The Green Hornet already has a pretty jumpy production history, with rumours of the suits being none too pleased by the direction the Seth Rogen actioner was taking. Well, the first trailer just arrived on Apple, so now we can judge for ourselves. It’s certainly a mixed bag, the tone seems to suggest an odd mix of Rogen’s usual comedy butting heads with a much more serious Batman-esque actioner, although Gondry’s visuals and some of the effects are certainly striking.
What do you think? We’re reserving judgement for now, but could this be an all-out actioner with gags in the style of Die Hard, or is it too knowing and silly for it’s own good?
Oh dear oh dear. Remember Ghost Rider? Rubbish wasn’t it? A badly CGI’d Nic Cage rolling about and taking down crappy MTV villains while comedy Hammer Horror mist floated about and Sam Neill did lots of expositional mumbling. Bloody awful. In it’s favour though, it was undeniably fun. Cage and the crew obviously realising the sheer stupidity of the material and the script and just rolling with it, adding a charm that made it far more enjoyable than it had any right to be. Suffice to say, Jonah Hex leaves its sense of humour at the door….
From Nightmare on Elm Street to Heartless (an…uhhh…probably some others I expect…) our screens are currently boiling with the stench of sulpher and brimstone as faustian pacts are forged, ethereal barriers are broken down and nasty do-badders escape from the bounds of hell itself to inflict second-tier horror schlockers on our unwitting eyeballs -the Satanic rat bastards. Yep, Mephisto is definitely a guy who’s around for the long haul cinematically speaking, and while Heartless has Joseph Maul as a weird, voodoo-doing East End Devil, we’re sure there must be better ways to portray the one who walks backwards on screen. Oh, wait! There are! Yep, time to bathe in holy water, get Jim Caveizal round and hope it’s the power of Christ compelling us to sit through a bunch of shitty horror flicks, as we check out six of the best: Movie Satans!
1: Tim Curry: The Darkness (Legend)
Ok, so he goes by the name of The Darkness, but his clever disguise isn’t fooling us! One look at those three-foot long horns, fangs and bright red skin and we know exactly who we’re dealing with. Unfortunately for the erstwhile Frankenfurter, Curry’s decided to pick on the only being in existance more evil than he is – That’ll be Tom Cruise then. Still, scores extra devil points for his fantastically spooky arrival on screen; stepping out of a mirror. Well, a taxi doesn’t really scream ‘Prince of Darkeness’ does it? Easily the most evil appearence in Curry’s considerable repertoire (apart from the hotel manager in Home Alone 3 obviously).
As you know, STS has been getting far too excited by the prospect of a 12 inch plastic woody returning to our screens lately, and as we’re top-notch media moguls, resplendant in our gold lame suits and real velour underwear, we’ll obviously be going to see it before the rest of you unwashed scumbags. Unless of course..we were to be GIVING AWAY TICKETS! Yep, it’s Toy Story 3 competition time!
We’ve got a pair of shiny tickets to the Leicester Square press preview of Disney’s latest visit to Andy’s toy box, taking place in swinging London’s shiny Leicester Square on Sunday, 20th June -an ENTIRE MONTH before the rest of your plebby mates get to see it! Let’s face it, you’ll be the coolest kid in school with this kind of super-advance viewing opportunity.
Now, unlike other, better written and more popular blogs, we here at STS know that our readers are busy people – you’ve got toast to eat and areas to scratch -you certainly haven’t got time to answer complicated questions about plastic bloody dolls.
So, instead of a question, we’ll make it easy on you – just leave a comment below that contains the word ‘Potato’! We’ll pick the most idiotic and announce the winners on Thursday the 17th of June -get your potato-based thinking caps on and get commenting!
Rapidly becoming our favourite movie of the year starring a talking potato (After Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2 obviously), Toy Story 3 is shaping up to be even more fun than it’s predecessors, with plenty of laughs for kids, and plenty of chances for accompanying parents to side with the toys as they try desperatly to escape the clutches of their tiny tot jailers – will Woody be reunited with a college-bound Andy? Will Potato Head get his ‘tache back? Will Buzz learn to fly? Well…yes actually, at least according to this new video that snuck out from Disney’s vaults earlier today:
