Alternate Ending to the Avengers

Source: Labish via Sasha For the Win

Films of 2011

The Adjustment Bureau
The King's Speech
Thor
Bridesmaids
Kung Fu Panda 2
Super 8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Muppets
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Poster designers need new ideas

Also note: Matthew McConaughey cannot stand up under his own power.

Source: haoash on 9gag

The Walken Dead

What is this stain on my jacket? Gravy? When was the last time I had...gravy? It's...crazy.

[Via Laughing Squid]

Walking Away

Here is another great supercut of films showing people who just keep on walking.



Previously on Slashboing: Cliche film dialog

Lord of the Rings: February 5th

As part of the Digital Film Fest, Cineplex will be showing the Lord of the Rings trilogy on Saturday, February 5. In Calgary, this will be at Chinook mall, but you can check your local listings Based on the running times, these will be the original theatrical versions, which I have not seen since they were first released.

Like the theatre's Classic Film Series, blogged here in November, this has been under-advertised, as I only chanced to hear about through some friends I chanced to bump into at the mall. Still, the line up of films beyond the Lord of the Rings is great, and at five dollars a ticket, it is an affordable good time.

The other films in the festival are:

• Back to the Future
• Alien
• Aliens
• Predator
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Goonies
• Ghost
• Dirty Dancing
• The Usual Suspects
• Raging Bull
• This is Spinal Tap
• The Blues Brothers
• 12 Monkeys
• Lethal Weapon
• The Hunt for Red October
• Fight Club

Full details here: Cineplex Digital Film Fest

Year in Review: Best films of 2010

Best films of 2010, by default.

• Kick-Ass
• Iron Man 2
• Robin Hood
• Toy Story 3
• Inception
• Dinner for Schmucks
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Previous Year's Film lists

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006

JourneyQuest: A fan supported film

From Dead Gentlemen Productions, comes JourneyQuest, a fantasy comedy web series about a reluctant Wizard. This is the team that made the films "The Gamers" and "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising", both of which are compulsory viewing for all pen-and-paper role-playing gamers.

The Maltese Falcon in Calgary

Chrononauts assemble! As part of the Cineplex classic film series, The Maltese Falcon will be shown this November at the Scotiabank Theatre Chinook.

Those not familiar with the adventures of  Sam Spade can watch the trailer here:



I'm so in for this, anyone with me?

Showtimes for The Maltese Falcon

• Wednesday, November 17, 7:00pm
• Sunday, November 28, 1:00pm

I have posted the rest of the film series here to pique your interests, while the complete showtimes & schedule can be found on the Classic Film Series website.

December: "It's a Wonderful Life"
January: "A Star Is Born" (1954)
February: "Doctor Zhivago"
March: "The Wizard Of Oz"
April: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
May: "The Sound of Music"
June: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
July: "Spartacus"
August: "M*A*S*H"

Hollywook Jabberwocky

5 things about Inception you probably already know

1. The musical cue used to warn the dreamers of an upcoming kick is "Non, Je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf. In English thats "No, I regret nothing," a fitting theme for the film, and Marion Cotillard who played Cobb's wife Mal won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Piaf in "The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf".
2. Hans Zimmer uses the Edith Piaf song, and the time distortion from the dream state as a key to the films musical score.
   
3. The Ellen Page character is named Ariadne, after he daughter of King Minos of Crete in Greek mythology. In the story, she gives a sword and a ball of red fleece thread to Theseus so he can find his way out of the maze of the minotaur. In Inception, she wears a lot of red, in addition to her maze making and hero leading.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Christopher Nolan reuses imagery from his Batman movies. Posters from both Inception and The Dark Knight are painfully similar.
   
   
   
   
   
   Also Cillian Murphy does seem to spend a lot of time in the back of vans with a bag over his head.
   
   
   
   
5. The stolen kiss between Arthur and Ariadne is the kernel of a thousand works of fanfiction.
   
   
   INCEPTION - Tilt by *YoukaiYume on deviantART
   

Wybie mask from Coraline film

A year ago I made a replica Wybie mask from the film version of Coraline. While I believe the original prop was designed from a 1950's welding mask, I started with a very similarly shaped industrial face shield, with the clear plastic replaced with thick black sintra. The side crank is a replica replacement Porsche window crank.

I stenciled the skull pattern on the front then painted it in, leaving the welding mask rectangle gap. The original prop was designed to look like a camera three lens turret, which I could not afford to pillage, even from the depths of ebay. I created a replica turret with more sintra, PVC fittings and paint. I wanted the crank to spin the turret, but I realized that since the original prop was from a stop motion film, it didn't have to spin, so neither did mine.

With it all assembled I wired in some green ultra bright LEDs and it looked great. I made plastic lens diffusers out of some packaging plastic, sanded to turn the LED dots into glowing lights.

One year I will actually wear this for Halloween. I have used it as part of the 52 Weeks of Video project, when I featured it in a short, surreal film.

Cracked dismembers Back to the Future

Cracked.com is far cooler than Cracked magazine ever was.

Why 'Back to the Future' Is Secretly Horrifying -- powered by Cracked.com

Cliche film dialog

Some film setups and dialog are so common, we don't notice them - until someone puts them all together in one clip.











Bonus Video: What? on Lost.

The Tragedy of Hamlet

I've been watching, of late, the BBC version of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patric Stewart. I don't know if my bias toward Tennant-as-Doctor-Who has coloured my affections,or if this is a genuinely unique and expert performance. I would have liked to see the original stage production with this cast, that delayed and made sparse Tennant's last turn as the Doctor, but it was not to be. I'm joyed that they adapted their performance for film and I managed to catch most of it on PBS.

Several clips can be found on Youtube, and this part of Act 2, Scene 2, is my overwhelming favourite.



I would write that they "make the text come alive" or that they "breathe life into the words" if it wasn't for the army of cliched hacks that would beat me 'round the head and shoulders for crimes both real and apparent.

Hitchock' cameos

It feels like some sort of cosmic penance that Alfred Hitchcock has to walk endlessly through the background of his, and perhaps every, film.



(The previous link in the blog/tweet chain was Larry Blamire)

Self-referential Trailer

Introduction that is short enough to show up on twitter, yet descriptive enough to entice you to view this post. Establishment that I enjoy the kind of thing I'm presenting in this post.

A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever -- powered by Cracked.com

(via the person who posted it and I'm crediting for letting me know about it)

Cool guys and their relationship with explosions

Year in Review: 2009 in Films

Once again I must list all the films I saw in the theaters this year, call them the "best of the year," have a laugh at my own expense, then lament that I haven't seen more films. Notable films I missed this year include Inglourious Basterds, District 9, and G-Force. Every year I try to see more films, but still average about one a month.

• Coraline
• Fanboys
• Watchmen
• Monsters vs. Aliens
• Star Trek
• Terminator Salvation
• Up
• Transformers 2
• Public Enemies
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Avatar
  

Notable this year is that I saw Up, Star Trek and Watchmen multiple times in the theater.

What does 2010 hold? How about Footloose, The A Team and The Karate Kid? [Joke about 80's Nostalgia]

Previous Year's Film lists

• 2008
• 2007
• 2006

The Lost Skeleton Returns Again!

I'm really looking forward to this film!



[Lost Skeleton Returns Again]