Special 9/11 Friday B-Movie Pick: Celsius 41.11
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Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain… Begins to Die
A special 9/11 edition of the Friday B-Movie pick. This is an actual documentary film, with actual facts and truth, unlike the crockumentaries that Michael Moore makes.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Murder by Death
From 1976 comes this murder mystery spoof that sends up the classic movie dectives. Sam Spade, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora, and Miss Marple are amoung those who are spoofed. Great cast, Peter Falk, James Cromwell, David Niven and Peter Sellers are just some of the actors who obviously had a lot of fun with this flick.
Comic book movie goodness
Scarlett Johansson will be playing Natasha Romanoff, aka The Black Widow, in the upcoming Iron Man 2 and The Avengers movies.
This is cool strickly on the Eye Candy meter alone. She has pulled off some good action rolls before (The Island), so it could be cool in other ways too.
John Carter of Mars film still in the works
A film version of “A Princess of Mars”, the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars series has been listed on IMDB since 2005.
It’s still listed as in pre-production, with the latest in release dates as 2012. There are also some cast listings. The most interesting is Willem Dafoe as the Green Martian King Tars Tarkas.
As I said before, this film could be amazingly cool or a fiasco of epic proportions. With William Dafoe on board, I’m leaning more toward amazingly cool.
If the four armed Green Martians look sufficently cool, this could be a plus toward getting David Weber & John Ringo‘s March Upcountry made into a film. That would be a good thing.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Six String Samurai
A fine B-Movie Martial Arts classic that combines Rock and Roll, post-apocalyptic SciFi, and Martial Arts. Oh ya, sprinke in a bit of Elvis Presley and Las Vegas for seasoning. It’s gritty, tounge in cheek, and very low budget. Our hero is stalked by non other than Death himself (who is the Heavy Metal counterpoint to our hero’s classic Buddy Holly style Rock and Roll).
Friday B-Movie Pick: Commando
Yup, another fine Arnold Schwarzenegger classic from 1985. Plenty of raw violence with just a dash of casual female nudity thrown in for flavor. A cult classic of the B-Movie genre. You probably won’t be studying this one in “film school”, unless the class is taught by Joe-Bob Briggs.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Hexed
Before she starred in Babylon 5, Claudia Christian did this fun comedy/horror film.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Bubba Ho-Tep
Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis star in this remarkably good indie film that features the residents of a senior home battling ancient evil from the Egyptian sands. Bruce Campbell plays an old Elvis Presley impersonator, who just might be the King himself!
Ya, I know, I missed last week, so a dose of Bruce Campbell should even things up!
Friday B-Movie Pick: Man of the House
Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Archer star in Man of the House.
It’s a fun bit of fluff about a grizzled Texas Ranger responsible for protecting five Longhorn Cheerleaders. B-Movie bonus, it was written by my friend Scott Lobdell.
Bonus B-Movie points for identifying, without looking it up on the net, Anne Archer’s first movie.
Friday B-Movie Pick: The Running Man
An Arnold Schwarzenegger classic from 1997. California in 2017 has become a police state in the wake of the world’s economy’s total collapse. The hero is wrong accused and tossed in a brutal prison along with Yaphet Kotto’s character, who is there for teaching kids about the Constitution of the United States of America. Ya, I know, it sounds like where America is heading under the reign of our Dear Leader. Besides that, it’s a fun film with added bonuses like Jesse Ventura, Professor Toru Tanaka, Mick Fleetwood, and great performance by Richard Dawson. It was directed by Paul Michael Glaser, From the Starsky and Hutch TV show, and choreography by Paula Abdul.