How funny is it that while the movies RoboCop, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, the TV mini-series RoboCop: Prime Directives and the 2014 RoboCop are all set in Detroit yet as far as I can tell not a single frame of footage from these projects was actually filmed in Detroit. Those were shot in placed like Dallas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Houston and Toronto. How hard would it be to throw Detroit a bone and actually film something RoboCop there?
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Wait, Nick Castle, the guy who played “The Shape” aka Michael Myers in the first Halloween movie, also directed The Last Starfighter!?
Wait, Nick Castle, the guy who played “The Shape” aka Michael Myers in the first Halloween movie, also directed The Last Starfighter!?
I’ve been reading the first collected volume of the Hellblazer comic
I’ve been reading the first collected volume of the Hellblazer comic. It’s actually quite good, much better than I’d expected. It’s incredibly well written by Jamie Delano and gorgeously illustrated by John Ridgway. It’s one of those comics that has a lot of social commentary in it, yet it’s not a comic book just about social stuff. It’s about demons and bad people and mean things and ass John Constantine too.
Lord of the Rings vs The Stand
While watching Lord of the Rings yesterday on TV I thought, “They really lifted a lot from Stephen King’s The Stand for Lord of the Rings here…” Then, of course, I realized the folly of my thinking.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is kind’a the sequel to I am Legend that we’ll never get
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is kind’a the sequel to I am Legend that we’ll never get in look, tone and overall feel. Except there are more people and talking apes instead of zombies.