Authors Lost they originally planned to kill off their main character, Jack Shepard, in the pilot episode (and if they had done that, the series would have been much worse). When Lost was first in development, with Michael Keaton cast as Jack. In the original script, Jack was the pilot of the plane, not one of the passengers, and he did not survive the first episode. The idea was to shock viewers by killing off the cast’s biggest star—the one they thought would become the series’ main character—in the very first episode. In the end, the writers decided not to…
Author: Ben Sherlock
Ridley Scott’s outrageous 2012 blockbuster Prometheus would be much better received as a completely new sci-fi franchise than as a tangential Stranger prequel The story takes place approximately 30 years before the events of Scott’s original. Stranger movie, Prometheus complements the unknown origin story of the xenomorphs that terrorized Ellen Ripley. Although the film was a box office success, grossing $403,354,469 worldwide against a $130 million budget (via Cashier Mojo), Prometheus was met with mixed reactions from both critics and audiences.. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a good-not-great critics score of 73% and a reliably divided audience score of 68%.…
yet Inside Out 2 Riley has a much bigger role, Inside Out 3 Can’t go back to making her a minor character – the inevitable trilogy will have to continue to make her a big part of the story. Inside Out 2 She sees a now-teenage Riley contending with a host of new emotions, primarily anxiety, as she enters puberty and faces the terrifying reality of starting high school without her best friends Bree and Grace. While the A-plot focuses on Riley’s emotions, the B-plot follows Riley as she tries to make friends with the cool kids at hockey camp.…
Jason Statham Is a big action movie star, but his deadpan debut performance in Lock, stock and two smoking barrels Proves he’s even better at delivering pitch-black comedy. Statham is one of the few movie stars who can turn a movie into a blockbuster based on their involvement alone. Statham is the only reason The book was a box office hit. Even when it comes to his own franchise, vi Crank, The MegAnd The ExpendablesIt’s Statham’s star power that draws in the crowds, not the IP Statham is always awesome in his action movies. No one other than Statham could…
The Expendables 2 was the only one of the four Expendables Movies that actually accomplish what Sylvester Stallone set out to do with the all-star action franchise. For years, Stallone was best known for headlining two major franchises: The Rocky franchise, about an underdog boxer becoming a world champion, and the Rambo franchise, about a Vietnam War veteran who comes to terms with the fact that the only thing he knows how to do is kill. But in 2010, Stallone added a third franchise to the list: The ExpendablesAbout a gang of elderly mercenaries secretly making the world a better…
Russell Crowe’s 2020 road-storm thriller Unhinged Taking influence from Steven Spielberg’s very first movie: the acclaimed 1971 made-for-television actioner Duel. Unhinged It begins with a frustrated woman who gets into a heated verbal altercation with a young man in rush-hour traffic, played by Crowe. When the second driver becomes violent and obsessive, he spends the rest of the day stalking and terrorizing her and her family in pursuit of revenge. Unhinged was notable for being the first wide theatrical release following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. UnhingedThe story of​​​​a commuter relentlessly pursued by another driver over the course of…
Before the long-awaited Gladiator 2 Finally arriving in theaters, it’s the perfect time to revisit Ridley Scott’s first Gladiator movie, so where is the original film streaming online? Gladiator 2 is set to be released in theaters on November 22 (or a week earlier on November 15 for UK audiences), so there’s about a month to catch the first movie before the sequel comes out. Based on Gladiator 2s first reactions, which have been overwhelmingly positive, it is shaping up to be a worthy successor to the classic original. The history of Gladiator 2 is only tangentially connected to the…
From Tom Hanks Forest Gump To Cillian Murphy in OppenheimerSome of the best OscarWinning actors were given plenty of screen time to shine in their Academy-favorite performances. It’s always impressive when an actor wins an Oscar with limited screen time, as Anthony Hopkins did The silence of the lambs Or Beatrice Strait for just five minutes in NetworkBut they’re much more likely to catch the Academy’s attention if they’re on screen for the overwhelming majority of the movie. The more screen time an actor has, the more opportunities they have to wow Oscar voters. The Academy Awards for Best Actor…
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Joined the gonzo absurdity of George Miller’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, realizing the vision he didn’t have the money to pull off the first time. While the original Mad Max is a timeless gem, the series didn’t become the uniquely uncomfortable, surreal, high-octane action franchise it is today until Miller expanded The Wasteland into The Road Warrior. The first film is a dystopian police thriller set in a world on the brink of a gas-guzzling apocalypse, but the second film takes it way past the brink to the desolate badlands that remain. Since Miller was working…
Gus Fring’s borderline cartoonish death scene in Breaking bad Should not work, because it is a far cry from the rough realism of the rest of the series – but somehow, it still became an iconic moment. Gus was fast Breaking bads biggest villain after being introduced as a chicken chain manager-turned-drug lord in season 2, episode 11, “Mandala.” He is an evil inversion of Walter White himself. Walt was climbing the ranks of the criminal underworld by outsmarting his peers. But then he met Gus, who is just as smart as Walt and even more ruthless. Walt and Gus’…