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Charlton Heston passed away Sunday at the age of 84. The man was indeed a legend. He played Moses, the Last Man on Earth, Ben-Hur and so many other filmic heroes.

The Omega Man was my personal favorite from Heston’s repertoire. He was so suave and cool and could take down a zombie without breaking a sweat. You really need an actor that you can connect with when it’s just him all alone for most of the film. Things can get awful boring if you have only one character that doesn’t engage you.

Even in Bowling for Columbine when being filmed by a digital video camera, he had presence. Like he was a force to be reckoned with. Heston seemed to always captivate audiences so effortlessly whether in real life or movies.

Since 2005, the SNL digital shorts have become regularly integrated into the show. By using a simple Sony hdv camcorder, they can create a skit filmed on various locations instead of on a sound stage. In my opinion, the best ones are ‘Lazy Sunday‘ and the emmy award winning ‘D$#! in a box“. Last saturday’s show was actually pretty funny with Jonah Hill.

Here’s Jonah & Andy’s short:

I definitely laughed pretty hard, but it goes too far in the kissing scene.

First off, where’s Corey Haim in this trailer? He was always my favorite Corey, so the movie went down a peg already. If they went to all the trouble of re-shooting in Canada just to squeeze Haim into this thing, we need to see what all the fuss was about.

Despite being a die hard Coreys lover (I even own an autographed vhs copy of Rock N Roll High School Forever), the reunion of Haim and Feldman won’t save this movie. People will only be able to watch this movie with an awesomely bad (i.e. why the hell not?) frame of mind.

Here’s how awesomely bad in my own special visual symbology:

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It’s like a cross between The Forsaken (one of the worst movie screenings I ever attended), The Brotherhood (which is basically a gay fraternity soft core dvd release) and some eighties bandanafied Feldman.

It is a straight to dvd release for a reason. And though dvd released movies can make money, even ones made with a Canon GL2, this movie will need tons of hype. Crazily they’re trying to use MTV to drum up a theatrical release. If they’re serious about that, they’re gonna really have to work the nostalgia angle to the ground.

I know Edward Norton already had a notorious dust up with Tony Kaye, director of American History X. But that movie turned out alright, didn’t it? Boy, I wish their was a canon dv camcorder hidden in the room where those “discussions” took place.

Nonetheless, it’s unsettling to hear that Edward Norton is having another final cut disagreement with the studio over the Incredible Hulk.

Teaser of the trailer that premieres on MTV tonight!

Sheesh, that June release date is creeping up. They def need to get on with it. As a filmmaker, I understand all to well the neverending battle between actor and director. At some point, you just gotta trust the other director’s vision.

I was already wary about this movie, especially since it’s another summer blockbuster sequel (Can we get another pathetic ‘hooray for sequels’?). Ang Lee’s version seriously sucked, so almost anything is liable to be an improvement. (i.e. don’t make it too serious and sappy, mmmkay). Hell, maybe Norton knows what he’s doing. I’m sure he just wants to make the best movie possible. As long as he doesn’t start directing again, we’re cool. No need for another Keeping the Faith. There are limits to genius. You simply can’t be good at everything.