Well, that's a new take. Spider-Asshole.

I'm not sure what to make of that, I wait for the full soundtrack before I pass judgement.

Not too keen on the choral parts, though.

G.I. Joe 2 got pushed back from June 29th to March 13th or whichever... Discuss

Saw Rock of Ages on Friday, and loved it. Of course, eighties + overproduced + musical + big names = litomnivore kryptonite, so I'm wildly biased. It was a lot of stupid fun.

This is the only good thing about Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance:

I have to concur that I really fucking hate Neveldine/Taylor, it mystefies me that guys like that can get multi-million dollar projects like this. Not only do they actively not give a shit about telling a story, to the point where they're openly willing to sabotage a scene's story-progression/emotional-impact for stupid cheap gags, but their visual style is just this side of borderline unwatchable. Filming every fucking scene with the camera at ground level pointing up towards the sky gets grating after about 5 minutes, and they proceed to do it through the whole fucking movie.

Picked up the Keoma/The Grand Duel double-feature blu-ray for 5 bucks. Damned good deal, 2 pretty interesting lesser known Westerns for the price of one.

The Grand Duel - Pretty interesting story for a Western, there's a bit of a Who-dunnit aspect to the story which is a cool twist on the usual formula, though it still gets a bit muddled like a lot of these Westerns tend to get. Lee Van Cleef is awesome as always, and the score is excellent (so obviously it was "borrowed" by Tarantino).

Keoma - Pretty strange and out-there in places Western, though Franco Nero is really awesome and grizzled looking with a sawn-off shotgun. This one is worth seeing for the damned excellent set-piece shootout near the end, the body-count goes so high it started to remind me of John Woo's hong kong flicks, and there's lots of cool slow-motion use. On the down-side, the movie has some really weird choices, including a kinda weak ending, and a really unfortunate soundtrack. The whole movie is scored by kinda grating folk singers who narrate in song what is going on in the story and what the main character is feeling, and boy, that does not work.

Still, if you like Westerns, the double-feature is a damned steal for 5 bucks.

It should also have nothing to do with said book, or in fact be a parody with the exact opposite message of the original

Verhoeven has been dearly missed from Hollywood. Maybe this will be a gateway into him working more in the US again. God what I wouldn't give for him to make King Conan now with an older Schwarzenegger.

That would be amazing. And he'd get a chance to use his "I'll be back" line at the end.

What key event changes were you not happy with?  I'm a fan of the book series and the Swedish film (although I've only seen the first one) and I really liked Fincher's take.

I'm not a book purist by any means and I haven't seen the swedish version yet, but Finchers...is just, not, good. Not good at all. He changed to much and none of the changes made anything better, in most cases it actually hindered what the story is trying to do, and then then the film decided to completely shift the theme and tone in a direction that makes no gaddamn sense from a storytelling and emotional standpoint.

See my previous posts for specifics (page 5).

Ya, I'd be curious to hear that, cause I'm not seeing "terrible" anywhere near there. It's an excellently made adaptation of not very good or super interesting source material. Zodiac is basically the same movie, but with good source material and none of the weaknesses, so it's maybe a bit disappointing, in that it's like an artist making a not as good cover of a song they've already perfected, but a bad movie it isn't, not by a long-shot.