. But hurray for Ia McKellen! The original gay wizard!

Better Late than Never Movie of the Month

I know it’s almost the END of the month, but I really like this idea and there is still enough time for anyone reading to follow through with it if they wish to.

What I’d like to do is propose a “Movie of the Month” where you guys just set aside some time to settle down from the hustle and bustle of every day life and just watch a good movie. And it doesn’t have to be just my silly little ideas. Feel free to post yours as well.

In honor of Spike TV’s Star Wars Marathon, this month’s movie is Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope.

Why you should watch:

• It’s the first movie in an AMAZING series made by an AMAZING man.
• It takes place a long long time ago, for all of you history buffs. (And in a galaxy far far away , for all of you astronomy buffs).
• Battle sequences for the men
• Han Solo for the women
• Amazing technology
• Just a plain great story and enjoyably movie

Reasons not to watch:

• Your father was killed by Palpatine’s apprentice
• You lack the ability to enjoy good movies
• You are of the Hut family
• You hate those darn rebels!

Well, that’s all for now. If you can, you should get to the theatres to see The Forbidden Kingdom. Juno is also a good movie and is out on DVD, and Cloverfield is out next week.

Forbbiden Kingdom

Well, any movie with the words “Starring Jackie Chan and Bruce Li” automatically makes me scoff. My friends called it “historical”. That it might be. I don’t really know. But I greatly enjoyed it. Spoilers from here on out. BEWARE.

The movie starts with the acknowledgment of the same 20 companies and people. It was ridiculous. But the effects and scenery were stunning. Then you have what looks like a blond Jet Li. I could hardly contain my laughter. He has a golden staff and fights of soldiers in jade. Turns out, that was all a dream in the head of some weird guy in the middle of the New York ghetto. He’s a loser who spends all day watching kung fu movies. He’s friends with a bootleg movie store owner who is really old and looks like Jackie Chan. Oh wait. It is Jackie Chan. Fooled my boyfriend though. The kid finds the golden staff in his dream in the back of the shop. Any ways, some dumb stuff happens and the kid gets beat up and forced to help some ‘gangstas’ break into the old man’s shop to rob it. It ends badly, as the old store keeper is shot. The gangstas chase the kid , who picked up the staff and they end up on the roof and the kid falls. He wakes up in Imperial China. Now I half gagged as I thought “Oh great. It’s “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court.” But as bad as it sounds, it actually progressed very well. Jackie Chan appears yet again , as a drunken kung fu master. He saves the kid’s butt and tells him the story of the staff and the Monkey King. As expected, the drunken master takes him somewhere to eat, and drink. Then there’s a classic bar brawl. A mysterious girl named Sparrow who throws dart things and plays instrument follows them. She has a pretty sad story. The guy who basically rules China had her parents killed and only she survived. Then they meet Jet Li, who is a monk. Together, they are a big happy family out for vengeance and fighting for the forces of good. All while training the dopey white guy. Meanwhile, the “White Witch” is summoned. No, not the one from Narnia, but pretty close. She goes around whipping people. “Kinky”. Yeah yeah yeah. She wants immortality, Jackie Chan gets hurt in a fight and is going to die, the kid goes off to fight the white witch for the immortality drink to save Jackie. He gets pwned. But Jet Li, Sparrow, and the little Monks from a place they were hanging out at came to save the day. In the end, the staff is returned to the Monkey King dude, whom, *gasp* Jet Li was just a clone of. And Jackie gets his immortality drink. Sparrow gets killed (aww D; ) and the kid gets sent back to his own world where he kicks some butt and *gasp* the old Jackie Chan guy lived, and he’s really Jackie Chan from the Imperial China world.

I was annoyed by a few things. The kid was lame. Sparrow seemed pointless, though she was sweet. And the Witch had this theme music..it was like the Ironman theme from the Ironman commercials. Some random guitar stuff. The way it was advertised made no mention of the white kid. And it was incredibly Ironic. When I first saw Chan’s elderly character, I knew he had some relation to the drunkard in the commercials. And the resemblance between Li and the Monkey man immediately tipped me off that they were the same. It was way too predictable.

i did love the music, the atmosphere, the story, and of course, the fighting. Oh, the fights were heavenly. Alone, they were worth the price of admission. The soundtrack was gorgeous. The costumes were amazing. The visual effects were realistic and stunning. It was comical and serious all at once. I highly suggest seeing it whenever you get the chance. You’re sure to enjoy it ;D

Coming soon: Ironman, Speed Racer, and Indy 4

What time is it!? Time to stop.

Oh gosh. ANOTHER High School Musical movie. Are you kidding me? This is one of the worst fads to pollute America’s youth.

“oh, but the songs are so catchy and it’s full of positive themes!”

No. The songs are annoying and loud and what positive themes? You’re showing little kids this made up fantasy world where life is perfect and everyone’s happy and everyone is a white blonde cheerleader with a basketball star boyfriend. It’s exactally what youth DOESN’T need. Forcing these ideas and labels onto youth. Life is not like that. Especially not highschool life. It might be just a movie, but kids are taking it way to seriously.  What about the academic standpoint of highschool? It’s not just a place of fun and games. It’s a real job. And continuing this is only making it worse.

Besides that, they are just crappy movies with bad singing. Their cast is a bunch of sluts. Its just horrible. what some real TV. Watch the History Channel.

Welcome back, Sir Ian? New Indy picture

News has it that Sir Ian  McKellen  wants to return as Gandalf for The Hobbit.

HECK YES!

Honestly, how can this movie not be awesome? Book by Tolkien. Produced by Jackson. Directed by Del Toro. I think we’ve got another blockbuster on our hands.  But changing actors has really bad effects anyways. I really doubt that those two would make a mistake as to suddenly changed Gandalf. They should really use the man that played Bilbo to make a comeback also.

Also:

This seems to be from the part after the trailer when Indiana is roughly thrown out of a car and out into the dirt just before the chase scene in the giant store room of artifacts. Here we see him behind his new Russian nemesis. Is she taking him here to find something specific? Perhaps, the crystal skull? All we can tell is that it doesn’t go well, from the violent fight scene depicted in the trailer.

I am Legend DVD release; Cloverfield DVD anticipation; sequel

I am Legend is being released. Or is released. Idk. But there was an alternate ending I’d like to discuss.

Apparently, Neville and the creatures are in the lab, and instead of them killing him, he gives them the female he was working on and they leave him alone and let him escape with the other 2. That is a pretty crappy ending in my opinion. It doesn’t have any of the emotion that the one they kept does. It’s more dramatic to have your main character die off.

That’s all for that. I liked the movie. I don’t care to get the DVD though.

On to Cloverfield, which will be released on April 22. There’s a commentary by Matt Reeves, which will be awesome. we can finally get into the mind of the director and what he was thinking as the movie went on. There’s also something suspicious named “Case Designated: Cloverfield”. It is 50 minutes long. I think it might be where we get our glimpse of the aftermath. Here’s hoping. Easter Eggs (like the forums haven’t already torn through them all by now. Aha) A documentary on the making of it, heck yes! The visual effects, heck yes again! Those were absolutely STUNNING. Also something titles “I saw it! It’s alive! It’s huge!” which..might be interviews with the actors. Not sure.. Cloverfield fun, I smell Slusho. Deleted scenes, always interesting, as well as an alternate ending. I’m totally excited.

Matt is directing the sequel and Abrams is producing. It has characters no one expects to survive, apparently. I smell either the main characters, Hud, Marlena (ouch), the main dude’s brother, or..*dundun* the monster? And it probably won’t be handheld.

Superhero Movie…oh great.

ANOTHER ONE? When will these guys give up!? These films or so freaking terrible, the only funny thing about them is how terrible they are! Ok, so the first 3 Scary Movies were funny. Now they’re just taking random movies and changing them up a bit and getting a 12 year old boy to fill it with fart and sex jokes. They’re just movies to make middle school.elementary school students think they’re seeing a ‘big people’ comedy. And look at the last line of the Yahoo! Movie’s synopsis: More importantly, will we stop laughing long enough to notice? Wow. It’s pretty sad when you have to TELL people you are a funny movie instead of letting them notice it for themselves, oh but wait a minute, the only people who actually enjoy these movies are , like I said, stupid little kids and the average moronic dumbass. It has like, half the cast of Scary movie and Pamela Anderson. If that didn’t spell BAD MOVIE automatically, then you could just look at the cheesy poster with the Wolverine spoof roasting marshmallows on his claws with the Fantastic Four FLAME ON guy’s fire, the fact that Pamela Anderson is popping out of her suit, or the Storm spoof zapping the crotch of some randomly pleased looking gentleman.

Hasn’t the film industry had enough garbage already?

Crystal Skull Updates (New Poster talk)

A new poster was recently released! It has a rather haunting, mayaistic colour scheme, not unlike the previous poster. This also includes a heavy use of foliage, which it was rumored to have jungle scenes, along with a snake, Jones’ ‘favourite’ animal ;3 . We also have his new arch nemesis, an unnamed Russian soviet, and Shia LeBouf as Mutt, the new comical side kick. We also Sallah’s replacement and a return of Indy’s past love interest, Marion Ravenwood. Probably the most interesting thing is the detailed, slightly frightening, depiction of the crystal skull. Below it shows natives chasing Jones, a scene quite common in every film.

Be on the look out at your local movie theater!