It’s the movie equivalent of suckling 8 pints of liquid testosterone directly from breast of a Playboy Playmate Of The Year while arm-wrestling a bear. On fire. It’s Robert Rodriguez’s ridiculous Machete and it’s sparked a bidding war between six major production companies. 20th Century Fox, already signed up for the Desperado director’s Predators, finally secured the deal this week…
Plenty of ‘Best Movie of the Decade’ lists have crawled out of the woodwork lately but luckily we were too lazy to bother – for the record, I’m torn between Aqua teen Hunger Force Colon , City of Ember and The Sasquatch Gang – but that didn’t stop plenty of other, lesser movie sites pumping them out like Roger Ebert’s ill-born spawn. ( Filmschoolrejects even went as far as compiling a list of every movie of the decade. And missed about 50,000 movies -good list though.)
Anyway, it seems that all these critical shenanigans created enough raw data to be fed into the cold, cash-centric crystal mind of a robocritic and create a mathematical equasion that reveals the definitive best movies of the decade.
Apparently hollywood.com staffer C.Robert Cargill wasn’t satisfied with mere opinions, deciding instead to back his shit up with cold hard facts. Well, you can prove anything with facts can’t you?
Tony Stark may get an all-new weaponised tin can to play in Iron Man 2 – not to mention back up from War Machine – but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a cautious type. Obviously not itching to become cannon fodder – or given the plot, whip-fodder – it seems we’ll be treated to a series of ‘Battle Drone’ suits as well – and our friends over at Diamond Toys Select have seen them all. And made teeny-tiny little models of them!
News from our friends over at Electricspectre of something that might just -just-make the Star Wars prequel trilogy palatable: 3D!
FUN FACT: Did you know that in Phantom Menace most of the shots of Yoda were a puppet? Don’t worry though, those shots were re-done in CG for the new trilogy re-release. Yup.
On an unrelated note, Star Wars fans must once again brace for impact, as according to an interview with Access Hollywood (and received by ‘leccyspectre via Pocket Lint) Lucas has been inspired by Avatar to give Star Wars a three dimensional make-over.
“We’ve been looking for years and years and years of trying to take ‘Star Wars’ and put it in 3-D,” George explained to Access. “But, [the] technology hasn’t been there. We’ve been struggling with it, but I think this will be a new impetus to make that happen.”
Star Wars in 3D would be pretty sweet. However, many fans will be concerned that Lucas decides to do a little bit of extra tampering “whilst we’re here, y’know” and gives Boba Fett a supersoaker or something.
Thoughts?
Studios have a hard-on for that non-pirateable third dimension right now, so it’s only right that the mac daddy of merchandising gets the treatment, and if beirdy overlord Lucas says it-it’s the law – STS is looking forward to ducking flying Gungans soon…
What with Monday’s anouncement that Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides will begin filming soon in Hawaii, you might think that the mass of Depp hitting our screens is about to reach critical mass. It seems Disney are betting against it though-which is why they were nice enough to furnish us with some lovely new stills from Tim Burton’s sure-to-be-massive Alice In Wonderland. Check out the Deppster in all his ginger glory above , and read on for an exclusive mini podcast with some sneak plot details, and yet more wonderful imagery -including a pic of Alice that caused several innapropriate outbursts among the STS staff. Whatever reception the movie receives, there’s no denying it’ll be beautiful to watch…
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