Just felt like posting some pics today, izall. Here you go and stuff.
The Tower Chronicles Promo Comic
Who: Simon Bisley (artist).
What: A comic book by Matt Wagner (writer).
Where: Comic-Con 2012. Legendary booth.
When: How should we know? Sometime during the Con.
Why: ‘Cuz it was free. And it was Matt Wagner. And Simon Bisley.
How: Standing in line. Like always.
In addition to promoting Matt Wagner’s The Tower Chronicles comic, the Legendary Films booth was also heavily promoting Pacific Rim, the upcoming film by Guillermo del Toro.
Django Unchained Promo Poster
Who: Quentin Tarantino.
What: We just said it … Promo Poster.
Where: Outside, on the other side of the pedestrian path in yonder Stadium parking lot.
When: When it was hot and we were heading back to the hotel for a li’l nippy nap.
Why: Because it was the consolation prize for standing in line in hopes of getting a T-shirt. We really wanted a T-shirt. Curse you Quent.
How: Again, standing in line. Duh. Comic-Con. Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong lines. You know what I’m talking about.
Expendables 2 Tattoo
See? We weren’t the only ones with Expendables 2 tattoos on our asses.
Who: Very attractive booth babes in white berets. Yeah, that’s right. We noticed the berets. After we noticed the tits. OK, we noticed the tits first. So sue us.
What: The coolest temporary tattoo we’ve ever seen.
Where: The Lionsgate Booth in the Exhibits Hall.
When: We don’t remember. But did we mention the berets?
Why: Uh. A hot booth babe applying a very cool tattoo to our bodies doesn’t need any explaining. Pathetic you say? Go to hell we say.
How: She licked them sensuously and applied them gently to each buttock while giggling coyly. You weren’t there so you can’t say it didn’t happen.
Roger Moore is three years older than Sean Connery and looked as old as his age in 1983. On the other hand, Sean managed to look like a James Bond that is only slightly past his prime. There are several references to Bond’s age throughout the film but that doesn’t stop him from salacious behavior and serious fighting ability.
Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximilian Largo is brilliant, suave, irrationally jealous, and totally off his rocker with heady megalomania. Klaus’ Largo was just about as opposite as possible from Adolfo Celi’s Largo from Thunderball. We’re glad for that. Both were excellent in their own right. Loved him!
We mentioned in another post that Luciana Paluzzi’s Fiona was one of our favorite villains. She was a perfect femme fatale because she wasn’t affected by Bond’s charms. It’s the same with Fatima Blush (Barbara Carerra), albeit with a refreshingly distinct persona just like Brandauer’s Largo. Barbara plays Fatima fantastically as a certified malevolent nut job. Unlike a lot of Bond villainesses, Fatima is extremely unpredictable and dangerous.
The Bad: The only obvious casting misstep was Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi. Kim’s Domino has no mystique, whereas Thunderball’s Domino (acted by Claudine Auger) looked the part. We like Kim well enough (she is a rather fetching woman, after all), but this role could have been played by someone more compatible with the look the name invokes, like, oh let’s see, how about someone that’s actually Italian.
Boy Wonder (written and directed by Michael Morrissey) is set in New York City and centers around a small cast of family members, cops, and thugs. The film’s lead, Sean Donovan, is severely traumatized after watching his mother be brutally murdered. The film spends most of it’s time in Sean’s present day last year in high school with flashbacks occurring periodically as he continues to hunt for his mother’s killer. Perhaps to satiate his anger a little bit, he starts to take out some other thugs for their misdeeds, primarily criminals that have attacked women and children that are escaping justice.
Sooooo, anyway. We’re tired of writing and editing images all the time. We’ve had guest contributors before and we think it’s about time to solicit more. If any of you have any interest in providing content for a post, let us know by dropping a comment below. We don’t even care what it’s about so long as it isn’t completely immoral or useless.
Here is a list of 25 comedy films that we have watched more than twice (and in some cases, probably more than a half dozen times). Since a lot of these are films that have been re-released or re-telecast bunches of times, we know we’re not the only ones that enjoy the hilarity. And just to be clear, these aren’t even necessarily our favorite films (although some are).
This is one very loooooooooong comedy. Comedies aren’t supposed to be long. People love to laugh, but they can’t do it for hours at a time, so it takes a special movie to hold one’s attention for almost three hours and it’s even more entertaining if people want to watch it again and again. Our favorite scene is when Sylvester Marcus (played by Dick Shawn) is roaring down the road bawling: “Mama, it’s all right. Everything’s gonna be all right. Your baby’s coming to get ya.” Cracks us up every time.
1. Grant: The blond assassin played by Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love makes the list because he’s a super soldier that’s specially trained as a brutal KGB killer and he’s an all around bad man. He performs his sinister business with precision and antipathy. Grant is a formidable physical foe for James Bond. Grant’s downfall, ultimately, is that he just isn’t as clever and resourceful as James Bond. That and he allows his greed to get the better of him.
2. Max Zorin: We likes us some Christopher Walken. He’s such a delightful weirdo. In A View to a Kill, he gets to play a zany madman with too much money and charisma, and a master plan to nuke the San Francisco area so he can cause a rift in the Hayward and San Andreas faults, flood Silicon Valley, and dominate the microchip marketplace. And who doesn’t love a villain that owns his own blimp, dammit. It’s a crazy good time!
3. Rosa Klebb: Who knew that a small, ugly, mean KGB Colonel whose primary weapon is a pair of shoes could be such a threat, but Rosa uses what’s she’s got to get more of what she wants…something like that. With her awesome powers of seduction (ah? clever?), she is almost more than Bond can resist … forget it, we’re not going to go anywhere with this story. Leave us to say, Rosa is a dangerous toad. Perfectly cast with Lotte Lenya doing the favors in From Russia with Love.
4. Wint and Kidd: OK, these guys aren’t anything major on the megalomaniac scale, but they make up for it in sadism and sheer creepiness. Bruce Glover is a whole mess of strange (and we have to assume that this is in the genes since his spawn, Crispin, is also a freak). We really can’t tell if Putter Smith is a terrible actor or if he plays it aces high as a genuinely weird villain. Either way, we were distracted while watching Diamonds are Forever by these dangerous doofs and just couldn’t figure out what to think of them. For that, we give them a place on this list.
5. Kananga/Mr. Big: Here’s another weirdo masquerading as a villain with Yaphet Kotto playing the mysterious Kananga in Live and Let Die. It’s all well and good that Kananga proves to be a bad guy, but when he converts to Mr. Big (essentially a bad ass voodoo Mr. Hyde-like gangster), James Bond wonders when he gets to play with the Russians or S.P.E.C.T.R.E. again. By the way, we’re not going to give Baron Samedi his own place on this list, but he does deserve to get some airtime. Again, another voodoo freak and we like him particularly because of his voice. If any of you remember the vintage Seven-Up commercials with the big black man that says “Crisp and clean, and no caffeine. Never had it, never will. Ha, ha, ha,” you’ll recognize that the actor, Geoffrey Holder, was the same guy that played the witch doctor in LALD.
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#6. What’s the worst possible type of villain? The one you think is your close friend. Betrayal cuts right to the core. So it is with Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye.
The film Iron Sky was pitched pretty heavily at Comic-Con 2012 to coincide with its U.S. launch. It was first released in Europe in April 2012. We wanted to go by the booth for details but forgot about it until the last few minutes of the Con on Sunday and by then the staff had vacated it. Too bad since we were really curious. So, we were glad it made its way to Netflix last week. Wondering if you should take the plunge and watch it yourselves? Pull up a chair and listen to a story.
We stumbled on this picture. It is good because it is illustrated by Brian Bolland. We are fans of Brian. It is also a picture of Judge Dredd. Also yes, we like the Judge.
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