Week-Eners A look back in the week of movies and more... By Guy (86)

Smurf’s for 3-D (PappaSmurf said to be very happy) Remake spree continues. A hairy Yank in London & Right sided Vampire are the victims: Fury at Avengers: T time for The Game?

Testing... 1, 2. Yep. Thank god for that.

Ok, um. How did it go again?

Live from the Dresden? Just a couple of blocks from Mike’s apartment? In the Los Feliz area of Los Angles? It’s the Week-Enders…. That sounds about right.

Well, it has been a while dear W-E reader hasn’t it? Three weeks since my last W-E. Of course I was gone for two weeks on holiday. It was a good nice relaxing holiday. But when I got home, I was suddenly hit by the “Mac” syndrome. This of course being the character from the 1983 Scottish comedy: Local Hero.

Nearly called that bloody phonebox too.

For two weeks I was in a setting like this

Then came I back to the big city, the rat race.

And it took a bit of settling back in. That and I was sooo out of stuff that went down here. Transformers 2 came out to wonderful fan fare. Remake film, Taking of Pelham 123 came out. The original Tony Scott once said, “Made no sense” This coming from the man that gave us Domino.

And of course another silly, pointless and fruitless net war was started. Got to love those?

Ok, let’s get down to it.

The upcoming Smurfs live action/CGI combo will now be in 3-D. That’ll look odd no? If you’re an old school Smurfs fan like me, it would be hard to picture them in anything but normal cartoon form. But maybe it won’t look daft like Garfield
or Magic Roundabout. And of course that gang bang scene will look. I..... *DKM wispers* Was it? Made up for the film. Oh ok. Shame. Better cancel that "Blue balls" DVD rental then. The film is due out December 2010.

The remake monster strikes again with news this week that there is to be a remake of An American in London. Dimension Films has picked the rights and no doubt will be getting pre-production as I type and then you read. The director of the original, John Landis stated last month that Hollywood has been after this for years. No do doubt knowing the kind of cash they might be able to make from it.

It’s a film I haven’t seen too many times, but I do think that like with many horror remakes. This will not be as good as the original. And whilst not an actual remake, let us not forget the bloody dreadful American Werewolf in Paris from 1997.

If it is a direct remake though, I’ am curious to see how they handle the transformation scene. Which to this day is still one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen… I loved it.

Also this week we caught the thoughts from the director Matt Reeves, the man who will direct a US version of Let the Right One In.

First off the title has been changed has been to change to “Let me in dude”. Ok. Not quite true. “Let me in” We’ve had many come into the Dresden and flabbergast us with their version and how they see it different from the original (Tony Scott anyone) But to be fair when Matt spoke to me on a hill that DKM and myself had turned into a getaway, Matt talking on the couch and me doing some target practice with a pellet gun and tin cans (missed every shagging one) it was clear Matt’s intentions were genuine.

“I was just hooked…I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.”

I had to bite my tongue and not jokingly ask what kind of fucked up childhood he might have. But as I said he does seen genuine. And ok, hands up here. I still haven’t seen Right One In yet. I don’t think you have to see it to think and worry on how it could turn out. The tale is of a teenage boy who is being bullied endlessly and then he meets this girl who moves next door and they start to become friends. Then the kid discovers she is a vampire. If it sounds like a sex reversal of another vampire film, believe it is not. It is darker. Broodier and has a fucked up ending. Again, I haven’t seen it. But I know that Right One and Twilight are miles apart, certainly in terms of the film. This is the main worry for the US version of the film. That it will make some kind of metamorphoses into a Twilight like film and that the two main characters will suddenly be thrown into the unkind world of puberty and become older teenagers, all to fit the teenage girl market. Well Matt also said this would not be the case as he would honour the original. Now he might seem on the up just now. But if the PTB put their foot down hard enough things can change. And that would be sad if Right One bowed down to serve the teenage masses. You have Twilight for that market. I’m not knocking that film but the last thing I want to see is outright copycat and certainly one that bears little to no resemblance to it’s original source material. But as I always say, we shall see. Just along as we don’t get Let me In: Sparkle Motion production, eh?

This week Samuel L Jackson let me down a tad. As he told news of toned down nature (for a fucking change) The Nicky Fury character will be in Iron Man 2 but he won’t be striking Tony down with vengeance and furious anger. He won’t be doing much but pulling the strings. Setting shit up. Strictly working behind the scenes. In essence when it comes to Iron Man 2, Nick Fury will be….. um…. .. He will be the puppet master. Ok. I couldn’t get Sam in the Dresden. He had just done shooting two films back to back in three minute’s and only stopped for about five minutes to have a beverage before going off to do a film about a car that has a man dressed in a silly rabbit suit. But on the old tin cup Mr Mother %^%% Jackson said this.

“Not this time, not yet… We still haven’t moved Nick Fury into the bad-ass zone. He’s still just kind of a talker.”

Then said this about Avengers...

“Looking forward to that, yeah.”

So it’s not him confirming it for sure but it seems like we’ll have to wait until the Avengers movie for Nick to release his Fury. Yeah, I know but the simple ones can be the best. I’m interested in seeing Sam as bas guy. But it seems all he does is act like a loon. And whilst it might make it more interesting seeing him doing it as bad guy. It certainly might come across as a tired act come the time Avengers comes out.

Pitty him you fool.

There have been many names thrown around for actors who can play the A-Team characters. A few rappers like Ice cube and Common, Now we have The Game. Being rumoured for Mr T. Call me crazy but I don’t see it. I was always thought Michael Clarke Duncan should play T. He fit’s the physical bill and I buy him a lot more as Mr T than I would the Game any day. I find the Game to be. Well almost too grown for the role. U know?
Clarke has that way about him, that you see him as T and not question it. Plus the guy needs a break. Less we forget his last film.

Ok, dear reader. I’m going to call it now. I’m sorry this blog has been shorter as I am still easing into things and yep. Tech crap too. Next week I will be back with a regular W-E. I’m changing things up a tad next week. This week I just wanted to do this short one. Thanks dear reader. But first toast’s..

BDiddy: Word it be… B. As always thank U for the words both over the last week and when I was gone. That really was nice. It helped cool off the “Mac” attack from earlier in the week
And just to see FJ can go all code breaker lets see if he can crack this..

D B T U F K U A I M A!
Have at it Fred. Lol.

Fred Jordan: FJ how is things? We haven’t talked much but on the twice we did last week U reminded me of why yer my Spill wingman.

Misssoultaker: Hey ST. Thanks for keeping things up your end and backing my play. Remember. The bad guys fight the good guys. The rest just fight us. And we’ll win Ken & Ryu style. Blue Skies for all.

IH: U showed me Freddy. I showed U Roman. Opps a spoiler but I don’t care. My blog, my rules… What’s that IH? Don’t forget the rules……

Ok folks. Sorry this super duper late and on the small side. Next week I will be back full time. Right now I’m just glad I’m back. Just had a few bugs to work out with myself and techs.

Ok till next week. Who Where and however you feel.. Just roll the cuffs back. And proclaim to every bitch alive. That U are MONEY!

Guy (86)