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I'm a musician, singer/songwriter, blogger, writer, poet, bodybuilder, movie lover, music lover, video gamer, history/political buff, conservative/republican, etc. I like to do a lot of things.
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Thought: Movie fans needs to respect actor, Nicolas Cage…

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When I read through movie forums, movie blogs and other movie news sites, when Nicolas Cage is being discussed in a news story, he seems to get a lot of hate. Mostly people claim that he is not a good actor. He doesn’t have good acting skills.

Um…like Nicolas Cage or hate him, he is a huge box office draw. He had some bombs and flops, but most of his filmography were smash hits.

I defended Nicolas Cage once before in this blog, and I wouldn’t mind doing it again. I have no problem with Nicolas Cage’s acting, he’s fine in my book. He’s just an actor, that’s all he is. Just a guy doing what he loves, making movies. This guy is an Oscar winner, and doesn’t have bad acting? He won for the movie, “Leaving Las Vegas” which is one of his best films.

Movie fans also claim that he doesn’t pick movies very well. Um, please?

Check out his box office mojo:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=nicolascage.htm

If a film he picks makes a lot of money, I believe he is doing a very good job choosing his roles. Nicolas Cage is also one of the hardest working actors on this planet. Pretty much the hardest working I’ve ever seen.

When was the last time Nic Cage had a hiatus from film? He never did. He’s always made film after film. When he finishes one film, he’s off to make another. That’s all this dude does in his life, is make movies.

People should respect him for that, but nope I think people just trash him with a fit of jealousy rage. Even if you hate him, I’m sure you at least love a few of his movies, you gotta admit that. He’s a guy that stays out of the tabloids, he doesn’t give interviews too much, he concentrates on working.

My top ten favorite films that he starred in are:

  • Con Air
  • Face/Off
  • Snake Eyes
  • Matchstick Men
  • Next
  • Raising Arizona
  • The Rock
  • National Treasure (first one only)
  • World Trade Center
  • Knowing

You may think he’s boring and not good, but it’s only opinion. The man works hard. All of them box office hits he made, this is the reason he is still around. As long as you are paying to see his movies in the theaters, this is how he makes his money as well, something to think about.

I thought “Knowing” was one of his best films he’s done in a long time. His acting is actually great in that film, he delivers it, plus the story to that film is great writing. Check it out if you haven’t yet.

Nothing wrong with Nicolas Cage at all, and I don’t understand why most people think he’s so bad. He’s a good dude, in my book. He deserves the respect.

Kev

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Michael Jackson “This is It” teaser poster released…

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There is the new teaser poster for the upcoming “This is It” Michael Jackson movie. There will be tour rehearsal footage and more. Film comes out next month on Oct. 28th. Will I see it?

I probably will end up seeing it. I’m curious to see it.

Just a warning though, it’ll be kind of sad to see in theater ’cause people will walk out of the theaters wiping their eyes.

This is for sure to be a huge blockbuster hit. Saw VI won’t even top this.

Kev

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Report: Warner Bros. creates DC Entertainment, Diane Nelson is hired as top chief/boss…

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Walt Disney studios buys out Marvel comics? Well, Warner Bros. says take this Disney, we are at war here. Warner Bros. revamped DC comics to create DC Entertainment. WB’s hired, Diane Nelson to help run, DC Entertainment as their top chief and main boss. They did this as a way to make better use of DC superhero characters.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008299.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Diane must be a huge fan of comic books if she accepted this job immediately, so she obviously knows her shit with superheroes.

I really hope they get the new Superman movie in the works soon.

Kev

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Report: It’s Steven Soderbergh vs. Gina Carano in “Knockout”…

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The hot and sexy MMA fighter, Gina Carano, is set to play the leading role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Knockout”, which will be a spy thriller.

If you don’t know who Steven Soderberg is, he’s the director of such movies like the “Oceans Eleven” trilogy, and “Traffic”.

Variety Reports:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008212.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=bd_film

Hopefully this  movie is R rated, and Gina will agree to doing nude scenes, baring her breasts and all. I doubt it but it be kind of cool. She’s always been strict about doing nudity but maybe she’ll think differently doing it for film, who knows. All we can do is cross our fingers.

Kev

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Report: Nicolas Cage drops out of “Green Hornet”, will not play villain role…

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Nicolas Cage was set to play the main villain of, Seth Rogen’s “The Green Hornet”, but not anymore. Cage apparently dropped out on the last minute when the crew were just beggining filming of the movie.

No reasons were explained as to why Cage dropped out but my bet is that knowing that Cage is a huge fan of comic books and superheroes himself, he knows what’s good and what’s bad. Well I’m sure he probably thought Seth Rogen’s take on the “Green Hornet” was bad.

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2009/09/nicolas-cage-dropt-out-of-green-hornet.html

Kev

Celebrity news

Report: Demi Moore accuses Perez Hilton of supporting child porn…

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Demi Moore is on her twitter page starting a war against gossip blogger, Perez Hilton. First, Perez fueds with Carrie Prejean, then the Black Eyed Peas band, and this time it’s actress Demi Moore. Demi who was once married to Bruce Willis and now married to young actor, Ashton Kutcher. Everyone would probably know her from the movie, “Ghost”.

Perez posted links on his website that led to photos of Demi’s and Bruce’s teen daughter, Tallulah Willis, which showed a pic of her wearing a short cut top which shows their cleavages. There was a close up pic of Tallulah’s cleavage while she was out partying in L.A. Tallulah is under 18 and not even legal yet.

Demi Moore is all over her twitter bashing Perez Hilton…

http://twitter.com/MrsKutcher

More on it here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2148741/perez_hilton_v_demi_moore_exposing.html?cat=2

I’m not either side, but I think Demi is just doing this for attention. She’s doing this hoping to get more publicity since Carrie Prejean and the Black Eyed Peas got attention off Perez.

While I think it’s wrong to take pics of teen cleavages that are minors, I’m not sure if it’s illegal or not. I don’t think it is as long there is no full on nudity involved but I still find it a disturbing and uncomfortable thing to do.

And besides, what is a 15 year old doing partying out in L.A.? Underage at a nightclub? Wow. If an underage teen parties at an adult nightclub, of course, a bunch of horn dogs are going to be all over her. It’s a pretty common thing that when teens party at an adult nightclub, things like this happen. So this is all Demi’s fault for letting her party there.

So I actually agree with Perez that Demi should get slapped for that. I disagree with what most things that Perez does on his blog or in the media, but for just once, just this one time, I’ll say he is innocent this time. Seriously.

Demi is simply acting like a stupid bitch. Period.

Kev

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Film Review: District 9

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Starring: Sharlto Copley

Directed by: Neil Blomkamp

So on my Martha’s Vineyard vacation over the weekend, I saw the movie “District 9” in a small movie theater in Edgartown on that island.

Here is my review:

Plot/synopsis: Strange beings of extraterrestrial’s have been stuck on planet Earth for 20 years. A huge mothership hovers over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa in the year of 2010. The area is also known as District 9 where it is taken over by aliens and the military. The aliens live on Earth as part of human’s every day lives.

MNU is a company that is interested in the aliens use of weapons, which they don’t care about the aliens going back to their home planets where they came from.

The MNU operative and main boss, Wikus van der Merwe, goes on a mission to force aliens to move to a new District 10. While searching an aliens home, Merwe finds a small alien device which squirts liquid in people’s faces. Merwe finds out that he is soon turning himself into one of those aliens by that liquid.

Merwe becomes friends with an alien named Christopher Johnson who has a small alien son. Christopher agrees to help Merwe to stop turning himself into an alien, to go back to human. Christopher explains he needs to bring Merwe to the mothership in order to turn him back to a full human but first he needs the fluid for the small alien spacecraft to travel up to the mothership with.

This was a perfect movie. Very good storytelling, very good acting, good pacing, and great cinematography. Most sci fi action adventures have silly plot lines and lots of corny action, but “District 9” was a very serious movie. I loved how they made this movie seems like it can really happen. Very realistic stuff. Probably the most intelligent writing I’ve ever seen.

No big stars at all in this film, the entire cast were  pretty much unknowns. I heard there is going to be a sequel to this film, ’cause I notice there is still more story to tell.

It’s very rare we get movies with really good writing, and finally we get one. Whether you’re into sci fi films or not, you should see this. This is my second favorite movie of the summer, right behind, “Star Trek”. This movie, “District 9” is more of a mix of sci fi/horror and action. 1st half of “District 9” gets serious and very deep, 2nd half gets really action packed.

I thought, “District 9” was a fuckin’ masterpiece, and loved every single minute of the film. Do yourself a favor and see it! Genius storytelling here.

Score for “District 9” = **** (4 stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev

Stallone news

Thought: Rambo 5 “The Savage Hunt” mixing with sc-fi/action…

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Here I am back home from a Martha’s Vineyard, Labor day weekend vacation. Over the weekend, I have been reading and following the plot lines and synopsis for “Rambo V: The Savage Hunt”. Sly made the plot ideas official by confirming it with AICN. So Rambo being mixed with sci fi is the real deal, it’s really happening.

See an updated report on it at AICN:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42256

As you can see in the talk back comments, the new plot is getting mixed opinions. Some love the idea and some hate it.

Me? I FUCKING LOVE IT!

If you wonder where Sly got the plot idea from, “Rambo V” is actually adapted from a book by the author named James Byron Huggins, the name of the novel is, “Hunter”. Sly bought the rights for “Hunter” long ago to make a movie out of, but he never did. “Hunter” sounds just like a “Rambo” story, that’s what Sly probably bought the rights of the book for is because it reminded him of Rambo and he can see Rambo in the leading character of that novel. So now Sly is finally bringing that novel for “Rambo” in the next film.

http://www.amazon.ca/Hunter-James-Byron-Huggins/dp/0671015354

Sly also made it clear that “Rambo V” won’t be another “Universal Soldier” as you heard on his voice mail message in AICN if you can understand what he is saying. I’ll admit that Sly’s speaking voice is horrible when not acting in film, you could barely understand what he’s saying, lol!!

Most Stallone fans want the Rambo movies to be realistic. Well come on now, if you really think that, you’re living in a fantasy world here. I agree with Harry Knowles that none of the Rambo movies are realistic. All 4 Rambo movies had a whacky, and crazy plot. A lot of crazy things that possibly can’t happen in the real world.

No, police officers don’t go hunting down war vets in a small town when they are not welcomed. Is that realistic? Fuck no.

In First Blood part II…do you think any human being can blow down a huge helicopter with an M72 LAW weapon in real life? LOL!

In Rambo III do you think it’s possible that any man can go to Afghanistan to rescue his friend from the Soviets? Whacky, don’t try this for real, folks. It’s only a movie.

In Rambo IV, the new one, do you think any man can just go to Burma and kill the entire Burmese army in less than ten minutes for reals?

I’m liking the plot idea for “Rambo V” and it will be a very different Rambo film. It gets old with Rambo going on typical rescue missions and it don’t hurt for something different for a change.

As for the beast creature, Sly is talking about, I would think the beast would be CGI, it has to be ’cause the days of make up and costumes are over with. Everything in Hollywood seems to be CGI these days, I don’t see how else Sly is going to make a beast to make it realistic in “Rambo V”.

Love the plot idea or hate it, gotta give credit for Sly’s unique imagination when storytelling. He is a good storyteller and I admire him for that. I like how he takes this stuff very seriously.

Bring it on Sly. I’ll be on the lookout for more Rambo V news in the future. Hopefully we’ll get a longer Col. Trautman flashback too.

Kev

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Report: AICN gives more details on “Rambo 5”, will it be a sci fi movie?

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It seems that Sly already titled “Rambo 5” for the deal he made with Nu Image/Millenium, for now the title is, “Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt”. Sly already revealed plot details early to AICN.

I remember Sly saying in interviews in the past about “Rambo 5” where he had this crazy idea that he was going mix Rambo with sci fi, and my god, he isn’t kidding. He’s actually doing it.

Did Sly inspire this idea from Indy 4? Ha ha!

Read all about it here:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42256

The plot idea sounds kind of cool and different. A different Rambo film, indeed, but I don’t like the title. I’m sure Sly will change the title in the future ’cause remember, Sly had over 20 different titles for “Rambo 4” and he just left the fourth Rambo title as just “Rambo”.

I think “Rambo: Savage” sounds like a better title, it’s very catchy. “Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt” sounds cheesy.

Kev