The antics of Heath Linn (Chorley Super-Villain) are posted on Facebook, and entertain Mike Jordan and Mark Burn-It, therefore, due to this couple of mavericks his misdemeanours are now being made into a comic book.
In the first collection of comic, Heath Linn (Chorley-Super-Villain) finds himself against two of Chorley's most formidable foes, firstly, the woman stalking and attacking, Body Rock, a former 'Chorley's Strongest Man' who lost his title and wife to Heath Linn (Chorley Super-Villain), although Heath no longer wants his wife, and only banged her to taunt Body Rock. Body Rock finds his days confined to the closed down Body Rock Gym, Bolton Road, and at night preys on women. The second nuisance to Super-Villain is the Jewish mafia family, the Kaminski's, who's leader, Jimmy, has recently been put in jail for the murder of Heath Lynn (no relation to Super-Villain....). Heath Linn (Chorley Super-Villain) is forced into rescuing Jimmy from prison.
Rumours that DC Comics and Marvel are fighting over the rights to make it into a movie, with Christopher Lee as Heath Linn (Chorley Super-Villain) and Richard Gere as Body Rock.
12/11/2011
06/11/2011
Time, Time, Time, You're Running out of Time!
In university I have very little to do at the moment, I occasionally have to read handouts and prepare notes for seminars, but that is the only things I have to prepare week in, week out. Although, I am also writing my dissertation, but luckily I have been able to chose a dissertation which revolves around my two favourite subjects.
Films and mass death. Hollywood and World War II.
So far, I have not learned a great deal about the subject, I have learned, but not greatly. Mainly because I owe the library £5 and I don’t want to pay it, so I cannot withdraw any books.
Lately I have been reading a hell-of-a-fucking-lot, more than I have done in any point of my life, although for the first time in my life I don’t have a bedside lamp, which is very irritating. Recently I have read ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ by Phillip Roth, the ‘All my Sons’ manuscript by Arthur Miller, a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. An interesting trilogy by Paul Auster, aptly named ‘The New York Trilogy’ containing the novels ‘City of Glass’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘The Locked Room’, more detective novels, my favourite being ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ by Raymond Chandler. A few comic books, mainly Walter Pekar’s American Splendor trilogy and Rob Jackson comics 1. Finally, I have re-read ‘The Rum Diary’ by Hunter S. Thompson and ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus.
Film wise, I have not been watching loads lately, feeling a little uninspired, but have still seen one or two interesting movies. Louis Malles ‘Up the Scaffold’ is a really interesting movies, and probably one of the best of the ‘French New Wave’. I was looking to write about the French New Wave for my dissertation, but did not in the end, after further reading it was not possible due to a number of circumstances, mainly being that I do not believe it had a massive impact on politics in France and that it was not actually a ‘movement’ as it had no organisation and they did not work as a ‘movement’.
I may be a little uninspired by some of the movies that I have seen lately, which I am writing reviews about, they are still lurking in my ‘finder’ waiting to be completed. But, due to all my spare time, I have decided to start writing a film, the great ‘Geminted’, it is bloody hilarious, with some cracking lines, like this:
Georgia: You are the least rebellious person I know
Mark: I’ve been rebelling since birth…I had a caesarean
Me and my friends are hoping to make the film over the winter or Easter or Summer holidays, should be bloody good fun. I have also started writing a comic book for fun, I was bored last night listening to Mark Lawrenson and Alan Hanson during Match of the Day, so I began to write a comic strip. The comic strip follows a fictional Michael Palin, in the aftermath of the Life of Brian, and how he becomes secluded and isolated, stalked and hunted by Christians and Left-wingers. It is a comedic-thriller, so if any of the two followers out there can draw, you are invited to draw the comic.
Anyway, must continue with my dissertation now. I am going to start using this as a diary again, as it will be fun to look over the posts in the future.
Free bird, out.
Films and mass death. Hollywood and World War II.
So far, I have not learned a great deal about the subject, I have learned, but not greatly. Mainly because I owe the library £5 and I don’t want to pay it, so I cannot withdraw any books.
Lately I have been reading a hell-of-a-fucking-lot, more than I have done in any point of my life, although for the first time in my life I don’t have a bedside lamp, which is very irritating. Recently I have read ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ by Phillip Roth, the ‘All my Sons’ manuscript by Arthur Miller, a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. An interesting trilogy by Paul Auster, aptly named ‘The New York Trilogy’ containing the novels ‘City of Glass’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘The Locked Room’, more detective novels, my favourite being ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ by Raymond Chandler. A few comic books, mainly Walter Pekar’s American Splendor trilogy and Rob Jackson comics 1. Finally, I have re-read ‘The Rum Diary’ by Hunter S. Thompson and ‘The Outsider’ by Albert Camus.
Film wise, I have not been watching loads lately, feeling a little uninspired, but have still seen one or two interesting movies. Louis Malles ‘Up the Scaffold’ is a really interesting movies, and probably one of the best of the ‘French New Wave’. I was looking to write about the French New Wave for my dissertation, but did not in the end, after further reading it was not possible due to a number of circumstances, mainly being that I do not believe it had a massive impact on politics in France and that it was not actually a ‘movement’ as it had no organisation and they did not work as a ‘movement’.
I may be a little uninspired by some of the movies that I have seen lately, which I am writing reviews about, they are still lurking in my ‘finder’ waiting to be completed. But, due to all my spare time, I have decided to start writing a film, the great ‘Geminted’, it is bloody hilarious, with some cracking lines, like this:
Georgia: You are the least rebellious person I know
Mark: I’ve been rebelling since birth…I had a caesarean
Me and my friends are hoping to make the film over the winter or Easter or Summer holidays, should be bloody good fun. I have also started writing a comic book for fun, I was bored last night listening to Mark Lawrenson and Alan Hanson during Match of the Day, so I began to write a comic strip. The comic strip follows a fictional Michael Palin, in the aftermath of the Life of Brian, and how he becomes secluded and isolated, stalked and hunted by Christians and Left-wingers. It is a comedic-thriller, so if any of the two followers out there can draw, you are invited to draw the comic.
Anyway, must continue with my dissertation now. I am going to start using this as a diary again, as it will be fun to look over the posts in the future.
Free bird, out.
13/08/2011
They Live - Review
The full movie of They Live is available here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYJIIPs-5rQ
They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 dark comedy science fiction movie, produced on a budget of $3 million. They Live is based on Ray Nelson’s short story ‘Eight O’Clock in the Morning’. The original content does not have the political commentary of Carpenter’s adaptation, Carpenter’s movie critiques the consumption and commercialisation of the 1980’s America. Carpenter felt They Live was the suitable movie to comment on themes of greed, competitiveness, unemployment and inequality after watching TV and “realised that everything we see is designed to sell…the only thing they want to do it take our money”. Not a profound discovery, but an interesting subject for a dark comedy. During Carpenter’s attempts to sell the idea of the film to a Universal executive he was asked “Where’s the threat in that? We all sell out every day”, a question which was eventually included in Frank Armitage’s screenplay.
The plot of the movie revolves around Nada (Rowdy Roddy Piper - WWF and Hell Comes to Frogtown) and his eventual buddy Frank (Keith David - The Thing), who join a revolutionary force, led by Gilbert (Peter Jason - Carpenter film veteran), who are able to see the true identity of the ruling financial elites and collaborators (trade unionists, police and management). The tool of sight for the revolutionary forces are a brand of sunglasses. The sunglasses show the ghoulish alien identity of the financial elites. It is the plan of Nada and Frank to destroy the signal, which transmits subliminal messages for humans to consume and blinds them from the true nature of the financial elites.
They Live contains many highlights which stick in your memory long after the movie, which has helped this movie achieve cult status. A five minute brawl between Nada and Frank, which required 3 weeks of rehearsal, and one of my favourite scenes in film - Nada entering a bank to exclaim ‘I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and I’m out of bubblegum’.
They Live is a fun film, with dark contents. All aspect of the movie are brilliant, apart from the music (John Carpenter and Alan Howarth) which is the true bad guy of the 1980’s! They Live is the movie which Jean-Luc Godard could never make, a film which takes aim at capitalism and doesn’t alienate the viewer.
5/5
They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 dark comedy science fiction movie, produced on a budget of $3 million. They Live is based on Ray Nelson’s short story ‘Eight O’Clock in the Morning’. The original content does not have the political commentary of Carpenter’s adaptation, Carpenter’s movie critiques the consumption and commercialisation of the 1980’s America. Carpenter felt They Live was the suitable movie to comment on themes of greed, competitiveness, unemployment and inequality after watching TV and “realised that everything we see is designed to sell…the only thing they want to do it take our money”. Not a profound discovery, but an interesting subject for a dark comedy. During Carpenter’s attempts to sell the idea of the film to a Universal executive he was asked “Where’s the threat in that? We all sell out every day”, a question which was eventually included in Frank Armitage’s screenplay.
The plot of the movie revolves around Nada (Rowdy Roddy Piper - WWF and Hell Comes to Frogtown) and his eventual buddy Frank (Keith David - The Thing), who join a revolutionary force, led by Gilbert (Peter Jason - Carpenter film veteran), who are able to see the true identity of the ruling financial elites and collaborators (trade unionists, police and management). The tool of sight for the revolutionary forces are a brand of sunglasses. The sunglasses show the ghoulish alien identity of the financial elites. It is the plan of Nada and Frank to destroy the signal, which transmits subliminal messages for humans to consume and blinds them from the true nature of the financial elites.
They Live contains many highlights which stick in your memory long after the movie, which has helped this movie achieve cult status. A five minute brawl between Nada and Frank, which required 3 weeks of rehearsal, and one of my favourite scenes in film - Nada entering a bank to exclaim ‘I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and I’m out of bubblegum’.
They Live is a fun film, with dark contents. All aspect of the movie are brilliant, apart from the music (John Carpenter and Alan Howarth) which is the true bad guy of the 1980’s! They Live is the movie which Jean-Luc Godard could never make, a film which takes aim at capitalism and doesn’t alienate the viewer.
5/5
12/08/2011
The Long Goodbye - Review
There are spoilers in this post, specifically at the end of paragraph three.
The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman’s adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s final published novel in the Phillip Marlowe Mysteries series. Phillip Marlowe, the troubled, chain smoking, excessive drinking private dick is played by Elliot Gould (Friends, M*A*S*H).
Robert Altman has taken Phillip Marlowe from his 1950’s setting of the Raymond Chandler novels, and placed him in the 1970’s living amongst a group of hippie birds who spend the entire film topless and baked. Marlowe’s fish out of water nature is shown through his old car, references to old movie stars (albeit, Jimmy Stewart) and his interest in jazz. The music is the most interesting feature of the entire film, the music composed by John Williams (Star Wars and Indiana Jones) and performed by Jack Sheldon.
The plot follows the disappearance of Marlowe’s best friend Terry Lennox, the death of Terry Lennox’s wife, a rich Malibu beach community couple, a lifestyle hospital, the L.A. police and L.A. gangsters who Lennox owes $250,000. However, none of the aforementioned are neatly woven, and the story is never as complex and interesting as Chandler’s novels are. This is the greatest shame of this spirited adaptation. The female half of the Malibu beach community couple is Eileen Wade, who gives Marlowe his biggest breakthrough in his case with little to no detective interrogation, panache or wit which the Phillip Marlowe of the novel series uses in obtaining information from witnesses, suspects and police. For example, Eileen Wade gives up the information that “Yeah, Roger Killed (Terry Lennox’s) wife” and “Yeah, Terry Lennox is alive”.
Elliot Gould’s performance is entertaining and offers a different take on Chandler’s anti-hero, and Altman’s movie is anaesthetically pleasing, but the major let down, which ruins the entire adaptation is the lack of an exciting & challenging plot and witty screenplay.
2/5
The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman’s adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s final published novel in the Phillip Marlowe Mysteries series. Phillip Marlowe, the troubled, chain smoking, excessive drinking private dick is played by Elliot Gould (Friends, M*A*S*H).
Robert Altman has taken Phillip Marlowe from his 1950’s setting of the Raymond Chandler novels, and placed him in the 1970’s living amongst a group of hippie birds who spend the entire film topless and baked. Marlowe’s fish out of water nature is shown through his old car, references to old movie stars (albeit, Jimmy Stewart) and his interest in jazz. The music is the most interesting feature of the entire film, the music composed by John Williams (Star Wars and Indiana Jones) and performed by Jack Sheldon.
The plot follows the disappearance of Marlowe’s best friend Terry Lennox, the death of Terry Lennox’s wife, a rich Malibu beach community couple, a lifestyle hospital, the L.A. police and L.A. gangsters who Lennox owes $250,000. However, none of the aforementioned are neatly woven, and the story is never as complex and interesting as Chandler’s novels are. This is the greatest shame of this spirited adaptation. The female half of the Malibu beach community couple is Eileen Wade, who gives Marlowe his biggest breakthrough in his case with little to no detective interrogation, panache or wit which the Phillip Marlowe of the novel series uses in obtaining information from witnesses, suspects and police. For example, Eileen Wade gives up the information that “Yeah, Roger Killed (Terry Lennox’s) wife” and “Yeah, Terry Lennox is alive”.
Elliot Gould’s performance is entertaining and offers a different take on Chandler’s anti-hero, and Altman’s movie is anaesthetically pleasing, but the major let down, which ruins the entire adaptation is the lack of an exciting & challenging plot and witty screenplay.
2/5
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