By DrewF00.
AICN has a story about the official synopsis that has been making its way around Hollywood at the moment. It sounds to me like it’s the third film in the AVP franchise, and adding John Rambo in for fun!
Take a look at it here!
Just hope Paul W.S. Anderson isn’t involved!
“Join us. You have been known to disagree with the Council before. Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own ! I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El ! Take it ! Join us !… You will bow down before me, Jor-El. I swear it ! No matter that it takes an eternity, you will bow down before me ! Both you, and then one day, your heirs !”
General Zod (Terence Stamp) speaking with intensity to Jor-El (Marlon Brando) in the ultimate comic book movie, directed by Richard Donner. The opening sequence rivals that of any film ever made.
© BRWC 2010.
Here my mate Brendon chatting to the awesome John Landis.
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13 years after the last time Antipodean rogue Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee graced our screens, financially troubled writer/star Paul Hogan dragged him back from the outback for another big screen adventure. In fact, I was somewhat surprised to see this even get a big screen release back in 2001, it seemed like a film that absolutely nobody would really care to see at the cinema and from Hogan’s cheese-eating grin on the poster I couldn’t imagine anyone being charmed a-new bar the DTV curio-crowd. Saying all that though, and despite never being a huge fan of the first two Crocodile Dundee flicks I was oddly eager to see this film and along with two friends went to a near empty cinema on opening weekend.
Perhaps it’s that advertising adage come true that film is better with friends, but I had an absolute blast watching this sequel no one expected, let alone wanted; and certain scenes from the film continue to be quoted and illict silly, giggles from me and my friends. Indeed, what this third film has in spades is a sense of dopey joy, a whimsical and big-hearted attitude that even sees fit to prempt The Hangover by featuring a self-effacing and baffling Mike Tyson cameo.
Hogan is on fine form (and in pretty good shape, though there’s far more funny than fights here) as he bonds with his surprisingly not irritating son (take note Indiana Jones) and best mate Jacko. There’s some sort of crime plot about an evil movie studio or something, but it is completely moot even in the eyes of uncredited co-writer Hogan and director Simon Wincer (the guy behind equally cheesy under-rated retro comic flop The Phantom). Instead the film basks in the laidback, fish-out-of-water antics of a bushman in Tinseltown taking in almost every single West Coast and Aussie cliche along the way with the kind of winsome innocence as to render even the lamest of jokes worthy of a grin and groan.
Unlike other recent Guilty Pleasures, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is happy to try nothing new, it feels even more dated than either of its 80s set predecessors, but in these gritty, darker, edgier sequel times it’s so refreshing to have a film that relies on scraps, pratfalls and jokes as predictable as an aborigine with a mobile phone.
© BRWC 2010.
Well, this is it!
Tonight, at the Venice Film Festival, I will premiere my new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. After 16 months of production, I am proud to present this work of mine to you. It is unlike anything you’ll see on the silver screen this year.
Twenty years ago this week I premiered my first film, Roger & Me. Tonight, my new film will premiere at the oldest film festival in the world, the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. It is an incredible honor they’ve bestowed on us, and we feel very privileged to be able to present Capitalism: A Love Story tonight in Venice.
The director of the festival said that our movie was “incredibly symphonic” and that he was moved by its epic nature. Jeez, these Italians! Everything’s an opera to them!
But seriously, I do believe we’ve made something that will knock your socks off. I showed it to a friend of mine last week and he said, “It’s your most dangerous film yet.” (But I assure you, you’ll be completely safe watching it in your local theater.)
I’ve kept a pretty tight lid on what we’ve been up to while making this movie and you’re about to see exactly what that means. It isn’t easy, in the age of YouTube and the internet, to keep something like this under wraps, but we’ve pulled it off and I can’t wait to show you this latest effort of mine.
So wish us well tonight. We’ll be home soon to open the movie all across the country (September 23rd in New York and L.A., October 2nd everywhere else).
I’ll leave you with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. If you haven’t seen the new trailer for the movie, check it out.
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