New News is Good News

"Beginning is easy--continuing hard"

--Japanese Proverb

Yes! I have returned from the dead. I hope everyone is doing well. In my hiatus I did a lot of soul searching and blah, blah, blah...so on and so fourth. Actually to be completely honest, I just sat on my lazy ass and watched movies. But I am back now with some wonderful, albeit nerdy, news, and a few updates from older news stories I have mentioned before.

Conan Has a New Face

The Governator (left--in case you didn't know, duh), as Conan the Barbarian, crushes fiscal responsibility with his pecks. Jason Momoa (right) poses as Dex from Stargate: Atlantis already looking like he could fit the part of a barbarian quite nicely.

Mike Flemming is reporting that Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis) is slated to play the new screen version of Conan the Barbarian. He was chosen over Kellen Lutz, which in this writer’s opinion was a good move. There has been too much Twilight blood in places it should not be, I prefer it dripping out of a vampire’s mouth and that is about it. Anywho, production is supposedly starting in mid-March and barring any terrible problems on set, or from Paradox Entertainment, this movie should be out in a few years. The next question is, will it be Schwarzenegger style campy or a shiny, CGI, action-drama remake. Personally I am hoping for a little bit of both, but we shall see.

Wolverines Are Here to Help

These are supposedly some of the propaganda posters that appear in the Red Dawn re-make. If this is any indication of the level of attention to detail, we are in for a dynamite movie.

Apparently being called a, “live-action Call of Duty,” the re-make of Red Dawn should be great way to spend two hours in the movie theater. This time the Wolverines are not going to be fighting Russians though. This time, it’s the Chinese. The screenshots that I have seen show a lot of explosions of the Michael Bay variety, but the plot should be much better. Not only that I am curious to see if Tom Cruise’s son is as stiff an actor as he is. But aside from the fact that this movie is FUCKING RED DAWN RE-MAKE, I always get excited for a new director to come along and offer a new point of view from Hollywood. Granted, I am not expecting anything revolutionary in the cinematic realm from director Dan Bradley, I do expect a lot of amazing stunts. For those of you who have never heard of Bradley, because he is totally a household name up there with Spielberg, Scorcese and Ron Howard…Bradley has been the stunt coordinator for several very impressive movies like, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, Three Kings, Crank, and Spiderman 2 and 3. Not only that but he has also done stunts in several movies, so his on the job experience should come in very handy here. Overall, some critics may be concerned about what sort of message this movie will put forward, especially now that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come under fire from the Chinese governments for her comments on censorship in China. Nevertheless this will be a deliciously entertaining fireball of a movie.