April 27, 2008

Harold And Kumar: Friends Don't Let Friends Watch Lame Sequels

It's a story that writes itself: low budget film becomes a cult classic, leading to Hollywood dropping money into a sequel, which sucks more than all the Hoovers in all the towns in all the world. Someone could make that into a movie, in fact. And then someone else could remake that movie into a sequel, which would suck. It's sort of like reverse recycling, turning good things into garbage.

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January 26, 2008

There Will Be Blood

Okay, we get it. Oilmen are ruthless. Who knew?

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September 22, 2007

Mister Woodcock

Heh heh heh heh heh he said woodcock heh hehe heh heh hee

Seriously, no matter how many funny lines you have (and this flick has plenty) Oedipus Rex really doesn't work as a comedy.

Good thing the theatre was almost empty. I'd hate to think that next summer we'd be treated to Sleepless in Sparta.

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September 02, 2007

The Bourne Whatever

Somewhat entertaining, but it was no "Snakes On A Plane!"

Essentially one long chase scene after another without much of a story.

And for God's sake, people: enough with the shaky, handheld camera! You're spending millions of dollars making a movie... unless it's actually set in an earthquake, get a freakin' tripod!

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June 15, 2007

And this, boys and girls, is why ww have focus groups

I guess I picked the wrong election cycle to quit smoking dope.

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And this, boys and girls, is why ww have focus groups

I guess I picked the wrong election cycle to quit smoking dope.

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June 08, 2007

I hate stupid movie commercials

There've been fifty-six deaths in 1408.

Hard to imagine how that damn hotel stays in business.

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July 28, 2006

Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?

If you watch Comedy Central late at night you're probably aware that a new flick called America: From Freedom to Fascism is opening in Austin today. While it would seem that the title could encompass a wide range of outrages, this movie actually seems to focus on the particular part of the crackpotosphere which holds that all evil flows from the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve. Of course, they are part and parcel of the nefarious New World Order conspiracy which leads to black helicopters in our skies, fluoride in our water, and jackbooted UN troops in our streets. Sort of like an Alex Jones/Jeff Davis public access show except presumably the guy in the control room knows how to run the audio board. Of course, I can only guess about that since bloggers were excluded from the press screening.

Far more intriguing is the recommendation given by Todd David Schwartz, who says this film

Makes Fahrenheit 911 look like Bambi

(I know I always have to fight back the tears when that mean hunter shoots Michael Moore's mom.)

Still, since I haven't seen the movie and presumably he has, I'll leave the last word to TDS:

"I would advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one."

Kind of sounds like Gigli.

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