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Longmire: A&E’s New Hit Series not Your Average Western

June 28th, 2012

I grew up in the late 50’s and early 60’s and I remember watching many of the popular westerns that were on television during those years, and there were many of them to watch and while away an afternoon or evening. Shows like Laramie, Rawhide, Bat Masterson, and two almost legendary westerns Gunsmoke and Bonanza are show that are still a part of me.

Today many of the programs that are being served up to us as westerns aren’t close to those old westerns of a bygone age. But one of those western programs that I do watch happens to be on the A&E cable network, and it’s really a mixed bag. The program is called Longmire, and it stars actor Robert Taylor as Sheriff Walt Longmire, definitely a character who should be riding a horse rather than driving a sheriff’s vehicle.

Other cast members include Katee Sackhoff as Victoria “Vic” Moretti, who was part of a homicide squad in Philadelphia, Bailey Chase as deputy Branch Connally, Cassidy Freedman who play sheriff Longmire’s daughter Cady, Adam Bartley as (of all the names they could have given this character, why nickname him “The Ferg?”) The Ferg and respected actor Lou Diamond Phillips in the part of Henry Standing Bear.

The cast work well with one another, and the stories are okay but basically what we have here is a sheriff who ought to be a detective solving crimes in some gritty city like New York or maybe Chicago, because for some reason I’m having problems with sheriff Longmire investigating a crime on the nearby reservation, where he and his kind are not very welcome.

There are levels where the show does work really well. Longmire and his deputy, Branch Connally are actually running against one another for sheriff which makes for some interesting moments. And deputy Moretti is a mix of deputy, detective and bombshell.

In one episode, while trying to get information from the patrons of a local strip club, she makes a bet that she can use her considerable feminine attributes to get the information that she needs, and needless to say it’s a bet she had no problem winning.

Make no mistake, Longmire is a hit for A&E and I enjoy watching the program, but this show is more of a crime drama set in a small country town in Wyoming. Honestly, I want to see Walt Longmire ride on horseback to one of these crime scenes, with the Bonanza theme playing in the background.

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Ryan Gosling Fights With Girfriend Eva Mendes!

June 28th, 2012

A true renassaince man, Ryan Gosling, 32 is more than an actor. He is a restaurant owner, singer, and animal activist. Lately, though he has been playiing the role of jealous boyfriend a bit to zealously. The oh-so-hot actor recently got into it with girlfriend and actress Eva Mendes. She was dating George Gargurevich as a long term lover. However, after the split, and while she started dating Gosling, George decided to stick around, living in the same apartment with Mendes. Their constant companionship and their working relationship (they are putting together a new line of home accessories) drove Gosling over the edge. Sources say he told Mendes, it was “him or me,” and Mendes took the hint and kicked George out.

Gosling has recently been in some major flicks pushing him even further into the limelight. He has starred in thriller flick, “Drive, romatic comedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” and “All Good Things” co-starring with Reese Witherspoon. Gossip is rumored to have Gosling on the short list for the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey saga.

Gosling may be most known for his role in “The Notebook” opposite of dewy-eyed Rachel McAdams. Since then, although he secures more serious roles, directors of romantic comedies are quick to suggest that the slim actor help bring in the Hollywood dollars by getting him in a lead role.

Maybe the the stardom and big boost of fame is going to Gosling’s head, but so far, Mendes is putting up with it. She is crazy about him, and although she hasn’t stopped working with George professionally, she still wants to please her new man. Are we jealous? Who wouldn’t be jealous of a possible “Christian Grey” character, complete with a scruffy beard and toned abs. He may feel threatened, but Mendes better walk on some egg shells, because a million other women would be willing to take her place at any time.

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Depressing Movies To Curl Up in a Fetal Position To

June 15th, 2012

Depressing movies can sometimes make your own life seem a whole lot better. When you’re down and sad, sometimes putting on one of these depressing movies will make your life seem rosy by comparison. You have to be careful though, if the movies are too depressing, it may just push you over the edge.

Here’s a list of depressing movies to either look for, or avoid. Of course we should mention that there will be SPOILERS for all these films, so keep that in mind if reading on.

Angela’s Ashes

Based on the most depressing book ever by author Frank McCourt, this movie is about his life as a child. His family was a poor family from the Bronx who pull up roots and move to Ireland in the hopes there there might be prosperity there for the family. It ends up being worse. Illness and death were commonplace for Limerick, Ireland. The family dealt with a never-ending cycle of poverty, starvation and sickness. This was not helped at all by the father, who made it worse with his drinking and gambling everything away and then abandoning his family. And then, things get worse…

The Road

Based on the depressing book by Cormac McCarthy, it’s also one of the most depressing movies ever as well. Things have gone bad for Mother Earth. there’s been some post-Apocalyptic disaster that’s devastated the planet leaving it devoid of all plant and animal life. Much of the human population are gone and those that are left, aren’t in good shape. Some have even resorted to cannibalism to survive, most get by with what scavenging they can do. A father and son, devastated by the loss of their wife and mother, go on a journey to search for food and shelter. They go southward in the hopes that they might find something better, a place where they might escape the horror that daily existence has become. The tales and stories of it being better, help them cross the roughest roads of their travels. The father carries a gun, it only has 2 bullets. Those 2 bullets aren’t for self-defence, they’re left for killing themselves if things just get too bad. They end up going as far as they can go and are devastated to find out that their journey was wasted, things are just as bad southward as it was in any direction. The father ends up getting shot and dying, leaving the boy alone, hoping to get by with the help of strangers.

The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson’s “inspiring” film about Jesus Christ, is really 2 hours of watching a man being tortured for his beliefs. The man preached love and tried to save the world, and he gets beat to a bloody pulp, almost beyond human recognition… for 2 long hours.

Plus, the filmmakers made the creative decision of filming the bloody thing in aramaic latin, spoken today by less than a handful of people and essentially a “dead” language, so we’re forced to read subtitles the whole time.

Leaving Las Vegas

Back when Nicolas Cage was still considered a serious actor (Really! I kid you not!), he did Leaving Las Vegas, a movie based on the semi-autobiographical novel by John O’Brien. Cage plays a washed-up novelist whose drinking has cost him his job, family and friends. He’s in so much pain, he decides to drink himself to death, one last bender before he goes. He’s kicking back the drinks in Las Vegas when he meets a prostitute who he forms a relationship of sorts with. It’s based on a mix of love and denial of what the other one is doing in their life. Of course, once they start caring for the other, one can’t overlook what is hurting the other.. and that’s what splits them. He ends up getting worse, she ends up getting beaten. She gets together with him when he’s on his death bed and they make love. he dies.

Even more depressing, is the fact that real life author Richard O’Brien who’s life the film is partially based on, ended up killing himself just after the film finished production.

Drinks on me!

Requiem For A Dream

Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this movie by director Darren Aronofsky concerns the lives of 4 people who’s lives go from bad to worse because of their addictions. Two of them end up in a not-so-friendly jail because of crimes committed to support their habits. Not only do they have to deal with going cold turkey in jail, but one of them ends up having his arm amputated due to infections resulting from unsanitary injections. Their friend ends up as a prostitute and part of a degrading sex show. The mother of the addict who had his arm amputated in prison, ends up being locked up in a psych ward because she’s lost her mind due to amphetamine psychosis. Her days end up being filled with delusions and electroconvulsive “therapy”.

Don’t do drugs kids!

Seven

A very dark film by director David Fincher about two detectives played by Morgan Freeman and brad Pitt, who are tracking down a serial killer. This serial killer is using the seven deadly sins – gluttony, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and wraith – as the basis for committing his killings. He’s killed 5 people when they finally catch up to him. As they’re arresting him, a lone delivery truck arrives, with a package for the detectives. The killer “John Smith” has one last surprise for the detectives. They open the box to discover the head of the wife of one of the detectives, “John Smith” had killed her because he was in ENVY (one of the 7 deadly sins) of the love that the detective had with her and she wouldn’t give it to him. To make it even worse, he tells the detective that she was pregnant. In a fit of WRATH (one of the deadly sins), the detective shoots down the killer brutally. He ends up being led off by the police.

Sex And The City: The Movie

I’ll admit it, when Sex and the City was a show on HBO every week, I’d usually watch it. For 30 minutes, you’d get bitchiness, martinis and the latest in high-glamour fashions. It was fun, trashy, harmless fun – and the writing was pretty good. Years later, after the show had finished it’s run, they decided to make the series a movie and stretch that 30 minutes to almost 2 hours. By then, the cast was on the WRONG side of middle aged, maybe a little too convinced of how relevant they USED to be and what worked in a half-hour format didn’t seem such fun when stretched into 2 hours. It was the only movie with “sex” in the title, that actually turned me off sex. The look of horror of on every guy’s face in the theater, dragged there by their girlfriends, will haunt me forever. Surely, one of the most depressing movies ever.

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The Justice League Movie – Who’s in it?

June 12th, 2012

A Justice League movie has been announced as being in the works, they’ve even signed on a writer for the project. With the incredible success of Marvel’s The Avengers movie, DC Comics and Warner Bros. have no choice but to make a Justice League movie, focusing on the superhero team the Justice League composed of such popular DC heroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and more. For the first time in years a superhero team movie can be a money machine. Up until The Avengers movie made a billion dollars, doing a movie about a team of superheroes was widely thought to be cost-prohibitive at a time when a movie about an individual Superhero was already expensive. Marvel Studios proved otherwise.

What Marvel Studios did, was do superhero movies based on B-level characters such as Iron Man, Captain America and Thor. Instead of making them epic budget films of $200 million plus, they kept them smaller in scale – around the $80 million mark and used them as “feeder” films into the much bigger project of The Avengers. Each of the individual films acted as a prequel to a huge “shared” superhero universe event that became The Avengers movie. Instead of grabbing big name actors for the role, they tended to grab dependable “up and comers” ready for a big break and happy to sign onto several films of guaranteed work. Some of the bigger names, such as Robert Downey Jr., didn’t get paid much initially, but had deals on the “back end” that with the success of the Avengers movie have been very lucrative (Downey ended up getting over $50 million due to the success of The Avengers movie).

With the Justice League movie, Warner Bros. plans to do the exact opposite of what Marvel Studios did. Instead of using movies of individual superheroes to feed into a big Justice League movie, they’re going to use a Justice League movie to be a “springboard” for several movies of solo-adventures of their characters. New movies will spin-out of the Justice League movie instead of the other way around.

So which superheroes are likely to be a part of the Justice League movie?

Wonder Woman

We all loved Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in the 1970’s as Wonder Woman. Speaking from personal experience, it was a good time to be a 12 year old boy when her show was on, even as an older guy I still try and catch the show in reruns today. There’s been talk about a Wonder Woman movie being in the works for years. At one point, Joss Whedon of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and The Avengers fame, was set to direct, but it never came to fruition. A tv show was in the works last year directed by David E. Kelly and starring Friday Night Lights‘ Adrian Palicki, but was quickly shut down after people realized that it would come off as Ally McBeal in star-spangled panties.

They’ve been wanting to bring a Wonder Woman movie to the big screen for years now. She’s well known in popular culture, especially due to the success of the 70’s tv show. Also, they need a female character, if for no other reason than to attempt to balance out the amount of male characters on the team. Helps out that she can kick ass with the best of them and looks hot in her uniform, and T&A always sells!

Batman

Director Christopher Nolan is finished with Batman with Dark Knight Rises, the third and final installment in his Batman trilogy. After that, who knows what’ll happen with the Batman franchise. Certainly if they follow the “Marvel method”, they’ll want their “shared universe” to include Batman, so using the Justice League movie as a vehicle to spin off the next Batman franchise of movies seems a natural fit. Then again, even in the comics, Batman has always worked better when he’s left alone in his own corner of the DC Universe. It’s entirely possible that the Justice League movie will focus on more B-list characters instead of major ones like Batman and Superman who have traditionally held their own in movies and elsewhere.

Superman

Warner Bros. are releasing their RE-reboot of Superman Man of Steel in the summer of 2013 with Henry Cavill from The Tudors as Superman/Clark Kent. At present, like Batman – it’s unknown whether or not they’ll be leaving him on his own or including him as part of the Justice League franchise of films. If he is to be included, expect some kind of after the credits epilogue like the Marvel films did where they hinted at other movies to come. If we don’t see that in Man of Steel, don’t expect either Batman or Superman to be included in the Justice League movies.

Green Lantern

Yeah, we know that the Green Lantern movie with Ryan Reynolds didn’t do great at the box-office or with fans, but that works for including him in this movie. Warner Bros. put a lot of time and energy into creating a Green Lantern franchise and while it didn’t do great at the box office, it still made $200 million (as opposed to the $220 million spent on it), there may still be some life in the project given a little work. Including the character as part of the Justice League cast, could be a great way to do a soft-reboot of the character and fix the rough edges that were left with the first movie. It could be a way to put Green Lantern back on the tracks, but properly this time. Whether Ryan Reynolds would want to do that is unknown. Then again, there’s several Green Lanterns they could use, including John Stewart (who was used on the Justice League Unlimited cartoon) or Guy Gardner. There’s also the possibility, that they could use the film to reboot the Green Lantern movies completely, with someone new in the role of Hal Jordan/Green Lantern.

Flash

The Flash has been a character that’s been around since the 40’s. A character that can run super-fast is a dream character that any young kid can identify with. What kid hasn’t wanted to run faster than everybody else? The Flash is also a character that they’ve been talking about doing a live-action movie for decades. At one point, they even had a live-action Flash tv show that ran for a season. A Justice League movie would be the perfect springboard to launch this character into his movies. Consider The Flash as a Justice League member a sure thing.

Green Arrow

With the success of Marvel’s superhero archer Hawkeye in the Avengers movie, they almost have to include DC’s archer Green Arrow in their superteam movie. There has been rumors of a Green Arrow movie in the works called Super Max, where a trapped Green Arrow must escape from a maximum security prison filled with super villains. Including Green Arrow in a Justice League movie, would be a great set-up for the Super Max movie. If there’s a problem, it’s that the CW will be launching Arrow (about Green Arrow) as a regular series in the fall, it’s unlikely that WB will launch a Green Arrow character in the movies while he’s still on tv with a different actor.

Black Canary

Hmmmmmmm.. a hot-blonde kick-ass martial artist.. in fishnet stockings. There’s too many men on the Justice League team, they need another female character besides Wonder Woman, almost a sure thing.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl

If nothing else, visually – they’re just too cool looking not to include. The one problem, it’s that their wings make them a bit clumsy to work in enclosed spaces, so film makers might want to exclude them for that reason alone. It’s unlikely that they’d want to deal with 2 characters essentially with the same exact powers, so at best they’ll include one of them, not both. Michael Shanks from Stargate SG-1 played a convincing Hawkman on Smallville recently, so that’s one in his favor. On the other hand, Hawkgirl was extremely popular on the Justice League Unlimited cartoon, so based on that and the low female to male ratio of the team, she could be the one to watch for.

Aquaman

Aquaman has been an essential part of the Justice League almost from day one. That being said, even in the comics, they have a rough time including Aquaman in a team book. With his powers of being able to breathe and fight underwater, as well as the ability to speak with underwater life – it doesn’t exactly make him a great guy to fight beside (unless it’s a pool fight of course). And somehow, I don’t see them spinning the character into his own underwater adventures on film, so count him being included as unlikely.

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