BATMAN FOREVER CO-STAR TOMMY LEE JONES HATED JIM CARREY Jim Carrey has confirmed long-standing rumors of a clash with his Academy Award-winning co-star Tommy Lee Jones during filming of Batman Forever in 1995. Carrey and Jones played the villains The Riddler and Two-Face, respectively. “I cannot sanction your buffoonery,” Jones once said to Carrey during filming of Batman Forever in 1995. Carrey, who stars in the upcoming film Dumb and Dumber To, appeared on the Howard Stern Show to promote his new movie and related his encounter with Jones at a restaurant the night before filming a big scene in the Riddler’s lair, according to US Magazine. “I think what happened was, I was really looking forward to working with Tommy because he’s a fantastic actor and he still is to me. I mean he’s amazing, but he was a little crusty, he was a little crusty,” Carrey said. Carrey alleges the animosity stems from the original Dumb and Dumber movie opening on the same weekend as Tommy
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THE CINEMA BEHIND STAR WARS: ALIENS LEARN HOW ONE CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTER INSPIRED A FRIGHTENING STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS VILLAIN AND MORE. With scary movies on my mind lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about one of my favorite scary movies, James Cameron’s Aliens, from 1986. It’s the action-movie sequel to Ridley Scott’s utterly brilliant Alien from 1979, and tells the tale of Ellen Ripley and a squad of Colonial Marines as they investigate LV-426 and the alien threat there. It’s easy to look at Attack of the Clones and see the design of the creature fromAliens echoed in the Geonosians, as well as the hallways full of them sleeping and moving, but the inspiration expands in magnitude when you look at a number of episodes of The Clone Wars. The first major instance would be the seventh and eighth episodes of Season Two, “Legacy of Terror”and “Brain Invaders.” In “Legacy of Terror,”Anakin and Obi-Wan descend into the Geonosian catacombs looking for the long rumored Geonosia
The Five Games That Could Save 2014 For PS4 Owners Let’s be honest, people. It’s the only we can move forward. 2014, the first full year of the PlayStation 4, has been remarkably disappointing. THIS is the future? This is the generation that will redefine gaming? While every new tech takes time to really get off the ground, every delay of an exciting PS4 title and every new IP that came out more promising than breathtaking (I’m looking at you “ Watch Dogs ” and “ Destiny ”) added to the slump. There are a lot of “good” games to play on your PS4 right now. There are nowhere near enough “great” games. In fact, I would argue that the system still isn’t a must-own, as most of the major games are still coming out on the PS3. Are we going to have to wait all the way until “Uncharted 4” for that change? God, I hope not. And there are still a few games this year that feel like must-plays, titles that could compete for 2014 Game of the Year, which, right now, would go to….do we have to
THE CINEMA BEHIND STAR WARS : ALIENS LEARN HOW ONE CLASSIC MOVIE MONSTER INSPIRED A FRIGHTENING STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS VILLAIN AND MORE. With scary movies on my mind lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about one of my favorite scary movies, James Cameron’s Aliens , from 1986. It’s the action-movie sequel to Ridley Scott’s utterly brilliant Alien from 1979, and tells the tale of Ellen Ripley and a squad of Colonial Marines as they investigate LV-426 and the alien threat there. It’s easy to look at Attack of the Clones and see the design of the creature from Aliens echoed in the Geonosians, as well as the hallways full of them sleeping and moving, but the inspiration expands in magnitude when you look at a number of episodes of The Clone Wars. The first major instance would be the seventh and eighth episodes of Season Two, “Legacy of Terror”and “Brain Invaders.” In “Legacy of Terror,”Anakin and Obi-Wan descend int
STAR WARS IN THE UK: STAR WARS MONTHLY ISSUES 159 – 165 Being a Star Wars fan growing up in the UK during the ’80s was a unique experience. Sure, like our fellow fans across the globe we had the films, the action figures, the books, and the food promotions, but we also had access to a number of things that fans around the world didn’t. We got the chance to watch Admiral Ozzel wear a wonky wig on BBC kids show Grange Hill. We saw Gold 2 play a role in popular early evening soap Crossroads. We even saw Darth Vader showing kids how to cross the road safely dressed in tight green spandex. But the one thing that really set us apart from our American cousins were Marvel’s Star Wars UK titles. Starting on February 8, 1978, Star Wars Weekly ran for 117 issues and broke down, into weekly installments, the original adaptation of Star Wars by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin. It then on to the further adventures of our heroes as what was the 7th issue of the American title hit the UK reprints
STUDYING SKYWALKERS: (FIGURATIVELY) EXPLORING THE DAGOBAH CAVE From the moment Luke Skywalker enters the Dagobah cave, a sense of tension, not unlike something out of a horror films, grabs hold. This pivotal scene encapsulates some strong metaphors that are prevalent in the study of literature, and helps us to learn more about the young hero through this important phase in his burgeoning Jedi career. The use of the cave as a metaphor has long been a powerful symbol of what lies beneath the surface, and has impacted storytelling for generations. The motif of the cave is as old as Homer’s Odyssey, as Odysseus finds himself trapped with the beautiful goddess, Kalypso, as well as the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Odysseus faces both fantasy and fear, respectively, and has opportunities to learn from the experiences. Kalypso seeks to enslave Odysseus, and the Cyclops wants to make a meal of the Greek hero. Odysseus experiences delayed growth through poor choices in these settings, and
LEGO STAR WARS : THE GOLDEN BRICKIES UK AWARDS RECAP On Saturday, October 11, I had the privilege of being one of four judges at the first ever Golden Brickies awards for a UK LEGO Star Wars competition, launched last month via their Facebook page. In homage to the legendary movie franchise and upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, LEGO invited families across the UK to take part in an epic challenge to discover the next generation of talent, including wannabee film makers and photographers. The reaction to the contest was overwhelming, the fan creations were astounding, and as judges we had difficulty in choosing the winners from the hundreds of entries, which just highlights the power of imagination when using LEGO bricks. The awards ceremony took place at the LEGOLAND Resort Hotel in Windsor. The other judges included Eloise Kurtis (LEGO Star Wars brand manager in the UK), Milun Simpson (winner of LEGO Star Wars dream bedroom competition earlier this year),
CORRUPTION, EXPLOITATION, AND DECAY: THE POLITICS OF STAR WARS The Star Wars movies were about many things — good versus evil, The Hero’s Journey, tolerance versus oppression, and so on — but one of the most fundamental tensions in all six films concerned the relationship between the state and its people. In the Prequel Trilogy, this emphasis on politics was more pronounced: some of the most important developments in the first three films took place in the Republic Senate, as Palpatine twisted that august body to suit his needs. When Ben Kenobi told Luke that “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic,” that lit a firestorm of speculation about how exactly the Republic had fallen. Through carefully crafted speeches and secret plots, the newer trilogy showed us the fall of democracy itself. In the Original Trilogy, state-citizen tension manifested itself in the form of the Rebel Alliance and the questions
HISTORY OF THE 501ST LEGION: DROID HUNTING AT DRAGON CON, PART 1 By 2003 it was clear the 501st Legion was on its way to dynamite growth. Stormtroopers were taking over conventions worldwide and were quickly becoming a staple of the fan scene. Long forgotten was my fledgling dream of assembling 10 whole stormtroopers in one place. Now I was finding myself marching with two hundred Imperials down Peach Tree Avenue in Atlanta. Traffic would stop as wave after wave of space soldiers tromped by. The original Carolina Garrison banner led the 501st march. In the early days Dragon Con served as my personal laboratory for experimenting on how large-scale group costuming worked. It was fun to stand back and see how the collective army interacted with its environs, and interesting how organically the entity morphed as the numbers grew. Troopers were doing mash-ups with other sci-fi genres in photo ops, some were blending their armor with other themes, and group pho