Monday, October 1, 2012

Exciting Upcoming Movies

Taking some time off today to talk about some exciting movie announcements, soon to theatres and far in the future.

I love asian movies, they're always pushing borders with their amount of violence, weird sex acts, visual appeal, kung-fu action, and outlandish plots. Perhaps my favorite movie of all time is Old Boy, it's sick, it's noir, it's epic as a Greek Tragedy and so well put together that I can't wrap my head around how they even began to conceptualize it. So, that being said I have some very exciting news.

1. Spike Lee is remaking Old Boy Americana style. They keep tossing around the cast, but last I heard the star is either going to be Josh Brolin or Samuel L. Jackson. I hope it's Brolin, because he seems more the type and I think Sammy J would be a very strange pick unless he were the merciless bad guy, I could see that working with the crazy factor through the roof. Fun fact: Will Smith was originally going to play the main character, I think he's a great actor, but the role is extremely visceral and requires a lot of embarrassment and raw emotion. I mean, the actor had to eat a live squid for the role, masturbate, and a wild array of other stuff they might not do in the American version. I really hope Spike Lee does a good job, like David Fincher with Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and less like what Hunger Games was to Battle Royale. My concern is that there's only one writer on the bill, and it's the guy who fucking wrote Thor, which was soooooooooooooo hard to watch. But he also wrote I am Legend and Mass Effect so I'm on the fence. In the original Old Boy the authors of the manga plus three screenwriters plus the director worked on the screenplay and it shows. Sooooo.... I'm gonna go with: either complete copy paste remake with different visuals = AWESOME or American watered down snoozefest trying to ride the coattails of another great movie.

2. The director of Old Boy is coming out with a movie called Stoker. It's got that gruesome, plot-maze, and brutal emotion that I loved about Old Boy and the rest of Chan-wook Park's Revenge series. Here's the trailer, it really says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpDG4WR_74
                 - I also very much like that the uncle just hints that there's a wider conspiracy, illuminati of murders kinda deal. I just read the Straw Men series which was absolutely impossible to put down and if this is even close to that then holy god this movie is going to be too cooler than being with obama and Jay-z in the same room.



.... well maybe

3. There's another american remake of another Korean movie, Bittersweet Life. The original is directed by Jee-woon Kim, who made I Saw the Devil and The Good, The Bad, and the Weird. He's a wild and diverse director who knows how to cast, has great ideas, and amazing visuals. I haven't seen the original Bittersweet Life, but I'm going to now. Also, guess what, curve ball, Eminem is helping produce for the American remake... weird.

Also the announcement has finally been made, Sin City 2 is finally going to begin filming in November. It's going to be based off Frank Miller's A Dame to Kill for. It has my favorite people from the original cast, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, and CLIVE OWEN! Of course it's being directed by Robert Rodriguez who makes the most innovative and exciting trends in the action film genre and I hope, hooppppppe, gets Tarentino to guest-direct again. I usually don't approve of sequels, they're basically always for money and a sore attempt at starting franchises, but this one I am super suuuuper stoked for.

My favorite actress of all time, Rosario Dawson, from Clerks 2 to Sin City to A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. She's a dream boat; smart, deep, sexy, funny, geeky. So pumped for Sin City 2