My feelings on new movies, old movies, and future movies.

Well, I saw The Fountain on Tuesday. I must say I was very excited for this movie. I liked Darren Aronofsky's previous two films Reqiuem for a Dream and Pi. I was not disappointed. The movie has been many years in the making and those years were not ill spent. I believe they did the casting great. The special effects were amazing. And the theme of accepting death is very well represented. If you can I would highly suggest seeing this movie.

I've also been watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire quite often, since its on TV all the time. I must say I like all the Harry Potter movies, but this one is my favorite. I haven't read the books, so I always don't know much of what to expect from the movies, but I like that the movies are becoming darker in tone. I am excited for the fifth Harry Potter to come out next year.

There is still hope my friends! Peter Jackson still has a chance to direct The Hobbit. New Line's rights to The Hobbit run out next year. If they don't make the movie by that time the rights fall back to MGM and producer Saul Zaentz. Zaentz said that if he and his studio get the rights to the movie Jackson would be the first choice for the film. Although nothing has been written up for sure between Jackson and MGM, Zaentz is quite sure that Jackson would be willing to work on the film for MGM. He said that Jackson knows he would get paid fairly from MGM. One question though is if Jackson would want to do it. After working on the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, Jackson and his creative team might not want to do another large scale movie. Here's hoping that Jackson does get to direct.

Also, I watched Inside Man. It was good and I love Clive Owen. It almost makes me want to watch King Arthur again, but I know that it won't be any better. I bought John Carpenter's The Thing and Monster House too. The Thing was really good I thought. And I enjoy Monster House.

Well, I saw Casino Royale last night. I must say I never really liked the James Bond movies. Then again the only 007 movies I’ve seen are the crappy Pierce Brosnan ones. I’ve been meaning to watch more of them, but I just never have.

 

Anyways, I really enjoyed Casino Royale. I’m a sucker for anything in black and what that has been made recently, which means the first about 10 minutes I was absolutely in love with. It was all black and white and beautifully grainy. It set a very nice tone for the film by having a high contrast with a very bright scene inter-cutting into a very dark scene. A lot of the film is contrasted, mostly using the characters eyes.

 

Some were worried about getting a new Bond. I say its a breathe of much needed fresh air. Brosnan’s last movies were getting worse and worse.  Daniel Craig’s first outing as Bond is great. Despite not having the dark hair and eyes of most of his predecessors, he fits the role like he’s been playing it his whole life.

 

Going into the movie I was a bit worried it was going to be a couple hours of people playing poker with some tense music. I was happy to find that the pacing of the movie was great. The exposition was nicely written and interesting. The action scenes were as tense and well done as you would expect from a Bond film.

 

Overall, Casino Royale is a film I can recommend to fans of Bond and fans of movies in general.

I tried to post this as a video but the VideoEgg thing wasn't cooperating. Anyways, to all those who started watching the Spider Man 3 trailer with excitement, as I did, and ended with a mixture of excitement and disappointment that there was no shots of Venom anywhere to be found, as I was, this is for you.

 

The New Venom

 

That is exactly what the trailer was missing. While looking for this I also found another trailer. Whether it was a first draft for the one they released on November 9^th or the second full length trailer they plan to release all I know is I personally like it better. If you want me to post the link to that one too let me know. Or you could just search “Spider Man 3 Leaked Trailer” on YouTube. It’s full of unfinished special effects and a strange change in voices on the voice over half way through the trailer, but I personally felt that if that was the trailer that was released I would have been much happier.

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