To further prove that he’s Canada’s biggest asshole, the future Mr. Avril Lavigne told Men’s Health (via Starpulse) about the time before a Nickelback show in Germany when he and his bandmates were so bored that they paid their drum technician to fuck a fan. Since there wasn’t one Nickelback fan around who’d let anybody associated with Nickelback stick a dick in them (Note: Nickelback fans are crazy, but they’re not that crazy), Chad told the drum technician to stick it in a moving metal fan (like this one). Listening to Nickelback songs every night ruined the part of the drum technician’s brain that operated his sense of reason, so he did it.
CK: We’ve always been very close to our crew, so we’ve had a lot of fun getting them to do silly, stupid things that could possibly cause them to hurt or injure themselves in some way. We were in Germany years ago—this was one of my favorite stories—and we were just bored. There was a heat wave going on in Germany. In a back room in the venue where we were playing, there was an old fan with a metal blade. I don’t remember the
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Full Story »Video game fans are naturally suspicious of movie conversions because they’ve been burned more often than charcoal briquettes. Which is weird, because pattern recognition is meant to be a gaming skill. Columbia Pictures’ announcement that it’s taking on the Metal Gear Solid license with Iron Man and The Amazing Spider-Man franchise producer Avi Arad has many gamers wary. The last attempt crashed and burned only two years ago, with Michael De Luca, producer of Oscar winner The Social Network, citing vague but fatal incompatibilities between video game companies and the big screen. But as the game’s signature character Solid Snake once said: “Don’t regret your past! Learn from it!” With that in mind, here are four reasons the film adaptation might actually work this time. 1. Licenses Are Big Money Now: For a long time, the wide-scale sucking of video game movies wasn’t a tragedy, it was a kind of karmic blowback. Movies licensed for games were stamped into soulless, cookie-cutter platformers with less character than a game of Hangman. Similarly little care was put into the games’ development. In return, movie companies would buy a video game license, shred it, then spit a few random catch phrases from the game into a standard action movie script. In both cases it was because the adaptation meant a few extra dollars for whoever could be bothered to grab them.
g Solid Snake: good at grabbing.
But big money changes everything. The Resident Evil movies are making exponential profits, while comic-book heroes are now grabbing more cash than every one of their bank-robbing villains put together. (Just ask Arad. ) Studios are scrambling to get onto bandwagon, because it’s really a bank truck with the back doors open. An epic…
Full Story »Video game fans are naturally suspicious of movie conversions because they’ve been burned more often than charcoal briquettes. Which is weird, because pattern recognition is meant to be a gaming skill. Columbia Pictures’ announcement that it’s taking on the Metal Gear Solid license with Iron Man and The Amazing Spider-Man franchise producer Avi Arad has many gamers wary. The last attempt crashed and burned only two years ago, with Michael De Luca, producer of Oscar winner The Social Network, citing vague but fatal incompatibilities between video game companies and the big screen. But as the game’s signature character Solid Snake once said: “Don’t regret your past! Learn from it!” With that in mind, here are four reasons the film adaptation might actually work this time. 1. Licenses Are Big Money Now: For a long time, the wide-scale sucking of video game movies wasn’t a tragedy, it was a kind of karmic blowback. Movies licensed for games were stamped into soulless, cookie-cutter platformers with less character than a game of Hangman. Similarly little care was put into the games’ development. In return, movie companies would buy a video game license, shred it, then spit a few random catch phrases from the game into a standard action movie script. In both cases it was because the adaptation meant a few extra dollars for whoever could be bothered to grab them.
g Solid Snake: good at grabbing.
But big money changes everything. The Resident Evil movies are making exponential profits, while comic-book heroes are now grabbing more cash than every one of their bank-robbing villains put together. (Just ask Arad. ) Studios are scrambling to get onto bandwagon, because it’s really a bank truck with the back doors open. An epic…
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Over at Bleeding Cool, director Rupert Wyatt spitballs about ideas for a sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the first-week critical and commercial successes of which seem like good indications that sequels will indeed happen. Wyatt’s idea for the next film in his Apes reboot? “Full Metal Jacket with apes.” Oh, yes.
[Spoilers follow]
“You could start this story again eight years from where we left off,” Wyatt told Bleeding Cool. “The next generation of apes, those that have come from our protagonists, perhaps going in to a conflict with humans and showing real fear, in the same way as going into war for young soldiers in this day and age, telling their story.”
Wyatt envisions a sequel in which apes learn about human culture by interacting with the remnants of human environments. His idea echoes shades of the original Apes series, which involved human survivors retreating to underground pockets, but with developments that pick up years after Rise of the Planet of the Apes concludes. “Spies [are] in the employ of the apes, working against humans and humans maybe existing underground,” he continued, “because that’s a way they can avoid the virus, coming up above ground wearing gas masks, and maybe that’s what dehumanizes them.”
Screenwriter and producer Rick Jaffa previously hinted that they’d planted seeds in Rise of the Planet of the Apes as potential clues to where the rebooted series could go in subsequent new films. A nod in the film to Charlton Heston’s character’s spaceship, the Icarus, from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes “opens up great possibilities for coming back in time into what, hopefully, we’ve set up — to bring back some of…
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In Memoriam: American Idol’s Fourth Place Contestant
By admin on May 13, 2011
There are so few children left in Schmaltz Fever Idol that I’m going to scream! Yesterday Ryan Seacrest knocked skinny Jordin Sparks out of the way and told one of the four remaining contenders to make like Enrique Iglesias’ mole and remove itself from the competition with hot pinking shears. And someone obliged! Was it scurry Scotty, borin’ Lauren, howly Haley, or sames James? Click through for our tearful, ghetto memorial.
Idol played games with us last night and announced the top 3 vote-getters, not the bottom 2: They were Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart, and (finally) Scotty McCreery. Oh, child. That means the caterwauling Pocket Fighter version of James Van Der Beek also known as James Durbin is eliminated. How did he get so many tears out of those squints?!
Legacy: James was a thumb-faced nice guy with a vest for an attitude, a bandana for a conscience, and lady hips for . He brought “heavy metal” (much the way Adam Lambert brought “glam rock” — in that he didn’t) to the Idol fore, jamming through rock hits like a Wurlitzer at a Joliet, Ill. dive bar. But for someone who dominated the early rounds with clean vocals and confidence, I am not unhappy to see him go. He had talent, but he forfeited competitor momentum and ran out of ideas somewhere around the Top 7. Still, he ranked #1 on our weekly countdown with his renditions of “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” and “Heavy Metal” (and came damn close with “Living for the City” and “Maybe I’m Amazed”). Too bad he outlived Naima Adedapo and can never be forgiven.
We Will Miss Most: His multihyphenate sob story (Asperger’s, Tourette’s, long-gone father, mall clothes). His…
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