Robert Pattinson included in Time Magazine 100 List
Robert Pattinson is included in Time Magazine’s list of 100 people who affect us for 2010.
Check out what they had to say here. (Written by Chris Weitz)
Here is an excerpt:
I have to be careful about what I write here because it will be tweeted the moment TIME hits the stands. And if I say something bad about Rob Pattinson, I’m dead meat. That’s the devotion the Twilight films inspire. It’s certainly not how he planned it. And though I am continually impressed by the aplomb with which he handles the hysteria, I occasionally think he would take it all back if given the chance. Because essentially, Rob, 23, is a reserved, bookish sort of specimen, a guy who’d rather spend the night at the corner table in the pub with friends — a bit of a weirdo, frankly, in the best sense.
I Really like this pic of him ( I know the obsessed Taylor girl said Rob looks handsome here)!!!
Thanks Ashley!!
Deepika Padukone hot photoshoot for Sony CyberShot camera
Bollywood hot actess deepika padukone Sizzles in Photoshoot for Sony CyberShot camera. deepika padukone sony new pics.
Iron Man 2 Review
Iron Man 2 isn’t as much fun as its predecessor, but by the time the smoke clears, it’ll do. Much like “The Dark Knight,” this Paramount release brings an enormous stash of goodwill to the party, thanks to a well-crafted origin tale whose popularity fueled anticipation for a follow-up. Yet while the first go-round for this lesser-known Marvel hero benefited from its freshness and visual flair, the beats here are more familiar, the pacing more uneven. Given the demand, though, that will hardly matter, and this armored adventure promises to be a money-making machine that clicks on all cylinders…read more [Variety]
Iron Man 2 the sequel to the surprise runaway hit of two years ago in Iron Man is not quite as surprising and fun as that movie was, but still delivers great humor and action as far as the cavalcade of comic book movies put out by Hollywood these days.
The movie starts well enough in introducing Ivan Vanko (Rourke), a rough and anguished son of a Russian scientist that helped Howard Stark (Tony’s father, played by Slattery) invent the ARC reactor technology. Ivan’s story starts concurrently with the end of the first movie, resentful of the glory of Tony Stark, Iron Man, and the Stark family legacy. Being an able tech as well from the influence of Ivan’s father, Anton, Ivan’s able to duplicate the miniature arc reactor similar to what powers Tony’s Iron Man armor and create a set of powerful electric whips…read more [411mania]
Like the sequels to Stars Trek and Wars, Iron Man 2 is a tale of revenge. But, unlike those films, this is one of the breeziest blockbusters you’re likely to see. There’s potential for darkness here: when we meet Tony, he’s hiding from everyone the fact he’s being gradually poisoned by his suit; villain Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) is hellbent on avenging perceived injustices done to his father; and Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle) is considering betraying his pal by teaming with rival arms dealer Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell). But Jon Favreau, it seems, didn’t want to make his Part Two a downer. He’s out to have fun, not only in front of the camera (his chauffeur character, Happy Hogan, has been bumped up from cameo to supporting role, helping out Tony in two action scenes and getting pinned between Scarlett Johansson’s legs) but behind it too, focusing on gyrating cheerleaders and gleaming tech over inner turmoil…read more [EmpireOnline]
Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko / Whiplash in Iron Man 2
What happens when you create a superhero and people find out who you are? Well, if you are Tony Stark/Iron Man, you not only accept it, you relish the celebrity of it. Whether you are putting on an extravagant performance at the Stark Expo with a ton of scantily clad Iron-ettes, or just having a drink or ten with some close friends, you are thrilled by the attention. That is exactly where we find Tony Stark in IRON MAN 2. And I don’t think many actors could have a better understanding of that lifestyle than Robert Downey, Jr. as he has been there and done that. Needless to say, his Stark is undeniably believable and absolutely charming. This is a very important fact, especially since his behavior is oftentimes not so heroic. I’m not talking about a SPIDER-MAN 3 kind of way (no emo Spidey at all). But even though Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash is a new breed of badass, this second installment is mostly about family…read more [Joblo]
…That’s only the first 20 minutes or so but I’m going to stop for a second and ask if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, namely that Iron Man 2 is making the same mistake that was levelled at Spider-man 3 of throwing too much into the mix. Do we really need Stark vs. the US Government, a rival tycoon and the mysterious Vanko? Aside from muddling proceedings, that’s three bad guys we’re expected to hate.
Anyways, it turns out Vanko has been knocking together his own energy pack and launches an attack on his bitter rival as he’s taking part in a Formula 1 event in Monte Carlo. Why is Stark taking part in a car race? Dunno. Why is Vanko so angry with Stark? No idea…read more [Mirror.co.uk]
Iron Man 2 Photo, Scarlett Johansson stars as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
Director Jon Favreau and new screenwriter Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder) deftly manage to juggle all these interweaving parts without succumbing to the sophomore slump many comic book franchises suffer. Although the addition of a trio of new villains may seem like overkill, Favreau keeps it all balanced and really pulls off some tremendous set pieces including a spectacular Monte Carlo Grand Prix where Tony is one-upped by the Godzilla-like tactics of Whiplash and narrowly escapes alive. The half hour finale is also loaded-for-bear with dizzying non-stop effects and action incorporating not one but two Iron Men…read more [BoxOffice]
The film’s arsenal of special effects technicians might be bigger than Mickey Rourke’s plastic surgery bill but what the fluid and fast action of Iron Man 2 confirms is the irrelevance of 3D to action cinema. Yes, in the world of Avatar, another dimension immerses the audience to the point of ignoring a weak plot and characters. In a How to Train Your Dragon or a Monsters vs Aliens, 3D adds depth to an artificially rendered world and draws the audience in as a result. But where characters are as grounded in reality as those in Iron Man 2, when we’re following the adventures of a superhero we genuinely believe could exist, then we simply don’t need 3D – the standout Monaco grand prix showdown between Iron Man and Whiplash, or the chaotic climax are immensely exciting and captivating sequences as they are…read more [inthenews.co.uk]
Robert Downey Jr. stars as Tony Stark / Iron Man in Iron Man 2
It may sound like it, but to call Iron Man 2 the Matrix Reloaded of superhero movies is not meant to be an insult. Like that highly-anticipated follow-up to the Wachowskis’ runaway blockbuster, Jon Favreau’s sequel essentially offers more of what at least superficially made the first successful, although rather than dubious philosophy and bullet-time cinematography, Iron Man 2 features a wealth of Robert Downey Jr., a general off-the-cuff sense of humor, and high-tech showdowns between dudes in robot suits.
At the same time, of course, the line is seldom well-defined between fans wanting more of a good thing and getting too much. Interestingly, albeit disappointingly, Favreau’s film tests the tensile strength of the threshold between the two, crafting a chockablock actioner that manages to deliver what’s asked while still somehow falling short of expectations…read more [Cinematical]
Iron Man 2 info
Director: Jon FavreauCast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, John Slattery, Gary Shandling and Jon Favreau
Screenwriter: Justin Theroux
Producers: Kevn Feige
Genre: Action/Comedy
Rating: PG 13 for sequences of intense action and sci-fi violence and some language.
Running time: 124 min.
Release date: May 7, 2010
Distributor: Paramount
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Review
Yes, A Nightmare on Elm Street is the best remake Platinum Dunes has produced, but the reason behind that is also the film’s handicap. For the most part, Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer’s screenplay hems incredibly close to Craven’s original. There comes a point in the film, however, where staying faithful to the source material becomes a bit too problematic. Mainstream audiences, particularly those who didn’t grow up with Krueger, will be unaffected, but horror fans may soon grow bored with the lack of individuality in the scripting department. And then just as the film threatens to overthrow its predecessor by changing (for the better) Krueger’s origin story, it backs off, once again sacrificing innovation for tradition…read more [Hollywood.com]
Of all the horror remakes in recent years, A Nightmare on Elm Street feels perhaps the most superfluous. Rightly or wrongly, the specter of Freddy Krueger holds a hallowed place in the genre, rising higher than any of his fellow boogeymen in stature and influence. Trying to remake him feels sacrilegious somehow… especially without Robert Englund in the role.On the other hand, this new Nightmare recaptures the spirit of the Wes Craven original better than many of the jokey and laughably inferior sequels.
It takes its monster seriously and endeavors to deliver him as a credible menace rather than some kind of wisecracking mascot. And while Jackie Earle Haley can’t help but echo Englund’s iconic performance, he also renders the character more three-dimensional than any previous incarnation. It takes some time to get used to his face — his recessed eyes so different from Englund’s bulging whites — but one ultimately gets the feeling that this Krueger is in respectful hands…read more [Mania]
The new “Nightmare” is an enormously joyless affair, launching right out of the gate with an oppressive feel that never dissipates. Director Samuel Bayer (a music video legend) seems to think the best way to strike out on his own with this iconic material is to play it emo, with a cast of fashion models sulking around the frame, which scrubs away the needed adolescent panic that makes Freddy’s reign of terror all the more frenzied.
This is a dour film, hastily sprinting into conflict, making absolutely no effort to develop the community or the characters. Bayer just wants a pretty picture with pretty actors, plunging the audience into violent dreamscapes without even so much as a hello. Nancy who? Freddy did what? What’s the razor glove about? These kids have parents? Bayer’s more interested in the lighting design than he is winding a dazzling tale of mental invasion and teen paranoia…read more [DarkHorizons]
Rooney Mara stars as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wearing more realistic extreme-burn-victim makeup and afforded longer pre-ghoul flashbacks in order to play the role straight (at least until some de rigueur lame puns later on), Haley still doesn’t get the chance to lend Freddy genuinely creepy dimension. Just one scene as quietly, insidiously suggestive as the actor’s car date with Jane Adams in “Children” would have been a game-change.
But this “Nightmare” is too busy cramming in routine shock cuts to take such a risk. Likewise, no time is devoted to establishing premise (it’s assumed we’ve seen prior incarnations, so why bother?), atmosphere or character depth. And while the original pic wasn’t so hot in those departments either, it nevertheless felt more grounded in a credible world…read more [Variety]
The young actors in the film were all very good especially Dekker and Gallner, who both show a lot of potential on the big screen. In addition, I was quite struck by Mara’s performance as Nancy, which I thought was very vulnerable and layered. Samuel Bayer’s direction is good and it was great to see him include iconic moments from the first film like the bathtub scene and the ending. This is director Bayer’s feature film debut but he has been one of the top music video directors for decades having been the man behind Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, so you know that visually this movie is very exciting. The script was great and again, I really thought the choice to leave Freddy’s innocents in question was brilliant. Showing the origin was also great and something as a fan that I have been waiting a long time to see on screen…read more [Movie Web]
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Katie Cassidy stars as Kris
Story wise, the remake follows the original’s beats pretty closely. There are a few variations (it’s updated for the 2000s), but it’s basically the same formula: dream, death scene, repeat. If anything, I would say that the film moves along at a much brisker pace that many of the sequels yet, at the same time, it manages to be somewhat boring. During the first 45 minutes, there’s essentially no story progression; it’s just dreams and killing without much explanation. Only when there are two characters left halfway through the second act are any explanations given. Once the story does get going, it goes full steam but there are three really excellent ideas presented that never reach their full potential. In fact, they’re so great, it makes me wish I could’ve seen a movie where all of them play a huge prominent role…read more [Bloody-Disgusting]
And Freddy? Gone is the campy direction of the later Nightmare films, replaced by a “real” Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), a burn victim with a back-story. A suspected child molester turned dream-invader, Krueger’s new melted look is representative of actual burn victims, but gives Earle Haley zero facial movement or expression, forcing him to mumble his unavoidable one-liners. Even as a sympathetic character, Freddy still makes jokes about wet dreams.
Director Samuel Bayer comes from a world of music videos and commercials, and it’s apparent. There’s a reason why the ads for Nightmare look fantastic…it’s shot like one big ad. The flick is glossy, slick and clean…but rarely scary. The “grit” comes from its real world logic, which it toys with only to push aside in favor of ridiculous kills and moments of fan service…read more [UGO]
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Faced with everyone knowing the drill with Freddy then, the rebooters here — writers Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer and director Samuel Bayer — seek a little sympathy for their devil. To that end, actor’s actor Jackie Earle Haley has been cast as Freddy, whose dreamtime terrorizing of a handful of attractive teens — led by Rooney Mara and Kyle Gallner, cast out of the Kristen Stewart- Robert Pattinson school of pasty, glum adolescence — comes with a fleshed-out backstory of how a friendly preschool gardener met a possibly unjust, fiery end at the hands of a parental lynch mob. But Freddy’s genesis just isn’t that helpful to the cause of unnerving moviegoers. Psychoanalyzing a murdering creep didn’t work with Rob Zombie’s ” Halloween” (poor, abused Michael Myers), and it’s a mostly ludicrous diversion here, despite Haley’s game turn in the burn mask…read more [Los Angeles Times]
The story’s socio-political message is blunt and potent. Your parents, it says, are sedaters, trying to control you with their silence, evasion and lies. These guardians of the official adult culture, the soothing, fraudulent status quo, want you to be ignorant both of the man who can harm you and of the knowledge that might save you. When the kids beg for help, the grownups advise them to “Try and get some sleep.” Only Freddy tells them the truth — “You really shouldn’t fall asleep” — just before he slaughters them.
But since Freddy is also the ultimate horror image of an abusive father-figure, the plot of the original Nightmare and this borderline-gripping remake plays like a emergency session in psychoanalysis. Interpret your dreams, come to grips with the past, confront your demons and you shall be free. Unless audiences make the movie a hit, and a sequel appears in a year or so — and the whole cycle of torture and revenge recommences like a dreadful dream from which you can’t awake…read more [Time.com]
Rooney Mara stars as Nancy Holbrook and Thomas Dekker stars as Jesse Braun in A Nightmare on Elm Street
Forget about the plot, the actors and the director. What you require to make a new “Nightmare on Elm Street” are these three off-the-shelf sound effects: 1. A sudden, loud clanging noise mixed with a musical chord. 2. Snicker-snack sounds, which Freddy Krueger’s steel finger claws make every time they are seen. 3. A voice deepener, to drop Freddy’s speaking voice to an ominous level.
On top of that, you need your sudden cuts, your lighting from below, your thump-thump-thumps and of course a dog that barks at something unseen in the night, so that your teenage heroine can go out on the lawn in bare feet and flimsy PJs and call “Rufus! Rufus! Here, boy!” You know in your bones that Rufus is now checking into Doggie Heaven…read more [Roger Ebert]
Jackie Earle Haley stars as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street Info
Opens: Friday, April 30 (Warner Bros.)
Production: Platinum Dunes
Director: Samuel Bayer
Cast: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Kellan Lutz
Screenwriters: Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer
Rated R, 95 minutes
Poll of the day: Hottest On-screen Yesteryear Couple.. Your Opinion??
- Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan
- Karishma Kapoor and Govinda
- Juhi Chawla and Aamir Khan
- Hema Malini and Dharmendra
- Madhubala and Dilip Kumar
- Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor
- Sridevi and Anil Kapoor
- Madhuri Dixhit and Anil Kapoor
Dev insists on seeing Freida as the Bond Girl
Freida Pinto’s lover Dev Patel insists that he would love to see Freida to be a part of the super-spy series though she has dismissed reports of playing the next Bond Girl.
“She is stunning. There have been rumours about her being a Bond girl on the next film. I would love her to get the role, she’d be amazing,” Patel was quoted as saying.
Pinto had earlier admitted that she’s too “young” to be a part of ‘Bond 23′, which will be helmed by filmmaker Sam Mendes.
But would Patel ever like to step into the shoes of the British agent and play the 25-year-old beauty’s on-screen lover once again?
“I’m not sure I could ever play 007 though. I’m too much of a wimp,” said Patel, who had starred alongside Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire.
American Romance Is In The Air For Hrithik
Our desi loverboy Hrithik Roshan is all set to pair opposite American actress Kristen Stewart in Shekhar Kapur’s next “Paani”. Kristen Stewart, 20, was seen palying the role of Bella Swan in the movie Twilight. In this typical “Romeo-Juliet” story, Hrithik dons the role of a lower-class Mumbai guy who falls in love with a rich beauty. Shekhar was on a look out for someone delicate and vulnerable to fit the character of Juliet. Kristen suited the role to the “T”. It seems she is a huge fan of Shekhar Kapur’s works. Whether Hrithik- Kristen pair will be a hit with the audience only time will tell.
Barbara claims she is stronger than Hrithik
In once instance, he had injured his ankle, on another occasion he deeply cut his wrist and was rushed to the hospital.
Interestingly his leading lady Barbara Mori too had to do some stunts in the film but she was lucky enough never to be injured.
“Unlike Hrithik I didn’t had major injuries but yes I did have some while shooting, I guess I am stronger than him,”
the Mexican actress laughs out.
Now i’m sure, this will give Hrithik a complex big time..
