Rza for president

I was just lamenting over the fact that there's a dearth of adequate ridiculous action movies coming out. What, you say, madness, there's a million big action movies coming out. Like what spiderman? eh. Batman? That will be nothing but disappointment. The Expendables 2? The first one wasn't very fun and the new one looks abysmal. Unless Bruce Lee is punching him, Chuck Norris makes things worse, not better. Total Recall is pointless, the original still stands up. At least the new Judge Dredd movie looks kinda cool, but if you're going to watch one movie about taking over a high rise with maximum force I recommend The Raid. then this comes out of fucking nowhere, THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS, directed by RZA, yes THAT Rza

everything from action figures to dental dams

On friday I finally went to the movies, not to see something awesome and under appreciated, like Lockout, but to see the biggest movie out this weekend The motherfucking Avengers. Straight up, I almost didn't see it just to protest the sheer amount of advertising involved, there was a commercial for fucking insurance of some kind. Now I just came up with a great comic book series. It's about an insurance company that sells superhero/villain insurance. Your car got tossed over the horizon by the Hulk? Good thing you have Heroz Insurance! So they'd send out a claims agent, or whatever the fuck, man I don't have insurance, I'm poor and have nothing to insure. The sheer amount of shit with the movie Avengers is incredible, everything from action figures to dental dams. What convinced me to see the movie was a clip where Ironman and Thor were duking it out in a forest, it was pretty ridiculous and fun, as it should be. Fine! I thought, I'll watch the goddamn Avengers. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? The movie was super fun. There's shit exploding, big ass monsters figthing, fist fighting, the occasional well timed comedy bit, and it looked really fucking good. I am telling you, Robert Downey JR was born to play Tony Stark. I really dug how much the characters stuck to the personalities established in the previous Marvel flicks. I was really surprised how the Hulk stole the show. I might end up liking The Avengers more than The Dark Knight Rises. Sure TDK might be a better movie, but it looks so serious. So serious. Which is ridiculous because it's basically about a billionaire who dresses up like a bat to punch criminals in the face. They are totally gonna fuck up the inevitable sequel to the Avengers.

theory sounds cooler

In the City by The Jam

Oh my dusty blog. How dusty thou are. It's not like I have anything to say, but when has that stopped me? Exactly.

I am going to take a gamble and hope that I get a ticket at the door for Andrew WK this sunday. I will try. At worst I will end up not spending 25 bucks.

I'm listening to a pretty kick ass mixtape (playlist) by way of Suicide Watch over on ye olde tumblr. The song featured at the top of this post isn't featured on the mixtape, but I still like it. A few weeks ago I heard it at the bookstore on Clark, the one south of the Metro. It struck me as a great song to hear while killing some time.

I just finished reading Snow Crash by Neal Stepheson. Part of the reason I picked that up was because all of his other stuff is intimidatingly tomeish, the other part is because I have been thinking about cyber punk for the last few weeks. It all started off with watching Johnny Mnemonic, which is a really cool movie based on a great story by William Gibson. Next time we hang out ask me to tell you about my Keanu Reeves theory. Actually it's more of a hypothesis, but theory sounds cooler. Gravity is just a theory. Snow Crash is about... a lot of things. It's packed with lots of stuff, but there are sword fights, hacking, dystopian neon future, rock and roll, virtual reality, and it's damn fun.

In an attempt to do something I have signed up for Script Frenzy, also because I like to torment myself with ridiculous things. I fucking know! Madness! Now that I'm actually typing it out the actual dread comes seeping out of the back of my brain and begins oozing forward. I was thinking about doing a bunch of short preposterous plays, but I don't read plays, I don't even go to plays. I did see The Crucible many moons ago. I do like movies. I watch a lot of movies. Every once in a while I read a script. So I decided to try to do a screenplay. What other genre other than action could I pick? Everyone knows the hardest part about coming up with a movie is the title. You can't have something too subtle or it'll get ignored, and you can't have something too ostentatious because it will not live up to its title. I want to call it Saint of Killers, but that's a character in the Preacher comics. Santo de Matadores? Nah, that sounds like it'll be very luchador based, plus it'll be yoked with the association of El Santo.

Talking about movies. I saw a great trailer a few weeks ago. I'm not sure where... BUT! It was an asian movie, not a martial arts or a crime flick, which I hold dear, but a low key thing. Time for love? A Season for Love? something with love in the title. The trailer was kick ass. I like it just because of that.

Sister Mary of Kickassery, AKA the Ninjutsu Nun

A while back ago I came up with the idea for a great movie, it would center around Sister Mary, catholic nun and vampire/monster hunter. How? Because nuns' outfits look kinda like ninja costumes (what? don't look at me that way. in my defense, i'm probably warped by all the action movies i've seen, so everything looks like ninjas to me). Then I ran into a comic called Warrior Nun or something equally ridiculous/awesome. I think it was the same thing, but I still SMoK think it would cool movie. It would have to be a mix of 1980s martial arts and 1980s american action movies that I love.

Sho Kusogi would be in it:

hahaha Pray for Death, totally unintended pun

Also Milla Jovovich would play Sister Mary:

(if you decide to watch Ultraviolet then go into it with really low expectations)

Today I saw this video (via Neatorama):

Save for the narrator, the video has the right tone, especially those slow mo parts with the lovely distorted battle cries. Now imagine that dude at the end was a vampire and that cross was also a stake! YES.