What's better than one Ryan Reynolds cover? FOUR! The good folk at Entertainment Weekly are certainly in our good books for their outstanding efforts. Observe/fawn over the four covers here:
Sah-woon! HOT! GOOFY! So totally Ryan! And, of course, the original (and perhaps the best? Oh, no, that's far too hard to choose...) which we gave you a peek at earlier in the week (CLICK ON ME!)...
Meanwhile, it would be mega-rude of me not to share the amazingly cute pic that graces the pages inside the mag...
Good stuff all round, EW. Good stuff.
Oh, and there are words that go with the pics too. Almost forgot about that. Words are good. RR's opinions on such weighty topics as Jon & Kate Plus Eight reaffirm that he's just plain awesome. “I find that whole situation to be horrible and awful," he says. "I wanna see Jon & Kate Plus Eight: The Musical. Jon versus Kate. I wanna see four kids on one side and for kids on the other, snapping menacingly to music as they walk toward one another." Gold. Actually, how awesome would that be?!
-- Carolyn Stewart We really weren't joking when we said we were "all Ryan all the time!" o'clock, June 21 2009
Here at The 'Brain we're all Ryan Reynolds all the time... RR was on Dave last night to promote The Proposal and it once again proves how awesome, funny and hot he is. It also gives him the chance to tell the AWEsome story of Samuel L Jackson and the bees... which you have to see to believe. Observe...
Ryan Reynolds on David Letterman June 2009 Part one
Ryan Reynolds on David Letterman June 2009 Part two
-- Carolyn Stewart We don't wake up and say, "Let's act the crap out of this day!" o'clock, June 19, 2009
What is it?A romantic comedy called The Proposal starring real-life pals Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock.
Shouldn't you list ladies before gentlemen?Mmm, sure, unless the guy is as hot as Ryan and then all bets are off.
What happens? They work at a publishing company in New York and hate each other. They pretend to be engaged so book editor Margaret (Sandy) doesn't get deported to her native Canada. As part of the ruse, they go hang out with Andrew's (Ryan) quirky family in a seaside town in Alaska and How-To-Lose-A Guy-In-10-Days-style they start to hate each other less.
Did you know?In real life the opposite is true: Ryan is from Canada and Sandy is from the US.
Is it funny?Yeah, but my mum just texted me as I was writing this to say, of her new hair cut, "I think my hair looks like a bad hat", which made me laugh more than anything in the movie. The best bit?Well, my movie-going mate KEF of Diet Another Day blog fame and I were subjected to 85 years worth of kiddie trailers before the movie began... only to find that the movie that began was Land of the Lost. The other disgruntled movie-goers naturally started talking about how this was not the movie we'd paid to see. Then an elderly man's voice pipped from the back of the cinema, "Would you all be quiet! The movie's started!" And then the rest of the audience turned to him and in unison said, 'It's the wrong movie!" Oh, how we laughed. We also had snacks. Oh, you mean the best bit in the movie? Well, there's this super-cute part where the family's white fluffy dog escapes and it's up to dog-phobic Margaret to get it back... from a vicious bird. Best line?"You're like the Kennedy of Alaska!" (this may not be the exact line but that's my memory of it)
Should I see it? The leads are cute, inoffensive and quite darling together. The rest is predictable, cosy and nice. But sometimes that's all you really want. I mean, there are worse movies... like He's Just Not That Into You. I will admit that for you to enjoy the movie, it will certainly help if you're obsessed with Ryan Reynolds - which I obviosuly and unashamedly am. If you share this affliction might I suggest you hire/beg/borrow/steal every season of the almighty Two Guys, A Girl and A Pizza Place? You won't regret it. What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, should you see this movie? Yeah, go on. It's really cute. -- Carolyn Stewart I just ate a fortune cookie o'clock, June 15, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine REVIEW What is it?: The X-Men trilogy spin-off/prequel, which tells the back-story of Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman), the self-healing, metal-clawed mutant with no memory of his past.
The cast looks awesome!: Despite the fact that the movie poster makes full use of characters like Cyclops, Gambit and Emma Frost, none of them get much to do. It seemed like every time I thought I was really enjoying a character, they would leave. Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) started off really cool, and quickly descended into a two dimensional pawn. will.i.am (Kestrel), Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool), Dominic Monaghan (Bolt) and Taylor Kitsch (Gambit) all impress but all get far too little screen time. It must be great to work a few days on a movie and get your head on the poster (I realise they were likely filming much longer than that, but please don’t ruin my story).
In fact, while the film does fill in Wolverine’s back-story, we don’t even get to know him all that well. After fighting through the Civil War, World Wars I and II and Vietnam, and then becoming some sort of mercenary/bounty hunter for the government, Wolverine suddenly decides he doesn’t want to kill people any more. You know, after 100 years of pretty solidly killing people. Why?
VIC-TOR!!!: Hugh spends most of the movie yelling this at his brother Victor, aka Sabretooth, as if he were in a mutant version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
What’s this business about the movie being leaked on the internet?: According to the studio the leaked version was a work in progress and didn’t have final special effects added. Now I haven’t seen the version on the internet, but the version I saw on the big screen had some very hokey SFX going on. One scene, where Wolverine is getting to know his metal claws in a bathroom, inspired giggles and whispers of “how fake!” on account of the claws looking like something out of Roger Rabbit … those things aren’t CGI – they’re cartoons! Sometimes you have to wonder why they don’t just strap plastic ones on in some shots, it would look better.
The green screen work – in the cars and especially out a barn window – are so bad that I have seen better work on The Bold And The Beautiful. Green screen is a tricky thing, and I happen to be of the old-fashioned opinion that if you can’t make it work, just actually film outside! Shocking, right?
I don’t want to spoil anything, but a cameo by one of the X-Men from the original trilogy looks so odd that I am still not convinced they didn’t use CGI instead of the actual actor. That or far too much plastic surgery has been had.
The other mutants couldn't bring themselves to look at Wolverine's cartoon claws.
Any other complaints?: Funny you should ask … the film doesn’t seem to know when it is set. According to the press notes it’s “10 to 15 years before X-Men”. Which would make it the mid-late '80s. And yet there are ‘50s buildings with brand new exit signs, ultra-modern bus stops, ’60s utes next to ’90s ones and rather modern looking keypad door locks.
Which Aussie actors are in it?: Aside from Hugh, there are tiny roles from the likes of Peter O’Brien, Max Cullen, Tahyna Tozzi and Aaron Jeffery.
So, err, did you actually like it?: While it sounds like I’m laying into this movie, I actually enjoyed it. Far more than I thought I would. I have pointed out bad CGI, but there is also quite a bit that is stylistically impressive, and Hugh delivers a solid performance and has surrounded himself in equally solid performers. While I enjoyed the ride, the ending was a little lacking – which is to be expected from a prequel, really.
Is it as good at the other X-Men movies?: It’s definitely better than The Last Stand.
See it?: Just go and have fun already.
His name is Ethan So, after the whole Ethan Suplee debacle, I went ahead and posted the link to my blog on Twitter. And guess what? Ethan read it! Hilarious.
He sent me the following tweet:
EthanSuplee@scottkeenanYOU BETTER WATCH TONIGHT! And you better get it! I've got my eye on you!
A very cool guy. I promise to watch, sir. But I’m in Australia, so not until Wednesday. And as for getting it … I’ll do my best!
PS: Ethan is totally using the pic I used of him as his Twitter page background now.
Oh Goode for YOU! The Goode Family is the latest animated series from the mind of Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead, Daria and King Of The Hill (all of which are some of my all-time faves). Centering around a well-meaning, but not especially bright, pollitically-correct environmentalist family, the show starts in the US soon, and a preview video has been released online.
I think it looks like a winner (of course I said the same thing about The Oblongs, which sadly lasted all of three seconds). Check it out and see what you think.
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