The TV Addict 

Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth wins me over!
With the onslaught of casting news regarding X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, the one I was most skeptical about was Schreiber playing Sabretooth. It’s not that he isn’t a fine actor (he is), it’s just that I absolutely could not picture him in the role whatsoever. I mean Wolverine’s long-time adversary is supposed to be a pretty bulky, buff, menacing looking guy. Liev Schreiber is not that. Until now. Just Jared posted a multitude of pictures featuring Schreiber all dressed up in costume here, and what can I say? He not only fits the role perfectly, he looks just like Sabretooth is supposed to. I still find myself wary of this film, largely because it seems like the casting got a little overboard, and they’re throwing in so many other mutants this might as well be X-MEN 4, but slowly I can feel the tiniest bit of excitement building within me.

Uwe Boll is … well, Uwe Boll
I was incredibly hesitant about writing about this, largely because the last thing this guy needs is anyone indulging him and his asinine attempts at self-promotion, but there are times where he outdoes even himself, and it just needs talking about. So what has he done now? No, not another boxing match with a film critic. This time he has not only scheduled his new film POSTAL to screen opposite INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, but he’s making thirteen-year old like boasts that it’s going out perform that film. They go something like this:

“On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael Moore say!”
“Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the —- the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as ‘Nazi Theme Park Owner’ outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List!”

Obviously (or at least I desperately hope) he’s joking. There are times I do wonder though whether he is just completely oblivious to what a blow-hard hack he is, or whether he’s like the Andy Kaufmann of self-promotion. Thing is, even if it is the latter (which is really giving him too much credit), it’s clearly not working. Nobody is seeing his movies. So maybe he should just call it a day, instead of giving us poorly written attempts at publicity like this. Even if this was meant to be funny, it’s not even that. It’s just kind of … sad. Like a wailing child howling for attention but being ignored. Ah, what fond childhood memories I have.
Yo ho, a pirates life for thee … again … in 2011.

To the absolute surprise of nobody, Aint It Cool reports that a fourth installment of PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN could be heading our way come 2011, despite the second and third installments failing to capture the magic and fun spirit of the first film. Now the details of this fourth outing are pretty scattered apparently, with some saying it’ll be on a much smaller-scale (for example, only Jack Sparrow focused), or on a huge scale that outdoes even the kinetic insanity that was the last thirty minutes of WORLD’s END. Personally, the thing I was most disappointed with in DEAD MAN’s CHEST and WORLD’s END was that Jack Sparrow became increasingly marginalized in the face of giving other characters screen time. Frankly, Jack Sparrow is what made BLACK PEARL such a delight, and I would wholly welcome a Jack-centric film. It might even go a long way towards me forgetting DEAD MAN and WORLD’s END, not that I really retained much of them to begin with on account of their convoluted plots.