Damn. The original Maniac was one of those late 70s early 80s grindhouse style films set in grimy NYC. It’s a decent film but one that’s not blasphemous to remake. The remake looks unsettling as hell and Elijah Wood looks like such a creep. I just hope the first person stuff doesn’t end up feeling like too much of a gimmick. Color me impressed.
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This is one of those middle eastern political thrillers about covert ops and stuff. I blame Hurricane Sandy for this being late.
Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel play the lead Army Rangers, James Caller and Jill Harper who are recruited to do special ops missions for the CIA. Their handler, Cal Marshall played by Kyle Chandler recruited them because he used to be their unit commander back in the day. Anyway, Cal puts together covert mission to extract a U.S. POW, Will Stilton, played by Bill Fichtner from indiscriminant Arab terrorist forces, as soon as he gets the intel as to where Will is.
They go into some curiously empty cave thingy where the terrorists are and they extract Will using deadly force. They are ambushed however by the indiscriminant terrorists and are all three, forced to hole up in a local town restaurant until the coast is clear. Cal goes to the head of the CIA covert ops division, David Wallace, played by Mark Strong, to ask him to send more soldiers into their area because he got a distress call. David says he wont risk it. The information about this mission has already spread to far. Cal angrily reports back to James and Jill that they will have to get Will out themselves. Cal put the mission together without his authorization, so he wont put his name on it.
James and Jill are partners long enough we can tell that they’ve been in situations like this before and know how to handle it, but Will tells them this is different. If he gets back to the US and reports back on the terrorist activity he found, he’ll be a target. Long story short he tells them that (flashback scene) David sent him to Iraq months ago to gain intel on terrorist activity and Will was too good at his job and found out that David was paying Iraqui terrorists to commit crimes on US soil, so that our foreign defense policies would look weak, he could gain more authority and use that to leverage a presidential campaign. If Will comes back alive he’ll be killed and discredited. James and Jill say that’s not going to happen. They have a plan. They decide, the only way to get back to the US safely, is to be considered dead. They discreetly contact Cal and tell them what they’re going to do and he says it’s a suicide mission. James says “exactly”. They decide that they are going to go back into the caves, and go back INTO the terrorist compound to get hard evidence on David, and be considered dead.
The next act is nothing but a bunch of hardcore terrorist killing action by James and Will, while Jill does hacker stuff to get into rooms that have photos of David shaking terrorist dudes hands and stuff. They get the info but not before Will is shot in the neck and killed. He tells them he’ll die a patriot if they get that evidence back to someone they trust at the CIA. David catches on that Cal’s been speaking with James and Jill and attempts to paint those three as US terrorists and uses his new authority to do so. However, by the time James and Jill get back to US soil and get the flashdrive of information to one of the CIA field agents who is waiting to arrest them, the jig is up. The agent calls to have another agent arrest David for crimes against the US. He shoots one of the agents and James and now freed Cal run after him as he goes to a roof to get a helicopter. James and Cal corner him and right as David tries to shoot Cal, Jill from behind shoots him.
James and Jill clear Will’s name, Cal takes over the division and everyone wins. Some useless stats about military stuff plays on screen. The end.
CRAP. I completely forgot it was Friday. So lets shit something out shall we? Taking the genius method of the Artist Currently Known as Tigs and using a random word generator. I got, BURGLER and SCHOOLCHILD. So this is a bit of a rip off of the 2004 film ‘Catch that Kid.’ The title is not to be confused with some kid version of ‘Con-Air.’
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I can’t think of anything witty to say here (arguably I never have) so let’s just jump into this movie!
Good Morning, Delilah
We open on a middle-aged house wife, Delilah, straightening up, cleaning, cooking, and such. Her husband comes home and they have dinner and chat about their day. It is obvious that Delilah is a bit immature. They seem to have a relatively normal life and relationship until one day Delilah starts to hear thing and see shadows outside, shadows that tower over the house but there doesn’t seem to be anything causing the shadows.
Disney just bought Lucasfilm outright for upwards of 4 BILLION dollars. They are already stating that they are planning on getting a new Star Wars film (episode 7) into theaters by 2015.
I can barely believe this news. Not only would Disney own the past rights to Star Wars, but they also will get their hands on the Indiana Jones franchise as well. With their marketing muscle, we’re going to see some of the biggest films get bigger. What I think might be the best part of this story is that George Lucas is apparently stepping down from his helm of Star Wars overlord to give new younger filmmakers a crack at telling stories in his world, while he’ll stick around as a creative consultant. This is what I’ve hoped for for years. Not only will episodes 8 and 9 happen too, but Star Wars world films will come out every 2 or 3 years after that.
Why the hell not? Star Wars has such a rich world, that theres tons of other stories to tell. Lucas created a fleshed out world so now with other people being able to get involved I think this can mean great things.
Just think about 2015. We’ll have Disney putting out a Pixar film, Marvel’s Avengers 2, and Star Wars Episode 7. They just won the box office war.
I went to the 84th street theater on a Wednesday morning to go see Sinister. I didn’t even know there was a movie theater, but it was 6 bucks. No one was around and it freaked the crap out of me. Luckily two people showed up during the previews otherwise the movie would have been 100x scarier and it wasn’t really scary in the first place. Here’s the idea I got.
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A couple rides an escalator down holding popcorn. The lights begin to flicker as they near the theater showing their film “Denny and Thelma.” The lights showing the name of the film flicker as they walk through the door so it reads “De a Th .“
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Another day, and I again have no idea what to write for this FMF. How about something with the title:
Immediate Surrender
We start on an Special Forces training ground where a group of 6 soldiers are readying for a mission. The 6 soldiers (Rex, A-Train, B-Town, Reggie, Payne and Chief), 6 of the most highly decorated soldiers they have, finish what they were doing and are brought into a briefing room. Major Xen, who wears an eye patch, tells them they have a very important mission and goes through all the plans. There is a heavily fortified building in Cambodia that is housing a group of militia that are carrying nuclear and bio chemical weapons. They need to do this quietly, take out the enemy, neutralize the threat, etc etc. The whole time Xen is overly racist and makes a lot of references to blowing them off the map.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be returning to the Conan-verse in the upcoming film ‘The Legened of Conan.’
The film will be ignoring the events the recent reboot. It will also be ignoring the Arnold sequel ‘Conan the Destroyer.’
OLD CONAN! OLD CONAN! I’m so excited! I DON’T EVEN WANT TO WRITE ANYMORE! THIS IS TOO AWESOME! I’m going to go clean up from my celebration puke.
Matthew Vaughn has stepped away from directing the sequel to ‘X-Men: First Class.’
He still wrote a treatment of the script and will be in a producer role along with Bryan Singer. Singer returing becomes every nerds fantasy. Singer really hit the bullseye with the first 2 X-Men films. They legitimized the comic book film.
Hopefully they find a competent director here and they don’t trust an X-Men film to a horrible director. Fox would NEVER do that right?
RATNER!!!!