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Street Kings may just be the top movie fo 2008. i'm laying that one down now so you should all mark my words and go check it out because it WILL be BEST FILM of 2008 when the oscars come round next year.
yo heres the sum up: keanu reeves is a good cop doin a bad job and the streets dont come no meaner. and his bost is idi amin hisself!!!!!!!1111
yes thats right - idi amin. forest whitaker reprises his role from 'the last king of scotland'. idi amin has escaped from africa and is now a bad cop in america and keanu has to struggle with this guy as his boss. its a great and subtle performance with african whitaker perfecting an american accent and it should at least get him another oscar nomination. keanu is good too and he should finally get his first nomination for this as it ranks alongside some of his best work as an actor (ie. constantine, the lake house).
street kings continues the fine tradition of american movies about police corruption. this tradition started in the 90s with the movie 'training day' which cause a lot of controversy at the time as no one had dared show police corruption so explicitly in movies. denzal washington got an oscar for this, making him the first black actor to get one. not many people realise it but ethan hawke even got a nomination too, making him the first openly gay actor to be nominated. hawke continues to fight oppression to this day and (sorry to be PC) even though he is a fag he still managed to be a good actor in 'training day' so props to him i say.
anyway back to street kings. this is the best movie i have seen in a long time. it has it all - action, drama, laughs, swearing, mad drugs. what more could you ask for? go see it.
today i am writing about the gretaest film of all time - BLOODSPORT. if you havent seen this film then i challenge your status as a film 'fan' and i accuse you of being a film KNOW NOTHING.
here is the summary: VAN DAMME is a hockey player on the road to revenge. after seeing his hockey partner (his twin brother, also played by VAN DAMME) killed in the ring by rival hockey player BONG-HO he decides to fight bong-ho in a deathmatch to take place in vietnam.
this is an excellen film and it really does have it all. it has action in the form of the many fights van damme must win and it has drama in the moving opening scene where van damme (playing his own twin brother) dies from a lethal blow to the head via hockey stick. it also has comedy which comes via van damme's sidekick (played here by john candy, who grew a beard for the role - making this the only movie where he has a beard).
BONG-HO, who plays van damme's opponent, is probably best known for playing the Incredible Hulk in the 80s tv show of the same name. he didn't make many more films after bloodsport as it is rumoured that he was just too ASHAMED after being beaten so ferociously on screen by van damme. completely understanable.
van damme wasn't very famous until he made this movie. before bloodsport he was actually living on the streets and making a living via the magic of interpretive dance. he was oscar nominated for his work in bloodsport and went on to have a very good career. van dammes most famous movies since are 'street fighter', 'x-men 3: the last stand' (where he plays Gambit) and the straight to video classic 'the order'. it is rumoured on many in-the-know sources that his next film will see him team up with steven segal and the two will play twin brothers and that the movie will be called 'double under seige'. it will feature heath ledger (in his last filmed role) as the villain.
trivia: bloodsport was banned in vietnam for it's anti-war subtext as the vietnamese are renowned for their warlike ways.
well it looks like all be on the floor for the new steven spielberg movie called Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls. I dunno what the big deal is. they get Harrison Ford outta retirement when no one cares about him anymore and make him the star in this movie and the whole thing looks like a BLATANT RIP OFF of National Treasure starring Nic Cage. now, as you all now, Nic cage is at least twenty years younger then harrison ford so WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST MAKE NIC CAGE THE STAR?!?! Harrison Ford hasn't even been in a movie for over 5 years! The last thing he did was a guest spot in 24 as Keifer Sutherland's dad so WHAT GIVES. Nic cage is a REAL star, they should've just made it as National Treasure: The Crystal Skulls. Tell me that wouldn't rule. who gives two swipes of shiz about some old doofus called 'indaiana jones' what kinda name is that anyway?
anyway, I havent seen this indaiana jones movie but i did recieve an email from one of my secret sources telling me in great detail what the plot of the movie is, so you heard it here first...
A mysterious illness is afflicting members of an archaeological expedition recently returned from the Andes, where they had unearthed the tomb of the Inca, Rascar Capac. One by one, the expedition members fall into a mysterious coma. The only clue is shards of crystal found near each victim, which are fragments of shattered crystal balls. Concerned, Indiana Jones and his mates go to stay with an old friend, and expedition member, the ebullient Professor Tarragon, who is keeping Rascar Capac's mummy in his house. But the mummy soon disappears when a lightning storm sends a ball of fire down the chimney, and, after each being visited in their nightmares by the mummy, the three wake to find Tarragon comatose, with the telltale shards of crystal by his bed.
Tarragon later wakes up but screams about mysterious figures attacking him. Indiana Jones later visits a hospital where all the other stricken explorers go through the same horrors at a precise time of day.
The plot thickens even further, however, when Indaiana Joness friend, whilst taking a stroll around Professor Tarragon's house, discovers a striking gold bracelet, puts it on (remarking on how nicely it goes with his coat), and then mysteriously disappears. The bracelet had previously been worn by the now-vanished mummy.
While looking for his friend, Indiana Jones is fired upon by an unseen gunman who escapes in a black car, having kidnapped his friend. The alarm is raised and the police set up road blocks, but the kidnappers switch cars and slip through the net.
Indaiana Jones pursues the abductors to La Rochelle, where they discover that his friend is on board a ship called the Pachacamac, which is bound for Peru, and he resolves to meet this ship there, which is where the film's showdown takes place.
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sounds okay I guess. time will tell if speilberg can pull out that magic and make this as good as a National Treasure movie!
yesterday i saw IRON MAN. as you can tell from the above pic this is about a robot superhero who smashes bad guys and stuff. that's my summary of the movie by the way. i thought i would just start off with my trademark summary this time round to pull all yo readers right in. and it worked
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yo wassup. cause i'm so deadly and awesome i just keep on watching movies after movies after movies. yesterday i watched Lars and the Real Girl and here's my sum up
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say hello to my leetel fren!
well since this is called oldmovies.com i thought i would actually reviw an old movie so all you know nothings could get off my back about it ok? today i am talking about the classic 60s movie Scarface. here is my trademark summary of the plot just in case you are a genuine hater of movies and are unaware of what this movie is about: Al Pacino is Scarface, a mexican gangster of epic porpotions who comes to America and is faced by the racism of American and he decides to fight back. It's an uplifting story and it teaches valuable lessons about standing up for youself and being a man
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wassup everyone i'm taking this blog over to bring you all the truth about whats hot and whats not in the movies. i watched this movie recently in honor of the anzacs and i gotta tell ya, its not worth seeing. i'll sum up the movie for you in just one sentence (this is something i'm gonna do for you with my reviews and it should help you lern about whats worth seeing and what aint)... kokoda is about some dudes just bushwalking for two hours. thats it. it starts off and theyre sitting around and chillin and your like, wheres the action already? and then some bullets come but you dont even get to see the asians and its hell boring
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I realise I haven't been doing much on this blog lately. I have a friend interested in taking Old Movies.net.au for a spin, so maybe I'll let him post in it for a while. Just thought I better post something about it so people don't think it's me! (especially as he has appalling taste in movies)
I'll probably be back at some point but life has been cuntish lately so breaths shouldn't be held.
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