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Funny story about that movie…

It was like early 1987 or so and one day at the video store my sister and I rented Psycho II (actually we got Mom to rent it and she said the original Psycho was a good movie but they didn’t have that one). So Anita and I popped it in the VCR and watched it. Even without seeing the original, I was able to understand Psycho II pretty well.

So the movie ends and Anita and I are getting up from the floor and walking down the hallway and just as she’s passing by the bathroom I point and scream out “BLOOD’S COMING OUT OF THE TOILET!!”

My sister screamed like you wouldn’t believe. To this day, I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me for how bad I scared her like that....

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Hot on the heels of comes the domestic trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix… in awesome Quicktime!

See that pic up there? That’s from the scene that the Potter fans have been slobbering to see the most in this film: the scene where Fred and George basically tell Umbridge that she can shove her damned rules straight up her ass, before unleashing indescribable mayhem as they flee Hogwarts.

Two things I hope we have learned from the Harry Potter books. Number One: Do not fear death (a lesson I think the books have done beautifully). Number Two: Government f**ks everything up so bad that you… yes you… have to do it yourself. From the looks of this trailer, the Order of the Phoenix movie might do a handsome job of making that point loud and clear for everyone watching it.

And gotta love the ...

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You’re not going to like it.

Philip, I know you’re definitely not going to like this one bit, brother.

Want to know what Galactus, the devourer of worlds, is going to look like in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer?

Here’s the scoop from Ain’t It Cool News…

Wanted to let you know what Galactus is going to look like / be represented as in the FF2 sequel:

A storm cloud.

Yep.

That’s it. That’s the solution from the creatives.

(clears throat)…..pretty lame.

Think Superman/Silver Surfer flying through clouds with Galactus / Jorel VO.

THAT IS THE DUMBEST PIECE OF %#&$ I HAVE EVER HEARD OF IN THE HISTORY OF COMIC BOOK MOVIES!!! Galactus as a massive storm cloud…?!

We could have gotten a beautifully CGI-rendered Galactus standing amid a ruined landscape like how he’s depicted in the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game. THAT is how ...

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Tonight was the night that United 93 premiered on HBO. If you have HBO-W it’ll be coming on again in another hour or so. We watched it in full glorious high-definition.

This one is going to be haunting me for the next few days, I just know it.

United 93 was the plane that was hijacked on 9-11, that the passengers fought back before it could hit its intended target (presumably this was going to be the Capitol building). Instead it spiralled into the ground in a field in rural Pennsylvania.

This was the first movie about 9-11 that I’ve ever seen. I’ll almost certainly be picking up the DVD for this soon. United 93 is one of the finest historical movies that I’ve seen, and it captures the intensity of that horrible day… I don’t want to say beautifully, but it does resonate strong if you were watching it ...

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For one person to escape from a Nazi concentration camp was daring.

For three to escape was incredible.

For three hundred to escape was impossible.

Nothing is impossible.

So read the tagline of the full-page ad in the April 12th, 1987 issue of Parade that promoted that night’s broadcast on CBS of Escape from Sobibor, starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer.

Twenty years ago tonight came the premiere of what is perhaps the greatest movie about the Holocaust ever made. Escape from Sobibor is about the only thing of its kind that ever occurred during World War II: a mass escape by Jewish prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp. Sobibor was one of the primary extermination facilities in eastern Poland, with estimates ranging from as low as 250,000 to as high (according to one Sobibor survivor) as one million who were gassed to death there. On October 14 in ...

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Dad and I went to see 300 at the Carousel Grande in Greensboro this afternoon. I’ve been wanting to catch this ever since it came out a few weeks ago. It’s adapted from Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300, which is about the Battle of Thermopylae that took place in 480 B.C. between the Spartans and the invading Persians. Gerard Butler plays King Leonidas of the Spartans and that’s Rodrigo Santoro – who has been playing Paulo on Lost and I had no idea that it was him in this role – as Xerxes.

300 is brutal! It may be the most vicious movie that I’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the most violent historical-based film that I’ve watched… and I’ve seen plenty. The thing that keeps standing out in my mind is Xerxes’ army: if all you know about the Greco-Persian Wars is from watching 300, then you ...

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Serenity, the big-screen follow-up to Joss Whedon’s TV show Firefly, has been named best sci-fi movie by readers of SFX. Number two on the list is the original Star Wars. Finishing out the top ten in order are: Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes (presumably the original), The Matrix, Alien, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, and Back to the Future.

I’m glad to see this, because the Firefly universe is a franchise that really deserves to be continued one way or another. I never got to see the show but I thought that Serenity was both entertaining and thoughtful. Maybe I’ll put the Firefly series on Netflix and catch it sometime....

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It’s being called John Rambo now, like how the final Rocky movie was titled Rocky Balboa. Anyway, here’s what will be the first glimpse we’ll have had of Rambo in darn nearly 20 years:

Doesn’t look bad. Stallone as Rambo still looks like he can kick tail. I just wonder if this means Chuck Norris will be doing more Missing In Action movies now. Anyway, head over here for more on-set pics from John Rambo....

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Whoa. Never saw THAT one coming.I don’t think anyone can ever really replace Frank Welker’s long stretch as the Decepticon’s leader. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, well… Welker’s and Chris Latta’s were the voices of pure diabolical evil. Sadly both are no longer with us. We will still have Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime though.

But the more I think about it, the more I’m liking the idea of Hugo Weaving doing speech for the Megster.

EDIT 6:17 PM EST: Geoff Gentry just told me that Frank Welker has NOT gone to the great beyond, as was previously reported. Bad, bad mistake on my part. Guess it was late and I was thinking too much about how it’s Chris Latta who has passed on (he was the voice of Starscream, as well as Cobra Commander on the G.I. Joe cartoon). Nice ...

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