Midnight Screenings: "Fright Night" and "Conan the Barbarian"
Unfortunately, the theater that shows the midnight screenings didn't get "Spy Kids 4," but don't worry. Jake and I will be seeing it later on in the week.
But first, here's Brad and Sarah talking about the remake of "Fright Night."
Then Jerrid and Boyd see the new "Conan."
But first, here's Brad and Sarah talking about the remake of "Fright Night."
Then Jerrid and Boyd see the new "Conan."
The remake is an embarrassment.
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Is Sarah under the impression Russell Brand created the "rockstar" persona?
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Nope, just one very specific and identifiable rockstar persona.
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I saw the movie. That stuff has existed long before Russell Brand. Look at "Spinal Tap" and "Cocksucker Blues." And it was deliberately a fake onstage persona he was putting on; even in the interview with Charley, he was still in character.
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Just look at him when he first turned up on a show called Big Brothers Little Brother, a show about the show Big Brother(a pretty redundant concept) Everything about Russel Brand is a constructed forced persona god knows how he's managed to get popular in the US.
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Sorry it was Big Brothers Big Mouth Brand presented. To be fair why did C4 have more then one show talking about a show that had 24 hour coverage?
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Buffy dialogue is sooooo much more cheesy and fakey sounding than "Fright Night."
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Jerrid talking about the CGI blood spurt reminded me of that scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
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Wow. Sarah was a harpie in this video. Just kidding! I love you guys
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Diablo's one of the writers of the Evil Dead remake lol!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
WHY GOD WHYYYYY!!!?
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Totally agree with you on CGI Blood, Brad! Stand up for practical effects!
But I must say, I'm REALLY looking forward to the review of Spy Kids 4! you and Jake are champs, sir, for walking into that car crash of a film.
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I just came back from seeing Conan.
It started preaty good.then it just felt empty.
And the editing!My god. there was a preaty big mistake with the no-nose guy.
CGI blood,CGI background,CGI monsters...i'm tired of those.
Or other movies just make them better,so i dont notice.
The Arnold's conan will still be talked about and quoted in 10 years.
No one will remember this.
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Hey Boyd! David S. Goyer (the writer of the The Dark Knight) wrote the script for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. I guess it's going to be a dark and serious film.
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It's also a Marvel Knights production and the only other one produced under that banner was Punisher: War Zone, so yeah it'll probaly be either R-rated or very close to being one! My only complant I see with it is isn't he not suppose to be able to transform in daylight?
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Yeah, I figured Sarah would have a problem with Tennant. I expect EVERY fan girl of Doctor Who is going to throw a fit, they want David Tennant to be in everything, but AS the Doctor. Heaven forbid the man tries to do something else. I imagine she hates "Blackpool" as well.
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Okay, this rant is going to be pretty fucking long so here goes.
First, fuck Nicholas Cage. That man was a great actor in my eyes until he did the first Ghost Rider film. Now he's fudging up the 2nd? Give me a fucking break here! Johnny Blaze is no Elvis Presley wannabe chewing on jellybeans! If you want to know who the real Johnny Blaze is I highly recommend finding the older comics from the 1970s, the remakes in the 90s called ‘The Original Ghost Rider’, or you can also get a book called ‘ESSENTIAL: Ghost Rider’ which is just a collection of the comic books in black and white format that seems to be on newspaper style paper. There are four volumes that you can find at Barnes & Noble or Amazon or your local comic book shop possibly.
Here is a synopsis of the origins of Johnny Blaze and his version of the Ghost Rider. The character of Johnny Blaze is dark and brooding. He comes from a family filled with turmoil. His father, Barton Blaze, was killed in a stunt cycle accident. His mother abandoned him and his father when he was a very young child so Johnny ends up staying with the Simpson family, who owns the carnival that the Barton Blaze worked for. Crash Simpson takes young Johnny under his wing and trains young Johnny to be the best stunt cyclist in the world. Johnny Blaze becomes smitten with Crash’s daughter, Roxanne, and does all kinds of crazy stuff to impress her.
Roxanne’s mother becomes concerned with Johnny ending up like his father, Barton, and tries to stop him from doing a trick but she ends up getting killed in the process. This makes Johnny quit the industry all together.
Months later Crash Simpson tells Johnny & Roxanne that he is terminally ill with cancer. Johnny doesn’t want to lose Crash too, who has become his surrogate father. Not knowing what else to do Johnny dabbles in the occult and makes a deal with the devil to rid Crash Simpson of cancer. The devil does it, but kills Crash the next day in a horrible stunt cycle accident. After Crash’s death Johnny Blaze becomes Ghost Rider, which is inhabited by a demon named Zarathos. Zarathos is a nasty demon and will kill whenever he feels like it.
At the end of the series, which lasted from 1972 to 1983 I believe, Johnny rids himself of Zarathos and Ghost Rider and Roxanne Simpson goes missing. Skip forward to 1990.
A new Ghost Rider appears and Daniel Ketch is his host. Daniel is the half-brother of Johnny Blaze whom he never met because both him and his sister, Barbara, were given up for adoption. Barbara is killed by Blackout after Danny and her witness a mobster kill some gang member. Barbara winds up getting shot through the chest with an arrow and ends up in a hospital in a coma, but is soon killed by Blackout. Blackout is a vampire of sorts who can take out light wherever he goes. Blackout kills the girl to keep her from identifying the killer, Deathwatch.
(Rant continued on ext post.)
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Johnny Blaze by this point has grown his hair very long, started his own carnival, and has a nasty chip on his shoulder. His wife, Roxanne, is back with their two children, but goes missing again after a while. Johnny finds out that Ghost Rider is back and decides to come back to NYC to see if this Ghost Rider is the Zarathos he fought to free himself from. It turns out that this Ghost Rider and his are not one in the same.
The story does get a bit muddled towards the end when they show that Ghost Rider was originally a human named Noble Kale and that his spirit has been passed along the blood line for generations; including Johnny, Daniel, and Barbara’s mother who was a host for a time.
This great and epic story, which I found to be best when Daniel Ketch was the host, would blow your mind if put to screen. But now we’ve got two piles of shit, the newest coming out Feb. 12th, 2012, and I just sit and cry [figuratively speaking of course] over these abominations that could have been amazing if they would have used better actors, directors, writers, and a truer story to the original comic books that these movies are supposed to be spawned from.
Also, Vengeance and Johnny Blaze do not meet until Daniel Ketch is the host. Detective Michael Badalino has it out so bad for Ghost Rider that he makes a deal with the devil to take out Ghost Rider for good. Vengeance in a lot of ways is Ghost Rider’s Venom. There are many epic battles between Vengeance and Ghost Rider as well as Johnny Blaze. To me it’s dumb to take two different eras and to try and compile them into one story that just makes it all one big shit sandwich.
I am probably one of; if not the biggest Ghost Rider fan you will ever meet. I practically have every issue, I have the Midnight Sons cross tattooed on my right forearm, and if I ever have a son I’ll be naming him Daniel after Daniel Ketch. I grew up with this character in the 90s. He was my ultimate hero. Way more than Wolverine, Batman, Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Punisher, Captain America or even Superman are to others.
Ghost Rider simply dealt out vengeance to people who hurt others. You didn’t fuck with the Ghost Rider! If he got ahold of you his penance stare would sear you to your very soul and you would feel the pain you inflicted on your victim tenfold for as long as you lived!
I apologize for this long rant, I’m just a diehard fan of Ghost Rider and I don’t take to people fucking with him lightly. Much like Jillian is with Zelda, lol!
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I agree on some parts of this but David Goyer is invalved and I'm hoping with him in this he might get things back to normal not as campy as the 1st film!
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Have you actually seen the new trailer? It looks like shit. For whatever stupid reason Ghost Rider and his outfit look charred. Why? Why did they do that? That's now how he looks. The flames are from hell, not from Earth. Why did they change his motorcycle out to a ninja style crotch rocket bike? The only Ghost Rider I know who rode that type was Daniel Ketch. Why is Vengeance in this? Vengeance is Daniel Ketch's Venom, no Johnny Blaze's. I don't like when they take two versions of Ghost Rider and try to mix the two together to make one story. And what the hell is up with a kid asking Johnny how he pisses as Ghost Rider? No kid is going to ask that. You just don't do a stupid thing like that with a film that has the chance of being one epic movie. And then they flipped to Ghost Rider actually pissing flames, what the fuck? Hollywood really sucks anymore. David Goyer may be involved, but he's not going to make it better.
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Yes, I seen the trailer. (What's with people asking me if I actually seen something all the damn time?)
Ok, having a problem with th suit looking charred is like complaining about the webbing on Spider-Man's costume being raised. It's a movie a very visual medium and art departments get paid a lot to add small details like that to make things look more appealing and different. It's like complaining about the swirls on Hellboy's arm, why was the shield on Superman's chest raised, why was Batman's batsuit plaited, why is Thor's costume actually looked like armor, ect. It's because smooth surfaces aren't great to look at, and textures are. If you go to like Deviant Art and look up any comic book character and you find a really great portrait style artist they'll add details to the character that aren't in the books just so it doesn't look like somebody in a dollar store Halloween Costume.
To tell the truth I've watched the trailer about 5-6 times now and I barely noticed his bike as I'm not that into them so I don't notice vehicles that often. Even though yes the Bike is very important to the character. I was more focused on him whipping a car to death with a flaming chain and shoot fire bullets out his mouth like an old 50s cartoon character that to notice what was under his ass.
And, Best I can tell from the trailer and the wiki page of the movie Vengeance isn't in this movie the main villain is listed as being Blackout! Here: "Premise set several years after the first film, Johnny Blaze is in self-imposed exile from the world. Blaze has become a tormented soul, convinced that his powers are a curse. Former stunt man Blaze is then approached by Moreau, a member of the monastic order of Michael, the warrior angel. Moreau seeks a protector for a mother and son duo who are being pursued by a figure named Roarke – a fellow with a detailed knowledge of the Ghost Rider and his different identities over the centuries.[3]
[edit] Cast■Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider
■Johnny Whitworth as Roarke Carrigan / Blackout: The antagonist who, at the beginning, is human. He is turned into Blackout by the Devil to complete his job (which is not specified). This transformation gives him the fortitude and supernatural abilities to compete with Ghost Rider.[4]
■Ciarán Hinds as The Devil: Who is trying to take over the body of his son on the boy's birthday.[5] It is not clear whether this is intended to be the same character as Peter Fonda's Mephisto from the previous film.
■Violante Placido as Nadya[5]
■Idris Elba as Moreau[6]
■Tobias Öjerfalk in an unknown role.[7]
■Christopher Lambert as a monk:[8][9] He was required to undergo "sword training for 3 months"[10] and shave his head"
Vengeance is nowhere in there mentioned, now I don't know what the IMDB page said, but I trust Wiki more than them as there are more nerds on wiki will to keep any false info out there than IMDB.
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True, that was a stupid line that most kids wouldn't ask. But, to people like me if this was just some random independent action/horror movie that whole pissin' fire gag would've just made the movie awesome for the sake of pure WHAT THE FUCK!? And, that's why I like it. It's just so out of nowhere I'm like how the hell hasn't something like that been done before... well something like it did happen in that End of Days movie but not on this scale.
Hollywood has been screwing up movies for years it's one of those things you either get so sick of it you become jaded or become like me and go, "well this shit sandwich taste better than the last one at least."
I know just because one good writer is attached doesn't normally mean anything but he's got a pretty good track record of recent and I'm banking on him to at least gave them something good enough that even with all the crappy people with their fingers in it will not dilute it down to the point it's total crap.
Also, yeah, I'm a slight Nic Cage fan too. and I still want to see Season of the Witch even though everything I've ever heard about it said it was crap. There are a few of his films I have no interest in like Wickerman and Bangkok Dangerous because those types of movies hold no interest for me.
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All I got from this is that Nicolas Cage is awesome, but he had the gall to take a role in a movie based on a comic that he (Cage) is a fan of, so now he sucks.
Also: really? You're going to leave a really long comment about "Ghost Rider?" That just makes you look silly.
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You are 100% wrong. It doesn't make me look silly. You just look like an ass for not actually reading what I said. Nick Cage is not a real fan of the comics, if he was he would have not tried to altar the character like he did. He said when he made the first movie that he wanted to make Johnny Blaze kid friendly, that's why he had Blaze eating jelly beans instead of drinking beer. He's the one who was trying to portray Blaze as Elvis instead of portraying Blaze in the correct way, which is dark and brooding, as I would have done if I was an actor who is a fan of the series. Cage's acting has not been all that great since the 90s. He's steadily gotten worse for whatever reason. He used to be a great actor, now he's just plain shit. And I thought so long before he portrayed Ghost Rider. The last good movie I can recall seeing him in is City Of Angels, and that was back in the late 90s.
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Ok Terrance. It's time to chill out man. So Nick Cage did Ghost Rider and you didn't like it. This alone does not make him a bad actor. Do you think that there is any chance that Cage has learned from that and that he will adjust his technique accordingly. If we should punish all actors for bad roles than that means we must hate George Clooney because of Batman and Robin or Ben Afleck because of Daredevil. As for the reviews, the Fright Night remake wasn't on par with the original? Nooo. Just based on the trailers I thought that this was Fright Night as directored by Michael Bay. Seriously why so many explosions.
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I've seen the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie. It's the same bad acting as the original. And I thought Ben Afleck did a fantastic job in Daredevil, why it gets such crap is beyond me. The only thing I saw wrong was having Michael Duncan Clark play Kingpin, but I was able to get past that because he's a damn good actor. And I'm not racist for the record, I just feel continuity should always be #1 in any story telling. George Clooney always plays himself, so I didn't expect him to do anything but be him in Batman & Robin. I'm sure I'll be watching the new Ghost Rider next February, but I'm not going to expect it to be anything but the same as the first.
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And why is it live action instead of comic book form?!?!? Seriously! It should just be the comic projected onto a giant screen, with the pages flipping every couple of minutes
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lol! I figured you would eventually respond. I know you think Nicholas Cage is the world's greatest actor, but that's simply not true. Matchstick Men was boring. The Weather Man was okay, but not great. I didn't see any of the others you mentioned so I can't say how those were. And for the record, I loved your sarcasm in the beginning. I couldn't stop laughing at your rant at me. Yeah, why the fuck isn't it just pages from the book on the screen? lol! Damn bastards in Hollywood! lol! My point is that 90% of any story adaptation should be true to where it came from. They did it with the first Ninja Turtles movie, so why can't others do the same? And my only nitpicking in the original movie is Nic's acting. The rest of the first Ghost Rider film was fine by me. But you have to understand something, Brad. How would you feel if Nic Cage decided to portray you in a movie, but decided to make you a reefer addict who molests trees at night and wants to marry a gorilla at the local zoo while still living in your mother's basement, all the while Nic acts like a mix between Elvis Presely & Brian Setzer to give your character "depth and personality." Wouldn't you be a bit mad that Nic Cage didn't get you right at all? Knowing your love for Nic Cage, probably not. Not trying to offend you, just keeping things honest. Clint Eastwood is my all-time favorite actor and if he portrayed Johnny Blaze the same way I'd be mad at him too. I have my favorites, doesn't mean I can't judge their films and be upset if they don't do a great job like they've done before. You can altar some things in a story, for instance making it a modern day scene so people can relate, just as they did with Iron Man. For me, however, the personality and the overall tone of the character is what's important to me. I wasn't even that bothered with them using Caretaker in Johnny Blaze's origins, even though he didn't appear until the 2nd version of Ghost Rider came along in the comic books. But Vengeance is another story. He's Daniel Ketch's Venom. He was soley created to antagonize, stalk, and kill Daniel's Ghost Rider. That would be like using Sabretooth to antagonize and terrorize Ghost Rider. You're mixing things up and getting everything so muddled that anyone who wants to go back and read the original comic books is going to be confused. That's my point. They again, are joining two different versions of Ghost Rider together and shouldn't.
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That's a really really bad example you're giving. If Nic Cage wanted to play me in a movie, he can portray me however the hell he wants, because he's Nic Cage. Also, I really hated "The Weather Man," but his performance was outstanding. That's what I was talking about. His performances. The other movies I mentioned I loved. It's called an opinion. There is no right or wrong; it's just my opinion. So future reference don't tell me that my opinion on how I feel about Nic Cage "isn't true."
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It wasn't horrible because I was right. You wouldn't care, because he's your favorite actor, just as I stated. And I apologize for saying your feelings aren't true. That's not exactly what I meant. I just meant in my eyes that he's not the greatest. I love most of the movies he did from the 1980s and 90s. I just personally noticed he started to change the way he acts. It's way more Elvisy than Cagey, if that makes any sense. Face Off is a phenomenal film and his work hasn't really been up to par since as far as I am concerned.
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Yeah, that was still an awful example. I wouldn't give a shit how I was portrayed in a movie, because I don't care =) Also, Cage was Elvisy in the early 90's too. "Wild At Heart." And he's only done that a few times. And he's fucking amazing in "Wild At Heart."
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Yeah, you're a fan boy that's why you don't care. Me on the other hand would care cause I don't need people walking up to me not knowing me asking me if I'm really a perv like that or if I'm really that sad of a person or whatever. I'd want me portrayed correctly. Wild At Heart was amazing, but acting like Elvis in a film that's about a fucked up guy who happens to be the host for the Spirit Of Vengeance is not cool in my book, which is my point all along. If I was Marvel I would not have asked him back for a sequel. I would have gotten someone else. Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, or even Kurt Russel would work for me even though he's much older than the character.
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You just wrote 5 novels on why the "Ghost Rider" movies suck, and I'm the fanboy? Also, did you not read what I said. I wouldn't care how ANY actor would portray me in a movie. Not just Cage.
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Haha! You're really trying to debate Brad on Nicolas Cage? Nicolas Cage started doing a neo-Elvis performance in the late 80s and early 90s! And as a whole, he's only done that maybe a few times in his whole career! Someone who knocks current Cage performances has not seen "Bad Lieutenant," which was his best performance since "Leaving Las Vegas."
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I did say that I didn't see Bad Lieutenant. Leaving Las Vegas was just too stupid for my liking. My point was you don't portray something else for a character that's already set in stone. You don't reinterpret the person, you just do your best to make them come alive. He didn't do that in Ghost Rider, and from what I've seen he wont in the sequel either.
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Don't get me wrong. Cage has done some pretty bad movies (The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Gone in 60 Seconds, and yes, Ghost Rider) but he's still an amazing actor, and to this day, fearless as all hell in his roles.
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You didn't like Gone In 60 Seconds? I actually thought that was one of his better ones. He might be, but he's definitely let his ego get in the way, at least I feel that way.
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The main problem with Ghostrider was the rubbish story and CGT
Personally, I thought that the whole point of the comics was that it was an evil Elvis version of Evel knievel complete with blue Vegas era jumpsuit. If anything, Cage was in fact to restrained.
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LOL! Jerrid, you do a near pitch perfect Arnie. Hmm, well, I'm seeing this one on Monday to see how Jason does as the lead in a movie, I know he can do TV since I've watched him on Stargate Atlantis, but movies...
I suspected, though, that this one is more like the books than Arnie's movies as soon as I saw the first trailers for this one.
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While I do agree with Farrell being awesome and intimidating as all hell, I thought the movie as a whole was the worst remake I've seen since The Hitcher.
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I expected worse with Conan based on that crappy teaser trailer. I was glad that they were trying to take Conan back to his roots, but it didn't really work in this case.
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Oh god I feel sorry for you and Jake. Mostly Jake since he had to see the Smurfs as well and trust someone whose seen the Smurfs and Spy Kids 4 (yeah I saw both due to being fans of their respective franchises when I was younger), Spy Kids 4 is WORSE. Yeah that's right: This movie is inferior to freaking Smurfs. Terrible characters with no one doing a good job acting, terrible jokes, terrible story, terrible dialogue, annoying juveinale humor and a ridicolous waste of "smellavision". Makes me wish I was actually into Conan or Fright Night when I was a kid so I would of been inclicned to check out those remakes instead of what I saw. Still good reviews mostly in how Boyd reacted to Jared during his complains. I just found that funny for some reason.
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well you could tell that those movies were going to be bad when the poo humor is in the trailers. "Butt-Bombs"... REALLY!?
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Maybe it WAS sort of based on the cartoon. I mean, that IS the trend right now.
And seriously, Jason Momoa was a decent Conan. You can't really even compare the two, because arnold-conan never really even was the same character. It was a completely different entity, build completely around Schwarzenegger himself and only got inspiration from the original character. In any other, sense Schwarzenegger was a laughable Conan, although he can be commended for partially creating that character. That other character. That completely another Conan.
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What the fuck? Who in the hell would watch this movie and think Christopher Mintz Plasse wasn't doing his McLovin routine? That's like debating whether or not he's a white guy. I'm with Brad. He wasn't playing Evil Ed. He was playing McLovin again.
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I can't wait for Brad and Jake's review of Spy Kids 4! I bet it will be the funniest review since Jake and Jerrid's review of Mr. Popper's Penguins, Jerrid's review of The Zookeeper, and Jake and Boyd's review of The Smurfs!
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It's going to be EPIC!!
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That dude was wrong. It was CGI blood. He needs a new prescription for his lenses.
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20/15 vision. Eh, it didn't really bother me one way or the other. And the closeups of some of the more brutal deaths were old school blood, so I appreciated that.
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Awesome both these movies sound about as good as I exspected! I'm going to see Conan tomarrow at noon. Yay titties are going to be seen!
Ya'll do look tired in that 1st video I can see b ags under ya'll's eyes and her makeup looks to be running!
Ya'll didn't give me as many spoilers as I'd hoped!
I haven't read any of the origion Conan stories but I've read what the differeninces were from the origional movie and the books and in the stories Conan was never a slave and he was raised into his late teens to early 20s by his father before he was killed and Conan went out on his own! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30tyaXv6EI the other differinces were like characters wre combined or characters from different non-conan stories like Thulsa-Doom(James Earl Jone's Character) wasn't a Conan villain he was a Kull the Conqueror villian!
Jerrid what is best in Life!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebCawfEnSWU
Jerrid I don't know what you're talking about that pissin' fire thing at the end was awesome! It's a Marvel Knights production so this is going to be as violent and possibly as R-rated as Punisher War Zone! So, SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!
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Ok, I just saw Conan and it's was ok but I agree with a lot I've read saying the whole origins story at the beginning wasn't necessary. If anyone needed more back story was the villains that Zym guy and his daughter as I still ain't sure where they came from and what they were completely up to. Something about bringing back his dead wife a powerful witch which takes a lot away from the whole this magic crown story when it just went from an all powerful McGuffin to a normal McGuffin for another bigger McGuffin.
That's something too can anyone tell me what that crown actually did outside give the villain the ability to bring his dead witch-wife back. from the trailers I thought he was able to bring some sort of Cthulhu like Kraken thing but he had that already and that one scene was the only part it was featured and it could've been cutout and nothing would've changed.
Also, I don't know if they cut a lot of stuff out of the finished film but there was a bunch of subplots I read about suppose to be in the movie that weren't there. Like, I read that Bob Sapp's character was suppose to be some loyal general to Zym but is secretly spying on his daughter because she plans to overthrow him once they complete the Magic Crown McGuffin thing but there isn't even a hint at this threw out the film. Sapp's character doesn't even speak or have his name spoken once threw out the film.
The finial fight was really lame too at the end. I was expecting all out war with Conan leading the good guys against the villain's army, but it just came down to the 2 of them fighting in an underground cave th because of the 3D glasses I could barely see.
So, over all the movie was lacking a lot and that's hard for me to say as I was really looking forward to it. But, like in Amadeus if I yawn 3 times in a movie it's not a good sign. The villains needed more background and character, Conan needed less he was just missing a cape and costume and he'd been a Barbarian Superman, and all the supporting characters needed more to do or just hung around more it went pretty much like, "ok, I've shown up did my little part to help now I'm going to leave now and never shown up again for the rest of the film." Now, I'm going to say this and some one I know is going to take it all in the wrong way, but the female lead should've died at the end. Now, this is not because she was a bad character but to me it fits into the Conan style stories I like he gets a girl(out of all the many he's screwed in just the last few... hours) that he really likes the one he'd settle down with but bad guy comes along and she gets killed, Conan sulks, gets pissed, goes ape-shit, and slaughters the bad guy with a broadsword enema! With her style alive at the end that means the next story(which I highly doubt they'll actually make since I'm sure this film will bomb by at least half it's budget) he'd have to comeback for her or she'll need to be involved some how. So she's now his Lois Lane.
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That quote from Conan...
"Conan! What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
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I'm gonna miss these midnight screening reviews once the summer's over, I hope it becomes an annual thing.
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Looking forward to seeing Emma Stone in the upcoming "Red Sonja" remake.
(Just kidding.)
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Honestly, I really liked David Tennant's performance in this. I am honestly a doctor who and DT fangirl. I love when he does different roles than just the Doctor. If anyone is a real DT fan/fangirl, they'd know his roles aren't always that of like the Doctor. I for one have watched him in a bunch of movies and tv movies that he has been in . He was a real psychopath in Secret smile. The stuff that came out of his mouth in that film made my jaw drop. He was fantastic in Hamlet, Casanova, and Blackpool. Not to mention Einstein and Eddington. Some of these DT fans should definitely look up. He has an appeal for different characters and personalities on the screen and on stage. He is wonderful in Hamlet and I have heard a lot about how well he did in a midsummer's night dream. Single father he plays a broken father that loses his wife and tries to regain his life back with his children and what not. You can't exactly agree with the decisions his character makes, but you can understand why he makes the decisions that he does. I also highly recommend glorious 39. He has a small role, but it's still well done. All in all, I enjoy all his roles and his different characters that he plays. I don't like Russel Brand and I thought of Chris Angel too when I saw him. I can't stand Russel Brand. AT ALL. PERIOD. He is not funny. The only reason he's doing stuff in the US is because people in the UK can't stand him. Brand is nothing but just comic relief as Tennant is actual talent. I believe the chris angel depiction, and i think he did it rather well in my opinion. I liked his character. Just because it wasn't the doctor. if doctor who fans are disappointed at him acting the way he is in this movie then they need to just go home and go through their doctor who dvds again because it's apparent they don't understand that the doctor and david tennant are two different people :S. not to mention DT is REAL.. altho i wish timelords were real
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I enjoyed Fright Night '11. It wasn't the original, and no, McLovin's Evil Ed was nowhere near Stephen Geoffrey's energy level, but all in all I found it entertaining and I thought all involved did a good job. I came out looking at Tennant's Peter Vincent as a cross between Russell Brand, Chris Angel, and Murdoch from the Gorillaz. Collin Farrell did steal the show as Jerry, and admittedly the first 15 minutes were rushed, but the overall film had me entertained. I didn't find the dialogue too hipster cringe worthy as Diablo Cody's "Jennifer's Body", and agree with Brad on it being the usual cheesy horror schlock fare for dialogue. I wish I could see it in 3D though, if not just for the ash effect. In 2D, I give it a respectable 7/10
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I sat through Fright Night just last night, and I kept praying that McLovin didn't say the classic, "dinner's in the oven" line... thank God he didn't do it otherwise I would have lost all faith in humanity... that, and had he done it, I'm sure that he would've fucked it up.
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I was a big fan of Howard's Conan stories back in the day. From what I remember, in the actual Howard stories, they never went into any detail about Conan's past, other than he left his village to seek adventure. Long after Howard died, many other authors wrote more Conan stories that filled in some gaps between the originals (some of Robert Jordon's earliest books were Conan ones) but the quality was all over the place (on par with the Star Wars novels.)
It disappoints me that the new movie sounds kind of generic overall, but I kinda expected that. I'll probably still check it out, though.
If anyone cares, there was a movie a few years back based on another one of Howard's characters called "Solomon Kane". It was actually pretty good and true to the character (thought not an adaptation of any of the stories), it only got a theatrical release in Europe though.
There was also the biopic "The Whole Wide World" which stared Vincent D'Onofrio as Robert E. Howard. It was a pretty good telling of his life. The man was an interesting character.
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jerrid semi-liking a movie - now that is cool.
And i also liked that sara disagreed with brad and just said what the fuck she just meant about the movie
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Though I did like how Brad responded to her over-nitpicking with jokes.
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Love Slay and chew Bubblegum, and I'm all out of Bubblegum!
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WTF PART OF MARTI NOXON DO YOU ENJOY? she wrote I AM NUMBER 4
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The Line of "Crush your enemies see them driven before you" is actually a retweaked quote from none of then Genghis Khan himself
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What is best in life?
-To watch a movie at midnight, snob an exploitation film, and Kung Tai Kick its guts out.
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Jerrid is so irritating, he always talks shit and he never has any idea what the fuck is going on, he doesn't now what anything is based off of, doesn't know the actors, doesn't pay attention to half the movies he goes to it seems : Oh i must have missed that part"
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Here's the quote...
"If life is an illusion, then I too am an illusion and thus, the illusion is real to me. I fight, I love, I slay, and I am content."
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And the quote is from one of Howard's works.
The origin story for this version is actually a lot closer Howard's version (glad to see they kept the part where he was born on a battlefield), though Conan's father was an exile from his tribe.
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None of the origin was from the Howard originals. He was an adult in every story, and he rarely spoke about his youth.
Neither was the "iconic" line about what is best in life.
The "“I live, I love, I slay… and I am content” line, OTOH, IS from the stories.
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Yeah, I hadn't read every Conan story out there, so I wasn't going to say yea or nay on the origin. All the original stuff was never really concerned with the origin, something that doesn't really work when adapting to film.
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I read them all a while back. But I have the kind of memory that saves these things.
I don't think the movie NEEDED an origin, though. You could have simply had him dumped into the plot, and have him dragooned into helping the monastery stop Zym.
There's a great bit in another story that I was reminded of recently. It's Conan explaining how he needed to leave a city in a hurry:
"Well, last night in a tavern, a captain in the king's guard offered violence to the sweetheart of a young soldier, who naturally ran him through. But it seems there is some cursed law against killing guardsmen, and the boy and his girl fled away. It was bruited about that I was seen with them, and so today I was haled into court, and a judge asked me where the lad had gone. I replied that since he was a friend of mine, I could not betray him. Then the court waxed wrath, and the judge talked a great deal about my duty to the state, and society, and other things I did not understand, and bade me tell where my friend had flown.''
By this time I was becoming wrathful myself, for I had explained my position. But I choked my ire and held my peace, and the judge squalled that I had shown contempt for the court, and that I should be hurled into a dungeon to rot until I betrayed my friend. So then, seeing they were all mad, I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull; then I cut my way out of the court, and seeing the high constable's stallion tied near by, I rode for the wharfs, where I thought to find a ship bound for foreign parts."
Gotta love it.
This movie... not so much. I go into some detail on my blog.
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Just thought I'd mention this. I'm reading the original Conan short stories, and in Black Colossus, Conan does say that he was born in the midst of a battle. So yeah, by the books, that part is right.
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Does Jerrid know how to have fun? Between his thoughts on Conan and Ghost Rider, it doesn't seem like it.
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Conan, what is best in life?
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
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Jerrid almost sounds exactly like Colm Meaney here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw
Conan the musical^
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I know im probably going bit alot of flack for this, but I like the Zack Snyder "dawn of the dead" better than the original. the original may have done more for the genre, but I think overall the new one is a better film.
and im sure people will say
"Zack Snyder made sucker punch. so, he sucks."
well George Romero made "the crazies," "diary of the dead" and "survival of the dead." and those movies suck far worse than suckerpunch, in my opinion.
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Surprise surprise, Jerrid doesn't know Conan is classic books, and this is a thousand times better an adaptation, if not a better movie.
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Q: What is Best in Life!?
A: Hot water,good dentishtry and shoft lavatory!
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I also saw the midnight showing of the remake of Fright Night, and I have to say that I liked it. Ever since I first heard that there was going to be a remake, I was dreading it because the original is one of my favorite horror movies. But, I was pleasantly surprised. I really liked what they did with the characters (especially Jerry and Peter) and I did like how they updated the movie to take place in a suburb of Las Vegas. I also did enjoy the couple of references they made to the original (i.e. Ed saying "Oh, You're so cool, Brewster" and that sweet cameo by Chris Sarandon). However, Christopher Minze-Plasse as a vampire did kind of bother me a bit. Yeah, he was supposed to be the comic relief, but I didn't like the way they wrote him. I just couldn't take him seriously as a vampire. When Stephen Geoffreys was a vampire, he came off as fuckin' menacing and I felt that he was a big threat to Roddy McDowell's Peter Vincent. The CG blood did piss me off (if I can buy a bottle o' blood from a Halloween store, the producers should have no problem finding some. I'll even accept ketchup packets, if it makes it look real). But, one thing I really liked about the original version compared to the current one is the kick-ass soundtrack (e.g. Sparks, Ian Hunter, J. Geils Band singing the titular song, and Brad Fiedel's signature song "Come to Me"). So, as much as I liked this movie, it pales in comparison to the awesomeness of the original, at least in my opinion. Thanks.
P.S. - Just curious. When are more episodes of 80's Dan going to be posted? That show kicks ass.
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Why is Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force sitting on your trunk?
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it's just a fact that remakes virtually all suck dogs balls covered in poo.
You can't put Joe Blogs and a throw back to the Chippendales up against the might of John Milius and Arnold and expect a winner.
Frightnight is just about the most 80s film of the 80s. Remaking/updating it is as pointless as remaking or up dating Top Hat. NO one who is a fan wants it and the gormless kids who demand that these thing need updating. because they can't watch any film older than last week, are a bunch of morons.
Anyway they already they already ripped Frightnight off as Disturbia and even that looks better than this abomination.
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I WANNA SEE THE NEW FRIGHT NIGHT BBAAAAAD!
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Way late to the party, I know, but I had some free time and the Fright Night review keeps bugging me every time I watch it.
The only problem I have with the Fright Night review was that Sarah seemed to not quite get that the "persona" Tennant was portraying was the whole point. He wasn't channeling Russell Brand, he was playing a character who was putting up a massive front. In essence, the *character* was trying to channel a Russell Brand-ish persona in order to hide from his past and just not give a shit about anything. The reason why you get a different character at the end is because the *character* has decided to drop those pretenses.
His swaggering persona was supposed to be irritating. The character was being a dick and putting up a front.
It felt like, in essence, Sarah didn't actually like the entire point of the character. Which is fair enough, but I'm not sure you can lay the blame for that on anyone in particular.
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I'm rather disappointed in Brad for not recognizing that the"single shot 360 degree camera pan in the car" scene in Fright Night he is complimenting was a massively inferior Children of Men rip-off.I mean you really can't claim to be a quality film critic when you haven't seen a film that was easily the best theatrical release of 2006, as well as one of the 10 best films of the past decade.
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The story itself was very simple, but I expected as much from an action flick of this caliber. My biggest complaint was the ending. We spent all this time waiting for this "magic crown" to be pieced together (and empowered with "pure" blood)... and when the bad guy finally places it upon his head, and becomes "a god", he does nothing with it. He proceeds to fight Conan with his shitty swords. He unleashes no unholy powers... he just sword fights. It was extremely anti-climatic, and made the entire quest-style journey seem like a huge waste of time.
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I agree!
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