Tom Selleck’s Mustache
Sometimes silly is funny.
With that in mind I give you, Richard Sandling’s perfect movie: Tom Selleck’s Mustache.
“The Expendables” Cast 1970s Style
Bryan Enk at IFC.com posted an interesting article that asked and answered the question: What Would a 1970’s-Era “Expendables” Cast Look Like? For the most part, I think Enk’s choices are spot on. Let’s look at who he’d cast…
- Charles Bronson – Bronson would have been my first choice as well. Bronson would play Stallone’s character. The only thing better would have been for Bronson to have been alive to join the true cast.
- Malcolm McDowell – Now THAT is an interesting choice. Enk says that McDowell would play Statham’s role, but I disagree. I think that McDowell would be better as Dolph Lundgren’s character. McDowell has that right mix of crazy to pull it off.
- Steve McQueen – Although Enk doesn’t list a specific character for McQueen, for me at least, it is obvious that McQueen would play the unlucky in love loner that Jason Statham brought to life on the big screen.
- Bruce Lee – What fan wouldn’t have picked Bruce Lee to play an Expendable? Of course Lee would naturally fit in as Jet Li’s character.
- Lee Marvin – Great choice! I see Lee Marvin taking on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cameo as Trench. How cool would that have been? Very cool, says I.
- Richard Roundtree – I can see Roundtree in the role played by Terry Crews, but I think I’d have rather seen Ron O’Neal or Jim Brown.
- Gene Hackman – Ok, although I didn’t become a Gene Hackman fan until later in his career [it was me, not him], I can see him playing the Eric Roberts’ role.
- Clint Eastwood – Who wouldn’t want to see Eastwood in the role of Mr. Church played by Bruce Willis?
- Charlton Heston – Enk has Heston playing one of the cameos played by Schwarzenegger and Willis, but since I have already filled those parts, we’d have to give Chuck a new role.
Since Enk didn’t come up with a 70’s actor to play the roles brought to life by Steve Austin and David Zayas, I’d like to suggest William Smith and Ernest Borgnine… and don’t you think we’d have to find something for John Wayne?
Back Icarus – I Did!
Are you familiar with Ryan Cody’s Icarus?
- ICARUS follows U.S.M.C. Major Robert Riley on his exploits to track and assassinate all super-powered beings on Earth. Things aren’t all that they seem in Riley’s world: Girls that can see the future, alien invasions and government conspiracies all play a part in this twisting and turning adventure. When Big Brother decides to put its foot down, Riley is there to chop it off.
Want to see more? Then you should consider becoming a backer for Ryan’s Kickstarter project. For four bucks you’ll get a new 22 page full color issue of Icarus each month for four months! Talk about a bargain! There are other levels of support available with bonuses at each level.
Any support you can throw Ryan’s way will be greatly appreciated!
Sly Art from Jesus Antonio
I was going through the vault and came across this piece that Jesus Antonio did for me a while back.
Jesus Antonio is an artist who lives in Mexico. Jesus posts on quite a few sites and is always positive and complimentary of the artwork of others and humble about his own. When I had the opportunity to get a few Stallone sketches and a sketchbook from Jesus, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. You can see more of Jesus’ art here!
The Last Battle
This December, Tito Faraci (writer) and Dan Brereton’s (artist) The Last Battle is finally coming to the US! Already published in many countries around the world, The Last Battle is an 80-page full-color graphic novel set to retail for $7.99 from Image Comics. For more details check out CBR.com’s coverage.
How Captain America Should Have Ended
This little animated video of How Captain America Should Have Ended is a hoot. Stick around after the credits for another laugh. “Fence of Fire – Fence of Fire!”
Batman: Year One – Adapting a Classic
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli is a masterpiece. It is (one of my favorites and) without a doubt one of the best received graphic novels ever.
When it was first announced that Batman: Year One was being developed into a feature length animated movie, the idea was to stay true to the story and the art. Animation Magazine caught up with co-directors Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery who discussed some of the difficulties of adapting the classic tale of Batman’s first year. If that’s not reason enough to click over, they also preview some of the animation art from the film.
Gerardo Moreno
SZoner, Gerardo Moreno is back with his version of a new “First Blood″ teaser poster.
Well done, Gerardo! To see more of his art, click here.
Remembering 9-11
It’s hard for me to believe that the 9/11 attacks took place ten years ago. The images, the shock and the horror are still all too clear. My oldest son had just started high school… now he’s a second year teacher. My youngest son was just starting sixth grade… now he’s well into college. I was an assistant principal… at the school where I am now the principal.
There are many special events and tv shows/documentaries geared to help us remember that tragic day when the world seemed to stop and all eyes were glued to the tv dreading another announcement of an attack on freedom. While many of these events will focus on the disasters the attacks caused, my hope is that somehow we can get back that feeling of patriotism and pulling together as a nation that took place after the shock of the events wore off.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of all impacted on that terrible day… which is basically all of us.
Photo credit: Naom Galai
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I’ve enjoyed Tom Cruise in all of the Mission Impossible movies. The new one, Ghost Protocol should be no exception. The Ghost Protocol trailer looks great. Wouldn’t you think that the teaser poster would have been more exciting than the one above? However, if you do like it and would like to see a Mission Impossibly-big version, you can.
Live Forever or Die Trying
I like the look of this poster for In Time. The whole idea of time as currency is kind of cool and the tag line “Live Forever or Die Trying” works. Let’s hope that the movie is as neat as the poster.
50 Best All Time TV Openings
Those are just 8 of the main title frames for 50 of the Best All Time TV Show Openings. The contest was covered by LA Times. If I were forced to just pick one, from the list provided, it’d be the opening for The Twilight Zone.
What I really want to know is why the opening to The Wild, Wild West didn’t make the list.
Wrecked and Buried
The last two movies I watched made for an interesting double feature. Both start out with the star waking up in a dangerous situation not fully aware of how things came to be. They then spend the remainder of the movies, on their own, trying to figure out how they can save themselves.
First up was Wrecked starring Adrian Brody. Brody wakes up in the passenger seat of a wrecked car precariously perched midway down a steep incline in rugged territory. There’s another passenger in the back seat who is dead. The driver, who was thrown from the car, is also dead. Although Brody is badly injured, he’s still alive. Whether he’ll remain that way will depend on his ability to free himself from the wreckage and then make his way up or down the ravine. Neither looks like a good choice. Brody will also have to deal with the weather, wild animals, and a wilderness man who wants the bags of money in the wrecked car’s trunk.
Buried begins when Ryan Reynolds wakes up to find himself buried in a wooden coffin. He slowly pieces together that he’s been placed there because he’s an American trucker in Iran, and his kidnappers hope to get 5 million dollars ransom for his safe return. The entire movie stays with Reynolds as he attempts to figure a way out with just a lighter, a flashlight, a pencil and a cell phone. But don’t think that this is going to be an uplifting movie about a rugged individual who finds a way to overcome with the simple things around him. Far from it. The movie is claustrophobic and relentlessly tense.
Wrecked rates a C
Buried rates a B
