First things first, hi Nicky D'Agosto. We miss you. Anyway it's been three years since we first heard official word that a sixth Final Destination movie was in the works, and given a pandemic happened in the middle of that I will forgive them their slow pace. You get a pass, guys. Just this once. But today, new news! And this dude involved has got some serious clout at the moment, so I'd think this will happen sooner rather than never -- it's said that Jon Watts, the director of all three Tom Holland Spider-Man movies (including that little thing No Way Home that just blasted the doors off the pandemic box office) is producing a sixth film based on a story-idea he has. Now this is how you use your power in Hollywood for good, not evil! Let's hope he brings with him a nice big fat budget for all of the blood-lettings.
Showing posts with label Nicholas D'Agosto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicholas D'Agosto. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
The Spider Destination
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Good Morning, World
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I missed this yesterday so a belated happy birthday to the ever adorable Nicholas D'Agosto (click through our archive for more) who just turned 38 - these images are from the first season of Grace & Frankie, which I do not watch but don't hold it against you if you do. (There are many shows I do not watch that I do hold it against people for watching; too many probably.) Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin deserve all their legend status, so watch away. Anyway Nick was only on one episode of that - he's been playing Harvey Dent on Gotham more recently, and he's also on something called Trial & Error which... I have no idea. I would probably hold it against you if you said you watched that, but I have no idea what it is. Maybe it's secretly a show about Nick trying every week to cum on his own face. That would be awesome. On that note, ahem, good morning everyone! And hit the jump for the rest of the G&F gifs...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Final Destination's Ways Not To Die
Final Destination (2000)
We're doing this week's "Ways Not To Die" a couple of days early because my favorite horror franchise began 15 years ago today! The first Final Destination movie came out on March 17th 2000 (yes the same day as Erin Brockovich). It came in second to Brockovich that weekend with just over 10 million bucks, but its eventual 53 million dollar take and for sure smashing success on home video etc. led the way to four sequels over the next eleven years, up through Final Destination 5, which (spoiler alert) rounded itself back to the original time-wise and closed up (haha) the saga.
I laugh because I dare to dream - I hope I hope that the series ISN'T done. I want more, endless more, gory more. The only thing keeping them from making more is thinking up new ridiculous ways to die and surely there's an endless supply - if there's anything my series of "Thursday's Ways Not To Die" is a tribute to, it's that. Really this series was probably most inspired by the Final Destination movies themselves. We've wrung more posts out of this franchise than any other. See them all after the jump!
Friday, October 03, 2014
I Am Link
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--- Beach Bingo - The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson is going to star in the big-budget reboot of Baywatch,
of all things. I think he's a solid comedian, and he'll certainly look
good running in slow-motion on the beach, so maybe this will have
something of merit. On his Instagram
he says "Edgy, raunchy and hopefully, funny as all hell"- what worries
me about this is they've got quite the line to walk; the jokes could be
easily go hella lazy if they don't make the effort.
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--- Texas Heat - Shocktober is rolling right along at Final Girl - here's Stacie take on the opening titles of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which I always only realize are the Sun about halfway through them. Every single time! That movie, I swear no matter how many times I watch it it manages to surprise me - like Stacie says about the sudden daylight when Sally leaps out the window towards the end. It just works on such a primal, subconscious level from the word go, it never fails to shock somehow.
--- Brother Ward - White Collar's Tim DeKay has signed onto Agents of SHIELD,
to play Agent Ward's older brother. Hopefully with sexy results!
Actually Brett Dalton is looking way too thin this season, has anybody
noticed that? I don't think they're supposed to be starving him in that
interrogation space or anything. It just seems like a weird choice. Come
back to us, sexy Brett.
--- Thunder Down Under - Not even Chris Hemsworth can keep track of how many times he's played Thor - in an interview Down Under he said post-Ultron it's been three, when it's really been four. I guess he, like the rest of us, doesn't count Thor 2. He also says he loves doing the role and is looking forward to slipping back into his Thunder-God-underoos for awhile (he has three more films with Marvel already lined up in his contract).
--- Spill Forth - That oil-tanker disaster-movie The Finest Hours that I told you about last week, the one with Chris Pine and Ben Foster, just gained another prime slab of man - Eric Bana will play some big-wig Coast Guard guy. You know the role, Bana's played it a dozen times now. I know this movie's going to turn into one of those ones with a dozen hot guys all cramped up in close quarters sweaty and staring at each other with no pay-off, and yet here I am, prepped for it all over again. Sigh. I never learn.
--- Terror Abroad - Another movie we've spoken of before is Idris Elba's upcoming thriller Bastille Day, which is from the director of the pretty-decent Woman in Black remake, and is about a "a rogue U.S. CIA operative who is tasked with interrogating and eventually making a young American man, who’s also a con-artist, 'disappear'" - Richard Madden, aka adorable naked Robb on A Game of Thrones, has just been cast in it, presumably as the young American. All of these actors are Brits, stealing our American jobs! But they'll make a hot pair so I will overlook it. (thanks Mac)
--- Two Face - Has anybody been watching Gotham? I don't know if I can, I dislike Jada Pinkett Smith too much, and her character's name is Fish Mooney, it pushes me right over the edge. And it just seems silly. I might have reached my silly quotient right this minute. That said they just cast Nicholas D'Agosto as Harvey Dent, and... that is might hard (heh) to resist.
--- The Sound Of Silence - On today's "read this at lunchtime" pile goes this interview with documntarian Joshua Oppenheimer at The New York Times; he made The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, the latter which I just reviewed for NYFF the other day. They are both brilliant unmissable films. (thanks Mac)
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--- Terror Abroad - Another movie we've spoken of before is Idris Elba's upcoming thriller Bastille Day, which is from the director of the pretty-decent Woman in Black remake, and is about a "a rogue U.S. CIA operative who is tasked with interrogating and eventually making a young American man, who’s also a con-artist, 'disappear'" - Richard Madden, aka adorable naked Robb on A Game of Thrones, has just been cast in it, presumably as the young American. All of these actors are Brits, stealing our American jobs! But they'll make a hot pair so I will overlook it. (thanks Mac)
--- The Sound Of Silence - On today's "read this at lunchtime" pile goes this interview with documntarian Joshua Oppenheimer at The New York Times; he made The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, the latter which I just reviewed for NYFF the other day. They are both brilliant unmissable films. (thanks Mac)
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Summer of Sex
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For a show about sex the first season wasn't necessarily sexy (except whenever Nicholas D'Agosto was shown clothed or unclothed, of course) which was purposeful, I know, but if this trailer's anything to go on it looks like they're expecting our leads to turn up the heat this go-around. I've no doubt Michael and Lizzy can bring it either.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
I Am Link
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--- Calm The Storm - There are rumors bouncing around that Halle Berry's role as Storm has been reduced to a glorified cameo in the new X-Men
movie, which I agree would be awesome - but it seems that's all this
is. That is, a collective wish the internet is making that we can be
done with her lousy take on the character. Team Lupita!
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--- Meat Dress - A movie is being developed about the therapist who
treated the real-world inspiration for Buffalo Bill, the killer from
The Silence of the Lambs. (You know, the one not naked Hannibal Lecter.)
I actually don't know anything about this creep, so I'm gonna go fall
down a rabbit hole now; expect me to have nightmares tonight.
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--- Claws Retracted - Sure enough Hugh Jackman's talk of aging out of playing Wolverine was only talk, or at least very far future speculation, because he's already trying to sell us on another character-centric movie to come out in 2017 or 2018. He'll be reteaming with The Wolverine director James Mangold on it. Whoopty doo.
--- Spies Like Them - Superbad director Greg Mottola is making Keeping Up With the Jonseses next, which will star Jon Hamm and Zach Galifinakis as neighbors who discover the other one's family are government spies. (No word on who's the spy and who's the non-spy.) Who should play their wives? Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy seem fairly obvious - probably too obvious, I think. And MM is making a spy movie already. There are tons of under-used funny ladies out there besides them anyway. I mean just cast the other two in Bridesmaids - Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne. Done.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Thursday's Ways Not To Die
Final Destination 5 (2011)
I had a hard time decided what death scene I'd be inaugurating the release of this here fifth Final Destination movie onto DVD this past week with, since there are so many keepers. This edition is easily the best since the second film - hell, I'd rank it as my second favorite, I think. I mean love the first film, of course I love the first film, but I really hate Devon Sawa which has always kept my true love ever so slightly at bay. No such problem here, since Nicholas D'Agosto is ever so lovable (and this was before he did that amazing homosexual striptease in Dirty Girl, even), and he gets to play around with Miles Fisher... wel, "play around" might not be the most precise choice of words, but it gives me a visual my mind appreciates so I'm leaving it.
Anyway, I had a hard time picking a death scene. The best death is obviously the gymnastics one, but I decided that one is too elaborate to really give its due with this kind of post. (Read: I am lazy.) There are so many set-ups to that one - a million false starts and twists and turns and complications that it really just takes the movie itself playing in front of you to get across its genius. It's like that scene in the second film with the car crash and the PVC pipe and the exploding barbed wire fence - that shit was hard to get across in a post (although I did try).
So why did I pick this one? Why not? It's a delight! It gives a little love to the spectacular bridge collapse sequence that begins the film, which is truly one of the most amazing things I saw in a theater last year, and on top of that we get to see the ever appealing David Koechner's face melt off! I mean, come on, who doesn't want to take a break from their day with that bit of good old-fashioned fun? On that note...
Anyway, I had a hard time picking a death scene. The best death is obviously the gymnastics one, but I decided that one is too elaborate to really give its due with this kind of post. (Read: I am lazy.) There are so many set-ups to that one - a million false starts and twists and turns and complications that it really just takes the movie itself playing in front of you to get across its genius. It's like that scene in the second film with the car crash and the PVC pipe and the exploding barbed wire fence - that shit was hard to get across in a post (although I did try).
So why did I pick this one? Why not? It's a delight! It gives a little love to the spectacular bridge collapse sequence that begins the film, which is truly one of the most amazing things I saw in a theater last year, and on top of that we get to see the ever appealing David Koechner's face melt off! I mean, come on, who doesn't want to take a break from their day with that bit of good old-fashioned fun? On that note...
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Previous Ways Not To Die: Tucked In By Jason -- Just A Pair of Snowbodies -- Poison Pellet Kibble Swap -- Dolly Disassembled -- Fire Escape Fall Out -- Unbuggered -- Tell 'Em Large Marge Sent'cha -- Blue Man Gooped -- Tongue Stung -- Now Wouldn't Cha, Barracuda? -- Leaving on a Rat Plane -- Panthers! -- Fashion Faux-Pwned -- "It's Just A Box." -- Blasted Pigeons -- Taunting Ahnuld -- The Too Hot Tub -- Beyond the Veil -- Sunken Prayers-- Super Crack -- Brains Blown -- Fur For The Boogens -- White Hot Bunny Rabbit Rage --Dragged To Hell -- The TV Van That Dripped Blood -- Don't Mess With Mama -- Heads Ahoy --Martyred For Sheep -- Heads Nor Tails -- He Loves Me Knot -- The Great Bouncing Brad --Miss Kitty's 8 Mishaps -- Boat Smoosh -- Meeting the French-Tipped Menace -- A Magic Trick -- Slick Suck -- We Who Walk Here Walk Alone -- Raptor Bait -- Kneegasm'd -- Dare to Dream in Fincher -- Reach Out and Throttle Someone -- De-Faced -- Voluntary Drowning -- Cross Borne -- Pulled Up Hell's Sphincter -- An Arrow Up The Ass - The Numerous Violent Unbecomings of Olive Oyl -- Ack! Ack! Zap! -- Baby's First Acid Splash -- Chop, Drop and Sashimi Roll -- Forever Rafter -- Can't You Hear Me Now? -- Daisies Ways #5 - Harpoony Side Up -- Acid Dip -- On a Wing and a Prey -- For Standing in the Way of Sappho -- Busting Rule Number Three (For The Purpose of Number Two) -- Daisies #4 - Window Dressed To Killed --Hands Off the Haas Orb -- Bullet Ballet -- A Single Vacancy at the Roach Motel -- A School Bus Slipped Thru The Ice -- Trache-AAHHHH!!!-tomy'd - For Mel Gibson's Sins -- A Wide Stanced Slashing --- Daisies Ways #3 - Scratch n' Snuffed -- The Victim of a Viscous Hit & Run-- Curled -- Kabobbed -- Daisies Ways #2 - Aggravated Cementia -- Boo! Nun! -- 2009's Ways Not To Die -- Bug Scratch Fever -- Daisies Ways #1 - Deep Fat Fried in My Own Unique Blend of 500 Herbs & Spices -- By the Yard End of the Stick -- Screwed From A Very Great Distance-- A Righteous Bear-Jew Beatdown -- Fisted By Hugo Sitglitz -- Xeno Morphed -- Fuck-Stuck -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 4 -- Lava Bombed -- The Cradle Will Rock... Your Face Off!!! -- The Food of the Nilbog Goblins -- The Slugs Is Gonna Gitcha -- Phone Shark -- Hide The Carrot -- Sarlacc Snacked -- Avada Kedavra!!! -- Hooked, Lined and Sinkered -- "The Libyans!" -- Axe Me No Questions -- Pin the Chainsaw on the Prostitute -- The Wrath of the Crystal Unicorn -- The Ultimate Extreme Make-Over -- Drown In A Sink Before The Opening Credits Even Roll -- The Dog Who Knew Too Much -- Don't Die Over Spilled Milk -- Inviting the Wrath of Aguirre -- An Inconceivable Outwitting -- The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique -- Nipple Injected Blue Junk -- Your Pick Of The Deadly Six -- Thing Hungry --Don't Fuck With The Serial Killer's Daughter -- DO Forget To Add The Fabric Softener -- Any Of The Ways Depicted In This Masterpiece Of Lost Cinema -- Rode Down In The Friscalating Dusklight -- Good Morning, Sunshine! -- Mornin' Cuppa Drano -- The Cylon-Engineered Apocalypse -- Tender-Eye-zed -- Martian Atmospheric Asphyxiation -- Maimed By A Mystical Person-Cat -- The Sheets Are Not To Be Trusted -- Handicapable Face-Hacked -- I Did It For You, Faramir -- Summertime In The Park... Of A Pedophile's Mind -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 3 -- Strung Up With Festive Holiday Bulbs By Santa Claus Himself -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 2 -- A Vengeful Elevator God: Part 1 -- Decapitated Plucked Broiled & Sliced -- Head On A Stick! -- A Trip To The Ol' Wood-Chipper -- Pointed By The T-1000 --Sucking Face With Freddy Krueger -- A Pen-Full Of Home-Brewed Speed to The Eye --Motivational Speech, Interrupted -- A Freak Ephemera Storm -- When Ya Gotta Go... Ya Gotta Go -- Hoisted By Your Own Hand Grenade -- Having The Years Suction-Cupped Away --Criss-Cross -- Turned Into A Person-Cocoon By The Touch Of A Little Girl's Mirror Doppleganger -- Satisfying Society's "Pop Princess" Blood-Lust -- Done In By The Doggie Door-- Tuned Out -- Taking the 107th Step -- Rescuing Gretchen -- Incinerated By Lousy Dialogue-- Starred & Striped Forever -- Vivisection Via Vaginally-Minded Barbed-Wire -- Chompers (Down There) -- Run Down By M. Night Shyamalan -- Everything Up To And Including The Kitchen Toaster -- Sacrificed To Kali -- Via The Gargantuan Venom Of The Black Mamba Snake -- Turned Into An Evil Robot -- The Out-Of-Nowhere Careening Vehicle Splat -- "Oh My God... It's Dip!!!" -- Critter Balled -- Stuff'd -- A Hot-Air Balloon Ride... Straight To Hell!!!-- Puppy Betrayal -- High-Heeled By A Girlfriend Impersonator -- Flip-Top Beheaded --Because I'm Too Goddamned Beautiful To Live -- By Choosing... Poorly... -- Fried Alive Due To Baby Ingenuity -- A Good Old-Fashioned Tentacle Smothering -- Eepa! Eepa! -- Gremlins Ate My Stairlift -- An Icicle Thru The Eye -- Face Carved Off By Ghost Doctor After Lesbian Tryst With Zombie Women -- Electrocuted By Fallen Power-Lines -- A Mouthful Of Flare --Taken By The TV Lady -- Bitten By A Zombie -- Eaten By Your Mattress -- Stuffed To Splitting -- Face Stuck In Liquid Nitrogen -- Crushed By Crumbling Church Debris -- Bitten By The Jaws Of Life -- A Machete To The Crotch -- Showering With A Chain-Saw -- In A Room Filled With Razor Wire -- Pod People'd With Your Dog -- Force-Fed Art -- Skinned By A Witch -- Beaten With An Oar -- Curbed -- Cape Malfunction -- In The Corner -- Cooked In A Tanning Bed -- Diced -- Punched Through The Head -- Bugs Sucking On Your Head
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