....because you know a movie is coming to the small screen about Britney Spears' crazy antics. It will either be a Lifetime Original Movie or a Fox unauthorized biography. But you know it's coming.

Millions will tune in to see her rise to the stop and her crash back down to earth, and then her meltdown and crash through the earth...at the rate she is coming out on the other side.

But who out there is crazy....er...talented enough to play her on the small screen? From her Mickey Mouse Club days, to her first album and then the fall....

hmmm.....any ideas?

So they are redoing the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
Why?
And why without Robert Englund? The man has said for a while now he would like to do something with Freddy, though more of a prequel, Freddy the man/killer, before he was Freddy the nightmare god.

But no, they want to retool Freddy without Robert. To me you can't have Freddy without Robert. Period. He is the character. To have another actor try to emulate his style of Freddy or even going in another direction is just going to suck if you ask me.

So what are we at now....Friday the 13th...Child's Play...Hellraiser...Nightmare on Elm Street...the awful awful Rob Zombie Halloween remake....

Can't Hollywood think of new scares?

oh...yeah...scares these days are brought to us by crap like "One Missed Call."

And here I had optimism out of Hollywood...silly me.

...and I liked it. It was a refreshing throwback to the first "First Blood" movie and what got people to like and care about the character in the first place. There isn't a focus on vanity like there was in the third one. Stallone isn't running around all oiled up and killing like 3,000 people with nothing but a knife and a gun with six rounds left.

Here we find Rambo far away from his own country, selling snakes for eats. He's kind of haggard and tired looking, but that's what's great. It shows progression and evolution for the character and I am completely digging it. Missionaries come to him for help to go to Burma. He doesn't want to at first but relents and drops the people off. The good people are promptly captured, tortured or killed.

Rambo and a team of mercenaries must then make the save. It was interesting to see Rambo work with people instead of being a one man army, but it worked.

The violence is fast and furious, which is great. There is some genuinely jarring scenes in this movie. Moments where the Burmese military are slaughtering the Karen people, I found difficult to look at, and I have seen the "Saw" movies.

The thing about this--highlighted by actual footage of civil war violence and death before the movie started--is it's real. Oh sure a certain amount is Hollywood-ised, but a lot of it is real and it really happens. We of course never experience it and most of us probably never will, but acts of war and genocide committed on innocents happens and to see it...whew....

There's a going home or sorts for Rambo I won't spoil. But this was a good movie. It's not going to win any screen writing Oscars, but hey this is Rambo and it's a good end to the franchise.

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...and why not? I am a guy who loves mostly two kinds of movies: Action or comedy. Now I am not closed minded by any means, I am open to every genre out there and have a wide variety to my DVD collection.

But I love seeing bullets, feet, fists and explosions flying everywhere. I am all about seeing Rambo on the big screen again. I, along with tons of other fans (I'm sure) we're leery of the news that Sly was dusting off the two characters that basically made his career, Rocky and Rambo, but after seeing "Rocky Balboa," I have faith in Stallone. The last Rocky movie wasn't cheesy like the sequels (which I loved) and captured the look and heart of the first one.

Rambo is getting back to basics in this one. I mean the first released snippet of footage was Rambo blowing a guy to pieces with a machine gun from a jeep, literal pieces people....it was bloody, violent and awesome. No I am not some sick violent person, I just have a strong feeling of  how a Rambo movie should be.

I am not worried about the plot of him saving a group of capture missionaries, I just want to see Rambo doing his Rambo thing for an hour and a half.

*edit* Check the Rambo movie death chart....awesome....

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Not that I would ever confess to being the biggest Heath Ledger fan, I was looking forward to his turn as the Joker in the new Dark Knight film. I was saddened to learn moments ago that he is no longer with us.

Multiple news outlets are confirming his death and I am sure more news will follow and let us know exactly what happened.

The young man was only 28.

Just all the more reason to live while you can, enjoy while you can. I mean I am reading reports of pills being found near here body, so he may have had something to do with what happened to him, but the lesson to me is still the same.

You truly never know the day nor the hour it will be your last. Enjoy the time you have with those you have to spend it with.

If you get to be famous, (Let's face it a lot of the famous are dying young) try to take a step back from time to time and just enjoy those closest to you. Don't let the pressure, the fame, the expectations take you down dark paths.

Just live. Remember those that have gone on too young, to early, to faulty. Cherish their memories, learn from their examples, and just live as much as you can.

....and I do recommend you go see. Truly it is the Blair Witch meets Godzilla. And yes you will have to excuse the shaky camera movement. Although the whole movie being shot from the view of behind the camcorder really puts you in the thick of things...during the party, during the assault and during the run-for-your-life moments as the main quintet  tried to escape with the ones they loved.

I loved how you got small glimpses of the creature until one long glorious shot towards the end. It was definitely a frightening thing to see.

The movie crushed the box office competition as well it should have.

You need to see it. If you must, wait till it comes out on DVD and watch it in segments to ease the assault on your eyes and motion sickness. But you need to see the movie. Sure it takes two ideas that have been done before, but it blends them into something new, something watchable and something great.

Source: Yahoo! Movies

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The Justice League,DC Comics flagship superteam, was dealt a fatal cinematic blow. It didn't come from Darkseid, evil tyrant lord of Apokolips. It didn't come from the latest machinations of Lex Luthor, no, it was another ripple effect of the writer's strike in Hollywood. The strike has shortened TV seasons, shelved big scren movies and leaves pretty much everything else that was on the entertainment table in doubt.

Actors D.J. Cotrona, Adam Brody, Armie Hammier, Anton Yelchin, Common, Teresa Palmer and Megan Gale had been reportedly been cast in the lead roles, though who played what is unknown at this point, although it was rumored that Brody got the role of the Flash, Common got the role of Green Lantern, Hammier got the role ofBatman, and Megan Gale had been cast as Wonder Woman.

The cast was in Australia and ready to shoot when the plug was pulled. Options on the actors' contract will be allowed to lapse.

This is great news for the Justice League if you ask me. Warner Bros. was so dead set on making this movie and I really don't understand why.

Batman and Superman with no Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel or Christian Bale as the Dark Knight and against the wishes of "Superman Returns" director, Bryan Singer and "Batman Begins" director Chris Nolan and Bale himself......wait, what?

Exactly what I was thinking. Even though they were establishing those two heroes in their own movies in their own respective universes, the higher ups at WB had the bright idea to do two different versions of Bats and Supes for the League movie. Not that it will confuse anyone or anything.

This is why Marvel is so much better with their movies. They respect the characters and the source material, even on the B-listers...X-Men, Spider-Man, Punisher, Daredevil, Hulk, Ghost Rider, Fantastic 4..they all haven't done Spidey box office numbers, but they haven't failed by any means....I mean there was Elektra....but we pretend that doesn't exist.

Even the upcoming Hulk and Iron Man movies are going to kick cinematic but. The title characters are reported to have cameos in the other's movie to sow the seeds for an Avengers movie down the line.

That's how it's done. WB and DC need to take some notes.

....yes I finally saw it...after it has been in the theater for four weeks now and has amassed roughly $187 million. The film came in at number four at the box office this week behind "The Bucket List", "First Sunday" and the little movie that could, "Juno." 

As the credits rolled on "The Book of Secrets," I wondered (as I did after the first film) how much of the film is truth and how much is Hollywood b/s? I mean I imagine a great deal of it is Hollywood inflation, but it still makes it interesting.

It had me checking up in history books, Googling stuff online, checking Wikipedia, to see if there is any glimmer of truth to any of the neat stuff I had just witnessed. And even if there wasn't I was genuinely interested in a lot of the historical time periods and the people that lived then.

To me that is a great thing. To not only have you talking about a movie when it's over with, but to have you hitting the books, researching, finding and learning. That is the mark of a good movie.

I mean it wasn't the best acted movie and the plot was so-so in certain places, but the overall effect, the desire for knowledge, that's how I would judge the success of the National Treasure movies.

....and I totally want that hour and a half of my life back. That was one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life. Now, mind you, my thinking is there is no such thing as a good scary movie anymore, period.

It's all rehashed, formulaic, bad-acted trash.

But no, I subjected myself to this "film" about a girl played by Shannyn Sossamon, who is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart.

Dun dun dun.....

Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages--actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold.

Dun dun dun.....

The police think Beth is delusional--except for Detective Jack Andrews, (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth's friends.

Dun dun dun...

Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth's cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout displays: "One Missed Call."

My gosh, this was the stupid. This was six kinds of stupid I had not thought possible since witnessing the steaming pile of cow pie that was Gigli.

You get into some spiritual stuff with ghosts of a dead mother or dead daughter being responsible for the gruesome killings and the ending...good Lord, I'll give you props and a cookie if you can even stand to sit through the ending of this.

It further disgusts me this movie has made $20 million thus far. This movie should have made negative dollars at the box office...

I am just hoping all the hype and waiting I have done for "Cloverfield" can make up for this.

It's been many a year since we have seen the televised adventures of the crack commando unit convicted of a crime they didn't commit surviving as soldiers of fortune in the Los Angeles underground.

But they are headed to the big screen courtesy, at least right now, of John Singleton. The setting hasn't been made clear. I would assume it would be made contemporary seeing's how the original A-Team were vets of the Vietnam war. I imagine it will be gulf war vets or maybe vets of the current "war on terror."

In an interview Singleton made a few comments on the tone of the movie and rumors he would be seeking out the services of rapper/actor Ice Cube as the team's resident strongman/hothead/mechanic B.A. Baracus.

"It’s not a comic movie farce like Starsky and Hutch, it’s kind of in the tradition of the 80’s action pictures, the man’s movies like Die Hard, Predator, Commando, or even Lethal Weapon – more so than anything else. The action is very serious, but there is humor. That’s what we are going for."

And...

"Nobody is playing Mr. T – the character’s name is B.A. Baracus, he will have a Mohawk and there is a moment in the movie where he actually gets the Mohawk cause he’s going crazy."

With the whole writer's strike business going on, we'll see how far this gets.

That last acronym stands for "do I really care?"

That's the question I have. So I was reading about WB turning it's back on HD DVD and joining several other studios and being exclusive to the almighty Blu-ray disc. I will admit I have not paid nearly enough or really any attention to World War DVD.

To me a DVD is a DVD is a flippin' DVD. Now maybe because I don't have one of the most humungous, plasma-ised, flat screen-ised, super awesome-see-the grass-on-the-football-field-type television sets, I don't understand the need to have HD DVD's or Blu-ray discs.

The movie still looks the same. Now I love my surround sound and my sense shattering subwoofer, but the picture all long as it is clear, I am good.

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