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2008 Start - Whilst confirming his interest in a Justice League of America movie, Brandon Routh claimed that production on Superman: The Man of Steel would begin in early 2008 after Bryan Singer has finished filming Valkyrie.

GERMANY LOVES CRUISE - Valkyrie has now been given the go-ahead to film around various German military sites despite Tom Cruise’s religious beliefs.

GREASER LABEOUF - First image of Shia LaBeouf as Indy’s son have been added to our movie watch page for Indiana Jones and the City of Gods.

MORE GORE & NEW ENDING - Director Rob Zombie has spent a week shooting six new death scenes along with a new gruesome ending to heighten the overall gore and violence of his remake to Halloween.

What words would I use to describe John Carpenter’s Halloween?

Tense, claustrophobic, frightening and subtle.

Subtle probably being the key word. There’s hardly any blood or gore in Halloween. Instead, it’s all about suggestion and the tension towards a violent act.

Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Rob Zombie has spent a week re-shooting scenes for his remake so he could add SIX NEW DEATH SCENES and crank up the VIOLENCE, GORE and BLOODSHED for the film.

Does this guy not understand Halloween at all?

The site are also reporting that he has shot a brand new and QUITE GRUESOME ending for the movie. Now, what I take from this is that the test screenings for Halloween (which actually may not have screened yet, otherwise you have to believe AICN would have been sent a review) or the close net of people he has shown the flick to haven’t been impressed at all, and Zombie’s new “frightening vision of terror” was rather lame.

Trailer of the original Halloween film…  gore and violence free but 100% terrifying.

So in a desperate move, he has gone the conventional horror route and added more gore and bloody scenes to try and keep the modern day audience’s interest in his shoddy work.

Would it not have been better Mr. Zombie, to shoot your own slasher film that’s not Halloween which has certain homage’s to Carpenter’s original rather than attempting this remake which just pisses everyone off and invites comparisons to a classic film that your film won’t be able to hold a torch too. (or a kitchen knife in this case).

Halloween opens on 31st August in the U.S. with no U.K. release date attached as of yet. May I suggest you give John Carpenter’s film a run in cinema’s instead? That would be fun.

So we already know The Bourne Ultimatum is to be Matt Damon’s last outing as Jason Bourne and from the looks of this much improved trailer (the first trailer made me sick with the shaky cam) it looks like he wants to go out with a bang.

They’ve got a great cast together for this one and hopefully it will turn out to be a fun last hurrah.

Still though, I much prefer the James Bond and Ethan Hunt franchises over this one. There’s just something a bit bland about the Bourne character and movies which don’t warrant the amount of re-watches that Mission Impossible 1 & 3 or the Bond movies can bring years down the road.

Trailer below, or you can see the HD Quicktime version by clicking here. Look for this in a cinema near you early next month.

source - filmstalker

The sequel to Alien vs. Predator has gone through another name change. Originally it was titled Alien vs. Predator 2, then it became Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest, then it was rumored to be No Peace on Earth and now they have gone the way of the James Cameron and simply called it Aliens vs. Predator.

Is the title difference too subtle?

It worked great for Cameron’s sequel in the 80’s when the title was only 5 letters long so adding an S to the very end was noticeable. But with a title like Aliens vs. Predator, at a quick glance you can’t really notice the difference.

Maybe calling it Aliens vs. Predator: No Peace on Earth might help the “average joe” work out that this is a sequel to that 2004 film. In any event, things aren’t looking good for Predator who by the sounds of it must now fight of a bunch of those damn Aliens.

Aliens vs. Predator opens on Christmas Day and is for those geeks who would rather see two monsters battle it out than to visit their relatives (i.e. strangers they just happen to visit once a year).

source - shock till you drop

Regular reader James has sent in his two cents on the criticism that Darren Aronofsky’s visually specatcular movie The Fountain generated from critics. You may remember the film was notoriously booed at last year’s Cannes festival.

Personally, I wasn’t too found of the movie which I had been highly anticipating for a good number of years. It lacked depth amongst it’s visuals and if you took each of the three storylines and put them into their own context, you would be left with three highly conventional and boring genre movies with zero character development and moral reasoning.

I won’t be as harsh to say it was 2 hours of my life down the drain because of the awesome visuals but I truly believe the film has little or no message. The most I could take from it was not to waste life on your life working when you can go out and play in the snow with your loved ones. Come to think of it, “Life is to short” is just about the only message I could take from the movie.

So although I disagree with what your saying mate, I’m posting your article anyway as OWF is all about giving you readers a voice and I’m sure there will be people who side with your opinion over mine…

I often gaze into sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and look at their reviews before and after I see a movie. Most of the time the consensus is fairly harmonious with my own subjective opinion, but sometimes it is so horribly off. Example, THE FOUNTAIN. It received a measly score, 50%, suffering much criticism:

“The Fountain’s message is that life is short, so we should make the most of it, and that’s a message which should take one of two centuries, and one or two hairstyles, at most.”

“An artsy-fartsy disaster…a would-be film of ideas that runs dry of them very quickly.”

OK, now despite the obvious lack of insight these people possess (The Fountain’s message is that life is short? I mean were we even watching the same movie?) there are other mishaps in these reviews.

Of course they are subjective, as are all reviews, but it isn’t fair to admonish something one does not understand. The Fountain had layers and layers of symbolism, Biblical analogies, traces of Buddhism, spiritual development, the completion of life through death and a myriad of other different, and just as deep, themes and messages. These little seeing-eyes into space, time and ourselves that Darren Aronofsky constructed are readily available had critics taken the time to actually peer into them.

It is sad, to see the pioneers of criticism in the film industry not invest the time and effort to review something thoroughly. Aronofsky has created a visual chef d’oeuvre coated with symbolism of all kinds, and yet it is blatantly ignored by most, if not all critics. Then a movie like Die-Hard 4.0 can receive a 75%. It goes to show a biased in the film industry…specifically a lower standard and a warmer reception to movies that need little to no cerebral activity.

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