Disney acquired George Lucas’s Lucasfilm for $4bil on Tuesday. The deal absorbed rights to the Star Wars franchise and brought with it an announcement that there will be a new instalment of the franchise.
Star Wars VII is looking at a 2015 release date with “with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future,” a Disney statement said.
Disney chief Roger Iger said that he intends to combine Disney’s “unique and unparalleled creativity” with the franchise.
This deal comes after the acquisition of Pixar animation studios and Marvel Studios.
It’s difficult to look through the fog and see what this holds for the future of the Star Wars franchise. Maybe exactly that: a franchise.
Nobody can be too worried about creative control being taken away from Lucas. It needed to happen a long time ago and, as most fans know, the original – and best – trilogy was written and directed by third parties. Could that illustrate a case of Star Wars being good in spite of Lucas, not because of him?
Star Wars is a merchandising powerhouse. Announcing a new instalment illustrates that Disney is going to whip that slave until it bleeds its last gold (this is some kind of gold blooded slave metaphor).
The conglomeration of studios like this could only further the dearth of quality that’s plaguing Hollywood now. Pixar is particularly worrying; are they going to be able to maintain independence of Mickey’s iron throne enough to keep on doing what they’re doing?
The fog is lifting. I see sequels. So many sequels.
Writer: Manfred Wong – based on the comic strip by Cowman and Dickey Yau
Starring: Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan
The movie “Young and Dangerous” is an action film which describes a series of stories in Chinese underworld. The five heroes in the movie are: Chen Haonan, Shanji, Baopi and some other guys I can’t remember are born in the slums. In such a harsh environment, it is only a matter of time until these five heroes will be addicted to bad habits. They become Young and Dangerous blindly.
Their group has the following characteristics: fallen indulgent lifestyle, antisocial behaviour manners, vulgar etiquette and impulsive personality. They always force young people to enter the non-legitimacy organizations. Among the group members, people whether men or women often have the behaviour of truancy, absenteeism, smoking, drinking, fighting, clubbing, disco, soft, drug taking and illegal items trade. They become a serious problem to society, schools and parents.
Just one more side effect of Non-Legitimacy Organization lyf.
In the movie, there are a lot of bloody and perverted scenes, such as fight gang, drugs taking and so on. This is a thoroughly violent movie which has a great many bad effects on our society. The culture of violence has become an indispensable part of cultural enjoyment in a number of adults in modern times, and the commercialization of violent culture has naturally become the biggest selling point of the businesses.
The mass media lay a little restriction on violence. Although China has limited the spread of pornographic and violent content, children can easily come into contact with scenes of violence in television literary works, audiovisual products, tabloids, and electronic games.
Especially violent film and television work is not classified in China and so there is no limit on children watching it. It is incomprehensible that adults let children watch film and television like this. In fact, Children cannot understand what justice is. On the contrary, they may have just learned the violent behaviour in it.
In juvenile violent crime, a lot of spirit power is out of some so-called hero worship.
In this misnomer of hero worship, children feel that powerful people can get a lot of things they want and then obtain their self-esteem. There are more requirements for self-realization in modern society.
Children not only want to get material possession, but also do it for the certainty of self-power. Therefore, the blood and violence advocated in the movie “Young and Dangerous” is really bad for juveniles’ mental health. They will worship the heroes in it and imitate their behaviour to achieve their so-called self-value.
In a word, my opinion of the movie “Young and Dangerous” is that it is not a good film, even though some think it is meaningful for describing a friendship between heroes because some scenes in it have a misleading and bad effect on young people and our society.
I’m giving this 2 shirtless, young and dangerous guys out of five.
No Trailers Cat couldn’t find any trailer. Stupid cat.
When the day finally comes and zombies come-a-knockin’ on your door you’ll be glad you read this.
1. GET OUT OF THE POPULATED AREAS FAST
The suburbs, or, heaven forbid the city, are not good places to be
when zombies are afoot. So first and foremost, you have to get out!
Things to bring along: water, a hammock, a weapon, dark clothing
and boots.
2. DON’T USE YOUR CAR
In planning your escape route you should keep in mind that
everyone else is planning theirs as well. There are bound to
be traffic jams and car crashes all over town. I know it sounds
dangerous but unless you’re already in a rural area where there
is unlikely to be many cars around you should go by bike. Bikes
are great for three reasons: numero uno – you don’t need to fill a
bike up with petrol; numero duo – it’s easier to get out of sticky
situations by riding around stationary cars or down narrow alleys;
and numero tres – most importantly it makes no sound.
3. GET A WEAPON
Just like with the bike you want a weapon that doesn’t make too
much noise and you don’t have to refill (reload, you get what I
mean). Something like a machete is best where you can slice and
dice without needing to get too close. If you don’t have a machete
on hand (then you’re probably a hippie), a steel rod or a tough
wooden plank with some long nails hammered through the end
will do too. Avoid things like using weapons like chainsaws and
lawnmowers for reasons mentioned above. Also worth noting,
lawnmowers are not effective weapons, period … Unless you are
fighting grass I suppose. Anyway, I digress. It can be a good idea
to have a compact gun and a bit of ammo on you for really sticky
occasions. But only use it when you have to, the sound will attract
every zombie in earshot.
4. FIND A SAFE PLACE
Common mistakes: supermarkets, airports and roofs. The first
two are likely to be packed with the shambling undead well before
you get there and the latter is a trap. They may not be able to
climb up on the roof and eat you but you will eventually need to
climb down and eat food or get water. So then, where should you
go? Make for the foothills. Once you are out of densely populated
areas everything becomes more manageable and less risky. Here,
where there are less people (both dead and undead) you can find a
camping store and get everything you need to live off the land – a
hatchet, a utility belt, a crossbow, a hunting knife and so on and so
forth. Now you can start to put your hammock to use. If you’re in
the bush or a forest you can find two appropriately situated trees,
climb up and fasten your hammock between them. This keeps you
safe from late night zombie visitors and unfriendly wildlife. Now
you’re safe, or as safe as you can be during a zombie apocalypse.
Final words I’ll leave you with: plan ahead and always be prepared.
Starring: Peter Jackson, Terry Potter, Pete O’Hearne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett
I guess you could say this alien has…Bad Taste. Please hold your applause.
Bad Taste is a science fiction film which describes some weirdness that goes down in a seaside town. One day, all the inhabitants of this town disappear because a group of alien thugs come to solve a shortage in the supply of their fast food restaurants—a lack of meat in their hamburgers.
The streets fill with carnivorous aliens and the task to save mankind is handed to Derek (Peter Jackson) who organizes an alien investigation defense company with a group of savage rednecks.
The background of this movie set in an unclear future world with no special description. In fact, the movie consisted of mainly humiliation gags from beginning to end.
Humans defend the earth against attack from aliens who treat people on earth as if they were pieces of fast food that can be packaged in the Milky Way, and they seemed to like “chunky and small pieces” particularly.
Delicious Chunk-Os
Our human heroes explored all possible ways to dismember them. Jackson mixed the fake blood (brains and internal organs) together. From the perspective of special effects production, the movie cannot be mentioned in the same breath as “The Lord of the Rings” – which Jackson also directed. There are still a lot of staggering scenes in the “Bad Taste”. For example, a voracious alien ate brains from an already dead human head.
In addition to the direct reaction of instinct, people are very concerned about the integrity and universality of their body. A guy in the movie had lost a piece of brain and could not find it at all, so he picked up an alien’s brain into his head instead. This kind of fear of integrity is actually very common in film or literary works. The most common way is that people with mental defect seek excitement through abnormal ways to achieve self-comfort and many perverted serial killers can be classified in this way.
In the movie “Bad Taste”, there are a lot of bloody and perverted scenes, such as eating human brains, chainsaw massacre and so on. As far as I am concerned, I don’t think this kind of scenes can be described as beautiful or meaningful and it’s an indignity to visual aesthetics. The movie is mainly based around about violent, bloody and disgusting plot. I couldn’t stick to the end of the movie.
Earth was saved by those who kept their heads when it all went bad. See what was done there?
In addition, the movie also has a bad effect on our society, especially to young people. With the popularity of network technology, it’s easy for young people to see all kinds of movies on the Internet.
Unfortunately, because of the influence of violent movies, many young people begin to advocate violence. Some bloody events have already issued a warning to us: mental health cannot be ignored. Because young people lack independent moral judgment, they are likely to be misled in the real world. The bloody scenes in the “Bad Taste” will have a bad impact on youth’s mental health.
In my opinion, the movie “Bad Taste” is not a good film and some scenes in it can be an insult to visual art. It also has a bad effect on young people.
This was taken moments before Mega-Lincoln climbed the Empire State and was killed by buildings.
Tagline: WARNING! This movie may be offensive to children, young people, old people, in-the-middle people, some people on the right, all people on the left, terrorists, pacifists, war-mongers, fish mongers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics (though you’d have to prove it to them), the ACLU, liberals, conservatives, neo-cons, ex-cons, future cons, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarian, people of color, people of no color, English speakers, English-as-a-second language speakers, non-speakers, men, women, more women, & Ivy League professors. Native Americans should be okay.
Year: Runtime: 83 min
Director: Mark Zucker
Writer: Mark Zucker
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Gary Coleman, Jon Voight
Double Irony. Keep that in mind the entire time you’re attempting to watch this film; you’ll be able to steel yourself and maybe you’ll just make it out alive.
An American Carol focuses on Michael Malone, an anti-American film maker who wants to abolish the Fourth of July celebrations. His nephew, a young naval officer about to deploy to the Persian Gulf, asks him to join his family at a Fourth picnic. Malone refuses. That night, while watching a Kennedy speech, JFK himself gets out of the TV and tells Malone he’ll be visited by three ghosts over the course of the evening to be taught about the real America.
This is where things depart from normality.
I felt like this myself a lot
Obviously the film is traipsing the Dickensian path. It’s difficult to tell how much Zucker intended this to be satirical of the Republican ultra-conservative movement.
The first ghost to turn up is General George Patton. If you’d guessed that it was going to be Kelsey Grammer, I want you to give a message to my dead relatives because you’re clearly psychic. If you’re drinking inclined, I could suggest a game that revolves around taking a shot every time you’re surprised that a celebrity has actually appeared in this. You wouldn’t remember the film though (a potential blessing?). He shows Malone how dangerous not having war is by taking a ride through a Deep South without the Civil War. There’s a cringe-worthy amount of stereotypes. A notable inclusion of racism was cotton picking black people in a field singing a traditional Jewish song.
Running right along with this pacifism jaunt, Malone and Patton are now in the room with Chamberlain and Hitler. This doesn’t last long and suddenly they’re in a classroom now. The movie doesn’t bother with trivial things like transitions or traditional story telling because why bother?
Luckily the movie gave me a reprieve of Republican dogma long enough to have teachers sing a musical number about being globally unaware hippies still carrying their 60s mentality. It’s a pretty upbeat song. Patton – remember he’s played by Grammer – says that universities now indoctrinate rather than educate.
Jon Voight turns up as George Washington, somebody General Patton apparently prays to as his “father”. Of course there’s an obligatory reference to 9/11 by The Wash.
Still unchanged, Malone is visited by Trace Adkins as the Angel of Death. TA the AD takes Malone to see Los Angeles, a city now taken over by Islamists. Malone is then transported to Michigan, destroyed by a nuclear bomb planted by Al Qaeda. It’s a reference to his death that prompts Malone to admit that America truly is great and that he probably shouldn’t “destroy” it. I’m unsure if Zucker was aware of this ideological change brought about by terror was ironic. That’s probably an un-American question.
There’s really only room for one in here
Malone finally turns up to his anti Fourth of July rally to decree his newfound love of America. The mob turns and he is saved by American soldiers in a visual allusion so subtle that I felt like my own General Patton was nudging me in the ribs and saying “eh, eh, you get it?”.
Malone flees to a country music festival being put on by the Angel of Death or Trace Adkins. I couldn’t tell at what point he was playing himself or Death. Perhaps Death uses Trace Adkins to pursue his real love of singing nationalist country music. If only we were all lucky enough to chase our dreams like that.
Malone, now good of heart and part of “the real America” rushes down to the docks to see his nephew off and proclaim his pride in him. It raised an interesting question. Did they ship out on the Fourth of July or was Malone so inept at organisation that he created a rally to abolish the Fourth of July on July 5?
This isn’t where the real insanity of this film comes out. The side story lines are the greatest and craziest parts. It was difficult to craft them into a synopsis of the main narrative. The whole story is being narrated by Grampa (Leslie Nielsen). My main concern was why he’d been left alone with a group of children to tell this mental story.
He seems like he can take care of the children.
Malone is also being offered a job to work for terrorists creating a propaganda film. They pop up every so often to function as hilarious racial stereotypes.
Oh yeah. Bill O’Reilly turns up to slap Malone around in a port-a-potty.
They're Alive! 