January 05, 2006
Fearless Involves Various Sticks
The official site for Fearless, a new Jet Li movie, has posted the teaser trailer for the film. For those looking forward to seeing Jet Li swing a stick: he totally does--and how! We're talking swinging a stick sideways, over his head, back-and-forth, and even swinging a stick with chains in between smaller stick segments. It's not in English, but when you see this man swinging a stick I'm sure you'll agree that stick swinging* transcends language.
*At one point he also swings a sword, which only transcends some languages.
Teaser Trailer [Official Site]
Previous Entries
Superman has sucky backgrounds
Man, they really need to up the budget for this movie. I think audiences might notice if the entire movie is filmed with a green background because the producers couldn't afford to film outside with real sky.
NOTE: If you can't sense my sarcasm then you need to stab yourself in the kidneys.
Ocean's Thirteen is coming
Variety reports that a third Ocean's Eleven film is in the works, after the producer received a script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien for Ocean's Thirteen. Ocean's Twelve had all sorts of problems with it and - judging by these writers' previous work - Ocean's Thirteen probably will too. The only way I can picture this movie not being a disaster is if the thirteenth guy they bring in is Chuck Norris, and the entire con consists of roundhouse kicking people in the face.
Next 'Ocean's' makes waves [Variety]
Pan's Labyrinth trailer
The trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth has been released, and it's creepy as hell. The film is in Spanish and is described by the director as: the story of a young girl that travels with her mother and adoptive father to a rural area up North in Spain, 1944. After Franco's victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Post-war Fascist repression is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
The description sounds a lot less scary than the trailer looks. Then again, maybe a man with an eye growing out of his hand isn't supposed to be scary.
John Glover is Skeletor
John Glover - the guy who plays Lex Luthor's father on Smallville - has apparently been cast to play the role of Skeletor in the upcoming big budget He-Man movie. As sweet as it is that they're making a He-Man movie, I'm not particularly excited about John Glover playing Skeletor, and I'm even less excited that John Woo is directing. John Woo is good for a particular kind of movie, but I really don't see He-Man being it. Maybe they'll write in some dual pistol fight scenes and flying white doves. That's pretty faithful to He-Man, right?
Ultraviolet images released
The official Milla Jovovich site has a ton of new pictures from her upcoming Ultraviolet. I don't know what to make of them, but it's hard to go wrong when you've got Milla Jovovich dressed in a black wig and red leather wielding dual machine guns and kicking all sorts of ass. Although she could probably do without the goofy sunglasses. Maybe in the future the sun is burning twice as bright, and people have to look twice as stupid to keep their eyes protected from the harmful UV radiation. Damn you nuclear fusion. Damn you to hell!
NOTE: Now that I think about it, the movie is called Ultraviolet. Maybe I'm even more insightful than I'd realized.
