The Dark Knight continues to shatter records!

According to Comingsoon.net, Warner Bros. has announced that The Dark Knight has finally grossed over $1 Billion at the box office. It's about time. I was wondering how a movie with so much commercial success couldn't cross that line and, well, it finally has. The movie has grossed about $1,001,082,160 to date making roughly $533 million domestically and $567 million overseas. After it's 8 Oscar nominations and its re-release into IMAX theaters on January 23rd, The Dark Knight gained its last few million it needed before crossing the line that only three other movies have crossed before (Titanic with $1.842 billion, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King with $1.119 billion, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with $1.o66 billion.)

With all of this crazy success, the pressure is on for Christopher Nolan to make a sequel that can even compare to The Dark Knight. Considering Heath Ledger obviously won't be in it, that might make maters difficult. Since the films release, a lot of crazy rumors have been flying around as to who has been cast as what villain in the follow-up. I recall Christina Ricci and Angelina Jolie were rumored to play Catwoman and Johnny Depp was rumored to be the Riddler. These rumors were quickly denied (as they should be, a script hasen't even been written...geez, calm down people). Let's just hope Batman Begins 3, The Dark Knight 2, or "The Caped Crusader" as many people have been calling it, will be up to Christian Bale's standards so he won't go crazy again...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Trailer

Finally taking a break from writing about horror movies, I have a brand spankin' new post that has nothing to do with Jason, Freddy, Michael or any other slasher you could think of. Unless you consider the Decepticons and Autobots to be slashers, then not only is this another slasher post but you also need to have your head checked.

That being said, it was reported that the new trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen debuted in theaters last week with Friday the 13th (yes, I mentioned that movie again...sue me). I don't know where people are getting their information from because I sure as hell didn't see the trailer when I went. Either way, I was able to see it online just days later and let me just say, they definitely didn't skip out on the action. The entire trailer is pretty much just robots landing on Earth, robots breaking stuff, and robots making stuff explode (with the exception of Shia LaBeouf telling his movie dad to run and Meghan Fox yelling "SAMMM!"). Oh, and Egyptian pyramids... By the time all of the ruckus ended, REVENGE appears on the screen and I don't know about you but when I saw that I was like "Oh, damn". Anyway, with all of that said, I know I will still love this movie no amount of trailer ruckus is gonna change that. Here, check it out for yourselves. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits theaters on June 24, 2009.



By the way, I would just like to inform everyone reading that the word "Fallen" in the title does not refer to the autobots and decepticons that, well, died in the first movie. "The Fallen" is actually one individual robot named...The Fallen.

Friday the 13th: Review

First off, let me just say that I realize that my last few posts are about horror movies. It's just a coincidence. This is not a purely horror movie blog now. With that being said, lets begin.

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS...

This weekend, I saw the new Friday the 13th movie with my sister. I'll just say that you either love this movie or you hate it. I am one of the people who liked it. Two posts ago, I said that this movie was a remake of the first three movies in the original franchise. All that means is it goes from Jason's mother being the killer (Friday the 13th) to Jason being the killer and wearing a sack over his head (Friday the 13th 2) to Jason being the killer wearing a hockey mask (Friday the 13th 3). We go from killer mother to hockey mask within the first 35-40 minutes or so of this movie.

The first 20 minutes of the movie were actually pretty good. A group of young people went on a hike to find a marijuana crop (which I thought was ridiculous, but whatever, I can deal with it). They get a little lost and decide to stop and set up camp. Two of the people then split away and stumble upon Jason's old cabin while the remaining three stayed at camp. Two of the remaining three decide they want to have sex so the one guy remaining goes for a walk. Not more than 5 minutes later, Jason begins to kill each one of them and let me just say, Jason is CRAZY. Here is a quick list of how things went down:

1- Machete through the cabin floor over and over so there is no safe place to stand
2- Wrapped in a blanket hanging over the camp fire
3- Bear Trap
4- Head cut off
5- Machete swung right into the skull

Just after the last death, FRIDAY THE 13TH appeared on the screen and people were actually cheering and clapping. I guess the beginning was just THAT good. However, as the movie went on, the killings became a bit more ridiculous, as did the never-ending sex scene in which one of the characters exclaims "Your tits are stupendous!" Anyway, the main plot of the story is of a guy named Clay (Jared Padalecki) trying to find his sister Whitney, one of the hikers from the beginning of the movie. Turns out she actually survived because she looked so much like Jason's mother that he couldn't kill her. The rest of the people in the movie served one purpose and one purpose only...to die. As the movie goes on, Jason kills them all simply because they are there (as a slasher movie should be). Another list:

1- Arrow through the head
2- Hit by a boat and then Machete right into the top of the head
3- Screwdriver into the chin
4- Axe thrown into the back
5- Thrown onto antlers on the cabin wall
6- Pole through the stomach then pinned to the back of a truck
7- Plain old machete stab then dragged away

Blah Blah movie went on and the two survivors, Clay and Whitney, manage to "kill" Jason and dump him into the lake along with his mask. Just then, Jason breaks through the boardwalk/dock or whatever you wanna call it, grabs Whitney...cue credits. Sequel anyone?

As people were leaving, I heard several of them say it sucked. Well, I actually enjoyed it (even though I had to nudge my sister several times during the movie to wake her up) and i give it a 7.5/10. Go see for yourself. If you've already seen it, voice your opinions in the comments section.

H2 Official Poster

On the heels of my last post on recent horror movie remakes comes the official poster for H2, the anticipated sequel to Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween. Rob Zombie has gone on record saying that this movie will not be a remake of Halloween II and will be an original story. I had mixed feelings about his remake to begin with. I liked how it served as a prequel to the original because it took you back to when Michael Meyers was a child but something about the overall tone of the movie seemed a little off to me. I'm most likely gonna see this movie sooner or later but this poster doesn't really have that "YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!" factor.

(DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE ZOMBIE REMAKE AND STILL PLAN ON SEEING IT)
I also don't see how this sequel is gonna work anyway considering the fact that Michael was pretty much shot right in the head at the end of the movie. Oh well. If they can somehow make another sequel after having Michael's head chopped off at the end of Halloween H20, I'm sure they can figure this out too.

H2 hits theaters August 28, 2009.

New Jason? Cool. New Freddy? NO WAY!

Graphic created by Angelo Landriscina

Remakes. Some people love them, others cringe at the idea of them. In the past few years, there have been countless remakes of classic horror movies such as The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Believe it or not, all of these movies were made under Michael Bay's production company, Platinum Dunes. Maybe Michael has some kind of fetish with old horror movies, who knows? Anyway, he seems to be at it again but this time, hes taking on 2 franchises with a CRAZY large following, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street and it has me a little worried.

Ever since the success of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, a string of horror remakes featuring iconic characters (such as Rob Zombie's Halloween, and it's upcoming sequel H2) have been making their way to theaters. The newest of these movies is Friday the 13th, starring Jared Padalecki (of The CW's Supernatural), which hits theaters in less than 2 weeks. According to the film's writers, this movie will incorporate ideas from the first three Friday movies. In the original, Jason's mother was the killer. As seen is almost all of the advertising for this remake, that's obviously not the case with this one. There's also one detail that people might not like about the new version of Jason....he runs. Personally, I think that could make him so much scarier considering there were running zombies in almost all of the recent zombie movies and that made them way scarier. Come on, would you be more afraid of a killer or a zombie moving at a snails pace or by a killer or a zombie running towards you? Exactly. This remake could give this series the revival it really needs after Jason's last stand-alone movie Jason X in which he was upgraded to some type of cyborg, future killer (lets pretend that movie doesn't exist from now on because it was so bad). I can totally see this being the start of something new for Jason. Friday the 13th hits theaters next Friday...the 13th.

Now on to A Nightmare on Elm Street. I don't even know where to begin with this one. I love love LOVE these movies and when I heard that a remake was in the works, I was really excited. After seeing what could be done for the dream sequences with today's technology in Freddy vs. Jason, I couldn't wait to see what they were gonna do next. That is, until I heard that Robert Englund wouldn't be playing Freddy Krueger. Michael Meyers, Jason Voorhees, and Leatherface can all be easily replaced because they all wear masks and have absolutely no personality. Freddy is the complete opposite. He is almost nothing but personality and wit. Thanks to Robert Englund, Freddy became one of the most well-known movie killers of all time. I can't help but worry that having a new guy play Freddy after Englund played him 8 times will ruin the character. Englund made Freddy who he is. The reason behind not have him come back is because he is too old and they want someone to bring new energy to the character but still, changing him now would really piss off hardcore fans of the franchise. I just hope they don't change him too much even if only for the sake of box office numbers. Only time will tell. A script hasn't even been finalized yet so who's to say that it'll definitely be horrible?

Just Because

Jizz in My Pants

Superbowl Movie Spots: The Highs and Lows

During this year's Superbowl, several trailers for some of this summer's high profile blockbusters were aired. I can't say i enjoyed them all. Some left me wondering "what the hell was that?" and others left me thinking "I HAVE TO SEE THIS!" Check out the trailers below and feel free to give you opinions in the comments section of this post. (BTW, click on the title of each movie to see it's Wikipedia page and find out more about it.)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Rating: 7.5/10
Reasoning: Too flashy and too much going on for such a small screen but I'm sure everyone will be running to see this movie (including myself) because let's face it, it's a new Transformers movie and it will be AMAZING!

Star Trek

Rating: 8/10
Reasoning: I have to say that I really don't care about the whole Star Trek franchise but this trailer really sparked my interest in this movie as I'm sure it did for a lot of other people too. I could totally see myself going to see it this summer.

Year One

Rating: 5/10
Reasoning: When I saw this for the first time during the game, it actually seemed funny. Now watching it again I realized I really have no interest in seeing this. Just because Michael Cera was in Superbad and Juno doesn't mean he is instant box office gold. It looks like it'll still be bad. Sorry.

Monsters vs. Aliens 3D

Rating: 9/10
Reasoning: Ok i'll admit, I just watched this again with my 3D glasses on and it looks so good!
This trailer + another trailer for this movie that debuted a while back = FUNNY.
I am definitly going to see this and I don't care who I have to drag with me.

Angels and Demons

Rating: 4/10
Reasoning: 1) Tom Hanks. 2) It looks boring. 3) I had no desire to see The Da Vinci Code so why would I see the sequel?
Don't get me wrong, it probably appeals to people who read the books and what not, but this movie isn't for me.

Fast and Furious

Rating: 8/10
Reasoning: VERY smart move in bringing back the cast of the original movie. After adding Tyrese and "Bow Wow" (of all people) to the franchise, this move was very much needed. I'm sure it'll blow the other two sequels out of the water.

Up

Rating: 7/10
Reasoning: I've missed the last two Pixar movies but I actually kinda wanna see this one. Maybe its the 3D that gets me, who knows?

Race to Witch Mountain

Rating: 7/10
Reasoning: Still having mixed feelings about this one. I saw one of the older remakes when I was a kid and loved it so I'm not too sure about this one. Could be worth a bootleg (or a download...).

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Rating: 8/10
Reasoning: G.I. Joe is popular anyway and this actually looks like a pretty cool action movie. Wouldn't be surprised if I was spotted in a movie theater somewhere seeing this.


And there you have it. Thoughts? Opinions? Go comment!