February 9, 2012

Cinema Recon and The Oscars!

By Paul

We hope you can join us Sunday, February 26th for Oscar night as Cinema Recon will broadcast its first ever LIVE* show!!  Our plan is to be on the couch with mics at the ready, cameras steadily positioned, and beers in hand right when the ceremony begins at 7:00ET/4:00PT.  Watch the Oscars right along with us in real-time!  We are going to power through the entire show: No breaks, no edits…Just pure, unadulterated Cinema Recon goodness!

Check back in with CinemaRecon.com soon and I will have instructions posted for how you can stream the video and audio right to your computer-machine!

To celebrate, Cinema Recon has been watching and reviewing a different Best Picture nominee each week leading up to Oscar night (next week we will see Hugo, if all things go according to plan).  This week we are reviewing The Artist, and I couldn’t be more excited.

Everything I have heard so far about this year’s Academy Awards has led me to believe that it is going to be a two-horse race between The Descendants and The Artist (the Golden Globes certainly seemed to agree).  Now that Jake and I have already given our reviews of the quite enjoyable Clooney flick, I’m very eager to see how The Artist will hold up against it.

Billy recently told me “The Artist makes going to the movies truly magical again.  It doesn’t blow the doors down in any single aspect, and sure, it kinda uses a gimmick in being a silent film…but damned if I didn’t have a great time through the entire thing!” (sorry bud if my paraphrasing is off)

Have any of you had a chance to see The Artist yet?  What are your thoughts?  Only two weeks left until the big night!

 

* = So, you noticed that little asterisk up there, eh?  Well, the Oscar show is scheduled to be a LIVE broadcast AS LONG AS all technical devices are working properly.  I am working ’round the clock to make that so, but if I accidentally connect the blue wire where the red wire should have been, not to worry!  I will still have the entire “CR Oscar Special” available for download and streaming on the site, just like every other show.

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February 8, 2012

The Dark Reich of the Moon

By Paul

Holy sweet merciful God, wasn’t I just talking about ludicrous premises and mash-ups in film when we discussed the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?  No sooner had I made that post did I stumble across this little trailer, released today, for Iron Sky:

Nazis from the freakin’ moon attacking present day New York in UFOs and blimp-shaped spaceships all coming out of swastika-shaped moon bases…Oh and Sarah Palin is in it.  I shit you not.  I am exhausted just having typed that, let alone having watched it!

Well that’s it then.  Hollywood has gone insane.  Somewhere a vein has popped and film studios are flinging bat-shit crazy movies at us.  I don’t think I’m over reacting when I say the biblical Apocalypse is upon us.  Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… Nazis on the goddamn moon.

Touché, Blind Spot Pictures.  You looked a President battling Nosferatu square in the eye and said, “You think that’s nuts?  Well WE have lost our fucking MINDS!!”

 

….And we’ll probably go see it.

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February 8, 2012

In Jeremy Renner, an action star is Bourne… get it?

By Jake

The Hollywood Reporter brings us the wonderful news that the trailer for The Bourne Legacy has gone online! So get ready to run across the rooftops once more, but this time with Jeremy Renner! Renner will star as Alex Cross, another agent of the Treadstone/Blackbriar/Enter Cool Name Here program which creates super duper assassin-hit-men-solider-guys! I’m excited to see Renner do some more hand to hand combat fighting after what we saw of him in Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol. But to my note above I really hope there aren’t any more rooftop foot chases… we’ve seen enough of that.

This movie does start to line up quite the action packed summer movie line up for 2012 though, which makes this dude pretty excited. Ready (take a deep breath) – we have The Avengers, Battleship, Snow White and the Huntsmen, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The Amazing Spider-man, The Dark Knight Rises, Bourne Legacy, Total Recall, and Old Men and Explosions Expendables 2.

You can check out the trailer for The Bourne Legacy below. It is expected to hit theaters August 3rd so text me on your non-traceable cell phone and I’ll see you there.

 

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February 8, 2012

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation from Vampirization

By Paul

Oh yeah.  Now this is what I’m talking about.  Abraham Lincoln.  Vampires.  And a big ass Axe.  It all gels together so nicely, doesn’t it?

In case you haven’t heard, 20th Century Fox and producer Tim Burton will bring us Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter this coming June.  Judging by the unabashedly outrageous title, I expect a tongue-firmly-in-cheek mash-up of top hats and wooden stakes, which (if you are as big a horror fan like me) sounds delightful.  I really do love a good (even often bad) horror movie.  And I love it even more when a film knows exactly what it is supposed to be and embraces itself.  Do you remember the scene in Inglorious Basterds where Omar and Donowitz unload a couple of MP40s into Adolf Hitler??  I kinda feel like, if done right, this movie could achieve that same “Anything Goes!” feeling for 90 minutes.  We shall see…

June (unfortunately for us Prometheus fanatics) is still a long ways away.  But to satisfy our presidential huntings of the undead, Entertainment Weekly has scored some cool pics that appear to be on location and in action!  Check them out in the gallery below:

 

And I say why stop with Abe and vamps?!  How about some Benjamin Franklin: Cyborg Slayer!  Or Rosa Parks vs. Cthulhu!!  Yeah!!  Or give me a little Cowboys and Alie…oh…right.  Okay, I’ll stop.

 

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February 8, 2012

Episode 02/04/12

By Paul

Today on the show, we watch your typical run-of-the-mill barn partying, blue orb absorbing, teenage telekinesis empowering popcorn flick!  It’s the Cinema Recon review of Chronicle!

We also don our patented Cinema Recon flip-flops (patent pending) and soak up the Hawaiian sun with George Clooney in The Descendants!

In the news…

  • Follow Vin Diesel as he continues along his Career Revitalizing World Tour, next stop: Riddick!
  • John McClain, Superman, and Ripley team up in the new trailer for The Cold Light of Day!
  • One could say the superhero genre is starting to get… stretched a little thin!
  • Matthew Vaughn is at the helm for the next X-Men movie, entitled X-Men: We lost Count Too!
  • Lex Luthor turned 82 on January 30th!
  • Joel Edgerton and Jessica Chastain will star in two films that are the same…but different!
  • Gran Turino writer Nick Schenk will pen the Robocop reboot, which will now star an old, war-torn, racist white dude!
Edit:  Paul makes mention on this show that The Descendants was a Golden Globe Nominee for Best Comedy/Musical.  This is incorrect, rather the The Descendants won the Golden Globe for Best Drama.  Paul would like to apologize to George Clooney, and promises to refund George for this show

Listen Below:

Download Here (by right clicking, then “save as”):  CR: Episode 02/04/12

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February 7, 2012

Harrison Ford Avoids Hip Injury, Won’t be in Blade Runner 2

By Paul

Well, that sure was close.  Turns out that Harrison Ford/Blade Runner 2 rumor wasn’t true after all.  Deadline had a chance to clear the air with Alcon Entertainment, the producer/financier working with Ridley Scott on the upcoming reboot.  Andrew Kosove (Alcon big-cheese) had this to say:

“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner … To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we’re going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.”

Well…Good thing we waited a day to really check our sources, rather than post an article detailing Ford’s return to Blade Runner!  You see, here at Cinema Recon, we go the extra mile to make damn, doubly sure every single news story is proven and factual.  I mean, what kind of self-respecting journalists would we be if we were to flood the internets with wild rumors and hearsay??

Oh, speaking of journalism, a reliable source has given me super top-secret insider information that Batman dies at the end of The Dark Knight Rises.

Sad Batman is sad

 

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February 7, 2012

Cinema Recon – A clip from Episode 2/4/12

By Jake

During our review of Chronicle, we couldn’t help but go off on one of our tangents about how parties and dorm rooms are never portrayed quite right in movies. How can this be so difficult!?

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February 7, 2012

The Amazing Spider-Man is only mediocre at swinging from shit.

By Jake

All the Internets are buzzing right now with the new and improved trailer for The Amazing Spider-man. In all honesty, and if you’ve been listening to any of the shows, or hanging around outside my living room window (please stop), I am not looking forward to this movie all that much. I mean yes, I am looking forward to it in the standard amount I guess, but I really have no excitement built up for this movie.

I cant quite figure out why I am not excited though. Maybe its because they started moving on this reboot before Spider-man 3 was even released in theaters. Or maybe because I’m not buying the emo, dark depressed, me against the world Andrew Garfield – the kid who plays Peter Parker. Or maybe its because, for the love of God, it still looks cheesy as all hell seeing someone swing from buildings!!!

I don’t understand how this could possibly be difficult! Michael Bay can use CGI to turn a Rubik’s cube into a god damn robot the size of the Sears Tower with more moving parts than the number of plastic surgeries Joan Rivers has had, but for some unknown reason nobody can seem to make the simple physics of an object swinging up, and then swinging back down look real! Its ridiculous!!!

Either way, as Paul and I say after talking about a movie that we really aren’t all that interested in… I’ll see it. And you know what, I will probably think its OK. But I promise you this… I WILL be covering my eyes during all “swinging from buildings and shit” scenes.

Don't be mad Jake. Its not his fault he cant swing like meeee!

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February 6, 2012

I want more satchels dammit! And… and stitching… yeah!

By Jake

Ok so if you have listened to any of the past shows you have probably heard us talk about the new Avengers movie, and the cast, and our thoughts, etc. You have also probably heard me talk about how I think they have completely ruined Captain Americas credibility by the updates they have made to his costume! Captain America: The First Avenger was a a pretty awesome movie overall. And what made that movie for me, what really grounded it, was the fact that his costume was believable. It was very heavy duty, looked like it was made out of very thick, tough fabric, you could see the stitching on it, it had lots of straps and satchels and shit all over it. It looked like a real, hardcore world war whatever army costume. It was bad ass.

Now fast forward (or if your Captain America just stay frozen in ice) to present day. Cap gets busted out of ice, says word-up to Sam Jackson, enjoys a stein of fine lager with Thor, joins The Avengers, and then gets the lamest costume out of all of them! What a rip off! This guy is Captain God-Damn America people, Show some respect! His new costume is all nice and bright and shiny, no more heavy fabric, and don’t even get me started on the lack of satchels!

I’m just afraid that they are taking a step in the wrong direction and actually reverting back to the costume of the early Cap movies… or not, maybe I am making too much of this. All I know is that when all the Avengers are facing impending doom, backs to the wall, and they need Captain America to gather all the magic power crystals or whatever the fuck ever, and run them over to Iron Man so he can place them in the ACME machine to break the avengers free and save the world all while still using his hands to punch bad guys in the face… he better have enough damn satchels.

Has anyone seen my satchels??? I could have swore I left them up here.

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February 6, 2012

The Hulk IS Mark Ruffalo IS Derek Zoolander!

By Paul

A few months ago, we commented on how Mark Ruffalo seemed to be doing his best Zoolander impression.

Now, thanks to a wonderful screen by screen recap of The Avengers Superbowl trailer by io9.com, we have a great shot of The Hulk giving us his best “Green” Steel pose:

This is by far our best view of The Hulk yet.  After seeing him cause a ruckus and stand amongst the other Avengers in the explosive new trailer, I for one am pretty excited for what’s in store.  Still, a side by side by side comparison shows that The Hulk is going to need a bit more work turning left:

Ruffalo, on the other hand, has got it nailed

Cinema Recon will no doubt be front and center when The Avengers releases May 4, 2012.  You can check out the extended Superbowl trailer below!

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