New Crap Tuesdays 3/27/07

DVD

Children of Men

Clive Owen stars as a burned-out activist in a hopeless future plagues by infertility and the spiritual devastation of a world with now future in Alfonso Cuarón's gripping adaptation of the P.D James novel. When his long-estranged wife (Julianne Moore), now the leader of an underground revolutionary group, enlists him for a mission, he finds hope and responsibility again when he is trusted to save the first pregnant woman (Clare-Hope Ashitey) in almost twenty years. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including one for Emmanuel Lubezki's magnificent cinematography, it co-stars Michael Caine an aging hippie hiding out in the forest, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Danny Huston, and Peter Mullan. Details: Color, 110 mins, Universal, Widescreen anamorphic, 1.85:1. Supplements: Deleted Scenes; Featurette: The Possibility of Hope; Featurette: Under Attack; "Children of Men" Comments by Slavoj Zizek; Theo & Julian; Futuristic Design; Visual Effects: Creating the Baby. Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) and Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional Spanish, French and English subtitles.

I'm considering owning this. I watched it twice in the theaters and I enjoyed it both times. Lots of goodies on this release...

Forget the trailer, watch these scenes and then tell me you don't wanna see this movie... Safe for work these clips are not...

The Pursuit of Happyness

Will Smith earned an Academy Award nomination starring opposite his real-life son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) in this drama inspired by the true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman and single father who endures eviction and homeless shelters to complete a competitive unpaid internship for a long-shot at a big paying career. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, it co-stars Thandie Newton, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, and Kurt Fuller. Details: Color, 117 mins, Sony Pictures, Widescreen anamorphic. Supplements: Father and Son: Onscreen and Off ; The Man Behind the Movie: A Conversation with Chris Gardner; Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream ; Inside the Rubik's Cube ; "I Can" Song (audio only) ; Audio commentary with director Gabriele Muccino . Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and French (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional Spanish, French and English subtitles.

Rent this one, it's worth a watch but dear lord don't waste your money owning it.

Curse of the Golden Flower

(China) Chow Yun-fat is steely as a scheming Emperor and Gong Li fiercely determined as the Empress he's slowly poisoning in Zhang Yimou's spectacle of court intrigue, royal assassinations, and private wars in the 10th century. As the conspiracies develop, the loyal sons become forced to choose sides. Yimou directs it more like a lavish theatrical pageant than action movie, though the martial arts scenes are impressive. Jay Chou, Liu Ye, and Chen Jin co-star. Details: Color, 114 mins, Sony Pictures, Widescreen anamorphic, 2.35:1. Supplements: "Secrets Within" behind-the-scenes featurette; Los Angeles Premiere. Audio: Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1) and English (Dolby Digital 5.1). Optional French and English subtitles.

I came into this movie expecting a movie with lots of action. There is a small amount of action but what this movie ended up being was "Marie Antoinette" with ninjas. Awesome use of color and damn good cinematography all around. Zhang Yimou directed "Hero" FYI. I recommend everyone watch this once...

Ha ha Chinese "rap metal" video with a song that is not in the movie but has footage...



Proper trailer...



MUSIC

J Dilla: Ruff Draft

I Haven't heard this one yet, but for those who don't know who J Dilla was, he was a very respected producer in the hip-hop community and he died recently. This is his third post humus release. Apparently there is a really rare ep of the same name and this is a VERY expanded version.

Adult. : Why Bother?

Sassy electro. I don't really like it. Sorry...

Box Office Report 3/26/07

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
23 March 2007 (Sunday Estimates)
Rank Title Weekend Gross
1. TMNT (2007) $25.4M $25.4M
2. 300 (2006) $20.5M $162M
3. Shooter (2007) $14.5M $14.5M
4. Wild Hogs (2007) $14.4M $124M
5. Premonition (2007/I) $10.1M $32.2M
6. The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) $10M $10M
7. The Last Mimzy (2007) $9.5M $9.5M
8. Reign Over Me (2007) $8M $8M
9. Pride (2007) $4M $4M
10. Dead Silence (2007) $3.47M $13.2M

TMNT wasn't @ my theater, so dunno what the crowd was like, but I though the top movies would be mimzy or reign over me. I haven't seen any of the new releases yet so I dunno if they are any good. Oh well, it did better than pride...

Box Office Report 3/19/07

USA Weekend Box-Office Summary

16 March 2007

Rank	Title	Weekend	Gross
1.	300 (2006)	$32.9M	$129M
2.	Wild Hogs (2007)	$19.1M	$104M
3.	Premonition (2007/I)	$17.6M	$17.6M
4.	Dead Silence (2007)	$7.84M	$7.84M
5.	I Think I Love My Wife (2007)	$5.67M	$5.67M
6.	Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	$5.19M	$75M
7.	Ghost Rider (2007)	$4.18M	$110M
8.	Zodiac (2007)	$3.29M	$29.1M
9.	Norbit (2007)	$2.77M	$92.4M
10.	Music and Lyrics (2007)	$2.27M	$47.4M

No surprises here, 300 is now 205th in all time box office scores. I did expect "I think I love my Wife" to do way better as well as "Dead Silence". Wild Hogs wouldn't be doing so well except for the fact that nothing else is out right now...

Opening this weekend 3/16/07

I Think I Love My Wife

Could be funny, one of the writers is Louis C.K. who has a pretty impressive resume...

Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007) (TV)
"Lucky Louie" (4 episodes, 2006)
"Saturday Night Live" (1975) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"One Night Stand" (2005) TV Series (unknown episodes)
Saint Louie (2004) (TV)
"Cedric the Entertainer Presents" (2002) TV Series (unknown episodes)
2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002) (TV)
"Comedy Central Presents" (2 episodes, 2000-2001)
- Louis C.K. (2001) TV Episode
- Dane Cook (2000) TV Episode (stand-up material)
Pootie Tang (2001) (written by)
Down to Earth (2001) (screenplay)
... aka Einmal Himmel und zurück (Germany)
Best of Chris Rock: Volume 2 (2001) (V)
... aka Best of the Chris Rock Show (USA: video box title)

Pulp Comics: Louis C.K.'s Filthy Stupid Talent Show (1999) (TV)
Tomorrow Night (1998)
The Legend of Willie Brown (1998)
"The Chris Rock Show" (1997) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"HBO Comedy Half-Hour" (1 episode, 1996)
- Louis C.K. (1996) TV Episode
"The Dana Carvey Show" (1996) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka The Dana Carvey Show Sponsored by Pepsi (USA)
... aka The Diet Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mountain Dew Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Szechuan Dynasty Dana Carvey Show (USA)
... aka The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show (USA)
"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) TV Series (unknown episodes)
"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) TV Series (unknown episodes)
... aka Late Show Backstage (USA: title for episodes with guest hosts)
... aka The Late Show (USA: informal short title)

Trailer...



Dead Silence

Writer and director of Saw has a new movie about ventriloquist dummies that kill people... I might watch it but I am not going out of my way...



Premonition

Stay away from one till you hear from some other sucker who went to see it...




Still out...

300

Daaaaaaamn! 70.9 mil made last weekend! You must be under a rock if you didn't see it. I thought it looked like a video game or music video and I was personally unimpressed, don't get me wrong, I had fun but the editing was way too much for me. 




You might just wanna wait for never weekend as it will be a busy weekend with TMNT, Reign Over Me and Hills Have Eyes 2...

Opening this weekend update...3/11/2007

On friday I posted this... (see post directly below)



Since then I have worked 23 hours of 49 possible and I have pretty much cleaned up after the messes of 5250 people (that is only for the movie 300 alone, we were busy for the movies wild hogs and bridge to terbithia and amazing grace) the worst being a toss up of the discarded underwear in a handicapped stall in the mens restroom or the vomit on the floor in a showing of "wild hogs" that the customer never told any staff about so it was a pleasant surprise. I'm not too mad about the customer not telling any staff that they puked, I would be quite embarassed myself but I am the type of person to offer to help clean it up. Fortunately we have something that deodorizes and solidifies any liquid/chewed-up food so that problem was easily solved.

1 thing I noticed alot of this weekend was people taking there small children to see rated r movies. The last time I noticed alot of that was the movie "apocalypto". I don't really have an opinion on wherther small children should watch something like 300 or "apocalypto" but I do wonder if people even think about what their children will think of it. Considering I usually observe one small child a day freaking out and crying and their parents having to explain that "it's only a movie and the girl in 'bridge to terbithia' didn't really die", I just don't ever wanna have to explain to my kid the concept of war and violence to a small child untill I'm ready.

To play the devils advocate, I work in the box office and I oftentimes see fathers and sons going to the movies and the father always asks me "do you guys have any horror or war movies"? I always assume in my head that the father hasn't always been around that the father is trying to make up for it by taking his son to a movie that mom would never let him see. I imagine them planning to tell mom they watched something animated and a couple years too young for for them and mom totally buying it and the kid going to school and telling all his friends that he got to see a rated r movie in the theater and all his friends being wowed by his story about how the guy in "apocalypto" beheads people and then rolls the heads down the steps of the pyramid.

I then imagine the kid in a few years not even wanting to been seen in public with any member of his family and how dad won't be able to get his sons admiration by taking him to see a movie where people get dismembered. I think if I have children I will want them to stay 8 forever so I can still impress them by taking them to see die hard.

But I digress, I watched "Wild Hogs" and I think it will be worth a rent, I laughed out loud and wished I could fall asleep as I knew after that I had to clean up after thousands of people.

Opening ths weekend 3/09/07

300: This movie should pretty much rule. Frank Miller story done in the "Sin City" and "Sky Captain" style about an epic greek battle... The visuals are pretty cool but some of the editing is a lil bit flashy for my tastes, kind of like a music video. Everyone who I observed coming out of the theaters when I worked the midnight showing was very happy with it but they were die hard geeks.

A little plot background...

From Wikipedia: Battle of Thermopylae

Size of the Persian army

Fleet crew 517,610
Infantry 1,700,000
Cavalry 80,000
Arabs and Libyans 20,000
Greek puppet troops 324,000

Total 2,641,610


Size of the Greek army

Spartans 300
Mantineans 500
Tegeans 500
Arcadian Orchomenos 120
Other Arcadians 1,000
Corinthians 400
Phlians 200
Mycenaeans 80
Thespians 700
Thebans 400
Phocians 1,000
Opuntian Locrians 13

Total 5,200+

Trailer...



In Spainish...(moderately funny)



In German(More funny than the Spainish one).


Should be a pretty damn good movie. I watched at least 15 mins of it while I was working and there was 3 sold out midnight showings. I predict TONS of teenagers trying to sneak into the theaters since it's a rated r movie. Should be a pretty packed weekend, I'm guessing 300 will make at least 20 million this weekend with "Wild Hogs" Making 10 or so.

Zodiac: David Fincher film covered last week. It's almost 3 hours long.





Black Snake Moan: Covered last week





Reno 911!: Miami: Last weekend I said:

Reno 911!: Miami: Was alright. Worth a matinee ticket.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film for Theaters Trailer

Like! oh my god!, a movie from my favorite 10 minute cartoon after Metalocalypse, Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Squidbillies and Morel Orel. If you don't know the Aqua Teens by now, you probably would not like it.



While were at it...

Lets check out Dana Snyder, the voice of Master Shake's IMDB profile.

A little more snooping on IMDB shows that the writers of ATHF also wrote Sealab, Squid Billies and Perfect Hair Forever.

But the biggest news about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie is that ol Bruce Campbell is top billed in the cast.

New crap tuesdays 3/6/07

Dvd

Borat: If you haven't seen this movie and you aren't easily offended, rent it now...

Fast Food Nation: Worth a rent if not only for the fact that bruce willis is in it. It's very heavy handed but worth a view regardless.

Let's Go to Prison: Bob Odenkirk's directorial debut. I was a lil dissapointed, but still worth a watch.

Southpark Season 9: has the Ginger Kids episode... If you must own a southpark season, this one was pretty solid.

Music

Well it looks like I put the wrong week into the billboard website and I reviewed this week last week, so it looks like I am going to just cover some stuff I didn't last week...

Air:Pocket Symphony

Revolting Cocks: Cocktailmixxx

RJD2: Third Hand

White Flight:White Flight I listen to this one a lot.

Television Maquee Moon Re-Released

5 Depeche Mode albums are getting re-released

A couple Magazine albums are being re-released

2 Stooges albums re-released

Total Chaos: 17 Years Of Chaos

It's funny because it's true.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/22/wwgwbd_flow_chart.html

Just so you know... I watched ghostrider... and yes, it sucked...

Really, what more can I say? I get to see free movies and I took someone to see it who likes comic books alot. I wanted to see Bridge to Terbithia. I've seen everything else at my work. Norbit sucked as well. But we won't get into that.

There is a special sneak preview of "Wild Hogs" this weekend. I'll try to act all smug and say I won't be attending for obvious reasons. But for people who know me IRL, they already know I'm working. But I still won't see it when it comes out unless I get REALLY bored. I don't care if William H. Macy is in it.

At the movies today...

The number 23... Joel Shumacher. Original screenplay by a first time writer. I'm gonna see it but I don't have high expectations. Jim Carey in a completely serious and I think comedy free thriller about a guy obssesed with numbers.



The Abandoned... Writer Director Nacho Cerdà's 1st feature length film I think, don't quote me on that. It's a spainish director but it says it's in english??? It looks like it has some style.



Reno 911: Miami... No brainer, if you are reading this you probably know what it is and probably already have an opinion formed as to whether you will like it or not. But come on, old school "the state" crew. Need I say more? Showalter is credited for crying out loud. I'm gonna support it as long they don't eat babies alive.



The Astronaut Farmer... Writer Director Micheal Polish newest about a retired astronaut who builds his own rockets much to the chagrin of "the man". It's PG, Billy Bob Thorton is the lead. It's at my work so I might watch it but I'd have to be bored unless I hear a ton of rave reviews.



Amazing Grace... Michael Apted director of at least 1 bond movie(I'm too lazt to see if he directed more than 1) and has directed TON of television. Inspiration tale about emancipation in Britain a couple of centuries ago I think. Some church group pre ordered 50 tickets from me one day.

Also out right now maybe worth seeing...

Bridge to terbithia... I haven't seen it yet but it looks better than ghostrider.

Breach... looks promising

WTF is up with night at the Museum still running?

Stop illegal downloading!

Celebrity Endorsed PSA

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Ha Ha Fox News Has It's Own Version of the "Daily Show"

New show coming up called the half hour news hour or something like that. It looks just like the Daily Show only with a conservative slant instead. I personally am conservative in the economic fashion and liberal in the social aspects, so it would be nice to see a comedy show that doesn't have a huge liberal slant on some stuff. But this show looks pretty bad...

[TV]New TV Shows Round Up.

4 new TV shows caught my interest. If I didn't have a Tivo I wouldn't be able to find the time since I have a job that often requires me to work evenings and I just don't have the bandwidth to download a buncha stuff I don't even know if I like.

Strangely, 3 of the shows are on NBC. Studio 60, 30 Rock and 20 Good Years. Also strangely, The shows all have numbers in the names. Kind of reminds me of a time in the late 90's when every band had numbers in the name, Blink 182, SR71, and Project 86 come to mind. So, with out further adieu...

Freak Show. David Cross shares writing credits with a guy who has acted in the movie "New york minute". The show is pretty funny for a first episode and will offend the PC. It has some potty humor but also has some smart jokes so it all kind of evens out. David Cross does several voices and I think a guy who the voice for Coach Mcgirk from home movies does as a well. All in all worth checking out.

I couldn't find a video for freak show.

Studio 60. It's made by Aaron Sorkin who was responsible for "The West Wing". It is a drama about producing a comedy show. The writers have been spot on with some good plot twists in the first 30 episodes and I think the moments seem well scripted and believable. It gets better every episode so this one also gets my recomendation.

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30 Rock. Is Tina Fey's new show about a sketch comedy show as well, this one is more about being funny. I have only seen the pilot and was a lil disappointed. It's not that is wasn't funny, it just could have had way more funnies. I do see alot of potential in it. I'll wait for a few more episodes with this one.

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20 Good Years. Features John Lithgow(No references needed) and Jeffery Tambor(Arrested Development) and was also a little bit disappointing. The writers are basically unheard of the jokes were ok. 1 particularly funny moment featured John Lithgow in a tiny bathing suit. I dunno, maybe I just hate situation comedies. I will say that it's better than 90 of what's on television so I'll give it a chance.

[FILM] Hayao Miyazaki and Jackass 2

In hopes that you get excited thinking there may be some sort of connection between the Japanese director and Knoxville and company, sorry there isn't, I just didn't wanna make 2 seperate posts if I don't have to. So on with the news.

Miyazaki is at it again. I hope for the return of the catbus.

In other news, some theater owner in Iowa decided to censor the marquee for the movie jackass.

[movie] Little Miss Sunshines

I often don't find out about too many movies before they come out but I just watched the trailer for this movie before scanner darkly and it looks superb.

Steve Carrell is one of my favorites right now, he is on fire as of late.

This American Life

http://thislife.org/

A man plays a prank in the office, a person gets up in a dinner party to use the restroom, ordinary even mundane things become suddenly interesting on the NPR show "This American Life". A show broadcasted out of Chicago, it has been on for 10 years and shows no sign of stopping anything soon.

The show can be described as interviews set to music but there is so much more to it. The editing is done in such a way that usually the interviewer cannot be heard and it sounds like the subject is just telling a story. I read a small zine/comic book where Ira Glass shows how to do it and it is not a simple task.

Of course it isn't all interviews as several writers have also read short stories on the show as well. David Sedaris and Nick Hornby come to mind off the top of my head. In fact, Davis Sedaris sounds nothing like I expected.

Streams of all the shows are available on the site.