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Theater or Renter: August 2009 (via dashPunk) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9, Ponyo, Shorts, Halloween II, The Final Destination
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Theater or Renter: August 2009 includes five SF movies G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9, Ponyo, Shorts, Halloween II, The Final Destination. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the movie. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
Studio: Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Hasbro, Di Bonaventura Pictures
Director: Stephen Sommers
Produced by: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bob Ducsay, Brian Goldner, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Stephen Sommers
Written by: Screenplay: Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett Story: Michael B. Gordon, Stuart Beattie, Stephen Sommers Comic book: Larry Hama
Stars: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Ray Park, and Dennis Quaid
The Plot / Story: Ten years in the future the Cobra Organization raises to terrorize all nations of the earth. With only one group to stop them Duke forms the G.I. Joe, a top secret team of elite soldiers. Yo Joe! (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Studio: WingNut Films, QED International, Key Creatives, Wintergreen Productions
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Produced by: Peter Jackson, Bill Block, Ken Kamins, Paul Hanson, Elliot Ferwerda
Written by: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Stars: Jason Cope, Robert Hobbs, Sharlto Copley
The Plot / Story: Twenty-eight years after their first contact the alien refugees, now living in District 9, welcome is wearing thin. Their care is handed over to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare but very interested in getting their weapon tech to work unfortunately the tech requires alien DNA to work. After an accident that changes Wikus van der Merwe’s DNA the MNU field operative quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Stars: Noah Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson
The Plot / Story: A juvenile fish named Ponyo wants to become a human girl. In pursuing her goal, she befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke and they go on a mad capped adventure together. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Stars: Jimmy Bennett, James Spader, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, William H. Macy
The Plot / Story: Toe Thompson’s discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes a stir in the suburban town of Black Falls, and grand-scale chaos occurs when the object falls into the hands of local adults. Can Toe and his two newfound friends save the residents of Black Falls from themselves? (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Shorts (The Adventures of the Wishing Rock): theater or renter and why?
The Plot / Story: Family Is Forever… At least if your brother is Michael Myers. He returns to his home town of Haddonfield, bringing death in his wake, to bring “closure to the secrets of his past”. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Jessica Ritchie
The Plot / Story: On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one — in increasingly gruesome ways — Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film is shot in HD 3-D (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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The Crows fast-paced action and visual styles were stunning and only out done by the soundtrack which aided the mood brilliantly without detracting from the movie. It is an amazing film and example of the gothic aesthetic, I recommend it as an owner. It has even gained the stature of tradition in my own house, every Halloween we watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown every October 30th devils night we watch The Crow!
The Crow is a tale about a couple who is murdered on October 30th devils night. One year latter The Crow brings Eric Draven back from the grave to seek vengeance on the gang that murdered them. Based on the comics series By J. O’Barr. It addresses issues like coping with the death of a loved one which J. O’Barr was personally wrestling with when he wrote the original comic series after he lost his girlfriend at the hands of a drunk driver. The crow was also the last movie for Brandon Lee who with eight days left in filming was shot, during recording, with a long range blank which was loaded accidently for a short range scene. The studio did the honorable thing by burning the reel of film. They then used cutting edge CG technology to edit the movie putting Brandon Lee into the remaining scenes he had yet to film allowing Brandon to end his career at it’s highest note.
The soundtrack for the Crow features songs from great bands like The Cure, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, Violent Femmes, and The Hennery Rollins Band. The Cure, & Joy Devision were actually inspirational bands that James O’Barr listened to while writing the original comic series. He was deeply touched that they were able to put “Dead Souls” into the movie.
The Crow is also well known for some of it’s most brilliant and poignant lines. My top favorite lines are
My top favorite lines are
Victims; aren’t we all… –Eric Draven
Is that gasoline I smell? –Eric Draven
“Suddenly, I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” –Eric What the fuck are you talking about? –Gideon You heard me rapping, right? –Eric
Take your shot, Fun Boy, you got me, dead bang. –Eric Draven
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love is forever. –Sarah
Jesus Christ! Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Jesus Christ walks into a hotel… –Eric [Funboy shoots him] Ow. He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks… –Eric [Funboy shoots him again] Don’t you ever fucking die? –Funboy “Can you put me up for the night?” –Eric
I thought the police always said “Freeze.” –Eric Well I am the police and I say “don’t move” Snow White; you move, you’re dead. -Albrecht And I say I’m dead; and I move… –Eric
Abashed the Devil stood; and felt how awful Goodness is. –T-Bird
Oh great! Great! Guy shows up looking like a mime from hell and you lose him, right out in the open. Well, at least he didn’t do that ‘walking against the wind’ shit. I hate that. –Albrecht
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