It’s a risky business, coming up with alternate endings to movie classics. Even if you’re just being funny, people can and do take it personally when you f*ck with their stuff (take George Lucas, for example). A little animation group called HISHE (How It Should Have Ended) has popped up, providing some nifty alternatives for The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and even The Empire Strikes Back. Read the full story
In what has otherwise been pretty dismal vampire movie news (i.e., they keep making vampire movies), there’s two chunks of noteworthy vampire film news this week. The first of them is that a) Alicia Silverstone is planing an official return to the silver screen, and b) that she is reuniting with Clueless director Amy Heckerling. I always had a thing for Silverstone, at least enough to forgive her for Batman and Robin, at least, and the news that these two are getting back together in a possible spoof/satire of vampire flicks is reason to be happy.
The only other film really matching Tron 2 as far as hype is, of course, Green Lantern. And yeah, maybe that new Harry Potter film, which literally sent the girl sitting next to me into orgasmic spasms, clutching herself each time a new trailer scene popped up. And what better place to hold panel conferences for such overly-anticipated films than Magical Hall H, next to which people are known to camp out all night or at least wait in line for a good 4 hours to check out maybe 2 minutes of footage, only to get rejected when you’re about 50 yards from the door? Green Lantern is being helmed by Mask of Zorro/new James Bond director Martin Campbell, and judging by the footage, looks every bit as f&%ing rad as the crowd was hoping it would be, despite Campbell’s insistence that what was being shown was mostly rough and early FX.
Death is the true final frontier… in reality, there is no way to avoid it. We’re all building up to our inevitable death scene at some point in the future. But in the world of movies, characters can not only skirt death and return after the funeral, they can have one of the coolest and most memorable deaths ever imagined. There is no better scene than a death scene and actors often will take on a role knowing that their character will die on screen. Sometimes a death scene is Oscar bait and sometimes it’s to get out of doing a sequel. Harrison Ford famously wanted Han Solo to die in the “final” film in the Star Wars series, but George Lucas refused. Too bad. A badass like Han Solo going down would have been memorable indeed.
The Best Five…
Here’s a round up of five of the most gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, awesometacular best movie death scenes…
