So, Liam Neeson’s in another foreign city, and some really bad dudes have come to kidnap his family – again!
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? I’ll leave this to Bruce Willis to sum this sequel up:
“How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?” – John McClane, Die Hard 2.
Nevertheless, it looks awesome, and you can bet that I’m gonna watch it when it comes out!
Hi, guys. Drew’s currently on vacation in Australia, so I’m afraid you guys will have to make do with me. My sincere apologies.
Over the past couple of years, only two leading men have failed to completely grasp my interest in whatever film they were starring in. They are:
This year however, Channing Tatum came out of nowhere and knocked it out of the park in the hilarious remake of 21 Jump Street.
It was really pretty much the first time I’ve seen Tatum in anything remotely compelling so it was a total surprise to me that he could act and be funny. So, that left pretty much one man on my shit-list… Continue reading
On August 9 2012 (aka National Day), ovaries all across Singapore are going to spontaneously combust!
While the politicians and army boys are gathered around in a parade that will be remarkably reminiscent of last year’s and the year before’s, Channing Tatum, Matthew McConnaughey and their band of merry men will be flinging their schlongs around for the pleasure of unsatisfied Singaporean women across the country.
Once they see that silhouetted shot at 0:45 in the trailer, they’ll be craving for foot-long sandwiches at Subway – I wonder if there’s any kind of joint promotion between Golden Village and Subway? Somebody in their marketing teams must have thought of that, right?
Sadly for the ladies, the movie will not be in 3D.
And when the credits roll and you return to your boyfriends, try to remember that his is “a good size”.
I read a news report today that Ethan Hawke recently spilled the beans about a new Before Sunrise movie that they’ll be shooting this summer. Actually, he didn’t really say anything about it except that they’re going to shoot it in summer, but still, this is AWESOME!
If you haven’t seen either Before Sunrise or Before Sunset, please do everything in your power to do so. These two films, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, are amazingly well-written and demonstrate just how powerful a pair of strong characters with good dialogue can be.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunset
Most movies depend on epic visuals, ensemble casts, moving soundtracks, and explosions to carry the story and keep your attention, but these movies rest exclusively on the interaction between Hawke and Delpy’s characters. They meet, they walk around a city, and they talk.
And boy do they talk!
I first saw Before Sunset on a plane trip and as cramped and uncomfortable as I was, the dialogue just gripped me and drew me in. I mean, it was a tiny little screen and I could barely make out what expressions they had on their faces, but wow the conversations they were having were just so amazing that I couldn’t stop listening to them.
For you writers out there, this is the yard stick with which you should measure your characters’ dialogue. To keep an audience engaged solely by the conversations between two characters for 90 mins might seem like too herculean a task, but if they managed to do it in this movie, why can’t you?
Let me reiterate this: these movies are essentially 90 mins of two characters talking.
No car chases. No sex. No robots. No comic relief neighbors bursting through the door with a laugh track.
Every screenwriting guide out there would advise you against attempting to write a movie like this, but these movies prove them wrong in a major way.
Here are the trailers of the first two movies:
Asians take their cosplay pretty seriously, so I really shouldn’t be too surprised at how awesome these Diablo 3-inspired outfits are… but I still am.
Check out these two outfits of a Demon Hunter and a Monk, and head to the source for even more pictures.
Thanks for the link, Alvin!
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