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Random Acts: Scarlett planks in wellies, Amber and Johnny rewrite The Rum Diary

30 August 2011 Rob Buckley Post a comment

This week, Scarlett Johansson has chosen to lie around in wellies on a tree, which is fairly random of her.

Meanwhile, after two years in random development hell, the reliably random Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s movie, The Rum Diary, is finally going to be released in October/November this year. The somewhat nasty and misogynistic ‘lost’ novel of Hunter S Thompson, however, has been rewritten by Withnail and I‘s director, Bruce Robinson, so that not only is it a lot more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it’s also a comedy and a romance. It’s still set in Puerto Rico, though, and involves lots of drinking. Lucky Johnny. Lucky Amber.

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Michael Bay reuses footage from The Island in Transformers 3

5 July 2011 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

I haven’t watched Transformers 3, on the general grounds that I saw Transformers and Transformers 2 was apparently even more awful. Plus Mark Kermode gave a whole host of good reasons why I wouldn’t want to, such as it being racist, sexist and homophobic, as well as astonishingly stupid.

I have, however, watched The Island, with the impossibly lovely and random Scarlett Johansson, which had a very good first half and an impossibly bad, very stupid Michael Bay second half.

But Bay says he learnt from The Island that what the kids of today wanted wasn’t the thoughtful, interesting first half but the explosions-laden second half.

So, apparently, the world is doomed because the next generation is composed of morons. Oh well.

Anyway, so convinced of this does Michael Bay appear to have become that in Transformers 3, he’s actually gone and reused footage from The Island. Because you know, when you have a reported $250 million budget, you really have to scrimp, save and cut corners to make ends meet. How bizarre.

Has anyone else noticed, incidentally, that Rosie Huntington-Whiteley doesn’t get a single line of dialogue in any of the Transformers 3 trailers. That’s something of a warning about her acting talents, I think.

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28 June 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Random Acts: No. No, no, no, no, no

27 June 2011 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

No. This has to be stopped now. It was bad enough when Ali was doing it.

Ali Larter with red hair

See how wrong that is? Thankfully, she saw the (yellow) light.

Ali Larter

But this random red hair infection is spreading. Scarlett may be her name, and she’s been reliably random for a couple of weeks now, getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, having one night stands with Justin Timberlake, and going to Motley Crue concerts. I mean Motley Crue – how random is that?

But this?

Scarlett Johansson at a Motley Crue concert

No. I don’t care if it’s for The Avengers. It’s just wrong.

Alex Breckenridge doesn’t even have that excuse. You’re on the True Blood premiere red carpet, Evan Rachel Wood is there and she’s already red: this does not need to happen.

Alex Breckenridge at the True Blood premiere

At least Joanna Page is just inventing new red-coloured nail varnishes. And even though her character, 6, has black hair in the book, Syrup, Amber Heard is still reassuring blonde in the movie version.

Amber Heard in Syrup

Phew. Panic attack over.