What intelligent person from the 80's and early 90's didn't watch Van Damme movies? The Van Dumb ones, that's who! Van Damme is the undisputed king of action flicks. To name a few; Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Streetfighter, Sudden Death... Com'on this guy defined international Action Hero! Okay so gays aren't known to be the biggest fans of Action. Generally most gays turn their nose at "Le Genre de les Actions" ...not this gay! I grew up with three brothers, we all loved this shit. At first I thought I hated Action and violence, and tried to rationalize why I should even pay attention to the opposite sex, especially if this is what they enjoyed and emulated. I was 10 years old. Due to acute "B-action-movie" exposure and too much sugar, I grew up with a thirst for glorified violence (shout out to Tarantino for nourishing my "violence hunger" as a young adult). After a few years of 90's Karate flicks and brutish so-called Action Heros of the era... like Steven Segal (douche), Sylvester Stallone (douche), Dolph Lundgren (too obvious) or Arnold Schwarzenegger (ugg), I realized that Van Damme offered something else, something a little more interesting.

For starters he's "The Muscles From Brussels," a hero with an edge... a character that is conflicted in his portrayal of alpha monkey doorknobs. For example in Nowhere To Run, he's an escaped bank robber looking for his loot and decides to rescue Rosanna Arquette and her two kids (one of whom is a young Kieran Caulkin that thinks Van Damme must be E.T.) from some ruthless developers that are trying to push her off her land. In Universal Soldier, he plays a soldier cryogenically frozen after a traumatic experience in Vietnam who is later re-generated as a cyborg Uni-sol and begins to have glitchy flashbacks of his possibly immoral choices. We don't get boss story premises like that any more! Wtf?

Okay maybe I'm giving you all an exaggerated view of this juice-quads past work. That's only because you need to get your gay ass out of your cardigan, off of you chaise lounge and go see JCVD. For the snoot in you (ya flaming queer), you'll appreciate the beautiful cinematography and intellectual choices in story telling. This is Van Damme's best work to date. And for the fags, he is still ripped like a porn star! In fact it'd make more sense if he played for our team (he's so effing sensitive). I actually wanted to cry at one point, until a 15 year old behind me laughed so nervously it jolted me out of the moment. It was as out of place as an A-hole that laughs at a funeral. If there was ever a way to gage how good a film is, a piece of the criteria certainly must be how unconventional an Action film makes you feel. JCVD will kick you in the face and make you laugh so hard you'll cry and then sit in silence because you know you've just witnessed cinematic gold.

Cada persona tiene sus gustos, la diferencia es si esta se abre a nuevas opciones, y no cierra a las demás, disfrutando doblemente. No recuerdo cuál fue mi primera película que ví en mi vida, pero si la primera en una sala de Cine, Blancanieves y los 7 enanitos, en unos cines ya cerrados hace años (gente de mi generación una buena parte también comparten este dato de sus salas de barrio o ciudad que se desvirgaron en ver algo a la gran pantalla han desaparecido).

Lo que si recuerdo es que de las primeras pelis que vi en VHS fueron pelis de Disney, "El Lago Azul", "Psicosis" y capítulos de "N'hi ha que neixen estrellats" (originalmente llamada "Some Mothers Do ´Ave ´Em") una serie cómica de la BBC muy divertida. Como ya comenté en un anterior post me pasaba cada un tiempo al Videoclub alquilando pelis de Van Damme, Chuacheneger, Serie B o una y otra vez The Goonies (la que superó este record fue "Dos tontos muy tontos" años después).

Hoy estaba ordenando al tener un nuevo armario en casa para poner libros y películas, y he visto que salvo cuatro películas, en VHS aunque me de pena, me parece lógico un día próximo tirar los cassettes, muchas con casi o llegando a un cuarto de siglo y apenas se pueden ver ya. El día en que dejé de comprarme cintas y empezar con los DVDs fue en Diciembre del 2002, lo curioso es que antes de comprarme un reproductor DVD, unos meses antes me compré mi primer pack de películas en disco: Colección Amenábar. Sus tres primeros trabajos, cada uno con múltiples extras muy interesantes como audiocomentarios, making of, y hasta sus primeros trabajos en la industria,  sus dos últimos cortos que realizó antes de Tesis. Mi primer reproductor lo compré a medias con mi hermano, 300 € y la verdad es que duró unos 4 o 5 años, un Philips DVD que leía JPG, MP3 y como no DVD, VCD. Lo más práctico era su control y una bandeja que disponía de 3 huecos para CD-DVD, y así cambiar sin tener que levantarse del sofá. Con los reproductores actuales no duran más de 3 años y medio la gran parte, en cambio televisores, vídeos de hace 20 años pesaban pero duraban años.

A partir del 2002 en mi caso fue cuando en casa empezó la era digital, y por eso le rindo homenaje a esos cassettres, videocassetes que tanto disfrutamos, le dimos vueltas con dedos o bolis y sus sonidos de cinta nos alertaban, o la ilusión de acabar de rebobinar una película ese día alquilada y poder empezar a verla en familia.

El famoso cómico y freak Joaquín Reyes y su VHS:

Y como no la experiencia tan bonita del Cine, Cinema Paradiso:

En sån här till min samling, NYPD-dekaler finns redan hemma. Äntligen kommer det att hända.

Ikväll såg jag på the Scorpion King. Förväntningarna var rekordlåga, allt talade för att detta skulle vara en crappy film. Och det var det! Den var förbaskat usel, bland det sämsta jag sett. Någonsin. Dwayne Johnson, den gamle wrestlaren, hade huvudrollen och jag kan inte minnas att jag sett en så dålig skådis sedan vår värld drabbades av van Damme och Seagal. Mer eller mindre stulna scener från Indiana Jones och Live and Let Die gjorde det inte bättre. Effekterna dög väl men storyn den sög. Då hjälpte det föga att den kvinnliga häxmästaren var vacker som en dag. 3/10.

+ Dodge Charger. I vitt, med rätt hjul och i rätt storlek. Dessutom med en måttlig prislapp. Dagens lyckobesked.

- Egentligen inte fått något vettigt gjort idag. Och helgen, den är snart slut.

Sincerely,

Mr Onemountain

That right there says it all...... Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

In order to overcome the trauma of shelling out £2/$3 for a new comic (but wow, ain't it just worth it with all the time and money they've put into that turd-polishing computer colour!?!), I have recently returned to the blessed womb of cheap-as-fuck back issues, and it's got to be said, found some true gems. And some shite. But it's cheap shite, and that's what counts.

First up, a few issues of Keith Giffen's somewhat notorious revamp of Legion of Superheroes (notorious in as much as it enraged a fair few hardcore Legion-fans, a group second only to the Scientologists in their nefarious influence and dogmatic destruction of non-believers).

First, I have to say that my love of the Legion is completely disproportionate to the amount of actual Legion comics I've actually read. Conceptually they rock, and there's something so enduringly uncool about them. No amount of Aid-rapey-darkness can taint the inherent greatness of a bunch of superteens in the 30th Century with names like Cosmic Boy and Ferro Lad. That said I've still only read about twelve Legion comics ever.

So, the post-Levitz Legion: for a while in the eighties Keith Giffen was somewhat the man. He revamped numerous moribund DC properties, created one of the definitive takes on the Justice League, pretty much single-handedly brought humour back to superheroing and basically had some Midas like shit going on right there. Boldly re-starting the Legion 'Five Years Later' he (and cohorts) added a post-Watchmen layer of grime and complexity to the happy go lucky superteens. So far so late-eighties. But the Legion fared better than most, and for a while Giffen and Co. created a pretty compelling space opera. The best issues are those drawn by Giffen himself because a) I love his artwork, and dedication to the 9-panel grid structure and b) some of the fill-in artists are well jank. It falls apart a bit as the series progresses, but it's one of the more interesting revamps, and in light of the recent trend for retroactive storytelling, it's positively forward thinking.

Next up is Marc Guggenheim and Howard Chaykin's underrated recent take on Blade. Unfairly cancelled after 12 issues, it's an enjoyable attempt to move away from the techno-goth fetishism of the movies. It takes a couple of issues to warm up, but by issue 3 it's found it's own rhythm and style. Guggenheim gets a lot of flack for his work on Spiderman, but Spider-fans are a notoriously unstable bunch, so let's ignore them. His take on Blade is relatively light-hearted and well paced, with just the right amount of wham! bam! and stakey-stakey action. The smaller stories work better than the ones involving exploding SHIELD helicarriers (and I never thought I'd find myself saying THAT), and given a longer lifespan this comic would've become a bit of a humdinger.

Say what you like about Chaykin he's a consistently engaging artist, and while his art here isn't as stylish or groundbreaking as his eighties work, it's produced with enthusiasm and proficiency. Plus he draws good black characters, something a lot of mainstream artists have surprising difficulty with. Admittedly his Blade looks like he'd be more at home hanging out with Count Basie than slicing up the undead, but that adds to the title's wonky charms. The Perry Como-style jumper he rocks in the Christmas issue is particularly sweet.

Following this is a title that promises a lot more than it delivers, but at 20p who really gives a shit. Weird War Tales no.100 should be the best comic ever. It features not only the Creature Commandos, but the Creature Commandos versus The War That Time Forgot. That's right, it's an elite combat unit composed of a werewolf, a Frankenstein-type, and a vampire versus rampaging dinosaurs. The only thing missing is GI motherfuckin' Robot. Somehow, unbelievably it manages to be pretty dull. However, just by it's existence it makes the world a better place. Plus it has this ace Joe Kubert splash page:

which justifies the price of entry on it's own.

Next up are the first two issues of Michael Fleisher's gonzo future take on DC's perennial weirdly-scarred gunslinger Hex. Michael Fleisher tried to sue Harlan Ellison for accusing him of being "bugfuck crazy", based on readings of his brilliant and very nasty Wrath of the Spectre comic from the 70's (Harlan meant it in a good way though). He then spent the 80's writing stuff that ranged from the good-ish (Haywire) to the abysmal (everything he wrote for 2000ad) before seemingly retiring from comics full stop. 'Hex' is a desperate attempt to revive a flagging franchise, and catapults ol' Jonah into a Mad Max 2 style future. Naturally he's barely out of cryo before he gets busy with the two gun action, offing muties and punks left right and centre. Before you can blink some Vietnam GI's have appeared from a time loop and...well, by now you'll be able to tell if it's your thing or not. Mark Texeira provides some nice early visuals, and the whole thing ticks along in it's barmy way. If you grew up on 2000ad it all seems a bit tame, but Fleisher's work always has a fun sadistic streak, and it's hard not to have at least a little love for a future-cowboy comic.

Hey! I picked up nearly all of Warren Ellis' Ocean mini from a while back for £1.20! I only missed the first issue and you know what? Didn't make any difference. It is a Warren Ellis comic after all kids! I swing like a barn door with Ellis, but this was pretty good, helped no end by Chris Sprouse's lovely clear artwork. It's one of Ellis' more sci-fi comics, featuring the usual smart-arse banter, Big! Science! and a bit of ultra violence. Comfortable territory for Ellis. Slick, streamlined and relatively smart, it's OK stuff. If I'd had to wait three years and shell out over a tenner for it I might be less kind however. It's way better than Doktor Sleepless, and not as good as NEXTWAVE. Make of that what you will.

Far better, as a sci-fi comic and just as a comic in general, are some tatty copies of Jack Kirby's wonderful Kamandi. Often overlooked in favour of the (rightly) applauded Fourth World Saga, 'Kamandi' remains one of Kirby's longest running and consistent later works. Although notionally a cash in to the Planet of The Apes fad, Kirby worked his weird magic on it, and created a fantastically enjoyable romp imbued with his trademark idiosyncracies. His art is less dense and design heavy than in Mister Miracle or New Gods, but has a fluidity and energy that propels the story onwards. Perhaps, after the the dust had settled, and freed of the pressures of creating his masterwork, Kirby found a simple joy in creating these relatively straightforward action adventures. Whatever it is, his run of 31 issues on 'Kamandi' is fun, energetic, and action packed. And packed to the gills with Dog-men in napoleonic uniforms. I hunger for the upcoming collection, although there's something awesome about reading them in the original format. And, I'd like to reiterate, 20-fucking-pence each!

Finally we come to Mike Baron's seminal bezerkoid 80's kung-fu mash up, Badger. When I first started really getting into comics, my good friend Gary Lactus was the go-to-man for weird independent comics and more off-the-wall stuff than I was used to. Through him I first encountered Flaming Carrot, Savage Henry (which Gary Lactus actually drew a couple of pages for while he was still at school, fact fans!), Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children and other such b+w treasures. Although I didn't 100% trust these new discoveries (where did they come from..why were they so strange?) it was all part of the continually expanding world of comics I was being exposed too. All very exciting. One way or another I remember coming across some comics published by First Comics - some Nexus reprints I think. This was a range of surprisingly high quality comics, and more importantly they seemed to feature superheroes the likes of which I'd never seen. American Flagg, Whisper, Grimjack, Sable, Nexus, Dreadstar...and Badger. I didn't read any of them, but they lurked in my consciousness ever since. I always wondered what these strange comics were actually like. So the other day when I stumbled across a few dirt cheap 'Badger' comics, finally I could answer that nagging question. So then, what are they like?

Fucking nuts.

Let's have a look at what wikipedia tells us about Badger, shall we?

The lead character was Norbert Sykes, a Vietnam war veteran suffering from multiple personality disorder. "The Badger", an urban vigilante who could talk to animals, was just one of his personalities. Bizarrely, he would often call people "Larry", and it was later revealed that "Larry" was the name of his stepfather. After escaping from a mental institution, Norbert met an 5th century Druid named Ham (Hamaglystwythbrnxaxlotl in full), who had just awakened from an 800 year coma (this was later corrected in dialogue where it was noted that Ham's coma lasted 1500 years). Ham took the Badger in as a boarder in his castle in return for the Badger's bodyguard services. Other characters included Norbert's caseworker Daisy, Vietnamese martial arts expert (and Norbert's wife) Mavis, and Lord Weterlackus, a demon who empowered Ham until they had a falling out. Prior to his coma, Ham would sacrifice children in his castle in Wales (Ham was placed in a mystical coma for 1500 years by all the other wizards), but after his resurrection he would sacrifice animals (which enraged the Badger) or computer files. Ham would use his power over weather to influence markets and generate wealth for himself; occasionally his supernatural dealings would bring him into conflict with demons, whom the Badger would then be called upon to fight.

Got that? Good. Sometimes people may ask you why you read comics. In future rather than trying to explain the intricate complexities of 'From Hell' or 'Lost Girls', just direct them to that paragraph. That should settle their hash.
The comic seems to combine three of Mike Baron's passions: Kung Fu, animal rights, and spandex. It's weird stuff - not Morrison or Kirby weird, more 'watching-a Bollywood-action-musical-when you're-drunk' weird. But it does feature an inordinate amount of kicks to the face, which will certainly keep Chris Sims happy. It's view of mental illness seems to be akin to that of a Warner Bros cartoon, and one particular issue is all about Badger beating up some noisy neighbours of an old lady who have been having wild parties and shooting at the ducks she lovingly feeds. It's like Morrison's Animal Man crossed with the ouevre of Jean Claude Van 'Van Damage' Damme. Yes, that good. Well worth the few shecks I shelled out for them at least.

So then, that's your lot for now. The Bargain Basement's doors are closed for today - I have 160 downloaded episodes of 'Saved by the Bell' to watch*, including the 'Holiday in Hawaii' special. You have your reading list; get digging in those crates...

*not really. i don't know how to download. I'll just have to recall them, Rain Man-style, from memory.

The Training:

The Final Fight:

...inspiring. WATAHHHHHHH!

Shiny Stars of Hollywood had not any shine before they enter the door of Hollywood... Read full post...

Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston was both a telemarketer and waitress before hitting it big.

Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett was the "original Tim-Tam girl" and she did a number of commercials for the Australian chocolate biscuits.

Naomi Campbell
As a young child, Naomi Campbell appeared in music videos for Bob Marley's "Is This Love" and Culture Club's "I'll Tumble 4 Ya."

Jim Carrey
When Jim Carrey was 14, he was a rifleman with the army cadets.
Jim Carrey worked as a janitor in a factory.

Johnny Depp
Before his debute role as Glen Lantz in A Nightmare On Elm Street, Depp worked as an over-the-phone pen salesman.

Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito was a formally trained hair stylist before his break on Taxi.

Cameron Diaz
Before Cameron Diaz made her acting debut in "The Mask," she toured the world as a model including contracts with Calvin Klein and Levi's, and a 1990 cover appearance for Seventeen magazine.

Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford had earned quite a reputation as a carpenter before his acting career took off.

Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman once worked as a clown, reportedly making about $50.00 per show.

Brad Pitt
Pitt supported his early acting career by driving limos, moving refrigerators and "dressing as a giant chicken while working for el Pollo Loco" - according to IMDB.

Julia Roberts
Before becoming famous, Julia Roberts worked in an ice cream shop.

Jean Claude Van Damme
According to answers.com, Jean Claude Van Damme worked several odd jobs including chauffeur, carpet layer, pizza delivery, trainer, and bouncer.

Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington was pursuing a degree in journalism at Fordham University before making the switch to acting.

Bruce Willis
After graduating high school, Bruce Willis worked at a DuPont factory. Then in 1984, Bruce Willis played a gun-runner named "Tony" in Miami Vice. He also starred in a 1986 commercial for Levi's jeans.

O novo filme do Van Damme é bem diferente dos anteriores, pois nesse filme ele vai interpretar ele mesmo.
Não é exatamente um filme sobre a vida dele, mas sim um filme sobre um filme da vida dele... confuso?  :D
A história é o seguinte: Van Damme descobre que estão fazendo um filme sobre ele e então ele resolve ir até lá e pegar o papel para interpretar ele mesmo... rs..

Olha:

Casting para escolha do Van Damme:

Vi Aqui.

Siggi Eggrtsson is an illustration/design dude from rural Iceland who is big into '90s sports personalities, Sega Genesis-era graphics and the sweet smell of success. His latest exhibition "Athletes" has been published as a microbook in conjunction with Barcelona's Vasava communication studio.

"This exhibition is a tribute to my favorite athletes of all time. Some of them I used to like when I was a child, some of them I like today and most of them I will probably like forever. Great athletes have always fascinated me. They are the pop-stars of today. They make ridiculous amounts of money for being good at what they do, date the most beautiful women, live in amazing houses and drive fancy cars."

-Siggi Eggertsson

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Jean Claude Van Damme. You just don't get more manly than a man who "can crush a walnut between [his] buttcheeks". But then, if you happen to be the son of an accountant AND a florist, you're gonna need to be able to defend yourself. Infact Van Damme has studied 3 styles of martial arts, including taekwondo, muay thai and shotokan karate...and ballet. Guess which one he found the most difficult . Infact, Van Damme's fighting career stands at an impressive 17 wins, 1 loss...with EVERY win by KO, including victory over the only person who ever defeated him. However by this stage, Van Damme already had his eyes set on motion pictures...

Ians Wonderful World of Trivia #1 - Van Damme was originally hired as the Predator from the film of the same name, but found the jumping with the heavy costume was too difficult and got himself intentionally fired so he could leave production to do other roles.

Van Dammes impressive martial arts repertoire meant that despite the ridiculous plots and terrible acting, including in his break-through movie Bloodsport for he won a golden raspberry as "worst new star", directors kept coming back to him as western martial arts movies took off.

Ians Wonderful World of Trivia #2 - The music to that last video is, as I'm sure you recognised, the theme from Mortal Kombat. Interestingly the MK character Johnny Cage was based on Van Damme, who was in turn offered to play the role for the movie picture, a role which he turned down so he could be Guile in Street Fighter. And yes...no Van Damme summary would be complete without THAT speech...

Among his other movies, there is of course Double Impact where he played the lead character, opposite...well...himself.

Unfortunately, with the demise of the martial arts movies to slasher licences and Will Ferrell movies, the big budget movie work has dried up for our man Van Damme. At least on the big screen.

Yes Jean, we are all like sheep.

Unfortunately, the embarrassment doesn't stop there. Watch this to the end. If you can bear it.

So there we have it. But he's all man. And if you don't agree, are you going to be the one who tells him? ;)

Stay Classy,

Ian

Greetings Trendly nation! Do you like animation? Do you like bizarre game shows? How about laughing at people who are different than you because they say things with an accent and don't necessarily have a rudimentary understanding of your language? Well, then making light of Japanese culture is certainly a friendly trend that you can get on board with.

Yes, Americans have been enjoying Japanese culture since an unknown wall street banker enjoyed his first rolls of Sushi after an all night cocaine binge back in 1982. Prior to that, the only things about Japan Americans celebrated had something to do with a giant mushroom cloud or their fancy new CD player. Since then, major multi-national corporations and people all over the United States have caught on to the fact that Japanese people are amusing and that exploiting their culture is a relatively harmless practice.

Disembodied Japanese Heads Rank High On The Fun-o-meter

Companies like Six Flags with their "more flags more fun" ad campaign, The Food Network and FOX with their adaptations of Japanese game shows have done a wonderful job of co-opting the fun things about Japanese culture, such as their penchant for utilizing the appeal of shouting, disembodied heads; zapping all of the personality out of them by using them for monetary gain even though their quirkiness and excitability doesn't necessarily translate into the culture of the particular country they inhabit.

Pikachu: "Collect Me, I Love You"

There have been a few cases, such as Pokemon and Nintendo, where Japanese culture has been translated successfully into American culture. However, both of those instances were undertaken with the guidance of Japanese businesses with the aim of exploiting the American population for their own commercial gain and VIP seating at Karaoke bars...which is not trendly. The last time America let that happen was with Belgians and the cartoon lovingly known as "The Smurfs" and we all know where that led.

The Smurfs' Success Caused Irreparable Van Dammage

Things can only be friendly and trendly if we here in the United States co-opt other people's culture. That way no one gets hurt and we can continue to be our blissfully ignorant selves, which the last time we checked has always been trendly.

L’eau, l’air, la vie

« Je suis fasciné par l’air. Si on enlevait l’air du ciel, tous les oiseaux tomberaient par terre… Et les avions aussi… En même temps l’air tu peux pas le toucher… ça existe et ça existe pas… Ca nourrit l’homme sans qu’il ait faim… It’s magic… L’air c’est beau et en même temps tu peux pas le voir, c’est doux et tu peux pas le toucher… L’air c’est un peu comme mon cerveau… »

« L’eau c’est quelque chose de concret mais pas concret. Parce que l’eau… peut me nourrir, mais aussi l’eau peut me porter. Parce que l’eau a des lois magiques. L’eau peut tenir des cargos dans la mer, des milliers de tonnes d’acier… C’est quelque chose qui a beaucoup de dimensions l’eau. »

« Un jour je me promenais sur la plage. Il y avait beaucoup de vent, je me suis retrouvé penché en avant. Le vent a poussé la matière, la masse moléculaire et j’ai du me battre contre cette masse parce que c’est pas une masse faite pour l’être humain. »

« On a pas la même perception du temps selon les species, c’est ce qui fait que je peux passer ma main entre toi et moi comme ça, parce que pour l’oxygène, une seconde c’est peut-être 10 secondes, et pour le béton une seconde c’est peut-être un millième de seconde… »

« Parce qu´on a créé une réalité et dans notre réalité, on a inventé le temps: les 24 heures, les 365 jours par an. Ce qui est bien! Comme ça on sait que quand je traverse le living-room et que je marche de ma cheminée à ma fenêtre, ça prend 10 secondes mais pour l´oiseau, ça prend une seconde et pour l´oxygène 0 seconde »

« Entre penser et dire, il y a un monde de différences ( et ils sont près ! ) . Une personne s´appelle "dieu" et l´autre s´appelle " être humain". Et on est tous les deux la même chose au même niveau...mais "dieu" voudrait qu´on pense la vérité sur nous mêmes et pas ce qu´on dit...Tu comprends ce que je veux dire ? It´s a paradigme, un "paradigme" comme on dit en français, je crois..»

« La vie appartient à tous les vivants. It’s both a dream and a feeling. C’est être ce que nous ne sommes pas sans le rester. La vie c’est mourir aussi...Et mourir c’est vraiment strong... C’est rester en vie au delà de la mort...Tous ceux qui sont morts n’ignorent pas de le savoir »

« Moi Adam et Eve j’y crois plus tu vois, parce que suis pas un idiot : la pomme ça peut pas être mauvais, c’est plein de pectine… »

On a tous - les trentenaires en tout cas - été marqués dans notre jeunesse par le grand écart plus vrai que nature de Jean-Claude ou ses "tricks" avec les cacahuètes.

Les années passères, et à l'instar de Maradona, la descente médiatique s'accompagne de diverses substance illicites. C'est ensuite la télé réalité qui nous rappelle à nos meilleurs souvenirs un Jean-Claude que l'on redécouvre alors qu'il n'est plus que l'ombre de lui-même. Tantot bouffon, tantot philosophe mais surtout bouffon. Bref l'étoile ne brille plus guère et le temps des "Aware" supplente Blood sport et Full Contact.

Alors imaginez-moi il y a un an environ alors que je visionne pour la première fois le "teaser" totalement décalé de "JCVD le film". On y voit un Jean-Claude en train de négocier ferme pour pouvoir passer le casting pour jouer son propre rôle. Cette situation surréaliste demande une bonne dose d'auto-dérision et j'ose à ce moment là imaginer Jean-Claude dans son propre rôle pour un ultime film dont le second degré pourrait redonner une chance à celui dont on a tellement rit.

Ce soir donc je peux dire que "je l'ai vu" et que ça ressemble beaucoup à la bande annonce. Et je crois pouvoir dire également que Jean-Claude s'en est bien sorti.