Good news, Michale Bay has announced that the contoversial autobot twins Mudflap and Skidds will not return in Transformers 3. YYYAAAAYYY!!!
Kick Ass writer Jane Goldman is rewritting the new X Men movie-
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/11/kick-ass-screenwriter-jane-goldman-rewriting-x-men-first-class/
They didn’t bother me, but how were they “controversial?”
Mudflap and Skidds?? Good lord! I mean…Mudflap and Skidds!
I mean
Those two…they…
they were annoying…,but thats about it
A lot of people read them as black stereotypes.
I’m black, but I just thought they learned English from Yo MTV Raps (dating myself, I know). They were speaking the slang, but they were more like Eminem and whatnot.
Heh. And most of the people who were making that complaint were white. So, there you go.
What made me go “Hmmm” was that one of them had a gold tooth, which isn’t unheard of on white boys, but is much more associated with poor blacks.
That looks OSSIM!!!
IIRC, one of the voice actors was black. Dunno which had the gold tooth. shrugs Why can’t there be ethnic diversity among among robots? There already divided by Autobots and Decepticons.
And, this is me talking. If you’ve frakked with me, I find racial/ethnic stuff all the time! d:
Yeah, it’s sort of the Jar-Jar thing. A Carribean (/American?) actor does a voice based on accents he’s familiar with, and it gets called racist, b/c the director is white.
There’s a lot of baggage in weird places.
A few weekends ago Europe’s biggest Sci-Fi convention, the FedCon was held in Bonn. I’ve found a video reporting from there, including costumed fans and many BSG/Caprica alumni and you can understand them cause they aren’t dubbed: http://www.serieasten.tv/SERIEASTEN/SPECIAL/Eintrage/2010/5/10_FedCon_2010.html
And I found out about the release of the trailer of Robert Rodriguez newest movie slated out for later this year, named MACHETE starring Danny Trejo and many other familiar faces from flicks like the Grindhouse movies: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44943
This looks interesting, it is based on a Phillip K Dick short story. The trailer and info are at the link-
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/12/movie-trailer-the-adjustment-bureau/
Gary Whitta has come a long way in a few years. Once the editor of PC Gamer magazine, Whitta wrote The Book of Eli and at least one draft of the live-action Akira movie(s). Now another script of his, Reaper, has been given a new title, Undying, and found a star in Kurt Russell.
THR describes the story as a ‘neo-noir creeper’ and says it “tells the story of private investigator Virgil Lone, who gets pulled into a surreal underworld when he is hired by the mysterious Delia.” No director is yet on board.
We don’t know much more about the story, but there’s the suggestion that Russell’s role won’t be ambiguous in any way, thanks to a quote from producer Stewart Hall: “Kurt Russell is perfect for this role…He is truly one of the few actors who audiences continually embrace as a real hero.” That quote sorta forgets Death Proof, but I guess you could make the argument that audiences didn’t embrace Russell’s role in that. Which is crazy, I think, but I’ve long since come to terms with the dismissal of Death Proof.
Meanwhile, I’m madly enthusiastic about putting Kurt Russell in a ‘neo-noir creeper.’ I’m envisioning something vaguely like a companion piece to In the Mouth of Madness that stars Russell instead of Sam Neill. But that’s just an impression; this could be something quite different.
Given Whitta’s gaming background and the new title of this film, I expect some will immediately suspect a link to the underrated game Clive Barker’s Undying, which was released in 2001. And the idea of a PI who is pulled into some underworld is very vaguely similar, but that seems to be it. I’d guess the title change is coincidence more than
George Romero may produce two more ‘Dead’ movies…
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/12/george-romero-has-ideas-for-two-more-dead-films-possibly-to-be-shot-back-to-back/
The winner of the 2010 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest is “Impossible Motion: Magnet-like Slopes,” a three-dimensional object with slopes that appear to defy the laws of gravity when viewed from a certain angle. Created by engineering professor Kokichi Sugihara from the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences.
The viral campaign for ‘Super 8’ has begun…
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/14/new-super-8-viral-details/
It may not be ‘Gentle Uterus’, but it is still pretty cool… I would watch this over ‘Heroes’ any day!
Power Rangers meets Cutie Honey??? Heh heh it is just too cute!!
Bleep my Dad says
Really? Tell me that’s a working title.
The ‘Tales from Earthsea’ movie will finally be coming to the US, while it is not up to the usual standards I have come to expect from Ghibli Studios I am still looking forward to it.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/05/18/disney-releasing-studio-ghiblis-tales-from-earthsea-this-august/
My favorite into was the one in the old folks home. I couldn’t find a youtube of it. But, basically and old man was sitting eating food. He transforms into a monster and starts trying to eat the old person next to him. But, he can’t because he has no teeth. So, the transformed old man just gums at the other old person while the one being gummed on remains oblivious. Way funnier watching than my explaining.
It was an odd series…