The Kung Fu Kids Are Alright
As production continues on Sony’s Kung Fu Kid, a modern day reimagining of the 1984 film, The Karate Kid and inspired by the inclusion of a certain trailer (we’ll get to it later) on the latest installment of Synapse Films’ 42nd Street Forever series, I’ve been inspired to examine the Kung Fu child genre of the 1980s and early 1990s. While I haven’t seen all of these films (mostly the Taiwanese/Chinese productions), I feel if you watch enough YouTube Clips, you have a fairly decent understanding of the genre and pictures.
In keeping with SkeetOnMischa’s brilliant exegis on trailers, I present herewith the greatest mock trailer of all time: Edgar Wright’s “Don’t!” from the original theatrical version of Grindhouse.
-dc
In A World....
I love movie trailers. More often than not, the trailer is better than the picture its self. In two to three minutes, Ryan Reynolds can impress me as an action hero and I do not have to spend the 14 bucks and actually watch the film. I see the explosions, the car chases, wacky shoot outs and maybe one or two of the cool one liners provided by the villains without having to sit through the boring tedious moments where action movie star Ryan Reynolds emotes and flirt with the female co star. What the trailers of today are missing the most is the voice over. Sure, there are voiceovers in trailers and TV commercials of today, but their work just lacks a certain quality to them.
Here’s a list of some of the best voiceover artists and some of the better work.
I have spent years trying to perfectly duplicate the way Alan Rickman pronounces “ho ho ho” in his british / german hybrid accent. YEARS.
It’ll pay off one day.
-Peter
Edit: ugh, of COURSE embedding would be disabled on this video. God forbid I want to share my love of Die Hard with other people.
Just got a lovely little email from my friends over at Netflix saying that The Game is in the mail to arrive tomorrow. I know what you are thinking, DAMN I wish I had thought of this first because that movie is kick ass and I haven’t seen in it in DAYZZZZZZZ!
Well, I thought of it first, but feel free to take the idea and use it for yourself. I am a benevolent idea giver.
xx.hyde
If you ever wanted to see a film that combined elements of Krull, Conan The Barbarian, and, Clash Of The Titans and directed by one of the greatest Italian filmmakers of all time, Lucio Fulci, then Conquest is for you!
Caution: the trailer is a tad on the NSFW side, but there are lasers!
Scary movies with explosions. A BFE Halloween special event.
1. They Live: They live is supposed to be a terrifying, morality play about the decline of man and how we are all puppets, controlled by the media, the money and the man. What it’s realllllly about is a homeless man (played by wrestler Roddy Piper) who finds a pair of amazing sunglasses that enables him to see the “real world”.
Stop right here if you haven’t seen THEY LIVE. Go rent THEY LIVE.
The real world is composed of these awesome looking skull alien creatures in business suits. Lets say you walk into your local bank and speak to your teller. If you by chance are wearing these magic glasses then BAM. That teller looks like a decomposed corpse wearing a business suit. Do not speak to that teller. Shoot him.
In this little masterpiece, billboards and magazines (when wearing these magic glasses) display really cool messages like BUY, SELL, and OBEY. Needless to say, this really freaks out Roddy Piper and he spends the rest of the movie blowing the crap out of things and getting into fist fights that LAST FOR TEN MINUTES. A perfect Halloween movie. Guns, skull faces, and explosions.
2. The Thing: A gorgeously shot, impeccably directed tale of a group of men stranded in the arctic with an alien. A shape shifting alien whose only goal is to assimilate every living species it comes across. It is a truly brilliant piece of filmmaking, one of the best that science fiction has to offer. It is funny, scary, gory and ultimately intelligent. A film that can be watched countless times, it is timeless and rewarding.
But it is also about a half drunk Kurt Russell fighting a fucking alien monster with a flame thrower, a bottle of whisky and some flares. He plays chess too.
3. Dead Heat: A buddy cop movie that plays outside the realm of buddy cop movies. Imagine Riggs/Murtaugh/AxelFoley fighting zombiefied poultry and you get the idea. A brilliant corporation starts zombiefying bad guys in order to pull off bank robberies. Try to kill a zombie that is stealing a priceless necklace. Just try. It’s really hard. Joe Piscopo and Treat Williams trade witty banter and a massive amount of gun ammunition in order to stop their deadly foes. Seriously. So many bodies drop in this movie, it’s amazing. They even pull the glocks to a reanimated, fried cow.
4. The Hidden: BFE has a nice Hidden piece down below, so please check it out. It has splosions and scares galore. AND METAL.- Al
“Oh, I just wanted to say good-bye and remind you that the good guys always win, even in the eighties,” - Ace Hunter
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Mega Force, a film that I can only describe as the director of Smokey & The Bandit’s version of Star Wars
-Douglas Reinhardt
MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE! MAD MAX 4 UPDATE!
Writer/Director George Miller talks about the cars, the stunts and the cast of the upcoming fourth Mad Max film. It seems like Miller wants to put another Aussie behind the wheel as Mad Max instead of the rather bad ass Jeremy Renner.
Just as long as it’s not Sam Worthington.
Via /Film
-Douglas Reinhardt
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