Archive → July, 2010
Apocalyptic Double Feature: Legion vs. Book of Eli
![Legion vs. The Book of Eli [Screen Gems + Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/legion-vs-eli3.jpg "Legion vs. The Book of Eli [Screen Gems + Warner Bros.]")
Last week, an earthquake ravaged the greater Washington area (the ground shook a little bit and I think a mailbox may have fallen over) and the good citizens of Rockville, Maryland were aflutter the next morning, visions of Roland Emmerich’s latest apocalyptic masterpiece (prophecy???) fresh in their hearts and minds. While this unprecedented catastrophe (the earthquake, not the Emmerich movie) sent the uninformed masses running frantically to consult the nearest Mayan calendar, I was merely inspired to dust off my 2012 DVD. READ MORE!
Triweekly Podcast: Immaculate Inception
Is it that time already?
Witness the latest in cutting-edge podcast technology!*
![Repossession Men [Photo - Universal]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/repo_men_japanese-poster.jpg "Repossession Men [Photo - Universal]")
IT CHANGES COLORS
LIKE THE CHAMELEON
IT USES THE JUNGLE
Thrill as we blabber incoherently on the following:
- Inception – IMAX, speak up Ken Watanabe, is it all a dream (and does it even matter?) – spoilers ahoy
- Predators – Brodychest
- The Social Network – the evolution of David Fincher, director of the music video for Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up”
- The Room – meeting Tommy Wiseau
- M. Night Shyamalan’s Neckbeard Army
- Machete – we demand more Jeff Fahey
- Steven Seagal vs. vampires!
- the dearth of decent Nazi Zombie movies
- Zack Snyder makes a crazy owl movie
- You can’t see the eyes of the demon until him come callin
Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Woogmoog Triweekly Podcast 07-17-2010
Straight up, now tell me, do you really wanna love me forever?
(oh oh oh)
MUSIC
Intro: Mike
Outro: Mike and Pat
*nope
I Am Jack’s Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California
![Ferris Bueller's Day Off [Photo - Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ferris.jpg "Ferris Bueller's Day Off [Photo - Paramount]")
Fight Club is basically the perfect book and film for any impressionable, pretentious high school student. Since the movie came out while I myself was an impressionable, pretentious high school student, I love it dearly.
One of my most favorite things to come out of the internet is the Ferris Bueller Fight Club theory. In a nutshell, you have two characters: the repressed and socially maladjusted Cameron, and the wild and crazy Ferris Bueller as his polar opposite. The theory is that Ferris is merely a figment of Cameron’s imagination, a la Tyler Durden. It gives Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a hilarious new level of depth.
The theory has been given video form here, embedded below the jump. Clicky! READ MORE!
Review: Inception
![Inception [Photo - Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Inception-movie-poster-5-702x1024.jpg "Inception [Photo - Warner Bros.]")
Inception is something special. It is the artistic culmination of everything Christopher Nolan has done, from Memento to The Prestige, from Following to The Dark Knight – every trick, every technique, every idea a snowflake in an avalanche colliding into one incredible opus.
It is a movie whose hype is entirely justified, a wholly engrossing and amazing piece of popular commercial entertainment.
This is what expensive, high-tech Hollywood art can and should be. READ MORE!
Review: Predators
![Predators [Photo - Twentieth Century Fox]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/predators_xlg-692x1024.jpg "Predators [Photo - Twentieth Century Fox]")
It’s been a rough couple of years for everyone’s favorite cloaky-snarly-stabby yakbak-utilizing alien hunter. The one-two punch of the overall horrendous Alien vs. Predator movies (AvP is watchable but terrible, and AvP: Requiem is like some sort of hate crime) while his xenomorph counterparts live it up in star-studded sequel after sequel (yes, I am kidding – no rational person feels anything positive for Alien: Resurrection).
Can Robert Rodriguez and relative newcomer Nimród Antal turn all of that around? READ MORE!
Review: Restrepo
![Restrepo [Photo - National Geographic/Outpost Films]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/restrepo.jpg "Restrepo [Photo - National Geographic/Outpost Films]")
There’s no explicit agenda in this documentary, no side rooted for. There are no experts from one side of the ideological fence lobbing grenades at the other, no professors or economists or politicians. There’s only the soldiers. Frightened, angry, depressed, they form the core of Restrepo, a war documentary unlike any other. READ MORE!
Fan-Made Expendables Trailer Wants You to Grow a Pair
Most of the time fan-made trailers and posters are utterly worthless. As much as I love the music used in Inception‘s trailers, it’s quickly replacing The Two Towers‘ rendition of Requiem for a Dream‘s main theme as the most annoyingly overused bit of music on the internet. BRRRRRMMMMM and Predator do not mix.
However, this call-to-arms trailer for The Expendables not only blows most other fan-made hokum out of the water, it also puts the film’s own shoddy marketing to shame. Good-bye CG crows and footage-less teasers, hello “get your ass to Mars” admonishing!
Turn yourself into a goddamned sexual Tyrannosaurus when The Expendables hits theaters August 13th.
UPDATE: So apparently the MPAA really does not like it when you use their green bumper things. The trailer has been re-upped here.
Inception Clip: This Is Your First Lesson
Well, my IMAX ticket is sold. Can it be July 16th now, please?
Review: The Last Airbender
![M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender [Photo - Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wallpap.jpg "M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender [Photo - Paramount]")
The experience of watching The Happening unfold on the silver screen to an unsuspecting audience is something that can never be replicated. The trailers hinted at something frightening, some new twist M. Night Shyamalan would pull on us. Watching that unfold and collapse under so much unintentional hilarity and wooden acting so unimaginably bad is something I never expected would happen again.
Enter The Last Airbender. READ MORE!
Trailer Park: Rango
How great is that new Rango trailer? The Gore Verbinski-directed and Johnny Cage-starring furry friends CG animated flick seems fairly run-of-the-mill story-wise, but looks absolutely gorgeous.
![Rango [Paramount]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/rango1-1024x425.jpg "Rango [Paramount]")
After the horrible batch of 3D and animated trailers attached to Toy Story 3, seeing something as beautifully composed as this was definitely refreshing. The design is great and I love Depp’s lizard’s gangly features – he feels like he’s straight out of a Ralph Steadman painting and I swear he’s wearing a Hunter S. Thompson-esque shirt. I’d wager on at least one Fear and Loathing-referencing scene with the lizard wearing aviators and munching on a cigarette holder.
There are some extraordinarily trippy shots in this trailer, best seen on a humongous screen. Seeing this was the best part of going to see The Last Airbender on Friday.
Head below the jump to see more screencaps. READ MORE!