S Marine corps.
I wrote a post (ages ago) about Singer, and his new film but at that point the only information we had was here-say and conjecture through a friend-of-a-friend. Now my boy turned up an interesting little promotional piece on a camera rental site all about Singer and his new documentary.
The article is largely a puff piece about the camera he s using but there are some interesting bits of information buried in it:
The film I’m making now is about a Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance Platoon. It’s a special-purpose unit roughly analogous to the Navy SEALs or the Army’s Green Berets and widely recognized as the special forces of the Marine Corps. Force Recon personnel, or operators, perform highly specialized, small scale, high-risk operations and receive a variety of specific training that far exceeds that of a regular Infantry Marine.
They are independent, work in very small teams and conduct the majority of their business well beyond enemy lines. The type of missions that come down the pipeline for a Force Platoon to execute are normally the ones that you never get to hear about because they are either very risky or tend to be classified. I’ve been given the opportunity to be the first civilian ever to be allowed to follow them.
Warriors is currently filming at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
I have a lot of love for , and this is why. Occasionally they just throw up some really obscure film that generally would juts pass under the radar of most people, including me.
Hank and Mike appears to be that kind of film
Two blue-collar Easter bunnies get fired and try their hand at an assortment of odd jobs, failing at each. Fighting depression, debt and eventually each other, their lives start to unravel until they realize that without their job they are nothing. They fight to get their jobs back from Easter Enterprises and possibly save Easter in the process.
Who doesn t like to see grown men in easter bunny costumes fighting, smoking and on occasion hugging each other?
Check out the trailer for Hank and Mike (Quicktime movie, direct link)
I like to feel like i m not easily manipulated, and the trailer for I now pronounce you Chuck Larry looks rubbish..
but there s two things that sucked me in; 1. Adam Sandler in non-weird voice mode being violent low-brow humour I realise, but well Happy Gilmore nuff said, 2. Jessica Biel rating high on the ridiculously-hot-o-meter.
I m a sap . I know it.
The man on the tv told me to do it!
!!.
. I didn t mean to hurt them!
So you may, or may not have noticed that there s been a lack of posts over the past week, and there s a good reason for that.
I was away from the solace homestead and gallivanting around Moscow for a week not for fun however but as part of my day job, which appears to be all I do in between writing and sleeping. Even bloggers have to pay the bills.
So I missed a lot of news while I was away and rather than appearing late to the party and trying to pass it off like I was here all along, lets do a quick recap previously on 24 .
beep.. beep beep style for the past week
Video wise some interesting shit dropped; there was a at The Golden Compass which looks cool, and I m just hoping it s not Narnia-style weak.
The the proper trailer for Gaimen s Stardust which makes me wonder how long we would have had to wait for the trailer if the weird sfx mashup-trailer hadn t been leaked . A big set of Grindhouse clips , but I can t lay any testament to the quality as I ve watched everything I could up until this point and I read the scripts so I think I ve already ruined it enough for myself.
for new Emily Blunt thriller/horror film Wind Chill looks pretty standard and forgettable, but luckily I have a weird thing for snow-based horror, possibly just due to The Thing s legacy.
Then yesterday a proper HD trailer for 28 weeks later (thankfully not embedded in the Fox-Atomic s crappy flash page) but I m still finding it really hard to gather any excitement about the film at all even when there s screaming zombies running around. Which is really saying something because if the undead are involved my quality-meter is really . really low.
Stills-wise and posters there was also some interesting stuff happening this week .well actually there were some uninteresting spy photos from , but Aintitcool got at the Transformers 1-sheet posters and there was of the massive varicose vein covered in skin that is Sly Stallone on the set of Rambo 4 . Oh and there was in the ozzie Spider Man 3 trailer.
I d rate it safely up there with my favourite film of last year, Children of Men , as the kind of intelligent, chilling and balls-to-the-wall thrilling kind of film that the majority mega-budget overblown sci-fi flicks dream of becoming.
An excellent cast with stand out performances from Cillian Murphy ( 28 days later , Batman Begins ), Chris Evans ( Fantastic 4 , not old ginger nuts) and Cliff Curtis ( Once were warriors ) really helped to lift the already decent script above the usual hammy nonsense foisted upon these kinds of stories. To be honest the real stars of this particular show were the awesome production design and top-tier special/visual effects.
Some of the sets and shots of the exterior of the ship have to be seen to be believed. Like the work seen on Children of Men , the production team have excelled in creating a believable and gorgeously detailed world for the characters to exist in and the result is never less than perfect. What struck me most was the sheer scale and quality of the VFX and SFX, leaving the overall impression of a film 10 times Sunshine s budget.
It s no exaggeration to say that the work on show here shames most of the effects that mega-bucks Hollywood sci-fi films churn out.
Another brilliant element of the film is the occasionally brooding, sometimes uplifting and always excellent soundtrack by Underworld and John Murphy (who s score for Boyle s Millions I was a fan of). Some sequences, when coupled with the also excellent sound design have to be heard to be believed and one particular crescendo (you ll know which) was seriously stunning when coupled with what you re seeing on screen.
The last thing to say is this: Sunshine is on those films, like 300 , you simply HAVE to see on the big screen, preferably on the biggest, loudest one you can find. Trust me on this. There is no doubt it s going to lose some of the impact if your first viewing is on the small screen (even if your smalll screen is a 60 plasma).
See it big and see it loud because I ll be very surprised if Sunshine isn t in my top 5 films of 2007.
Warp X is the low budget film division of warp music, that we ve mentioned . They have several interesting projects on the go including a film called Donkey Punch written and directed by Olly Blackburn and co-written by David Bloom.
The films plot seems to follow a group of friends on a hedonistic holiday in spain, and when drink, drugs, sex and sand in their crotches leads to an accidental death on a yacht
a carefree afternoon turns into a frantic fight for survival.The film started shooting in South Africa yesterday (March 19th) and stars Jaime Winstone (daughter of Ray I wonder if he ever used the I M THE FUCKING DADDY NOW!!
line from Scum on her?)
sounds interesting enough, but i m more looking forward too the death metal band trapped in backwoods film a guy called Dominic Hailstone is making for the Warp X label.
I love it, why not make the log that he carried up the mountain on his shoulders in Rocky IV too?
(I think it was Rocky IV right?)
This particular figure is the side of beef that Rocky punched bloody in the first film. Mmmm tenderized.
Also includes a bloody smock
Any action figure that includes a bloody smock is good value for money in my book. Apparently they ve made an Ivan Drago figure as well, but I can t find a decent picture of it. I d like to buy The Meat and a Drago figure and see which one had the more refined acting ability.
you can buy The Meat from , I m sure there s some uk sites that sell it too if not there s always ebay!
I could have another whine about how the Hollywood system has no originality, about how this is a pointless remake and will probably make a little bit of cash and then sink without trace, just like all the Japanese horror remakes, and re-dos of 80 s horror films that have gone before it have done but really I m past caring.
A company called Fallout Entertainment (seems fitting) have obtained the rights to remake the classic blaxploitation film Dolemite and is being pushed forward by producer Warren Zide (Final Destination, American Pie).
The original film was based on a character created by Rudy Ray Moore and told the story of Dolemite a hustler and a pimp who uses his Kung-Fu fighting girls to reclaim his nightclub when he s released from prison.
I never liked Shaft and always found Roundtree to be well boring, especially when you put him up next to characters like Dolemite , The Mack or Super Fly . but honestly how can they make these films now?
they were a product of the 70 s and I m pretty certain pimps don t drive around in massive chrome Rolls Royce s and dress in leopard skin suits any more if they ever did. The films were exploitation and glorified pimps, prostitution and hard drugs..
really how are they going to bring that back to the box office? I d like to see it but I can t see it making it past the censors.
Admittedly Dolemite was more about the man keeping him down, cops planting drugs on him, reclaiming his nightclub and half naked women doing kung-fu so maybe they can get rid of certain elements and do it in a weird Starksy and Hutch way who knows
How do you build an instant internet audience for your mediocre pop band?
simple.. reunite the still living cast members from The Karate Kid and make a video for a song you ve written entitled Sweep the Leg
Throw in some references to Raising Arizona and make every other line of the song a direct reference to The karate Kid Ker-Blammo!
you re famous on the internet.
Johnny(William Zabka) looks exactly the same, but Bobby (Ron Thomas) AKA yeahh get him a body bag!!
looks like he s learnt about male-pattern baldness the hard way.
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