I’m not gonna spend time writing on how ridiculous this news bit I found out about. I’ll say I went to ComingSoon.Net and looked at films in the works with possible release dates through 2012. Stumbled upon one crazy ass piece: a movie based on the Stretch Armstrong movie. I kid you not. Even found a news article for it: Screen Rant.
Seriously?
Holloywood has come down to this. It’s bad enough that when looking at those movie released dates I stumbled on things such as A-Team, another Men in Black, RoboCop (yep, from what I understand, a semi-continuation, set 20 years later, since well, it has been twenty years, so yeah, we need another one?), oh and then there’s a new Footloose, and let’s not forget a new Karate Kid. Are there seriously no other ideas out there? Adapting comic books is one thing, and as long as it’s done right (such as with X-Men) a great thing, but remakes of existing movies, or long and drawn out sequel after sequel with nothing new (seriously, how many Saw movies do we need?), basing movies on previous TV Series (although, this is also not a bad thing, we really need a Veronica Mars movie, seriously. Sex and the City can do it, so can Veronica!), and the new craze: movies based on toys, but ones like GI Joe are workable, Stretch Armstrong? I apologize for how I’m ending the post with a bad pun, but aren’t we stretching it just a little bit?
Ohh, I can’t wait for the Ghostbusters video game. Here’s the trailer for it…
In other Ghostbusters news, there are still talks of a third Ghostbusters film, and apparently all the actors are on board, including Bill Murray (BTW, all the original Ghostbusters do voice in the game). The only actors that probably won’t be available is Rock Moranis, as he retired from acting sometime in the late 90s. One thing mentioned is the idea of a female buster, with Alyssa Milano thrown out there (who does voice in the game), and also, Dollhouse‘s Eliza Dushku.
Eliza Dushku herself recently tweeted that she’d be up for it (seriously, if someone’s schedule allowed, who would turn down a chance to be part of Ghostbusters?).
How cool is this, 25 years after one of the best movies to come out of the 80s (actually, it’s just one of the best movies, period), we get the game, and possibly, the start of a third film (which, if shooting starts this year, then that would mean a film should grace the big screen before 2011, (big rounding, since I don’t really know how long it could take, since movies shoot at different paces).
Eh, Happy New Year! What else is there to say. In 20 days, we’ll have a new president in office. ER ends in March. There’s gonna be a 3-D episode of Chuck on NBC on Feb 2. We’re gonna say goodbye to Stargate Atlantis and hello to Stargate Universe. We’re gonna protest ABC’s decision on cancelling the fantastic Pushing Daisies. but at same applaud them bringing Scrubs back after NBC treated it like crap. Reaper comes back for its 2nd season, unfortunately, got to wait all the way to March (boo! CW), but luckily, the whole 13 episode is supposed to air uninterrupted, like with 24 (which will also grace our small screens again, after, I don’t know (let’s see, season 6 ended in May…2007, so, long time between actual seasons, good thing we had the little TV-special, but it was still a long time). For our large screens, the prequel to Underworld arrives January 23rd. We’re gonna see the origins of Wolverine. Be treated to JJ Abrams Star Trek resurrection. Speaking of generel geekverse, maybe finally, we’ll see Fanboys hit theaters (what has it been, two years or something?), unfortunately, the recent Fox vs Warner debacle, there may be a delay in Watchmen. Another Transformers. Ratings aren’t high for FOX’s Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, however, we’ll still have the movie franchise continue with Terminator: Salvation. Speaking of FOX, we’ll see the return of Joss Whedon, along with former slayer Eliza Dushku, to television in Dollhouse. Oh, and let’s not forget the death of analog TV, as the digital transition is forced to completion in February. And this is just the first half of the year, there will be more to come.
Was driving to my dentist appointment today, and the only one theater in the town is on my way. Took a quick look and noticed something strange; They aren’t showing Twilight (I know, a teeney-esque film, but I love vampire stuff, so I kind of want to see it). Odd. When I got home, I checked all the surrounding areas, a 30 mile radius, 7 movie theaters total, only TWO are actually showing Twilight. And both of those theaters are located outside my county (there are three here, two way out near beach locations though). One would be nearly a 30 minute drive from where I’m at now, the other, over an hour long drive. Seriously? This being possibly the most hyped up movie this time of year, and it’s not even in a theater near me. That’s seriously f-ed up.
Then again, the theater closest to me just showed Saw V I think last week, you know, about a month after it hit theaters and a few weeks after Halloween. This is the crap we people in small towns have to put up with. It downright SUCKS!!
