Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
/Film posted their choices for The Best Movie Creatures of All Time. Using just their list, my top three (in alpha order) are:
Now if I went off-list, then I would have considered…
Francesco Francavilla has created a very cool limited edition print for Kong Skull Island. There are actually two versions that you can see at Mondotees.com.
Wow! Baby Driver looks like a great ride. Check out the official trailer below and the international trailer even farther down.
Have you seen these Rocky and Mickey limited edition statues coming from NECA?
These limited edition maquettes (statues) are based on a famous stopmotion commercial from the late 1990s that starred Rocky and his trainer Mickey in puppet form. Even in stylized form, those two had selling power!
Working from the actual puppets used to make the commercial, we’ve reproduced Rocky and Mickey as extra-detailed maquettes. Rocky stands approximately 12″ tall and has fabric boxing shorts. Mickey stands approximately 10″ tall and features fabric hat and clothing.
Both statues are in accurate scale to each other and have movable eyes that can be positioned in various directions.
Comes with two display bases. Limited to 1500 pieces worldwide
Any of my deep-pocket buddies wondering about an early birthday or Christmas present for me… now ya know. ; )
Germain Lussier and io9 present 21 Movies I’m Embarrassed to Admit I Love. Using just Lussier’s list, here are my top 3 movies…
Although they didn’t make the list, two movies that would have are The 13th Warrior and Babylon A.D. — love ’em both even if no one else does!
28 Days Later: The Intimacy of Horror is a well made examination of how Danny Boyle amped up the horror through the use of intimacy.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 18 Things We Learned from John Carpenter’s Rio Bravo Commentary. Here are my three favorites…
2. Hawks is Carpenter’s favorite director, and this is one of his favorite films ever made. He’s long credited it with being the inspiration for his own Assault on Precinct 13.
8. Robert Mitchum’s brother, John, plays the bartender in the scene where Chance and Dude enter the bar in search of the wounded bad guy.
9. The belt buckle Wayne wears during the film was a gift from Hawks upon the completion of their first film together, Red River. It features the brand from the ranch his character owned in the film.
Here’s the Official Trailer for The Fate of the Furious!
I’m a fan of the series but have a hard time with the idea that Dom has turned his back on his family. Everyone knows he hasn’t. Still with the great cast and way over the top action it should be a fun couple of hours.
Even Hudson Hawk‘s most devoted fans would admit that the movie goes waaaay over the top.
Guess what? It wasn’t always meant to be like that!
During filming of Hudson Hawk, testing on Bruce Willis’ previous movie, The Bonfire of the Vanities, showed that audiences loved Willis. They were even going to re-edit Bonfire prior to its release to make Willis’ role bigger.
Suddenly Bruce Willis had much more say on Hudson Hawk so it kept getting wilder and wilder. I’m not complaining since I’ve always enjoyed Hudson Hawk but it is interesting to consider what it would have been like as a more conventional heist film.
Check out The Real Reason ‘Hudson Hawk’ is So Bonkers by Fred Topel at /Film for the complete lowdown.
Here are The Top 5 Movie Mistakes for John Wick.
Gem Seddon and GamesRadar.com present The 25 Best Action Movies to Get Your Adrenaline Pumping. It’s a good list which includes Terminator 2, First Blood, Hard Boiled, Raiders of the Lost Arc, The Matrix and more. Very, very tough to narrow it down to just the top three but I did. Here they are in alpha order…
I chose these three because they really redefined the genre.
Aliens took a haunted house movie and turned it into a war picture.
Die Hard confined the action to a building. Movies after that were summed up as Die Hard on Air Force One; Die Hard on a Boat; etc.
John Wick just took the action to an all-new level.
Please be aware your mileage may vary and these choices are subject to change… but for now, these are my picks for top three.
Film Noir fans are going to love TCM’s Noir Alley. Each week at 10am Eddie Muller will introduce a classic film noir that will then run on TCM. Fans will live tweet as enter “a shadowy cinematic world populated by tough guys, femmes fatales and assorted thugs and slugs.”
First up is the Maltese Falcon staring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet in the classic adapted (from Dashiell Hammet’s novel) and directed by John Huston.
Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 15 Fun Facts About Crocodile Dundee. Here are three of my favorites…
4. ONE OF THE WRITERS DIDN’T THINK THE “KNIFE” LINE WAS VERY FUNNY.
“It wasn’t funny on paper,” Shadie admitted about the line “That’s not a knife.” The quote was a collaboration between the three writers, and it became one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.
11. 20TH CENTURY FOX (RUDELY) SAID “NO” TO ACQUIRING THE AMERICAN RIGHTS.
John Cornell showed the movie to a 20th Century Fox executive while he was in Hollywood trying to sell it. ”There was some idiot who sat with his feet on the desk and watched it for about 20 minutes, looked at this watch about eight times and told me that it wouldn’t work,” Cornell remembered. ”He was extremely rude. I sometimes get pleasure from thinking about what the look is like on his face at a time like this.” Paramount ended up acquiring the rights.
15. HOGAN AND KOZLOWSKI GOT MARRIED IN REAL LIFE.
They wed in 1990 and had a son, Chance. Kozlowski filed for divorce in 2013.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 39 Things We Learned from Bill Paxton’s Frailty Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
8. He made the film for multiple viewings. “The first time you sit through Frailty you get pulled into the story kind of subjectively, and there’s this whole kind of creep factor. But on your second viewing there’s a lot of satisfaction as there are a lot of clues laid out in front of the viewer.”
35. The script originally showed the visions — each demons sins — at the time of their abduction/murder, but James Cameron watched an early cut and suggested they shift them all to the end. “He said ‘You gotta remember film is so literal that you’re going to split the audience, and a lot of them are gonna believe that dad really is seeing all this stuff, and you don’t want that to happen because you want them to go with Fenton.’”
36. Why is the ax called Otis? One, he wanted audiences to know that the ax adult Adam uses in the end is the same one his dad used, “so I wanted to mark it some way.” And two, giving it a name anthropomorphizes it and makes it a character of sorts.
I’d never seen this Enter the Dragon comic-strip style ad until today. Very cool and makes me think about how awesome a comic adaptation of Enter the Dragon would be.
Source: Felipe Henriquez.
