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Kneel Before Viggo Mortensen In 'Superman' Reboot?
Zod!!
All caps, and with at least two exclamation points -- there's just no other way to say the Kryptonian General's name. Terence Stamp saw to that with his portrayal of the maniacal villain in "Superman II," way back in 1981.
And now it looks as if the evil General will clash with the Man of Steel once again in Zack Snyder's "Superman" reboot -- this time in the form of Viggo Mortensen, according to Heat Vision.
Viggo Mortensen as General Zod? Err, sorry, General Zod?! Yes, please. Yes!!
Viggo isn't even in official negotiations to join the production -- he's currently but a "person of interest," a guy that Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan are looking at very, very closely. But that's more than enough to get us even more excited about seeing Superman fly again -- and taking on a Super-nemesis.
"Come to me, Superman! Kneeeel before Zod!»
- Bryan Enk
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Groundbreaking Cinema: 15 Films from 2010 That Challenged & Advanced the Medium
For an awards show that purports to honor outstanding achievements in film, the Academy Awards seem oddly drawn to the familiar. The movies with the most nominations at this year's Oscar race, for example, are The King's Speech and True Grit -- two films with a great deal of critical acclaim backing them, but ones that are decidely lacking in any grand ambition beyond presenting a traditional, accessible story. The Oscars, it would appear, favor the classically good to the unconventionally good, leaving the latter out to be forgotten in a sea of mediocrity and predictability. This isn't a shocking revelation; the Academy Awards have always favored films that adhere to a certain standard of genre filmmaking. A heart-rending, war-based drama about one man's uplifting struggle against adversity will always win out over the truly innovative, progressive, subversive films of our times.As evidence of this, consider the following Best»
- Adam Quigley
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