don't be dull, be fannish

TV:

MacGyver: Status: Still obsessed.

Salvation: Finished S1. I'm glad that CBS has given this show S2, even though I have to wait till next summer to get to see it. I loved the relationship between Darius and Liam and I hope that next season, the show will focus more on that and a little less on shipping.

Cinema:

The Snowman: Michael Fassbender was amazing in this film based on Jo Nesbo's book, but the film itself was only passable. It had so much potential but instead of focusing on the case and the police team, the film went for Harry's "wannabe" family. Uh. Why?

Thor: Ragnarok: A little too cartoonish for something as epic as "Ragnarok" but the relationship between Thor and Loki made up for that. Because that's what the whole film's pretty much about.

DVD (and other):

Thanks to MacGyver, I fell hard for Lucas Till, so I started watching films with him...

Crush: A stalker movie where a high school soccer player becomes the object of desire of, well, several women, actually, one creepier than the other, but one of them takes it way, way too far and starts killing. A great variation on the "damsel in distress" films.

Paranoia: A slightly boring film staring Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman. It didn't get really good till the last 15 or so minutes. I bought it solely for Lucas Till who played Liam Hemsworth's best friend in it.

There's been a rumor going around that X-Men: Apocalypse won't be James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender's last X-Men movie: link. IMO, that would be rocking awesome. I know that most people are all about Jean Grey and Storm and Gambit and whatnot and whonot, but I don't give a flying banana about any of these characters. Professor X and Magneto and the endless push and pull of their affection for each other vs their conviction is the only thing that interests me because I find the juxtaposition endlessly fascinating. So, if these two come back, thumbs up from me!

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Wow. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard look amazing. I've never read Shakespeare's "Macbeth", I'm only slowly chewing my way through his dramas, but this looks great!

"X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - Official Trailer (2014)" (Watch on YouTube)

Isn't this the Comic Con trailer? I remember seeing a few seconds of it online after SDCC13 and it seems to be the same stuff.

But whatever, I can't wait for this. The trailer is very character driven, because, as Bryan Singer said, the CGI is nowhere near done yet. But it seems like the movie is pretty much Charles-Erik-Logan driven - me LIKES! But what a difference between XMFC!Charles and this one, it's heartbreaking...

First thing first: This GIF is fabulous...


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It's from the Comic Con XM:DOFP panel! Gosh, it's giving me warm fuzzies!!!

Second: According to Deadline, Fox cast James McAvoy in the Paul McGuigan directed Frankenstein movie as Victor Von Frankenstein along with Daniel Radcliffe as Igor! \o/

Third: First picture of James and Jessica Chastain in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her:

Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender, who played lovers in Terrence Malick's as of yet untitled movie and should've played lovers in Jane Got a Gun from which Michael had to drop out because of a scheduling conflict with XM:DOFP, will be together in another movie, Macbeth, playing the titular characters. It should be a faithful adaptation of the play, with epic battles and elaborate settings: link.

I bet James McAvoy LOL'd a lot when he found out that Michael would be playing Macbeth too! I mean, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, who play Old!Charles and Old!Erik, were Macbeths too. And now both James and Michael... That's actually pretty funny.

This is a BTS - and unofficial - picture from Terrence Malick's latest and as of yet untitled effort:


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Yes, it's Michael Fassbender giving a massage to Ryan Gosling! The movie tells the story of two interconnected love triangles - please, PLEASE, let Michael and Ryan play lovers! Please? With a cherry on top? Michael is sex on legs and this... this would make me all... \o/

Bryan Singer teased the XMFC sequel with this quote: "As new species are formed through natural evolution, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most." Source.

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Sir Patrick Stewart said about the XMFC sequel:

Bryan let the cat out of the bag on Twitter, and it included announcing that Sir Ian and myself were going to be in this movie. We are, you know, under contractual oath with 20th Century Fox to say nothing about any prospective X-Men movie including the old team. I use “old” advisedly.

So it’s a kind of awkward position, because lovely Bryan Singer just blurted it all out there. For me the big thrill is knowing that Bryan Singer is attached to this movie, because not only is he a brilliant director, but also I adore him and hope that it might be true and that we do work together at some point in the future. But I’m not being coy. I know nothing about this project. And I’m hoping that might change in the future.

I have not signed a contract yet. I know there is a project in development, but we have no dates. No detailed casting. Thrilled to hear that my dear friend and colleague Ian McKellen is on board, but I’m sorry, you know, you need to understand, I’m not being cute. I know nothing.

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It sets my heart aflutter to hear him say "my dear friend" about Sir Ian McKellen. It's so cute!

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Hugh Jackman talks about Wolverine and the XMFC sequel: source. I didn't know he was such good friends with Russell Crowe. Interesting. But I hope his bit in the XMFC sequel will be kept at minimum. There are enough movies that focus on his character already.

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Sir Ian McKellen talks about Michael Fassbender's stint as Magneto:

What did you think of Michael Fassbender as Magneto in "X-Men: First Class"?
Yeah! I thought he was exactly that: first class. Excellent.

You never thought, Hey, I've got my eye on you. That's my part.
[Laughs] No. No. I thought he was better than me. But, we weren't quite playing the same character because he was so much younger than me. And the scope of Magneto, one day a Jewish actor will play it. Clearly, he's Jewish. We first meet him in at Auschwitz and there's scope for all sorts of people to pay Magneto. But, I was just the lucky guy who got to play him first.

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Not exactly X-Men related but - James McAvoy won't star in the Julian Assange movie with Benedict Cumberbatch after all. He had to drop out because of a scheduling conflict with XMFC: source.

Tom Hardy was cast in Ubisoft's film adaptation of the video game Splinter Cell. He will play Sam Fisher, who's "a special ops agent with a knack for high-tech gadgets and stealth infiltration. Along with his fellow agents in the secretive "Echelon" black-ops sub-division, Fisher neutralizes terrorist threats around the globe." Source.

How awesome is that? First Michael Fassbender in Assassin's Creed, now Tom Hardy in Splinter Cell.It's great to be a fan of these two super hard working actors. I mean, have you seen their workload? Sheesh on a pogo stick! Especially Fassbender. When does the guy actually sleep?

But then there are actors who make you a bit frustrated. Like James McAvoy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Both amazing, fantastic actors. But both have commitments elsewhere - James has a family and JGL his HitRECord company - so they are very picky when it comes to films. Don't get me wrong, 2012 was the year of JGL, 4 films in total in the cinemas! And 2013 will be a very big year for James McAvoy, with 5 movies out! But... I want to know more about their FUTURE projects too and there? Zip, nada. James has the sequel to XMFC and possibly that Assange movie. JGL NOTHING! Seriously, I need something to look forward to! Please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top! *paws sadly*

Once more I have to ask, what people didn't get about the film. Reviewers insist that the movie is confusing, that it doesn't give you any answers, that it just opens many questions etc. and so on. I... don't get what people don't get? To me, the movie felt quite straightforward and easy to follow *head-tilt*

Overall, I liked it. Not as exciting as Aliens, but much better than Alien 3 & 4 - let's not even talk about those messes *cringes* What really made the movie for me was the character of David, played by Michael Fassbender. He was simply incredible. Hands down the best performance in the whole movie. I wasn't sure if he was or wasn't a bad guy, even at the very end. Strange.

Another thing I adored was the core crew of the Prometheus: Cpt. Janek, Chance and Ravel. They were really, really awesome. I admired their courage and their easy camaraderie. And was I the only one who felt slashy vibes between Chance and Ravel? I loved their banter and the smile they gave each other before the crash. In my head canon, they were an item *nods*

The special effects were all kinds of amazing. Wow, just wow! The ships, the star map that David entered... Wonderful! The movie is worth seeing just because of that.

Two things I didn't like: the score and Guy Pierce as Weyland. The music was really bland. Maybe because I usually listen to Last.fm's OST channel and I keep hearing Hans Zimmer's (Pirates of the Carribean, The Dark Knight Rises) and Hugh Jackman's (X-Men: First Class) amazing scores, this one felt so very, very bland in comparison. And what was the use of Guy Pierce as Weyland? Couldn't they simply gotten an old guy to play him? :-/

The ending was interesting - the bit with David and Elizabeth, not the weird alien thing - and I'm curious where Scott will take the story next.