Author Archives: Jake

I’ll be back… to make movies that have already been done.

So the Internets were buzzing with thoughts of what The Terminator is going to be doing now that he is no longer the Governator of our fine state of California. Apparently driving the state into near bankruptcy, and knocking up the hired help got boring for the ol’ Austrian Oak. Word got around that he had taken his next project (not another maid) and was ready to get back into acting. We were all on the edge of our seats, waiting with baited breath (you like that one Paul, totally used your line) to see what the amazing action star was going to blow us away with this time. His next movie will be… The Last Stand.

Arnold will play the Sheriff of a quiet little town when all the sudden he is thrust back into action, and tasked with stopping a notorious drug kingpin who is on the run (in some sort of super-duper car apparently) and driving straight for Arnolds town. He is forced to assemble his deputies and get ready for the showdown, and make their… Final Destination. I’m just kidding, Last Stand.

The only problem I have with this, is haven’t we seen this movie before when it was called Walking Tall? Staring non-other than Dwayne “I’m the toothfairy” Johnson? Didn’t he have to defend his quiet little town against drug dudes who were ruining it? I’m sure that plot has been done before many times, but for some reason this time it really made me think of Walking Tall.

Now that being said, I’m sure it will be an action packed blockbuster and I personally, cant wait. Our generation is completely lacking an action star on Arnolds level. So I guess if we cant get one of our own, we might as well keep using him! I mean come on, 64 is the new 20 right… right…??? Holy shit I cant believe ol’ Dutch is 64. I think these days he is using more pull-ups than he is doing if you catch my drift (my drift being that he shits himself he is so old).

Hey look - Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, and a female (holding a tommy gun?) so the movie is politically correct.

The one thing that caught my good eye (pun intended for further in the article), is when I was scanning the cast line-up on IMDB, I saw non other than the Last King of Scotland himself, Forest Whitaker. I can only assume that he will play the drug kingpin hurling towards Arnolds town in his super-duper automobile. And for this I am thankful, because I cannot wait to see Forest Whitakers fat ass take on the 64 year old geriatric Terminator. Stay tuned with your ears for this one, it should be fun ladies and gentleman.


Taylor Lautner will not act like a Werewolf… or an actor.

If you listened to the 10/22/11 show, you know that I was at a loss for words (for once) when I asked Paul what he thought the “W.S.” stood for in Paul W.S. Andersons name. His reply – Paul “Wesley Snipes” Anderson, which was just about the best response imaginable. So when I read that Taylor Lautner will be starring in an Indie movie directed by Gus Van Sant I thought I was going to have comedic gold on my hands…. comedic “shit-gold” as we like to say. Werewolf jokes, stabs at his horrible acting, and shirtless puns to say the very least. But after I finished reading the article on THR, I was just… at a complete loss.

I just cant figure this out. Lautners last movie Abduction was just ripped apart by critics, and its no secret that his acting is… ummm, yeah. According to the article, Lautner is “determined to work only with top directors and writers from now on as he strives to define himself as an actor.” Good for you buddy, good for you. But I hate to point out one tiny little flaw in your strategy, usually its a two way street. I would love to work with top notch talent too, but unfortunately I’m stuck with Paul.

Does the success of Twilight automatically entitle Lautner top notch scripts and directors? Sure he wants to work with them, but does anyone in their right-mind want to work with him!? I could see if it was a movie geared towards the same audience (13 year old girls/Paul) and they wanted him on board to sell tickets… but an Indie flick!!?? I don’t see his hairy acting skills (Werewolf… hairy… get it? Come on I had to get one joke in there) lending themselves very well to an Indie film. But I could be wrong, his skills could pay off if the movie is about people who don’t wear shirts, or about people who are horrible actors, or about a Vampire and a Werewolf fighting over their love for a human girl… oh wait.

Hey look, my face is weird.


Hey look at the found footage I found!

If you took a look with your ears holes at the most recent show we did on 10/22/11, in the movie news section I was stammering over the name of a found footage superhero movie that I had read about. I was saying Carnival… well, it turns out the name of the movie is Chronicle (I was close enough).  It follows three high school teenagers who come into some superpowers (sweet find dudes!) and of course they have some fun by playing pranks and what-nots. But just like mom says, it’s all fun and games until someone uses their superpowers to drive a jeep off a cliff into a river and kill someone.

Paul says he is sick of the found footage genre, and I agree but it does look like they are taking some of the “shaky cam” out of this one, probably in an attempt to stop movie-goers from getting motion sickness and throwing up all over each other. Either way, I think this looks pretty damn sweet from the trailer. I’ll definitely have to keep an eye on this one. Chronicle is scheduled to release in ‘Merica on February 3rd 2012.


The Happening is… er, well… happening.

If you have browsed the awesomeness that is the Cinema Recon website you will know that we have what we like to call a “Shit List.” And it is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Movies that we deem to be bad… really bad. One of the movies on that list happens to be M. Night Shamalanga-ding-dongs botanical masterpiece, The Happening. But after reading this article from io9.com, I am not so sure it still belongs on there. Apparently The Happening, is actually happening!

According to the article, 136 students at Kompong Cham high school in Cambodia collapsed while they were all standing at attention as punishment (probably for not listening to enough Cinema Recon). Apparently a nearby bunch of trees, some being medicinal oil trees (silly Cambodians) absorbed all the oxygen and low and behold, BAM! all the kids all pass out.

I guess these kids never saw The Happening, or else they would have known to stay away from trees, and plants, and grass, and bushes, and Mark Wahlberg. But just because The Happening might actually be happening doesn’t mean we’re taking it off the “Shit List” anytime soon, but it does mean that if you find yourself near a Cambodian medicinal oil tree, hold your breath!

Psst... hey, come over here so I can murder you.


Jon Cusack is a hard ass military black-ops agent…

Just kidding, he will just try to act like one. Well, it turns out that John Cusack is replacing Ethan Hawke as the lead in The Numbers Station directed by Kasper Barfoed. Cusack is supposed to play a “disgraced black-ops agent…” I say “supposed to,” because if anyone can imagine Jon Cusack playing a black-ops agent and not burst into laughter I will give you $5, straight out of Paul’s wallet. Jon Cusack playing a black-ops agent? That’s like Morgan Freeman actually playing a character other than himself, it’s just not going to happen. Now I am a huge fan of covert ops type movies, but Jon Cusack doesn’t strike me as the type of guy who will repel down a cliff while shooting an assault rifle at incoming enemy helicopters. My guess is he gives away their position in ten minutes boombox style a-la Say Anything.

But I don’t know what I find more funny, the fact that Jon Cusack is going to try and play a black-ops agent, or that he is set to star in Frozen Ground opposite Count Chocula… I mean Nicolas Cage. That movie will undoubtedly be the acting equivalent of two monkeys playing chess with checkers pieces. You can check out the article from Variety here.

Hey look, I'm a secret agent...


Watch out for movies with names that are numbers!!!

Apparently if you name a movie with all the same numbers its scary… Oh and if those numbers relate to a made up prophecy its even more scary!!!
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Nicolas Cage is a vampire…. AND so is John Travolta!!!

OMG!! Edward from Twilight is going to be sooo pissed when he finds out he wasn’t the first celebrity vampire. Apparently Nick Cage and John Travolta have been roaming the Earth as vampires and taking pictures in old timey photo booths. The funny thing is, if Nick Cage has been wandering the Earth for centuries, you think he would have had some time to take an acting class or two. You can listen to hilarity ensue when we talk about this on the 10/01/11 show.


Sad Batman!

As promised from the 10/01/11 show, here is my drawing of sad Batman that had Paul and I cracking up so much. He is sad because the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, isn’t shaping up to be all we thought it was going to be. What with Bane sounding like a 12 year old prepubescent boy, and Catwoman floating around on her high heels and all… This makes batman very sad, so sad in fact that he is shedding a Bat Tear.

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Batman is sad… 😦


Superman apparently lives in a barn… a barn that has a Bowflex machine.

Superman is a hobo… a very, very buff hobo. New pictures from all over the internets, show us that Clark Kent is apparently writing his news articles for the Daily Planet out of a barn… a barn that is filled with weight lifting equipment and small animals that eat pants. The barns motto? No shirt, no shoes, no problem! Listen to us ponder why Superman looks like a vagabond in the 10/16/11 show.