I Am Link

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--- Pyle Up - We were just crowing about this the other day - we take every chance we can get - so we were very happy to see one of our longtime favorite scene-stealers Missi Pyle got some much deserved love over at The Film Experience yesterday for her hysterical performance in Spring Breakdown, a truly underrated little comedy. "It's never gonna warm you up." Classic.

--- Get So Schizo - I've been saving my first viewing of Steven Soderbergh's supposedly psychotically strange Schizopolis for a rainy day, so I am setting aside this post by Glenn as Stale Popcorn on the film and ten of its greatest moments for the day after that rainy day when I'll inevitably want to read about the movie.

--- 25 of 11 - If I started listing the parts of this list of Joe Reid's 25 Movie Moments of 2011 that I loved I would list... twenty, I had to go and count and yup, I would be listing twenty of his list. So just go read his list and save me the nonsensical business of just repeating nearly the whole thing. It's so smile inducing.

--- More Like Lex Loser - Hmm, I wonder what JA thinks about the news that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Lex Luthor in McG's Superman movie? Could he consider it the biggest bullet dodged in the history of bullets? Could he consider the fact that we're getting Michael effing Shannon as general Zod to be approximately one billion times a better thing? Hmm, I wonder.

--- Deadites Walking - Just because it isn't a true week in time without some new random nothing from somebody associated with the Evil Dead remake, here's a couple of quotes from the lead actress on how gory and scary their version will be - she manages to display a devastating incomprehension of the Sam Raimi films at the same time - plus a little bit from Bruce Campbell too, because he's always yapping on Twitter, bless him.

--- Say Yes To The Mess - Have you guys seen the international poster for the third [REC] movie? (via) I think it's been around for a bit but I hadn't seen it until yesterday and I love it. That's it there to the left. A wedding dress dragged through gore is just a delight, innit? I hope this one lives up to the first two. I love them so. BD's got a gallery with some new pictures from the movie too.

--- A To Zombie - I saw The Ford Brothers' 2010 zombie movie The Dead about a week ago and I really want to write something up when I can, but this week's got its distractions. The movie's well worth seeing though, so seek it out. It just got released onto DVD last week, and Netflix has it. All that said go read Pax's review at Billy Loves Stu, he'll sell you better than I just did.

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I Am Link

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--- Pyle Up - We were just crowing about this the other day - we take every chance we can get - so we were very happy to see one of our longtime favorite scene-stealers Missi Pyle got some much deserved love over at The Film Experience yesterday for her hysterical performance in Spring Breakdown, a truly underrated little comedy. "It's never gonna warm you up." Classic.

--- Get So Schizo - I've been saving my first viewing of Steven Soderbergh's supposedly psychotically strange Schizopolis for a rainy day, so I am setting aside this post by Glenn as Stale Popcorn on the film and ten of its greatest moments for the day after that rainy day when I'll inevitably want to read about the movie.

--- 25 of 11 - If I started listing the parts of this list of Joe Reid's 25 Movie Moments of 2011 that I loved I would list... twenty, I had to go and count and yup, I would be listing twenty of his list. So just go read his list and save me the nonsensical business of just repeating nearly the whole thing. It's so smile inducing.

--- More Like Lex Loser - Hmm, I wonder what JA thinks about the news that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Lex Luthor in McG's Superman movie? Could he consider it the biggest bullet dodged in the history of bullets? Could he consider the fact that we're getting Michael effing Shannon as general Zod to be approximately one billion times a better thing? Hmm, I wonder.

--- Deadites Walking - Just because it isn't a true week in time without some new random nothing from somebody associated with the Evil Dead remake, here's a couple of quotes from the lead actress on how gory and scary their version will be - she manages to display a devastating incomprehension of the Sam Raimi films at the same time - plus a little bit from Bruce Campbell too, because he's always yapping on Twitter, bless him.

--- Say Yes To The Mess - Have you guys seen the international poster for the third [REC] movie? (via) I think it's been around for a bit but I hadn't seen it until yesterday and I love it. That's it there to the left. A wedding dress dragged through gore is just a delight, innit? I hope this one lives up to the first two. I love them so. BD's got a gallery with some new pictures from the movie too.

--- A To Zombie - I saw The Ford Brothers' 2010 zombie movie The Dead about a week ago and I really want to write something up when I can, but this week's got its distractions. The movie's well worth seeing though, so seek it out. It just got released onto DVD last week, and Netflix has it. All that said go read Pax's review at Billy Loves Stu, he'll sell you better than I just did.

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Klaatu Barada Shiloh

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I have not read and I have no plans to read any of the scripts that have been floating around for the remake reboot whatever of The Evil Dead, so I haven't really gotten a handle on what the deal is with it, story-wise. I know the basic idea - that it's about a group of friends who go to The Cabin in order to detox one of their female friends, who's been hooked on the bad stuff (or the good stuff, depending on your point of view).

What I'm not sure about is what they're doing regarding as Ash type of character - I hope you know Ash is the Bruce Campbell character, but if you don't: Educate yourself, fool! - I've heard competing things. That it'll be the girl getting detoxed who ends up being the lead (when Lily Collins was set to play her that's what I'd heard, but now Lily Collins is not attached to the movie anymore), that there is no Ash-type character at all. 

And now I see that the actor Shiloh Fernandez has been cast as "the male lead," so who knows. I mean the press release goes out of its way to say there is no "Ash character" but really whoever lives to kick demon ass another day is "the Ash character" aren't they? Are they telling us nobody lives? Or that nobody kicks any demon ass? Because an Evil Dead without demon ass-kicking is not an Evil Dead at all.

I digress. I don't even want to know the answers to all this beforehand, because I'd like to have some surprises in store when I eventually see the movie. I mean that's doubtful, but it would be nice.

Okay, so Shiloh. I have ogled Shiloh several times (here and here and here) - and now that's he's the lead in a horror movie I will totally be blogging the hell out of between now and its eventual release I guess I should finally give him his own tag here at the blog, lucky him - but the only thing I've ever seen him in was Red Riding Hood, and he was just fucking terrible in that. I mean everybody was bad in it - Julie Christie was bad in it, for god's sake - but he was really, really bad. But hot! He looked very hot, swishing about in his half cape, being godawful. So... so? I don't know. I have no idea. I can't really judge him off of one terrible movie. And he's lucky enough to be spouting Diablo Cody dialogue, so half the battle's already been fought in his favor. Plus... hot. I mean, all I really need to know is, will he be swallowing an eyeball? Because that's the most important thing.

Klaatu Barada Shiloh

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I have not read and I have no plans to read any of the scripts that have been floating around for the remake reboot whatever of The Evil Dead, so I haven't really gotten a handle on what the deal is with it, story-wise. I know the basic idea - that it's about a group of friends who go to The Cabin in order to detox one of their female friends, who's been hooked on the bad stuff (or the good stuff, depending on your point of view).

What I'm not sure about is what they're doing regarding as Ash type of character - I hope you know Ash is the Bruce Campbell character, but if you don't: Educate yourself, fool! - I've heard competing things. That it'll be the girl getting detoxed who ends up being the lead (when Lily Collins was set to play her that's what I'd heard, but now Lily Collins is not attached to the movie anymore), that there is no Ash-type character at all. 

And now I see that the actor Shiloh Fernandez has been cast as "the male lead," so who knows. I mean the press release goes out of its way to say there is no "Ash character" but really whoever lives to kick demon ass another day is "the Ash character" aren't they? Are they telling us nobody lives? Or that nobody kicks any demon ass? Because an Evil Dead without demon ass-kicking is not an Evil Dead at all.

I digress. I don't even want to know the answers to all this beforehand, because I'd like to have some surprises in store when I eventually see the movie. I mean that's doubtful, but it would be nice.

Okay, so Shiloh. I have ogled Shiloh several times (here and here and here) - and now that's he's the lead in a horror movie I will totally be blogging the hell out of between now and its eventual release I guess I should finally give him his own tag here at the blog, lucky him - but the only thing I've ever seen him in was Red Riding Hood, and he was just fucking terrible in that. I mean everybody was bad in it - Julie Christie was bad in it, for god's sake - but he was really, really bad. But hot! He looked very hot, swishing about in his half cape, being godawful. So... so? I don't know. I have no idea. I can't really judge him off of one terrible movie. And he's lucky enough to be spouting Diablo Cody dialogue, so half the battle's already been fought in his favor. Plus... hot. I mean, all I really need to know is, will he be swallowing an eyeball? Because that's the most important thing.