Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Movies & More

Any guesses about which actor plays the character in the middle? It's shocking and utterly awesome. What's the answer?

Did anyone see Will Smith's I Am Legend during the summer? The DVD is being released soon and I guess it will include an alternate ending that they shot, as described here. Oops, that video clip was pulled - check it out here. It's not viscerally satisfying as the final cut but it makes a much more brutal point, I think.

Remember last year when they discovered skeletons of a supposed Hobbit-like race of small people? The new theory is that these were simply malnourished humans with gland problems. Not as exciting, but maybe we'll still find a race of lvigin tree Ents or something...

Comic geek that I am, I've been tracking the making of the movie The Watchmen since the beginning. One of the best comics of all time, written by the genius Alan Moore back in the day. They have new posters showing each of the main characters now. Rorshach, of course, is the best one.

As Amy Goertz says, do not do a google image search for "Largest Bear."

Anybody care to try a bacon chocolate bar? Mmmm...

There's an interesting documentary called Winning For A Living, about people that enter contests as their full-time jobs. 'Mazingfruit...

As I mentioned before, an old co-worker of mine named Trevor was sitting by the red carpet at the Oscars last month. He wrote about his day, including a video. Apparently Viggo Mortensen was very cool.

I've been published! Well, actually, all I did was get a question published online on the Raptors blog at The Toroto Star's website. Click here and go down halfway to look for "Jamie A" from Mississauga. Even so, it's cool! C'mon, Raptors, doesn't anyone know how to box out?

5 comments:

Mike said...

I can't believe they did blackface... the fallout surrounding this will amuse me greatly.

Jamie A. Grant said...

Yeah, I'm aware of how they used to use blackface back in the day when black actors were still not allowed on-screen but the script required it. This is treading some dangerous territory but it has the potential to really make a good statement, too. This movie just shot near the top of my list because of this casting...

Jamie A. Grant said...

If anyone is interested, the first early viewings of parts of the movie Tropic Thunder are available here: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35976

The movie stars Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black. It's going to be crazy...

Mike said...

Oh, and those pics of the Watchmen characters were up on the production blog a while back.

I think they all look pretty keen. What's up with the lack of Dr. Manhattan, though? I know he's in the movie, but no pics!

Jamie A. Grant said...

Dr. Manhattan? You want to see a naked blue man, do you, Mike?

There was another early screening of Tropic Thunder on Aint-It-Cool-News today. The opening with fake trailers for three genre films is supposed to be hilarious, and the main cameo appearance is supposed to be quite funny. I'm really looking forward to seeing this one...