Film - "Incredible Hulk" Videos Leaked Online

Some intrepid folks in Toronto filmed the final battle scene from The Incredible Hulk and a whopping 23 other videos of the film's shooting. Find a link to them here.

It's not out until June but after the disaster that was the last Hulk movie, we're excited that the new cast looks totally promising. It's hard to beat: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt. We can't wait!

Oh yeah, and get this! Edward Norton actually wrote the screenplay for The Incredible Hulk himself! WTF? Check for yourself on IMDB. We totally approve. He says:

"I came into this and I wrote the screenplay. I was the Marvel kid. I had subscriptions to a lot of the marvel comics. I loved Hulk, the early incarnation of Hulk and then the television show when I was a kid."

We <3 him even more now that we know he's a writer!

John Rambo - Trailer *WARNING GRAPHIC*

John Rambo - Trailer - Red Band

Posted May 19, 2007

The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers.

Man, we are such a tool. But god dammit, we love us some Rambo. This trailer is really violent so we hope (and expect) that it's been toned down for release in theatres.

We know the trailer's gotten mixed reviews but we think it's really well done and even intrigues us in a very Blood Diamond political way. (We will now be researching Burma.) And Stallone actually looks really good here, which totally surprised us. We think it's totally realistic for a bodybuilding, hard ass, war hero to be still hard core and a force to be reckoned with well into his 50s.

We are so going to be watching this in the theatre with our Dad.

PS. Some of our other gory favorites: Predator 1 & 2, Terminator 1 & 2, Rambo 1, 2 & 3, the Alien movies...

Film - New Indiana Jones Movie Has Kinda Dumb Name

Indiana Jones fans are torn but mostly down on the newest name for the fourth installment of the legendary trilogy as leaked by Shia LaBeouf (God, that name...) at the MTV VMAs this week.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull sounds a lot like another popular franchise we've seen around lately (Harry Potter and the Whozit's Whatzit ring a bell?)

Sure, Indy did it first (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) but we've been inundated with Potter lately (much to our enjoyment) so it's on everyone's mind and heavily associated with children's literature and film.

We also like the frontrunner in the Indy name game as picked by fans: Indiana Jones and the City of Gods. It just sounds more epic and less object-based. But we like us an Indy flick and so if we must take the "Crystal Skull", then take it we shall.

So far, we like the idea of Beowulf himself, Ray Winstone, joining the cast but we're less enthusiastic about Cate Blanchett and Even Stevens' own, aforementioned LaBeouf. We'll miss Connery, of course. We dig the idea of Karen Allen reprising her amazing role as Marion Ravenwood though. Great name.

All said, we can't wait for the film, dumb title or not.

PS. This is an awesome photo.

Aaron Breaks Our Eckhart

Nooooo! We are extremely upset that one of our most favoritest actors, the amazing Aaron Eckhart, has chosen to be in a film being described by critics and audiences as "kiddie porn."

We are a huge supporter of child rights, and the glorification of child sexual exploitation goes against the grain of our very soul. :(

We freaked when we heard that Eckhart starred in Nothing is Private, a film about a child rapist by Alan Ball, the screenwriter of American Beauty. The actress in the film was 18 years old but playing a 13-year-old. We won't go into more details about specific scenes (the articles we've linked do that.)

We really liked American Beauty the first time we saw it when we were a teenager. But the creepy sexual scenes between Mena Suvari's high school character and Kevin Spacey's pervy Dad character left us really icked out. If this is the next step for Ball, making his underage sexual abusees younger and younger, we're sickened. Now, we totally mentally lump him in with gutter pervs Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.

We read a couple of reviews like this one. But we're super-interested to hear what Roger Ebert has to say about this film. We've read his review of Caligula and are expecting something starting along those lines, but we'll see. We're going to be monitoring this one because with the huge rise in child pornography (internet child porn - including live streaming video of molestation - is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry we are incredibly sad to report,) anyone who's aim is to desensitize the viewing audience to atrocities committed against children has our eternal hatred. (Reading the Fark comments about this movie was totally gross.)

The other big names attached to this film are: Toni Collette and Maria Bello.

PS. Apologies to Sam Mendes; we mixed up the name of the director of American Beauty with the screenwriter. Alan Ball wrote American Beauty and directed Nothing Is Private. We have corrected that error - thanks to Brij for pointing that out.

Questionable Casting: Comic Book Women

What's with all the main squeezes in comic book movies lately being fugly blondes with bad dye jobs? Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane in Superman Returns (Was she supposed to be 12?) Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in Spider-Man (Mary Jane was supermodel in the comic...we're just saying.) And now, the queen of all fuglies - Gwenny Paltrow as the fiery-headed "Pepper" Potts in the upcoming Iron Man. (Are we the only one who realizes the name "Pepper" Potts connotes a redhead?)

We mean, they've been getting this wrong left and right...the Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba in the Fantastic Four films) was supposed to be as WASP-y as they come, and comic book Elektra (Jennifer Garner opposite Ben Affleck's Daredevil) is Greek. Why can't the studios seem to get it right when it comes to casting female comic book characters?

Chime in with your faves and misses. We've probably missed a bunch!

Iron Man - Trailer

The new Iron Man movie looks even more amazing than we'd hoped. (Look at the suit -- just look at it!) We've been hearing all over the comic book community that fans are super-pleased with the choice of Robert Downey Jr. to play the superhero.

The rest of the cast looks promising as well. We've always been a huge Jeff Bridges fan; he's set to play bad guy Iron Monger. Also cool is that the Ultimate version of Nick Fury had his race changed and his new features were specifically modeled after Samuel L. Jackson, who will play the legendary super-spy in the movie. Other notable cast members include: Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Hilary Swank, Terrence Howard, and comic creator, Stan Lee.

We can't wait for May 2, 2008. Looks so damn awesome.

"Stone of Destiny" Movie In Production

One of our favorites, self-described "London lad" and star of the recent Stardust, Charlie Cox will portray Scottish Nationalist Ian Hamilton in the upcoming film Stone of Destiny.

The film is about the famed heist of the Stone of Scone (or Stone of Destiny) in on Christmas Day in 1950 by four intrepid college students who were members of the Scottish "home-rule movement," the Covenant. The students stole the stone right out of Westminster Abbey and led detectives on a merry chase until April of 1951 when they "wrapped the stone in a Scottish flag and deposited it at Arbroath Abbey, where the Scottish declaration of independence was signed" before tipping off the authorities. Billy Boyd and Robert Carlysle will also appear in the film.

As a fervent Scottish supporter ourself, we'll be very pleased to see the cinematic portrayal of one of the most exciting acts of Scottish nationalism in recent history.