Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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Two disturbing imdb discoveries:
1) They're making a movie(!) out of the Celestine Prophesy.
2) They've made a 4th installment (which others here have probably already discussed) of my beloved Prophesy series with no Walken and yes Jason Scott Lee.
Not that I'm opposed to JSL in particular, but Dracula II proved his bad luck with sequels of any sort.
"They" are giving me a headache.
Prophecy without Chris Walken is just so wrong, so horribly wrong on so many levels. I will probably see it anyway, but I will do so under protest and with lots of bitching and moaning.
Prophecy 2 with Christopher Walken was horribly wrong on many levels. The third installment was a lot better, but the filmmakers were trying so hard to imitatereference the original that they might as well have opened with Walken looking at the camera and saying "Y'know what, just go back and rent the original again instead. You'll thank me later!"
I loved the Smiths. It taught me an important lesson about domestic violence: it is good for your relationship!
Of course Prophecy 2 was wrong but at least it had Walken. He was still very entertaining even though the plot and all that was horrid. What will the forth have to justify it's existence? Nothing.
Just got back from screening the Bats. Thoroughly enjoyed it. There were a few things that made me go "huh?", but I suspect that's just a lack of comics knowledge.
Also, not. nearly. enough. shirtless CB.
... some bad guys
SCARECROW!!!
(The Scarecrow mask has started making a couple of brief appearances in the ads)
I loved the Smiths. It taught me an important lesson about domestic violence: it is good for your relationship!
"Saget! Wham, Bang - to the moon!"
While watching the scene where Pitt kicks the shit out of Jane I was thinking (while squirming) that Jolie is pretty much the only actress where it's conceivably acceptable for Brad Pitt to try to beat the hell out of her. Not Charlie's Angels. Not Jennifer Garner. Nor Halle Berry. And given what Slate reported recently about the difficulty in insuring Nicole Kidman, I can't believe she was considered for this role. We really dodged a bullet with that one...although I'm not sure I prefer her trying to act across from Will Ferrell.
Can you imagine this movie with Johnny Depp and Nicole Kidman? Just not right.
Actually, I can see Lucy Liu in that scenario, as well as Jennifer Garner. They both fall into my category of oh, just give them a second to recover and you're a dead man. Halle Berry's never triggered that in me, despite her "action" resume. Don't get me started about the rest of the Angels. Well, okay, I'd like to see Drew in that scenario too.
I didn't squirm during that bit, probably because it was so detached from reality (more than any of the other physical combat bits) -- she had absolutely no negative after effects, so it read more like John being crazy than actually hitting someone else. Also, if the person being kicked had been male, I probably wouldn't have reacted any differently.