Oct 6 2006"Alpha Dog" Trailer is Top Trailer
Emile Hirsch and Justin Timberlake show that "boys will be boys" when they deal drugs and kidnap a child in the trailer to Alpha Dog. Sharon Stone and Bruce Willis also star in Nick Cassavetes' drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, the youngest man to ever find his way to the FBI's most wanted list (not counting the short gangster in the Bugs Bunny cartoon, who was the youngest until it was realized he wasn't a baby after removal of the bonnet).
Alpha Fact: In the relationship of Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy, Doggy Daddy is the alpha dog.
Oct 6 2006Eragon One-Sheet: An Evaluation
The new poster for fantasy-epic Eragon has been released, and it has some good and bad points.
Pros: Replicates the original dragon painting on the cover of the novel, minus the creepy grin that identified the dragon as a sex offender.
Cons: No unicorns. :(
Oct 6 2006"Shut Up & Sing" Dixie Chicks Trailer
Natalie (the chubby little gremlin one), Emily (brown hair, horse face) and Martie (who?), better known as the pop-country trio Dixie Chicks, star in Shut Up & Sing, a documentary that traces the band's career following an incident in 2003 when Natalie stated "We're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas," failing to mention the other reasons they should be ashamed of him. Their country following had a strong reaction to the words, which you can see more of by watching the trailer. Unfortunately, the creation of this Dixie Chicks documentary has indefinitely stalled the Dixie Chicks sci-fi epic, Time Travelin' Dixie: Dixie'n Through History.
Oct 5 2006Official "300" Teaser Trailer Here
An official teaser trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 has gone online in a high quality format, finally allowing a real look at the gorgeous visuals in motion. The film is an adaptation of Frank Miller's epic graphic novel, telling the story of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartan warriors fought the odds against the enormous Persian army. On the Greek coolness meter, this already ranks way above boy-love and city-states but still below Zeus and falafel, sitting comfortably in the area formerly dominated by Uncle Jesse's hair.
Oct 5 2006"Ghost Rider" Trailer Burns During Urination
Attention, fans of skeletons, motorcycles, flames: your movie has arrived. With his latest comic book adaptation, Ghost Rider writer/director Mark Steven Johnson hopes to beat his last film, Daredevil, for the title of Worst Movie Since Daredevil. And judging from the trailer, adding bad effects and bad hairpieces to his solid mix of bad everything else may have just done it.
With a premise as solid as a stunt motorcyclist selling his soul to the devil, forcing him to become a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle and fight the devil's son with a length of chain, we may never know exactly how this one went wrong.
Oct 4 2006Final Saw III Trailer
Hey Saw-Heads, the final theatrical trailer for Saw III is now available online! Sadly, it's only the final trailer because they ran out of clever ways to write "III" with grotesque objects.
Oct 4 2006Who Almost Starred In That Movie? Find out!
While hunting desperately for a video that mixes Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Indian culture with the hectic pace of cocaine, I ran across a pretty interesting film site today. NotStarring.com is a film database of actors and movies that lists famous parts and the actors that almost played them. Did you know that Sammy Davis Jr. was wanted for the title role in Beetlejuice? Or that Tupac Shakur auditioned for Forrest Gump? How about that they're both alive?
Oct 4 2006For Your Consideration Trailer For Your Consideration
Christopher Guest, director of Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, has gathered his usual troops together for another largely improvised outing, this time ditching the mockumentary format, in For Your Consideration. Watch the trailer and you'll be thankful that Guest keeps choosing the same amazing cast (plus adding some, like Ricky Gervais) that keep delivering the laughs.
It's like if God wanted some more books of the Bible written, he's not going to some new guys to write it. He's going to get your classics: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John--all the good ones. I mean, they're clearly dead now, but defnitely if they were still alive. And assuming they do a decent job, they cover some new ground, fix the weaker commandments, he'd probably have them write another set after that, and maybe another one. If it's good, people will keep reading them. Not me personally, but probably some religious freaks. I'd probably pick up some bits from tombstones and those little signs in front of churches, and that should give me the gist of it. I will see For Your Consideration though.
Oct 4 2006Villainy Rumors
Both Live Free or Die Hard and The Bourne Ultimanum have already begun shooting, yet neither sequel has announced who will play the lead villain. However, some rumors have turned up. For the latest Die Hard, JewReview, the self-proclaimed entertainment website for the Chosen People, has declared that Jeffrey Wright will take the role of the antagonist. Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter claims an offer has been made for Gael Garcia Bernal to come on as Matt Damon's nemesis.
I think either actor would be great as a villain, particularly after their past atrocities have come to light. In case you haven't heard, before nabbing his big role in Y tu Mama Tambien, Bernal performed a variety of grotesque experiments on puppies, kitties, and baby penguins in the hopes of creating a "cuter chimera." None survived. And prior to playing Bennett Holiday in Syriana, Jeffrey Wright was Hitler.
Oct 3 2006Help Drastically Improve Transformers
Aren't you sick of movies communicating someone else's ideas into a coherent story? Don't you wish you could interject random dialogue you thought of without having any prior knowledge of how it would possibly fit in? Thanks to a new contest at Transformers.com, that wish is becoming an ill-conceived reality. Simply type in a line you want to hear Optimus Prime say in the form below, submit, and if yours is chosen you'll get to hear it spoken in Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie.
They're acting like they're judging this on "appropriateness" and "relevance," but I'm thinking if we all band together behind one line, they'll have to listen to our collective voice. And what is the line to funnel our support into? It should be something that really gets to the heart of the character. A line they may have left out that really communicates what Optimus Prime and the Transformers are all about. After a long period of deliberation, I've decided this is that line:
"I guess I'll transformer into a truck now."
(if the form below doesn't work, go here.)
Vote early, vote often, and spread the word.
Oct 3 2006Arthur and the Invisibles Trailer Now Visible
Arthur and the Invisibles takes the grossly overused plot of saving a family estate, spices it up with concepts borrowed from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and those little troll dolls (namely, shrinking kids and little trolls), and serves it to us as this crudely animated trailer. Smaller children will appreciate the film's blatant message that courage is measured by the size of your heart, not your height. Larger children will then show them how little heart size matters when being beaten mercilessly for dressing like a cute "Invisible" for Halloween.
Oct 3 2006Ghost Rider Poster Rides Into Our Hearts
REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF SONY
This new poster for Ghost Rider is good if only because it will provide a valuable artifact when future generations wonder why our civilization failed. Actually, that is the only good thing about it.
Oct 3 2006Deck the Halls with a Trailer of Laughter!
Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito are rich, white suburbanites competing for the most impressive Christmas light display in their town in the new trailer for Deck the Halls, this holiday season's big shitfest. I swear this same movie comes out every year with a slightly altered cast and a different cute name based on a Christmas song. So why do I end up loving each new incarnation more than the last? Oh, right, that serum I drink that makes me retarded.
Oct 2 2006Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause Trailer
The trailer should come with the clause "watching will be visual equivalent of Tim Allen and Martin Short hand feeding you their own shit," in which case it would deliver in spades. If you haven't watched the small Indian man dancing before watching this, you're grossly misusing your YouTube time.
Oct 2 2006Die Hard IV: Die Balder
I was going to just caption this as "First look at John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard," but doesn't "Don't touch Grandpa's medicine" work just as well?
P.S. If anyone is wondering why John McClane is now bald, it's because Bruce Willis is bald. Easy as that.
More looks at his baldness over here.
Oct 2 2006WarGames Getting Nerdier Sequel
It's refreshing to see that, despite all the hokey romantic comedies aimed at being date movies, there's still a movie willing to say, "just by considering buying this ticket, you will never, ever get laid." WarGames, the movie that made it sort of cool to be a hacker in the '80s (the accompanying obesity was still not cool), will have a sequel directed by Stuart Gillard according to Production Weekly:
Stuart Gillard has been tapped to helm the sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick film, "WarGames." Randall M. Badat has penned the next version entitled, "War Games 2: The Dead Game," scheduled to begin principal photography mid-November taking in locations around Montreal. The storyline follows a teenage hacker whose world gets turned upside after playing an online terrorist-attack simulator game against a government super-computer designed to profile potential terrorists. All hell breaks loose when Homeland Security is convinced that he's a terrorist intent on disrupting the fabric of society.
After the intense drama of United 93 and World Trade Center, it's nice to see a film willing to remind us of the inherent cool video game possibilities of terrorism.
