Rue McClanahan Died at 86, Neal McDonough joins the cast of Captain America, More Transformers News, COL Movies Store Opens, Bent, Killers, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

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News:

• Rue McClanahan, Actress and Golden Girl, Dies at 76 Betty White is the only remaining Golden Girl.. There Can Be only one!
• Neal McDonough should be joining the cast of Joe Johnston’s CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. McDonough is in talks to play Dum Dum Dugan.TRIVIA McDonough played Lt hawk in star trek first contact. Lt. Hawk was one of the first openly gay characters described in an ongoing relationship portrayed in the STTNG Novel Section 31: Rouge, His Partner Lieutenant Commander Ranul Keru was described in the novel with bearish qualities.
• Speaking of Avengers, Jeremy Renner of The Hurtlocker fame is going to be playing Hawkeye in the Avengers Movie
• Since we’ve constantly been talking about the former Transformers hottie, the new one has been revealed… (her name is Rosie Huntington-Whiteley)
• Speaking of Megan Fox…
• Speaking of vampires….
• For all the Hairspray fans out there…
• AND JUST FOR JEFF
• COL Movies Store open.

The Past: Bent (1997)

Director: Sean Mathias

Staring: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Jude Law, Mick Jagger

Trivia:

• Ian McKellen, who appears as Uncle Freddie in the film, starred in the role of Max in the original London West End theatre production in 1979.

Talking Points:

• Seems like it’s really more of just another WWII Concentration Camp movie?
• The first “Phone Sex”?

What We’ve Learned: Mick Jagger is an ugly man…and an even uglier woman.

Trailer:

The Present: Killers

Director: Robert Luketic

Staring: Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck, Catherine O’Hara, Katheryn Winnick

Trivia:

• During filming, Ashton Kutcher accidentally knocked out a stunt man with his fist.

Talking Points:

• Inferior version of True Lies? (True Lies meets Point of No Return?)
• Ashton’s best movie to date???
• Who could you have seen as the female lead other than Katherine Heigl?

What We’ve Learned: The go bag is under the trap door under the kitchen table; if you’re going to hide a gun in your car, put it inside the passenger seat; Anyone can be an assassin…even Mrs. Swan!…In a movie, a constantly drunk mother provides a lot of comedic opportunity…Tom Selleck will always play second fiddle to his mustache…Ashton does look nice without a shirt on and with low rise swim trunks.

Trailer:

The Future: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

Trivia:

• After artist Bryan Lee O’Malley completed the first issue of Scott Pilgrim, his publisher Oni Press contacted producer Marc E. Platt with the proposition for a film version. Universal Studios contracted Edgar Wright who had just finished his last film, Shaun of the Dead, to adapt the Scott Pilgrim comics. In May 2005, the studio signed Michael Bacall to write the screenplay for the adaptation. By January 2009, filmmakers rounded out its cast for the film, now titled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
• A video game will be produced based upon the film. The game will be made by Ubisoft Montreal
• A Comic book made into a movie, with video game overtones..made into a video game..

Talking Points:

• At a test screening, Kevin Smith was quoted as saying “That movie is great. It’s spellbinding and nobody is going to understand what the fuck just hit them. I would be hard pressed to say, ‘he’s bringing a comic book to life!’ but he is bringing a comic book to life.”

Trailer:

Feedback:

Colin’s “A Clockwork Orange” Analysis

Hey Cubs:
Great job on the show last week I found it really amusing that a Clock Work Orange can still generate so many questions and spark good discussion. I think that film can be really difficult to analyze and the point can be easily taken out of context because it’s so tied into what was going on in the world in 71-72. It’s always important to remember that the strong critic assumes the responsibility for analyzing “what a film was attempting to accomplish” rather then weather or not it fit into said critic’s personal tastes. I find it refreshing that you three have been shying away from “liking and disliking” to a degree, but are rather searching out common questions about the pieces of media that you are viewing.
Like I said a Clock Work Orange is a rather difficult one to analyze due to the fact that it’s so wrapped up in both the American and British social political climates at the time it was in production. Also it’s a film that Slack-jawed soon to be Terintino-tards have been over analyzing since the 70’s and there is allot that has been compounded into all that. The fact that we the viewers of the film have so vehemently refused to forgive Alex his wrongs may be in truth: the legacy of this film. As most fans of Alex’s story know: there is a final piece to his tale that is considered his reprieve, we his audience were originally meant to know that the man turns it around and attempts to find redemption at the end of his tale, however both Kubrick and the original American publishers of the novel decided that this was a worthless chapter and omitted it form their presentations of this story. This is not only telling of late 60’s early 70’s Vietnam/ Second Indo china war effected American discourse, but also indicative of a broader world perspective on the queering of Anglican youth culture visa vi Garry Glitter, T.rex, David Bowie and so on. Such queering can be seen all over the film in both the accepted attire of the characters and the films chosen aesthetics. You have in this story a completely English representation of the monsterization of the western Anglican youth. This sort of outlook was not really the norm jus post WWII, up until Vietnam hit phase 3 of the draft (62-63). In comes Alex, the monster, he does drugs, him and his boys are gang rapists, he is insanely Violent until he is he is “rehabilitated” by an egalitarian fascist establishment using Pavlovian brainwashing in a “mad-science” attempt to re-integrate his ilk into the milieu. This is all an analogy for the uncertainty facing our youth in Vietnam and for the response the world was having to young people at the time in general. Kubrick was very much playing at/with an adult response to a monsterised view of youth, indicative but also in satire of culturally accepted norms. Its easy to forget how severe the generation gap we were facing at the time, but it was a world where the kids that were shot at Kent a year before were thought of as monsters for being un-patriotic. Even worse was the fact that we were seeing our kids come home from war completely unable to re-join society. In a way all the young adults were monsters in the eyes of society (adults). There is also a duality being represented by Kubrick here (British/ American) which exists due to the fact that Kubrick was both an American national and a long time English resident, and very much in tune with what was going on with both of our young people Now on the strictly American side we were given this unforgivable (edited) Alex, we who had just suffered the Massacre of May 4th, we who were in no mood to forgive the youth anything (politically speaking) were able to identify with a representation of a true monster and that’s how Alex came to us. Miraculously even after his choice of “quick fix” and without paying for his mistakes what so ever the general response to Alex is still empathy; interesting. So despite my incessant ramblings on this issue I guess my overall point is that: pretty much every film is made with the intent to accomplish something, and that a Clock Work Orange was intending to open a discourse concerning the 1970s dichotomy between adults, youth, and government. It’s making satire out of the adult perspective of the generation gap at the time, you watch this film and see everything that an elderly parent or grand parent in the 1970’s might fear their child was becoming as they lye in bed staring at the ceiling wondering why little Jimmy wears make up, stays our all night, participates in unpatriotic anti-war efforts, or listens to queer glam rock. I think in that context the film is rather clear about what its trying to say to its viewers at the time. That being said: did you know Michael Alig is up for parole in a month or two here and I hear he is completely rehabilitated…
Thanks guys
Colin-

Coming Attractions:

The Past: Chuck&Buck
The Present: The A Team
The Future: Inception

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