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Finally DVR layer cake. Gonna watch soon I hope
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Jason Momoa Offered Lead Role in Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Posted on Friday, February 15th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
The leap to the big screen has been rough for Jason Momoa, who until a few years ago was best known for roles on Stargate: Atlantis and the late-model Baywatch. The Conan remake didn’t do him any great favors, but at least he landed in Game of Thrones. Numbers tell me that not many of you saw Momoa menace Stallone in Bullet to the Head last month, but here’s the thing: the movie isn’t good, but Momoa lights it up every time he’s on screen. The guy is charismatic, scary, and brutish all at once.
Now he reportedly has one of the biggest roles in town: Momoa has been offered the character of Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
Latino Review, which has been on fire with scoops of late, reports that Momoa screen tested this week, and that Marvel was so taken with that effort that he’s been offered the part and negotiations are ongoing now. (Isiah Mustafa, Dave Bautista, and Brian Patrick also reportedly tested for the role)
Appearing first in the pages of Iron Man, Drax was once once a human whose family was killed by Thanos. (The big guy introduced at the end of The Avengers.) His body destroyed, the human’s spirit was re-housed in a different body and rechristened Drax. The explicit reason for his resurrection: destroy Thanos.
The character was a part of the “cosmic” side of the Marvel Universe for decades, appearing here and there, eventually landing in a version of the Guardians of the Galaxy team.
Drax is enormously powerful — disproportionately so, when compared to human heroes — but that’s what it takes to kill Thanos. Thing is, Drax’s early days are defined by frustration, and as such his background is more interesting than some super-powered stories. See, all Drax exists to do is kill Thanos, and other people have beat him to the task. More than once. There’s some existential angst to the guy, in some of the early stories, as he tries to figure out what the hell he should be doing with himself.
How does that play into the film? We know relatively little about the story. The reported logline is “a U.S. pilot ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.” Expect Drax to play a role something like the one filled by the Hulk in The Avengers.
The pilot is Chris Pratt, who will play Star-Lord. There are non-human characters Groot and Rocket Raccoon, who will likely be brought to life with a blend of effects work and mo-cap. Another alien enemy of Thanos, Gamora, is yet to be cast. James Gunn directs, and the film is set for an August 1, 2014 release.
Update: Borys Kit of THR throws some water on LR’s scoop:
Clarity Alert: My sources are telling me Jason Momoa TESTED for Drax the Destroyer/GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY but at this time has NO offer.
Even as original the scooper says:
So Marvel came in LOW as expected re: Momoa offer, and reps are not having it. They're pushing Marvel hard to come up a tad.
http://www.slashfilm.com/jason-momoa-offered-lead-role-in-marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy/
Jason Momoa Offered Lead Role in Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
Posted on Friday, February 15th, 2013 by Russ Fischer
The leap to the big screen has been rough for Jason Momoa, who until a few years ago was best known for roles on Stargate: Atlantis and the late-model Baywatch. The Conan remake didn’t do him any great favors, but at least he landed in Game of Thrones. Numbers tell me that not many of you saw Momoa menace Stallone in Bullet to the Head last month, but here’s the thing: the movie isn’t good, but Momoa lights it up every time he’s on screen. The guy is charismatic, scary, and brutish all at once.
Now he reportedly has one of the biggest roles in town: Momoa has been offered the character of Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.
Latino Review, which has been on fire with scoops of late, reports that Momoa screen tested this week, and that Marvel was so taken with that effort that he’s been offered the part and negotiations are ongoing now. (Isiah Mustafa, Dave Bautista, and Brian Patrick also reportedly tested for the role)
Appearing first in the pages of Iron Man, Drax was once once a human whose family was killed by Thanos. (The big guy introduced at the end of The Avengers.) His body destroyed, the human’s spirit was re-housed in a different body and rechristened Drax. The explicit reason for his resurrection: destroy Thanos.
The character was a part of the “cosmic” side of the Marvel Universe for decades, appearing here and there, eventually landing in a version of the Guardians of the Galaxy team.
Drax is enormously powerful — disproportionately so, when compared to human heroes — but that’s what it takes to kill Thanos. Thing is, Drax’s early days are defined by frustration, and as such his background is more interesting than some super-powered stories. See, all Drax exists to do is kill Thanos, and other people have beat him to the task. More than once. There’s some existential angst to the guy, in some of the early stories, as he tries to figure out what the hell he should be doing with himself.
How does that play into the film? We know relatively little about the story. The reported logline is “a U.S. pilot ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.” Expect Drax to play a role something like the one filled by the Hulk in The Avengers.
The pilot is Chris Pratt, who will play Star-Lord. There are non-human characters Groot and Rocket Raccoon, who will likely be brought to life with a blend of effects work and mo-cap. Another alien enemy of Thanos, Gamora, is yet to be cast. James Gunn directs, and the film is set for an August 1, 2014 release.
Update: Borys Kit of THR throws some water on LR’s scoop:
Clarity Alert: My sources are telling me Jason Momoa TESTED for Drax the Destroyer/GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY but at this time has NO offer.
Even as original the scooper says:
So Marvel came in LOW as expected re: Momoa offer, and reps are not having it. They're pushing Marvel hard to come up a tad.
http://www.slashfilm.com/jason-momoa-offered-lead-role-in-marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy/
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I hope they get Andy Sarkis to play/mo-cap Rocket Raccoon
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Watching Skyfall for the first time right now. Good #%^*.
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Skyfall is damn good.
Toss up between that and Argo for my favorite movie of the year...... The comic book movies don't really count IMO
Toss up between that and Argo for my favorite movie of the year...... The comic book movies don't really count IMO
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Is it just me or are black girls with British accents extra sexy? This Skyfall girl, Thandie Newton, hell, even Scary Spice. I like.
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Skyfall was awesome. All the old school Bond sensibilities, perfectly updated for the modern era. Bardem was brilliant. Bizarre and chilling at the same time.
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Idk what it is....but Boardwalk Empire is damn good. It completely has my attention.
Even with Steve Buscimi's terrible acting
Even with Steve Buscimi's terrible acting
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Buscemi and terrible acting?
BLASPHEMY.
He makes me believe in every role he's portrayed.
BLASPHEMY.
He makes me believe in every role he's portrayed.
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Every time he speaks on BWE, I feel like he's just reading the lines, ain't playing no character.....
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Movie was real nice. I think I still like Casino Royale better, but this is right there. Great extras on the bluray too.
Be easy before they come for your head.
From like...the second episode I was saying Buscemi was wrong for the role. He's not that guy.
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Movie was real nice. I think I still like Casino Royale better, but this is right there. Great extras on the bluray too.
Honestly didn't like Skyfall that much for some reason .. I don't know. A good movie, but Casino Royale was definitely better.
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That movie didn't even feel like a die hard movie at all. It felt like a Bruce Willis action movie that was a standalone movie. No good lines not much talking no damn personality just explosion after explosion.
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Movie was real nice. I think I still like Casino Royale better, but this is right there. Great extras on the bluray too.
Honestly didn't like Skyfall that much for some reason .. I don't know. A good movie, but Casino Royale was definitely better.
I get that. Skyfall is like...more of a portrait than a film. It's like a living museum of past Bond-dom. You sorta had to adjust to a quieter, more stylized and stuffy Bond movie. Like it's an art spy film, with some action pieces, and every shot and sequence is just exotic and painted. Shanghai...the island...the cabin. The way the whole movie is shot is so lush and gorgeous. I don't think any film last year looked better than Skyfall.
But at the heart of it...the movie kinda doesn't make sense.
Casino was really broad and clear with it's spy stuff, where it was going and how we were following leads. So you just rode the momentum and tension of knowing what was at stake and what needed to be done. Skyfall kinda just finds random breadcrumbs or trips into leads and jumps around the world to the next thing. Things sorta just happen? The Dark Knight did that too, but it got away with it, cuz it used its momentum and score so damn well.And the Bond girls...that French chick...she was fine, but damn was she pointless and wasted.
I loved Moneypenny and Judi Dench in this though. But...at least for me, no Bond girl is ever touching Eva Green in Casino Royale. That was just perfect and powerful and memorable and lasting.
And yeah...it was overhyped too. People were saying it was as good as The Dark Knight. Bardem went in, but cmon...that ain't fair.
I think it's more of a film you admire, shot for shot, line for line, than it is a classy rollercoaster like Casino.
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Damn
The pic they showed at the end of the real family was white. The locals were helpful and the kid helped reunite
The leg
The kid deserved the awards
As for Cheadle, the scene where he puts on his tie in hotel rwanda >
rust and bones anyone
The pic they showed at the end of the real family was white. The locals were helpful and the kid helped reunite
The leg
The kid deserved the awards
As for Cheadle, the scene where he puts on his tie in hotel rwanda >
rust and bones anyone
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Go behind the scenes of Oscar hopeful Silver Linings Playbook in this half hour featurette of how the film was made - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-2CS
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Review: Side Effects - Steven Soderbergh's new film starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones should come with a massive warning label telling it's audience to stay away - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-2CR
Review: Side Effects
Warning: Side Effects may include drowsiness, cottonmouth, lack of motivation and cloudy vision.
In what was once dubbed Steven Soderbergh’s final film behind the camera; he picks up in similar territory where he left off with Contagion in the realm of drugs, pharmaceuticals and death.
We live in a world where just about everyone has been or is depressed, everyone is taking a pill for something be it mental issue, physical, medical or even vitamins. Every other commercial is pitching a new life saving drug that will end your sad thoughts, fix your love life or make you a healthier person. The funny thing is six months after said commercials are aired, we get the “do you know someone who has take *insert drug name here* and has been ill or died, if so please call *insert law firm here* and we’ll get you the compensation you deserve” commercial.
Drugs are everywhere and while many are beneficial, when things don’t go right, they go very, very wrong.
The film is centered on a young woman named Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara) who was having a hard time adjusting to her husband Martin going to jail for insider trading. As her mental stability beings to deteriorate she drives her car into a wall on purpose, proving just how off she is. When a psychiatrist (Jude Law) begins to prescribe Emily with drugs to help, her world is turned upside down by unexpected side effects of all these new drugs.
In what could have easily been a sloppy idea taken from a television show like Law and Order, we see Soderbergh try and twist his way through a convoluted story involving lesbian and lying shrinks, pills, murder and full on medical abuse.
Top billed stars Mara, Tatum, Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones seemingly went out of their way to bore me to tears. Mara who is a fantastic young actress and was an Oscar nominee in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a far cry from Lisbeth Salander.
As new medication is prescribed to treat Emily’s on going depression she begins to suffer from sleep walking, becoming dazed and continuation of suicidal thoughts. The plot progresses from shrink visit to new pill test each time proving to be worse and worse. When Dr. Jonathan Banks prescribes a drug called Ablixa at the recommendation of Emily’s former psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Siebert (Zeta-Jones), all seems to be getting better for Emily and Martin. Of course things go wrong, side effects of the drug kick in and along with Emily feeling the ramifications, so to does Jonathan’s life get turned upside down for giving her the drug in the first place. Unfortunately it isn’t as interesting as it seems or could have been, a few twists here and there and an abrupt, laughable ending and you’re left confused and disappointed more then anything.
It’s odd seeing some people claim with his Rooney or Law’s greatest triumph, I simply ask, were we watching the same film? Scott Z. Burns wrote the film in such a manner that it didn’t allow the actors to embody their characters. Instead we’re forced to try and figure out these odd psychiatrist/law enforcement puzzles that intertwine with an awful Zeta-Jones and a mentally unfit Mara.
Then we get to Tatum who while being top billed doesn’t have much screen time, that being said must have had a whale of a good time being a rich stock broker because he was hamming it up from the word go.
“…That was the most lackluster performance from Channing Tatum I have ever seen”
Said Jaclyn Dagnall, who also cited Law’s Dr. Jonathan Banks as getting annoying quickly. With a run time of just under two hours and performances that don’t amplify a boring script in the slightest, the film feels like it’s a slug in quicksand, dragging its feet to a comatose conclusion.
Side Effects is labeled as a dramatic thriller but aside from an early “crowd-gasping” moment, I sat in my chair waiting to be impressed, waiting for the tide to turn and it never did. Frankly I was never entertained and that’s simply unacceptable.
Soderbergh who has knocked it out the park with his Ocean’s trilogy, Traffic, Contagion has missed badly with his last three films Haywire, Magic Mike and now Side Effects. With HBO’s T.V. drama Behind the Candelabra based on the relationship between Liberace and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas, fans, especially me, are hoping he can get back to his old ways and go out with a hit. He’s been talking about retirement for a long time now but he keeps putting films out, maybe he has lost his fire and desire because his latest output haven’t been of the quality we know he can deliver.
With such a strong cast and such a big name director it’s a shame how poorly Side Effects turned out. This made-for-T.V. story had no business being stretched into a feature film, as I literally couldn’t wait for it to be over.
The tagline on the poster reads “one pill can change your life,” unfortunately for me this film was akin to a melatonin bottle as the side effects led to head bashing levels of boredom.
Rating: D
Review: Side Effects
Warning: Side Effects may include drowsiness, cottonmouth, lack of motivation and cloudy vision.
In what was once dubbed Steven Soderbergh’s final film behind the camera; he picks up in similar territory where he left off with Contagion in the realm of drugs, pharmaceuticals and death.
We live in a world where just about everyone has been or is depressed, everyone is taking a pill for something be it mental issue, physical, medical or even vitamins. Every other commercial is pitching a new life saving drug that will end your sad thoughts, fix your love life or make you a healthier person. The funny thing is six months after said commercials are aired, we get the “do you know someone who has take *insert drug name here* and has been ill or died, if so please call *insert law firm here* and we’ll get you the compensation you deserve” commercial.
Drugs are everywhere and while many are beneficial, when things don’t go right, they go very, very wrong.
The film is centered on a young woman named Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara) who was having a hard time adjusting to her husband Martin going to jail for insider trading. As her mental stability beings to deteriorate she drives her car into a wall on purpose, proving just how off she is. When a psychiatrist (Jude Law) begins to prescribe Emily with drugs to help, her world is turned upside down by unexpected side effects of all these new drugs.
In what could have easily been a sloppy idea taken from a television show like Law and Order, we see Soderbergh try and twist his way through a convoluted story involving lesbian and lying shrinks, pills, murder and full on medical abuse.
Top billed stars Mara, Tatum, Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones seemingly went out of their way to bore me to tears. Mara who is a fantastic young actress and was an Oscar nominee in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a far cry from Lisbeth Salander.
As new medication is prescribed to treat Emily’s on going depression she begins to suffer from sleep walking, becoming dazed and continuation of suicidal thoughts. The plot progresses from shrink visit to new pill test each time proving to be worse and worse. When Dr. Jonathan Banks prescribes a drug called Ablixa at the recommendation of Emily’s former psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Siebert (Zeta-Jones), all seems to be getting better for Emily and Martin. Of course things go wrong, side effects of the drug kick in and along with Emily feeling the ramifications, so to does Jonathan’s life get turned upside down for giving her the drug in the first place. Unfortunately it isn’t as interesting as it seems or could have been, a few twists here and there and an abrupt, laughable ending and you’re left confused and disappointed more then anything.
It’s odd seeing some people claim with his Rooney or Law’s greatest triumph, I simply ask, were we watching the same film? Scott Z. Burns wrote the film in such a manner that it didn’t allow the actors to embody their characters. Instead we’re forced to try and figure out these odd psychiatrist/law enforcement puzzles that intertwine with an awful Zeta-Jones and a mentally unfit Mara.
Then we get to Tatum who while being top billed doesn’t have much screen time, that being said must have had a whale of a good time being a rich stock broker because he was hamming it up from the word go.
“…That was the most lackluster performance from Channing Tatum I have ever seen”
Said Jaclyn Dagnall, who also cited Law’s Dr. Jonathan Banks as getting annoying quickly. With a run time of just under two hours and performances that don’t amplify a boring script in the slightest, the film feels like it’s a slug in quicksand, dragging its feet to a comatose conclusion.
Side Effects is labeled as a dramatic thriller but aside from an early “crowd-gasping” moment, I sat in my chair waiting to be impressed, waiting for the tide to turn and it never did. Frankly I was never entertained and that’s simply unacceptable.
Soderbergh who has knocked it out the park with his Ocean’s trilogy, Traffic, Contagion has missed badly with his last three films Haywire, Magic Mike and now Side Effects. With HBO’s T.V. drama Behind the Candelabra based on the relationship between Liberace and his much younger lover, Scott Thorson starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas, fans, especially me, are hoping he can get back to his old ways and go out with a hit. He’s been talking about retirement for a long time now but he keeps putting films out, maybe he has lost his fire and desire because his latest output haven’t been of the quality we know he can deliver.
With such a strong cast and such a big name director it’s a shame how poorly Side Effects turned out. This made-for-T.V. story had no business being stretched into a feature film, as I literally couldn’t wait for it to be over.
The tagline on the poster reads “one pill can change your life,” unfortunately for me this film was akin to a melatonin bottle as the side effects led to head bashing levels of boredom.
Rating: D
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Pretty much agree.. nothing really happened til the final 20 minutes and even that was predictable and annoying to sit through.
But Law and Mara were good in their roles, Mara's a great up and comer..can't wait to see more of her.
But Law and Mara were good in their roles, Mara's a great up and comer..can't wait to see more of her.
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That sucks, I thought it woukd be good because the topic is relevant and interesting
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She was an up and comer in Social Network, after she shined in Dragon Tattoo she was on the map.
no longer an up and comer she's up there
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to be fair I know a lot of people who loved it - but I clearly did not. Thanks for reading guys, I appreciate it
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The pic they showed at the end of the real family was white. The locals were helpful and the kid helped reunite
The leg
The kid deserved the awards
I mean yeah...they're all European.
I think I woulda been better off if I didn't see this interview with her and Naomi like a month ago.
Like, I didn't realize she was a strong-accented Spanish woman, and they're played by the whitest family possible.
But regardless, that didn't really change any of the story. And yeah the locals helped them, but they were just background, faceless people. I know this doesn't have to be THE tsunami movie and it's got its own story to tell, but they made us feel like tourists who didn't belong. And you could say, well that was their point. But that's a tough pill, considering. Too many people died. Maybe you could chalk it up on the director not being creative enough in letting the natives' stories creep in, but it just rubbed me wrong the whole time.
Like I was waiting for them to show a sign of the people who lived there really mattering and it never happened. I guess we got to know their happy-go-lucky nurse's name? But she was just an avatar. I wasn't looking for much, cuz you tell whatever story you came to tell, that's your money. But that's just ignorant tunnel vision to me.
But yeah...her injuries. The leg was raw, but the chest. :x That one got me.
I gotta get on that.
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