Box office roundup

[shiznitz]

(Penelope Cruz gets naked in it.)

Unless she is wearing a bag over her head, it ain't enough to get me to watch.

And a gag. She sounds like a retard and it is not just her accent.

[Velorath]

Finally got around to watching In Bruges the other day.  It was a bit darker than I was expecting since the trailers here leave out one of the major plot points, but all in all I thought it was a great movie.  Still not a huge fan of Colin Farrell, but he's watchable in this movie, and Brendan Gleeson does such a good job here, he makes the people around look better as well.

[Selby]

The guys who made this movie took plenty of risks, and the tact they applied to the score is a great testament to that.

I'm terrified over how much everyone is reaching orgasm over this movie.  I am sure if I ever get around to seeing it I will find it to be like Lost In Translation.  A giant waste of time that everyone told me I just HAD to see to believe.

[stray]

Heh, I always feel like I have to defend movies like Lost in Translation. They're misunderstood. The judgement is almost always the same, and I believe, unfair. Most of the time, people expect a plot, find none in a movie like that, and as it moves along, they think the plot will emerge sooner or later...Only if they "just wait". Surely there will be a "twist", right?

But then the movie ends and they're pissed. All that time though, they distracted themselves by looking for something that wasn't even supposed to be there, and missed what was there: Which was a damn good character study.

Anyhow, yes, No Country is similar to Lost in Translation in that sense. It's a character piece. I can't say whether you'd dislike it or not on that basis though. Crime flicks that are done this way work a little differently than something like Lost in Translation. For one, you can't completely take away plot from a crime movie. There's always some sort of cat and mouse element involved in crime stories, something that you'll want to see drawn to a conclusion -- so as long as you're invested in the characters (and if you don't get invested in the characters here right away, then there's something terribly wrong with you). So in that sense, it has more in common with "plotless" crime movies like Dog Day Afternoon. If you liked that, then you'll like this (completely different subject matter between the two, of course).

[Furiously]

Here's some Flicks from the Future that may be postponed by an upcoming actor's strike. There's more than a few geektastic titles on the list, although The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves probly deserves a delay.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980473.html?categoryid=13&cs=1


Also, I decided that I'm going to watch No Country for Old Men again this weekend if I don't find a theater playing In Bruges.

I've never heard of more perfect casting for the robot...

[HaemishM]

Heh, I always feel like I have to defend movies like Lost in Translation. They're misunderstood. The judgement is almost always the same, and I believe, unfair. Most of the time, people expect a plot, find none in a movie like that, and as it moves along, they think the plot will emerge sooner or later...Only if they "just wait". Surely there will be a "twist", right?

But then the movie ends and they're pissed. All that time though, they distracted themselves by looking for something that wasn't even supposed to be there, and missed what was there: Which was a damn good character study.

No, really, it wasn't. Lost in Translation was one thing. BORING. Good character studies should make me interested in the characters, and LIT did not. It was just agonizingly boring, and the only thing saving it was that Scarlett Johansen is hot and Bill Murray is engaging. The best parts of the movie were the liquor commercials.

[Zetleft]

Heh, I always feel like I have to defend movies like Lost in Translation. They're misunderstood. The judgement is almost always the same, and I believe, unfair. Most of the time, people expect a plot, find none in a movie like that, and as it moves along, they think the plot will emerge sooner or later...Only if they "just wait". Surely there will be a "twist", right?

But then the movie ends and they're pissed. All that time though, they distracted themselves by looking for something that wasn't even supposed to be there, and missed what was there: Which was a damn good character study.

No, really, it wasn't. Lost in Translation was one thing. BORING. Good character studies should make me interested in the characters, and LIT did not. It was just agonizingly boring, and the only thing saving it was that Scarlett Johansen is hot and Bill Murray is engaging. The best parts of the movie were the liquor commercials.

Spot on Haem.  But I did get a chuckle out of this.



More then I can say the movie did for me. 

[Llava]

Ask anyone who knows me, they'll vouch, I'm all about the Latina women.  I'm a big fan.

I don't think Penelope Cruz is attractive and I don't understand why people do.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

The best part of Penelope Cruz is her sister, she is the attractive one in the family.

[K9]

Penelope Cruz is a poor man's Selma Hayek.

[tazelbain]

That's my kind of poverty!

[stu]

lol. Yeah, her sister is hotter. Here in Miami there are thousands of beautiful Latinas who can trump Penelope Cruz. I think you guys are being a bit hard on her looks though.

[stu]

I was going to metion a movie called Mataharis that I went to see the other night, but then I came across this a few minutes ago:


Tropic Thunder (NSFW)

The line at the end of the trailer is the best. 

[NowhereMan]

Apparently I can only watch this if I have US government ID. The movie appears not to be for foreign eyes.

[Engels]

Apparently I can only watch this if I have US government ID. The movie appears not to be for foreign eyes.

You might see a boob. As Americans, its our duty to protect vulnerable foreigners from toxic boob exposure.

[Nevermore]

I thought it was the US Government's duty to protect Americans from foreign boob exposure.

[Riggswolfe]

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe:

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?&id=1583178&vid=215326

About the only plus is that it has Corey Feldman in it but not Corey Haim as near as I can tell. Other than that it looks terrible.

[HaemishM]

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe:

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?&id=1583178&vid=215326

About the only plus is that it has Corey Feldman in it but not Corey Haim as near as I can tell. Other than that it looks terrible.

Wow. That looks super duper shitty.

[Engels]

The first one was pretty lame too, specially if you'd already seen Near Dark

[stu]

Edgar Frog is back and he's hellbent on thrashing those bike riding, vampire cocksuckers! Yes! This is the vampire flick I've been waiting for since Dracula 2000 came out. The seats in the theaters are going to be sticky when everyone creams their jeans as the begining credits roll on this one. I hope they find a way to include Alex Winter and maybe even a Keanu cameo. That would be the chocolate fudge on my movie-going vanilla sundae.

I hate this movie already.

[Riggswolfe]

I was going to metion a movie called Mataharis that I went to see the other night, but then I came across this a few minutes ago:


Tropic Thunder (NSFW)

The line at the end of the trailer is the best. 

That looks...interesting. Still, the age verification on that was a little extreme and over the top.

[schild]

Mother Nature just pissed her pantsuit.

Lol.

Seriously though, that movie will be awesome.

[Nerf]

Doomsday was awesome, I highly reccomend it.

[MrHat]

Doomsday was awesome, I highly reccomend it.

Really? It looked so...shitty? in the previews.

[bhodi]

Doomsday was escape from NY, redone.

[MrHat]

So, uh, redone well?

[Nerf]

Like I said, I really enjoyed it, not from a "Wow, this film really speaks to me!" sort of way, more of  a "Severed heads!! COOL!" sort of way.

A few of the action scenes were a bit zany and made you go "huh?", but were nescessary plot vehicles so you let it slide.  If you don't want to shell out $8, at least download it, it's WELL worth the 2 hours.  Although, I think it would be better in the theatre, some of the scenes wouldn't hit you as hard without the big screen and superloud speakers.

[stray]

Tough chicks, guns, cars, and mohawks already means it's a win for me, but glad to hear.

[Rishathra]

I read a review calling it a five star, two and a half star movie.  I think that sums it up pretty good.  Its like what Michael Bay would make if he was any good at being a director.

[stu]

Kind of like Ebert calling Alien 3 the best bad movie ever made? I can live with that.

[DraconianOne]

Doomsday was awesome, I highly reccomend it.

WTF?  Doomsday - a film set in Britain, featuring an almost exclusively British cast and written and directed by a British man - has just been released in the US and isn't on the cards for a British release for another 2 months?  How fucked up?  I could well do with going to see that this week!

[Venkman]

How is Doomsday any different from Resident Evil?

[Nerf]

Doomsday is far more like mad max than it is like Resident Evil, it just got to be that way by way of resident evil.

[Riggswolfe]

If you ever wanted to see a British punk rock concert with cannibals, go see Doomsday. That pretty much describes the whole movie from that one scene.

My life is now complete.

[WayAbvPar]

Saw The Hammer (starring Adam Carolla) over the weekend. It was surprisingly good. Completely cliched, but very amusing and well worth the 90 minutes. In fact, it could have used another 20 minutes- felt a bit rushed.