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The Men Who Stare at Goats poster (with added goat)

Liam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:58:36 +0000

Yahoo! got themselves a new poster for The Men Who Stare at Goats. The film stars George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, J.K. Simmons and goat (who’s real name cannot be revealed due to an ongoing legal dispute between the Goat Actors Guild and the Association of Hoofed Beings).

The film is ‘inspired by a real story’ and follows reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) who is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. When the programme’s founder, Bill Django (Bridges), goes missing, Cassady’s mission is to find him.

Click here to watch the trailer!

The Men Who Stare At Goats trailer

Liam — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:17:06 +0000

George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, and J.K. Simmons are in a movie together. It’s called The Men Who Stare At Goats, and it looks quite good. The film is ‘inspired by a real story’ and follows reporter Bob Wilton (McGregor) who is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. When the programme’s founder, Bill Django (Bridges), goes missing, Cassady’s mission is to find him.”

If you look closely you will see Stephen Lang, who plays Col. Quaritch in Avatar, and Glenn Morshower who played General Morshower in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Nice bit of military typecasting there.

The Men Who Stare At Goats will be released on November 6th in the US and January 22nd in the UK.

Tron Legacy teaser trailer

Liam — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:53:23 +0000

Disney have released the first teaser trailer for the newly titled Tron Legacy. I wasn’t around when the first film came out in 1982 so I didn’t get a ‘geekgasm’ like a few people have experienced, but I still think it looks cool. Getting Daft Punk to score the film is probably the best decision in movie scoring history. A perfect match. Anyway, here’s the teaser below!

Sean Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) is the 20-something son of Tron protagonist Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), whose curiosity about his father’s disappearance leads him to the now-abandoned site of Kevin’s old arcade. Inside the old building, Sean is transported into the Computer World and embarks on an adventure in which he learns what has happened to his father, and of the shocking new threat to the Computer World

Early Draft Of Tr2n Gets Reviewed

Dave — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:04:47 +0000

Tron 2, Tr2n, whatever you want to call it, it’s shooting right now up in Canada (for our UK readers: “over in Canada”). Jeff Bridges is back on board, reprising his role as Flynn from the original film and Garrett Hedlund has been cast as Sean Flynn, his son, and for those of you that like House or The OC, you can join me in rejoicing at the involvement of Olivia Wilde. Why? Because the cyber-world of Tron is about skin-tight bodysuits.

Pop-culture website CC2K has posted a review of an early draft of the script, one that lists Richard Jeffries as the lone writer, while production info and IMDB lists Lost-scribe Adam Horowitz sharing the writing duties. Also, the draft doesn’t reference Sean Flynn, rather a character named “Rush” who has since been converted to the younger Flynn.

The review is detailed, geek-nitpicking speculation, but we do get some hints of possibly-great things:

Apple Lisa
The code monkeys in the beginning have to break out an old Apple Lisa – one of Steve Jobs’ biggest boondoggles – to hack into the old mainframe. Awesome.
Flynn as an urban legend
Around Encom, it’s become the stuff of myth that Flynn actually went into the computer. Nice touch.
Hub City
We finally get a close look at a “city” in the cyber-world, where Encom’s operatives are running advertisements everywhere that X-Net is the latest and greatest thing.
Data surfing
While on the run, Rush, Krod, et al, have to surf along waves of data. Could go either way, but it’s a neat idea.
Memory leak
Memory leak, a pretty common problem for programmers, as I understand, is a deadly green sludge in the cyber-world. Cool.

If you think that 2011 and a few script drafts put enough distance between you and the spoilers, CLICK HERE to read the whole she-bang.

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Poster

Liam — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:04:28 +0000

MTV Movies Blog got first look at a new poster for Simon Pegg’s How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, which also stars Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges.

Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young’s disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney’s descent into success – his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes – and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.

Review: Iron Man

Liam — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Since the beginning of the comic book-to-movie boom, there have been many attempts to turn each superhero into a blockbuster movie franchise. Sometimes it has worked, and other times it was pronounced DOA.

Without exaggeration, Iron Man is one of the best superhero movies I have ever seen. Jon Favreau had some amazing source material, updated it for the 21st Century, and led us awaiting fans into superhero heaven. The movie literally starts with a bang and hardly stops for you to take a breath until the credits roll (and then you’re just anxious to see the Samuel L. Jackson cameo!)…

You have all seen the movies that make even great actors stumble. Put a cat suit on Halle Berry and all you want to do is bury your head in the litter box. (You get my drift.) But this movie seemed to do the direct opposite. This wasn’t some dumbed down version of the movie so the kiddies could understand, but was built on a smart and oftentimes very witty script that brought the best out of all the actors.

Robert Downey Jr. is in his element with the role of Tony Stark. He has just enough cockiness to pull off the image of a spoiled bachelor who’s the kind of guy to sleep with a woman and have his assistant show her the door the next day, but sincere enough that you believe when he wants to try and help the very people his company’s products (weapons) put in harm’s way. Hopefully this is the resurgence of his career, as I’d like to see him in many more roles. At least we have 2010 to look forward to if nothing else!

Gwyneth Paltrow is able to pull of the pleasing assistant, Pepper Potts, with elegance, even though it is a smaller role than she is used to. She didn’t seem to do the movie just for the money, but put her acting skills to good use! Terrance Howard is great as usual, and there’s not much more to say about his performance than that. And Jeff Bridges is believable in his role as Tony’s frienemy (friend turned enemy!).

Is it even necessary to mention the special effects? Probably not, but I’m going to anyway. AMAZING. There aren’t any big green giants, blue furry beasts, or even any web slinging. This superhero is based on technology, and it was made real by the incredible job the SFX team did! The Iron Man suit, REAL. Yes, RDJ actually suited up, and it looked incredible. MAJOR PROPS! And the action scenes are truly a sight to see. You could almost feel every blow (I’d imagine the subwoofers in the theater had something to do with that!), and you were RIGHT THERE with the action. None of that long lens crap, but right up in the face of it all. This is DEFINITELY one of those movies you need to see on the BIG SCREEN…!

If you go to one superhero movie this summer (okay, two, because you’re not going to want to miss Batman!), GO SEE THIS ONE. I know I mention it every time I talk about Iron Man, but it STILL has an 8.4 rating on IMDb after a massive 27,000 votes! THAT MEANS SOMETHING!

Seriously, and again without exaggeration: 10/10.