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A Perfect Organism

In 1979, science fiction was either squeaky clean or dirty fairy-tale land where the farm boy wins. That was until a script titled star beast got some serious re writes and became Alien, a sci fi film unlike any other. Despite the fact that horror and sci fi had met before, Alien did it like no other first and foremost because it was scary.

Ridley Scott described Alien as “Jaws in space”; he was quite right Jaws like the Alien is a perfect killer and their environments are just as scary, the ocean and space (where no one can hear you scream, arguably the best tagline for a movie ever). Ridley Scotts directing is divine, choosing silence over music with most scares and only showing just enough of the Alien till the end reveal. The Alien itself is one of the best creature designs ever to grace celluloid, it’s a totally inhuman thing that will hunt you without fear or prejudice and it will kill you.

Of course now there’s the little matter of a prequel directed by Ridley Scott himself, you’ll need to re watch the part where they reach the derelict to understand where the story will come from. It will explain how the mysterious “Space Jockey” ended up crashing on LV426 and why his ship is full of Alien eggs? Perhaps he was harvesting them for something, using them as a weapon or something else? Whatever he does it can’t be as bad as Alien Vs Predator and will finally give poor old Ellen Ripley a bloody break!

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Avatar and 30 Days of night gets a direct to DVD sequel, yippee!

James Cameron’s Behemoth Avatar has got a new trailer which will be in cinemas from the 23rd October, I am in no doubt that it will be huge but I’m reserving judgement. That is mainly down to the fact that I have become more and more bitter towards Titanic, no doubt it will get a huge Box Office Haul but that’s because it’s one of those films EVERYONE will need an opinion on.

30 Days of night has been given a direct to DVD sequel, called Dark Days (graphic novel fans help me, is this following the comics?). No dates when this will be shot or released but it’s not as if you don’t have enough vampire related tosh to be getting on with ah?

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Kaneda! Tetsuo! Kaneda! Tetsuo!

“No Akira, No Matrix it’s that important” That’s what Empire magazine said about Katsuhiro Otomos’ opus Akira. It’s a fairly bold statement but not unjustified, Akira is basically a cartoon but I guarantee you won’t see anything else like it. It bridges the gap of so many different things it’s an anime but it ultra violence is not off putting and not just entertaining to pubescent boys. Its’ a cartoon and hand drawn but its presented like a Hollywood Blockbuster and the fact that it’s all hand drawn only makes you appreciate it so much more! It is sci-fi but is still original and groundbreaking, very few Directors can even hope to reach this level of innovation.

I think I have done enough praising but you get the idea, now what of 2011’s supposed Hollywood live action remake, produce by Titanic sinking Leonardo DiCaprio? The most recent news was that it is dead in the water and that was back in June this year. As far as I know there have been no updates since, so your guess is as good as mine. The script that had been circulated moved the setting of the film from new Tokyo to New Manhattan and would make the film “more accessible”, whatever that means it can’t be good, if you don’t understand Akira after watching it the watch it again I guarantee you’ll see something you missed last time round.

Larry if you ever read this entry, it was for you.

If film posters spoke the truth: 300

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The man who would be Thor and Wolverine 2 updates

Above is a pic of the man who has been cast as Thor, well he looks the part but will he play the part? Saying that I always thought Thor was the weakest of the Avengers; after the realism set up in the Iron Man films will Thor’s divine story line fit in?

Another piece of news is that Wolverine 2 is definitely a go, using the comic arc of Logan’s time in Japan. Producer Laura Shuler Donnar has announced that Christopher McQuarrie has been brought on to help with the screenplay. Great news, this is the man behind The Usual Suspects!

Is it just me, or is 2001: A Space Odyssey painfully slow?

Now before a lot of film buffs get in a big strop, I’m not saying that Stanley Kubricks Sci Fi Epic is a bad film. I watched it only for the second time yesterday and this time was struck by how terribly slow moving it is! I’m not denying that it’s a beautiful shot film with the music to match; there is also no denying how groundbreaking it was. I did however find myself wanting to fast-forward through some of the long drawn out sequences that whilst accompanied by brilliant music, do start to get a bit tedious. All of this in a film that’s around 2 and half hours long!

All I’m saying is that repeat viewings do it no favours…

I went, I saw, I was not as scared as before (A Green Lantern Pic!)

Saw The Woman in Black last night for the second time, it is a brilliant theatre production and has been used as part of the drama GCSE syllabus for god knows how many years! That’s how I’ve seen it twice, accept that time it was very frightening! This time not so much, still a great play and very jumpy not to mention superbly acted! I have just grown up and become immune I suppose, though I still imagined that “wasted face” coming at me when we left.

No picture of the play though, just what looks like a genuine photo of Ryan Reynolds in full Green Lantern garb, exciting huh!?

Ridley Scott is Red Riding Remaking

Just in case the title didn’t spell it out for you; Ridley Scott is set to direct the Channel 4 Drama trilogy “Red Riding”. I have even seen the series yet but I really want to, it looked brilliant and it some real acting talent in it!

Another dose of the rage virus

Seem as I watched the first one two days ago, I felt it right to watch the sequel. Weeks’ happily is everything a sequel should be bigger and faster, it develops the mythology so cleverly set up in the first film. It shows you; by shoving a mass of people together, what the initial outbreak might have been like, even using some of days’ dialogue to set up the scene where the boy is climbing over the bodies (brilliant!).

It follows the idea of character, this time focusing on what the event has done and is still doing to a family. It doesn’t explore it as well as Days but that’s simply because of the scale of the film, it’s bigger so draws your attention to other things. That’s about the only criticism for a film that is at some points more visceral and disturbing than the first one (just look at the scene where the parents and reunited!) it does this still without glorifying it. It’s also refreshing again to see more of deserted London; I imagine it feels a lot like when American people watch their cities being destroyed. There are places you recognize (at one point the infected run right past where i used to work!) this makes to feel more real for people living there.

Some great acting, especially from Steve Carlyle, who spends half the film infected! He plays the role with real conviction, though this is the man who played Begbie in trainspotting. The kids were convincing but I would imagine that would have something to do with how real some of the infected were! Yes there’s Americans in it but we can forgive them as most of them go out heroically in flames (literally!).

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There and back again on three legs

So after much thought about today’s entry I have decided to do it about two pieces of news instead of Monsters Inc, as brilliant as it is I didn’t watch all of it last night as I brought it for my boys and would like to do it justice. Moving on then to some Hobbit news...

Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf to those who have lived in a cave the last 10 years!), has told empire and channel 4 that he has received the script for The Hobbit, apart from screeching like an excited school girl this is great news! He also said a few encouraging things about the production about how the new Director is brilliant and that most of the cast are returning, though he had nothing to say on the Bilbo front in regards to who will be playing him.

Next piece of news will probably mean nothing to a lot of people but Alex Proyas, Director of this year’s Nic Cage disaster movie “ Knowing” , is set to direct a film based upon BBC classic sci-fi series Tripods, will have to mention this to my brother. This is not related to The War of the Worlds at all, in case you were wondering.