29 Responses to “Happy 2013”

1. 

   Mattman Begins

   December 31st, 2012 at 11:19 pm

   Happy lucky ’13, Verninators!

2. 

   Griff

   January 1st, 2013 at 1:17 am

   here’s hoping the shit doesn’t hit the fan this year

3. 

   Felix

   January 1st, 2013 at 1:34 am

   Happy 2013 everyone!

   Films i am looking forward to this year

   Riddick
   Parker
   A Good Day To Die Hard
   Catching Fire
   Man Of Steel
   Pacific Rim
   Tom Yum Goong 2

4. 

   CJ Holden

   January 1st, 2013 at 1:35 am

   Happy new year, folks!

5. 

   Griff

   January 1st, 2013 at 1:41 am

   the movie I’m most looking forward to is Pacific Rim, which shouldn’t come as a surprise (it’s Del Toro making an anime inspired movie, this movie was made for me)

6. 

   travis-dane

   January 1st, 2013 at 3:59 am

   Happy New Year Vern!

   Thanks for all the great work you do for us, keep it up!

7. 

   onthewall2983

   January 1st, 2013 at 4:44 am

   Happy New Year, guys. Thanks for putting that up particularly, Vern. LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST as a follow-up to BAND OF GYPSYS is like GODFATHER II compared to I.

8. 

   Dtroyt

   January 1st, 2013 at 1:21 pm

   Happy new year, fellow film lovers, Vern and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix!

9. 

   jsixfingers

   January 1st, 2013 at 3:04 pm

   Happy New Years Vern! Thanks for another great year of excellence!

   And to all the regulars, may this year exceed your wildest expectations. You guys are the creme de la creme of filmatic commentators. Keep it up.

10. 

    Steve Glennon

    January 1st, 2013 at 6:36 pm

    Happy New Year all.

    Vern,
    There is a picture labeled bruce lee at party at this web site: http://www.westlord.com/bruce-lee-life-story/ but I don’t know if that is the sort of thing you were looking for.

11. 

    Mr. Majestyk

    January 2nd, 2013 at 9:48 am

    Happy New Year, fellas. I spent New year’s Eve at a party in a giant plastic greenhouse in Nantucket attended by William Sadler, who heard me gushing fannishly over his performance in DIE HARD 2 and gave me the nod. I can already tell that 2013 is going to be awesome. And you can take that to the bank.

12. 

    The original Paul

    January 2nd, 2013 at 11:03 am

    Happy almost-new year guys! (Yep, got in too late again.) Let’s hope it’s as good as last year.

13. 

    Mouth

    January 2nd, 2013 at 11:20 am

    A few years ago, if I sent a friendly “happy new year’s eve” text to someone and he responded that he’s in the vicinity of William Sadler, I’d’ve had to have looked up the name to remember, “Oh yeah, he was funny as Grim Reaper in the 2nd Bill & Ted movie.”

    Nowadays, thanks to Vern’s Seagalogical studies and my commitment to Badass Cinematicalia, I have no hesitation in responding to breaking news of a William Sadler sighting in the proper manner. Here I have a violation of Mr. Majestyk’s cell phone privacy to prove it:

    

14. 

    Gilmore

    January 2nd, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    I am just a lurker here but I’m really dying to see what you guys think of John Dies At The End. It’s out now y’know.

15. 

    Mouth

    January 2nd, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    Just got my x-mas presents:

    -DEATH WISH 3 blu ray
    -LETTERS TO JULIET blu ray
    -RAMBO: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR’S SET blu rays
    -a nice bright silvery silk tie from Paris (France, not Texas)
    -approval to move into my new abode in Beverly Hills (California, not Michigan)

    It’s going to be a glorious 2013.

16. 

    The original Paul

    January 4th, 2013 at 1:59 am

    Happy New Year, Mouth.

    Now I’m going to indulge my talent for immediately focussing in on the most important part of any post, to ask incredulously: there’s a Paris in Texas?!

17. 

    ShootMcKay

    January 4th, 2013 at 4:13 am

    Paul- you´ve never heard of the movie PARIS,TEXAS? The title gives you a clue.

18. 

    pegsman

    January 4th, 2013 at 5:26 am

    I’m more concerned about the silvery silk tie…

19. 

    Chopper Sullivan

    January 4th, 2013 at 5:52 am

    Holy shit, the Evil Dead Remake red band trailer actually looks really fucking good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3UiELNrjhE

20. 

    The original Paul

    January 4th, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    Shoot – I haven’t. But if I had, I’d probably assume that it was a movie about the differences between Parisian and Texan culture…

21. 

    Mr. Majestyk

    January 4th, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    Chopper: I guess. I’m just too sick of this shit to even begin to get my hopes up. If viewed on its own merits and not as yet another mercenary cash-in on a beloved classic, the trailer maybe has potential. The chick in the basement looks sort of creepy, and the blood looks nice and red, at least, not that black digital mush we get most of the time nowadays that looks like a septic tank overflowed. However, the trailer already gets on my bad side by using that skittery mp3-fastforwarding sound effect for the avid farts. Why that sound is supposed to be scary is something I’ve never been able to ascertain. So we’re already dealing with stylist twitches I’ve been sick to death of for about a decade now, before we even get into the whole aspect of why THE EVIL DEAD needed to get remade in the first place.

    I am aware that Raimi and Campbell were very hands-on, but so? Has Raimi ever actually produced a worthwhile horror film that he didn’t direct? This is a filmography that includes such instantly forgotten fare as THE POSSESSION, THE MESSENGERS, BOOGEYMAN, and the GRUDGE series. When a thoroughly mediocre film like 30 DAYS OF NIGHT is the jewel of your producorial resume, maybe you don’t really have the eye for talent you think you do.

    Yeah, I don’t know. I try, but I’m still more or less like “Fuck this movie.”

22. 

    Stu

    January 5th, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    Am I an asshole for being mad that this isn’t a vampire movie?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSoBRcrZQ1g&feature=player_embedded

    “What? We never SAID it was about vampires! We just named it after the author of Dracula*, had some thin, pale looking people who would suit playing vampires, references to blood including the not-vampire guy offering a glass of dark red drink to the girl after the line about blood, not-vampire guy using the somewhat archaic expression “She is of age”, and generally a creepy tone to it. Where did you get vampire from that? The director having done a modern urban vampire thriller before? Pshaw!”

    *which is an intentional reference, according to writer Wentworth Miller
    “Yes. It’s called Stoker, which is a nod to Bram Stoker who wrote Dracula. It’s got a lot of elements of the Dracula mythology in its story…It’s not a vampire story. It’s not about vampires at least with the teeth and the desire to suck your blood but it is a thriller and it is about an individual who preys on the innocent”
    So it’s like, a metaphorical vampire story?

23. 

    The original Paul

    January 5th, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    Majestyk – having not seen any of the movies you name that Raimi has produced, I will have to take your word on those, but nonetheless my feeling is much the same as yours.

    The problem for me is that I view the “Evil Dead” series – which I kinda love, even the third film – as a one-of-a-kind event. To make three films that combine that particular brand of humour, gore, scares, self-awareness while still being self-contained, and just all-out Bruce-Campbell-ness, just feels like something that probably won’t ever be repeated and shouldn’t be attempted again. I wouldn’t say the existence of a remake cuts me to the very soul in the same way as certain OTHER remakes (*cough*TotalRecall*cough*) do, but it’s still the kind of thing that I would never ever go to see or pay money for.

24. 

    Chopper Sullivan

    January 5th, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    Maybe it’s lowered expectations on my part, or just wanting to believe they aren’t going to fuck this up completely, but at least it feels like they’re trying, and it actually kind of scared me. The first two Evil Deads were my gateway to being a horror fan, so despite horrible remakes being made for every horror film I love, I want to be optimistic. And I do like that they’re going for brutal stuff that might actually shock people who only think of Bruce Campbell one-liners when they think of Evil Dead.

25. 

    Vern

    January 5th, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    I just noticed today that the new one is EVIL DEAD, not THE EVIL DEAD. So THE EVIL DEAD will always be *THE* EVIL DEAD.

26. 

    The original Paul

    January 6th, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    Stu – “According to writer Wentworth Miller”.

    Hold on a sec, is that the same guy who played “Dracula” (come on, you gotta put that in quotation marks) in Blade 3 (AKA the Blade movie made for stroppy teens who don’t like Blade movies)?

27. 

    clubside

    January 6th, 2013 at 8:24 pm

    No, that’d be Wentworth Miller’s Prison Break co-star, Dominic Purcell, the erstwhile John Doe who was Dracula in a wife-beater.

28. 

    pegsman

    January 7th, 2013 at 1:26 am

    And he’s Norwegian!

29. 

    Mr. Subtlety

    January 15th, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    If anyone is still interested in waxing nostalgic about 2012, I finally got my year-in-review/best of 2012 up!

    http://wearecursedtoliveininterestingtimes.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-subtlety-guide-to-shit-you-should.html

    short list: ZERO DARK THIRTY, ARGO, THE MASTER, LINCOLN, THE RAID, BERNIE, KILLER JOE, HEADHUNTERS, CABIN IN THE WOODS, TALL MAN.