solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies

The full trailer for Cronenbergs london-set ‘Eastern Promises’ is up, and to me looks like it could easily live up to the standard he set with ‘A History of Violence’

Check it out in several formats over at Yahoo

I was just reading an early review of the film over at AICN yesterday and there’s a short discription of a bathhouse fight (no.. not kung-fu style) involving several butt-naked russians… it made me chuckle.

“I have to say, the movie’s got the scene of the year. This will be a quasi-Spoiler- Viggo is in a bathhouse when two thugs come after him, and suddenly this barely R-rated movie becomes something that will make the MPAA sweat. Not only is it a totally brutal one-on-one fight with Viggo’s fists versus two guys with knives, but ol’ Viggo takes them down through about five to ten minutes of bare-knuckled brawling while COMPLETELY NUDE. And there’s no dodgy photography or editing in this- Viggo’s balls are flying ALL over the place. There’s one moment where he lifts his leg to deliver a roundhouse kick, and I could swear Aragorn’s scrote smacked me in the face about six times. If anybody remembers that totally rough naked shower fight in “Get Rich Or Die Trying”, this one is about twelve times more brutal. Van Damme would never agree to that sort of ball exposure, and he’d never deliver the kind of ass-kicking that results from it.”

Viggos sack should be arriving on screens late september.

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