2013-05-23T21:45:06-04:00 Max Evry http://www.news.moviefone.com/author/index.php?author=max-evry Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Max Evry Good old fashioned elbow grease. tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog// 2013-03-19T12:16:25-04:00 2013-03-21T18:06:16-04:00

Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ ranked the entire roster of Pixar characters, but that was mere child's play compared to the challenge of sifting through 26 feature films in the DreamWorks Animation catalogue. Do you seriously ever sleep, Jeffrey Katzenberg?

Tied to this weekend's new film "The Croods," we're counting down everyone, from the goofy sidekicks to the neverending buffet of celebrity voices that parade through each film. Also, to make the list easier to digest, we've split it into eight different categories: The Stars, The Wacky Sidekicks, The Love Interests, The Villains, Dopey Animals, The Bad Parents, DreamWorks Employees, and Celeb Cameos.

Enjoy!

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "Die Hard" franchise passes its healthy 25-year anniversary milestone, it also launches a robust (and perhaps unnecessary?) fifth entry, "A Good Day to Die Hard," which hits theaters this Friday.

With McClane and son making Valentine's Day safe from Russian terrorists, we thought we'd break down what Bruce Willis has called "The Mythology of John McClane" by citing every crazy-ass, balls-to-the-wall thing the supercop has done in all four entries of the series. Yippee Ki-Hooray!



"Die Hard" (1988)
-Curls his toes on a rug to avoid jet lag.
-Choke-holds a guy while tumbling down a stairwell.
-Sends dead terrorist down on an elevator in a Santa hat with the words "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN HO-HO-HO" written in blood on his sweater.
-Slides down a horizontal roof vent to avoid machine gun fire.
-Uses a gun as a doorstop so he can wriggle through a vent fan.
-Crawls through an air duct lit by a cigarette lighter, while getting shot at.
-Shoots a guy six times from under a table.
-Drops a dead dude onto Sgt. Al Powell's (Reginald VelJohnson) car to tip him off about the terrorists.
-Via walkie talkie, tells Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) "Yippee Ki-Yay, motherf**ker."
-Ties C4 to a chair, weighs it down with a computer monitor, and chucks it down an elevator shaft. *KABLOOEY*
-Trudges through broken glass, then pulls the shards out of his bare feet.
-Hangs the long-haired blonde terrorist 20-feet off the ground with a chain.
-Uses a firehose as rope to evade a rooftop explosion, then shoots his way back in through a window.
-Shoots the final terrorists with a gun duct taped to his back, thus saving the day.

*****



"Die Hard 2: Die Harder" (1990)
-Cruhes a bad guy in a luggage sorter.
-Rides a girl's bike into a terrorist to knock him down.
-Crawls through another air duct, using the vent to blindside Robert Patrick (!) while he shoots him. Take that, T-1000!
-Knocks a bad guy off of a painting scaffold, then crushes him with it.
-While subdued under a fallen plank, uses a moving walkway to bring a gun to him so he can waste a baddie.
-Uses a pair of crummy torches to try to alert a plane of their low altitude. (It doesn't work.)
-Exits from an underground grating just as a freshly-landed plane heads straight for him. (He ducks.)
-Hops in an ejector seat to escape an exploding plane, then parachutes to safety.
-Stabs a bad guy in the eye with an icicle, then breaks it off in his head.
-Jumps a snowmobile over a truck and jumps off it midair before it explodes.
-Fires a (non-lethal) machine gun at Dennis Franz to prove the commandos' guns had blanks.
-Leaps from a helicopter onto a taxiing jumbo jet.
-Pushes John Amos into the jet engine, turning him into a human smoothie.
-Fights William Sadler on the wing of the jet, then pulls the gas tank cap off. He then uses the fuel to simultaneously explode the plane and create a landing light, thus saving the day.

*****



"Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995)
-Walks through Harlem, under terrorist orders, wearing a placard that reads "I HATE NI**ERS."
-Commandeers a taxicab and drives it through Central Park.
-Hops onto a moving NYC subway car, finds a bomb, and throws it out the back of the train just in the nick of time to ride the derailed car onto the platform.
-Steals a kid's bike so he can get to Wall Street.
-Wastes four guys during a Mexican standoff in an elevator.
-Jumps a Mercedes off an overpass.
-Rides a dump truck through a flood, then grabs hold of a grate so he can be squirted out onto the street just in time for Sam Jackson to spot him.
-Spins the Mercedes 360 degrees so he can shoot the bad guy driving behind him in a truck.
-While on a bridge, uses a wire so he and Sam Jackson can climb… then swing their way down onto the villain's boat.
-Mixes explosive material to break Sam Jackson's handcuffs.
-Jumps from a Hiroshima-sized exploding boat.
-Shoots a wire (with his last two bullets), which knocks Jeremy Irons' helicopter into a telephone pole, causing it to explode, thus saving the day.

*****



"Live Free or Die Hard" (2007)
-Stops a guy from getting to second base with his daughter.
-Slides a fire extinguisher down a hallway and shoots it, sending a bad guy flying out the window.
-Knocks a guy with a machine gun out with a punch through a wall.
-Shoots a Terminator doll off a shelf, which inadvertently triggers a bomb.
-Drives a guy, who's strangling him in the driver's seat, into a dumpster.
-Runs down a fire hydrant, which shoots water up in the air and knocks a shooter out of a helicopter.
-Ducks down as a flipping car flies towards him and Justin Long, only to have two cars on either side of them block the deathmobile.
-Leaps from a moving police cruiser just before it goes flying up a ramp and into a helicopter, causing it to explode.
-Pulls the trigger on a bad guy's holstered gun, which shoots a hole in his foot. Then he kills him.
-Throws Maggie Q into a shelf full of glass.
-Falls from three stories, knocks into a duct, falls to the ground, then just kinda gets up.
-Drives a minivan into Maggie Q, then sends it careening down an elevator shaft where (after a four or five-minute suspended fight) it falls to the bottom and explodes.
-Pushes a guy in a wheelie office chair down a flight of steps.
-Kicks some vents open that push a Parkour guy into some spinning blades.
-Leaps onto a moving truck, shoots the driver, then gets behind the wheel.
-Plays chicken with a fighter jet, then jumps onto the wing, then slides down a destroyed freeway ramp just before the jet crashes and explodes.
-Shoots himself in his own shoulder so he can kill Timothy Olyphant... thus saving the day.]]> tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog// 2013-02-07T13:12:06-05:00 2013-02-08T10:17:21-05:00

Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ Steven Soderbergh has enjoyed a wildly eclectic career that has seen him ascend to the highest highs (winning a Best Director Oscar for "Traffic," the blockbuster "Ocean's" trilogy) and drop to the lowest lows (a decade-long dry spell, fired from "Moneyball").

The prolific filmmaker, whose supposed "final film" before retiring, "Side Effects," opens this week, has left a legacy of 22 movies which we have ranked in terms of cultural significance and just plain awesomeness… or lack therof. Check out the full list below and let us know what you think.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "The Last Stand," Arnold Schwarzenegger is officially back in the action movie game. Hear that, Jesse Eisenberg, it's not safe for you to make movies anymore... the jocks are in charge again!

To celebrate this, we've plucked a couple dozen of the ripest, juiciest quotes from over the Austrian Oak's decades-long career that spans the worlds of bodybuilding, entertainment, politics, and being very, very blunt. It's about 599-pages shorter than reading his autobiography, so consider this a beautiful, poetic gift.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "Django Unchained" may be the fastest gun in the South, but he is definitely not the only black cowboy worth his salt. From as far back as the 1930s through the exploitation pictures of the '70s and into the present day, African Americans have been breaking the white cowboy stereotype by strapping on their own pair of spurs.

In anticipation of Quentin Tarantino's racially charged "southern" epic "Django," we're forming a posse of some of the most badass actors to ever climb on a horse and give filthy rustlers a fight. Have your pistols cocked, and get ready to ride, hombres, as we take a look back at the groundbreaking history of Black cowboys in film.

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Now Jackson is in the unenviable position Lucas was in of having to live up to the legacy of his own trilogy with "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," the first of three "LOTR" prequels. While it's not a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, Jackson's new sojourn into Middle Earth has at least 10 things going for it over "The Phantom Menace," and you better believe we're countin' 'em all down.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ Greatest human being alive Bill Murray has been earning a plethora of advanced raves for his performance as Franklin Roosevelt in "Hyde Park on Hudson," and it could be the kind of buzz that carries the funnyman to another well-deserved Oscar-nomination.

He's not alone in being a comic mastermind playing POTUS, though, as we've dug up these dozen dudes who have managed to walk proudly during "Hail to the Chief" without slipping on any banana peels… mostly. Below, a list of funnymen who've played both real and fictional presidents on the big screen.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ is more to it than that, but to make a James Bond movie requires a very specific toolbox.

Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for "American Beauty," takes his first stab at the British superspy with this week's "Skyfall," and we're going to run down the most important things he needs to bring to the table in order to hit this 007 out of the park.

Below, check out our how-to guide on how to make a successful James Bond flick.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "Fun Size," which follows a teenage girl who ends up losing track of her brother on Halloween night.

Start to get nostalgic with us as Moviefones ranks all 24 Nickelodeon Movies, from Rugrats to Squarepants, below.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/
On Friday it happens again, this time with Jeremy Renner replacing Matt Damon in "The Bourne Legacy." While Renner may not be playing the same character as his predecessor, the two roles are very similar (deadly assassins who belong to top-secret government programs). The trend will also continue next year with Tom Hardy taking over for Mel Gibson in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Henry Cavill snatching Superman's red cape from Brandon Routh's hands in "Man of Steel."

Though the verdict is still out on Renner's "Bourne," let's take a look back at the times replacing an actor did (and didn't) work.

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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "The Dark Knight Rises" has wrapped Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy in a neat little bow, many are wondering how Warner Bros. will reboot the series without him. Those who have seen the film know it ends with a perfectly logical place to go with the character, but to attempt a full-on franchise reboot they'll need a bold creative team with a fresh take on the world of the Caped Crusader.

With nearly 75-years of comics under Batman's utility belt, there is a rich well of untapped source material to draw from, so it's time to let our inner fanfiction demon loose with six unique pitches the studio can turn to. As far as they're concerned, all the actors, directors, and concepts below are interchangeable, with any one of them ready and able to shed new light on the Dark Knight.


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Max Evry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-evry/ "Toy Story," was centered on the world of playthings. Since then, no entertainment entity has been able to tap into our inner child with more consistently boundless imagination than the team spearheaded by John Lasseter.

This Friday, Pixar will attempt to do it again, with their latest animated outing, "Brave." Here, the studio takes the standard Disney princess and gives her a badass makeover, fiery red hair and a way with a bow and arrow, not to mention a thick Scottish brogue courtesy of the adorable Kelly Macdonald.

It's that penchant for character development that has made every entry in the Pixar filmography a bull's-eye. Which is why Moviefone is making a brave stance of our own and ranking almost every major character (all 118 of them!) from the 13 Pixar flicks. We also split them up into several different categories, including Cute Kids, Cuter Critters and the Adorable Sidekicks. Enjoy!



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