Sin City

Sin City is a movie you will not soon forget. This movie based on the comic book series is one of a kind. The original script and special effects will excite you from intro to end titling.

The movie is directed by Frank Miller, known from RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3 and Daredevil. It’s co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and legend Quentin Tarantino.
There is not only a great pack of directors, the cast is outstanding. Some of the best actors were recruited for playing in this film. “Die Hard” actor Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood who played Frodo in Lord of the Rings, Michael Clracke Duncan, Brittany Murphy and one of my favourite actors: Benicio Del Toro.

If even the cast and the directors don’t impress you there is even more. Sin City is totally different from other films. It is totally filmed in black and white, but sometimes they left some parts in colour to accentuate it. You get even more sucked into the comic atmosphere of the film by the text balloons and the graphical interfaces. These effects are all supported by a solid script and fantastic camerawork.

If you are planning to go to the movies, you should definitely see Sin City. It’s the best movie I’ve seen in the last 6 months and one of the best all times. So don’t hesitate and invest your money into the best that the theatres can offer you.

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There are already plans for 2 sequels of this movie. Sin City 2 is already in pre-production and will be released in theatres in 2006. For the 3rd movie we must wait until 2008.

House of Wax

2 Days ago the film "House of Wax" has gone in premiere. This film is the first film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and is a remake of a movie from 1953 with the same title.

The story is about some students that travel arround, and they strand in a empty city that is not located on the maps. Here they find a "House of Wax" like the Madame Tussaud's in London.
The whole museum is made out of wax and the characters look extremely real. From then off all sorts of strange things happens.

The first remarkable fact about this movie is that one of the lead roles is played by the arrogant rich daughter of the Hilton family: Paris Hilton. She has olmost no expercience in films. She only did some guestroles in movies like The Hillz and Wonderland. 2 films that are no worth seeing. She got this role because she recently became popular with her show "The simple life", the homemade pornotape and her arrogant behaviour in the celeberty society. The main reason she could play in this film is because she's fameous and it would be easy to sell the film to the market with her in it.

Not only Paris is starring in the movie,there is a whole cast of young attractive people. Another leading role is acted by Elisha Cuthbert who became fameous with the series of "24" and the movie "The girl next door". The 2 leading male roles go to Chad Michael Murray and Brian Van Holt. Chad used to be an model but he could play in some movies because of his looks. From there on he could play also in other films.

The last years it has been a hype to put random celeberities into films just to make some money out of it. In stead of producing good original films with great actors, they are letting celebrities involve in making the storyboard like Crossroads by Britney Spears and there are letting singers, models, athletes and even ordinary rich people act in it. In stead of making good movies they are ruining the film indusrty with there crap. Films get more and more commercialised by the looks or the being fameous of the actors then by the acting skills. Many low budget and starting film producers won't be able to compete with them and good films will be lost for the big public in the great offer of commercial crapmovies.

I hope that in the future quality will still be appreciated over celebrity movies and that people will notice the difference.

Family Guy Season 4 and Movie

Family guy, one of the best comedy tv-serie ever made by genious Seth MacFarlane who also made American dad, Cow & Chicken, Johhny Bravo and Dextor's Laboratory, has completed production for a full lenght film.
The film will be published directly on DVD and will not be seen in theaters. Normaly the DVD should be in stores in the fall of 2005.

Meanwhile this serie also came back alive on television on May 1th. The new season started with a great irnoic joke about the show being cancelled. Unfortunatly This great serie isn't available on television in Belgium. You can only get the episodes by ordering the DVD boxes on the internet or by downloading it illegaly.

For the fans I will post the lyrics of the main theme here:

Family Guy Theme Lyrics:

It seems today
That all you see
Is violence in movies
And sex on TV.
But where are those good old fashioned values
On which we used to rely?
Lucky there's a Family Guy!
Lucky there's a man who
Positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry!
He's a Family Guy!

Star wars III: revenge of the commerce

Everybody has probably ever heard of the Star wars films of George Lucas. The first film was made in 1977 and is actualy the 4th part of a 6(or more)-part film. These films are made in a not chronicle order. He first started making part 4 untill 6 and 16 years later he started on parts 1 till 3.

These films became so popular that there is a whole hype about the characters and everything that has to do with these films. People dress up like it and go standing in line for days to be the first to see these movies. Some fans even go so extreme that they buy a real Darth Vader suit with even the recognising sound of his breathing included.

Many big company's know that this is a very popular films and they are using the brand of star wars to sell more of their products. Million dollar deals are made to put the logo on their products so fans and films buffs would buy it immediatly. The Belgian lotery has it's gamble game called star wars were you have to scratch the surface to see that you have won. On every packet of chips of Pringles you buy you also see the star wars character. They have a contest were you can win a trip to California were you will be trained in how to handle a lightsword. You could already see this training in an episode of Star Academy on the Belgian televisionchannel VTM. Also Quick has payed alot of money to have the logo's on their Magic Boxes and to provide every buyer of this box with a star wars figure.

In my opinion the film is so overhyped that people don't even care anymore if it's realy a good film, but they go with the crowd and spend their money on all the commercial goods that they provide and spread the word that the movie is the best they have ever seen. I hope that less commercial good films would also get the same appreciation, because they need it harder then the billion dollar company of Lucas Inc.

Kingdom of heaven.

Yesterday the new movie Kingdom of Heaven came out, the new film of Ridley Scott who scored with films like Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner, Conquest of Paradise, The magnificent movie Gladiator and many more great fameous films.

The story goes on in the middelages during the crusades in the 12th century. Balian is a blacksmidt who mourns his wife and son who past away. On a certain day the baron of Ibelin comes to visit him to tell Balian that he is the baron's extramarital son. He takes Bailian with him on a holy mission to Jeruzalem. There Christens, Jews and Moslims live together in peace, but there are some groups who want to go to war against the other religions.
When his father dies, Balian inherits a piece of land in Jeruzalem and the mission to protect the civilians and controle the peace.. This is not an easy task because of the follow-up of the present king is against the peace and the present king is in a very bad healthy condition.

The films has got many critics from all the different religions. Jews, Moslims and Christens are mad because they feel are negativ portreted in the movie and that many things in the movie are not true. This is in contradiction with historici who believe that the film is a realistic reproduction of what happend during the crusades during the 12th century.

But many religion groups are mad, and there are many fights and descussions going on due to this film. Many filmforums are filled with religion statements in stead of discussing the aspects of the film itself. The film has a great script and is very nice filmed on different locations, so it's a shame that people don't recognise that in stead of arguing over a more than 1000 year old issue.

Kingdom of Heaven is an excellent film and I would recommend everyone to see it.