It's going to be summertime in the USA soon. How do I remember? Playing WWE (Wrestling) games of course. The years of watching WWE on TV as well as playing the Smackdown! games and all 6 sequels have implanted into my memory that the PPV (pay-per-view) "Summerslam" is always been traditionally held in August. And it is during this period that all the summer blockbuster movies start screening to cater for the long holidays in the US of A.
With so many movies coming out - am I going to have time to catch them all? Mission Impossible I'd think. If I'm going to miss any of them on the big screen - I'd have no choice but to catch them on DVD when they are released.
I've already caught Mission: Impossible 3 if you've been following my last post. Within the next couple of weeks - there's going to be at least 1 movie a week that's going to be released that has my interest. A quick check on www.gsc.com.my reveals:
May 2006
- The Da Vinci Code
- X-Men: The Last Stand
June 2006
- Superman Returns
- The Omen (supposedly to show on 6th June 2006 - 06.06.06 or 666 - the mark of the Devil!)
- The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift
July 2006
- Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
- Lady In The Water (M. Night Syamalan's next movie - dunno about this though. Personally, I think his movies started going downhill after "The Sixth Sense". I still think that's his best movie to date)
September 2006
- DOA: Dead Or Alive (video game adaptation starring Devon Aoki - purely for the action of course)
- Miami Vice (Colin Farrel and Jamie Foxx)
OK - so maybe things don't get as interesting towards the end of the year. I've been googling and doing movie searches and I'm sure there are bound to be movies coming up here and there not mentioned in the list.
Another one - Casino Royale, the next James Bond movie. The amount of publicity surrounding this movie is crazy. I was just checking out the site craignotbond.com which some people have set up to request all Ian Fleming fans to boycott the movie coming out in November 2006.
There's also talk that the sequel to that comes out in 2007 - to mark the new direction of the 007 (Agent 007, Year 2007 - see the connection?) franchise. All the complaints I've read have been pretty amusing - Daniel Craig is too blonde, he's too short, he's too ugly. They said he would be more suited to play a villain who gets killed in the opening sequence instead of the main character.....
The same site said that he was too "skinny" at one point but then in another article - it said that he was now "too buff". Alot of them wanted Pierce Brosnan back.
Reading the site, I managed to dig up some interesting tidbits of information. For example:
a) Casino Royale is not a version of the novel but a reboot. Apprarently, the character will not be the same James Bond that everyone knows and loves(??). The character's history will be different - he will be 28 years old in the movie, a rookie secret agent I suppose.
b) The number 007 - the zeroes actually denote the number of people he had to kill to get promoted to his current "rank" 007. One "0" denotes one man killed. I've read abit of the spoilers describing how that will be in the movie's introduction.
I might not be a James Bond fan #1 so sue me. It is interesting information nonetheless. And for the guys, apparently there's quite a bit of nudity as well. On a sidenote, I also recall reading that there will be a torture scene (I think it was supposed to be 007 who's tortured) involving testicles and a carpet beater! Whatever the hell that is - I have no idea.
Personally - I don't really care about Daniel Craig being the new James Bond. If the movie doesn't suck - I'm all good. Here's a surprise, according to this source, fans are delighted with the new teaser poster.
Fan reaction to the poster has been universally positive, with many on the CBn forum praising its "air of sophistication" and "class". Words such as "amazing" and a million various synonyms have been bandied about and one member even outed it as "probably the best Bond poster since...well, I don't think that they've ever made a Bond poster as good as this one".Diehard fans always have something to complain about. I don't remember anyone making a big fuss when they got Val Kilmer and George Clooney to play Batman. Or did I miss that?
They complained about Batman having armor in the movies (not specifically the armour but I believe there was a big fuss over the nipples on the armour itself), they complained about the X-Men wearing leather suits instead of skin-tight spandex. There's an online comic that I've been reading called "Shortpacked" about toys! The comic poking fun of the comic adaptation movies is somewhere in there.
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