After 7 years of battling cancer Stan Winston dies at 62.
The Oscar-winning visual effects artist died at his home Sunday evening surrounded by family after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a representative from Stan Winston Studio.
Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986′s “Aliens, “1992′s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and 1993′s “Jurassic Park.”
I can’t even begin to say how much this sucks.
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So apparently Spike Lee has been running his mouth again. Only this time instead of suing Spike tv for stealing his nickname, because his real name is Shelton Jackson Lee. He has set his sights on Clint Eastwood. Bad idea “Spike”.
Here is what Spike Shelton had to say in regards to the Eastwood film Flags of our Fathers.
“Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen. If you reporters had any balls you’d ask him why. There’s no way I know why he did that … But I know it was pointed out to him and that he could have changed it. It’s not like he didn’t know.”
So in a recent interview this prompted Clint to set little Shelton straight.
Eastwood justified his choice of actors, saying that those black troops who did take part in the battle as part of a munitions company didn’t raise the flag. The battle is known by the image of US marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
Eastwood said, “The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”
Hahahaha wait there’s more.
Defending the racial make-up in his films as historically accurate, Eastwood referred to another of his films, Changeling, which was set in Los Angeles before the city had a large group of African-Americans. “What are you going to do, you going to tell a fuckin’ story about that?” he said. “Make it look like a commercial for an equal opportunity player? I’m not in that game. I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is. When I do a movie and it’s 90% black, like Bird, then I use 90% black people.
“He was complaining when I did Bird (the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker). Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.”
Poor little Shelton. 
Maybe he should just stick to saying “It must be the shoes money” for Nike.
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You know I haven’t really had all that much to say about the trailer and hype around the Dark Knight except that I don’t really like the idea of a “bat-cycle” and I’m not really that crazy about the suit. But whatever who am I? (Besides 
mommie’s little angel). But when I saw the this picture of the Two-Face, I have to admit I started to really get excited. I have always liked Two-Face and it looks like they are going to do a kick ass job on him.
Of course that is assuming this picture is real. I have my doubts, sorta of like that time when I was 16 and decided to try and steal a tank with my friends. I wish that was lie.
Below are the first images of the costumes for the upcoming Watchmen movie. To put it eloquently, “I love me some Watchmen”, but I don’t know about these photos. I mean the costumes don’t look bad but they don’t really look all that great either. Sorta like a mini-cooper or Jennifer Aniston.
If you want to read more here is the link the Zack Snyder (he’s the director ya know) blog.
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I saw the trailer for Wanted for the first time, last night during the superbowl. After seeing this I am convinced that Angelina Jolie can make anything -no matter how lame- look good. Except for maybe a couple of friends of mine, she would probably make them look worse.
I actually hate the affect this woman devil has on me. I swear while watching the trailer I knew I should scoff at the movie. But instead I began seeing tattooed cherubs with featherless black wings flying around carrying razor tipped arrows. My right eye began to twitch and as my jaw muscles failed me as I was temporarily reduced to a quivering mass of stupid. It was at this moment I knew Jolie must be some sort of a demon…a really good looking demon.
*note: I have long known Jolie to be a demon and I am ok with that.
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Tagged geekout, jolie, Movies & TV
