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Shit yes.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
It may be Saturday night, I may be drunk. But...
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=11883
Characters with the surname LORING!!! Finally my family's legacy gets movie recognition!! Ha, brilliant. Sorry but Loring is such a weird surname and its being used in a film, he he.
My bad.
Characters with the surname LORING!!! Finally my family's legacy gets movie recognition!! Ha, brilliant. Sorry but Loring is such a weird surname and its being used in a film, he he.
My bad.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Back to blog...
Sorry for the massive interruption in blogging, work has been hectic hectic hectic, as I am currently the only manager in my store, and so I am spending too much time at work. This has also been affecting the output of my podcasts also but this area is getting fixed. The fact that I am not a professional who gets screeners also doesn't help as I can only see films when I have the time/money. I love doing the bloody thing though and I thank everyone for keeping with me.
So then, the impending strike in Hollywood. For those who don't know, writers and actors are going on strike next summer and this has resulted in mucho rush-to-production for some dodgy sounding properties. Particular stand-outs include:
A remake of Friday the 13th written by the guys who wrote Freddy vs Jason
Will Ferrell in a big-screen adap of old TV series Land Of The Lost
A fucking Sex + The City movie.
I understand the studio's postion. They need to have enough product to stagger releases during the strike. Indeed the third Narnia film has just been shoved back a year for this very purpose, but 2008 is already looking a bit shaky for big films. I can't help but be nervous about Indy 4 and the Incredible Hulk, with its teaming of action director Louis Letterier and control freak Edward Norton, could be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Iron Man, which anyone who listens to my podcast will know, is my only sure thing for summer 2008. Rushing films is completely not what we need and I can't help but fear for the level of quality Hollywood product we will be getting.
Speaking of quality product, after the death of Ingmar Bergman I have been going through some of his films. The only one I saw before was The Seventh Seal, a truly great meditation on the nature of death and what its inescapable grasp means to us, but I have now also seen Wild Strawberries and Persona. Wild Strawberries is a nice little film but I found it quite forgettable. Persona on the other hand is a completely different beast, Bergman fucking with the audience's notions of what is on the screen and what the images actually mean. The opening sequence with a projector actually being unable to fathom the film it is showing, is truly something amazing and indeed the cock moment at the end of Fight Club is obviously a tribute to this. The story is also a mjaor influence on Fight Club and is a chilling little film. Its only 78 minutes but it leaves you more affected than any 3 hour epic..
OK that's enough rambling. Podcast will be up over the weeknd. Coming up I got reviews of Death Proof and A Mighty Heart, a look at the DVD of Blades Of Glory and more.
Ian out.
So then, the impending strike in Hollywood. For those who don't know, writers and actors are going on strike next summer and this has resulted in mucho rush-to-production for some dodgy sounding properties. Particular stand-outs include:
A remake of Friday the 13th written by the guys who wrote Freddy vs Jason
Will Ferrell in a big-screen adap of old TV series Land Of The Lost
A fucking Sex + The City movie.
I understand the studio's postion. They need to have enough product to stagger releases during the strike. Indeed the third Narnia film has just been shoved back a year for this very purpose, but 2008 is already looking a bit shaky for big films. I can't help but be nervous about Indy 4 and the Incredible Hulk, with its teaming of action director Louis Letterier and control freak Edward Norton, could be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Iron Man, which anyone who listens to my podcast will know, is my only sure thing for summer 2008. Rushing films is completely not what we need and I can't help but fear for the level of quality Hollywood product we will be getting.
Speaking of quality product, after the death of Ingmar Bergman I have been going through some of his films. The only one I saw before was The Seventh Seal, a truly great meditation on the nature of death and what its inescapable grasp means to us, but I have now also seen Wild Strawberries and Persona. Wild Strawberries is a nice little film but I found it quite forgettable. Persona on the other hand is a completely different beast, Bergman fucking with the audience's notions of what is on the screen and what the images actually mean. The opening sequence with a projector actually being unable to fathom the film it is showing, is truly something amazing and indeed the cock moment at the end of Fight Club is obviously a tribute to this. The story is also a mjaor influence on Fight Club and is a chilling little film. Its only 78 minutes but it leaves you more affected than any 3 hour epic..
OK that's enough rambling. Podcast will be up over the weeknd. Coming up I got reviews of Death Proof and A Mighty Heart, a look at the DVD of Blades Of Glory and more.
Ian out.
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