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Breaking Red Dawn

by Administrator PaulH on 03-17-2009 02:11 PM - last edited on 03-17-2009 02:48 PM

8:44 A.M. A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success. A gang of high school kids become the last line of defense. 

 

Edward Cullen, as played by Patrick Swayze, and Bella Swan (Lea Thompson) are honeymooning on an island off the coast of Brazil when Soviet and Cuban Volturi invade. Mistakenly thinking it's a cross between a vampire and werewolf, they label themselves Wolverines, and Edward, Bella, Jacob (C. Thomas Howell), Seth (Charlie Sheen), and Leah (Jennifer Grey) head off into the hills to fight the communist threat.

Message Edited by PaulH on 03-17-2009 02:48 PM

Bea Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Golden Girls' Pince-Nez"

by Moderator L_Monty on 02-20-2009 10:53 PM - last edited on 02-24-2009 08:33 AM by Administrator PaulH
Performed by The Speckled Band (featuring Clipse)

Thank you for being a colleague

Went off some falls, stopped the redheaded league

Your heart is true; you're a pal and a confidant. 



And if you threw a party 
Invited everyone you ever knew 

You would see the biggest gift would be from me 

And the card attached would say,
"My dear Holmes, heat it, it turns gluish.
"You get paper, it seems you get foolish.
Take it to Jacob and play, 'Which hue's the bluest?' "
Thank you for being a fiend.
Message Edited by PaulH on 02-24-2009 08:33 AM

Kevin Bacon plays a Prussian soldier turned scientist who has developed an invisibility serum that has literally erased his head. Elisabeth Shue reprises her role as Bacon’s onetime love interest, Katrina Van Tassel. Josh Brolin, who reportedly lost 60 pounds and wore lifts during filming, plays fellow scientist, Ichabod Crane. When Katrina and Ichabod fail to restore Bacon’s head, he becomes unglued and unleashes a murderous rampage on his colleagues.

Paradise Lost Weekend by John Milton and directed Billy Wilder

by Administrator PaulH on 02-18-2009 11:15 AM - last edited on 02-19-2009 09:09 AM

Adam and Eve, recently expelled from Eden, go on a massive 3 day bender!

 

If Ray Milland plays the role of Adam and Jane Wyman assumes the role of Eve, does the proverbial snake than play Howard Da Silva's part as the bartender? Talk about temptation! The apple then becomes a tumbler of whisky?


Message Edited by PaulH on 02-19-2009 09:09 AM

On the Road

by Administrator PaulH on 02-19-2009 08:50 AM

Were I to make Kerouac's classic novel into a film, first and foremost, I'd set it in the current day. Sal Paradise, played by the ever-youthful Tobey Macquire sets out from New York City, literally from the Ground Zero site, to "find" what's left of the American ideal in a time of economic depression, war in the Middle East, and a general lack of faith in mankind. Accompanying Sal is the anti-authoritarian, Dean Moriarity, played by Viggo Mortensen. Sal and Dean crisscross the country stopping in the ravaged remains of New Orleans, racing to avoid 1000 plus acre fires in California, and ultimately losing their car at gunpoint in Las Vegas. Like the novel, Sal finds some happiness, but in the end, is mainly left dejected by modern America.

 

Too dark and apocalyptic? What would you do different?

Variety reports that director, Ang Lee might tackle bringing Yann Martel's Life of Pi to the big screen.

 

I can't even begin to imagine how one would go about adapting the book to film. Can you?

 

Does Lee turn to CGI a la The Hulk?