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    WWE Confirms Jerry Springer for Monday Night RAW
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    Sad news for K-Pop fans. EunB of Ladies' Code was killed when the group's tour van lost control and collided with a protective wall on Yeongdong Expressway. Sojung and Rise, two other members, were in critical condition; Rise died on September 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhd-IE80H2w
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    Jimi Jamison, best known as one of the lead vocalists of Survivor, died of a heart attack at age 63 on August 31. R.I.P. Jimi Jamison.
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    Recently, I had the misfortune of watching Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge. To call it a horrible movie is an understatement, as it's one of the most misleading films ever made. As a means to maintain their live-action rights to the Tekken franchise, Crystal Sky Pictures took a random generic martial arts film and slapped the Tekken name on it. Only three characters from Tekken show up, but they look nothing like their game counterparts. Sure, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is reprising his role as Heihachi Mishima, but the lack of wavy hair shows that this was intended to be a completely different movie. Even the film setting contradicts that of the first film, with normal daytime shots as opposed to the first's Blade Runner-ish darkness. The King of Fighters is still the worst film adaptation of a video game, but this one comes close. BTW, this movie was directed by Wych Kaos, who made his Hollywood debut with this box office bomb: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.
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    No new episode this week, but Rooster Teeth has uploaded a short video explaining Dust.
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    Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge Crystal Sky Pictures, 2014 Directed by Wych Kaos (Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever) Based upon characters from the bestselling video game series Tekken by Bandai Namco Games Running Time: 88 minutes Rated R for graphic violence, suggestive sexual situations and profanity. Cast Kane Kosugi (Nakabara in Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, Ryu Hayabusa in DOA: Dead or Alive) as "K" / Kazuya Mishima Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Kwang in Licence to Kill, Roshi in Elektra) as Heihachi Mishima Rade Šerbedžija (Gregorovitch in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Murad in Taken 2) as The Minister Gary Daniels (Kim in City Hunter, The Brit in The Expendables) as Bryan Fury Kelly Wenham (Julie in Steel River Blues, Jess in Where the Heart Is) as Rhona Anders Paige Lindquist as Laura Charlotte Kirk as Chloe Biljana Misic as Natasha Sahajak Boonthanakit as the Janitor Synopsis A man with no memory of his past is recruited to become an assassin in the slums outside Tekken City. But the more targets he eliminates, the more he begins to discover clues on who he really is. Lowdown Wow... talk about milking a franchise to the bone. Just when you thought Crystal Sky Pictures learned their lesson after their 2009 live-action film adaptation of Tekken flopped big-time, they released another installment just for the sake of keeping the live-action rights to the Tekken franchise. While Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge is marketed as the prequel to Tekken, it's so remotely away from the source material that it will be referred to as Generic for the rest of this review. Generic is simply that - a generic martial arts film with the Tekken name slapped onto it. There are only three characters from the Tekken series; everyone else you see here are actors hired to appear on screen. The setting itself doesn't even match that of the first Tekken film. Tekken was set in a dark, Blade Runner-ish dystopian future, where humans are forced to live on artificial food due to the scarcity of real food; on the other hand, Generic's setting takes place mostly on bright sunny days, and people are even growing corn on their backyards. Worse is that the production crew barely did anything to cover up the fact that they were filming in Thailand. Also, as an attempt to keep viewers interested, the producers threw in some hot chicks that can't act their way out of a paper bag. So what else is new? But how about the fight scenes? While there are no shaky-cam shots, the fights suffer from shoddy editing and just being bland. Kane Kosugi is an excellent martial arts actor, but it seems as if his opponents were just lazy or uninterested. Overall, Generic is not the worst fighting game adaptation, as The King of Fighters remains undisputed. It's just a throwaway movie that no one will remember. Rating: D- References The Internet Movie Database
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    On to another topic: Found Footage Films Originated by the 1980 Italian exploitation film Cannibal Holocaust, found footage films consist of a low-quality film of home video detailing the last days of the victims being recorded. The sub-genre didn't catch on until 1999, when The Blair Witch Project hit theaters and made over US$248 million at the box office (easily recouping its measly US$23,000 budget). Since then, horror filmmakers have resorted to using the found footage format due to its supposed ability to scare the sh!t out of people at such a minimal cost. Unfortunately, the film industry is now over-saturated with found footage films that are not even that scary - especially Paranormal Activity. Majority of them leave viewers sick only because of the forced shaky-cam effect when the person holding the camera is running around like crazy. Of all the found footage films out there in the market, which is the worst?
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    The Equalizer is an upcoming action thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, King Arthur), based on the 1980s TV series. The film stars Denzel Washington (Lt. Col. Ron Hunter in Crimson Tide, Det. Alonzo Harris in Training Day) as a former special forces operative who is dragged back to his violent ways when he wipes out a Russian mob to save a girl. The film premieres in theaters on September 26. The Equalizer @ IMDb
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    This one?
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    W... T... F... ?
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    This movie has "direct-to-DVD" written all over it.
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    Heh. Here's an earlier gig.
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    And now for the Japanese fandub.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9lYtQQJ_HQ
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    Because he's Star-Lord, man.
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    Because he is Iron Man.
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    It's a spy movie starring a former James Bond 007 and a former Bond Girl. The November Man is directed by Roger Williamson (The Bank Job, Species), starring Pierce Brosnan (James Bond 007 from 1995 to 2002), Luke Bracey (Trey in Home and Away, Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: Retaliation), and Olga Kurylenko (Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace, Julia in Oblivion). So this is what James Bond is like when he retires. The film premiered on August 27 to an unenthusiastic reception, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 33%. Official Site Here's Chris Stuckmann's review:
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    The biggest problem with Deep Impact is that the trailer spoiled the ending.
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    Autómata is an upcoming sci-fi film directed by Gabe Ibáñez, starring Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots, The Mask of Zorro), Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie "now former Mrs. Banderas" Griffith (Edith in Cherry 2000, Tess in Working Girl), Dylan McDermott (Bobby in The Practice, Sgt. Frantz in Hamburger Hill), Robert Forster (Max Cherry in Jackie Brown, Scott in The Descendants), and Tim McInnnerny (Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in Blackadder). It does have an I, Robot vibe mixed with a little bit of Elysium. The film hits theaters on October 10. Official Site
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    The Interview is an upcoming action comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (This Is the End) and stars Rogen (The Green Hornet, Dale in Pineapple Express) and James Franco (Saul in Pineapple Express, Will in Rise of the Planet of the Apes), along with Lizzy Caplan (Claire in Marvel One-Shot: Item 47, Amy in True Blood), Randall Park (Governor Chung in Veep), Diana Bang, and Timothy Simons (Jonah in Veep). Also appearing are Eminem (overrated rapper), Rob Lowe (former '80s sex tape scandal figure) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon, Blake in The Dark Knight Rises) as themselves. In the film, Rogen and Franco play celebrity journalists who travel to North Korea to interview Kim Jong-un, but are ordered by the CIA to assassinate him. The film opens in theaters on Christmas Day. Official Site The Interview @ IMDb
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