I Am Link

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--- Sucker Gal - We're slowly but surely hearing more and more about what exactly Zach Snyder's Sucker Punch is gonna be - over at Slash they've got some quotes from one of the film's slew of young actresses, Jamie Chung - seen next weekend in the New! Horror! Classic! Sorority Row - amongst which she says this:

"... [the film] puts 300 to shame! It’s the same stunt guys... But it really is ‘300′ but with a female cast."

Hrm. I really think I might end up preferring Gerard Butler in the leather diaper over Vanessa Hudgens. She probably doesn't have the glutes for it. But maybe that's just me and my weird preferences...

--- Peyton's Place - Yay times a dozen to the news that Rebecca "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" is playing evil again. Unfortunately it's for Darren Lynn Bousman who has never made a movie that didn't make me want to stab my eyeballs out.

--- The New Zombie - Is Steve Miner, the directer of Friday the 13th: Part 2, the Weinstein's choice for replacing Rob Zombie on the Halloween remake train for Part 3D? That's the rumor. If he hadn't recently made the abysmally awful Day of the Dead remake this wouldn't sound like such a bad idea. But he did. So it does. Not that Rob Zombie was a prize, mind you.

--- Hello Mother - Even though I wasn't much of a fan of his film The Host - and found the praise surrounding it unbearable - I still find myself curious about Bong Joon-Ho's also-much-praised new movie Mother, so I'm glad to see that Magnolia's picked it up for US distribution. Not until next year though, which seems a bit lame.

--- Punk Basterd - My bud Sean wrote up quite possibly the best bit on Inglourious Basterds that I've read over at his site so I implore y'all to check it out. It's a long piece that skips from a biography of Hitler to Tarantino's film to the recent (supposed) final NYC curtain call for Nine Inch Nails, but man oh man is Sean on fire. Choice bit:

"In that sense Inglourious Basterds may be the punkest movie I've seen in I can't even think how long. Maybe ever. It's about nothing less than the power of art to destroy evil. It's about how important it is to love film more than the likes of Hitler hate life. It's about how movie violence, art violence, art designed as a FUCK YOU, can help you deal with the violence that so terrified Chamberlain's cohorts and to which Hitler and his cohorts were so indifferent. It's Woody Guthrie's "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" guitar slogan made literal. It's a lingering closeup on the bloodlust-saturated eyes of Eli Roth, the beautiful Jewish torture-porn poster boy and enemy of good taste, as he empties a machine gun into the bodies of members of the Third Reich. And it's a total fucking fantasy. Yet that's what makes it so vital."

Sean, you've made me feel ashamed that I've not been able to write anything up on this movie, and that I haven't gone to see it a second time. Must remedy!

--- Four To One - I maintain my stance that, if they're gonna reboot the Fantastic Four franchise, can they please keep Chris Evans around? Just him, he's the only one that matters. But I don't want to lose Chris Evans in spandex! I can't lose Chris Evans in spandex. My world would rot.

--- And finally, mmmm Bana.
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