Hey there everyone! We’re going to discussing another movie
today and boy do I have a lot to talk about. I’m almost getting backed up with
movies to discuss considering how many I’ve watched recently but that only
means you guys won’t be running out of content any time soon… You won’t ever
run out of content so don’t worry. I’ve been into watching some Bruce Willis
movies lately and I’ve kicked off this sort of mini movie review series
starting with last week’s Live Free and Die Hard review. Well today’s Bruce
Willis movie I’m discussing is actually more of a favorite of mine, it’s also pretty
red. Aka I’ll be discussing the movie RED which released back in 2010. It’s
based on a limited 3 issue DC Comics series by the same name. Actually it’s
kind of loosely based, the characters names are similar but it doesn’t have the
comedic touch the movies do.
Just an in general spoiler warning for everyone, possible
spoilers for the movie are included.
Photo by Frank Masi - © Copyright 2010 Summit Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
Red as in Retired Extremely Dangerous, a title slapped onto
former Black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses who lives a semi normal life in
Cleveland Ohio. Frank becomes smitten with Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), a
worker at the General Services Administration’s Pension Office in Kansas City,
Missouri and frequently talks with her over the phone. (Tearing up his pension
checks, telling her they never arrived just so they can talk.) Apparently Sarah
had also convinced Frank to attempt to grow an avocado, which has already begun
to sprout.
Photo by Frank Masi - © Copyright 2010 Summit Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
Frank’s life soon gets turned upside down as an
assassination squad raids Frank’s house in attempt to kill him. Despite being
retired Frank still has just as much fight left in him and with swift thinking
he completely overpowers the squad and blows them up… and his house.
Immediately realizing they tapped his phone Frank heads to Sarah’s house in
Kansas City in attempt to protect her, as they’ve never met face to face before
Sarah is shocked beyond words and refuses to come with him. So Frank does the
only thing he knows he can do, kidnap her. Yeah nice first date, huh? We also
don’t get see that avocado ever again…
Photo by Frank Masi - © Copyright 2010 Summit Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
Needing some extra hands Frank tracks down his old CIA
mentor Joe Matheson, played by the man with the voice Morgan Freeman, in New
Orleans, Louisiana. Also joined by fellow former black ops agent and man of
paranoia Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), later as well by former MI6 Victoria
(Helen Mirren) and Ex-Russian Secret Agent Ivan Simanov (Brian Cox) they form a
pretty awesome kick ass team of retirees and get wrapped up in a massive conspiracy
that dates back to a 1981 mission in Guatemala which Frank and Marvin were
involved with before retiring.
Photo by Frank Masi - © Copyright 2010 Summit Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
The reason behind the assassination attempt on Frank
is linked directly to this conspiracy as anyone linked to said Guatemala
mission have been hunted down save for Frank and Marvin themselves and a man named
Gabriel Singer (James Remar.).
Photo by Frank Masi - © Copyright 2010 Summit Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.
Also involved are the CIA themselves with a new
generation of agents such as CIA agent William Cooper, who’s assigned to hunt down
and kill Frank.
Not to spoil anymore of the plot a man named Alexander
Dunning is involved, who’s an illegal arms dealer and also connected to the
mission in Guatemala. He’s played by Richard Dreyfuss who’s probably one of my
favorite actors especially because of his 1977 appearance in The Goodbye Girl. This
time around he’s definitely the, as he calls himself, the “bad guy” instead of
the mediating theatre actor he was in that movie. Maybe I should watch Goodbye
Girl for you guys soon.
RED is an action and comedy packed thrill ride from to start
to end and while I love the Die Hard series RED tops it in my opinion. This
movie has an awesome plot with some good twists, hilarity (Mostly coming from
John Malkovich.), and surprisingly some romance. RED seems to have launched
itself into it’s own series with RED 2 releasing in 2013. A RED 3 was announced
but has anyone heard anything about this movie? I’ve tried doing some digging
and this movie was apparently announced to be in the works with screenwriters siblings
Jon and Erich Hoeber actually signing on for the movie and being slated for a
December 2016 release. Well December 2016 has come and gone and Summit
Entertainment (Aka Lionsgate.) have said absolutely nothing in regards to this
movie. The RED official Facebook page does seem to be active shockingly so
perhaps something is in the works and we’ll be seeing something come from that
soon, I’ll be sure to keep you guys updated on that.
Before we finish talking about this movie I’d like to go out
on a limb and say the pig was the MVP of this movie… You’ll have to watch it to
find out what I mean about that. This movie is currently $12.99 USD on iTunes for HD and $9.99 SD to buy as well as 4.99 for an HD rent and 3.99 for an SD rent. I really recommend you check this movie out if you haven’t seen it yet
and I’ll be diving into RED 2 at a later point.
Ejecting RED’s disc but still maintaining the red theme… I’m
bringing you a new movie release announcement! Power Rangers, which released in
theatres last November will be releasing on 4K Blu Ray as well as DVD and
iTunes this June the 13th! That means for those who can’t make it to
the theatre you don’t have long to wait to experience this awesome movie… That
also includes me as I haven’t actually seen it yet, whoops. Before you ask yes
this is red related… because you know, the RED Ranger.
Also related to motion pictures and red… Did you guys see
that Episode of Flash last night? Savitar’s identity was finally revealed in an
epic fashion… I’m not spoiling that for
you guys though, go watch it on CW’s app if you haven’t yet!
To keep the theme of red rolling I actually have a new art
piece to show off finally, which is where the “painting the town” part comes
into this. I’ve been practicing a lot with watercolor lately to improve myself
as an artist. (I only became an “artist” in March and I’m not even sure if that
warrants calling myself one yet, probably not.) For the most part it’s been
practice, okay all of it’s been practice but I actually have a finished art
piece that’s come out of this practice. As you have noticed, I love drawing
characters mostly from this one story I’ve been brewing in my head for years
now. Hell this whole art stuff started simply because I wanted to visualize my
characters finally after having them only in thought and on paper for the
longest time. I know it’s not the traditional use for watercolor but I’ve
created this watercolor art piece of Aeris Eclipse, who has been basically the
only character I’ve shown off on here lately… Okay 90% of my drawings are of
her but hey she’s my brain child I love her leave me alone. I’ve managed to
scan this watercolor piece into my computer this time instead of taking a photo
so let’s take a look!
If you’re picky like me you’ll immediately notice my paint
seemingly receded away from the edges of her hair. I swear I painted as close
to the edge as I could without the watercolor seeping into her hair but alas it
kind sticks out like a sore thumb, to me anyway you guys may of not even
noticed it until I pointed it out just now. Another thing that bugs me is the
freckles, for some reason a while back I wanted to give Aeris freckles but me
having no idea how freckles work have painted them quite heavily on this art
piece… and it looks wrong. So not perfect by any means I’m not even sure if you’d
class this art piece as GOOD. Anyway! I have sort of an update regarding the
character herself. I deluged some character information about her in the past…
and I’m asking you to for the most part disregard that. I’ve not changed
everything about her but some details have been altered. For one I’ve decided,
while originally she was going to be 16-17 I’m making her the age of 18 years.
I felt her being 16 was very limited to the story I want to write (I know I've just crossed the line out of Young Adult but hey New Adult Fiction is a thing too.), I don’t want
her stuck in high school all the time (She’s stuck in college instead.) and
thought her being 18 would give her more freedom. SO YES AERIS I’ve made you 18
welcome to adulthood, girl. Funny enough she used to be the age of 13… but that
was back when I was 13. Yeah Aeris has been around in my head for a while now;
for those wondering I’m in my 20s.
Truth be told I’ve been drawing her as 18 for a while now,
she’s always looked way older then 16 so I think this change is a good change.
With that said I’m not changing her back, she’s 18 and that’s final. She’ll get
older as the story progresses, Happy Early Birthday Aeris. (Story wise she’s
born in November.) I want to dive more into her character along with these
changes in future blogs but I want to do a couple more art pieces beforehand.
Speaking of Dream Eclipse, the story itself with my ever
increasing love for art I really am considering making a Graphic Novel/Comic
Series in the near future. I still have a lot of improvement to do regarding
drawing and perspective (You guys can keep track of that on my Instagram.) but wouldn’t
it be awesome if I could bring you guys this story in the glory that is the
graphic novel? I think so. In the end I’ll probably still write it as a novel
as well so you guys will have both.
Oh yeah my much more artistic Sister has put out a new ref
sheet of the main character of her story she’s working on: . She’s made some
changes to her character as well as making her 18… I didn’t intentionally age
Aeris up to 18 because you did, sorry sis, haha. You can check it out here on
her deviantart: http://annavintage.deviantart.com/art/Lady-Blackwings-Ref-Sheet-2017-678081924 . I’m assuming Annie
will be creating a blog on this character at some point so I’ll be sure to link
it here when she does.
Speaking of Deviantart, I actually have one now and you can find it at: http://zak-art.deviantart.com/
I can’t wrap this red blog up without bring you a red
knitting pattern! Okay this kind of works, technically you use any color you
wish when it comes to knitting patterns but this pattern was named after
something red and was designed using red yarn so it works, right? This is the “Little
Red Riding Slippers” from DROPS design!
I’ve featured a lot of socks since doing this blog but these
slippers are a first and maybe the best. With it’s beautiful twisted cable that
weaves itself around the leg and rim of the slipper, those nicely placed
buttons and the garter stitch foot makes this a wonderful knitted pair for
wearing while you watch RED.
I’ve never actually attempted to knit slippers before and
they seem to have a lot more process to them then normal socks but it seems
easy enough if you follow this pattern. You’re going to need US 10 / 6 mm DPNs
and Straight Needles but the size you’ll need might vary depending on what size
you’re knitting. Seems this pattern is flexible in size so it’s best you check
it out for yourself at http://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=6198&cid=17#pattern_content.
Hey this was my first time featuring a drops design pattern
I just realized. If you want to add it to your Ravelry library you can do so by
clicking this link: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/150-4-little-red-riding-slippers . That cable legging really makes me want to knit these
myself but I think I have enough projects on the needle as it is right now.
With that all said and done it’s time I leave you guys for
the day. That was a pretty redful blog and if you’re feeling a little blue
check out my Sister’s newest blog which blue themed! So let’s call this an
unofficial connection between her blog and mine. You can check out her blue
themed blog, which includes some wonderful photography of flowers, a rare bird
in our backyard and a shocking discovery at: http://ladyannavintage.blogspot.com/2017/04/blue-of-forest.html.
That’s a wrap folks!
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