Walt Disney Pictures has always been prolific in this movie category, producing the most famous theme park as a family vacation destination and branding tool for its feature films and products. The iconic studio that brought us Fantasia, Cinderella, Armageddon, and Pirates of the Caribbean has a new hopeful in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
It was recently reported that Edward Norton will not be playing the Hulk in Joss Whedon’s upcoming film The Avengers. Multiple rumors about possible casting choices, including Sharlto Copley and actor-turned-rapper Joaquin Phoenix, have hit the Internet since then.
I figured I’d unearth an article I wrote about Fight Club from my old blogging days. Consider this one in a twice yearly series on modern classics and standout films.
Enjoy.
Fight Club (1999) Directed by David Fincher.
Based on the cult book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, it was an edgy and unusual tale that was equally anti-consumerist and sadomasochistic about a male revolution of embracing masculinity and eschewing the corporate world that molds them into worker bees and consumption targets. The film’s final act and opening scene take place in the same situation. Edward Norton has a gun barrel in his mouth, held by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) asking him for his last words. Norton’s character tells us that this is all happening now because he knows Tyler, and it’s all because of Marla Singer. But we’ll have to learn why and how this came to play later.
We see the narrator now being held in the massive male mammary set of Meatloaf, but we are cut away from there to make sense of the situation.
All you’re required to do is predict which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office chart. Simple enough, right? I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
This week on Player Affinity we flip our “Good, Bad, Ugly” segment on its head and run down movie supervillains, from those that impart absolute fear in their enemies to those who your grandma could beat to death with her purse. Our inspiration is taken from the newest animated supervillain, Gru, from Universal’s Despicable Me, who probably falls in the “good” category.
When it’s hot outside, there is only one way to stay cool: Trailer Tracker, where we at Player Affinity play the role of angry kid with a magnifying glass to the newest movie trailers hitting the web. After a mammoth surge of hotly anticipated clips last week, things cool down with the spoof Vampires Suck, we catch up with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in the comedy The Switch, explore the mathematically-themed thriller The Oxford Murders and cap things off with a clip from a horror flick that tells a tale of the terrifying chain letter.
With the impending release of Predators we PAMers have decided to look at some of the greatest extraterrestrial species that have graced popular culture. They come in all shapes and sizes and have many different personalities. Anyway here we go:
All we want you to do is get out your box office crystal balls and tells us which five movies will place in the top five of each weekend’s U.S. domestic box office chart. Simple enough, right? I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
It’s that time of the week … or one day past that usual time of the week! That’s right, time for Trailer Tracker where we at Player Affinity brave the bleak and foreboding world of the internet searching for the newest trailers. This week is loaded with good stuff. We start with the much-anticipated full trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as well as two other sequels, Meet the Fockers and the follow-up to last years horror movie phenomenon, Paranormal Activity 2. After that it’s on to retired people kicking ass in Red, Johnny Depp voicing a lizard lost in the Mojave Desert in Gore Verbinski’s Rango, the teaser for David Fincher’s Facebook movie The Social Network and the newest of the bunch, the American remake of the Swedish vampire film, entitled Let Me In, starring Chloe Moretz.
We’re already into July, but the summer is just heating up. June was dominated by family films, with Shrek Forever After, The Karate Kid and Toy Story 3 as the movies that topped the box office. As great as those films are (especially Toy Story 3), summer is supposed to be about the live-action blockbusters be they action films, fantasy adventures, sci-fi thrillers or star-studded comedies. Well, that’s exactly what July 2010 is all about. Time to bring it on.
