Michael Bay’s Transformers
films ushered in a wave of nostalgia for 80’s toy properties. Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables tried to accomplish the same for 80’s action
heroes. The former was much more
successful than the latter, as The
Expendables required the action heroes of yesteryear to collectivize in
order to achieve a respectable level of bankability in the current
marketplace. By comparison, The Transformers were able to achieve
much more without having to do a crossover with other toylines. Would it be possible for one form of
nostalgia to aid the resurrection of another?
The makers of G.I. Joe:
Retaliation seem to think so, as they have cast Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in
a lead role. While not actually an 80’s
action hero, The Rock unmistakably comes from that exact same mold. Such iconography will now be used to aid the Joes
in their second cinematic outing.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Matthias Stork Answers Detractors in the Third Installment of ‘Chaos Cinema’
The first two parts of Matthias Stork’s video essay Chaos Cinema drew the ire of many,
inspiring a number of responses and rebuttals.
Stork obviously took some of them into consideration when crafting the
third installment of his controversial series, which debuted this past Friday on
Press Play. Stork doesn’t concede
defeat, though he admits that he initially painted with broad brushstrokes. He apologizes for that oversight, while
answering his critics.
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