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Report: Harrison Ford’s character revealed for “Cowboys & Aliens”…

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Look like Harrison Ford will be playing quite a lengthy role for “Cowboys & Aliens” after all, not cameo or a small role. Ford will be playing Colonel Dolarhyde, which is one of the main charcters of the comic. If you knew the comics for “Cowboys & Aliens”, Colonel Dolarhyde is an aging guy. I looked up the comics. In the comics, the Colonel Dolarhyde character looks exactly like Harrison Ford. Yes, the character is almost Indiana Jones like. No wonder a lot of people wanted Ford for the movie. Ask, and you shall receive.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17186/-cowboys-and-aliens-gets-a-synopsis

Kev

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Report: Shia LaBeouf admits “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was a piece of crap!!

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“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” didn’t get much friendly reviews by critics and movie fans when it first came out. Well, it even seems that the film’s main star, Shia LaBeouf is with us “Revenge of the Fallen” haters. He agrees that the film sucked so bad.

More on it here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_en_mo/eu_france_cannes_shia_labeouf;_ylt=An1PXf0MU5NWx3m8w.u7Th1xFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1N3Q1ZjVmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTEzL2V1X2ZyYW5jZV9jYW5uZXNfc2hpYV9sYWJlb3VmBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNARzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNsYWJlb3VmcHJvbWk–

Remember when Megan Fox started shitting on this movie by saying, “Michael Bay needs to concentrate on good acting, not the CGI and action effects”? I think Mr. Bay needs to take the advice from his cast if he wants Transformers 3 to be successful and if he wants fans to like the third one.

Come on Michael. Shape up and make Transformers right for the fans. Keep the action scenes, that’s important, but at least come up with a better plot for the next one. I hated “Revenge of the Fallen” so much too.

Kev

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Report: Rambo not retired yet? Seems not…

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When Sly Stallone announced publicily, he is retiring Rambo, he said he was “99.9 %” sure. Meaning that it’s not “definite” that he will retire the character. Seems like it was a trick all along ’cause an official “Rambo V” poster has been spotted at Cannes film festival (pictured above). Notice the Miramax logo under the poster, that means it’s official that “Rambo V” is coming.

More on it here:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45069

Sly must of came up with a story that would work for “Rambo V”. Either that or Miramax didn’t want Sly to retire Rambo so they paid him more to do another one?

Kev

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Report: Kurt Russell returns to Hollywood in “Undying”!!!

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen Kurt Russell on the big screen haven’t we? Well it looks like he’s finally tired of doing nothing and ready to start making movies again. Kurt signed himself up to star in an action thriller titled, “Undying”. The script was written by “Book of Eli’ writer, Gary Whitta. Kurt was signed to this movie by, Media 8 Entertainment. The plot for “Undying” tells a story of Virgil Lone (probably Kurt’s character) who gets pulled into a surreal underworld when he is hired by the mysterious Delia. Filming will begin this fall. This is Kurt’s first film since 2007’s “Death Proof” directed by Quentin Tarantino. Yes, it’s been a three year break for Kurt.

More on it here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie30e47167303d76abff3a3fdb91ac268

Nice to see Kurt finally on his way to the big screen! Welcome back!

Kev

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Report: Christoph Waltz casted for “Three Musketeers” movie…

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Academy award winner, Christoph Waltz, just got signed for his next acting gig after his work for “Inglourious Basterds”. Christoph will next be starring in “The Three Musketeers” movie. He will be starring alongside Orlando Bloom, Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich and plenty more. Shooting will begin this September.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/17153/waltz-bloom-lerman-more-in-musketeers–

Interesting casting! I hope this will be a good flick. I remember the 1993 film that starred Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, and Chris O’ Donnell. That was a really good flick.

Kev

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Report: Judge Dredd reboot greenlighted to hit theaters in what? Yes you guess it, 3D…what else…

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Judge Dredd, the comic book superhero, will be getting a reboot in 3D. Thanks to the Cannes Festival, Andrew McDonald’s, DNA Films made an official deal with Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global to finance the film. A script has already been written and ready by Alex Garland and will be directed by “Vantage Point” director, Pete Travis.

More on it here:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/reliance-bigs-judge-dredd-deal-makes-scifi-film-a-hot-cannes-pre-sale-title/

I wonder what Sly’s thoughts on this are? I doubt he will reprise the Judge Dredd role, but maybe they will try and get Sly for a different role? Maybe even a cameo for Sly hopefully? I hope they’ll make it a better movie as I’ll admit, Stallone’s version of “Judge Dredd” was a pretty bad film. Sly made a good Judge Dredd, yes, but it’s the story, the writing, and bad casting. Rob Schneider’s character was very annoying in that film.

Kev

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“Crazy Heart” starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Last night, I watched the movie, “Crazy Heart”, the drama starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Collin Farrell and Robert Duvall also have roles in this film. I bought the DVD for this movie over the weekend and I never saw the film before until now. Yes, the reason I wanted to watch is because Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for this role. It turned out to be a very good film. Beautiful I must say. Told a great story.

It’s about this famous country star, Bad Blake (Bridges role) who is trying to have a better and bigger career in music. Bad Blake keeps playing the small bars and bowling alleys when he should be getting bigger deals playing bigger places. He is strictly a country and western singer. Bad Blake is an alcoholic who has a bad attitude with people, he swears & cusses a lot, which is how he got the nickname, “Bad Blake”. Blake finally gets a good gig in Sante Fe by not playing in a bowling alley but playing in a big arena. While there he meets this woman named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal’s role), who is a journalist for a newspaper that wants to interview him about his music career. Of course, they ended up falling in love after Jean noticing Blake becoming friends with her 4 year old son, Buddy. Later on, Blake’s romance with Jean begins to fall apart and so does Blake’s life & music career.  That’s when Blake finally realizes he needs to go to AAA to get sober. Do Bad Blake and Jean get back together after getting sober? Watch the film yourself and find out.

I’m not into romance and love stories that much, but I didn’t find this a romance movie. It’s about a guy suffering alcoholism and trying to deal with it in life. It’s a film about alcoholics trying to become a better person. There are plenty of alcoholics out there in the real world, and I think this film was meant to help them too. Maybe that’s the point of this film being made is helping real alcoholics to get sober.

Jeff Bridges maybe well known for his role as the Dude in the “Big Lebowski”, I agree that’s a great role, but his role as Bad Blake is better in my opinion. Bad Blake is similar to the Dude but Jeff played Blake better. Jeff Bridges has always been an amazing actor. Some of my other favorite movies he’s been in are: “Starman”, “K-Pax”, “King Kong” and “Tron”. I find “Crazy Heart” to be his best film. Seriously,  check it out if you haven’t yet. You may not be a country music fan but you don’t have to be. Just watch it for the story and the acting.

Kev

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Reports: More details on Joaquin Phoenix’s rap mockumentary film here…

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This blogger at the LA Times revealed more details about Joaquin Phoenix’s rap mockumentary. It is titled, “I’m Still Here: The Lost Year Of Joaquin Phoenix”. In the film shows all the stuff you’ve been seeing in youtube, including the David Letterman appearance…but of course, there is a lot of new footage that haven’t been seen by the public yet. Stuff like Joaquin snorting cocaine, eating pussy with his female publicist, having a bad attitude with people, etc. Lots of crazy stuff. The film even has male nudity, lets hope the film doesn’t show Joaquin actually naked. There’s plenty of controversial footage throughout the movie.

Is Joaquin trying to be the next Andy Kauffman/Sacha Baron Cohen? Seems like he is, but ten times more brutal. I still stand corrected that everything Joaquin is doing, is just an act. A storyline thing ’cause all of this seems to be inspired by Andy Kauffman. It all seems pretty Andy Kauffman like. Joaquin’s new image is very much like Andy Kauffman switching to his Tony Clifton persona, that’s why it seems very similar and where Joaquin got the idea from. Same thing with Sacha Baron Cohen who retired Borat/ Ali G and now he’s Bruno.

Remember that video where Joaquin was sitting with Miley Cyrus teaching him how to vote for this thing on a computer? I remember, Joaquin was back to his normal self, clean shaven and all. So that’s more proof that all this rap stuff is kind of a prank, a comedy thing. He wasn’t acting bizzare in that video, he was being his normal self. Joaquin will be back in movies, he’s not fooling anybody.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/05/joaquin-phoenix-documentary-even-buyers-arent-sure-if-its-a-prank.html

Kev

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Report: In defense of Mickey Rourke’s “most actors suck” comments…sorry, he has some valid points…

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Mickey Rourke recently had an interview with Parade.com website, he said a comment that is creating some controversy online. Mickey Rourke says:

“You can be less than mediocre and be a f—ing movie star. I have respect for very few actors and actresses.” 

and…

“”Some of them get a lot of acclaim but just because their movie made $200 million at the box office; they still suck. I got no respect for them and I used to let them know it. It was important for me to put that aside and go, ‘You know what? This is a business. If you kiss the right ass and you get lucky on a movie or two, you could last 10 years.’ So, now, I just keep my mouth shut and pet my chihuahuas.”

http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978224321

Most bloggers on the internet are slamming Mickey Rourke for his controversial comments on how “most actors and actresses suck”. His opinions maybe harsh, but hey, people, it’s a free country so he has a right for an opinion.

I for one, am with Mickey Rourke, I agree with him 100%. Most actors and actresses do suck these days. There are only very few actors/actresses that I respect that bring out the good acting chops as well. A lot of today’s huge box office movies such as “Avatar”, “Iron Man” and such movies as those…they have actors/actresses in the leading roles of those type of movies which their acting skills aren’t really that great. That’s what Mickey means by his comments. For example, Sam Worthington is a horrible choice for a leading actor in “Avatar” and I think it would be a better movie if they had an actor with the talent. Robert Downey Jr. is okay, but he’s nothing special anymore. I like Robert Downey’s acting in his earlier movies when he was doing all these serious dramas, now he’s a popcorn action star.

There are very few actors and actresses that I respect too. For actors:  Daniel Day Lewis, Al Pacino and George Clooney. Those are actors with actual talent, in my opinion. For actresses I would pick: Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Kate Winslet. While I like Sly Stallone, I’ll admit he isn’t the best actor in the world, I just like him for the entertainment, nothing more. The same with Arnie Schwarzenegger.

Mickey wants people to look at the actor’s talent. Not worrying about how much money a movie makes. You have to admit that Mickey is so right on everything he says. The only reason the online world is mad at his opinions because they know he’s right on the money. I also think Mickey Rourke is a talented actor himself, he’s been in lots of great flicks. Of course, I think “The Wrestler” is his best movie.

Kev

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There Will Be Blood…

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Last night, I finally watched the movie, “There Will Be Blood” for the first time ever. It came out in 2007, I know I’m way late on the movie, but I never got around to seeing it until now and I always wanted to see it. I would have to say I was very impressed with the film. Very good story and moving. Daniel Day-Lewis’s best character ever, in my opinion. No wonder he won the Oscar for this role ’cause his acting is really powerful in this film.

Daniel Day-Lewis plays a character named Daniel Plainview where he plays a mineral and oil prospector. He owns his own company along with his young son, H.W.. He adopted a baby along his oil and mineral adventures. A young man named Paul Sunday, goes to Daniel to make a deal to go to Little Boston, California to dig up oil discovered under this family’s land. Daniel’s only mission is to make a lot of money off of oil drilling. So he goes to Little Boston with his son, to try and buy this land off this family after drilling the oil from their land. As Daniel works on oil drilling there, he meets up with a disturbing and crazy preacher named, Eli Sunday, who Daniel doesn’t get along with too well. The people in Little Boston is a poor town, while all Daniel cares about is getting rich. Beware, there is a pretty heavy twist at the end of the film, that may shock you pretty hard.

The film was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, I know he’s not everyone’s favorite director but I think this is the best film he’s ever done. I have no complaints about the film at all. Just a perfectly well made film all around.  Check it out if you haven’t yet.

Kev