A Saw Retrospective Part Two: The Saw Rises

Welcome back to the second part of a four-part series as I yammer on about Saw for four posts.

We now come to my favorite part of the Saw series, Saw II, or as the movie poster’s numerical system calls it, Saw Two Fingers.  The Saw Blood Drive was in full if controversial swing, and I was the better part of a year into a new job that I was actually both enjoying and was good at.  Strange how that works, isn’t it? If you would have told me when I walked into Saw that I would be both employed and loving it within just a couple months I would’ve laughed in your face.

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Tyler Perry Is Beneath My Contempt

No, really.  Beneath my contempt.  If my contempt were here, then Tyler Perry would be somewhere around the bottom of the page.  Seriously.

Oh, sure,  I never liked Tyler Perry’s work very much–struck me as yet another black guy who saw Eddie Murphy in “The Nutty Professor”, said “hey, I can dress like a woman too!” and came up with Madea.  Real original, guy.  But now I’ve got a whole new reason to dislike Tyler Perry.

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Countdown to Quantum: The Spy Who Loved Me

As you (should) know, Bond 22, Quantum of Solace, is coming out this November 14th. In honor of this momentous occasion, I have decided to spend a little time each week digging into my James Bond DVD collection and talking about the best and worst of the series up until now. I also like to compare the movies to the source material, when it exists. I find all of this very entertaining, but if you don’t, the scroll button is still right over there. >>>>>

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A Saw Retrospective Part One: The Original And (Almost) Best

Seeing as how part five of the biggest horror film franchise of the new millenium will be coming out in a matter of days now (about nineteen of them, in fact) I figured I’d take the opportunity to connect with you folks out there on a more visceral level and talk about the Saw franchise, starting with one and working back to four.

Okay, first off, Saw came out during a pretty low point in my life.  Halloween of 2004 was pretty lousy for yours everfreakintruly, out of work due to a rolling practical joke of an economy, and when I started seeing trailers for this little beauty I was intrigued.  It was nice to see something interesting for a change, because even from a cinematic standpoint 2004 was a downright canker sore of a year (The Village, Van Helsing, The Day After Tomorrow, I’m looking at all of you).  You had to go down fifteen movies on the year’s best grosses before you found something even vaguely resembling a horror flick (once again, Van Helsing, I’m looking at you).

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Juice Canned!

Well, folks, stick a fork in O.J. Simpson–the man is done.  Convicted of a laundry list of crimes stemming from an incident last year today, with sentencing to follow in a couple months, in which Simpson led an armed band of men into a rented hotel suite in an attempt to “get his stuff back” from a couple of sports memorabilia dealers.

It’s nice to not have to say ALLEGEDLY any more.

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Enough Already, Sacha Baron Cohen

Okay, look.  Sometimes, just sometimes, it’s possible to take a genius move too far by BEATING IT INTO THE GROUND, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming new film with the even bigger mouthful of a name than previously reported, Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt, is doing just that.

I think we’ll all just wind up calling it “Bruno” like we did with “Borat“.

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New Romero Movie Well Underway

Oh yes, oh yes, fellow Romero fans–do I ever have spectacular news for you!

Though I’m loathe to give Ain’t It Cool News any kind of kudos at ALL, they did manage to sneak on (trespass?) the set of the upcoming George Romero movie, which apparently won’t be Diary of the Dead 2 so much as it will be a refination of the original Diary of the Dead.

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SAG vs. AMPTP: Where Will It End?

Short answer: Nobody knows.

Long answer: SAG’s leaders just sent a missive over to the studio reps, asking them to return to the bargaining table despite their “final offer.”

SAG national executive director Doug Allen and president Alan Rosenberg wrote to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ Nick Counter, Fox president Peter Chernin and Disney president Bob Iger: “We believe it is clear that our members would fail to ratify your proposal of June 30, 2008.

“It would serve no productive purpose, therefore, to send our membership a proposal that SAG’s National Negotiating Committee and National Board have rejected and that our membership would not ratify.”

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Midnight Meat Train a Free Ride on Fearnet?

In a move that really makes me question the sanity of Lions Gate, the much-maligned Clive Barker train wreck (no pun intended!) Midnight Meat Train will be available in its entirety (unless I seriously misunderstood the post) free online at Fearnet.

Well, there’s at least one caveat that I could find:  it’ll only be available to watch free on October 30th–namely, the day before Halloween.

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And The Movie News Just Gets Scarier

I don’t know what it is but somewhere someone’s bound and determined to make October the month I have a coronary because the news just keeps getting scarier and scarier.

Those of you with at least a passing familiarity with video games might well recognize Kratos, the bald, body waxed, psychopathic monster with dual blades that carves his way through the absolutely kickass God of War series.  It may not surprise you to hear that a movie version of God of War is in the works, and based on the game, it will easily be one of the most amazing blockbuster action films ever.

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