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New Fire And Ice Movie?

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So according to Deadline Robert Rodriguez is remaking the fantasy cartoon “classic” Fire and Ice.  Why?  Who green-lit this?  Fire and Ice is well liked by like twelve people (it is ok), but the reason they like it is the way it was made and the unique look it has, or because they like scantily clad cartoon chicks, not because the story was any good.  Granted this is the type of movie Robert Rodriguez likes to make, but honestly he should just make his own exploitation-y barbarian movie, and leave this one be.  It won’t be better than the original, well it might be, but it will not be the same movie, so why bother.

Ugg.  I will be skipping this flick.  Which shouldn’t be hard since it will no doubt launch in a sad and lonely January surrounded by 75 Million comic book movies.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Should Stay A Secret!

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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty released by New Line Cinema and distributed by 20th Century Fox is the type of movie that I hate to review.  Not because it is bad, no I like to review bad movies, they let me vent and be witty and whatnot, no The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is completely bland and forgettable, and a waste of talent.

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) has the kind of cool job of archiving and taking care of all the photographs for Time Magazine, but when a special photo by famed photographer Sean O’Connell (Sean Penn) comes in, Mitty can’t find it.  To make matters worse this photo is supposed to be the cover of the last issue of the Magazine.  Will this be what it takes for Mitty to go off on the adventure he has always dreamed of?  You know it will.

Everything about this movie is predictable.  You know every move before it happens.  The “twist” you see coming a mile away.  It is just a bore, and what is worse they had some opportunities for some laughs, but instead they decided to make this movie heartwarming, so they let them fall by the wayside.  The problem is that it isn’t really that heartwarming either.  Sure it has a friendly feel, but you never care that much about any of the characters.

The fact that this movie stars Kristen Wiig, who can be outrageously funny, and she does nothing in this film is a crime.  Her character is a random void.  We have no idea why Mitty is so smitten with her.  Her son played by Marcus Antturi is in the movie for like five minutes and has more to do than Wiig.  Stiller who is always likable, comes off as likable, but we never get invested in him.  He is just that likable guy running around on screen.  Why get good people to be in your movie if they have nothing to do?

The only thing this movie succeeded at was convincing me that I need to visit Iceland.  The movie looks great, and if it was someone’s travel log it would have been fine.  This was Stiller’s first big gig as a director, and it looks like he got the cinematography down, but he forgot to inject any life in to the characters.  So if you haven’t guessed by now, I don’t think you should investigate the Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, but if you do, at least you will forget it almost as soon as you watch it.

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The Suicide Squad Got Its Leader!

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Well if you are going to have a person lead the likes of Will Smith and Tom Hardy, you had better get someone good, and according to the Latino-Review (who is usually right on the money), Warner Bros got the perfect person to be Amanda Waller: Viola Davis.

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The two time Oscar nominee, and currently killing it on her own show ‘How To Get Away With Murder”, will be great in this role.  If The Paladin can’t get C. C. H. Pounder from the cartoon show, I am sure Davis will be more than good enough to keep him happy.  If there is anyone that can keep this rag-tag group of supervillains in line it will be her.  Since this movie comes out in less than two years, I am sure that it will start shooting soon, so we will get to see Davis putting up with none of Deadshot’s crap in the very near future.

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The Force Is Strong With Star Wars: Rebels!

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I missed the launch of Star Wars: Rebels because I don’t have Disney XD, and I don’t see myself paying for it any time soon, but I will say that Star Wars: Rebels is good enough to have me considering it.  I was upset that Disney canceled the Star Wars: The Clone Wars cartoon, or as it is known in geek circles the best thing to come out of the Prequel Trilogy, but by returning to the time of the original trilogy Disney has got me excited for The Force Awakens!

The plot is simple, an orphan boy Ezra Bridger falls in with a group of smugglers, but he soon finds out that they are more than what they seem, and the Jedi aren’t all gone after all.  I know the Jedi part was a minor spoiler, but since they spoil that in the trailers, I feel like I can let that slip as well.

So far, I am not a huge fan of the look of the cartoon, but I am liking the characters and the tone.  Which is far more important, and after watching the show in motion for awhile, the look has started to grow on me.  I am genuinely interested to see what else is going on in the Empire besides Luke and Leia.  I am also wondering if we will see these characters pop up in a certain new movie coming out next Christmas.

If Disney XD was still airing Tron: Uprising I would be calling Comcast right now to get the Disney XD channel.  As it stands now, I will patiently be waiting for them to re-air episodes on the plain ‘ol Disney Channel (like how I watched show for this post) or Netflix (please don’t make me wait for Netflix!).  If Disney can build on the success of these two cartoon shows, we should all be in for a treat with The Force Awakens!

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Guardians Of The Galaxy Blu-Ray Update!

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Well Marvel’s mega-hit Guardians of the Galaxy has made it to home video in time for Christmas!  I thought I would give you my eyes on impressions of the release.  There aren’t any directors cuts or anything, so my thoughts on the actual movie itself haven’t changed, and you can read them here.

The disk transfer looks great.  The color palette really pops in high definition.  I am guessing this movie is going to be running in loops on high Hi-Def TVs in electronics stores for years to come.  It just looks amazing.  It is nice to see a comic book movie really embrace the original medium’s eye candy color scheme.

The special features are all pretty standard.  There is a making-of, a gag real, and some deleted scenes.  There aren’t any scenes that you will be disappointed didn’t make the theatrical release, but there are a couple of good jokes.  I won’t spoil them for you, but they are worth watching.  Still, they probably would have slowed down the pace of the movie to leave them in.

If you are a comic book fan, or just a Marvel movie fan, then this Blu-Ray is a must buy.  If you are just a fan of good movies, then this movie is still worth the price of admission.  It might even be worth it just to have another good movie to show off what your TV can do.