Did anyone know Ryan Reynolds was gonna be in this? He plays a mutant called Deadpool. His character is described as "a wisecracking and thoroughly insane mercenary who can heal like Wolverine."

[SIZE="3"]My author copies of the Gauntlet Press ARC for BY THE SWORD arrove today and they look damn good. This means the hardcovers should be shipping before too long.[/SIZE]

I watched The Kingdom for the first time last night and I just wanted to say a few things about it...

1. Some of the cultural "dos" and don'ts" were way off. With the number of Middle Easterners in the film I would think they could have done some better research on this.

2. They elluded alot to oil which makes me think that this film was made as a subtle anti-war/anti-US government film, but I'm not entirely sure...nor do I care.

3. And most importantly the "attack" scene at the beginning and the last lines spoken by both Jaime Foxx and the young Arab jabbed at me as very real reminders of why myself and my comrades are over here, fighting. And as my eyes welled up with tears at the senseless killings during the terrorist attack my heart swelled with pride for what myself and my comrades in arms do for a living and what we've sacrificed.

If you haven't seen this movie watch it if you want, or don't. I don't really care one way or the other, but I thought I would share my thoughts about it with you all.

So I'm sitting at work and this dude that sits a couple of cubes down is talking about Blazing saddles and says that the quote 'Badges, We dont need no stinking badges' came from this movie.

So I told him while it may have been in this movie thats not where it came from. I told him it was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Bogart.

He said that Sierra Madre doesnt count because no one has ever seen it.

we are still argueing about it.....

Just saw a notice that the classic T.V. Show is being made into a movie. Anybody know about this?????

I did a search and couldn't find a thread for this yet so here goes...

What songs would you like in the Repairman Jack movie Soundtrack??


A couple that came to mind are:

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
The Firm - Live in Peace

P^)

Just finished reading "Gateways". Again. One of my favorite RJs. Anyhow, I had a question regarding something Anya said when she and Jack were talking. After the attempted hit by Devil, Jack went over to Anya's in search on answers. During their conversation regarding the Otherness and The Ally, Anya confirms that the Otherness has been involved in what's been happening to his father. She then mentions that "The Ally is involved here as well, though tenuously". So, my question is: How was the Ally involved in "Gateways"? Most everything that happened in Gateways was a direct result of either the Otherness or Anya. I didn't see any evidence of the Ally operating throughout the book. The "spear has no branches" philosophy applied by the Ally in later books doesn't seem to apply here as Devil, Semelee and the others behind the attacks on Tom seemed linked to the Otherness, not the Ally. So, would anyone like to take a stab at explaining in what capacity the Ally was involved in "Gateways"? Thanks!

Just now I heard the news Charlton Heston died.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/04/06/heston.dead/

I liked his "Ben-Hur", "Planet of the Apes", and "Soylent Green".


RIP

Last night, I watched very interesting documentary in History Channel.

http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people

Have you seen this show?

If humans were suddenly to disappear, what would happen to Earth? The structures which we've built, domesticated and wild animals, plants, trees.....everything change.

But I'm also interested with how people died out. Unknown virus? Wars? Global warming?

I've been reading you all's dream casts. Now I'm curious who your nightmare cast would be? Who would be the worst possible people to play Jack & friends? How could Hollywood ruin the movie before it ever got started, just because they wanted to put in popular names that just wouldn't fit? Here's my picks:

Jack=The Rock, Vin Diesel, Ashton Kutscher (sp?), Will Smith, Sean William Scott, Nicholas Cage, Ben Stiller
Abe=Tom Green, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Mewes, Anthony Anderson, Sam Elliot, (that actually might be pretty cool though), Ben Stiller
Gia=Tara Reid, Renee Zelwegger, (sp? also, does she always look like she just bit into a lemon?), Rosario Dawson
Julio=Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, George Lopez, Bernie Mac
Kusum=Ben Stiller, (I just can't stand him), Jet Li, Michael Madsen, the guy from Harold & Kumar
Kolobati=Sandra Oh, (don't like her much either), Maggie Gylenhall, (sp?), Marisa Tomei, Angelina Jolie, (she's in everything!)

So there you go. The worst possible casting ideas for the upcoming RJ movie, (in my humble opinion). Can you imagine Dan LaFontaine saying "If you see one movie this summer, see The Tomb. With The Rock, Anthony Anderson, Tara Reid, Ben Stiller, Jet Li, and starring Angelina Jolie. See the movie that has young 19 & 20 year olds writhing in anticipation. See The Tomb." Ugh. I mean, come on. Hollywood almost put Vin Diesel in the role of Agent 47 in Hitman. I wouldn't put anything past them.

Thoughts?