Set pics from Kic Ass 2

Carrey as Colonel

Colonel Star and Kick Ass

Christopher Mintz-Plasse as The MotherF*cker.

Chloe Moretz Grace as Hit Girl

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Must read article from the greatest action star of all time

Arnold Schwarzenegger has lived one of the most charmed lives I can imagine. From dominating body building, to ruling over the box office, to being governor of California what a ride he's been on. Now he opens up a bit on some roles he missed or passed on and a little about his return to Hollywood. Arnold makes his headlining return to acting on January 18, 2013 in The Last Stand.

 
On BREACHER and it's similarity to PREDATOR:
"BREACHER, especially, will be very like a new PREDATOR," he adds. "It's a team around me and they get knocked off until there's only me left. Except in this case there will be a different twist to the whole thing instead of some alien monster."
"I think that PREDATOR, when I look back at it, was a very appealing kind of a movie. It was also good that I was not the only star of it. I mean, I was the star of it because at the end the focus goes to me, but you can let other people shine too – give them screen time and not be in every scene. So I think that’s what I like about BREACHER and the way it’s written. But it is a great character, an extremely interesting character and very well written. David Ayers is really talented."


On an encounter with a drug-induced Don Simpson about THE ROCK:
As Arnie tells the tale, '80s super producer Don Simpson burst into his trailer "totally stoned" one day with 85 pages of THE ROCK's script with handwritten notes all over it by Jerry Bruckheimer.
"He says, 'Here, look at this script. But don't read it! Just, here's what the premise is. He was all over the place," he explains. "I said, 'Look, Don. I can't make a commitment based on what you're showing me here. You won't even let me read the script! Why don't you bake it some more, develop it some more then we'll talk again.' He was very upset. He just walked out and then went to Nicolas Cage with the part..."

 As for DIE HARD, "...there was an unfinished script, which someone gave me and said, 'Would you want to play this?' I was working with Joel Silver on PREDATOR and DIE HARD was his next movie. So we talked about it but then he hired Bruce Willis."

Hugh Jackman is jacked

Hugh Jackman's love for the role of Wolverine is underrated. He's been playing the character since 2000 and has been totally passionate about wanting to make the sequel to 2009s Wolverine a superior film. Look at the shape the over 40 year old actor is in for this go around.

International Trailer for Skyfall

All These Classics Will Be Lost "Like Tears In Rain"

So now that Ridley Scott has finished part 1 of his return to the universe of 'Alien' which he helped start back in 1979, there are also plans to begin the sequel to his other sci-fi classic from 1982, 'Blade Runner'. This is an idea I'm much, much more skeptical about. Whether you liked Prometheus or not, you have to give certain people credit for taking what was essentially an art piece by H.R. Giger, meant at the time as something that was there to add to the levity of horror and mystery inside the 'Alien' ship, and made a tangent story out of it; a story that's not yet finished. With Blade Runner however, its one of those movies that's good enough to stand on its own and has for thirty years. One of the reasons it attracted people at the time of its release was because it was something that audiences really hadn't seen before-it was a dark and dystopian outlook on where society was headed in a relatively short period of time and was really the opposite of a film like 2001: A Space Odyssey where everything is grand and pristine and optimistic overall. And since the early 80's there have been about a billion other movies ,because of movies like Blade Runner, that are everything from pre-apocalypse to apocalypse to post apocalypse with other themes in between where the world of Blade Runner is. So at this point I don't believe a sequel has the power or the relevance needed. It may have been doable a couple years after or even 20 years ago. 

Its a weird area for fans and filmmakers and we're starting to see a pattern with a lot of the established directors. Lucas and Spielberg disrupted the Indy trilogy after 20 something years to make the critical flop that was 'Kingdom of The Crystal Skull'. But in my opinion there have been exceptional successes. Last year there was the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing with the same name and I personally thought it was great. 'Rocky Balboa' I liked probably just as much as 1 and 2 which I still see as one big movie. For fans of Blade Runner its just another "We'll have to wait and see.". 

Big D's Top 5 Favorite Films Thus Far

A Beautiful Mind

A lot of things about this movie just strike a cord with me. I love stories that revolve around real life scientists and mathematicians like John Nash. Because of their brilliance you might assume at first that they're next to perfect individuals which couldn't be further from the truth. Einstein wasn't the best father and family man. Stephen Hawking, despite his total paralysis has had affairs and been divorced, and Newton...well historians describe him basically as being an asshole to have to talk to. All these men are still decent at the end of the day but I personally enjoy looking beyond their accomplishments and reading about their lives at home. You really feel for Nash in this movie, who struggles for his entire adult life with what is reality and what he believes is reality caused by his schizophrenia. Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his contributions to mathematics and many of his theories have been applied to everything from evolutionary biology and computing to economics. 

Schindler's List

You don't exactly snuggle up with your girlfriend with a bowl of popcorn to watch this but its one that, although I don't "enjoy" watching as much as I would something like Star Wars or James Bond because of the subject and the violence, it is however from an historical, philosophical and emotional standpoint one of the most powerful films I have ever scene and am likely to see. And I say film because to even refer to it as a movie seems insulting. When Spielberg was making the picture it is said that he requested all the episodes of Seinfeld on videotape from Seinfeld himself so that when he would go back to his hotel at night he could have something to make him laugh because being on set was making him very depressed. I love that it was shot in black and white with the exception of the symbolic color red that you see throughout the picture. You feel like you're watching something very similar to like the old military footage of the allied liberation of concentration camps throughout Europe. John Williams' score here never fails to move me and make me cry.

Saving Private Ryan

I always enjoyed watching this one with my dad. Its incredible from start to finish. World War II is an era I admire very much and makes me think "Damn its good to be American.". Around 20 million people were killed from 1939-1945 but the United States made an enormous statement after the Pearl Harbor attack. We conquered the depression and went to work building an army that would lead the allies to victory. Could we have taken Hitler and the rumors of extermination camps more seriously and acted much sooner than we did? Certainly. Were we naive to think the embargo on Japan wouldn't instigate a retaliation? Probably. But we stepped up and defeated the enemy when the world needed us and we came home to strengthen the country again from within. I cringe at many of the wars we've gotten ourselves into but WWII was without question something we couldn't let the other allied forces deal with on their own. But an anyways, an awesome cast in this one with a lot of memorable scenes. "Fubar."

The Shawshank Redemption

Where do I even begin with 'Shawshank'? It was a difficult decision bumping this one down to number two and its still ridiculously good. Despite taking home zero academy awards in 1995, which is insane to me, it was one of the most rented movies in the 90's and is one of the most watched on cable television. A growing cult following surrounds it and I think it speaks to a lot of young men in particular, men who feel lost but are holding on to something greater that keeps them going, like the main character Andy. There's also an underlying but heavy spirit of brotherhood throughout the story, a friendship between two men that audiences connect with and the movie ending does justice to, unlike the book. Everyone at some point has felt like a prisoner, an innocent man who just wants to be free. 'Shawshank' makes it clear who the bad guys are but even they feel imprisoned. "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."

The Empire Strikes Back

This is the second time Empire's made the number one spot in my top 5 lists. Star Wars was probably the most important thing, artistic and entertainment wise, to happen to my childhood. It inspired me to write, it got me interested in astronomy and science, and its pretty much what sparked my love for movies to this day. 'Empire' was the one I watched the most of out of the three from the old trilogy. Its about as long as the others but from the battle of Hoth to the escape from Cloud City, it feels like fifteen minutes because its like one big chase sequence with the good guys constantly on the run. As far as this list, 'Empire' really stands apart from the rest with its genre and themes but it stands at number one because it still gets better and better every time I watch it. Even now, I still see things I missed before. Lucas achieved something very special with these movies that have become so embedded into pop culture not only here but all over the world. He's tinkered with these enough and shouldn't have to prove anything to anyone by now. Movies like 'Empire' speak for themselves. 

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R.I.P.

TV and Film actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed. I haven't seen a lot that he's been in but who could ever forget his performance as John Coffee in The Green Mile? Very likable man with a great smile. He was 54 years old.

The 'Lincoln' Theatrical Poster

I apologize if I'm being redundant with this movie but this is the recently unveiled poster. And I was apparently wrong about the release date. Certain websites aren't very reliable at all. But I'm pleased in particular with who's portraying Lincoln's Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Seward had actually ran against Lincoln for president in 1860 and had a very real chance of defeating him because he had money and a very good record and reputation. But in the end it was Lincoln's way with words and more moderate approach to the issues of slavery at the time that won him the nomination. Stanton is another man I admire. Very skeptical of Lincoln in the beginning but grew so loyal to him that he became a big problem to the Johnson administration after Lincoln's assassination and death. When they attempted to remove Stanton from his position, he responded by locking himself in his office for several days until they were forced to break through the door.