The Mask 2 with Jim Carrey in the works?

I read recently that Jim Carrey is starting to talk about the possible return to some of his first major roles in sequels. The first one that sprang to mind for me was the 1994 hit The Mask.
For the people that have been a sleep for the last seventeen years The Mask is an American superhero film based on a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The film was directed by Chuck Russell, and produced by Dark Horse Entertainment and New Line Cinema with Jim Carrey playing Stanley Ipkiss (also known as The Mask).
I watched this again recently and I must admit I enjoyed it all over again. I did notice a few things that never really jumped out at me before now. If you don't know (although I said it above) The Mask is based on a rather violent comic book which you can read up on HERE. I read the original graphic novel again last night and I'd not noticed before that some of the Mask's poses in this are taken straight from the first story. A little nod to the comic which I never really picked on before.

I know that some of the scenes and panels from the comic were adapted for the film but we're given a friendly spin to them and I still love the 'Tommy Gun' and the 'Ripley's Auto' scenes. They work well here even if you do know what happens in the original comic (If you don't it involves blood, massacre and slaughter).
The budget clearly went into the special effects but I couldn't help but notice it suffered visually in other non-mask scenes. Cameron Diaz while being a stunner to look at isn't really that good in this. I know it was her first film and since then (apart from the Angels film) she has gone on to be a great actress but some of her lines are delivered very badly. I also think it's a shame the Viking scene that should of been at the start of the film showing the Mask being buried was deletehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/bmi_orig_img/blank.gifd. Somethings always bugged me about the start of the film where is just pops out of the chest.

Anyway if Carrey did indeed decided to return to the role of The Mask I'd be first in the queue to see it at the cinema. One thing for sure is it isn't going to be any worse than that Son of the Mask movie from a few years ago.

Russell T Davies messed up the regeneration thing on Doctor Who didn't he?

In David Tennent's final story The End Of Time he implied death for one incarnation of the Doctor meant a completely new and different man was born with the same memories.
The Tenth Doctor's final words confirmed this when he said 'I don't want to go'.
It doesn't help earlier on in the episode as well when he says "Even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away...and I'm dead."
What on earth was RTD thinking when he did that!?! HE'S THE SAME PERSON FOR GOODNESS SAKE! He just changes his form to survive.

Overall I think RTD made far too much fuss of the 10th Doctors regeneration and did his best to squeeze three hours worth of television out of it.

And don't get me started on what is wrong with Planet of The Dead.

Rant over ;)

What do you think?

First OFFICIAL look at Henry Cavill’s Superman in “Man of Steel”, AND Morpheus is going to be Perry White

Some of you may remember a post I made a few weeks back that featured Henry Cavill as Clark Kent ( HERE ).
To put it blunt it was bollocks and in my excitement I'd failed to noticed it was a fake and I'd got mugged off.

Anyway today has seen the first OFFICIAL look at Henry Cavill’s Superman in “Man of Steel”.
As with any new pic from a Superman film I got really excited on first glance and I love the pic but personally the costume looks a bit plastic. Even the cape.
Saying that though it might just be the light. I'm not disappointed and it's given me a thrill to see it. I'm sure my friend James would of loved this. Well I say sure when in fact he would of loved it regardless the loyal Supe's fan that he was ha, ha!

Today also saw the news that Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast and is set to play Daily Planet editor Perry White opposite Henry Cavill and Amy Adams (Lois Lane).
I'm actually really excited about this news as he is a great actor (He was having an off day in Predators). It will be interesting to see how he plays the part.

What do you think of events from today?

Man of Steel comes to theaters June 14th, 2013 and stars Henry Cavill, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Julia Ormond. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.

Kick-Ass - With no power, comes no responsibility. Except, *that* wasn't true

When I first saw Kick-Ass I was dissapointed to be honest. Having read the graphic novel I was annoyed that some of the lead characters were completely rewritten by screen writer and wife of Wossy Jane Goldman. They just came across as more sympathetic. I would of liked it to be a lot more faithful to the book than what it actually was.
Mark Miller (creator of the comic) and Matthew Vaughn (Film director) worked together on the project. Miller concentratd on the material for the comic Vaughn concentrated on the material for the movie. Even thouhg I'm aware of this I still think it's pretty rubbish that the film didn't stick to the comic more. It also shows (in my opinion) that this sort of 'production' doesn't work because it will end in dissapointment for some fans.Someone raised the point ealrier that the comic was still being made when the film was in production hence why some things may be different.
The first hour was awesome and had me going "Oh yeah, great scene from the book". But after that it went a bit wrong.
The whole point of Kick-Ass was it was more based in reality although some of that in the comic is also questionable Ok, Hit Girl doing all her ninja assasination stuff is totally unbelievable as well but atleast it was part of the original story.

While being based on the comic book, Kick-ass had several notable differences than its comic inspiration.

Kick-Ass has been shown to be the only character in the film with a similar costume to his comic book counterpart. All of the other main characters have different costumes in the film.

Frank D'Amico is called John Genovese in the comic book. The name is taken from the Genovese crime family.

In the film, when Big Daddy quizzes Hit Girl, they are in the armory while Mindy plays with her new knife. In the book, he quizzes her on a communication device whilst she is killing gangsters in a bar, with him providing over-watch with a sniper rifle.

In the film, Hit Girl and Big Daddy track Kick-Ass home by re-routing his IP address and tracing a discharge from his taser. In the comic, they simply follow him home.

Big Daddy is not actually an ex-cop in the comics, as he admits to Genovese and Dave shortly before his death. He was in fact an accountant who, much like Dave, fantasized about being a superhero. He made up a fake history of himself and lied that he was an ex-cop with a personal vendetta against John Genovese (Frank D'Amico). He also gets money for himself and Mindy by selling his rare comic books.[108] His comic backstory is touched in the film by his use of comic terminology in the attempted execution scene.

In the film, Big Daddy is killed by being burned and succumbing to his injuries. In the comic, he is shot through the back of the head (in a graphic depiction as the bullet exits through his left eye socket), shortly after he reveals that he was never a cop.

When Kick-Ass is being tortured, he is not just beaten up like in the film, he has a car battery hooked up to his testes and is shocked extensively. The mobsters do not broadcast this torture session on the internet, as they do in the film.

In the comic, Dave never becomes Katie's boyfriend; after he reveals that he was not gay, she calls him a pervert for pretending to be gay and orders her boyfriend to beat Dave. Afterwards they send him a picture of Katie performing fellatio on the boyfriend. In the film, Katie forgives Dave for pretending that he was gay, realizing that Dave loves her, and she became Dave's girlfriend.

At the end of the comic when Red Mist is vowing his revenge against Kick-Ass, he is in fact writing an e-mail which he sends to him, as opposed to the film when he is just talking to himself.

In the comic, Kick-Ass does not use a jetpack outfitted with machine guns during the climactic battle. In fact, he does not kill anyone at all. Instead, he finds and pummels Red Mist with two large pieces of wood, while Hit Girl kills everyone else.

In the film, it is implied that cocaine dealing is the only criminal activity Frank D'Amico's organization is involved with. In the comic, it is clearly stated that John Genovese's organization is involved in gambling and pornography, as well as drugs.

Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) was funny but surely it would of been better to stick to the book with his story arc? He actually says sorry to Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson)!?! The relationship Dave has with Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca) in this was terrible and missed the point.
When we started discovered Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) & Hit Girl's (Chloe Moretz) origin I think that ruined the whole film. I spent a good amount of time wondering when we were going to see his t(r)unk with the back issues in but I realised it was pointless when his former partner tracked him down. He was a cop!?! What sort of rubbish is that. Big Daddy was the ultimate fan boy who took his love for costumed heroes to the extreme and actually went way to far.
Surely no one was expecting it to be that much different though?

I must admit Nic Cage was good in this though and his Adam West voice was particuly funny.
The ending was also a bit of a let down. I should of been more alert when we didn't see Kick-Ass getting his balls fried at the start of the film. And a jet pack!?! What was that all about?
I think the whole point of Kick-Ass was missed in this film.
Ha, I know I am ranting a bit so I will shut up. I really liked this film but just felt a bit let down that certain stuff was changed for the worse.

The Walking Dead: Season 2 Trailer From San Diego Comic-Con

As you know from my previous blog post, yesterday at the San Diego Comic-Con saw the cast and crew of the show take to the stage to talk about season 2. The session featured the release of the new trailer which sent fans insane.

We wouldn't be geeks though without some folks moaning about how things in this trailer never happened in the graphic novels (Although the "Shane is still alive" debate seems to of passed on now).
I think people need to stop comparing things that feature in this to the graphic novel storyline as a negative thing. As you know I'm also a massive fan of Kirkman's books but I can see the changes that need to be made to make this TV show awesome (and it is awesome isn't it).

To be blunt this trailer makes me sex wee. I so can't wait.

Check it out.

last night Twitter served it's purpose for me - The Walking Dead: Season 2 Panel at Comic-Con

last night Twitter finally served it's real purpose for me. The Walking Dead: Season 2 Panel at Comic-Con Featuring Main Cast and Crew took place and thanks to @WalkingDead_AMC I was able to follow it in some sort of capacity on Twitter. A few tasty bits of info here and it pumps me up so much more for season 2.

Here are the tweets in all their glory.

#WalkingDead will premiere Sunday, October 16th at 9pm!

Hurd says #WalkingDead will be premiering during AMC's Fearfest.

Kirkman joking on how #WalkingDead ended up on TV: "I had no idea it was going on. They called me after it was all done."

Kirkman: "AMC had the vision to try something this crazy." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "Eventually, Frank came along, and never went away." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Hardwick to Darabont: "Can I nerd out on you for a moment? You wrote my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street." [Laughter] #WalkingDead


Kirkman:"I was kind of the mind that it would never, ever been a television show, because it is dark, and it is zombies." #WalkingDead

Kirkman has offered to make Hardwick a zombie, and shoot him in the face.#WalkingDead

Hardwick tells story about scaring girls while nerding out about #WalkingDead. Kirkman: "You're no stranger to scaring girls, right?" #SDCC

Kirkman: "The good thing about the first season is no one actually knew what's coming." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "It's empowered us to try harder, to try more things. We're taking that seriously, and trying to deliver." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont: "This year, we have a room full of writers who have seen the show now, who are fans." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont: "Now we have people who come to the table and say, we want to be a part of this. And that's a great feeling." #WalkingDead #SDCC

On getting ready for Season 2 - Darabont: "The coursework is going back and reading Robert's comics." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Hurd: "Partner with the best people you can find, and I have three of them sitting up with me right here." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont teases that they'll be showing off the Season 2 trailer! Or possibly Kirkman dancing for the crowd. #WalkingDead #SDCC

Trailer is premiering now! #WalkingDead #SDCC

"The end of civilization... Was just the beginning." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Shane running. Zombies. Recap of Season 1. Epic music is playing. #WalkingDead #SDCC

Glenn. Andrea. Dixon. Massive explosions. The worst thing you could imagine for our group happens. #WalkingDead #SDCC

...And then things get worse. #WalkingDead #SDCC

Fans of big zombie action? Get ready. Oh, and maybe there's a glimpse of a certain farm. #WalkingDead #SDCC


The crowd goes nuts, as the trailer ends. #WalkingDead #SDCC

The cast is hitting stage! Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callis, Jon Bernthal - head shaved! #WalkingDead #SDCC

Lincoln: "This is my second Con, but it's still just as scary." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Steven Yeun, and Norman Reedus are all on stage, too! #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies: "You work as hard on a failure as you do on a success. I thought I had jinxed this, I loved it so much." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies: "I think I'm going to get wacked in the next episode." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies: "The scripts this season are... Unprecedented. They're the best television scripts I've ever seen." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies: "You start to realize the most dangerous things out there are the monsters inside." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Bernthal: "Never does a pilot... I had never read anything that rich." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Bernthal: "Every stage of the way, every person I've met... Only make this better and better and better." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Bernthal: "The #WalkingDead fans are the best fans in the world. You're hungry for it, and we want to feed you." #SDCC

Holden: "Everybody's got their own individual challenges in season two. Everyone is pushed to the max." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Holden: "If you're a fan of the #WalkingDead graphic novel, I think you're going to be really happy with this season." #SDCC

DeMunn on Dale: "I guess he's just so terribly nearsighted, he doesn't see the trouble he's in." #WalkingDead #SDCC

DeMunn on Season One: "I hadn't seen any scripts, but knowing Frank, I said, 'Yeah, I'll get on board with that.'" #WalkingDead #SDCC

Yeun: "I was one of those very fortunate cases where I had just moved to LA. And, I don't know, the stars aligned." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Yeun: "...You go to work. Sweat your butt off. And then do another tick check." [More laughter] #WalkingDead #SDCC

Reedus pumps his fists, the crowd goes crazy. #WalkingDead #SDCC

Reedus: "Dude, I run around with a crossbow and shoot zombies in the brain, it's awesome." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "I've written this stuff so long, and I've seen what would happen to people in this world." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "People say, oh, I'd go to a place with showers... No you wouldn't, you'd be someone's pet." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "I'd jump off a bridge." Hurd: "You need a headshot. Read the comic, learn the rules Robert!" #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont: "It picks up 2 seconds after the end of season 1. It literally begins with them driving away from the CDC." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont: "There's none of this six months later B-S." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman, on who would play Tyrese, Micchone and The Governor: "Ed O'Neill, Ed O'Neill, and Ed O'Neill." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "My second go-to is John Stamos." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Darabont: "The fair answer is, we're actually having those conversations as we speak. [Pause] Ed O'Neill." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Lincoln did most of his own stunts - even driving, and he only started to drive four years ago. #WalkingDead #SDCC

Bernthal on stunts: "We do as much as we can ourselves, and it's an incredibly game bunch of actors." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Reedus asked what was weirder, working on #WalkingDead, or a Lady Gaga video: "This is by far the best... And the weirdest."

A fan asks Nicotero for advice on getting into FX: "Take really great pictures every time you do makeup." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero: "I got a great phone call from Rick Baker saying how much he loved the zombies on the show." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero: "If I wasn't sitting here, I'd be sitting out there. I get to sit next to Andy Lincoln! How cool is that?" #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero and Darabont went up to Frank Frazetta paintings and geeked out last night! Comic-Con, you guys! #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero: "I've done 800 movies, and this is the best job I've ever had. I get to work with these people every day." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies on Carl: "I was brought to tears by how proud I am of him."

Callies: "We did a scene the other day, and he's the first to say, "Hey, good work everybody. Good work."" #WalkingDead #SDCC

Callies on Carl: "He is going to blow your mind this year." #WalkingDead #SDCC


Lincoln: "We're bustling to bring you the best season two we can give." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Lincoln: "You just turn up. Learn your lines. And get out of the way... Because the words are so cool to say." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "I'm now embarrassed because I haven't taken Andrew Lincoln to the Cracker Barrel."

Kirkman: "The comic book series has been going for so long, I've been able to do all these horrible things to Rick..." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "I think the plan is to get there, but we're not going to rush." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Kirkman: "Putting these characters through their paces is a big part of what we're aiming to do with this show." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero: "We have a little mouth rinse that we paint the inside of the zombies' mouths with... And it tastes disgusting" #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero:"If you walk on set, there's this little black puddles everywhere, where the actors have spit out their makeup." #WalkingDead #SDCC

Nicotero: "They're troopers, all the zombies. They're great performers, too." #WalkingDead #SDCC

DeMunn asked about translating his theater work to killing zombies. #WalkingDead #SDCC

DeMunn: "I have no idea how Death of a Salesman helps me kill a zombie." #WalkingDead #SDCC

...Hardwick thanks the actors and crew, HUGE applause. #WalkingDead #SDCC

...And the trailer is playing again. #WalkingDead #SDCC

So what do you think then?

Alien vs. Predator - Whoever wins, we lose... or enjoy it like I do.

When it comes to the first AVP film I would of loved to of seen a straight adaption of the original Dark Horse Graphic novel (One of the first I ever read when I was a kid).
If they were going to make a 3rd film which is pretty unlikely now I would hope they would do this BUT anyway...

Lance Henriksen was apparently the first person to be cast in this film according to director Paul W.S Anderson and with that gives us a bit of continuity between this film and the Alien films. Along with Colin Salmon I'd say these were the best members of the cast despite the fact they don't make it to the end of the film.

Most of the other cast in this are terrible. Sanaa Lathan as Alexa Woods (this films Ripley) is terrible. At no point in this film do I feel for the character and even when she is telling Weyland how her dad died I just yawned and scratched myself a bit. Her line about stopping the serpents from getting to the surface is a poor woman's Ripley speech.
Whose idea was it to cast Spud from Trainspotting in this film? The bloke is awful in this. You know he is going to die as soon as he mentions his "Kids back home". I do cringe at his final scene in the egg chamber.

Saying that though it's pretty fast paced and it's only half an hour before all the action starts kicking off and I do like how they accidently trigger the Queen Alien being defrosted. If you have read the various comics of AVP from back in the 90's there are a good few nods to them with the look of some things. Things like that please me.

Maybe it's just a bit picky but I don't understand why Anderson felt the need to make the Predators HUGE. The 3 in this are much bigger compared to the previous 2 we had seen but at the same time we do see some fantastic visual effects for the Predators.

One of my favourite sets in this is the facehugger chamber. It's creepy as hell when the eggs open and we have the slow motion shot of the huggers jumping at the unlucky folks in it. Correct me if I am wrong but not since the Ripley/facehugger scene in Aliens have they been so cool to watch.

One thing I don't like though is how short the time it takes for the chestbursters to appear (It's about a minute).
Are we to presume a huge amount of time has passed since?

This films suffers a bit from what I like to call "Terminator: Salvation Syndrome" where lines from the other movies are pointlessly thrown in to pay tribute. The "Ugly MoFo" line springs to mind which is uttered near the films end.
I do like the Predator/Alien mash-ups in this though. Having only ever seen panels of such fights in the various graphic novels it was pretty damn cool to see them fighting on the big screen.

When it's just her and the Predator at the end and it makes her a shield out of the Aliens head and a spear from it's tail I give a little geeky yelp of joy but I don't really like the ending with the Queen as I am not convinced she wouldn't come out of the water again once she got free from the water tower. Although it is nice to see a fully mobile CG Queen. The bitch had never looked so good before this.

Overall though I do kind of like this film and I don't think it is as bad as some people make out.
I'd rather watch this film by Paul W.S Anderson then his terrible Resident Evil adaption any day.