Ever since the “Dark Tower” movie and TV series hav been announced by Ron Howard, fans have been naming their picks on who to play Roland “The Gunlsinger” Deschain. Look like Ron Howard himself have been reading the internet, catching up on this stuff. In an interview with the LA Times, Ron Howard knows about fans naming, Viggo Mortensen, as the most popular choice. Even though Ron Howard, never said anything about wanting to get Viggo for the role, Ron did seem very interested, and even agreed with the fans with their choice.
Ron seems like a good guy. Seems like he supports the fans and knows what they want. Hope Ron can actually get Viggo. Viggo is not a bad choice and he would be the best one for Roland Deschain, honestly. Lets hope they hire Viggo for the role.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Directed by: David O’ Russell
So today, I decided to go see the movie, “The Fighter”. Finally saw it, and here is my review:
Plot/Synopsis: The movie tells the real life story of professional boxers, Dicky Ecklund (Christian Bale) and Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg). Dicky Ecklund is a retired boxer who’s last fight was against boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard. Dicky’s sparring partner, Micky Ward, dreams of becoming a fighter himself. At first, Micky trains on his own terms, he made a vow to never train with his half-brother, Dicky. Micky falls in love with a woman named, Charlene (Amy Adams), while his brother, Dicky falls into trouble with drugs, alcohol and serves some prison time. Micky continues to fight in matches and hopes to become welterweight champion.
I saw this movie because I like boxing films. I will always think the Rocky movies are the best boxing films, but “The Fighter” was a really good one. “The Fighter” was very similar to Rocky in a way. The film, “The Fighter” was shot in low budget cameras, the only big name stars in the film are obviously Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, but the rest of the cast were unknowns. This film have been getting nothing but positive reviews all over the place. I haven’t seen anything negative about the film. People were saying that Mark Wahlberg should get Best Actor for this role. To be honest with you, I didn’t think Mark Wahlberg’s acting in this movie was Oscar worthy. I was more impressed with Christian Bale’s acting. Throughout the film, I had my eye on Christian Bale the whole time, that’s how amazing he was. I’ve seen Christian in so many other films, but his acting has always been the same in other films, but not this one. Christian’s acting was so different in this movie, “The Fighter”. I’m willing to bet Christian rehearsed his ass off and did some acting coaching for this role. Mark is a good actor, don’t get me wrong, but if Christian wasn’t in this film, then the movie would be boring. Christian didn’t make this movie boring. He made it fun. So I think Christian will definitely get the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for this movie. I don’t even think Mark Wahlberg will get nominated for this one.
I thought the story was pretty intense and had some pretty emotional scenes. A few things I didn’t care for in the film was the Eklund brother’s mother, Alice, and the sisters wasn’t needed, but other than that, I loved the movie overall. The movie is taken place during the 70’s-80’s, back in the days when wireless phones, the internet, cell phones and flat screen TV’s weren’t around. So the film stayed true to that. Sugar Ray Leonard himself, made a cameo appearance in the film, yes, the real Sugar Ray. Amy Adams isn’t nude in the film but she does show a lot of cleavage and she does have one scene where she was wearing nothing but bra & panties. Amy’s acting in the film, was okay, but her performance is not Oscar worthy.
The fights were fun, realistic and made them believable. Is “The Fighter” the best movie of the year, 2010? It was really good, but definitely not the best of the year. I still have to see “True Grit” and “Tron 3D” sometime after Christmas. After I see those two films, then I’ll make my decision on what the best film of the year is.
Score for “The Fighter” = **** (4 stars as in “excellent”)
We all know that Christopher Nolan is hard at work at both Batman and Superman films for Warner Bros. but why has he been quiet on both films, you wonder? I think he’s keeping secrets and surprises from us that we shouldn’t know about yet.
So far, Chris has told us:
Superman – Zack Snyder has been hired director. Story will focus on the earlier days of Superman, mostly about Clark Kent. It will not be a remake of the earlier films and won’t be adapted from the comics of any kind.
Batman – Tom Hardy is set to play a main character, but didn’t say whether he will be playing a villain or a good guy character. There will be two female roles, one for female villain and the other for Bruce Wayne’s love interest. Several actresses have already been lined up for the actress roles. The film will also not be in 3-D. The Riddler will not be the villain.
That’s all the information we know so far.
Movie news will be slow around the Holiday season, so I’m sure Chris will tell us more in 2011, the new year. We still need to know the plots for both films and who the villains will be. We will know all that stuff soon. I know, I hate how they are not giving us more news, but it’s understandable, it’s hollywood.
Last night on HBO, I watched the movie “The Blind Side” for the first time ever. I never saw it in theater and never saw it on DVD either. I waited this long to see it because I can’t stand Sandra Bullock. Don’t like her acting and don’t like her as a person either. Well, I guess I’ll have a change of heart with Sandra. I really was blown away by this movie and was blown away by Sandra’s acting, seriously. “The Blind Side” is a real life story, about NFL star, Michael Oher who plays for the Ravens. It tells the story of him as a kid growing up, homeless and tells how Leigh Anne Tuohy adopted him to be part of her family. She does her best to make his football dreams come true by giving him a better education and a better life.
After all those awards Sandra won for this role, I think they are well deserved. I understand why she won all of them awards now. I’ll admit that this was Sandra’s best role. Not only that, the movie is good over all. I know there have been a lot of football movies over the years, and this is the best one I’ve seen.
The story of Michael Oher, is pretty incredible stuff and I believe he is still playing for the Ravens to this day. The movie is really inspiring and it really makes me want to get my own copy of the DVD. Sandra really is perfect for the role as she is very similar to the real life Leigh Anne Tuohy. Watch these videos below of Sandra as Leigh Anne and the real Leigh Anne to see what I mean.
I was impressed with the film. 2 thumbs up for sure!
Actor/director, Jon Favreau, announced the shocking news that he is done with Iron Man movies. The reason? Well, Jon has too much on his plate. He just finished “Cowboys & Aliens”, and he’ll have to get busy promoting the film. After he finishes promotion and marketing of “Cowboys & Aliens”, he’ll get right to work on Disney’s “Magic Kingdom” movie. I’m sure he wants to do another Iron Man movie, but he can’t. I can’t blame Jon for going with Disney instead ’cause it is a bigger opportunity.
Honestly, I’m not sad that Jon is leaving the Iron Man series. The first one was good, but the second one was disappointing. I love the Iron Man character. It’s one of my favorite Marvel heroes. I hope they find a better director to make a good Iron Man movie. I’m sure Zack Snyder, would make a great Iron Man movie, but he’ll be busy doing Superman instead. Lets hope they don’t get shitty directors like Michael Bay, Joel Schumacher, or Bret Ratner. Anybody but them.
Nicolas Cage is currently filming the movie, “Ghost Rider 2” in Bucharest, Romania. While taking a break from filming, he decides to party it up with friends at a nightclub in downtown Bucharest. Here he is outside the club, yelling and screaming at a group of people. Is this for a scene for “Ghost Rider 2”? I don’t think so. It looks real to me. It’s no secret to everyone that Nicolas Cage is a whack job and he does have a bit of a temper tantrum. I just think that Nic had way too much to drink that night. He’s definitely drunk off his ass.
Eminem, is once again set to star the leading role in a boxing sports film titled, “Southpaw”. Marshall will play a welterweight boxer who is after the title, then suddenly the world crashes around him due to a tragedy in his life. The film is written by Kurt Sutter.
Director, Darren Aronofsky ordered Huck Jackman, that he needs to add 25 lbs of muscle, for the next, “Wolverine” film, before they start filming in the Spring. Jackman admits that is going to be very difficult for him to do. He couldn’t figure out how he would do it. So what does he do to find out how? He calls up Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to get fitness advice from. Dwayne gained 25 lbs. of muscle quickly for his role of his new movie, “Faster”. The secret is build muscle for six pound a week, 6,000 calories a day. That means a lot of eating and a lot of hard work in the gym.
I know some people are going to say that this is impossible to do. No one could add 25 lbs of muscle in that quick period of time, but believe it or not, it can be done successfully. How can it be done? Well, I think Hugh Jackman is gonna do a lot of work. Do a lot of brutal training. That means, lots of heavy lifting. Doing lots of cardio. Eating a lot of protein and calories. Maybe supplements too if he plans on doing that. I’m sure Hugh Jackman will hire personal trainers to help him reach that goal.
Jackman is a very built guy, but looks like Aronofsky, wants him to be even more jacked for this role. Sounds like this is going to be a violent action movie. More violent than the last Wolverine movie.
It is possible to gain lbs. of muscle in a quick period of time…because I did it myself. Maybe not 25lbs in one whole year, but I know I gained a 8-10 lbs of muscle quickly. When I first got into bodybuilding, I weighed about 140 lbs. Now I’m 150 lbs, exact. I’m not fat ’cause I eat good and do a lot of cardio, so I know I’m gaining muscle big time. People assume it takes years to build a good physique but if you do it right, you can get some good muscle in a year.
I’m sure Jackman would do this with no problem at all!
Wesley Snipes, the former action movie star and former “Blade” star, is locked up in prison today. The actor tried his best to stay out of prison until after Christmas so he can spend time with his family for the Holidays, but of course, that wasn’t allowed. Larry King even tried to help him. I feel sorry for Wes, but he brought this upon himself. He must be responsible for taxes, maybe the three years will teach him.
Movie fans wanted the romantic movie, “Blue Valentine”, which stars Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling to be rated R, not NC-17. Harvey Weinstein, founder of Weinstein Co., listened to the public and helped fight for the R rating against the MPAA. Well guess what? Harvey won the battle. The film is now rated R instead of NC-17.
This is really great news. I’m glad it’s now R, so the film can now be seen everywhere in theaters. The film has potential to be a hit and has potential to get a lot of “Oscar” nominations too. It might be Best Picture worthy.
I’m not into romantic movies that much but this one looks like a really good one. I’m sold to this film and will be the first in line to see this film when it comes out! Harvey Weinstein may not be everyone’s favorite person in the movie industry, but he did good this time around! Thanks Harve!
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