The Swamp

Giff wrote:World War Z was pretty awesome for a popcorn summer flick.

AussieDave wrote:"Pacific Rim" was pretty good. Completely over the top. Reminded me of "Top Gun" in a way.

Seeing Charley from "Its Always Sunny..." was goofy. And Stringer Bell was a total bad-ass...even though it was strange to see him using his normal voice...not the West Baltimore accent.

The Aussie guys accents were totally off though....

bfj wrote:I liked Despcable Me 2.

Pruitt wrote:

bfj wrote:I liked Despcable Me 2.

As did I when I saw it last week.

But speaking of Steve Carrell, my wife is in the other room watching Crazy, Stupid Love for the fourth time (I watched it with her months ago), and even though we have spent a lovely long weekend together with the kids, there is no way in hell I can sit through a single minute of that movie again.

Pruitt wrote:Sharknado was a laugh-riot, but Admission with Tina Fey and the always dismal Paul Rudd was absolutely pathetic. Somewhere during the preparation of this film, they forgot that even in a comedy (which I think this movie was supposed to be, character motivation is important.

What a piece of garbage this film is.

TheHumanComa wrote:
Is sharknado worth the download? I've read the Twitter hype about it but have a monthly download limit. I reserve that for hbo, USA and fx shows that I don't get here in Canada. But I do love campy B rated movies and I heard this was the creme de la creme of crap at the moment. Waste bandwidth or wait until it airs again?

I heard they are making a sequel and it's simply called Sharknado 2 -the second one.

TheHumanComa wrote:Is sharknado worth the download?

AB_skin_test wrote:Michael Keaton. Does. Not.Suck At. comedy.

rass wrote:

AB_skin_test wrote:Michael Keaton. Does. Not.Suck At. comedy.

Thanks AB. That was unfuckingcalledfor Pruitt.

I haven't watched it in years, but I loved Johnny Dangerously as a kid. And he was very funny in Toy Story 3, too.

Pruitt wrote:Scottie will understand me when I say that other than the high production values, Clear History was like a lot of Canadian feature films: quirky characters in a rural setting who are worldly wise. A plot that is nonsensical and acting that runs the gamut from hamminess to comatose.

Pruitt wrote: . . . he is to comedy what Billy Joel is to rock music.

Scottie wrote:

Pruitt wrote: . . . he is to comedy what Billy Joel is to rock music.

Straight as boom.

AussieDave wrote:"The Worlds End" was awesome.

AussieDave wrote:"The Worlds End" was awesome.

brian wrote:Awesome long piece about Danny Trejo.

brian wrote:Awesome long piece about Danny Trejo.

Jerloma wrote:Isn't that the dude whose head they attached to the turtle in BB?

howard wrote:What I love about Trejo's story is that his 'overnight success' came after decades of hard work. 16 year between prison release and his first Hollywood job as an extra, 16 years of staying clean, within the law, helping other addicts. Then another ten years of hustling as a bit actor before his break. And he spends the next 18 years working hard, taking an incredible number of roles rather than resting on his success.

I make the assumption that he declined a whole lot of shortcuts and easy decisions since he left prison the last time.

//Block// What was the first movie that you worked on?

//Danny// “Runaway Train” with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.

//Block// How did you get hooked up with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts?

//Danny// That was actually a fluke. I was a drug counselor, and one of the kids I was working with, I was asked to just hang out with him, for support, and I happen to run into Eddie Bunker, O.G. old gangster. I met Eddie in ‘62, My uncle bought a robbery from him.

//Block// Eddie Bunker is a writer?

//Danny// He was a real famous writer in the joint. He was real good for writing writs. And writs have to be written exactly as the court wants them. Anything spelled wrong, anything out of place, they kick it out. He was real good writing writs. That’s what he became famous for in the criminal world.

//Block// What exactly is a writ? Explain writs to me?

//Danny// A writ is like a writ of habeas corpus. I can get you back into court if I write a correct writ. That says these are the reasons I should come back to court. And if they are written completely correctly with no miss spellings, no anything, boom! You can actually get a reversal on changes and stuff. A lot of people don’t know that now.

//Block// Is it kind of like an appeal?

//Danny// It goes after an appeal. It’s a writ of habeas corpus. I have to be produced in court.

//Block// So, “Runaway Train” was your first project?

//Danny// I walked onto that movie set to just hang out with this kid who was having a problem with cocaine. I ran into Eddie Bunker. We started talking. I use to hold the lightweight and welter weight titles in every penitentiary I was in… and remember that. So, I was hanging out with this kid. And Eddie Bunker who actually did the screen play, the original screen play was written by Aikawa, a famous Japanese writer. It wasn’t for an American audience. They had the Jon Voight character as a wife killer and a legendary in the penitentiary. Well, you can’t be a legend in the penitentiary, you’re kind of a punk!

//Block// That’s unacceptable.

//Danny// Yeah, and so Eddie kind of changed that for the American audience. Adapt it.

//Block// Make it more believable.

//Danny// Yeah, so when I ran into him, he was like, “you still boxing?” I said, “just training.”

He said, “we need someone to train one of the actors how to box. You want a job?” I got a job training Eric Roberts how to box for that movie, “Runaway Train.” Then the director saw me, and he saw that I could handle Eric cause Eric was nuts at that time. He was a loose canon in ‘85. The director, Andrei Konchalovsky saw it. He just came over and hired me.

//Block// It’s a boxing scene you have in the beginning of the film.

//Danny// Eric’s character beats the shit out of me.