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After the success of the not need remake of Friday the 13th, they are working on a sequel. Have we all been dropped on our heads? The Friday the 13th series had ten sequels spanning two decades and rapidly approaching a third. There is no need for a reboot, just make another sequel. Well. I’m still waiting for the status of the next Nightmare on Elm Street remake, I think it’s still in pre-production and the name attached to the infamous Freddy Krueger, I think still is Billy Bob Thorton.

Anyway here’s the sequel info from darkhorizons.com

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/13401/-friday-the-13th-sequel-moves-ahead/

THE OSCARS

I actually enjoyed Hugh Jackman as the host, he actually is a very talent well-adjusted individual. I never thought of “Wolverine” as a song and dance man. I’m actually happy that SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE dominated, however I was very unhappy about Heath Ledger and Sean Penn. Heath Ledger was amazing in the part of the Joker, I’m trying not sound insensitive, but I feel that there should be a rule that if somebody isn’t “here” I think they shouldn’t get the award. To me that am just a political statement, the deceased actor should get an honorary Oscar but not the main prize. He took it from a Phillip Seymour Hoffman and or Robert Downey Jr. Again something more political Sean Penn winning the award seemed like a political choice over my guy Mickey Rourke.

The Cassandra Crossing I have a 1976 movie with a great premise, some great action and the weirdest ensemble cast probably in the history of a seventies action movie. On board a train headed for Switzerland a stranger stows aboard and he’s carrying a dangerous virus. In less than an hour he starts to infect the entire train’s inhabitants, it’s up to a doctor and his wife, the military and a few other random people to stop the train from being destroyed deliberately. In this movie we have Burt Lancaster, Richard Harris, Sophia Loren, Eva Gardner, O.J. Simpson, Martin Sheen and Lee Strasberg all fighting for their lives. Check this movie out it’s worth every second.

Tarantino is back again, with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, coming soon in August. It stars Brad Pitt as the captain of a small band of Jewish soldiers who band together to brutally kill the Nazi’s. There is another Italian film of the same name QUEL MALEDETTO TRENO BLINDATO, however that film has the soldiers breaking into an installation to steal a warhead. Fred Williamson stars in that 1978 Gem. I don’t know about this new film though. I’ve nervous with Tarantino after what he did to us in KILL BILL 2 and DEATH PROOF; I think he’s a hack. He gave us a great movie with KILL BILL 1 and then let us down with basically a talking heads movie (only one fight scene in the entire flick) for two and a half hours, boring. DEATH PROOF, it almost took a half hour before anything happened, and yes, Kurt Russell had a great character in that one but he wasn’t used to his potential and yet again we have another talking head movie. It’s like Quentin Tarantino just wants to try and remake PULP FICTION, over and over again. I have one thing to say to him about that, IT’S OVER! WRITE SOMETHING NEW! I’m not excited about this movie but the trailer is posted anyway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/

The Righteous Kill, this it the movie that brings DeNiro and Pacino together again but this time they share the entire movie together, awesome idea. To bad they chose a script that was out of a second hand detective novel in a Family Dollar store. The story could have been so much better, but here we have a serial killer hunting down evildoers in New York. Oh Gee, that’s a new one and of course one of our main cast is the perpetrator but which one. Who cares? We want to see the on-screen chemistry between the two leads which never quite happens. Even in the final moments of the film, the acting is there but it’s just not memorable. The fifteen minutes in HEAT where DeNiro and Pacino were just sitting and talking in a diner had more sizzle then this entire film. I actually started to laugh at one point when Curtis Jackson actually gets thrown out a window, the reason why the way the stuntman fell out the window actually looked like he was flying. This was a poor movie if I’m laughing instead of gasping at the scary parts. Plus you kind of know early on, who the killer is, because it’s insinuated that DeNiro is the killer because he’s giving a confession into a camera, but we all know that would be too easy. Very disappointing, the two of them should have been fighting terrorists or battling drug lords. I’m afraid we’re not going to see the two of them in a movie again for a long time. They’ll probably make a movie like Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas did when they were in there seventies (TOUGH GUYS). Carla Gugino, plays a cop as well in the film and we will be seeing her in tight spandex real soon in the WATCHMEN.

I can’t stand watching television. I know the regular populous has the attention span of a gnat but this is ridiculous. What I’m complaining about is all the damn advertisements during the actual program. I guess the television stations have figured out that television viewers actually change the channel during the commercials so nobody is watching their advertisements. I personally mute the commercials because they’re so damn loud. So what are they’re doing? They have big graphics, animations, or giant banners that advertise the next show or product. I want to grab my old light zapper gun from my Nintendo and blow some holes. You guys really do stink. 

I know another shameless plug. But I will tell you that in the begining of March until it opens on March 6, the blog is going to be dedicated to everything WATCHMEN. Yes my review will on March 6, that night.

According to darkhorizons.com, the directors cut of the film might get a theatrical release if the movie does well, that cut is 190 minutes. However that cut will NOT feature the comic book within the comic book THE BLACK FREIGHTER. That will be available in the ultimate edition DVD out and about on July 2nd.

Plus all the characters from the Watchmen are going to be out in the next issue of Entertainment weekly.

 http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/13331/-watchmen-director-s-cut-goes-theatrical-/

WARNING SIGN is a sleeper film from 1985, which stars Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Waterston, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffery DeMunn and Richard Dysart. The movie involves a chemical spill inside a laboratory in the middle of IOWA. The problem is that the chemicals turn anybody nearby into bloodthirsty killers. Kathleen Quinlan plays a lone security guard being terrorized by a group of mindless people whose only goal is to rip her apart. Her only hope is her husband who is the town’s local sheriff (Waterston) and an unemployed scientist (DeMunn) to infiltrate the institution and reverse the chemical spill. On the outside of the building the Army is holding the place hostage by encasing the place and planning to destroy the building and the innocent workers inside if one of them escapes. This movie is top-notch Saturday night fun, check it out it’s worth the rental!

After constant negative reviews from both critics and fans, the movie still pulled in a solid gross of 45.2 million! You all know what that means right? You guess it: SEQUELS! When Hollywood could’ve just made a sequel to begin with, supposedly of what I heard of this new movie, it’s a combination of the first four film into two long hours. I might still see it, but I’ve heard nothing but bad things despite having a good cast. I guess I should be happy, JASON WINS AGAIN! He slashed in half the “Shopaholic” movie.

88 MINUTESThe new thriller from Al Pacino is a film about psychologist who is being chased by a psychopath who may or may not be influenced by a killer who Pacino put behind bars. Pacino has 88 minutes to solve the mystery or he will be the next victim. This films sounds exciting doesn’t it? 88 Minutes is mediocre at best with so many plot holes and situations that I can’t see anybody doing in real life. This should’ve been called Al Pacino with tons of hot actresses, listen to this cast: Alica Witt(URBAN LEGEND), Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski andDeborah Kara Unger(THE GAME). This film is really not original you can almost guess who the killer is going to be in the first half hour of the film, in fact I was surprised there was a big arrow pointing to the killer it was that obvious. This movie should have been called other people who starred with Al Pacino in other movies, you got William Forsythe who played the infamous “Flattop” in DICK TRACY and AMY BRENNERMAN who played Robert DeNiro’s love interest in HEAT, another Pacino flick.This movie is good if you’re bored and have nothing else to do, if not wait until it comes on cable.