Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: "I'm going to be working on the new Will Ferrell movie 'Land Of The Lost'... and going to be putting some music on that. I went and saw the movie last week and it was hilarious. I loved it. I love Will Ferrell; think he's hilarious anyways. But, yeah, we're getting ready to send some music up to these guys right now and you're listening to some in the background, and then I'll be heading up there this week to hopefully finish all this off with their guys. And man, how exciting for me."
"Land Of The Lost" is set to hit theaters on June 5. Check out a trailer below.
Here is that trailer ...
Hmmm. Megadeth's still got it, even after all these years, but is that enough to make Land watchable? I mean, Mustaine's crew once contributed a solid song to ... Last Action Hero.
In other news, this post took nine minutes to write. My summaries of the final two films on the list contain exactly nine hyperlinks. This entry was published on 05/01/09, and everyone knows that (0 x 5) + (0 x 1) + (0 + 9) = 9. And -- oh my God, there are nines everywhere. Go ahead ... tell yourself it's just a number.
1) The movie looks very Soderbergh-y. No idea if we'll get good Soderbergh or bad Soderbergh. But it's always worth a look.
2) That background rhythm is killer. It's a shame they pulled it from the "feature" trailer, because so rarely do we hear exceptional drum work. The marginalization of the drummer is my biggest complaint about mainstream music. There. End of yet another music musing.
I really have no opinion here. Just the movie has the same name as one of my former cats.
That, and that Sam Rockwell fella is pretty good. Maybe, if we're lucky, one of these days he'll join Sylvester Stallone and Tom Berenger on the list of Oscar-nominated actors.
Now, create a hypothetical in which you download this thing, and then the feds come to your door and bust you for ... downloading X-Men Origins: Wolverine. How hard would the agents laugh at you for going to jail over stealing that movie? It would be like that scene in The 40 Year Old Virgin where Cal discovers the poster on Andy's wall.
"You framed an Asia poster? How hard did the people at the frame store laugh when you brought this in?"
It'd be the modern-day equivalent of Jean Valjean getting jailed for swiping a loaf of bread. I mean, dude's gotta feed his family, but when that loaf's gone ... he's gotta get more, right? Eventually you're gonna get nailed, so you might as well not even try the first time.
So yeah, Wolver-ophiles, I know Hugh is really Jackmaned in his new movie. But seriously -- wait for its theatrical release. In the meantime, screenshots will have to do the trick.
No idea if Sugarwill be any good (although the early returns say yes), or if it will be typically sports-movie sweet, like ... well ... sugar. But anyone who knows anything about anything* will understand why I'm mentioning this story of a Dominican baseball player trying to snag a roster spot in Spring Training**.
*Literally: Anyone who knows anything about me.
**I wonder if the film will mention anything relating to this.
It involves sports* ...
... plus, the title itself has me humming this (and, briefly, this):
No tengo ni idea de qué se trata esta película. También, sólo he visto una y un tercio de las películas de Almodóvar. Pero, estoy un poco excitado de ...
(Back to English) Which brings up the whole Pedro Almodóvar thing. Previous incarnations of The Film Official were averse to subtitles, so many great foreign films from years past got passed over. Then we (I; the royal we) happened upon this one accidentally, and everything changed.
Which brought us (me), recently, to Hable con ella*, the Oscar-winning 2002 film that starred two guys and two comatose women and had one of the most bizarre/original scenes imaginable (and one that's so NSFW I won't even remotely link to it). The plot, the dialogue, the characters -- OK, so they weren't quite as original as that one scene, but they were close, which placed Hable con ella alongside a number of great '02 releases.
*Literally: "Talk with her," but for some reason translated to "Talk To Her" for English crowds.
Subsequently I caught the first 45 minutes of Volver, the 2006 film that netted Penélope Cruz her first Oscar nomination. Intriguing stuff; hoping to see the rest soon. Then Los Abrazos Rotos ("Broken Embraces"). Then maybe, belatedly, I can take up residence in Almodóvarlandia.
Could Year One be the next addition to the list of latest and greatest? The cast (and director) certainly make you notice, and the trailer seems promising:
One thing's definite: When David Cross shows up, I pay attention.
This just in: It's cool to like old rock 'n' roll.
Now, we've had too many examples of Trailer FAIL* to say that these two- to three-minute bits tell us everything about a film. But let's do some simple addition: That trailer + the writer/director involved = Yawn.
I mean, seriously. Rock 'n' roll vs. the establishment? True story or not, that setup's about as compelling as the one about women vs. gender roles, or the idea that war is hell. Next!
Not to say this film will be bad or anything. I'm sure there's some great music in there, and it looks like The World's Greatest Actor (and I type that with zero irony ... I really mean it) has himself another meaty role.
Just it brings back memories of Almost Famous, another overrated music movie (I touched upon that here), and doesn't seem -- operative word there is "seem" -- to compare to the best recent example of music-related film-fiction.
One final note, and this is the major point here: I'm still waiting for someone -- anyone -- to do for the genre of heavy metal* what has been done for the likes of '60s/'70s rock or early country or jazz or soul or hip-hop.
If there's one music genre that is completely misunderstood by the populous, it's metal. Is it esoteric stuff? Absolutely. I wouldn't take a girl to a Between the Buried and Me concert on a first date or anything. But NOBODY can listen to it and make any rational argument against its merit as music of the highest advancement. Plus, ya know, it'd be nice if people understood it just enough so as not to label As I Lay Dying fans Satanists (click the link to get the joke there).
But no, the whole thing still is mostly shunned in the Western world and often banned elsewhere. Therefore, the ingredients of compelling film drama all are in play: Dedicated, committed, creative musicians working on misunderstood art, making little money doing it, and touching people in ways that Indie Rockers only wish they could.
There. End of rant. Now somebody make that movie, instead another on the British Invasion.
(And when you do make the metal film, could you leave Metallica out of it entirely? Thanks.)
Some trailers I caught while seeing Watchmen (review here):
TERMINATOR SALVATION
I'll avoid the obvious Christian Bale jokes (I couldn't top Seth McFarlane, anyway) and ask this question: Is it now the thing to take 1990s rock bands and put their songs in action/sci-fi trailers now (see: Smashing Pumpkins and the original Watchmen trailer)?
PUBLIC ENEMIES
Sorry, but it's going to take some pretty strong reviews here to keep me from thinking about anything but this band and this album and this single (check it out ... if you dare) when I hear the name "Dillinger." Also, I know Michael Mann's into the whole digital thing, but doesn't it just look weird in a movie set in the 1930s?
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