Top 10 Matt Edwards 23 Aug 2013 - 07:06
Bodybuilders try to pull off the perfect crime in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain. Matt provides 10 manly reasons why you should see it...
“What a bunch of beefcakes!”
It’s rare that you’ll hear 80 men in a cinema exclaim this at the exact same time. But then, Pain & Gain, the new film from action director Michael Bay, is a rare movie. It’s around 130 minutes of testosterone-flooded mania. You could axe fight a lumberjack over an uncooked steak and it still wouldn’t be as manly as Pain & Gain. You could arm wrestle Chuck Norris while farting and it wouldn’t come close to being as tough as Pain & Gain. You could beat Wolf on every stage of Gladiators while clad entirely in lycra and you’d still be a distance off of the masculinity of Pain & Gain.
We won’t know for...
Bodybuilders try to pull off the perfect crime in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain. Matt provides 10 manly reasons why you should see it...
“What a bunch of beefcakes!”
It’s rare that you’ll hear 80 men in a cinema exclaim this at the exact same time. But then, Pain & Gain, the new film from action director Michael Bay, is a rare movie. It’s around 130 minutes of testosterone-flooded mania. You could axe fight a lumberjack over an uncooked steak and it still wouldn’t be as manly as Pain & Gain. You could arm wrestle Chuck Norris while farting and it wouldn’t come close to being as tough as Pain & Gain. You could beat Wolf on every stage of Gladiators while clad entirely in lycra and you’d still be a distance off of the masculinity of Pain & Gain.
We won’t know for...
- 8/22/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
With the recent announcement of Zombies vs. Gladiators, Amazon Studios' upcoming Clive Barker project, it's official: All you need to make a movie these days is a script whose title is composed of two nouns separated by a "vs."
This approach to moviemaking might seem simplistic and/or lazy, but it has one major thing going for it — everything you need to know about the product film is in the title. And that's a godsend to a production company's marketing department.
Obviously, this strategy must work, because producers are returning repeatedly to the Well of Versus. To illustrate my point, the following is a partial list of "vs." films:
Monsters vs. Aliens
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
Dinocroc vs. Supergator
Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys
Eagle vs. Shark
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Alien vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Freddy vs. Jason
Strippers vs.
This approach to moviemaking might seem simplistic and/or lazy, but it has one major thing going for it — everything you need to know about the product film is in the title. And that's a godsend to a production company's marketing department.
Obviously, this strategy must work, because producers are returning repeatedly to the Well of Versus. To illustrate my point, the following is a partial list of "vs." films:
Monsters vs. Aliens
Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
Dinocroc vs. Supergator
Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys
Eagle vs. Shark
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Alien vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Freddy vs. Jason
Strippers vs.
- 6/6/2012
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
Ladies and gentleman! In this corner I'd like to introduce to you a movie that features, wrestling, green slime, homicidal video game players, a zombie woman in a cage fight, and ... a midget. All hailing From Parts Unknown!
How I love my job! Getting to report on wacky shit sure makes the day go faster, and this flick is the perfect case in point! Let's take a look at the synopsis, such as it is!
"Charlie leads two lives. By day she's an overworked paper-pusher for the global video game developer, Corporation X. By night she's a professional wrestler with dreams of becoming a champion like her father.
When her evil boss uses stolen nano technology to give their latest video game powerful addictive qualities, the results are apocalyptic.
With players turning into homicidal maniacs, a mountain of paper-work on her desk, and a championship to win, Charlie is forced...
How I love my job! Getting to report on wacky shit sure makes the day go faster, and this flick is the perfect case in point! Let's take a look at the synopsis, such as it is!
"Charlie leads two lives. By day she's an overworked paper-pusher for the global video game developer, Corporation X. By night she's a professional wrestler with dreams of becoming a champion like her father.
When her evil boss uses stolen nano technology to give their latest video game powerful addictive qualities, the results are apocalyptic.
With players turning into homicidal maniacs, a mountain of paper-work on her desk, and a championship to win, Charlie is forced...
- 3/10/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Gladiator star Russell Crowe has hired a real-life gladiator to help him slim down for his next film. The moody actor has asked martial arts expert Lourene Bevaart to compose a strict fitness plan to get him in shape for Far Side Of The World. Lourene was muscley, action-woman Glacier in the Australian version of hit TV game show Gladiators. The sporty blonde has enforced a plan of running, weight-lifting and power walking to help Russell fit the role of Navy captain Jack Aubrey in the war flick. One of Russell's friends says, "He has been told he needs to turn the flab into muscle for he film otherwise he will not look right. "He is not worried, he knows what he has to do. Lourene helped him out when he was training for Gladiator so he immediately contacted her again. "Russell has ballooned before and lost if quickly. He knows he had a deadline. Alcohol and fattening foods are off the menu and Lourene has got him started on a gruelling fitness regime."...
- 5/7/2002
- WENN
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