The Forbidden Kingdom
Some new posters for The Forbidden Kingdom have been released, nothing terribly exiting but they do look pretty cool.
I’m still not convinced this movie will be any good, but it has… possibilities.
The rest of the images are after the break.
The Eye
It’s a slow news day, so I’m going to post a couple of high rez pictures from The Eye, the only “guy” movie being released this week.
Don’t get excited, it’s not Jessica Alba naked or anything like that.
The Eye is another rehash of the idea of Person A getting an organ transplant from dead Person B, then Person A starts to either 1) gain new abilities of a magical/super/spiritual persuasion or 2) lose control of that body part for periods of time where said body part does it’s own thing, usually evil.
It’s a PG-13 horror movie, and as a general rule I HATE PG-13 horror movies. No real violence, no nudity, very little blood, not enough f-bombs (thus no really amusing dialogue).. it’s just an excuse to get young teenagers into the theaters.
Unless I get in the mood for a rant, I won’t be seeing this one in theaters.
A second picture is after the break.
Fatal Contact review is online
I just put the final touches on my review of Fatal Contact. In case I wasn’t clear enough, let me re-emphasize that I did enjoy the movie… if it weren’t for the ending, it might have gotten a 4th star based on the action alone. Jacky Wu Jing has some serious moves, it’s a lot of fun watching his fighting style.
One thing I can’t help but bring up though is the copy on the back of the DVD case. We all know this stuff is written by marketers and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but this time.. there’s some real problems.
The following may or may not contain spoilers, depending on your point of view. Consider this a warning.
Let me break down the copy for you:
Hailed as the next Jet Li, rising martial arts star Jacky Wu Jing
Really? I’ve never heard of Jacky up to this point, who’s doing the hailing?
explodes off the screen in his first lead role as Kong, a kung fu Olympian recruited to compete on Hong Kong’s most dangerous underground fighting circuit.
Competing is optional, and they are paid very well. I’d think the “most dangerous” fighting circuit would always be to the death, with a bunch of weapons and be run by people who blackmailed you into all your fights and then didn’t pay you. Heck, even when there is a bit of blackmail in Fatal Contact, Kong is still paid.. in cash.
As the stakes rise, he develops into an unstoppable fighting machine, built to destroy everything in his path, but can he win his freedom from a deadly criminal underworld?
Oh come on! He didn’t develop that much, he was already better than anyone he met. Destroy everything in his path? Up to the end he was always Mr. “Please and thank you”, wanting to shake hands with his opponents and everything. Deadly criminal underworld? Yeah, one guy gets killed, but Kong is unaware of it, and he’s certainly never fighting for his freedom.
… Fatal Contact features some of the year’s best fighting sequences and a shocking final showdown.
They are good fights, I’ll give them that much. But that shocking final showdown.. er.. no. The actual final fight isn’t that big of a deal, and the final “fighting” is more of a beat down. The shocking part is that the ending is there at all, it didn’t match the rest of the story and was obviously just there for “drama”.
But, it reads good so who cares about it being accurate, right?
Good Luck Chuck
I just put up a review of Good Luck Chuck as promised earlier this week. I enjoyed the movie, though it was the DVD extras and it’s “unratedness” that got it that 4th star.
There was one thing I forgot to mention the review, the blurring in the sex matrix. Now I can understand Dane wanting his junk to be blurred out, and when a woman is in a position where you’d see all the pink parts, I can understand her wanting that blurred as well… but there were several instance of blurring that would have been nothing more than a flash of bush. This was the UNRATED version people, what’s the deal?! Is there some ratio of boobs to bush in that if you show 50 flashes of the pink puppies you’re not allowed to show anything else?
I’m guessing it was a contract issue with the actresses, they agreed to appear naked and show butt/boobs but nothing else, so they had no choice but to blur stuff out in the extras.
It’s still annoying though.
Cloverfield gets 4 stars
Yep, as expected Cloverfield received a 4 star review from JC. His review is online, so go check it out.
Normally I’m the one from the mothership who waits for a movie to hit DVD before seeing it, but I might just have to hit this one in theaters. Why? It’s that plot device.. what is it that made half they audience get pissed off? Sure, someone could tell me.. but what fun would that be. Nope, I think I’ll have to head to the gigaplex to see this one.
The Bucket List
Billy Bob as added a review of The Bucket List over on the mothership. I have to say that I’m surprised with the 4 star rating, I expected 3 and only that high based on the cast. 4 stars means it’ll jump to the top of my queue as soon as it hits DVD.
I’d consider seeing it in theaters, but I’m a bit of a soft touch at times and I absolutely will not see these types of movies in a theater. Walking through my high school hallways naked, and tearing up in a theater… about equal nightmares to me.
There Will Be Blood
“Daniel Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview is an early 1900s California oil tycoon who makes Charles Foster Kane look like a sniveling pansy crying about his sled.”
Mack just turned in his review for There Will Be Blood and I love that opening line! This movie looks to be very interesting, but the subject matter and length will certainly hurt box office sales. I suspect it will do quite well on DVD, and will likely hit the Netflix queue in April.
This weekend on the big screen
Yikes, the only thing that appears to be aimed at us guys this weekend is In the Name of the King, and I don’t expect anyone from the mothership will be going to see that one.
Best bet will be to catch up on previous releases such as National Treasure 2 or I Am Legend.
I’ll be spending some quality time with my DVD player.
Olga Kurylenko is the other Bond girl
Gemma won’t have Mr. Bond all to herself in the upcoming film, Olga Kurylenko is the latest babe to be a confirmed “Bond girl”.
Once again this isn’t really “news” but made for a great excuse to go trolling for pictures of Olga. Yowza!
In the Name of the King, please don’t make me see this.
The only question I have about this movie is how in the hell Uwe Boll managed to get Jason Statham and Burt Reynolds in it. Have they not seen his other movies?! Obviously, the real story here is what dirt Uwe has on them to make them do it. We’ve seen Burt covered in petroleum jelly… what else could there be?
I have a bunch of high rez pictures from the movie, so I’ll go ahead and share.. but note how most of these look more like the set of an off-Broadway production than something you’d see on screen. For those reading via the RSS feed, I’ll spare you from downloading all of these automatically, click through to the story to see the all of them.