Today twelve years ago on June 19th 1999 Stephen King was almost killed during a…
Autor: Wolfgang
Der Host des Flipthetruck Podcasts.
Mit einem Fokus auf Science Fiction und Roboter sucht er ständig jene Mainstream Filme, die sich nicht als reine Unterhaltungsfilme zufrieden geben.
Terence Malick’s Tree of Life is about an American family and in between there are some shots of National Geographic.
The film has been on the radar of many Oscar-bloggers but surprisingly this is not really a typical Oscar-bait film. It is much more in the spirit of Cannes (where it won the Palme d’Or) meaning “if it doesn’t hurt it is not art”.
Thankfully I watched the movie two days before they gave the highest honour of Cannes to it so I did not know whether this movie was highly regarded or not and I guess I would have been a bit more disappointed having heard the insane praise this movie received before entering.
When Gary Oldman said that the script of The Dark Knight Rises would bring the story full circle the speculations started to rise. Generally the news about this movie keep dropping in and the more we know the stranger and unpredictable this movie starts to look (which is actually refreshing seeing as of today we can basically predict most of what’s going to happen in Amazing Spider-Man).
Now there have been reports about a certain cast member returning from Batman Begins which basically might kick The Dark Knight Rises into fifth gear (well at least for me).
Warning spoilers ahead:
It is always good when a movie surprises you – even when some of the flaws that you feared would be in there are still there.
X-Men: First Class brings the X-Men back to its roots after the last two installments (especially Wolverine) managed to underwhelm but this time without the clawed mutant as its lead.
Helmed by director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) First Class tells the story of how Magneto and Professor X first met and links the mutant history to the Cuban missile crisis. Contrary to many prequels this movie actually succeeds in making the backstory interesting.
Two viral videos for the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises have surfaced and at first it seemed like they could be official, but apparently they are fanmade.
For the Earth 2 version click here.
Note: Since I haven’t yet figured out an efficient way to edit pictures on Linux I must excuse myself for the uninterrupted wall of text.Earth 1
Comic book movies have long become a respected and reliable source for both creativity and entertainment, but it was not always like this.
They had to come a long and hard way to get past people’s prejudice since they were initially written of as brainless entertainment by a large group.
So when was this barrier breached?
Let’s look at the history of comic book movies and their pivotal years
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Ron Howard talked about the project The Dark Tower being moved from September to Spring 2012.
I can’t really say who’ll be in it yet, but Javier Bardem
has shown a great deal of interest.
Earth 2
A long time ago comic book movies ruled the cinema, people flocked to every property imaginable and it seemed as if those adaptions had become a reliable source for money, but then they vanished from earth, retreated to the niche they came from.So what went wrong?
Let’s look at the history of comic book movies and
their eventual downfall.If you want to check out the Earth 1 version click here.
Yahoo.com unveiled yet another Green Lantern Trailer, you can download it here in 480p or in HD here.
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