Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Rather than have you sit through what basically would amount to a more detailed version of the Early Look post I did about Razor last month, I wanted to at least make sure you all had a forum of sorts to discuss the movie. I will, however, mention a few points worth mentioning again …
- Obviously the biggest “news” from the episode was the revelation that Starbuck is supposedly the bringer of apocalypse. Should the hybrid really be believed?
- Several times we saw the message hit home that “this has happened before and it will happen again.” Ron D. Moore had also made that theme pretty clear several times in the past, not to mention the webisodes carrying that same message.
- OK, so it’s pretty clear that Cain was into girls. Know what? Big deal. I have no idea why that was such a fuss when that spoiler came up before, as it doesn’t seem to mean a whole lot of anything significant.
- It was surreal to see Cain actually kill the former XO in the exact way it was told to the crew of the Galactica in the series. A extremely tense moment in the movie for sure.
- Any thoughts on the old Cylon “guardians” and what their purpose might be in the fourth season?
Be sure to also check out what I already said in the Early Look post.
Repo! The Genetic Opera!: “this isn’t Saw… Nor is it Sweeney Todd…”
Five weeks after Repo! The Genetic Opera! wrapped production, director Darren Lynn Bousman reports that a first cut of the film in is the can. And while that is a cause for celebration, Bousman is becoming more unsure of what the audience for this musical horror film might be.
“The truth of the matter is - I have no fucking CLUE what the public and movie goer is going to say about this movie…” Bousman writes in his latest blog entry. “As I have said numerous times - this isn’t SAW… Nor is it SWEENY TODD… It’s a hybrid of horror, comedy, and good old fashion ROCK and ROLL!”
Bousman hopes to garner a Rocky Horror-ish response, with people singing in the theaters.
“[that] is my TRUE dream of the this movie… That I walk into a theatre somewhere and hear the audience singing along to ZYDRATE ANATOMY - or WE STARTED THIS OPERA SHIT…”
Repo! The Genetic Opera! is set to hit theaters on April 25th 2008.
Avatar Concept Art?
The photo to the right has been circulating around the web for a couple days now, but I have decided until now, not to post it because I believed it to be fake. Tonight, all the major movie websites are running with the photo, so I thought, what the hell. So what is the photo of?
Unknown sources are claiming that the photo is of an indigenous alien race called the Na’vi from James Cameron’s upcoming $190 million super-epic 3D performance-capture/live action/animation hybrid Avatar. The original treatment for Avatar described the Na’vi as tall and blue, so this very well could be conceptual art for the species, however, I’m hoping that isn’t the case. To me it looks like a combination of Angelina Jolie as Grendal’s mother (from Beowulf), and the cult classic Disney film TRON. Click on the image to enlarge.
Avatar follows a paraplegic war veteran named Jake, who is summoned to a planet inhabited by a primitive alien race, in order to help exploit the planet’s resources. Humans are able to create Avatars, genetically engineered copies of the aliens, that they are able to control. Jake unexceptionally falls in love with one of the alien creatures. Written by Cameron eleven years ago as an 80-page treatment, Avatar will be released in Digital 3D on May 22, 2009.
I’m really hoping that Cameron’s Avatar is something innovative and special, but this just looks like more of the same. I’ll keep you updated, but for now, I’m hoping this isn’t legit. What do you guys think?