Movies/TV

It's no secret that I've been a fan of Bruce Willis for years.. ever since I was a kid and saw Die Hard 1 for the first time. Then Moonlighting was on TV, and I loved that too. Of course it helped that my mom was a big fan as well, so we watched Die Hard together a lot (we both love repetitions). Anyway, as I've grown older, I've refined my taste in movies, and I'm not the "I only wanna see all out action movies" kind of guy anymore. But Bruce... Bruce just keeps on delivering quality. Of course there's been blunders. For heaven's sake, no actor that I know of, has a flawless record of films to his/her name. But Bruce just seems like he's the kind of guy who knows what the fuck he's doing. Most of the time. With the up and coming release of Die Hard 4 (which basically looks like it will rock my world like it was nobody's business), he's of course in the spotlight again. So what is it that keeps him cool? Hard to say. For me, it's the interviews I've seen with him, the talk shows and the public appearances. I don't idolize stars a whole lot. Sure I can find a particular famous person interesting or some find beautiful actress... well beautiful I guess. But I don't do any of that research into their lives that some people tend to.

So BW just seems like my kind of guy. His views on things may be different than mine, but he has a sense of humor, and he's not scared of standing up for what he believes.. and in the course, stepping on some toes. It happens. Also, he had a cool website, with a forum (on which I was a member), where he was a pretty active poster. That's always amazed me.. when the stars take time to do the fan contact like that. Down to earth, answering questions candidly. I mean, they're only humans like the rest of us, sure.. but they must have hectic schedules. And when it comes down to it, how many people at all would take time to interact with so many people. So BW is active on the internet. Fair. Then recently, I stumbled upon this story. I'm not gonna paraphrase everything, so just read up on the links. In short tho, he joined a message board under the name Walter_B, and started posting in a Die Hard 4 thread. Eventually he revealed who he was (after people had sort of guessed it)... when some didn't believe him, he started a videochat with one of the users. Anyway, I've often wondered if the 'stars' are ever on say IMDB reading on the message boards.. even posting. For all we know, one of the people posting on there, could be the actual person. That's kind of amusing to consider.. you might be discussing why a movie sucked, with the director himself, or arguing why some actress isn't all that she's cracked up to be, with the actress herself.

Sort of funny. Oh well. Check the links to the blog entries regarding his little stunt.

First Link, Second Link and Third Link of interest.

Went to see AFR today, with Tessa. She alerted me to it's presence some weeks ago, and we talked about going to see it. The plot, very briefly, is the murder of the danish PM, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. It's a mockumentary, ie. a documentary that is admittingly fake. But while the story is fabricated, the issues the movie deals with are very much real.

The movie consists of two stories, interwoven. That of a youth, an anarchist named Emil, and that of the PM. We follow both up through their lives, and get to understand why they have become the person they were.

As usual, I won't talk a lot about the movie. But it contained a lot of television clips of interviews with various people, taken out of context, but made to fit in with the storyline. They, involuntarily, gave a lot of reasons to laugh at the people we know, claiming crazy things (again, it was out of context). The rest of the movie tho, was fairly bleak, and it painted a picture of a Denmark not everybody knows and understands. A Denmark that isn't as rosy-red and picture perfect as a lot of the front runners of society will have you know. And it also gives some decent insight into world affairs. It does all these things, while still maintaining the mock plot, which to me was a great accomplishment. I'll recommend people seeing this film, as it has a lot of interesting points to it. A great political piece.

So... several sort of contradictory announcements have been made regarding the Spider-Man movies of late. Tobey McGuire announced, that he would not be returning as the masked webslinger (note my cool use of the otherwise lame movie critic terminology) in a potential fourth installment. Kirsten Dunst quickly followed suit (laying rest to the fans hoping/contemplating her character, Mary Jane's death in Spider-Man 3). Then rumors were about the web, claiming Sam Raimi would be doing The Hobbit, if Peter Jackson didn't settle his problems with New Line before it would go into production.

And just today, I read that Raimi is announcing Sony Pictures plans to make a Spider-Man 4, 5 and 6 in the future. So I'm left thinking (and I'm sure I'm not alone), what the hell will be going on with those 4 movies. Lord knows there are story archs enough to make hundreds of movies. But Toby did a splendid job as Peter Parker, in my opinion. Who will replace him? Will that work out? I guess it will, since the fan base of Spider-Man as a character is probably larger than that of Toby, altho I suspect he's broadened his fanbase considerably since signing up as Parker for the first flick.

It's a dark future, ladies and in a broader sense, gentlemen. I can only hope, along with a lot of other people in the world, that they won't ruin our beloved Spider-Man. And then, I will take rest in at least one more flick with the crew from 1 and 2. May 4th, I'm there, watching with beady eyes, the action unfold on the big screen.

Now tho, it's Free Hugs time. See you guys later.

MUST.... WATCH..... TRAILER..... bleeeh.

Seriously people, I don't care if this is taggy, corny, clichéed, pointless, stupid or whatever other adjective you care to throw it at. It's Bruce motherfucking Willis in what appears to be non stop action. How can that not be a winner? I'm gonna see it so many times my eyes are gonna bleed. Check the trailer below.

YAY... my first top ten list, conveniently listed for your viewing
pleasure. Now, this list isn't necessarily my absolute favorite movie
posters off all time, because frankly, I can't remember them all, and
I'm sure if I made a definitive list, and had it laminated, changes
would occur to me, and I'd be annoyed. So this is a Top Ten of cool
movie posters that has influenced me, and that I've grown up with. I
haven't seen ALL the movies behind them, but some of the posters are
largely influenced by my opinion on the movie it covers. On another
note, I've always enjoyed a gritty, grainy and off the wall sort of
style for posters like these, which will reflect, I think in my
selection. So, here goes.