#Movie NEWS! over-the-top badass Expendables 2 trailer!!

This' just in, the all-new Expendables 2 trailer!
Check it out, yo!

It's an older and tired Sylvester Stallone that introduce us to this over-the-top extravaganza fest.



Oh man!
So pumped out for this!!!
Looks extremely fun and "old school"~
And Van Damme vs. Stallone?? Sign me in!!!

Scharzy's back, "I'll be back!" he kept telling us :P

This is looking pretty entertaining and badass :)

Movie NEWS! Expendables 2

The most badass movie project ever attempted gets a trailer and a release date!

The Expendables 2 is set for Aug. 17, 2012!
And easily the best casting call ever, everyone's in there! From Van Damme to Chuck Norris, passing through Scharzy, Bruce Willis & many more!
I can hardly wait for this dream come true :D

Gamin' NEWS! "Mark of the Assassin DLC"

Here's Felicia Day turned into a Dragon Age II character in an upcoming DLC episode:



Random.
I just hope Bioware won't do the same with future Mass Effect 3 DLC characters and missions..
I mean, it can be fun with their fantasy-RPG series and The Guild's actress, I see the link, sure.
But I sure won't like having "real actors" popping-up as bonus squad members* in their scifi action-RPG series as well...
We already have fake!Vandamme there, that's more than enough.

*of course we already have that with Seth Green/Joker and Yvonne Strahovski/Miranda, but that's besides the point. I'm talking about additional "celebs" getting into the game via paid add-ons.

VanDammeHour - JCVD & Lou Ferrigno at Gold's Gym

From a little reportage on the French channel Canal +.



Van Damme and Lou Ferrigno! Lou Ferrigno knows Van Damme!
How cool is that?! :'3

VanDammeHour - World Of Warcratf Commercial

World Of Warcraft ad starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme!

Thought it was worth a share :P

I cannot find Chuck Norris badass...

Perhaps it's because I didn't grow up with the Internet around like you, younger kids today, have!

I dunno...

Or perhaps I don't understand this meme nor want to accept it...

Anyway, fact is, I don't understand nor cannot find Chuck Norris badass...


Another reason may be that I actually saw Chuck Norris in movies and on teevee.
I mean, I watched Way of the Dragon when I was pretty young.
And Bruce Lee did kick Chuck's ass pretty badly... There was this tension during most of the movie that this new guy, Norris' character, was dangerous. But in the end, Bruce Lee kicked his ass!

Then, I actually watched a lot of episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. Probably most of the first 3 seasons!
Not because I actually loved the show. More like, I watched most of the stuff on tv at the time.
And I much prefered the Highlander tv series running on around that time.

I always found Walker (Chuck Norris) pretty bad in it....
I mean he came in, kick some people/kids ass with his karaté.
The guys ran off/kids joined him.
And there was that "lesson of the day"-stuff at the end everytime.

It was about "learning to fight for your own self-defense". "Kicking bad guys ass". "Learning to behave". "Be on the right side". "Not using drugs/dealing stuff/doing the good choices". "Helping others"...etc..
I mean, it was enough having already 80% cartoons telling us that! (Sonic, Mario, GI Joe, Transformers, etc..)
I much prefered to watch a good Batman cartoon or some epic sword fighting in Highlander!
Stop with the forced in teaching!!

Oh, and I actually always found more badass Clarence Gilyard/Trivette. Now that guy could kick ass!


Seriously though, I defy you to actually watch a whole episode of Walker Texas Ranger!

I imagine that those who idealize and idolize Chuck Norris (with all those Chuck Norris facts, memes, etc..) never actually watched Chuck Norris in anything!
(I mean, besides the 2 minutes youtube-poops in loop)
I've seen him in action, thus I cannot find Chuck Norris badass...

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I mean, isn't Van Damme in whole intro sequence of the movie JCVD a lot more badass!
That whole sequence's been filmed in only one shot!! One shot!!


Get the Internet to love Van Damme right now, dammit! How many belgium actors do you guys know anyway? Isn't that almost a meme in the making?

MOVIE NEWS! More superheroes teevee and some badass movies.

Here's some more movie and TV news!

Superheroic action on TV, epic muscle-action in theaters!

Hey guys and gals!

Here's some news, about the stuff I've been following.

First off, the SuperHeroes(TM)!

There's finally a Trailer for the future NBC brand new show about a Batman-like character The Cape!
Looks...great and interesting, strangely...
I'm not expecting too much about this one, but all the previous and clips I've been so far made me quite a positive impressivon so far.
It's like my Batman-would be-perfect-adaption. Imagine people adapting the Batman year one as a tv series (leading up to the Long Halloween or other early Batman tales)
Superheroes work a lot better as serials in my opinion, just for their heroic day-to-day heroic action. Comics are a serial-type of medium afterall!

Anyway here's the trailer, watch it!

Looks neat! 

I wanna believe in this one, please producers/writers/directors, don't screw this one up!!!

Didn't I say in that last NEWS! post that superheroes were finally coming to tv now??
Here's just a proof of that:


It's like the Incredibles meet the Fantastic Four (both the comics and the live action movies)

That's ABC studios take on the new TV genre - No Ordinary Family it is.
It's a bit more in the line of what fans of the show Heroes would want probably.

Like with The Cape, I'm not expecting a lot from both these shows. I hope the SuperHero genre translates well on TV, at least as the 90s live-action The Flash series.
And hoping for something other than a little girly drama à la Smallville. Please, nothing like Smallville! I hate those teen emo-angsty drama shows...

Anyway, that's all for TV.

Movies now!

 Art by Cameron Bennett (Website)

George A. Romero, legendary horror director is back with more Zombie movies, like I already talked about in a previous post.
If you like the genre, the real zombies, not the dumbed down hollywood running ones, there's a pretty neat review up at shocktillyoudrop dot com!
Check it out! Cool stuff!^ ^

Now, on the BADASS ACTION flicks -

The (epic) good

Stallone has been making the most badass action film every kid's that grew up in the late 80s/early 90s dreamt of....
The Expendables will feature an ensemble cast of pure badass-ysh action heroes, including Sylvester Stallone himself, but also Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis, even Arnold "friggin' governator" Schwarzenegger, and many more!

It sounds like a dream come true! A true modern action flick, not some dumb cliché 2000s CGi-fied action flick, but a true modern action flick 80s/90s style!


There's rumours about 2 version, one PG-13 to please the studios and one R-rated, old school! I hope they'll air the R-rated across the world... I'm fearing a Die Hard 4-effect. (you know, getting the kids friendly in theatres and the R-rated much later on DVD...)



Only Jason Statham's presence annoys me in there. I love the guy, sure, but he represents a lot more 2000s action heroes than the old school ones I grew up with...

The bad (ass)

Then there's Van Damme.
He will not be in the Expendables because a) he turned down the offer, because I didn't like the character (rumours about him playing a bad guy/cameo like character) b) he was finishing and closing off his latest project.
The Eagle Path is a movie that was started 2 years ago. The project got cancelled, delayed, interrupted, etc..
It was finally over last year but needed more time to be completly finished.

I love Van Damme. In fact I own most of his movies in DVD. Even his recent direct-to-dvd career has been pretty interesting, a lot more than say Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris or Wesley Snipes.
(to each their own tastes, I say...)
The last movie Van Damme directed himself was The Quest, which is own definitive classic for me, if you like martial arts, tournaments, adventure and gritty action.
His last movie he starred in was JCVD, an incredible comeback to theatres (in french speaking countries at least), and Universal Soldier: Regeneration, well received with the critics but I haven't checked it yet.

So will this new movie -
come to theatres, at least in some countries?
be as good as the two previous flicks?

The ugly (haired dude)

Last but not least, there's going to be a CONAN remake/reboot!
Hey! Hollywood writers need those remakes/reboots, it's not like it's easy being creative nowadays...

This one...sounds... How to put it..? Not necessary!

I dig Conan! When he's played by thhe "friggin' governator" Schwarzenegger!!
That random long haired dude from Star Gate Atlantis will play the governa... I mean Conan. Jason Momoa or sumthin'...
I hope he builds up some muscle for the character... There's gonna be some expectactions for such a classic character!

No trailer for this one. There's still enough time to cancel this one I mean, to shoot it! It only started filming this previous March.

*sigh*

Anyway, enough talkin' for this time!
Until next time~