While they were shooting their first feature The Puffy Chair, someone on the crew asked the directing brothers whats the scariest thing they could think of. And it wound round to someone saying “A guy with a bag on his head looking at you through the window.” But not everyone agreed with this, thinking it was more funny or ridiculous than scary. And so their second feature, Baghead, was created.
Likelihood of you or anyone you know seeing this movie: minimal. But still, it seems interesting enough.
While not exactly “film news” per say, this is still definitely worth watching, although we’ll be damned if we’re sure why.
Its a promotional fake movie trailer to accompany the release of Chuck Palahinuk’s new book, Snuff. Having already had Fight Club adapted, and with Choke out later this year, as well as Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Diary all in production in one way or another, no doubt this fake movie trailer will end up spurring on a real movie trailer. For a real movie. Eventually.
As previously reported here on Correct Opinion, Woody Allen’s next film, Vicky Christina Barcelona (which will premiere in Cannes this month) is a serious portrayal of love and betrayal, with long dull takes, unappealing locations and very average looking actors. A bit Mike Leigh.
Take a look…
No, wait…
I’m not sure which I admire more - the ridiculously good looking cast (hellooo Scar Jo, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Rebecca Hall and Chris Messina!) or the fact that the trailer-makers clearly realised that silly things such as dialogue and plot indications aren’t in the least bit necessary. Just show lots of good looking people having sex in an sun-drenched European sitting, make one of them man-of-the-moment hunk-of-rugged-flesh Bardem, let two of the good looking girls kiss, add a single dramatic gun shot, point the camera and go.
Below is a new clip from Fernando Mereilles’ upcoming Blindness. Based on José Saramago’s excellent book, and starring Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Gael García Bernal and Danny Glover, the film has been chosen to open this year’s Cannes Film Festival
The clip appears to be from an earlier stage of the blind people’s incarceration, with Mark Ruffalo’s doctor trying to bring out some order and discipline to their situation before it escalates into total breakdown and degradation.
The teaser trailer and overview for the film can be seen in a previous Correct Opinion article, here.
We all know just how money hungry Hollywood is, blah blah blah, quantity of money received is more important than quality of movie given out. But thats just the way it is. That the movie making money making grand scheme of things. But when two original and fantastic movies are made, and then sequels to them are green-lit, alarm bells go off. And this time, for a few different reasons. In the first case, the problem is obvious:
The Descent was a fantastic little horror movie than got some well deserved positive press and box office in the States when it was released three or four years ago. SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE MOVIE From The Hollywood Reported: “The script sees the survivor forced back into the system of caves she battled her way out of in the first film, in a bid to locate the rest of her group”. Nobody made it out in the first movie! So that poses a problem, right there. And there doesn’t seem to be much a clone a la Alien Resurrection chance type thing going on here.
And for the second pointless sequel:
Donnie Darko. A mucho loved, modern classic in many people’s eyes. And so on to the news of the sequel: “Under the working title of S. Darko, this movie will pick up seven years after the death of Donnie, with youngest Darko Samantha, now 18, and her best friend Corey being plagued by bizarre visions while on a roadtrip to Los Angeles.”
So they’ve gone and made a sequel to the most un-sequel-needing movie of all time, and made it sound like a sequel to Final Destination. Fantastic stuff.
But if it makes you feel any better, neither of the original directors from either of the movies will be back to work on either of the sequels. Good times all round!
For everyone who wasn’t played what is one of the greatest video games of all time, here’s a quick synopsis of the plot to BioShock on the Xbox360:
You start of the game in control of a character who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the middle of the ocean. As the plane goes under the waves, you notice a rocky island, with a weird building on it. You go in and investigate, and discover that miles underwater is the hidden city of Rapture. It was created in the ’30’s by the geniuses of the time, but since then something horrible has gone wrong when the residents of the perfect city tried to perfect the human genome, and almost everyone went insane, cannibalistic and ravenous. The few survivors left are either trying to kill you for food, or are incased in giant metal suits trying to sanitize the city back for future use, or are possessed little girls haunted by the ghosts of the deceased, crazed residents.
Anyways, this game was considered unfilmable, due to the MASSIVE BUDGET it must require to film properly (seriously, the art direction in this movie is unmatched my anything else on an format of entertainment), but this hasn’t stopped Universal from attaching a director and a writer to the project.
Gore Verbinski (the Pirates trilogy, The Ring) would seem like the absolute prime candidate for directing this creepy, big budget extravaganza, and John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd) will be providing the adaptation. Expect this some time in 2011.
“I can strongly say that Spielberg has gone out on top and brought back one the most beloved cinematic heroes around for one more time…… Here he returns to the basic fundamentals of the lost arts of practicality and just plain good old fashioned genuine storytelling.”
The Bad (from /Film):
“During the whole of the movie, there was not a single moment that I thought our hero Mr. Jones was in any sort of peril or even significant inconvenience. In most cases, you were so many steps ahead of the characters that it was really just an arduous wait for them to get through it.”
And The Ugly (from AICN):
“For those of you that feel that the new Star Wars movies robbed your childhood, expect some molestations from Uncles’ George and Steven…… In short, this is the Indiana Jones movie that you were dreading.”
Well, uh oh! That doesn’t bode well. At the very least, we know that the movie will make at least a billion dollars in the worldwide box office, and thats more important than it being any good, right? I mean, why else spend more money and time on the marketing aspect of a film than the making of a film itself, right?
Just kidding. But it probably won’t be as bad as some of the leaked reviews online would have us believe. Spielberg seems incapable of making a bad movie, just varying levels of disappointing ones, and we’d better brace ourselves for this one. Correct Opinion won’t have its own official review until the 19th of May, so you’d all better wait until then for a more detailed, perspectivized (yes, its a word. yes, we just made it up) review on this years most anticipated movie.
