Opening this weekend 3/23/07

Stupid blogger screwed up the posts again....

What a busy weekend! 5 national releases for americans to spend their hard earned 6.50 matinee or 9 dollars regular. 2 childrens movies are coming out this weekend when there hasn't been much aimed at kids since 2 flops(Happily Never After and Arthur and the Invisibles).



Reign Over Me



Mike Binder director of "Blankman" is directing a feelgood movie starring Adam Sandler playing a very depressed person because lost his family to 9/11. I'll letcha know when I see it but I wouldn't take my chances on it.



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Shooter



Forgive me because I haven't seen tears of the sun and I love war movies. Who doesn't. I have heard that tears f the sun was awesome but I wouldn't know. This is big budget Hollywood for sure, Mark Wahlberg getting framed for the crime he is trying to stop and solving the mystery of the government conspiracy and clearing his name.



From the IMDB boards...

After viewing this movie tonight I have to give

an honest opinion. To sum everything up, Shooter was mediocre at best.

The whole plot was almost parallel to the movie 'Most Wanted' and

several others. The action sequences were fair, but were intertwined

with scenes of poor dialog and 'cheap humor'. By this i mean making

references to people like Anna Nicole Smith and other references that

seemed completly out of place within the context of the film. There is

also an undercurring theme of anti-americanism felt from this film.

Many times during the movie, there are quotes pertaining to the

'incompetence' of our government. Shooter tries to portray anyone

invovled with the government as a heartless, half-minded, cruel

individual. The acting by mark Whalberg and the rest of the cast was

again, mediocre at best. All in all, I would rate this movie a 5/10,

and if it wern't for a free screening I would not adivse paying 8.00 to

see this. Wait a month and a half for a DVD release.

In the movies defense there were people that liked it too...



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TMNT



CGI, PG. Need I say more?



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The Last Mimzy



I never knew so much controversy could be in one movie. New Line is the studio putting this film out and apparently the Bob Shaye director is a real douchebag. Apparently he fired Peter Jackson from the hobbit. Who the hell fires Peter Jackson from the hobbit?



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Bohemian Rhapsody apparently syncs up with the trailer...



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The Hills Have Eyes II



I'm boycotting this movie because it has a rape scene. I don't like watching rape or torture in movies. That is all I care to say on the subject at this time

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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.

Dunno how long this will stay up, but uncut 5 minute 300 trailer...

Special thanks to the folks over at geeks are sexy for finding this...

Oh, and it's actually 2 and a half mins...

Opening this weekend 3/02/07

Before I start


Zodiac

David fincher is one of those directors that movie snobs love to hate. His "cuts are too quick" and he is "too flashy" are the the most common complaints.








Black Snake Moan


A good 99% of the people who go to see this movie are not going because of the director or the artistic merit. They are going to see Christina Ricci naked... Shit, 75% are going based on the posters alone....




Movies worth seeing...

Bridge to Terabithia: I haven't actually seen it, but I think it will be decent.
Reno 911!: Miami: Was alright. Worth a matinee ticket.
The Astronaut Farmer: Haven't seen it yet, everyone likes it.
Amazing Grace: Haven't seen but everyone also likes it.

Don't see: Ghostrider and The Number 23

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?