Friday is Going to Burn You Alive
Well, only if you are Nicolas Cage. And actually, if you were Nicolas Cage, then some of the films you have made in the last ten years or so might well merit a rampaging witch-hunt by some of the more embittered members of the acting community as you comically jam your two facial expressions (grim determination and spastic incomprehension) into one tedious, one-dimensional character after another for millions of dollars in reward, while they subsist on the breadline only by waiting table and selling their tender little chocolate blossoms in the backstreets for an insulting pittance.
Actually, maybe Song, by Toad should be looking to start some sort of ‘Burn Nicolas Cage campaign’. It would be a righteous mission and I think we could get a lot of people on board.
Erm, not sure how that started. Oh yes, Wickerman. Myself, Mrs. Toad and several of Scotland’s finest young bands will be heading down to the Wickerman Festival this weekend (that’s why I was thinking of burning Nicolas Cage). I am trying not to work too hard, so I haven’t arranged an awful lot of interviews, and I will not be taking the video camera with me.
What I will try and do though is record a podcast, or maybe two, while we’re there. I’ll be taking our wee Tascam voice recorder and my Blue Snowflake microphone and will try and get some bits and pieces from the bands and some chat and so on and upload it all on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I have no idea about the press facilities though, so god knows how successful this little plan is likely to be. If it all fails, I will simply upload a podcast on Sunday afternoon when we get back. So you’ll have to wait, but it will happen, promise.
In the meantime let’s get Five-tastic… no, sorry, that’s a disgraceful turn of phrase, I can’t countenance that sort of garbage. Come on then, spit out your Friday Fives and remember that Fridays are de-lurking amnesties, open to all and sundry and especially encouraged for those who have never commented before. Could this be your day? Go on, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
1. Most hated pointless remake of a classic film.
2. Mostly guiltily loved pointless remake of a classic film (no, Star Wars as a remake of The Fortress does not count).
3. Favourite Nic Cage film.
4. Most abysmal Nic Cage film.
(I’ll even help you with those – no need to know much, or even to care, just click here.)
5.Name another wooden beefcake actor who irritates the living shit out of you.
Is this post sexist?
Bonnie Prince Billy (fuck his fucking quotation marks) – You Will Miss Me When I Burn
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Sargasso Trio – It’s Hot in Hell
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Bruce Springsteen – I’m On Fire
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang – Hellfire & Damnation
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Fortunately, the festival will be over by Sunday, but rain is never a bad bet in Scotland:
The Groove Farm – It Always Rains on Sunday
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1. Fuck me, there are so many. The Italian Job, Planet of the Apes maybe. But really, I look at The Taking of Pelham 123 being advertised at the moment and I fear for the fate of one of the greatest movies in history – Walther Matthau and Robert Shaw, dontcha know.
2. The original Casino Royale was atrocious, and I love Peter Sellars. Although I suppose it might be stretching it to call this a ‘movie remake’, when actually it’s more like a second interpretation of the same book. The Rick Moranis Little Shop of Horrors, on the other hand, shits on all previous versions. It is genius.
3. Probably Raising Arizona (Fast Times at Ridgemont High doesn’t count, the useless fucker wasn’t in it for long enough).
4. Oooh, this is like picking Michael Jackson’s maddest moment! How about World Trade Centre, for the sheer magnitude of the hubris.
5.Well the likes of JC van Damme and Stephen Seagull are just funny. I find Russell Crowe irritating as all hell when he plays a beefcake though (except for LA Confidential where I thought he was excellent), but perhaps my most hated beefcake actor is Matthew McConaughey. He has been okay in the past, he has bigger tits than Jessica Alba despite his vanishing hair, and his CV for the last ten years has been the most depressing list of lazy, vacuous, piss-poor drivel known to man. If you’re going to be a slack, lazy bastard, at least lose the comedy man-boobs.
1: A channel 5 style remake of Vanishing Point. The point of the film did quite literally vanish.
2: The cowboy film about the train going to Yuma or whatever. The remake was OK, not great but the original is utter pump and that’s what sprang to mind.
3: Toss between Leaving Las Vegas and Red Rock West.
4: Con Air
5: Danny Dyer? Does he count? If even in a scheemie sort of way?
These kind of fives just remind me that I haven’t seen anywhere near enough classic film. I fear most of my answers will be cop outs..
1. Does War of the Worlds counts, after Jeff Wayne’s awesome musical theatre version? Please say yes. This is one of my most hated modern day films. I have never seen a classic tale so utterly turned on it’s head and lost in vacuous family values. Eurgh.
2. Errmmm….absolutely no idea. Remakes are a genre I tend to avoid.
3. Can you believe it, on flicking through IMDB I have only seen one of his films. And that definitely doesn’t fit this category.
4. Con Air
5.Clive Owen. King Arthur a “man in conflict” my arse.
Fuck me that’s a post title to brighten your eyes in the morning. I never bothered seeing the Wickerman remake for the reason of his lack of acting prowess.
Onto the 5-for (Ashes season and all that)
1) Planet of the Apes, Quarantine ([rec] is fantastic)
2) I really enjoyed The Ring (and it did make me go and watch the original Ring0 which is just terrifying so that’s a bonus)
3) Face/Off was fun. And I like Travolta generally for my sins…
4) National Treasure is an atrocious film and he’s terrible in it. That would be two stains right there.
5) Keanu Reeves. I mean Christ how the fuck does he get work. His single expressionless face was perfect for the first matrix, but he is aweful in everything else
1. It’s not even out yet, but Will Smith’s playing Daniel Son is just wrong, wrong, wrong
2. does the Lord of the Rings count? surely it must as there was that half finished cartoon version that came before
3. Knowing, purely becuase that’s the last one i saw, and as i have a memory like a gold fish that’ll do nicely
4. knowing – for the same reasons as above
5. matthew mcconaughey – if ever a man deserved bad AIDs it would have to be him
Is this post sexist?
no
Sexy?
yes
Is Quarantino an abbreviation of Quentin Tarantino? It should be!
I actually loved Con Air, simply because it is so crap. And that Steve Buscemi scene with the little girl in the empty swimming pool is terrifying.
I hated Face/Off I have to confess, more because of what it did to my opinion of John Woo than anything else.
This is in danger of turning into another Star Trek thread, isn’t it.
1. I am Legend – remake of The Omega man. Not that the original was all that great. But at least it was truer to the book!
2. Most definitely – Dawn of the Dead remake. Soooo much scarier. Instills a true fear of shopping centres!
3. Gone in 60 seconds. Not because Nic is good in it (he isn’t). But there is some mighty fine automobilia involved.
4. Can’t even remember what it was called it was so bad …. the one where he turns into some kind of motorbike-riding skullhead. Utter tripe.
5.Agree wholeheartedly with Becky, above . Definitely Clive Owen. Not so much a beefcake as an complete plank ;0)
David
‘Bad AIDS’ does somewhat imply that there’s a good kind, Peenko.
‘Just popping down the shops for a spot of AIDS darling’
‘Oh well, make sure you get the good kind, that bad kind was a bugger last time.’
1. I try to avoid them as much as possible. They’ve sequel’d, remade and ‘re-imagined’ Halloween so many times – now they’re remaking Halloween 2. A remake of a sequel. Jesus Christ.
Most pointless remake is maybe something like Mirrors – if you’re going to remake a japanese horror film, at least pick a good one.
Or the remake of Rear Window, with Christopher Reeve. Which was quite obviously a case of “Shit, Christopher Reeve is in a wheelchair. What film can we put him in?”.
2. Some are good. Really, if done well, and if they bring some ideas of their own. Like the Thing – a remake of a 50s B-Movie, and probably one of the best horror films ever made.
3. Wild At Heart. Absolutely no contest.
4. Face/Off. Piece. Of. Shit.
5. I concur – Keanu Reeves. Probably not beefcake. He just seems to have had a charisma bypass at some point – probably not long after making the Bill and Ted films.
also, the film you’re think of that Star Wars is supposedly based on is Kurosawa’s the Hidden Fortress, or – to give the literal translation title, which I just discovered and find amusing – Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress. I’m not aware of a film called the Fortress. Fortress has Chrisopher Lambert in it. It is not good.
Also also, watched [rec] quite recently, and it’s amazing. You’re a good man, Tim.
1. City of Angels (Wings Of Desire – my favourite film ever)
2. Define ‘classic’, really. Where I much prefer the originals I do like the US version of The Ring, ditto Departed/Infernal Affairs. But my all time remake would be John Carpenter’s The Thing (orig. The Thing From Another World). It’s not a guilty pleasure, I just think it’s one of the best genre films ever made.
3. Con Air or Wild At Heart
4. Ghost Rider. Ab. So. Lut. Ely. Fuck. Ing. A. Tro. Cious.
5. I recently watched JCVD & was surprised as to how good the acting was – it’s not a beefcake ‘em up but a deconstruction of the whole genre. Very good film. Anyway, Joaquin Phoenix. Don’t know if he’s considered Beefcake but he does strip the enamel from my teeth.
Actually, I did forget Broken Arrow. I love that film.
Actually I just realised I was mistaking Hairline for Jawline; ignore the Broken Arrow remark.
1. To be fair, the new Italian Job would have been a perfectly acceptable fun little numb-brained heist/adventure romp had they not tried to shoehorn in the association with the classic Michael Caine movie, although that’s probably the only way they got a good handful of big names involved. I really enjoyed the original Taxi, and the American remake with – was it Queen Latifah? – was just puerile. Has to be The Wicker Man though. The original was on telly the other night actually, and I thought of you Matthew. Look, it’s The Trembling Bells! Sorry, sorry..
2. I actually think the Brosnan Thomas Crown Affair is a lot more enjoyable than the McQueen one.
3. I really like The Rock. That’s just a big, daft, great movie.
4. Next was just stupid and annoying. Looks like he’s got some stinkers coming up too. Ghost Rider 2, anyone? How about Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans? Mmmm.. Can’t wait for those!
5. Tom Cruise is awful when he does action.
Ooh, Clive Owen for five. Good call!
1. Planet of the Apes, I am Legend…..in fact most remakes are shite
2. Star Trek (tho i never thought of it as pointless)
3. The Rock
4. dunno, looking at that list, there are all just very fucking average,
5. Becky has just reminded me how awful that King Arthur movie was….shite in a glass….tho i do think ben stiller is shite, and he just covers it up by calling it comedy!
Good AIDs vs Bad AIDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNs2mOkKzc
Could I have had the Hollywood remake of Pride and Prejudice too? That would suffice for my cop out number one.
I just don’t get that a large percentage of the population seems to judge Clive Owen as a man of talent. No media above the rank of Cosmo would say the same about McConaughey or however you spell his name. But so many people appreciate the Owen. Why?!
It’s his voice that bothers me.
And his face.
Pure comedy gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
ahhhh, not the bees, they’re in my eyes
1. Oh god, there’s just too many to choose from: Assault on Precinct 13 was exceptionally piss-poor.
2. There was a made-for-tv rip off of Groudhog Day where they tried to explain it all with a radioactive accident. It was actually quite good, but I’ve no idea what it was called.
3. Well, The Rock, Face/Off, and Con Air were pure wham-bam genius, but really only qualify as guilty pleasures. Lord of War, however, was actual genius.
4. The second National Treasure was even worse than the first (so why did I watch it if the first one was so godawful? I’m a sucker for popcorn, that’s why).
5. Christian Fucking Bale
Ooh… Bit of action near the Bowery!
1. Probably Alfie, Jude Law is rather nice to look at, but he’s just not as cool as Michael Caine and he really thinks he is
2. You’ve Got Mail, aw it’s just pure nice. I remember watching it for the first time thinking ‘wow, email what’s that?’ and look at us now.
3. That one when he wins the lottery and gives half to a random waitress, makes you believe there’s good in us all
4. City of Angels, I still feel robbed by the ending.
5. Jean Claude Van Damme or JCVD as he apparently likes to be known. I hate him sooooo much, I’m sure he is a lovely guy on some level but when he’s on I just want to put my foot through the screen
Actually, if we’re rating remakes against the originals the new Ocean’s 11 was much better than the old one. Still not a great film, though, and the sequels were atrocious.
1. Hitchcock remakes are utterly pointless. If you’re not convinced then consider the following…
Psycho – Anne Heche as Marion Crane and Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates with Gus Van Sant directing it all shot for shot.
A Perfect Murder – a remake of Dial M For Murder with Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Rear Window – with the quadriplegic Christopher Reeve in the James Stewart role and Daryl Hannah in the Grace Kelly role.
There are rumours that Michael ‘Transformers’ Bay will direct a remake of The Birds.
I’ve never understood why anyone could be so arrogant as to even consider remaking what’s considered a classic film. Leave them the fuck alone people!
Actually, the only person allowed to remake a Hitchcock film is Hitchcock himself – he has you know, The Man Who Knew Too Much.
2. I know that they’ve been mentioned already but these are actually bloody good remakes – Dawn of the Dead. Little Shop of Horrors. Ocean’s Eleven. The Thing.
3. Absolutely, without doubt, Raising Arizona.
4. Ghost Rider – there was an embarrassing lack of chemistry between Cage and his character’s love interest played by Eva Mendes .
5. Jean-Claude Van Damme and that high scissor-kick thing that he does – not much use for fighting your way out of confined spaces – I’ll have to take DC’s word for JCVD being a good film as I have no intention of wasting 2 hours of my life watching the Muscles from Brussels
JCVD was shocking, think it’s one for the boys.
Talking about Matthew McConaughey, what are people’s thoughts on Sahara the adventure romp with him, Steve Zahn and Penelope Cruz?
I actually thought it was a surprisingly good popcorn movie. Pacey, action-packed. Pleasing characters. Okay, preposterous plot, but no more so than any Bond movie, and at least the threads of the story tied themselves off neatly enough.
I’m generally a fan of Steve Zahn, but I thought McConaughey was actually okay in this one too.
he totally loves himself
TWOTH – you should check Lifepod.
It’s Hitchcock’s Lifeboat – SET IN SPACE.
Amazing.
George Clooney and Naomi Watts have got their names down for the Birds remake, apparently.
Due out in 2011.
1. The Coen brothers remake of The Ladykillers. I love them, but c’mon, there’s no way you can improve on the original.
2. I don’t know if it’s guiltily loved or even strictly a remake but Shadow of The Vampire was pretty good. Willem Defoe and Eddie Izzard look scarily like the original actors in the remade silent films.
3. Raising Arizona
4. Snake Eyes was pish. “Ooh, look at us spunking the whole first reel on a single tracking shot. Up yours Scorcese”. Bollocks.
5. And I’ll go with Keanu Reeves too.
1. I have changed my mind 10 times over reading every one else’s answers, but i will have to go with DC as the winner – Wings of Desire was stunning – City of Angels, utter utter utter shit
2. With fear of failing the test due to copying – the Ring. pretty scary remake, original a bit too scary – slept with the lights on for a week and a half!
3. Con Air – not an amazing movie by any account, but i like John Malkovich in it.
4. City of bleugh!
5. Sean Connery – i don’t even care if he is a relevant answer. i think he is shit!
Ooh Ladykillers and Alfie are really really awful – good choices!
I have to say I went to the cinema to see the remake of Rollerball a few years ago, and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life.
I don’t know nearly enough about films to answer most of these questions. Please feel free to put me in my place.
1. Godzilla or Kong. I didn’t understand the point of the originals so why even make a crap remake?
2. I really don’t know.
3. He’s an awful actor, but I don’t mind Con Air or The Rock as harmless films.
4. Face Off – by a mile.
5. Orlando Fucking Bloom
why would you go and see the remake of Rollerball?
Cos the original is great.
And at the time I had one of those monthly passes, so I ended up sitting though a lot of crap.
the original is great….if i was you i would have just got that out on DVD or something!
Hang on, hang on – Ladykillers wasn’t that bad at all. JCVD was a bloody good film. There was no pretending it was anything but a microscope looking at the pointlessness of the genre it was crapping on. JCVD was quite brave to do it, in my opinion. I don’t like the cunt or his back catalogue, I have to say, but that film was a very pleasant surprise.
There hasn’t been a good remake of Godzilla aince the 1980s kids’ cartoons.
Cloverfield was overhyped pish.
And don’t mention that Matthew Broderick debacle! I’ve never seen such a woefully mis-cast movie in my life. No-one was right for their role…
& I agree with TWoTH, tho: Dawn Of The Dead is an excellent remake.
1. Unfortunately, I’m pretty much the antithesis of a film buff so I’m going to struggle with all of these questions. I wish someone had made a good Transformers movie so I could have the current crop for this question. I’ll plum for The Italian Job as I’ve seen that and pretty much everyone else has mentioned it.
2. God, I don’t even know. Probably something I didn’t realise was a remake.
3. To IMDB for a list of Nic Cage films… Oh, he’s been in quite a lot hasn’t he? I think I’ve only seen three. I’m going with Face/Off.
4. I’m going to assume ‘Bangkok Dangerous’ was abysmal.
5. Arnie. I fucking hate Arnie. He’s rubbish.com
Although, regarding the Broderick Godzilla, it does feature the only Jamiroquai song that I can get anywhere near even considering beginning to tolerate.
Bart, I thought you were joking and I’m a little scared to discover you weren’t making it up. Lifepod, good grief that sounds bad.
Dylan, you don’t happen to have George Clooney’s number on you? I want to ring him to tell him he’ll be making the biggest mistake of his life if he goes ahead with The Birds remake. No, wait a minute, he’s already made the biggest mistake of his life, that was Batman and Robin.
Oh, of course there was ‘Transformers:: The Movie’ – I am failing miserably today.
Batman and Robin, though a terrible movie, is forgiven in my eyes because it’s Batman. I love Batman. Infact the only films I really care about are Batman and Withnail, and I.
1. I heard that Robocop was in the process of being remade. Pointless as fuck.
2. The Parent Trap (sssh)
3. Leaving Las Vegas, brilliant.
4. Con Air “Put the bunny. Back. In the box”. Twat.
5. Vinnie Jones or as I like to call him, cunty baws.
Oh, cock. For 5. I should have had Vin Diesel, or The Rock.
Actually, the Robocop films were fucking abortions purely because they were lacking the techie know how to pull off the vision. A remake, in today’s tech climate, would perhaps do the idea some service.
TWoTH: Janey Godley has Clooney’s number & I have hers. Swap you for a gobble.
RoboCop is being remade by Darren Aronofsky though – who did Requiem for a Dream and the Wrestler. So it’ll probably be brutal as fuck – no doubt a little bit pretentious (though Verhoven claims the original is allegorical to the story of Christ), but at least has potential.
I just think they’re going to throw a lot of daft pointless effects at it.
DC, thanks for reminding me. I’ll get in touch with Janey directly, then there’ll be no need for any gobbling.
Sorry Bart, didn’t see your post Darren Aronofsky probably wont throw a load of daft pointless effects.
Sorry Bart, didn’t see your post, Darren Aronofsky probably wont throw a load of daft pointless effects at it. I await the remake with nervous anticipation.
bart. you actually appear to know more about film than about music. how is that possible?! i know the answer is probably you studied it at uni. but still. it’s not fair.
I can be an anal know it all prick about more than one subject.
It’s not really something to be proud of.
And you know more about buildings than me.
Vin Diesel is genuinely shocking in films like xXx and Fast and Furious and the like but I’d say he proved his worth in Pitch Black.
I choose to ignore The Chronicles of Riddick. That was unbelievable pish. Even the acting royalty of Judi Dench couldn’t save that nonsense.
Don’t tell me Bart’s been in every film ever made as well as every band!
Bart makes curry
1. Psycho – shot by shot remake with Vince Vaughn. Need I say more?
2. Hmm. I quite liked Clooney’s Solaris remake.
3. Wild At Heart. Conversely, my least favourite Lynch film.
4. So much choice, but I’m going to go with… Trapped in Paradise. Saw it once on daytime telly when I was off work and Cage wasn’t the worst thing in it, so you know it’s REALLY bad.
5.Blinded by my hatred of Cage, I’m finding this one tough. I find the less acting these guys try, the more I can tolerate them. So Diesel gets away with playing Riddick over and over, the Rock is just playing his camp wrestler and Arnie is still a wooden Austrian body builder who can deliver dead-pan one-liners. I’m going to say Keanu Reeves, because he was clearly told at some point that he can do this acting thing. He can’t.
1. Possibly The Wickerman – although I’ve never actually seen it I’m sufficiently annoyed at the very idea of it for it to count. I avoid remakes I don’t want to see. Although actually I really really hated almost all of Peter Jackson’s King Kong – the New York bits were okay, very pretty and nicely done. The island, though, gave up on being a film and substituted a videogame narrative – it doesn’t matter how many wee bad beasties there are after you, once you’ve hit x percent of them you’ve cleared the level and the rest will go away. Complete bollocks.
2. A Fistful of Dollars is virtually a shot for shot remake of Yojimbo but is still absolutely brilliant.
3. It’s a toss up between wild at heart or raising arizona, although I have a guilty pleasure thing about Peggy Sue Got Married as well.
4. It’s one I haven’t seen, that’s good enough for me.
5.Tom Cruise. I’m secretly madly in love with Keanu but you’re not allowed to tell.
I just heard the loudest thunder EVER! It was pretty scary and people in the lab dropped things.
same here!!!!
where are you becky
I didn’t hear it, but Tom did.
tom and becky must be close to each other.
cause i didn’t hear it. are you not just about 10 muinutes from me tom???
you must have heard it Euan…..it was like the Castle falling of the hill
off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t hear it out here at The Gyle.
But I expect they’ve probably soundproofed The Gyle so the rest of Edinburgh doesn’t have to hear the screaming.
I’m at the Western General. It was pretty awesome.
I heard nothing. Maybe I was in the toilet.
We got a bit of a rumble in Morningside, but nothing particularly spectacular.
Can Friday be over now please? And can football start again? Thanks xx.
maybe it was you shitting euan that caused the rumble
now the rain
Ooh, that’s spooky.
I thought “what rain?” because it’s sunny out here at the Gyle, but if I look out the other windows back at the city centre I can see it raining.
Weird..
Stockbridge had thunder AND LIGHTNING. It was cool.
Not only did I hear the thunder (I’m only upstairs from Becky, and even I’m not that deaf) I also did a little girly yelp and had to admit to my 16-year old work experience student that I am, indeed, afraid of thunder..
anyhow..
1. Most remakes are totally pointless. Saw the American remake of a Korean film, Internal Affairs, can’t remember the American title, but it had both Leonardo di Caprio and the other one in it and I couldn’t tell them apart and got very confused (okay so I was tired and our telly is small)
2. Nope, can’t think of one
3. Leaving Las Vegas
4. Never been a big fan of Raising Arizona (controversial I’m sure)
5. The other one, the guy who was in all the Bourne films. Just can’t think of his name..
And I agree Clive Owen has been in some stinkers but he was alright in Children of Men, surely? ditto Christain Bale and the Machinist..
yep Children of Men was really good
I watched Christian Bale’s rant on youtube, I liked him until I saw that. What an arse.
It’s sunny here now.
Matt Damon*
(*Spoken in his Team America voice)
baka laka laka
1. Psycho was probably the worst, but The Wickerman & Halloween were close. I just hope they leave The Wizard of Oz and Harold & Maude alone.
2. Throw Momma From the Train (a twisted update on Strangers on a Train).
3. Wild at Heart or Leaving Las Vegas, depends on my mood.
4. Anything he’s made in recent years. I stopped watching after Con Air.
5. I doubt he counts as beefcake, but Dane Cook annoys the hell out of me.
1. I haven’t seen too many remakes but I can imagine the Italian Job was piontless and I refused to watch Ladykillers. I once saw an american 70′s remake of a All quiet on the western front (the original is just great) which had John Boy from that american cheesy soap/drama !!.
2. Can’t think of one just now
3. Raising Arizona or Wild at Heart although Red Rock west was ok too
4. I guess Snake Eyes but I haven’t actually seen the film just the trailer was enough for me.
5 I guess Vin Deisel (if only for his shit name)
Err that last set of answers for i are scientist are actually mine, just forgot to change the name thing whoops
And I not only heard the thunder but was stood outside (with waterproofs on it has to said)during the very heavy downpour. Not nice
W
It’s not quite a re-make but the latest Star Trek movie was a tad rubbish although the film ‘Moon’(out now folks) was very good in my humble opinion.
What do you mean Vin Diesel’s a shit name? He at least lets you know in advance of ever seeing him or any of his films that they are going to be total pish. It’s honest.
Yes burn Nic Cage, Kevin Costner and Tom Cruise. And the only good remake was Oceans Eleven. And Hitchcock should be left alone and TWoTH always know best xoxox
(and fuck the rest of your questions, is no one rebellious on this site anymore?)
Movies are so male-dominant!
1. Star Trek II through XVII
2. The video for Star Trekkin’ by The Firm
3. The Wrath of Cage
4. The Bath of Cage
5. Nimoy
What the fuck is wrong with Matt Damon??????
Oh yes, Matt Damon, that’s the one. There’s something about his prettyboy face that just makes me want to slap it..
Ooh bit of simultaneous posting there, but in answer to Euan, just, I don’t know, everything. The slappable face, complete absense of talent, the way he got lauded by seemingly everyone for writing that godawful Good Will Hunting with Ben sodding Affleck.
Who should actually I now realise have been my choice for 5) as he is even more annoying, if that were possible.
Matt Damon*
Ah, the quotation marks which Media player keeps putting back in every time I delete them.
I’m with Euan on this one
1. I don’t think I’ve ever seen BOTH a remake AND the original. But I’ll say the new version of Escape to Witch Mountain, although I think that was actually a sequel? Hard to say.
2. Mmpf. Cannot answer, for the same reason as above. I will venture to say that return to Oz is supremely superior to ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
3. Zandalee.
4. Red Rock West
(I don’t think I have ever seen a movie with him in it.)
5. Is Nicolas Cage considered a beefcake?
There was very loud thunder right over our house today. It made the drug mules jump. (This a response to Wilf’s comment, not a complete non-sequitur.)
1) State of Play. In the English series the female lead was a journalist and partner o the lead. Friends, who respected each other. In the American one she was a gossip journalist looking to leach of Russel Crowe’s excess credibilty. I think. I only saw a synopsis. But that conviced me I would never watch the film. Really really offensive. America: Ready for a black president. Not ready for a woman who isn’t plucky, witch or a whore. Grumble. Although State of Play was hardly a classic. It was really good though.
2) Oceans 11. I’m so boring.
3) Has he been in anything good? Nothing springs to mind.
4) Treasure Hunt. Damn you aeroplanes!!! Not even as good as The Da Vinci code. Not even that good.
5) Russel Crowe. Although he can be good I suppose. Occasionally. Oh yeah, Al Pacino. Should have been shot after Godfather II. Also, would have been a better ending.
I actually like Matt Damon too. Tends to be good. And he was ace in Bourne(s).
You know who I hate? Johnny Depp! Damn you with your integrity, chiseled good looks, easy charm, worldly, disarming demeanor, excellent range and fine body of work. I hate you! I hate you so much!
Oh Ben, it gets even worse in State of Play. She’s not a gossip columnist. She’s a, … wait for it, …. BLOGGER gossip columnist. And the only saving grace is that there is no sexual tension between them either in the plot as written nor accidently between the two actors, whew!!! Russell Crowe spends most of the film teaching her about the importance of cross checking sources. She spends mist if the film trying to be Wunona
Fucking iPhone! That would be Winonia Ryder
Are you fucking serious? That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! Come here baby and let a man explain a little something to you about real journalism. She might as well been given his fucking shirts to iron.
Disgrace!
It’s one step up from “Well, I don’t know much about Journalism, but I do think kittens are aweully fluffy”.
Bastard fuckwits!!!!
Favourite comment on ‘State of Play’ was from David Morrisey, who starred in the original, when he was asked if he’d been to see the remake, said ‘no, it would be like going to the wedding of an ex girlfriend you were still in love with’.
I quite like Kevin Costner, mainly because of Robin Hood which is one of the best crap films ever (even if it’s Alan Rickman who really makes it so) although also for ‘No Way Out’ which is great. I liked ‘Waterworld’ too, also in a ‘great crap film’ way.
oh Adam, and to think I used to care about you so.
sad, truly sad.