I haven’t seen Paranormal Activity yet so I don’t know how spoilery this original ending is in terms of the version that’s playing in theaters right now. But I wouldn’t recommend watching the clip if you haven’t seen it yet. Or if you have literally anything better to do, anything at all. Even work. Seriously, the rest of the movie isn’t all like this, is it? At one point it’s just a stationary shot of a chick rocking back and forth for like four full minutes with nothing happening. If I wanted watch people rock themselves back and forth all day I’d teach public school in L.A. Zing. RopeofSilicon sez:
I will say this, watching it on a computer is extremely uneventful and not at all indicative of the theatrical experience. On top of that, this ending is nowhere near as effective as the one in theaters.
I’ve heard the new ending is so scary that if you watch it you will literally die.
Holy 27-year-old high school students and indie rock, Batman, it’s the trailer for Dare! What’s Dare, you ask? Why, it’s a movie that premiered at Sundance last year, opens nationwide in November, and appears to be The OC with ugly people. It also stars an actress whose first name is “Rooney.” Huh, I wonder if she went to private school.
When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa (Emmy Rossum) that she hasn’t lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny (Zach Gilford). Envious, her shy best friend Ben (Ashley Springer) also dares to pursue Johnny, complicating Alexa’s romance and pushing the boundaries among the three friends. [Apple]
Jesus, these peoples’ lives are more boring than mine. Also, movie cliché: Naming the bad boy “Johnny.” If a guy’s named Johnny in a movie, you can pretty much guarantee he’s bad, because hardly any real people are actually named Johnny anymore. It’s a shame, because “Put him in a bodybag, Zach!” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
(Aw, crap, more vampires?)
In case you haven’t been around lately, Ridley Scott has been attached to Brave New World, an Alien prequel, a Monopoly movie, Nottingham, and probably a couple of other projects I can’t remember. “Ridley Scott” is the hardest-working name drop in showbiz journalism. Anyway, he’s mentioned again today for yet another project. Yadda yadda yadda death-row vampires.
[Gladiator co-writer] John Logan has been set by Fox 2000 to adapt “The Passage,” the Jordan Ainsley vampire novel being developed for Ridley Scott to potentially direct.
In the novel, terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.
Ainsley — pseudonym for PEN Hemingway Award-winning author Justin Cronin — sold the book based on the first 400 pages and an outline, but the film adaptation awaited his completion of the book, which is nearly 1,200 pages. [Variety]
1,200 pages, huh? That’s impressive, because I can barely manage a couple sentences about this. Really, who gives a sh’t.
Electronic Arts is teaming up with director D.J. Caruso to adapt their video game, Dead Space into a movie. D.J. Caruso last did Eagle Eye and if you need an idea how crappy that was, just watch the alternate ending after the jump. Here’s the game synopsis.
“Dead Space” is set in the 26th century in deep space, where an engineer who responds to a distress signal from a mining ship finds the vessel infested with monstrous creatures called Necromorphs. The creatures are human corpses, reanimated by an alien virus. [Variety]
It’s just Event Horizon with a reductive explanation for the plot. And that explanation is “GRR, ZOMBIE VIRUS!” In space, no one can hear you make derisive fart noises with your mouth.
UPDATE: This comment was too good not to include. RoboPanda says: “I accept your challenge. A headstrong, hot (but not too hot) 30-something career woman gets cheated on by her hot boyfriend and realizes she’s been in love with her hot coworker with whom she’s had an unexplained rivalry throughout the first two acts. Also, they’re all zombies. 40 Dresses Later in theaters this Secretary’s Day.”
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Incredible, isn’t it? He really has the silhouette down pat.
Backstory: Platinum Dunes, a company partially owned by Michael Bay that makes mediocre, unnecessary remakes of classic horror movies for easy money, is doing a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. Jackie Earle Haley, who was an epic badass in Watchmen, is playing Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel ever so slightly bad about the fact that I’m definitely not going to see this ever.
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