I Am Link

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--- Stick It Up Your Bum In Three Dimensions, Jim - Jim Cameron went on some rambling nonsense spiel about how a movie like Piranha 3D cheapens the technology and even got a dig in at Friday the 13th: Part 3, which is just inexcusable. Listen, I liked Avatar a lot, but you know what Avatar needed? It needed a yo-yo dropping up in my face. It needed an extended underwater skinny dipping scene. It needed somebody's face pulled off by a boat motor. I know telling James Cameron to get a sense of humor about himself and his self-esteemed place in cinematic history is akin to pulling off your own face with a boat motor, but goddamn does he even go to the movies anymore, or has he not perfected the incredible mind-breaking technology yet that allows the film to be projected so far up his own ass yet?

--- Who For Hobbit - Sylvester McCoy, who played Dr. Who in the 80s, is telling the world that he's in the middle of being cast as a wizard in the Hobbit movies. DH has the details. I guess he was up for Bilbo back in the Lord of the Rings movies, which ended up going to Ian Holm.

--- Now We're Cooking - With Centurion having come out in some markets last Friday there were a bunch of interviews with director Neil Marshall all over the place, giving him the chance to chat up some of the many projects that he's been linked to. At AICN he gave a little teensy bit of an update on Burst, his 3D horror movie about people exploding that Sam Raimi's producing - they're working on the script still. I thought they were past that stage so I guess we've still got a wait on that one. Dammit.

It sounds like the next thing he'll be doing is Underground, which is about "an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine." Extreme chefs? I expect it to be a cannibalism movie once we know more, but Deadline's got some brief details.

--- Best Review Yet - I love everything my bud Sean had to say about Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, especially the bit about how Ramona Flowers is pitched as a knowing inversion of the Manic Pixie trope.

--- Two White Dudes - Isn't one cop supposed to be black and the other white still? Or like Puerto Rican and Japanese? Some crazy ethnic mix where they have to learn to respect each other cultures all while gunning down some other culture that's worse than their own respective cultures? What is happening to the world when Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are the buddy cops?

--- And finally better late than never, here's my piece from last Friday at Celebrity Beehive on the weekend-that's-already-over's new releases.
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