The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum

Coming over from Filmz.ru (via slashfilm.com) is this beautiful trailer. Why can't we get stuff like this over here? Anyways, beware as there are bloody head shots, a sex scene and some outright crazy gun violence jam packed into this little extended trailer. Are you cool with that? I knew you would be. Go over here to check it out. (and those keys and tooth flying through the air up there spell out "Fuck You" in Russian)

Australia
Did I spell that right? Oh, nevermind. So director Baz Luhrman is back...yeah, so we haven't seen him do a damn thing since Moulin Rouge so his follow up better be damn good, right? Not a huge fan of musicals myself, I'm not on the Rouge train (you'd think with such a close spelling of name being right in th title, I'd be all over it) and the only thing of value from Luhrman in my book is Romeo & Juliet which was only cool because of John Leguizamo. The trailer has some beautiful imagery, though and I am a sucker for that. But it's good to see Wolverine and Dr. Chase Meridian in a movie together. Check out the trailer here and see for yourself.

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Fuck, couldn't they just put a "3" at the end of that one? Really, do we need that long ass subtitle? I guess Rob "Pizzaboy" Cohen gets what Rob Cohen wants. So yeah, lets go to the scorecard: Brendan Fraser-Rachel Weisz+Maria Bello+Jet Li= semi anticipated. The trailer looks aight, there are some cool shots in there but check out the trailer here and let us know what you think.

My Winnipeg
From director Guy Maddin comes this little personal film of his. Really, I can't say much about it but it does seem to draw on the desire for a person to leave their hometown and venture out into the world. Kinda sounds familiar, huh? Check out the trailer here and discover this little gem and take it for what you will. I will def watch this!

So you live in or around Fresno, your interested in or already making films and you like to get your drink on (but not too much, right?). If this describes you (shit, even if it doesn't) feel free to join other like-minded individuals tonight, Thurs. May 22nd at 7pm over at Full Circle Brewery (great place, BTW. Awesome beer!) in downtown Fresno for a mixer put on by the Fresno Filmmaker Forum. What more can you ask for? Film, drinks, downtown. Sounds like a winner to me so I'll be out there but I'm not exactly a "mingler" so I'll just sit back and troll around as I pound beers. I wonder how many times the pharse "Indiana Jones" will uttered tonight? Hope to see you guys there!

"So where's this mythical swede?" one might ask. Well, it's not here yet. Sorry. But it's coming, sweatergod. In the mean time, why not listen to our newest, latest & awesomey (yup, awesomey) podcast! This week, fellow The DUmb contributors Robert Anaforian & Martinez join me in welcoming back special, special guest Bryan Harley from AMF Productions. This episode we chat about that new Indiana Jones movie coming out, Iron Man box office, future Marvel movies, City of Ember advance screening mini-review, embarrassing movies that we like to watch, Uwe Boll vs. Michael Bay, movies that made us cry, bag on "classic" films and other random goodness. Just another day in the office. Thanks to lateupdate.com for hosting the podcast!

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So Shia is becoming a big star now. Here, he teams up with his Disturbia director D.J. Caruso again for this little thriller. Teaser looks good, but I'm still not sold on Shia as a big action star. He's got too much bumbling idiot in his face. Nyup! Check out the trailer here.

When we went to Wondercon in Feb., James McAvoy was there talking about the film and he brought and extended scene with him. It wasn't that great. It actually dampened my hopes for the film. The FX looked pretty lame, some of the shots were questionable and some of the black artifacts coming through looked like it had in fact been shot digitally (this is the first feature film to use the Red Camera) so I took and put the film in the loss column right then and there in order to be pleasantly surprised if the film is actually decent. But this new featurette posted over at Empire got my hopes up a little. To see Mark Millar talk about the transition and to hear him say that he had his fears too actually made me push the film back over to the win column. Of course, we'll just have to wait and see what transpires once it actually drop in June.

Not a part of me wants to see this film (the negative reviews don't help). I will see it, but it'll probably be until it is released on DVD. But if your of the camp that hails Shyamalan as genius, well, go check out the new red band trailer here at IGN. There were some cool images in the trailer that stood out, after all there's nothing like seeing a man get meat waffled by a lawnmower, ejected from a speeding car & an arm getting bitten off by an angry animal (all these things are in the trailer so beware). Too bad there a whole lot more to making a great film.

I decided to head on over to Fandango this morning to see which theaters here in town would be doing midnight screenings for Indiana Jones this week and on the front page I saw this story teased on their home page called On Location with the subhead of "See where Indy 4 filmed, from Brazil to Hawaii to.....Fresno?" Yeah, I wouldn't had believed it either if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Also, they've posted some cool pics from the local shoot that I had never seen and they dropped some fun facts in that Harrison Ford flew his own plane to Eagle Field (which is playing a Peruvian airfield, apparently) to do his shots there and they mention Savannah’s Café over at Chandler. That's pretty effin' cool! Anyways, check em' all out over here. So anyways, who wants to go to a midnight screening at Edwards this Wednesday night? Let's do this!

Full steam ahead with promotion of The Wackness as yet another trailer has dropped, which you can check out here. And as if I haven't felt so good about watching a non-nerd film in a long time (kinda hard to rival the Iron Man hype) I went over to the updates web site this morning and saw the catalog of music that they have displayed there: So many classics! Oh my God, if they released a soundtrack with all these songs, I would have to double check and make sure the producers hadn't downloaded one of my playlists and slapped their logo on it. It's uncanny how many of those songs are on my everyday rotation (yeah, I'm an old school nut and I live in the past so sue me). Click here to head on over to the Official Site and be sure to check out all the links they have (in the Links & Reviews section, duh!) to You Tube videos of some classic hip-hop videos!

Well, it's pricey at $599 but it's LIMITED EDITION which means it's worth it (keep telling yourself that.....keep telling yourself that)! Lookit how cool that Gun Metal Gray color looks! Yeah, but for the price they could of at least thrown in an 80 GB hard drive and maybe that MGS4 branded Bluetooth headset. But if you must, head on over to Konami's Web Site here to get all the info on how to pre-order the system.

I was surfing Yahoo! news when I came across this little news story about how a new law going into effect this Thursday in Los Angeles is trying to make it illegal for Taco Trucks to stay in one place for more than 1 hour. Apparently, this law has existed for quite sometime now but previously, the fine was only $60 if they stayed for a half hour. The new law will jack that fine up to $1,000 for 1 hour of non-movement and possibly even jail. So what happens now? That's where the organization Save Our Taco Trucks comes into play. They have hired a lawyer and vow to keep doing what they've been doing. So what do you think? Will we ever see such an ordinance come into effect here in Fresno? Or is there even something already in place? All I know is that I love those Tacos Trucks and I'll be buying one of these shirts to help support our Trocas! Be sure to head on over to the saveourtacotrucks.org site here and sign the petition to help stop the insanity from spreading up here. Also, check out the Facebook page here for more info. For those of you affected by this dumb law, enjoy your last legal taco tonight and just know that we'll scarf down a couple of tacos for you tonight when I visit my local Taco Truck. Those shirts are just too bad ass.....

So the hype machine for Indy 4 is rolling as I recently heard about Dr. Pepper cans having images of the icon on them. So over at indianajones.com they've posted a new feature on director Steven Spielberg doing what he does so best. Now, it might just be the fanboy in me there were some shots in there that look like they were shot at Eagle Field out in Firebaugh. Now, I've been to the location many times as a child and recently as a grown-ass man (what, I loves me some WWII history) and I'd be willing to bet that shot up there is from there. Anyways, the video is cool, nothing special, but if you'd like you can search and find some other local shots in it.....or just stop being a fanboy and just wait for the damn movie to drop in a week or so. Head on over to SlashFilm for the embedded video.

Sony Europe has always put out some very weird & controversial ads and that might be because of how lax Europeans are when it comes down to nudity and language. So this ad shouldn't come as a surprise but as always, here in the good ol' U.S. of A....we're just not used to it quite yet (well, at least most of us, as it may seem). So if your interested in seeing what a man would look like if he had a thumb instead of a penis, go for it and head on over to Joystiq here to see the full ad, which was created by Sony Europe's ad agency TBWA\Wien. Beware....this is the most NSFW EVAR! Even though, technically, it's not a cock you'll see, it's very easy to mistake the image as something offensive if your prude of a co-worker sees you eyeing the image. Enjoy!....or not.

Well, with imminent release of one of the biggest releases of the year in the video game world in Metal Gear Solid 4 (but not going to get as much hype as that other game) news about the franchise has started to boil over in certain circles. The latest coming out of Kotaku is that Kojima-san (creator/director of all things Metal Gear) is interested in having P.T. Anderson helm the film adaptation of his beloved franchise. P.T. Anderson, director of Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood and Magnolia directing and action-adventure film based on a video game. Hmmmm...although I'm going to lean to slashfilm.com's side and agree that they might have meant Paul W.S. Anderson (director of awesomeness such as Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil & Aliens Vs. Predator) which would suck cause that hack would most certainly bring no justice to the franchise (his wife Milla Jovovich might be perfect for the role of Meryl, though). But if the guy was in fact NOT misquoted, lets all sit back and imagine a P.T. Anderson Metal Gear film, shall we?

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

While there has been no official word or offers made, there has been speculation that Brad Pitt's name is bieng tossed around over at Marvel to play the mighty Thor. As some of you may or may not have heard, the official date of June 4th 2010 has already been set for the films release on the big screen. With director Matthew Vaughn's holding deal expiring, the film doesn't have any solid director on lock either. It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds and who get's to rock the helmet and swing the ol' Mjolnir into villains heads. I don't know about his acting skills, but Triple H looks like he should be walking around with a giant hammer. -partymarty