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My girlfriend and I have already seen Batman. Twice. She's into comic book films, so we had to see it in Imax (which, for either of us, we couldn't tell the difference). I won't get into what I thought of that movie. We did enough of that over in the movie review threads on this board.
The first movie I see advertised in the U-T, is Space Chimps. My initial thought is if Eddie Murphy is in this. It seems like the type of movie he'd be in. I think his last movie was Meet Dave, in which his body was a space ship for aliens (one of the aliens being a smaller version of Murphy).
I just hope they remember Space Chimps when Oscar voting rolls around.
Below that is an ad for the movie American Teen. This is a documentary getting good reviews, and being compared to John Hughes movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles), but...this movie follows real kids around for an entire school year. It sounds interesting. But I have a big problem with one thing. I just read in the LA Times, that this director went to various schools to "find" five characters that would be interesting to follow. Okay, no problem with that. You don't want to drive up to Helix High, and find out the students are all boring and you don't have a movie. But...the school gave permission for her cameras to film everything. Why? Isn't the job of high schools to be educating kids? Not letting documentary filmmakers run around. What if one kid is made to look foolish in the movie, and later kills himself? What if the cameras are in the classroom, and the kids aren't listening to the teacher, but are hamming it up for the cameramen?
The big story in San Diego is that Cameron Crowe went to Clairemont High School, pretending to be a student, and then wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High based on that experience. Well, I even had a problem with that. An adult doesn't need to hang out with kids, just to write a screenplay. But in that instance, I don't think the school was aware of what was going on. With American Teen, they were.
Right next to that, I see an ad for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Really? They needed a second one of these?
The Mummy is below that, and on the top of the ad it says "The #1 movie in the world." That, just shows how pathetic people are. The fact that Brendan Fraser can make a mummy movie, and people actually go to see it.
Mamma Mia is right next to that. And sure, you could make the same argument. Why would people rush out to see a musical based on the music of Abba? But, it's a musical. It has a few big names in it, and the Broadway version of this was huge. I can see them making a movie on it. I won't see it. But I can understand them doing it.
The movie Swing Vote is at the bottom corner. This would look good, especially with all the elections for President being so close in recent years. But, I'm burned out on Kevin Costner and precocious girls in films. Sure, the one in Little Miss Sunshine was great. But, when I saw her in the horrible Possibly, Maybe. And, all the other movies that prance these kids out...enough already.
There's Wall-E. It's a Pixar film, so it is probably well done. But, I think it's more suited for 10-year-olds.
There are two movie ads left. A Quintin Tarantino movie called Hell Ride. Two reviews I read said this was horrible. I'm still trying to figure out, when I saw the trailer for this in the movies the other day, why before the title they had 5 different things listed. It said "A Quintin Tarantino Film," and then it said "written and directed by Larry Bishop," which makes me wonder what it then means to be a Tarantino film.
And, there are three companies that "brought us" this film. I can't figure that out, either. Why are there three companies bringing us this? Strange.
That leaves me only one option. I'm going to see Seth Rogens latest stonerfest "Pineapple Express." The commercials looked funny, but my hopes aren't high for this.
Each movie he's done since 40 Year Old Virgin has been less funny.
Superbad was okay, but it really started getting silly near the end.
And, I know if I don't like the movie, some of my friends that smoke will say the same thing they said to me when I didn't like 2001: A Space Odyssey. They'll say "You need to be stoned when you see it."
My girlfriend and I have already seen Batman. Twice. She's into comic book films, so we had to see it in Imax (which, for either of us, we couldn't tell the difference). I won't get into what I thought of that movie. We did enough of that over in the movie review threads on this board.
The first movie I see advertised in the U-T, is Space Chimps. My initial thought is if Eddie Murphy is in this. It seems like the type of movie he'd be in. I think his last movie was Meet Dave, in which his body was a space ship for aliens (one of the aliens being a smaller version of Murphy).
I just hope they remember Space Chimps when Oscar voting rolls around.
Below that is an ad for the movie American Teen. This is a documentary getting good reviews, and being compared to John Hughes movies (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, 16 Candles), but...this movie follows real kids around for an entire school year. It sounds interesting. But I have a big problem with one thing. I just read in the LA Times, that this director went to various schools to "find" five characters that would be interesting to follow. Okay, no problem with that. You don't want to drive up to Helix High, and find out the students are all boring and you don't have a movie. But...the school gave permission for her cameras to film everything. Why? Isn't the job of high schools to be educating kids? Not letting documentary filmmakers run around. What if one kid is made to look foolish in the movie, and later kills himself? What if the cameras are in the classroom, and the kids aren't listening to the teacher, but are hamming it up for the cameramen?
The big story in San Diego is that Cameron Crowe went to Clairemont High School, pretending to be a student, and then wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High based on that experience. Well, I even had a problem with that. An adult doesn't need to hang out with kids, just to write a screenplay. But in that instance, I don't think the school was aware of what was going on. With American Teen, they were.
Right next to that, I see an ad for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Really? They needed a second one of these?
The Mummy is below that, and on the top of the ad it says "The #1 movie in the world." That, just shows how pathetic people are. The fact that Brendan Fraser can make a mummy movie, and people actually go to see it.
Mamma Mia is right next to that. And sure, you could make the same argument. Why would people rush out to see a musical based on the music of Abba? But, it's a musical. It has a few big names in it, and the Broadway version of this was huge. I can see them making a movie on it. I won't see it. But I can understand them doing it.
The movie Swing Vote is at the bottom corner. This would look good, especially with all the elections for President being so close in recent years. But, I'm burned out on Kevin Costner and precocious girls in films. Sure, the one in Little Miss Sunshine was great. But, when I saw her in the horrible Possibly, Maybe. And, all the other movies that prance these kids out...enough already.
There's Wall-E. It's a Pixar film, so it is probably well done. But, I think it's more suited for 10-year-olds.
There are two movie ads left. A Quintin Tarantino movie called Hell Ride. Two reviews I read said this was horrible. I'm still trying to figure out, when I saw the trailer for this in the movies the other day, why before the title they had 5 different things listed. It said "A Quintin Tarantino Film," and then it said "written and directed by Larry Bishop," which makes me wonder what it then means to be a Tarantino film.
And, there are three companies that "brought us" this film. I can't figure that out, either. Why are there three companies bringing us this? Strange.
That leaves me only one option. I'm going to see Seth Rogens latest stonerfest "Pineapple Express." The commercials looked funny, but my hopes aren't high for this.
Each movie he's done since 40 Year Old Virgin has been less funny.
Superbad was okay, but it really started getting silly near the end.
And, I know if I don't like the movie, some of my friends that smoke will say the same thing they said to me when I didn't like 2001: A Space Odyssey. They'll say "You need to be stoned when you see it."