Here I was all prepared to be outraged when they announced who the new actor was who would be taking over the role of
Bilbo Baggins for the
Guillermo del Toro helmed prequel for the
Lord of the RIngs. Who knew what weird decision making would come down. I mean, if…
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Added by Cyrus on May 29, 2008 at 5:56pm —
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Brett Ratner
See? You're already ready to be pissed about something. I can't really blame you. I have the same reaction with that name.
For those who haven't read the names logged for death in the
'if I actually WAS a super-powered insane gun-toting muscle-bound dude, I 'd totally take this guy out' book, Brett has a whole chapter devoted to him. For me, I'll never forgive him for how incredibly painful…
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Added by Cyrus on May 29, 2008 at 3:10pm —
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Leon is completely correct when he says that the trailer is rarely an accurate representation of the film. There is a real art to the cutting of a good trailer that can turn shit into art and sometimes, at the hands of a bumbler, art into shit. So I never know quite how to feel when a movie that I feel only
'meh' about releases something that blows me away. Even stranger, this new red band trailer for…
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Added by Cyrus on May 28, 2008 at 11:14pm —
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While I'm still firmly in the camp of those who think that there is just no way that
Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen film will do any amount of appropriate justice to the brilliant/groundbreaking
Alan Moore graphic novel, I'm still itching with curiosity to see it anyways. It's my curse. I actually rented and watched…
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Added by Cyrus on May 27, 2008 at 3:08pm —
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Oh,
Quentin Tarantino. I just don't know what to do with you. Sure you've made some of my favorite films of all time, but you've been in a holding pattern lately. Should we ever really take seriously the promises you make or should we just chalk them up to someone interviewing you in the midst of a coke/alcohol fueled Cannes frenzy? Let's face it, despite…
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Added by Cyrus on May 27, 2008 at 1:59pm —
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*sigh*
Here I am, done with my responsibility for the day. I've given you enough stuff to make my evil masters at
Spill happy for the week and I was preparing to pay some attention to my kitty, Devil Dinosaur, and surf unencumbered by the quest for something to write snarky comments about...but then I found it.
I'm not here to be a jerk about this. In fact, I feel very pleased and content now in a way that I was nervous and uncomfortable about before. You remember…
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Added by Cyrus on May 24, 2008 at 6:14pm —
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We all saw this playing before
Prince Caspian and honestly I almost ran out of the theater. The sky darkened like the clouds in
Poltergeist and an unearthly moaning escaped my lips, beyond my control. I could not believe, did not want to believe...the horror, the knowledge that this writ onto my brain, sizzling my frontal lobe with it's message of doom. Forget about 2012,…
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Added by Cyrus on May 24, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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Remakes!
The word sends chills of fear down even the most hardened movie-goers spine. Every once in a blue moon they actually get it right (
Dawn of the Dead) but more often than not it's an embarrassing fiasco for everyone involved.
So now you know how I feel about them, let's take a quick look at some of the remakes that have just been announced:

Despite the…
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Added by Cyrus on May 24, 2008 at 3:19pm —
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I can’t say as I’d ever paid but so much attention to the show
The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, but then again, as far as I knew, neither did most anyone else I was friends with. I was too busy unsuccessfully chasing tail to pay much attention to yet ANOTHER sketch comedy group on
Comedy Central. Apparently, this was my mistake. Especially since there was no tail…
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Added by Cyrus on May 23, 2008 at 8:50pm —
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You MUST have by now seen the announcements from
Marvel about their upcoming film slate by now. We've got
X-Men Origins: Magneto and
X-Men Origins: Wolverine on the way.
How about Fantastic Four Conception: Franklin? (rawr)
Back to films that could actually happen, a
Doctor Strange movie is in…
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Added by Cyrus on May 22, 2008 at 11:50am —
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Oh it is indeed finally here. It's that magical alternate Wednesday which means the new
League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen is here.

Good lord, we're already at episode 4! This week our special guest is
Jason F who some of you might already know from the
Spill community. He's one of those guys who has been here since the beginning!
So check out parts…
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Added by Cyrus on May 21, 2008 at 9:00pm —
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It seems like
Diary of the Dead came out just a bit, JUST A WHIT too late to get the love it probably deserved more of. With
Cloverfield stealing the limelight theatrically with the return of the hand-held camera horror film, it’s hard to watch this one with the same level of enthusiasm. Sure, it’s no masterpiece, but it is the…
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Added by Cyrus on May 20, 2008 at 4:22pm —
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I’ll tell you what. Do you consider yourself a horror film fan? If you’ve never seen (or more embarrassing for you-you don’t like) the original, legendary
Night of the Living Dead by the guy who invented the zombie,
George Romero…
Well…
...go back to your room and don’t come out until you’ve changed your tune,…
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Added by Cyrus on May 20, 2008 at 3:26pm —
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I never thought I'd ever say this again, but the new film
Tropic Thunder which is written by, directed by and stars
Ben Stiller...actually looks awesome. Way back last November,
I did a blog completely deriding the whole project as a vanity project piece of garbage. I might have to eat my words…
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Added by Cyrus on May 16, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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I'm willing to admit it. I got kind of a man-crush on
George Clooney. The dude is totally a pimp, but old school style. He's like
Dean Martin crossed with
Cary Grant. Political without being annoying about it, stylin' without acting like a dick...women want to do him,
Cyrus wants to be…
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Added by Cyrus on May 16, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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Tom Cruise is many things to many people. A prominent and upstanding member of the community to
Scientologists, a completely overrated actor whose personality has veered towards the dangerously crazy to everyone else. Ok, so maybe just two things to two groups of people. One thing he definitely IS is a
type-a… Continue
Added by Cyrus on May 16, 2008 at 1:54am —
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Everybody loves
Office Space. And why wouldn't ya? It's THE cult classic comedy of the decade (arguably). As much as I enjoyed creator
Mike Judge's
Beavis and Butthead series, he sure has come a long way since then. Of course, his most recent film
Idiocracy hasn't…
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Added by Cyrus on May 14, 2008 at 2:19pm —
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If you were reading Spill.com all the way back in October 2007, you might have seen my coverage of the local festival
Fantastic Fest (which really lives up to it's name) and my
glowing fan-boy praise for the Japanese manga-turned-live-action films
Death Note and Death Note II. I was…
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Added by Cyrus on May 14, 2008 at 1:46pm —
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In what has got to be one of the craziest film remake announcements I've personally ever come across, famous insane /genius director
Werner Herzog is going to remake famous insane/genius director
Abel Ferrara's film about a completely corrupt policeman,
Bad Lieutenant. Not just a little corrupt either. Even…
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Added by Cyrus on May 13, 2008 at 9:55pm —
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Of all the video game properties to rush into production,
Street Fighter ain't exactly what I would think of as top of the list. Does anyone else even remember the
horrible adaptation of it back in 1994 with
Jean-Claude Van Damme and poor
Raúl Juliá in his…
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Added by Cyrus on May 13, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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