As someone who actually makes something I laughingly refer to as a living from memes, apps, tools and general online doodads, I’ve been awaiting the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ with some trepidation, mainly because it will mean one of two things;
A:Tons of gibbering chimpos will watch it, hear the numbers being bandied around and set themselves up as ‘Social Media Gurus’ on Twitter, meaning it’ll be even harder for me to get a gig. Or
B:Tons of gibbering chimpos will watch it, and realise that what I do for a living isn’t actually that hard, I’ve just been fooling people into paying me over the odds.
Whatever, this new trailer has just pooped up over at www.500millionfriends.com, and it looks like the history of Monsiour Zuckerburg and his all-pervasive ivy league yearbook is going for the tense, courtroom drama angle. How tense you can get with Justin Timberlake as your leading man is up for debate, but will it hold Facebook’s creators up as heros -or point them out for ridicule?
More to the point -does anyone really give a shit about watching a college boy in a hoody make several billion dollars because people love to poke, farm and off each other Mafia style at this point?
Hitler! Stalin! Ming The Mercyless! Names that live on in the annals of infamy. There’s no denying it; people love a good villain, and remember them too! So why are so many of them..well… a bit shit? We run through some of cinema’s baddest muthas and discover that they really aren’t all that great! In fact, most filmic menaces are a bunch of yakkety idiots with nothing better to do – it’s The Worst Villains In Cinema!
Repost from our video game obsessed compadres over at Electric Spectre
Hollywood has not learnt its lesson and we have yet another video game adaptation hitting the big screen in the form of Tekken. The King Of Iron Fist Tournament is hardly known for it’s great story – family at war, throw each other off cliffs, turn into devils and bond by throwing more people off cliffs. Check out the trailer above:
3D movies are all the rage right now, mainly because they’re a hell of a lot more difficult to pirate than regular ones. Yep, Hollywood’s money men are running scared, convinced that the death of cinema is upon us. It isn’t of course – where else can you get nachos covered in what can only be described as electric cheese, costing £32 and served to you by a fat, spotty urchin with his finger in his ear? Culinary delights aside however, there is something to be said for staying at home – the main one being you don’t have to put up with the following group of bottom feeders. Yep, we hate them too – it’s the top dickheads you meet at the movies!
Proof positive that Hollywood is scraping the barrel for ideas, a mooted big-screen adap of Monopoly seemed like a bad joke when rumours surfaced a couple of months ago, but it seems that former loaf flogger turned auteur Ridley Scott has decided to have a poke at the four square property game, with predictably odd results.
Speaking to the L.A.Times, writer Frank Beddor outlined his stupendous plan to convert the story-free game into prime entertainment, and you guessed it –he’s going down the Jumanji route. An ‘ordinary Joe’ falling asleep and waking up in the game…sigh…
Beddor, who’s currently touting some drivel he’s spouted about Lewis Carrol characters invading the real world had this to say:
“It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries – a sports car pulls up, there’s someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow – and rich Uncle Pennybags, you’re going to see him as the maître d’ at the restaurant and he’s the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera, says Beddor. “There’s all these sight gags.”
Nice of you to point that out for us Frank, as they sound like real rib-ticklers.
Sir Scott is dragging this dead horse through his production mangler with a view to a 2011 release. STS once thought it had played Monopoly for an entire year…turns out we were just really bored.
