The latest Will Ferrell movie : Talladega Nights



I know it's going to be bad.
But will it be bad enough to be enjoyable in its own 'special' way?

Sacha Baron-Cohen as a villainous gay frenchman sure makes me think that I'm going to love it.



How dare I review movies after that?

wonder if they make these my size?

One size fits all. We will make sure of it.

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

I hope it's up to the standard of no 1.

looks like the same people as the first movie, that's gotta be good? mmm, mignola.

For once, a film we will see first in the world. And Viggo Mortensen fits the role perfectly.

Alatriste

José

Rented the original Pulse (Kairo) directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The commericials for the American remake have been on Tv recently so we decided to check the original.

Bascially this will be case where the remake might be better the movie it's based on. Kairo was slow and didn't make much sense. Red tape why? Ghosts popping up in rooms that have to be sealed with red tape? I've seen two other films by this director and they were the same way. He's very minimalist in his explanations of what's happening in the movie. I saw him speak at the Seattle Film fest a couple years back after one of his films (Mesmer I think), and someone asked him what the ending ment. If he wasn't there to explain it I don't think anyone in the audience would have gotten it.

Also been watching Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig.

I was looking at some trailers on the quicktime website, and out of all the bunch "The Illusionist" grabbed my interest the most. "Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits." Sweet.
Even though it's listed to be released soon, it's also listed under independent movies, so chances of it making it out here in my backward little corner of my backward little country are only marginaly higher than zero.

When I was in the Dome a couple weeks back, I saw a long trailer for Stone's World Trade Center and burst out crying. I think it was because the Dome's screen is so big. Though I saw the documentary, 9/11, made by those French brothers and cried off and on through that, too. I think I saw an edited version of 9/11, because my Bro had seen it the first showing on TV and he described things I don't remember seeing or hearing on my viewing.

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Transformers on MTV

Dead or Alive, looks promesing.

The Trailer.

Okay, I admit, it is mainly eye candy. But could be fun to watch. Turn up the volume, get some popcorn, and enjoy. I just wouldn't expect any story or deeper meaning.

I'm looking forward to a few of them.
Southland Tales
Children of Men
Casino Royale
Renaissance

This is annoying me right now: Flyboys
Hollywood appears to once again have taken a story that was, on its own, dramatic and compelling, then sanitized it for PG-13 and tarted it up with a pointless love story and pat message of racial equality. I suspect it'll be like Pearl Harbor; trying to make us care about personal dramas in the context of a far more important conflict. And now no one who could have made a good movie about the Lafayette Escadrille will be able to get funding for the next 20 years. At least it may remind Americans that we were actually allies with France for about 200 years...

Also: WWI Biplanes do not work like that!

I absolutely fucking abhor, to unpack my muthafucking adjectives, tear jerking the audience off with romantic cop-outs in films with potential for different artistic excellence. Understandibly things like Snakes on a Plane are somewhat doomed from the green light, but everyone knows what they're trying to do with something entitled "Snakes on a Plane" from the get-go: there's no pretense, and you get the cinematic crack you payed for at the box office. But... God, don't want to think about it.

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Originally posted by vecna:
Children of Men

just caught the trailer for children of men in the cinema, with scanner darkly. it looks very interesting. julianne moore, clive owen, and directed by alfonso cuarón who did "y tu mama tambien". based on a p.d. james novel - anyone read it?

There's motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!

OK so I heard that the title is the best thing about this movie, well that and

Samuel L Jackson!

Factotum By Bent Hamer.

I'm a little confused about this one. I heard the review on the radio. However the stat's say its a year old. Perhaps, its being released with a limited distribution?

Anyway, I've been a Bukowski fan from way back, althougth it takes a bit to get through his too common working-class hero and BTW drunk protagonists. His books (and movies) are an acquired taste.

Another Bukowski story that made it into film was "Barfly" (1987). Mickey Rourke, in fine form plays Henry Chinaski. (That is also the name of the main character in "Factotum".) "Barfly" (the novel) is similar to "Factotum" (the novel) in many ways.

BTW, in "Barfly" (the now dead) Bukowski plays a drunk who drinks a beer at the bar and then spits it back into the glass whole.

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Originally posted by Newromancer:
Dead or Alive, looks promesing.

The Trailer.

Okay, I admit, it is mainly eye candy. But could be fun to watch. Turn up the volume, get some popcorn, and enjoy. I just wouldn't expect any story or deeper meaning.

You have to be kidding me. This thing looks worse than Street Fighter!

Jeez, even Jamie Pressly won't get me to see that one. She is funny as hell on My Name Is Earl but this looks horrible.

I just found out about Spike Lee's Katrina documentary : "When the Levee Broke".

I have to see it.
Now!

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Originally posted by Nilcypher:

You have to be kidding me. This thing looks worse than Street Fighter!

Well, doesn't matter how you look at it, "Street Fighter" was bad.

Thing is, I really liked Mortal Kombat. Given, as a movie it was pretty poor. But as a 101m video clip it was pretty entertaining.