The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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Problem for me in this particular segment is that they kept cutting back to a fight where a guy was taking multiple blows and not going down. So it was like she had a special ninja knockout leg sweep, but a burly guy's fists couldn't do shit.
There are ways to make women fighting look interesting. Start with casting, for instance. Then, from there, consider the choreography.
My issue with Scarlett is that her attempts to look serious and businesslike came across to me as a bad botox job - there are ways to look like a badass that don't involve completely immobilizing your face.
I haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet so I skippity skipped to post that I just re-watched Winchester '73 . Man I love that movie but I never realized Rock Hudson was in it. I watched the whole movie trying to figure out who he was. Then I looked it up, laughed and watched it again. oh Hollywood! You're so silly sometimes.
Iron Man 2 made $134 million.
Nightmare on Elm St. made $9 million.
Nightmare on Elm St. made $9 million.
I feel badly for Jackie Earle Haley. He's one of my current favorites and I want him to succeed. While I would not see an Elm St. movie on a bet (not my speed) and I was sad to see a clip that proved his performance was not up to the original (Even HE says Robert Englund is Freddie), I wish it had done better.
Englund's turn as the creepy high school janitor on a recent Bones was very funny.
Which episode was that? I missed it!
The high school reunion, maybe 3 back.
I'll check it out.
Don't feel bad: Nightmare made $39 million last weekend (it was #1) and has already exceeded its production budget. I expect it will make more than 9 million next weekend from people who walked into the theater to see Iron Man and said "Oh, a new Nightmare movie? Maybe I'll see that next week." and then actually will. Then HBO or somebody will snap it up to show on Halloween and a sequel to a reboot of a franchise with WAY too many sequels will, of course, be greenlit.