Archive for marzo, 2006
 Today on the 2006 Podcast of the Year "The Audio Edition" Doug and I discuss the stupidity of the Brokeback Moutain Author, the new HILARIOUS trailer for The Moglus, Peter Jacksons pre-recorded acceptance speech for The Empire Awards, some Ghost Rider trailer news, Welcome Back Kotter being re-made into a movie, Uncle Ben coming back in Spider-Man 3, an alternate idea for the origins of Venom in Spider-Man 3, the Alpha Dog trailer and a few things more.
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 This issue just isn't going away. The conspiracy theorists about Crash winning the Best Picture Oscar over Brokeback Mountain just keep poking their ignorant little heads up to keep stirring the pot. This time it's Annie Proulx, the author of the Brokeback Mountain Story.
The good folks over at M&C are reporting that Proulx did an interview with Guardian where she spouted off some of the stupidest, self pitying, ignorant garbage I've heard. Basically she was crying over the loss of Brokeback Mountain to "Crash". And she repeatedly referred to "Crash" as "Trash". What a pathetic pouty little bitch. Here's a snippet of the cry fest... ummm... I mean "interview": 'We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture,' Proulx wrote.
'And rumor has it that (Lionsgate) inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of `Trash` -- excuse me -- `Crash` a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves and the debate over free silver.' Oh that's right you moron. You're right on the money! Hollywood is being run by nothing but conservative heffalumps.
I guess that's why they nominated Brokeback for Best Picture (A nomination I still say they didn't deserve).
I guess that's why they gave the Best Director award to it's director.
I guess that's why they nominated 3 of it's actors.
I guess that's why an actor portraying a gay character won Best Actor
I guess that's why an actress portraying a trans-gender character was nominated for Best Actress.
Yup, that's right Proulx... you really nailed it... Hollywood is sooo damn conservative. That must be why Brokeback Mountain lost to a better film. This "lady" redefines the term "poor sport". Somebody shove an apple in the mouth of this pig and shut her up. And will someone tell this lady that it's ok to disagree with the academy (I do all the time) but to bring it in the mud and to be so disrespectful of not only the industry you were just trying to win an award from, but also to your colleagues (the makers of Crash) is just unacceptable.
Isn't it ironic that a woman who writes a story that she says was partially intended to promote tolerance, then comes out with statements like this? What a hypocrite.
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 STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND WATCH THIS TRAILER!!!! The Moguls trailer has hit the web... and aside from Superman Returns, it is now the movie I am MOST looking forward to seeing! This trailer is HILARIOUS!
Here's a quick summary of The Moguls from the good folks over at dTheatre: Jeff Bridges, Tim Blake Nelson (Oh Brother), Joe Pantoliano (Sopranos), Ted Danson (Cheers), and Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) lead an all-star cast in a flick about a group of small-townspeople that decide to make a porno together to get rich and or make it big. There were no "fall on the floor" funny moments in The Moguls trailer, but just the whole feel of it had me wearing a grin the entire time. I can not wait for this film! Jeff Bridges is a god!!!!
To see The Moguls trailer you can just go here.
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 Recently, King Kong won the Empire Awards for Best Picture. In one of the best pre-recorded acceptance speeches off all time, Peter Jackson talked about some of the "problems" with the production of the film... and the fact that he'd rather have another Oscar. Seriously... it wasn't disrespectful at all... it was just really funny.
Then, Jackson included a whole bunch of King Kong outtakes. MAN THERE IS A LOT of creative swearing in it! I almost spit up my water a couple of times I was laughing so damn hard. You really have to see this.
You can see the King Kong outtakes and Peter Jackson's acceptance speech here. (via)
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 Oh my goodness. It looks like Kevin Costner And Ashton Kutcher are teaming up for a film about the US Coast Guard. And Ashton Kutcher's decent in to Hollywood obscurity continues!
According to the good folks at Yahoo Movie News, the project looks something like this: Costner's character in the film teaches Coast Guard rescue swimmers, including Kutcher, who plays a cocky swim champion training to become a rescue swimmer. Oh good grief... haven't seen this before 1000 times. But oh well... it's a paying gig I suppose. Haha... remember when just a year ago some people were saying Kutcher was going to be the next "Big Thing"? Funny what flop after flop after flop will do to the ol' career huh?
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 Any serious action film fan knows the John Woo classic Hard Boiled all too well. It has been suggested that it could very well be the greatest action film of all time. Today it looks like actin fans have a reason to celebrate! According to Movie Blog Allumnist Todd (who now runs the fantastic TwitchFilm) is reporting that a North American version is planned, and to once again star Chow Yun Fat.
Here's what Todd had to say: It appears as though Chow Yun Fat has finally struck upon a sure fire method of repeating his massive Hong Kong success in North America: by repeating his biggest role. Word in Hong Kong's Apple Daily is that Chow Yun Fat will be starring alongside an American actor in a remake of Hard Boiled, arguably one of the best action films ever made. Now, I normally don't like the idea of Asian films being "remade" into english... but for some reason I think this particular project would be suitable for the transition. What do you guys think?
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 Big new for all you folks anxiously awaiting the new Nic Cage film "Ghost Rider". It's being reported all over the web today that the first official Ghost Rider trailer will be playing in May in front of the new X-Men 3! That's pretty good screen real estate to be playing in front of.
I find it a little weird that they're giving the Ghost Rider trailer such valuable screen time (in front of X 3) when the film is still almost a year away (from what I understand it set for a January or February of 2007 release date). Aren't good comic blockbusters supposed to play in summer?
Nonetheless, I personally am excited to see Ghost Rider. Not just because I'm a comic book movie junkie... but also because I'm still one of the dying breed of Nic Cage fans. To each their own. :)
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 Within the last 24 hours or so, there had been a rumor on the Internet stating the death of actor Will Ferrell. Up until recently I-News Wire had the spotty press release published.
Certainly a scare and shock had run through many -myself included-, but thanks to the keen investigative journalism of Defamer, we can put this hearsay behind us. Some internet prankster seems to be spreading around a link to this fake (and, quite frankly, very poorly written) press release claiming that Will Ferrell has died in a paragliding accident, apparently trying to stir up some buzz for a hoax ... Ferrell might remember that his funeral-haunting character in Wedding Crashers mocks a hang-gliding accident, an irony that would be too obvious for even the most malevolent of gods to inflict on Hollywood. To reiterate; Will Ferrell is not died, he did not fall victim to a para-gliding accident yesterday and there will be no singing "Dust in the Wind" in his memory - well at least not for some time to come.
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 This little video is just amazing. It's basically 2 KIDS (no really... KIDS) who pull off one of the best lightsaber fight videos I've ever seen. It's amazingly well shot, nicely edited, the sound editing is almost flawless, the lightsaber effects are sharp and the fight choreography with fantastic (did I mention this was all done by KIDS?!?!?!). And it's not some 30 second fight either. This things runs about 5 minutes long!
Seriously, you should go check this thing out. I applaud these guys for what they pulled off. You can check it out here.
And when you see it... forget for a minute about the lightsaber fighting (although that'll be tough), the shots and editing in this thing are really impressive for a couple of young guys.
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