Watchmen movie

This looks inter­est­ing, the trailer for the upcom­ing movie Watch­men. I like super­hero movies –although defi­nately not all of them– but this take on super­heroes looks very promising.

Watch­men is an upcom­ing 2009 Amer­i­can film that adapts Alan Moore and Dave Gib­bons’ 1986 comic book lim­ited series Watch­men. Directed by Zack Sny­der, the film adap­ta­tion stars Patrick Wil­son, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Aker­man, Billy Crudup, Jef­frey Dean Mor­gan, Matthew Goode, Stephen McHat­tie and Carla Gug­ino. Set in an alter­nate 1985, the film fol­lows a group of for­mer vig­i­lantes as war begins to break out between the United States and the Soviet Union. The film began shoot­ing in Van­cou­ver in Sep­tem­ber 2007 for release on March 6, 2009. Like his pre­vi­ous film 300, Sny­der closely mod­eled his sto­ry­boards on the comic, but unlike 300, he chose not to shoot all of Watch­men using chroma key and opted for more sets.

(source: wikipedia)

Trailer video is after the break. Read more…

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Bring on tha Kung Fu, baby!

The movies I am going to review are: Crouch­ing Tiger, Hid­den Dragon Wo hu cang long by Ang Lee (2000), Hero Ying xiong by Yimou Zhang (2002), Shaolin Soc­cer Siu lam juk kau by Stephen Chow (2001), Kung Fu Hus­tle also by Stephen Chow (2004), House of the Fly­ing Dag­gers by Yimou Zhang (2004), Fear­less Hou Yuan Jia by Ronny Yu (2006), Ong-Bak by Prachya Pinkaew (2003), Zato­ichi by Takeshi Kitano (2003), Shi­nobi by Shi­moyama Ten (2005) and Seven Swords Chat gim by Hark Tsui (2005).

First up: Crouch­ing Tinger, Hid­den Dragon (2000) Read more…

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