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“24 – Movie” Possible spoilers on character returns…

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With the upcoming 24 movie in the works, we are all questioning on what characters will be returning to the movie from the TV show that was aired on FOX. I’m still in the middle of Season 7, halfway through the season. A lot of folks out there wondered if the show’s most notable characters: Bill Buchannan, Tony Almeida and Chloe O’Brien, will return to the big screen film or not…

If you haven’t seen 24, don’t read any further…there might be some spoilers on what characters could and won’t return…..

 

 

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Bill Buchanan, will not be able to return ’cause he was killed off in Season 7. Unless, the writers could figure out a way to bring James Morrison who played the character back for flashback scenes.

I can definitely see Tony Almeida coming back for the 24 big screen movie, ’cause he returned in Season 7.

Chloe O’ Bryan possibly.

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I’m still not done with the show yet, almost there. I love the show so much though and really can’t wait for the big screen movie.

As a matter of fact, there was already a “24” movie, but it was straight to TV movie only, “24: Redemption”. I’m sure they could do the big screen movie with no problems.

Kev

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Thought: Is Tom Hanks’s film career in a slump???

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Here’s one of my favorite actors that I admire, Tom Hanks. I admired his acting talent with all the comedies he’s done in the 80’s and the serious drama movies he’s done in the 90’s like “Forrest Gump”, “Apollo 13” and “Saving Private Ryan”. Tom hasn’t made a good movie since “The Terminal” in 2004. “The Terminal” was a really good flick, a comedy that was directed by Spielberg.

I never really liked the two Dan Brown adaptations he did with Ron Howard, “The Da Vinci Code”, and “Angels & Demons” weren’t that great, admittedly. “Charlie Wilson’s War” was a shit movie and so was “The Ladykillers”.

I have no interest in seeing, “Larry Crowne” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”.

Tom needs to step his game up and go back to his Oscar worthy acting talent. “The Road To Perdition” was one of my favorite flicks he’s ever done and I wish he would go back to dark movies like those.

I still admire Tom, I just wish he would get better at choosing his movies. His movie choices lately haven’t been that great. I haven’t seen a Tom Hanks movie in theater in a long time for this reason. I wish he would come out with an interesting movie that would make me go back to see Hanks movies in theaters again. I used to see his movies in theater all the time.

Kev

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BREAKING NEWS: Gene Hackman hit by car, while riding bicycle in Florida…

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Legendary actor, Gene Hackman, was hit by a car while riding a bicycle in Florida and was airlifted to the hospital. Even though his injuries are non-life threatening, he was airlifted to the hospital ’cause he was riding a bike on an island. Other than that, Gene is fine.

More on the story, here

Well, glad he is all good.

He was a phenomenal actor though. Loved him in a lot of movies. While he is famous for his role as Lex Luthor in the , “Superman” movies, he is also famous for “The Conversation”, and, “The French Connection”. I also loved him in, “Hoosiers”, “Unforgiven” and “Crimson Tide”.

I wish he hadn’t retired from acting. I could definitely see him do much more in films.

Kev

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Report: Author, Seth Grahame-Smith penning script for new, “Beetlejuice”, movie? Also, Michael Keaton and Tim Burton might come back as well…

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The author of, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, and ,”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, wants to write the script for a new “Beetlejuice” movie, but wouldn’t say if it will be sequel of the first movie or a re-boot.

Tim Burton says he is game for directing “Beetlejuice” again, and best of all, Michael Keaton wants to return to the character.

More on the story, here.

I’m all for a sequel to, “Beetlejuice”. I’ve always wondered why the film was left with only one movie, when I know you can tell more stories with this character. A sequel should have been made years ago.

I’m sure Michael is going to get accused by many that he will be too old to play Beetlejuice, but the character wore a lot of makeup, so you won’t notice his aging anyway. I’m pretty sure he can still do the Beetlejuice voice, very well. The 1988, “Beetlejuice” film, was awesome.

The question is, will Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin come back? A cameo would be okay for them, but leading roles no.

Kev

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Film Review: War Horse

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Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

So I just saw the movie, “War Horse” today and here is my review…

Plot/Synopsis: Young Albert enlists to service in WWI after his beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the cavalry. Albert’s hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on.

Spielberg may have done a few war movies in his career like, “Schindler’s List”, and “Saving Private Ryan”, but those films were aimed toward the adult audience. Finally, Steven made a war film that the whole family of all ages can enjoy.

This is not the best Steven Spielberg movie ever made, he had better in the past, but “War Horse” was pretty entertaining and enjoyable. Definitely not the best of the year, but it was good for what it was. It’s Spielberg, so of course, all of his movies are great. In this film, there is something for everyone. There is this happy and joyful stuff for the children, and there are also dark stuff for the adult audience. There is a lot of violence and action in the film, but the violence is not gory and nasty like “Schindler’s List” and “SPR” were.

One thing that Spielberg is great at is making memorable characters that everyone can enjoy. They don’t even have to be human characters either. The whole movie was more about the horse, Joey, who is the main character of the movie. You can easily line Joey, the horse, along with E.T. and those aliens from “Close Encounters”. Joey is the star here.

I also love how the film is full of unknown actors, there are no big names at all. I can understand why the movie is full of unknown actors because a big name star, might overshadow, the horse, which is the main focus of the movie. This movie will remind you of, “The Black Stallion”, ’cause both of these films are pretty similar.

I was most impressed with the musical score of, John Williams. John Williams is the king at movie scores. He is amazing at composing memorable scores that you can’t get out of your head and he did it again with this movie.

Steven Spielberg is one of my favorite film makers. This film wasn’t his best, like I said, but at least it helped me get all psyched up for his upcoming, “Abe Lincoln” biopic, which is what I can’t wait to see. Spielberg can do just about every genre in film. He’s done both for children and adults. Love him or hate him, the man’s a genius. I loved a lot of Spielberg flicks except for “Hook”, which was the only movie he did that I hated. Other than that, “War Horse” was a pretty good flick. A perfect Christmas film for the whole family.

Score for “War Horse= *** (3 stars as in “good”)

Kev

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Report: Paramount greenlights, “Paranormal Activity 4”!!!

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Today, Paramount Pictures sent out a press release announcing all the films they will release this year in 2012. We already knew most of the movies coming out in 2012 that Paramount will release, but what we didn’t know about yet is, a fourth installment to the, “Paranormal Activity”, franchise.

Read more, here.

Plot details are being kept under wraps for “P.A. 4” right now, but I’m sure we’ll hear something very soon. The last film, “P.A. 3” was a prequel of the first movie. So hopefully the next film will leave off where the second movie ended. I won’t give any plot spoilers of the earlier films but it’s going to be interesting to see what they are going to do with the Katie Featherston story. They seem to be going somewhere with it. Keeping her story secret and mysterious. Will they finally reveal why this character is so important in the next one?

Anyway, “P.A. 4” will probably get released around Halloween, like P.A. movies seem to be getting released in October.

I know people are talking a lot of shit about the Paranormal Activity franchise, but I personally love them. They are realistic and I like the found footage films. No big budget cameras or special effects.

Looking forward to seeing the next one.

Kev

 

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Film Review: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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Starring: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer

Directed by: David Fincher

Even though I picked this film as my No. 1 film of the year for 2011, I thought I would give this film a more detailed review to explain why. Here it is…

Plot/synopsis: A disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, teams up with a young computer hacker, named Lisbeth Salander, to search for a missing woman named Harriet, who has been gone for 40 years. 

A lot of people liked the Swedish version with Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth, I didn’t. The Swedish version had way too many problems. In the Swedish version, they made Mikael Blomkist, a kind, caring, good guy type of character when he wasn’t like that in the book. In the book, he had a don’t give a fuck, tough guy kind of attitude and wouldn’t give up until this missing woman is found. Plus, the Swedish version left too much out of the book and changed the story around.

This novel had a large following in Sweden and then slowly became more popular in the US. Finally, David Fincher, who is one of my favorite directors, did his take on the story. Honestly, I never was going to get into the Millennium series because all the internet buzz about the novel, got me into it. Like everyone else, I became addicted to the Lisbeth Salander character. This story deserves to get known in the US and David Fincher was the perfect director to do that job. I could see no other director doing this movie.

Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth in the Swedish version, was okay, but that wasn’t how the character was in this book. Noomi’s version, she wasn’t shy, and she was a little more evil and aggressive in this one. Rooney Mara’s version of the character stayed true to the novel. In the book, Lisbeth was described as very emotional and tough, but she also had heart and she can love people when she wanted it. Rooney Mara did a great job staying true to the character. I never liked Rooney Mara as an actress too much, but she showed her acting talent as Lisbeth in this one, that I gave her a little more respect.

Fincher’s version is more stylish and different. It’s a very dark movie and the pacing maybe a little slow, but you’ll become addicted to the story as soon as it starts and will keep you watching ’til the very end.

I was also impressed with Trent Reznor’s score for this film. His scores in movies are getting better and better. I didn’t want Trent to retire from Nine Inch Nails, but when he announced he was quitting Nine Inch Nails to start a career scoring movies, I’m beginning to think that what he did was a good thing. At first I didn’t think Trent had enough talent to score movies, but I thought wrong. He already won an Oscar for “The Social Network”, and here’s another great score for, “Dragon Tattoo”. He is very talented at composing music for movies.

I was most impressed on how faithful and true the movie was to the book. The movie matched every scene from the book perfectly. Didn’t really leave anything out at all. Movie adaptations from novels always had a problem with leaving stuff out and changing the story around, but that didn’t happen with this film. Even the rape scene and all the sex is in there as well.

Lisbeth Salander is one of the best movie characters in a long time. Could she easily line up with all the other great movie characters like the Terminator, Rambo, Clark Griswold, ET, Bill the Butcher, Heath Ledger’s Joker, and Indiana Jones? Yes, absolutely!!! This movie maybe dark, graphic and disturbing, but the Lisbeth Salander character wouldn’t matter if the controversial stuff wasn’t part of the story.

Stieg Larrson inspired this story, from the Pippi Longstocking children’s book, that’s where it all came from. Fincher’s version was pretty masterful and this is why I had chosen this film to be the best movie of the year. I think the story was made as a way to bring awareness to sexual violence against women and that stuff still happens to this day. Fincher did a phenomenal job, and I hope he directs the other two sequels to this movie, “Girl Who Played with Fire” and “Kicked the Hornet’s Nest”. I haven’t read “Hornet’s Nest” yet, the third book, I plan on buying that book for my Ipad soon.

I don’t think “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Fincher will be Oscar worthy for “Best Picture” but it be cool if it actually got the nomination.

Score for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” = **** (4 stars as in excellent”)

Kev

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The Best and Worst Movies of 2011…

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Ok guys, finally here it is. The blog post that you’ve all been waiting for. Here is the best and worst for 2011. One thing to keep in mind though that the films I choose in this post are my opinions alone. I don’t need to have the same opinions as everyone else, so if you disagree with something, I don’t care.

It’s really hard picking the best films, simply because, I’ve seen way too many movies this year, so I went through the ones I’ve seen and in this best of list, are the films that I loved the most. For the best films, I will choose 15. The worst, I will choose only 5 choices.

It wasn’t that great of a year for movies but I did the best I could to see the good stuff, and here’s what I could find.

Enjoy the read…

15. Cowboys and Aliens 

(This is a fantastic popcorn action/adventure by “Iron Man” director, Jon Favreau. Two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford team up together in this movie which makes it even better. The story is fun and just an exciting movie all around.)

14. Captain America: The First Avenger

(I hate most Marvel movies, and finally, they did a really good one. I was very impressed with the Captain America movie. Chris Evans made a great Captain America, plus Hugo Weaving playing the villain Red Skull was badass. The action was fun too.)

13. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

(This was actually a pretty well made movie, I was pretty impressed with it. Of course, we could do without James Franco in it, but other than that the movie was fine. Andy Serkis and John Lithgow were part of the reasons they made this movie worth watching. I’m a huge Planet of the Apes fan, always have been.)

12. Paranormal Activity 3

(This is the best of the trilogy so far. They did a good job with the scare this time around, and still can’t get over of how shocking the ending really was. Seriously the ending to this movie, will really blow your mind and will get you to scratch your head. I like what they’re doing with the Katie Featherston story and looking forward to seeing where it’s going next.)

11. Moneyball

(If Jonah Hill doesn’t get Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Role for this excellent film, I don’t know if I will bother watching the Oscars. Jonah Hill, is mostly known for comedy, but he decided to do something different and serious, to show off his acting talent. He wants to show you that he can be an actor and not just a funny guy, he proves that well. Brad Pitt’s performance was great, and it’s just a fun movie, giving you insight on the politics stuff about professional baseball.)

10. The Beaver

(This is Mel Gibson’s best acting in a long while. This was a serious movie and told a realistic story. I really hope the Oscars don’t snub Mel for this movie either ’cause he really deserves a nomination for this performance.)

9. Insidious

(Another one of the best horror films of this year. You don’t need to have blood & guts to be scary. James Wan is one of the best horror film directors around.)

8. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows – Part 2

(Even though the movie didn’t really follow the book, it still was a great film. The film was an action packed ride, and it was the darkest Harry Potter film of them all. Ralph Fiennes delivers a great performance as Voldermort in this one, and the film gets deep into Professor Snape’s past. If you plan on checking out the Harry Potter flicks, you have to watch them all in order or you won’t understand anything about the Deathly Hallows.)

7. Hobo With A Shotgun

(This movie had to be high on the list. It’s an indie film, wasn’t really shown in a lot of theaters around the States, but it’s still an amazing film. I loved it too much. It’s a violent action movie starring Rutger Hauer, a homeless guy who decides to fight crime himself. It’s violent and gory all the way through, plus the film’s directing style is great. Check it out. It should be streamable on Netflix.)

6. Colombiana

(Female action stars have a hard time being accepted in Hollywood lately, but I think it’s time for Zoe Saldana to shine. This movie got mixed opinions, you either loved it or hate it, but I fuckin’ loved it!!! It had everything you could ask for. Violence, gun shooting, explosions, fighting, etc. It was also hot and sexy. I thought the film told a pretty good story, it’s a revenge movie. I’m definitely looking forward to the sequel now.)

5. Immortals

(A lot of people bashed this movie to death, but did they see the same movie I saw? I absolutely loved it!!! Henry Cavill, the UK actor, proves he can be a good action star. The direction style of this movie is unique and different. This film had to be high on the list. Nothing wrong with the film at all, in my opinion.)

4. Warrior

(A sports film about MMA fighters that stars Tom Hardy. Nick Nolte also delivers a very strong Oscar worthy performance in this movie. I also hope Nolte gets nominated for this film. You can definitely call this film a modern day Rocky.)

3. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

(This is one of the best action movies of this year. Tom still has what it takes to be an action star. Go Tom!)

2. The Help

(This was gonna be my no. 1 choice, but I had to move it up a little. “The Help” starring, Emma Stone and Viola Davis. This is a serious film about the civil rights movement in 1960’s where black maids have a hard time working for white people. I loved this film too much. I hope Viola Davis gets nominated for this film and it will probably get a “Best Picture” nomination as well.)

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

(I just got back from this movie earlier tonight. The film was a total masterpiece. Way better than the Swedish version. David Fincher did a phenomenal job with the American Version. I thought Rooney Mara did fantastic playing Lisbeth. Most surprisingly of all, the movie followed the book very well. Didn’t really leave anything out at all. Plus Trent Reznor’s score keeps getting better and better, every film he plays music too. “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is definitely the best film of the year. I was blown away by it.)

The Worst Films (with no explanation)

5. The Ward

4. Limitless

3. The Adjustment Bureau

2. Bad Teacher

1. The Muppets

There were more films that I liked this year, but I only listed the best ones.

Hope you enjoyed the list.

Kev

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Report: Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” trailer to be released June 11, 2012…

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A lot of people have been wondering when the trailer for Zack Snyder’s, “Man of Steel”, is going to be released, well, here’s your answer. The first teaser for Snyder’s “Man of Steel”, will be released, June 11th of 2012. While the film itself is slated for a June 14th, 2013, release date, Warner Bros., plan to start promoting the film a year early to start building up hype for the film.

Warner Bros. will also release official film photo stills from the movie itself.

More on it, here.

Kev