Sitting there on Sunday morning afternoon, drinking coffee, checking my fav tumblrs and that picture on the right comes on. I was picking up my jaw off the floor for about 5 minutes there.
Fine, 5h.
Indiana Jones 5is happening!!!!! Please no younger side kick this time. Harrison fucking Ford doesn't need a younger side kick. But if you absolutely have to, get Chris Pratt because he is awesome and likable. I think him and Ford would be great on the screen together.
And no aliens and no refrigerators this time. For the love of God - no. I think there is no danger of Shia returning, so at least in this regard we are safe.
" it appears the 73 year old actor is going to reprise all his classic roles before leaving this mortal coil" - Playlist. Disgusting. I'm just so appalled by that comment.
I understand how an average person who is 73 can be considered old. But this is Harrison Ford people are talking about. Hydraulic door fell on him on the set of Star Wars and he was coordinating the better way to get to hospital calling his friend immediately after it happened. He crashed a plane in April last year and was completely fine few months after this. He promoted Star Wars in every single possible talk show doing shots with Jimmy Fallon and breaking Jordan Schlansky's Millennium Falcon on Conan's show. He was running around the place during Globes this year all night long congratulating people and fooling around with Calista. He fucking kicked ass as Han in new Star Wars. He can do more than several 20 years olds combined. And he looks fantastic. And even though he is 73 'old' just doesn't apply here. I mean it just doesn't. It's not that he has to do the movie. He wants to do the movie. He has been saying so for years. He is wonderful in the role, he has fun playing it and we should be grateful for having the privilege of seeing him do that again.
I mean I get home from work at 4PM. I read some stuff, play with my dog, I work out for about 30 minutes, make dinner, watch a movie, go to sleep. Occasionally I go to cinema or hang out with my friends. I am not yet 27 and I am exhausted. I fall asleep at 11 PM these days. So no, I do not think that a person capable of doing as much as Harrison takes on is old. I mean I could barely stay up for Globes this year while I was seated in my apartment in front of a screen and the man was actually there, present and super friendly throughout 3h long ceremony.
Awful comments aside majority of people seem thrilled. However the whole thing has a bit of morbid veil falling over it with people - not being mean or insensitive but - realistically wondering if well, Spielberg and Ford will be with us in 2019. We all hope they will. And the thought that we could ever lose him is just too much to handle and I can't think about it for more than a second.
To brighten up the post here is Harrison on the set of TFA. I cannot wait to see the behind the scenes features.
Now I assume when my readers saw the news of this they immediately assumed I was freaking out. You have no idea how much I was freaking out. Double what you are imagining, triple it even. Then the following day they kept reporting the news everywhere and I was just barely able to contain myself from clawing the walls and throwing myself on the ground and sobbing because this is so awesome. I also jumped around a lot. A LOT.
I just...it's like my brain can overheat. Between a shit ton of Indy gifs and photos people attached while retweeting the news there is also this - Harrison just walking around Central Park taking pics with people with this beard and in that sweater. I have got to chill.
Meanwhile here is the only acceptable title for the movie:
Watched Clear and Present Danger on Saturday. There is this moment when Harrison just kinda vertically throws himself on the main bad guy. I gasped and sat in catatonic state for several minutes.
The work has been temporarily slow so I put American Godson my phone to read. I was reading it and this shorter chapter came up. It was a sex scene where a woman...devours a man through her vagina. I stopped. And I wondered - did I read it right or have I been watching too many Harrison movies and the words just form into bizarre, surreal and violent sexual imagery? The good news is that this is actually what was in the book and I was not imagining it. The bad news is that Bryan Fuller, who made Hannibal, is doing the adaptation. So we are definitely gonna see that scene in TV series filled with even more bizarre surreal imagery, slow motion and some sort of insane industrial score playing during it.
The character of Laura is gonna be played by Emily Browning which is not good news. I used to root for Emily but her work in Legend last year was one of the year's worst performances.
However as usual, Ian McShane has the power of single-handedly making it worth seeing. That said the book is very good - I mean I read 1/3 of it by now, so I don't know what happens later but it mixes folklore, Americana and mythology which are some of my favorite things and it's very entertaining.
The Dressmaker was crazy fun. Shame not many people saw it. I have a review written and I should publish it next week. Great work from both Winslet and Davis and the music, costumes and the cinematography were wonderful.
“You say the slightest thing and the Internet goes ape. I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think get a f—ing life. It’s only tits and dragons.” Ian McShaneis seriously the best. GoT is not worthy of him.
He continued with this - “You’ve got Will Smith’s wife, whoever she is, saying she will boycott the Oscars and we’re thinking, 'Yeah I’m sure we’ll miss you, darling.’ Why? Because her husband wasn’t nominated, even though he’s put on a Nigerian accent for his latest film? We’re expected to go 'wow’ about that, are we? It’s like Leonardo DiCaprio. Not the finest performance, just him grunting and being raped by a bear. The Oscars are ridiculous.”. That Telegraph article is just pure gold.
Stephen Dillanekinda trashed the show too. And again fanboys weren't happy. Stephen shouldn't be grateful except for a well paying job. As far as I can tell he didn't get any roles thanks to his GoT participation, he was known before and he is doing the same kind of projects nowadays as he did before GoT. He has been working steadily for what? More than 25 years now. He owes GoT nothing and I'm sure for an actor of his talent and dedication it was disheartening to read the scripts and realize his character is largely wasted. Year after year after year.And yet people say he sounds ungrateful. What exactly should he be grateful for?
And here's another huge fail from Game of Thrones marketing team.
Peter Dinklage is going to host SNL on April 2nd! This may be better than the upcoming season of the show.
Andrew of Fistful of Films deleted his blog and twitter account.We all got really worried, since he didn't really give the heads up to anyone. We contacted him via e-mail and he is fine. He had personal reasons to do what he did, which we should all respect. I do hope he comes back, though. Apparently you can restore a blog here in 90 days time, I think it would be such a shame if years worth of his work were gone. In any case please send him all your prayers and positive vibes, he is a great guy and he needs it right now.
For all of the bloggers out there - we care, your readers care. When someone suddenly disappears we worry. So whatever reasons any of you guys can have to delete your websites, just give at least one of your readers a shout out. I mean if we didn't have his e-mail we wouldn't even be able to contact him to make sure he is all right.
So the early word on BvS is not that bad. By early word I mean mysterious poster on reddit. But still, it seemed legit. Apparently Eisenberg and Gadot are stand outs and judging from the rumours from the set and the footage so far I believe Gadot part. I will be very excited to see an interesting female character in comic book based movie (I fall asleep just looking at Scarlett Johanson being utterly wasted as Widow) that is not made out to be a femme fatale to be interesting.
I've listen to Hans Zimmer/Junkie XL score for the film this week and I have to say it's really excellent. I especially love the distinct Wonder Woman theme. If the film is half as good as the score is, than I'm gonna be very surprised.
So Henry Cavillwalked out on the street as Clark Kent/Superman and no one stopped him. no one bothered him. no one recognized him.To every sane person out there that just means the guy is not really famous enough for people to go nuts when they see him. To obsessive DC nerds this is a reason to yell that this proves how extremely brilliant Clark Kent's disguise is.
Affleck and Cavill did have some good moments promoting the movie this week, though. I suppose it makes sense for them to do as many funny/cute appearanes as possible when Superman is played by a guy who is saying some really immature things and Batman banged a nanny.
There is also this and this is what I'm leaving as the last bullet point, because dear God, this is Batman guys!: