If Wes Anderson is going to make a movie, we are going to see it. ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ was one of the best movies of this year. Basic reports are coming out about his next film and I’m already in.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Pacific Rim (Photoshop) Job
The comic con poster has been released. Granted its really just a photoshop mock-up, but I’m really excited.
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Michael Fassbender & Assassins Creed = Legitimacy?
It is being reported today that Michael Fassbender and his fledgling production company DMC will be producing a film version of the hugely popular Assassins Creed video franchise for him to star in. A few things grab me when I think about this:
1) Fassbender is one of the best actors working today. Look at his filmography. The films he is in are either great, or his role is. Shame was the single best acting performance of last year in my opinion.
2) I think they might be taking this film seriously.
Fake Movie Friday: The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
This would be relativly short, about 5 minutes, the length of the song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest by Bob Dylan. I don’t want to call it a music video (though it is), this was a project I wanted to film back when I was taking a film making class in Tennessee. But I neither had the talent, the number of friends required for this, the infinite amount of time or the resources. The song will be playing in the foreground the whole time, there will be no other spoken dialogue besides what is said in the song, there will be no extra sound effects of any kind. I’ll just be describing the shots along with dictating the lyrics to the song for this. If Bob Dylan sings a line of dialogue, the character would mouth the words at the same time. The “talking” scenes will resemble an old silent film. It will all take place in Nashville, circa 2002.
For reference:
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest:
Fake Movie Friday Brainstorming Session
I am in my office at work right now and it is ungodly hot right now and the AC is broken, so I don’t really have the mental wherewithal to write a fake movie this week. I do however have the mental wherewithal to give you all a glimpse into the fake movies that I will be working on over the next few weeks, and then some titles that just came to me, where I’ll write the movie after.
Bodega Catz – A borderline racist animated comedy about the lives of those cats in bodegas
The Caan Men – Action comedy about James and Scott Caan playing themselves and getting involved with the real mob or something
Don’t Wait Up – Teen Girl Comedy
Snow Justice – Point Break with Snowboarders
Leap – Someones Oscarbait film. That’s all I have. I just need the actor and that will inform the type of bait i’m shoveling out
Dream – A dramatic reimaging of The 1992 USA Olympic Basketball team, only they’re not that great at the beginning
Polly and Max: Time’s Up – Crossover Polly Pocket/Mighty Max film, but they are older and fight time traveling criminals
Nightlight
Grinder
Operation: Kill
…And Then I Fell
So that’s what you all have to look forward to over the next couple months from me. As I said before I usually just start with a title and then a sentence, and then from there I make a movie that may or may not have anything to do with my original idea. Now you at least get to see where my ideas start. I can assure you that the majority of these will probably change completely, but now you know that Don’t Wait Up was supposed to be girl empowering teen comedy from the outset even though a month from now it will probably be a girl-in-peril horror film.
Oh well.
See you guys next week, with the racistly awesome Bodega Catz!
Fake Movie Friday: Lethal Weapon 5
No introduction needed. I’m going for the gold today. I present to you-
Lethal Weapon 5
Alarm bells ring outside of a bank. Three hooded men run out and are picked up by a “fast & furious” style streetcar and it races away. We cut to Martin Fucking Riggs and Roger Fucking Murtaugh sitting in their car. Murtaugh takes out an Ensure and they have a classic convo about being to old for this shit. The streetcar races by and they are off on the chase. Riggs makes fun of the “Barbie’s dream car” they are chasing. After a lengthy chase they take the robbers down.
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Fake Movie Friday Submissions: Super Mario Brothers
Michael Stevens joins us this week for his first of hopefully many Fake Movie Fridays. Enjoy!
Fake Movie Friday: Michael Bay Presents: Return to the Mushroom Kingdom. Luigi’s Kingdom.
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Fake Movie Friday Submissions: Catching A Falling Knife
Andrew Dunn:
Last week I had some fun with the opaque language/culture of Wall
Street, and I wanted to continue with that theme. A few weeks ago
Zach had a great romantic comedy set at Occupy Wall Street (which we
all know will happen for real at some point), well, I think Occupy
Wall Street is due for some good old fashion exploitation:
Catching a Falling Knife
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The Watch Ads & The Winston Treatment
Now I’m never one to cry racism (ok yes I am), but I just saw a new television ad for The Watch and it pissed me off. This is a film, that based off of the talent behind the camera, and the second trailer, and the inclusion of Richard Ayoade as a lead character, has me very curious. Yes it has Stiller and Vaughn in it, but this could be good.
Anyway what pissed me off was that it was one of those 30 second spots where in large font, they show the last name of one of the principal leads, and then a funny moment from that actor. The ad starts as you would expect with STILLER. then VAUGHN. then HILL. then it ends. No AYOADE. Why wouldn’t Ayoade get the big font tv ad treatment, if 3/4ths of the stars of the film get it? If your response is that he is not a household name like them, I guess I can agree, but why would he get billing in the trailer and not in the tv ad? Seems inconsistent. Also it just seems weird that you would highlight 3 members of a 4 member ensemble.
Simple solution: Give them all the big font treatment or none of them.
This shit happened with Ghostbusters and as a person of color, I guess these are the sorts of things that you notice in marketing. Winston (Ernie Hudson) had nothing to do with any of the ads, posters, promotional material, or videogames. He was a main character of a franchise that you would have never known was even in it because that is how it was sold. I don’t doubt the filmmakers just make the film they want without much concern over being exclusionary, but the directors don’t make the ads. Marketers do.
I’m putting you on notice The Watch marketers. Ya kinda being racially insensitive, but I’m still gonna see this movie cause it could be good, and could put Ayoade in a much better place in the US, and that’s a win for everyone.
The Day We Fight Back
Is anyone else deeply disturbed by the end of ‘Independence Day?’ The computer virus is extremely implausible but what about the clean up? The American Military has been reduced to the pilot equivalent of truckers (shudder). So assuming all the aliens are dead as their ships gently crash what now?
Basically its a slow news week. We here at Movie Movie Podcast will be taking the next few days off the celebrate this country by doing what we normal do (drinking and yelling) but now with pyro-technics.
Maybe a few articles here or there now that I see Russ is working on something for you.
Hope you enjoy the 4th. We’ll see you for Fake Movie Friday, because we don’t take that day off! That’s not what America is about.