Star Trek Movie Trailer
Based on this trailer, I'm definitely looking forward to the next Star Trek movie!
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Based on this trailer, I'm definitely looking forward to the next Star Trek movie!
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The American Film Institute (AFI) recently did a special on "America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genre's." I always enjoying their top-100 lists, so it was interesting to see this different type of "top 100" list from them.
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The March issue of Wired had a brief writeup of the Best Sidekicks of all time. Pretty good list!
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The trailer for the next Indiana Jones movie was recently released. You can see it at the official site here. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this one!
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Wow... what a wonderful Christmas present for me... the news that Peter Jackson and New Line have reconciled, and he will therefore be producing The Hobbit. Awesome.
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I was pleased to learn (thanks Stu Bushman) that many of the people behind MST3K have returned to what made they successful in the 1990s: making funny comments during movies. I assume most readers of this blog will remember the wonderful TV series Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (see wikipedia entry), which ran for many years on Comedy Central and then the Sci-Fi network, where a human and two robots appeared as wise-cracking sillohuettes overlayed on really bad movies mostly from the 1950s-1970s. It was one of my favorite shows during my college years in the early 90s, and I continued to enjoy it until it was finally cancelled in 1999.
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Here is an interesting YouTube video (nearly 10 minutes) that has movie quotes from classic movies "by the numbers". You'll see what I mean...
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I was pleased to read this latest update on the Atlas Shrugged movie project. It sounds like the prior screenplay work that was done is not being wasted, and that Jolie is still on board -- I'm not a big fan of hers, but having a big name actress like that will surely help its box-office potential. I also must say that I didn't like the movie House and of Sand and Fog much at all, but hopefully that wasn't the fault of Perelman.
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This past week CBS ran a 10th Anniversary version of the American Film Institute Top 100 Movies special. Here is a news item from Yahoo! that summarizes the updates results. There were 4 new movies on the list from the past 10 years: 2001's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (No. 50), 1998's "Saving Private Ryan" (No. 71), 1997's "Titanic" (No. 83) and 1999's "The Sixth Sense" (No. 89). There were various other films that cracked the top-100 that didn't ten years ago, and of course many other films moved spots up or down.
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The USA Weekend insert for the weekend of March 23-25 had a one-page piece "Best Baseball Movies Ever: Our Exclusive Panel Takes Its Turn At Bat". With the baseball season underway this past week, I thought I'd chime in on this fun topic as well.
The last few spots are tough ones, so I could easily change my mind in the future. There is the Babe Ruth Story, Cobb, Bad News Bears, A Winner Never Quits, and many others that are in contention for this top-10 listing.
The November issue of Wired Magazine had a brief article Supercool Weapons from Movies. Here they give their top-1o list, and some of my favorites from their list include:
Another good listing I found was a blog entry at the RocketBoy Chronicles, almost a year ago. This writer starts off with the glaive from Krull, but then also includes other favorites of mine like Wolverine's claws, Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum, the Hattori Hanzo sword from the Kill Bill movies, The One Ring from the LOTR movies, and then of course concludes with the light sabers from the six Star Wars movies.
For me, when I think great movie weapons, the SW light saber is the first that comes to mind. Surely that has to be on everyone's top-10 list somewhere. It was just so innovative, and well-executed, even back in 1977.
For me, the Krull glaive would definitely also have come to mind, as would Ripley's taped together arsenal from Aliens. But if you'd asked me this question two days ago, I don't think I'd have immediately thought of Inigo's sword, the One Ring, or the Proton Pack -- but I definitely like those selections.
According to Variety magazine, Angelina Jolie will play Dagny Taggart in the upcoming production of Ayn Rand's epic Atlas Shrugged. If true, this is not a big surprise, as she is a Rand fan and there have been rumors of her interest in this role -- and the producers' desire to have her play it -- since the spring when word that the movie was in the works first leaked out.
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As I discussed here in April, it is looking more and more likely that we will finally see a movie produced of Ayn Rand's classic novel Atlas Shrugged -- a favorite of mine. It even has a page at IMDB now.
The ideas I like the most are Stone as Lillian, Ward as Danagger, and Kevin Spacey and David Hyde Pierce as any of a variety of roles.
Assuming the movie is true to the novel in important respects, I'll be happy with just a few stars and mostly unknown (but good) actors otherwise -- I just want to see the movie get made!Labels: movies
The folks at the American Film Institute ran another of the "Top 100" shows last week. This time, the theme was top "Cheers", meaning films that inspire us. You can visit the site here, and get the PDF with the top 100, as well as one with all 300 nominees (plus there various other lists).
I'll probably get around to commenting on some of the AFI's many other lists someday. I love such lists!
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Several days ago Daily Variety reported that Lionsgate had picked up the worldwide distribution rights for a movie version of Ayn Rand's massive novel "Atlas Shrugged". As my About Me page indicates, Rand's novels (AS plus The Fountainhead) are my all-time favorites, alongside JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. With great movies recently made for the latter, I can only hope that a good movie for Atlas will be produced as well. Many have attempted the project over the years (the novel was first published in 1957), but it has always died off pretty early in the process. It is difficult to come up with a good script for a 1,000+ page philosophical novel, one that is true to the author's message and the basic plot, while updating it (perhaps) for a contemporary audience and technology scene. (A movie version of The Fountainhead was made in 1949, with Rand herself as the screenplay author. It starred Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Massey. Although it is generally not regarded as a particularly good film, I liked it.)
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