Random Movie Rambling.

No that picture has nothing to do with anything, but it makes me chuckle.

I figure, man, I never blog anymore. It’s kind of pathetic, really. At least Hilson isn’t churning out three posts per day like he used to. That makes me feel slightly better.

Anyways, let’s get on to the movie goings ons that interest me therefore should interest you. Bullet points!

• Everyone’s favorite insane director, Quentin Tarantino, is making a new movie called Django Unchained. Apparently, it’s plot is about a freed slave named Django (played by Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a German bounty hunter (played by Tarantino favorite and Academy Award winning badass Christoph Waltz) to find and kill a slave owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his evil sidekick (played by Samuel L. Jackson) who apparently kidnapped Django’s wife. Writing that was kind of exhausting, but I feel like this movie cannot fail. Leonardo DiCaprio in anything is going to succeed, but Leonardo teamed up with Tarantino? As a bad guy? AS A SLAVE OWNER?! This is basically going to blow everyone’s minds. Christoph Waltz is excellent, as you’ll remember him from Inglorious Basterds as the Nazi that hunted Jews. I don’t like Sam Jackson, but he’s surrounded by so much talent that I don’t really care. Foxx is a pretty good actor that hasn’t done anything super dramatic in a while (aside from the failed attempt in The Soloist), so for him to play a character opposite Leo can only mean good things. This movie is going to be fantastic.

• James Cameron is in the middle of writing the scripts for Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. He’s shooting them back to back, much like Peter Jackson did with Lord of the Rings. Also like Jackson, Cameron is insisting that 2 and 3 are not sequels, rather, they’re completing the story arc. They’re more continuations than another stand alone movie. It certainly worked for LOTR, as you can’t really talk about one being better than the other (ok, Two Towers was my fave, Return of the King was way too long and fake ended like a bajillion times). We’ll see how this goes, as Avatar 2 is slated for a December 2012 release with the 3rd and final installment the following year. The only problem I have with all of this is, if it’s not a sequel, why are you calling it Avatar 2? Give it some cool name like “Return to Pandora” or “This Time, You’ll See the Na’vi Having Sex”. You know, something intriguing and exciting. Also of note, Cameron reportedly asked for over a billion dollars to make these movies. The insane part isn’t asking for a billion; the insane part is he probably got it.

• One of my favorite books ever, World War Z, is finally becoming a movie. I was like, totes excited when I heard it got green-lit. I was even more so when Brad Pitt was starring. Then I found out that the studio basically bought the rights to the name, and the movie will have very little to do with the book. Dammit. I mean, I’m still gonna watch it, but the book was perfect.

• They’re making another Indiana Jones movie. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

• They’re making a sequel to G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. They’re making a sequel and letting the guy who directed the Justin Bieber movie direct it. The only thing that can possibly save this movie is if you cast someone like The Rock in it. Oh… you cast The Rock as one of your leads? Hm. Well, this is kind of awkward. Ok, I’m in. I guess. Yay Rock!

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a KR.com favorite. So when the trailer for his new movie 50/50 came out, I was pretty excited. JGL plays a dude who is diagnosed with cancer and given a 50% chance of living. His BFF for this flick is everyone’s favorite chubby comedian, Seth Rogen. This looks like it could be a good dramedy, or it could fall flat on its face because it doesn’t know which direction to go in. Either way, I’ll see it because man, do I love me some JGL. And that’s in a totally non homosexual way. (I think.)

• Tom Hardy will be playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises. You already knew that. What you didn’t know, is what he’ll look like. Here’s a glimpse:

• Remember Spy vs. Spy from Mad Magazine? Yeah. They’re turning it into a movie. WHY? HOW? SERIOUSLY WHY? Hollywood is so dumb.

• The new remake of Footloose looks like a mash-up of Twilight and Step Up. This is not a good thing. I refuse to post the trailer here. If you’re a glutton for punishment, go find it your god damned self.

• Finally, I’ll leave you with this. Tom Cruise sucks, but Tom Cruise has actually made a few movies that didn’t completely suck. Sure they were made before Katie Holmes was born, but still. I actually really liked the first Mission: Impossible. Cruise didn’t suck. Mission: Impossible 2 was alright, but it wasn’t terrible or great. I never saw Mission: Impossible 3. So when I got word they were doing another one, I was largely skeptical. But, this one would feature Jeremy Renner. So, hey, it’s got that goin’ for it. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol just released its first trailer and wow. It looks pretty damn fantastic. I was legit shocked by this.