For all of those (myself included) that had reservations about the new A TEAM movie when it was announced, fear not because the trailer looks great.
I feared that the remake might destroy the Saturday afternoon madness that the original A TEAM delighted millions with. I feared that I would never again get the same youthful glee watching BA, Face, Murdoch and Hannibal firing automatic weapons at bad guys, but somehow managing never to hit the board side of a barn (although the managed to happily shoot three feet in front of everything and spray dust everywhere - Even when there was no dust!!!!) I feared that I'd never see a jeep fly through the air (after being rammed with a makeshift tank built from an old truck, some corrugated iron, and a welding touch that just happened to be left laying around) without feeling dirty that my childhood memories had been cashed in for a little bit of profit.
I FEAR NO MORE. Yes the trailer looks like the average popcorn, explosion, gunfire type movie...but the cast are good, Jessica Biel looks hot in uniform, and quite frankly I go to the movies to see some explosions, gunfights and hot women.
Watch and prepare for JUNE cause it's gonna be time to call.....the A TEAM.
Why oh why did it take so long for this movie to get a release. I think, having seen the teaser and new trailer, that this movie really is going to KICK ASS.
You can almost smell the popcorn, cause I think 2010 is gonna be the year of the cinema.
Sorry, ladies: Jared Padalecki, who plays Sam Winchester on The CW'sSupernatural, is engaged to marry his former co-star Genevieve Cortese, who played the hot but very evil demon Ruby, E! Online reported; Jensen Ackles, who plays Padalecki's onscreen older brother Dean Winchester, got engaged in fall 2009 to Danneel Harris.
Looks like the boys have done well for themselves. We'll see how their on screen alter-egos fare when they return to our screens 28th Jan 2010. When last we saw they failed to kill Lucifer, Ellen and Jo both perished (very under used characters who I personally loved!!), and apparently the colt isn't all powerful after all. What will the brothers do? Let's wait and see in Jan!!!!
And just cause I can, here are a few pics of the sexy AlonaTal....pray for some divine resurrection to bring this hottie back to Supernatural soon!!
I almost wet myself whilst watching this. Very funny....beware there are some scenes viewers might find offensive..........that means YOU, you prude!!!!
Based on the comic by Andy Diggle and Jock, THE LOSERS promises to be a return to the tough, machismo men (and women) on a mission movie about a group of Black Ops soldiers who are betrayed and left for dead. They survive, of course, and plot their revenge on the people responsible. The comics end on a dour note and from what has been seen this first film doesn’t cover all the graphic novels out there, so it could be a franchise if successful. Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short and Oscar Jaenada round out the team seeking revenge and Jason Patric plays the mysterious heavy.
Sounds like my kinda movie. Check out the cast shot below.
Today I'm very proud to say that Kryptonianwarrior.blogspot.com finally breached the 100,000 visitors mark!
100,000 visitors is quite a large milestone for our humble little blog so big thanks go out to everyone that has visited in the past and will visit going forward. It's true we're not a full blown website, just a blog, and I've tried out many things like Twitter, a forum and even trying to recruit new team members with little luck, but I'm happy that we're still getting around 3000 hits per week with people finding interesting things on here that we're posting.
Thanks to our League members, our followers and to all of you that post comments (including all you SGU lovers and haters out there!) and I hope you carry on visiting our blog!
Well, Mr Tennant has bowed out as THE DOCTOR but what did you make of the finale? Well I would imagine that you were probably as disappointed as KW and myself.....not really the fitting tribute to David as I had hoped. I will however admit to loving the final 15 minutes or so...after THE MASTER and the stupid story about the TIME LORDS was over and done with we could get to the thing that David did best......make us really care about THE DOCTOR and show that he was more Human that his heritage gave him credit for.
Now the first time I remember seeing DR WHO on TV was Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred running around shooting CYBERMEN with gold coins and a sling shot...from there I was hooked. I then watched some of the earlier DOCTORS, but no one seemed as quirky and funny as McCoy......until Mr Tennant came along.
I loved seeing the two other "new" DOCTORS prior to Tennant (McGann and Eccleston) but the new series really didn't come alive until Tennant burst into the TARDIS. The humour had been lacking with Eccleston (it was just rather campy) and the chemistry just didn't click between him and Piper.........boy did that change.
From that moment on I was hooked........even the slightly more average stories were watchable because Tennant was magic on screen, and I will always credit him as being a great actor. He can change from silly to serious, angry to angelic, and from angry malevolent timelord to an almost childlike creature in the blink of an eye.
As I said, before the gushing tribute, I loved the final scenes of THE END OF TIME. Watching him save his friends in his last moments, saying his goodbyes, and seeing the person he loved one more time before this regeneration ended, as well as sort of saying goodbye to his love when he was Mr Smith in the episode "the family of blood" and finding some closure..........leading him to the last line Tennant was the utter on screen as the last of the TIMELORDS....."I DON'T WANT TO GO."...........I got a tear in my eye watching the emotion on his face.
I will say now that I really didn't like the regeneration scene........Matt SMITH was ridiculous and the first thing that sprang to my mind was "oh sh*t, another unstable regeneration" because the mad mad performance reminded me of Colin BAKER. He's too young and seemed ridiculous at even attempting to fill Tennants shoes, but my mind was set slightly at ease when I saw that he seemed to have calmed down in the teaser trailer for the new season....and at least he's gonna have a companion (who's pretty cute too)
(Is that mini skirt standard police issue? She can handcuff me any day)
Although I kinda wish they'd have bought back the character Sally Sparrow (Carey MULLIGAN) as she was brilliant in the episode BLINK....a personal favourite.
Well farewell and so long David....you're the best in my books....and to keep me and the rest of your fans a little less depressed at least there's is still a part of you alive in the DR WHO universe....don't forget the end of season 4.....check out the clips below and remember the good ol' days, and some of the touching and funny scenes that Tennant shared with us on screen.
Mr Smith, you have big, big shoes to fill..............just don't f**k it up, or I'll find you and post you back to Gallifrey in a box!!!!!
Finally the most anticipated moment of 2009 has been and gone...
No, not Christmas, not New Year, but the passing of David Tennant's Dr. Who.
Yes Who fans the greatest Doctor that's ever been on T.V. passed away this evening in a rather emotional, if indeed dragged out, manner.
I'm not going to review the episode as such but instead give away almost all the plot/ story in one hit. To be brutally honest the body of the main story was actually quite naff and even I with my experience and knowledge of twisty, turny, head-throbbing sci-fi got a bit lost along the way. My poor 6 year old daughter who wanted to watch it with me didn't have a bloody clue what was happening and kept getting shhhhh'd by me every time she asked a question as I was trying my hardest to concentrate!
SPOILERS/ WHOLE BASIC PLOT!
So anyway, the main part of the first episode (part 1 of 2) centered around the disciples of Saxon bringing The Master back to life with some sort of 'life potion' mixed with his left over DNA on Lucy Saxon's lips (RUBBISH!). As he's resurrecting from some genie-like smoke in a pot Lucy chucks in her own potion that her family connections have brewed which should cease the process and kill the master. As you're probably aware it doesn't succeed, not fully anyway, and The Master comes back, albeit as a crazed, human flesh eating, electric powered, blond haired version of his former self. We get to see the Doctor meet Wilf Mott (Donna Noble's Grandad) and we see Donna too along with her mum. Turns out Donna's getting married again to someone else! The Doc discusses his future demise with Wilf and it turns out everyone has been having bad dreams of The Master. There's a connection with Wilf and The Doctor that isn't quite apparent yet.
The Doctor figures out what's about to happen with The Master from clues given to him by Wilf and some other stuff from the Ood and sets off to stop it. Of course he's too late and attempts to track down the looney and confront him instead, thinking that The Master will be his prophesied death bringer who knocks 4 times. At this point he does indeed knock 4 times but doesn't kill the Doctor for now. Instead we discover that the drum beating that's been playing in The Master's head is actually real, he's not been imagining it, and it's so tangible that the Doctor hears it himself, making him wonder what the hell it is and realising that the old Master may not have been as crazy as we all thought the last time we saw him. Maybe this drumming, or the someone who put it there, is going to be the end of the Doctor?
Aaaaanyway, with some crappy undercover, shape shifting, cactus-looking aliens working with some stupid rich due in a mansion we get ourselves the McGuffin of the story which is the 'Immortality Gate', an alien device designed to heal its user, which actually turns out to be a planet level DNA resequencer which will rewrite the DNA of a planets inhabitants using one persons genetic template... The Master as it turns out. He gets control of the machine, turns the whole of Earths population into replicate Masters (apart from Donna, cos of her Meta- Crisis Dr. Donna fiasco, Wilf who's protected in a booth and the Doctor himself) and has the Doctor captured along with Wilf who's along for the ride at this point. Whilst all this has been going on poor old Wilf has been getting weird visitations from a strange old lady telling him that the Doctor's going to die and that Wilf has to do what she says and not tell the Doctor, saying later that The Doctor will have to 'takes up arms' to finish his coming battle, which makes Wilf carry his old WWII pistol with him when they pop off on their travels. Hmmmmm...
It all culminates in the last part of the first episode with the planet full of Masters, The Doctor powerless to stop it all and the climactic lynch pin being that we see the TIMELORDS alive and well, discussing the end of time in a Star Wars prequel style amphitheater led by Timothy Dalton himself... Yes the Timelords are finally returning from the doomed Gallifrey!
Episode two shown tonight found The Doctor escaping the Master's clutches (of course) and teleporting up the cactus aliens ship in orbit. A few tender emotional words are said between Wilf and The Doctor on the ship, showing how much he'll be missed if he dies, and how much the Doctor wants to live... although not enough to kill someone with Wilf's gun that's poised and ready to be used should the need arrive. The Timelords, a select few who are sitting around an Arthurian style table with a crazy old witch, have figured out that they're all about to be wiped out from the time-war with the Daleks (due to a prophecy) and try to find a way to save themselves, knowing that this moment in history has been time-locked and cannot be changed... unless there is a connection outside of that locked bubble that they can connect to (CRAP!).
Turns out that the drumming in the Master's brain was actually a purposefully planted signal replicating the beat of a Timelord's heart, emitting into the cosmos that the old Timelords have now discovered, locked onto, and are sending a White Point Star to. "What's a White Point Star?" I hear you ask. Well it's just a diamond from the head of the staff Timothy Dalton's Timelord holds. Seems the thing has a special connection that will allow the Immortality Gate to turn into a Time Gate/ bridge thingy allowing access for the high collared bunch to come to Earth and live again! But really The Master actually plans to turn the Timelords into replicate Masters and rule them too!
When The Doctor hears of this he craps his pants, picks up Wilf's gun (so he WILL shoot someone if the need arises eh?), gets into a Star Wars Deathstar trench run situation making a dive on The Master's mansion with Wilf and cactus boy shooting down missiles from their laser turrets like they were Tie-Fighters. Then after a rather silly and usually fatal free fall dive from The Doctor through the roof the Doc attempts to stop the Timelords from coming through. He fails (probably due to having fallen over 200 feet from a ship and hurting just a tad) and a few Timelords step through the gate into our time. It should be mentioned that at this point there are two Timelords who have opposed the decision to step through the gate and they have, for some reason, come through the gate also, with their faces covered by their hands from shame. The Master gives away his replication plan (dumbass) and with the omnipotent power in his armoured glove the head Timelord (Timothy Dalton) reverses the replication of mankind (convenient huh?). Then, and this is a big one, Gallifrey starts to emerge next to Earth and everything is about to go to hell, as if it hadn't already.
As The Doctor fights to ascertain who he should kill with Wilf's gun, The Master or the head Timelord (either of which will send the Timelords and Gallifrey back supposedly), he then catches a glimpse of one of the shamed ones who shows her face. It's the weird old woman who's been talking to Wilf! She crying and the Doctor, who seems to recognise her, now decides to save The Master and destroy the machine that brought them here in the first place (doh! Easy choice!). As the head Timelord is about to fry the Doctor with his glove, The Master decides to save him and attacks the head Timelord with his electric powers! I'm out of breath in my mind typing this...
The gate is destroyed, The Master and the Timelords are gone and The Doctor hasn't died, HOORAY!
"Knock, knock, knock, knock" (s**t)...
Yes there are the 4 knocks, and who is David Tennant's harbinger of death? Wilfred Frickin Mott. He's gone and got himself stuck in a Nuclear Bolt chamber that can't be opened unless someone else goes into the opposite door (who writes this stuff?) and it's already gone critical. The Doctor has no choice other than to go in himself and be saturated by deadly radiation. This is David Tennant's most emotional scene ever in his time as The Doctor and he throws the paddy of a lifetime saying that it's not fair and he doesn't want to die, going as far as to have a go at Wilf for getting himself stuck in there in the first place. But as we know the old Doc would never let Wilf die and in he goes.
Now he's on borrowed time, he's going to die very soon from radiation poisoning and it's a done deal, there's no way he's going to live. This is where the finale hits its high point (or low point if you're not so sentimental about the last few years and their characters) and made me cry... yes I cried. The Doctor goes off and rights some last wrongs and changes some history before he dies and regenerates into Matt Smith.
First he's off to save Mickey and Martha, who are now married, yes that's right MARRIED, and are fighting a Sontaran who is about to kill them. The Doctor saves them and as they see him in the distance he just walks away with a solemn look on his face... Then he's off to save Sarah Jane's son from being run over whilst talking on his mobile (div) and waves goodbye to Sarah Jane (who seems to know that it's the last time she'll see that version of the Doctor)... Then he goes to a Mos EisleyCantina full of old Dr. Who enemy aliens where Captain Jack is drowning his sorrows. The Doc sorts out Jack's love life by giving him the name of the guy next to him (Being Human's Russel Tovey)... Then off to visit great the great Granddaughter of Joan Redfern (played by Jessica Hynes who also played said Grandmother too), the 1913 nurse who he has a relationship with when he hides his mind in his fob watch and calls himself John Smith in the episode "Human Nature". She's written a book based on her great Grandmother's diary and The Doctor goes to have a copy signed and ask if she was happy in life... Then he's off to see Donna finally get married (Wilf crying at the end of that scene set me off once again, damn you!) and this is where Wilf asks The Doctor who that strange woman was. The Doctor looks over at Donna of all people and changes the subject (?). Oh and he's got a winning lottery ticket for Donna as a wedding present!... And then most poignantly he goes back to 2005 to see a pre-Doctor Rose. She doesn't know him of course, but he couldn't go without seeing Rose one last time now could he?!
Then we get a glimpse of Ood Sigma in the snow telling the Doctor his song is over and finally it's off to the Tardis for his transformation into a rather mad Matt Smith, with the Tardis insides crashing down all around him. Seems his transformation was a bit flammable and set the whole inside on fire for some reason. Didn't happen when he regenerated in there before, must have been Tennant's non-acceptance of his transformation or something. Roll on a new inside for the Tardis for the next series! Before he's about to change he says "I don't wanna go" and then regenerates. It's a sad moment for all Tennant fans who are all probably shouting "then don't!!!" because the silly Scottish plum should have stayed in the role and not given it up, if it was indeed his decision in the first place. Plum.
I'll have to wait until the new series actually airs but I'm on the fence about Matt Smith for now. He seems as crazy, if not crazier than Tennant from the little scene we get, but Tennant was believable and lovable... Will Smith be the same? Hmmmm.
All in all I feel it was 90% throw away T.V. and 10% awesome, with the last 10 minutes being its saving grace for me. Shame really. Russel T Davies obviously wanted us to say goodbye to all the characters he'd created over the last few years and take us along for the ride, and that's fine, if not a little too self indulgent. It's just a shame he couldn't have found a better story to flesh out the stuff in front of that!
Goodbye dear Doctor Tennant, it's been a pleasure knowing you and watching you. ;(
Oh and here is the trailer for the next series from the BBC website below.
Here's a round-up of the lastest on the GREEN LANTERN movie.
Well it appears that the current economic climate is hitting some of the movie companies....WB being one of them. Apparently AUSTRALIA is too expensive, so MEXICO is the next best thing when shooting a movie.Here's the original article about the GREEN LANTERN movie move:
The original plan was to shoot the Green Lantern adaptation in Sydney, Australia – with shooting set to begin in November. Inside Film report that production is expected to move to Mexico, citing currency changes as the primary cause. This also overrides another suggested change that would have seen the movie shooting in Louisiana.
Shooting in Australia would now add $20m to the film’s production costs.
Warner Bros is understood to be preparing to shift its Green Lantern production to Mexico from Australia, where the booming currency has blown out costs.
The latest proposal overrides recent plans to shift the film to the US state of Louisiana (as reported in the October issue of INSIDEFILM) although a final decision has yet to be made.
If the shoot does proceed at Fox Studios Australia it would add more than $US20 million to production costs due to the rising dollar, according to sources.
As long as it gets going I couldn't give a monkeys where it shoots. There are also casting calls going out for some of the other supporting characters in the movie....here are a few of the good ones.
Carol Ferris
She is one of many super villains who has used the name Star Sapphire, and is a long-time love interest of Hal Jordan. The casting description doesn’t hint at a super alter-ego, so it’s not likely this sultry villain will appear, but in a sequel maybe?
and possibly Star Sapphire 26-32, a smart and attractive woman with an MBA. She started as a pilot and now runs Ferris Aircraft. She is a work-a-holic…FEMALE LEAD
Sinestro
Villain and extra-terrestrial. Sinestro is the former mentor of Hal Jordan and the arch-nemesis of the entire Green Lantern Corps.
Mid-30s to Mid-40s, he is smart, tough, intimidating and in great physical shape.
Hector Hammond
Villain
27-35, Character actor who is austere and impersonal, he is real “scummy.” He is a pathologist and also the son of a Senator.
Abin Sur
A member of the Green Lantern Corps, he recruited Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern. His role may not be huge, in the comics he presents the ring to Hal Jordan as he is dying.
Mid-30s to mid-40s, he is a great warrior.
I'm sure KILLAWOG and the other lanterns will appear, but whether they'll be CGI or have actors is a mystery at the moment.
There's a production crew standing by as we speak, so I think this is all set to film.
JUNE 2011 stills seems set for the release, so we'll wait and see whether the DC movie machine gets kicked into high gear for this one.
And, just cause it's funny check the below picture out.
I think I have made my views on SGU clear since my first post about it......IT ROCKS. Here are two very good reasons to convert to SGU!!! If you can't see my point then WTF's wrong with you!!!!!!!
Rock on FEB when SGU returns.
(someone needs to suggest the above outfit to the costume designers on SGU!!!)
Jensen Ackles, who plays Padalecki's onscreen older brother Dean Winchester, got engaged in fall 2009 to Danneel Harris.
(Is that mini skirt standard police issue? She can handcuff me any day)
