Leaked Freddy make-up!

Well I just thought I'd share the leaked Freddy make-up, and my thoughts. The people who leaked it are Forces Of Geek, but I'm getting it off Horror-Movies.ca

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Well I'm guessing this is just in the make-up van, because he doesn't look very intimidating, Freddy here does look very realistic, he does look like a victim rather than a villain, but I'm sure when JEH acts the part, the victim look completely goes away. Lets hope so anyway!

For those not wanting to click on the pic link Freddy just looks like a genuine burn victim: He has blotches of puckered skin, some raw scars and even some puss laking from his cranium. Very different, very real, but I don't think this picture does it justice. Lets hope a trailer does!

EDIT: It has proved to been fake, but it does seem the three blotches on the make-up on Freddy's left cheek match, so it's a convincing fake if that, but I must admit it was a good fake. We still have hope that the real freddy make-up in more threatening!

NoES @ Comic Con

Well I've seen the reviews at Comic Con's big reveal. No we don't see Freddy's face, but apparently the reboot actually has some promise.

We get to see Freddy being firebombed. We get some footage which is close to the original too and as predicted Jackie Earle Haley makes a great Freddy. So could this be anothere rare remake that actually has some punch. The cynical critic in me shouts NO, but the Elm Street fan in me orgasms at what is described, if only I could see the footage myself (Fuller said he'd plead with WB to get it publicly released, which is nice of him). I'm going to see if anyone snuck some footage out and give a report on it then. I've gone from 50/50 to 60/50, if the footage is as awesome as described, I'm definitely going to watch it.

NoES Official Teaser poster!

So what do I think of the new Freddy? Well I'm going to wait to see if they reveal more freddy or if they keep what he looks like a mystery until release. All should be revealed today!

Anyway from what I can see it looks like his skin is more puckered like a burn victim after they've had a few days for the skin to heal, but not after skin grafts. If I look very closely it seems that maybe one or two ligaments in his jaw are visible similar to the Dark Knight. To be honest if they went all out and made his face like Harvey Dent's that would be a brilliant modern depiction of Freddy, but I think they didn't want to spoil too much of Freddy's original look. It also looks like he has no lips, or that the lips have been severely burned away , his ears look like they have lost shape and might have skin covering most of the ear to make it look flat and misshapen.

Altogether I'm happy with the look, and I'm happy with the Actor, and I'm happy that the script doesn't have him speak much like in the original. It seems that he's being kept close to the shadows too like a boogyman in a nightmare. Altogether I'm currently happy with the two images I've seen; now all I need is to see the trailer to really see If I'm happy with where this film is going. I need to see if it looks wrong, or if it actually looks like it might be worth watching.

Nightmare On Elm Street (update)

Well what with filming wrapping up for the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street I better give you the first picture of Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Kruger, with another one being released on IGN soon, oh and of course I'm guessing a full reveal of the Freddy make-up will be revealed tomorrow at ComicCon as well as a teaser hopefully. I bet those in post production have been whipping up something with avid and after effects :P

So here's the new Freddy...

Yeah OK at first there doesn't seem much difference between the old and the new, but this one seems darker, and Freddy seems to be sticking to the shadows a lot more. Hopefully Bayer will stick to the shadowy Freddy for a while, and pull a Jaws and reveal him in the last act, but I doubt it, this is an MTV iPod generation style horror movie, suspense like that rarely happens in those slashers.

I'm also here to kinda apologise to Brad Fuller and to Sam Bayer. Although I do think Fuller does tend to butcher some classic films with no real reason to remake them, I do agree that some franchisees do need to be rebooted. I mean the ortiginal Nightmare (and Wes Craven's New Nightmare) and Friday's 1- 3 were all classics, the rest were awful; I'd have complained my heart out.

But lets face reality here: Nightmare on Elm Street SUCKED after the original. I mean I'm sure Brad Fuller loves the first Nightmare movie, I'm sure Wes is one of his idols, and I'm sure his heart is in the right place. The same goes for the Friday reboot. Friday's 1 - 3 were an amazing trilogy and then it was absolutely fucking butchered with all the others. So why not reboot? I wasn't too sure why they rebooted the Texas Chainsaw Massacre because if there were sequels, they were dead and buried.

However Fuller is doing a very brave thing, and I don't think many people have the balls to do his own contemporary vision of a classic (a high budget fan film), for that I completely salute him. He may be Bay's bitch but he's trying his hardest to please hardcore fans and people who don't know the arse-end of a classic film. I'm a budding screenwriter, and I share the same passion for film-making as he does. I may not critically see eye to eye with the guy all the time, but I guess that's what makes humans great. He does make some very persuasive points on his blog. So yeah, despite me being critical on your work, I guess I also respect you Mr Fuller, but I'm afraid I've only enjoyed ONE (I think) your Boss' films and that was The Rock; fuckin' A.

So now an apology to Samuel Bayer: Ok You have done some pretty cool music videos, and you are talented, but you must understand that it is very nerve racking when a fucking music video director; no matter how talented takes on a remake of a fucking amazing film. So yeah you get a sorry, but please understand. However Ridley Scott was just doing commercials before Alien, so this could be your "Ailen" good luck.

Anyway pretty excited to see what they release in 24 hours. But when the film is released next year and it's a complete and utter fuck up (sorry but it isn't possible, Freddy's Dead was pretty fucking scraping the bottom of the barrel there. But I assure any readers I will be just as critical and fair on this film as any other. I'm open to a new vision, and Jackie Earle Haley is a really good performer and can hold a lot of energy, so I'm very much 50/50 on this one.

Microsoft Office available online - FREE

I was looking at BBC News (probably the most reliable bar AlJazeera news, seriously want a true fair and balanced news story take it to AlJazeera). 

Anyway to rival Google's online range of web applications Microsoft have opened up a free lite version of office which can be used and accessed via the web. To be honest if you own windows Office is one of the most downloaded, hacked programs in the world, I don't see the point in web apps until the browser becomes our OS (like with Google Chrome OS). Then again on another side I don't trust an os that relies on your computer to be online all the time, it just means my privacy goes down the drain.

I'll stick with a solid "tried and tested" OS like MAC, Linux/Unix or Windows.  Especially when good applications generally are not made by google. When I hear google I just hear gimmick, and I want an OS which I can write documents, edit a video (and not on the shitty video editors like Adobe Premiere, Windows movie maker or whatever the MAC alternative is. I want something solid like Avid and Final Cut. I want to make special effects professionally via After Effects or Motion, I want to make a professional DVD using DVD studio Pro, I don't want some second rate google app. Fuck that shit.

Still all this is very exciting and a leap ahead,  it's just whether it's a leap in the right or wrong direction.

Alien Prequel or Reboot?

Well on one hand there was "aparently" an alien reboot, and I must admit as soon as I posted my last rant I discovered it may have actually have been an alien prequel. Unless both projects are going ahead like Evil Dead 4 and Evil Dead reboot, both produced by Sam Rami, although only Evil Dead 4 is allegedly written and directed by Mr Rami.

So it seems that Ridley Scott is doing a prequel. Now is it me or did anyone imagine the prequel to Alien being an Anime? Or is that me. I just imagined the story of the Space Jockey's to be well an anime. But no  afull live action prequel to alien is on the way.

Now there are two things preventing me from ranting at the moment: 

1) Ridley Scott is producing. Which means it doesn't matter what the writers or the directors do. Ridley Scott is responsible for every creative choice. If he doesn't liuke it he can shut the production down until someone sees it his way. That's what producers do. Which is why Kingdom of the Crystal Scull was an epic fail, not because of Steven Spielberg, but because the fact that George Lucas was producer and did re-writes to the original script. So hopefully Ridley might not have gone insane just yet, and wants to produce the kind of movie that works just as well as his original.

2) The relatively unknown director. Ok I had a go at the Nightmare on Elm Street Director, but that is because he's known for producing music videos, and not known for directing suspence horror and slashers. I'm not putting dwn the man for being able to direct a music video, I mean I'm not interested in the music videos he's made, maybe they're good ones? Who knows? The fact is that he better be damn good to do a faithfull reimaging/reboot of NoES.

Ok so this director is realively a newbie, he made some stuff that is unrated on IMDB despite being made in 1994 an 1996, although they get rave reviews, and Ridley Scott was directing commecials (yes I'm digging myslef a BIG hole on the NoES director here) and he turned out to be cinematic genious. 

So these are the two reasons why I'm not flailing my arms about in rage, and I will wait for the reports of the story details...

Web 3.0 has arrived

So with all the excitement about Google Chrome i decided to look into the next generation Web Browsers bring Web 3.0 to us, and what I came across was Opera Unite. now I do know of the Bullshit that Opera's spin doctors are trying to pull. But Opera Unite does seem like the next generation of Web.

This browser enables YOU to become your own personal web server. First of all it allows you to share a folder with th rest of the world allowing file sharing to be enabled on the web browser.

Then you have the fridge which is a bit like Facebook's wall, but with a gimmicky fridge GUI, so anyone who knows your personal URL can write a note to you, in which again you have complete control on what's written and you can delete messages from others, or stop them completely.

The next thing is the Lounge which is your very own privately hosted chat room which you can invite friends to hang out and chill and make conversation, which makes these kind of chat services redundant, I think though it would help to have your own personal private IM service if i'm honest.

Then you have the ability (so long as your computer at home is running the opera unite browser) to access your music collection from anywhere in the world by sharing that folder.

Then the best thing about this service is that you can become your very own Web Server, meaning that you can have your own desktop committed to becoming a Webserver hosting your own website, and all that limits you then is the size of your hardware, and not some company's, truly giving you back the power to the people.

BUT that isn't all, Opera Unite has the addition of all the cool Opera run web widgets so certain things like the google language tools, wikipedia, and your gmail accounts can all run simultaneously as the actual browser without having to run in different programs.

If Opera is anything to go by, then I hope Google Chrome can enhance the already amazing Web 3.0 technology. Check Opera Unite out now!

 

I fucking LOVE The Onion!

Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes

The Legends are TRUE!

If you travel down any dark corridor or cave in cyberspace, or in any internet café, or you speak to anyone who plays WoW and wears T-Shirts written in binary you would have probably heard the legends of Google building their own Operating System.
Many a geek laughed at these words; but many a nerd did not, their expressions blank and full of sincerity.
Today Google finally made it official: They are building an OS to rival Windows. The name? OS, Chrome OS. It’s licence? XXYV72136Y1ZY223.

Apparently this OS is being “built from the ground up” (like how many times have we heard that phrase before?) aparently it's rival Windows was designed before the internet (well um, how about the internet being around before Windows motherfucker?) and so this operating system has the internet built in mind. Well pardon me if I’m wrong but don't current systems run the internet just fine? I mean what can you possibly do to make this OS any different? What happens if you want to play a game? That's right you use a PC or a console, no game developers want to spend money to develop for a third party, they have trouble enough coding for Windows, hardly anyone bothers with MAC, now they want people to bother with Chrome OS?

Chrome OS will be released by 2010 and be available for mobile and palmtop computers, later to be built for PC and Laptops. Let’s just see what Google can do for us that Apple and Microsoft can't already...

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