Red Band Legion Trailer

I was somewhat interested when I saw this poster online for a new movie called Legion. It was released during Comic-Con along with a trailer which is now online for all to see. It's definitely worth checking out for the creepy monsters or whatever they are. Though I can't help but wonder if the pitch for this movie went something like this...

Pitch man: So I have this great idea for a movie where a fallen angel descends from heaven to protect a small group of survivors in the middle of the desert from an onslaught of creepy stretch demons and evil leather-clad angels. It's kinda like the Terminator for those god-fearing folk.

Hollywood Executive: Will the angels have guns?

Pitch man: Giant. fucking. guns.

Heath Ledger directed Modest Mouse Video

King Rat - Modest Mouse - By Heath Ledger
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When I first heard that the late Heath Ledger had directed a music video for Modest Mouse shortly before his death, I wasn't sure it would ever see the light of day. But alas, it is now online and to my surprise it's animated and has a clear environmentalist theme. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I actually like the video a lot. Modest Mouse has never been my favorite band. Mainly because most of the time I think singer Isaac Brock sounds like someone's drunk uncle shouting unintelligibly into an old microphone. But that's only sometimes. I actually like the song here as well. Check it out.

Colore Non Vedenti (Color Blind)

Check out this short film by FilmJunk contributor Jay Cheel. It has a cool B-Movie feel and reminds me of a humorous Invasion of The Body Snatchers. Also, the cook reminds me of the main character in the horror movie Otis. It was obviously self-financed, but looks pretty damn good and has decent performances. I've checked out a few of Jay's other shorts and this is the best one technically speaking. I'd like to see him really run with a full-feature idea that suits his style. Check out more from Jay Cheel and if you don't frequent FilmJunk, you should. It's the best movie podcast out there. And they're Canadian, so they say "aboot" a lot.

Colore Non Vedenti from Jay Cheel on Vimeo.

I'm back

Decided to dust off the old blog and get back into it. So Let's begin! First order of business...

Do you know what this is? I had people in the office staring at it and couldn't tell. I was surprised, I thought it was obvious. Once you see it, you can go to Threadless and order a t-shirt with the design on it.

CHANGES...

If you frequent my site at all, you'll notice that I haven't been updating it as often as I used to. This is mostly to do with my hectic schedule and not having much time to devote to it. I've decided to change to focus of my blog to deal mostly with my comedy act instead of movie news and other things. I may do the occasional review here and there if it seems pertinent. I just feel that many other sites do the exact same thing anyways and I don't have much to add to it anymore.

So now I'll be doing less frequent updates and when I do, they'll likely be ideas I'm tossing around for my comedy routine or videos from my shows. Mostly more of my perspective on things, hence the name forstperspective! Please offer any suggestions you may have as the change begins to take form.

Dane

The National

Thought I'd share some videos from one of my new favorite bands, The National. If you haven't already heard them I suggest getting their new album "Boxer" out now.




The National "Mistaken For Strangers"


The National "Apartment Story"

More Wolverine Stuff!

Here are a few new pics from Empire magazine of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and as expected, they're awesome! See them larger here and here.





An addition, there has been some more casting news since my last post about this movie.

Apparently Dominic Monaghan (LOST, Lord of the Rings) will be playing a character named Beak who looks like a human-bird hybrid. I'm not too familiar with the character, but we'll see how he fits within the story.


Also, news is that Kevin Durand (3:10 To Yuma, Smokin' Aces) is slated to play the Blob. And while he's nowhere near fat, he is very tall, which I can see as working well to make him look massive in a fat suit. Sounds like a great idea to me.

New Iron Man Trailer!

Do yourself a favor and download the new Iron Man trailer, you'll be glad you did. This movie looks awesome!! Get it here.

Viral Videos...

I found this and thought it was funny. Kinda sums up the whole youtube phenomenon I guess.

Oscar Winners

The Oscars aired last night and for once I actually watched it in it's entirety. I was pleased also with almost every winner this time. I am still angry over Crash winning two years ago for Best Picture. A few of the winners that I was happy to see:

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
Falling Slowly for the film ONCE by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova



I was glad to see this win over the three(?!) songs nominated from Enchanted. This movie was fantastic and if you haven't seen it I highly recommend you do. It was one of my favorite movies from last year and the soundtrack is great as well.


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Javier Bardem in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN



I was hoping for Bardem to win along with most everyone else who's seen him in what I felt was the best movie of last year. Though I would have liked to see Josh Brolin get nominated, he was outstanding in this movie as well.


Strangely enough, after the Oscars, I was able to finally watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. If it weren't for Bardem's nomination, I would have been pulling for Casey Affleck to win. He was quite remarkable in that film and definitely out-acted Brad Pitt every step of the way. I wasn't even that impressed by Affleck at all before this, even in Gone Baby Gone. But now I'm curious what else he can do.

BEST ACTOR:
Daniel Day Lewis in THERE WILL BE BLOOD



This award couldn't have and shouldn't have gone to anyone else. Daniel Day Lewis turned in such a memorable performance and had I seen this movie last year, it would have made runner-up for my movies of the year.

BEST DIRECTOR/BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR:
The Coen Brothers/NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN



I was confident that this would win and I'm very glad that it did. This is the first movie that made me actually believe all the praise that the Coen Brothers seem to receive. While I enjoyed movies like Fargo and Raising Arizona, they've never really knocked my socks off in quite the same way they did with No Country. I'm hoping they do more films like this in the future.

Overall, it was actually a pretty good ceremony. I enjoyed Jon Stewart as the host again, as he seems somewhat disconnected from the typical Hollywood machine unlike past hosts. I was particularly impressed when he called back out Best Song winner Marketa Irglova after she was unfairly cut off before she could give any acceptance speech. In a way defying the limit winners are given to talk before they're cued to exit the stage. It was a great moment in a normally mundane ceremony. For a complete list of winners click here.