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Ong Bak 2 Released On Demand One Month Before Theaters

  • September 25th, 2009
  • Posted in movies

Amazon Video On Demand, and your TV provider’s on-demand service. Then a month from now on October 23rd, you can catch Ong Bak 2 on the big screen. I’m curious to see how successful these rental 2.0 options are compared to traditional theatrical distribution. You can’t beat the at-your-leisure convenience of on-demand video services (as [ READ MORE ]

DVD Gripes

  • November 9th, 2008
  • Posted in movies

I hate DVDs with short menu music that keeps looping and looping while you get your food ready. How hard is it to make a music loop that lasts a few minutes so it’s not annoyingly repetitive? DVDs that automatically start playing the main title when i’m in the bathroom. FAIL. And why do the [ READ MORE ]

I Am On IMDb

Harris got Skiptracers added to IMDb, and i’m credited for the special effects work i did a few months back[ READ MORE ]

Legendary Ending

  • April 9th, 2008
  • Posted in movies

FirstShowing.net explains why Robert Neville in I Am Legend was legendary: he was the last man on Earth and he hunted vampires. Put yourself in the vampires’ shoes and he is the antagonist—the myth, the legend. I never thought of it that way. The included clip of the alternate original comes closer to illustrating the [ READ MORE ]

The Oner

  • November 18th, 2007
  • Posted in movies

This 4-minute martial-arts fight scene is one continuous shot. Tony Jaa in The Protector ascends 4 stories through dozens of bad guys in this oner that took over a month to choreograph and prepare, and 5 takes over the course of several weeks to finally get right[ READ MORE ]

The Years