<![CDATA[CKA Forums bootlegga's Blog Feed]]> http://www.canadaka.net/forums en Wed, 23 May 2012 04:04:22 -0700 <![CDATA[Is Bond finished?]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/is_bond_finished_b-3242.html http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/is_bond_finished_b-3242.html

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These are dark days for James Bond fans. It will likely be years before 007 returns to the screen, thanks to money troubles at MGM, Bond’s longtime studio, which has been up for sale since November. Even Daniel Craig seems to have moved on, signing up for the lead in a different potential franchise, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The last time the Bond series was put on this sort of “indefinite” hold was back in the early 1990s, after a series of legal battles (and Timothy Dalton) nearly wrecked the series. It took six years to get it up and running again. And in Hollywood today, six years is an eternity. “No franchise can afford to be away from screens for that long anymore,” says a former MGM exec. “You lose too much momentum. Even for Bond, it could be deadly.” Of course, Bond has defied death before — just ask Blofeld — so we’re not counting him out just yet.

One possibility: “[MGM] should sell the Bond franchise for a billion dollars to some sovereign company in Abu Dhabi and promise to make Bond movies in Abu Dhabi from now on,” suggest one financial analyst familiar with the MGM sale. The name is Bond, Jamal Bond. We could live with that.


http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/05/this- ... bond-dead/]]> Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:14:30 -0700 <![CDATA[Review of Avatar]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/review_of_avatar_b-3182.html http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/review_of_avatar_b-3182.html
While on his first mission outside the mine, Sully is separated from the rest of his team and forced to spend the night in the harsh jungle. While fighting off a pack of vicious predators, he is rescued from the wildlife by Neytiri, a Na’vi hunter. She is convinced to bring him back to her clan’s home, the Home Tree. There, he is given a chance to join the tribe if he can complete the same rituals as other warriors. As soon as Sully informs his superior, the ultra gung-ho Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) of this event, they expect him to spy on the Omaticaya clan’s home, as it sits on the biggest deposit of unobtanium in the area.

Neytiri takes Sully under her wing and begins to show him their way of life. At first, he is both skeptical and reluctant, but over time, both Neytiri and the simple pleasures of the Na’vi way of life lead Sully to question his mission. The question soon becomes, to whom does Sully owe his allegiance?

Avatar has been compared to other films like Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. For sure, the metaphor of ecological collapse and industrialism run amok is heavily presented in this film, with references like ‘Earth is a dying planet’ and ‘where the humans come from, there is nothing green’, and so on. Certainly, the RPA corporation shows that it is much like some greedy corporations today, in...

[ Continued ]]]> Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:05:31 -0800 <![CDATA[Review of Zombieland]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/review_of_zombieland_b-3152.html http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/review_of_zombieland_b-3152.html
The hero of the story, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), is a nerdy college kid trying to make his way home to Columbus from Austin Texas. He quickly introduces the audience to his rules of survival, like rule #1, Cardio. If you can’t run, you can’t get away from the zombies, which is hilariously illustrated by a zombie chasing a fat guy across a field. Rule #2 is Double Tap or don’t be cheap on bullets. Use a second one to make sure the zombie stays down. And so on.

He quickly meets Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a wise-cracking, zombie-killing machine who is on a mission to find a Twinkie. After meeting Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), they are tricked into surrendering their weapons and vehicle. A chase ensues and again they are tricked, losing their weapons and vehicle. This time though, Columbus convinces them to all work together in their goal to get to Pacific Playland, an amusement park outside Los Angeles. There, they discover all sorts of odd things.

Zombieland is more comedy than horror (zomedy?), so for those of you who are looking for gore and gruesomeness, you’ll have to get your fix elsewhere. There are scenes of zombies munching on hapless people, but the gore is minimal and secondary to the film. The zombies in the movie are also of the fast variety, so purists may not enjoy it as much as the typical Romero versions. And finally, because the zombies were created by mad cow, a brain shot is not necessary to kill them.

However, despite these ‘flaws’, the movie is highly entertaining. It is fast paced, action packed and laced with tons of dark comedy. I would guess that ...

[ Continued ]]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:56:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Resident Evil: Afterlife arriving in late 2010]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/resident_evil_afterlife_arriving_in_late_2010_b-3066.html http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/resident_evil_afterlife_arriving_in_late_2010_b-3066.html Quote:
Sony's Screen Gems is eyeing a September 17, 2010 release for the fourth "Resident Evil" installment, to be titled Resident Evil: Afterlife. The ending of the third film, Resident Evil: Extinction, left the door wide open for another sequel.

Paul W.S. Anderson revealed late last year he was indeed writing the next film.

As hinted at the end of "Extinction," the story will shift to Tokyo, Japan.
]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:26:35 -0700 <![CDATA[Weekend Box Office]]> http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/weekend_box_office_b-3002.html http://www.canadaka.net/blog/bootlegga/weekend_box_office_b-3002.html Star Trek blasted the competition this weekend, raking in $76.5 million for first place. X-Men Origins: Wolverine dropped one spot to 2nd with roughly $27 million. Romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opened in third place with $10.5 million, whiel Beyonce's thriller Obsessed slipped into 4th with $6.6 million, and the comedy 17 Again rounded out the top 5 with $4.4 million.]]> Sun, 10 May 2009 20:29:15 -0700