CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AT CRAZY MEL'S
Here is the link to the new teaser trailer for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto coming this summer, produced by his own ICON Productions and distributed by Disney.The trailer looks marvelous; like a very ominous version of Baraka.
Given the tag lines used in the trailer I suspect very much that the film will metaphorically be about our own times. With the only language spoken in the film being the original Mayan dialect, Mel Gibson is setting himself up as a director who certainly is willing to take chances.
But he obviously doesn't want his audience to think that he has gotten all serious and pretentious on us either.
If you go through the trailer frame by frame, at roughly the 1:46 mark you will see that he has inserted into the trailer a flash frame of himself in all of his old Mel 'wackiness'. Quite a bizarre stunt for him to pull. This film should be one to watch for next summer. It'll be fun if Crazy Mel can pull another rabbit our of the hat and outgross Ron Howard's The DaVinci Code and Bryan Singer's Superman.
At Christmastime I have a list of films I try to watch every year, as do many. Old standards that keep me feeling warm and toasty. Here, in no particular order are my favourites:
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Year Without a Santa Claus
It's A Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Mr. Bean's Christmas Special
Lethal Weapon
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Scrooge (Albert Finney version)
Scrooged
Goin' My Way
BlackAdder's Christmas (tough to find)
With regards to the election, can you feel it in the air?
Some commentator's are already talking about it and I agree.
There will be a majority government on January 23, 2005.
posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 3:47 AM
2 Comments:
Your Christmas watch list is funny. All those Christmas movies plus Lethal Weapon and Diehard.
As for the election, I love it when all the pundits are wrong. People aren't outraged that it was over Christmas and I've noticed people are paying attention despite the season. As for a majority, I can't see it.....what do you forsee as the majority?
Die Hard is a Christmas Classic! I wish they'd subbed "yippy-i-o-ki-yay mother-!" with "ho ho ho mother-!"
It would have made this Christmas classic all the sweeter ;)
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