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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Band of the Week- 3/21/07-Jarvis Cocker

I heard a song in the credits of "Children of Men" and I could not believe my ears. It had the word "c___"in it. Granted people in Britain use it more often in different ways than Americans do, it still plays loudly and anybody walking by on their way to see "The Pursuit of Happyness" might be subjected to hearing the word "c___" at least once while the song played with multiple times possible should the person decide to investigate. Some people think it's a gimmick but I can't help but kinda agree with Jarvis Cocker when he says that they're "still running the world".

http://www.youtube.com/v/e_M22STINYw

Jarvis was the singer of the band Pulp. I think the thing they will be remembered for the most was the song on the "trainspotting" soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

Here is another video...

http://www.youtube.com/v/1ukcPaOu804

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New Crap Tuesdays 3/20/07

Disclaimer... bl;ogger is being weird and I can't figure out why my post looks so funny...

Good week for music, not so much for DVD...

DVD

Blood Diamond:

I watched this movie in a sneak preview at my theater, it was pretty good. A lot of people were turned off by Leo DiCaprio's accent but I thought he nailed it. Plenty of action and blood plus plenty of downtime for the ladies. Some people called it heavy handed, I call it a good rent if you've seen evrything else.

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave

Ha ha another ROTLD, the 5th in the series, I'm not sure if this is strait to video or what but I'm sure it'll suck... In a good way... Here is a crappy homemade trailer...

Music

I'll Sleep When You're Dead by El-P

By far the best Hip-Hop album so far this year. Lots of unconventional guests like cat power and trent reznor. Cop this one for sure...

Drums And Guns by Low

Pretty good stuff, these guys are pretty consistent and I have listened to it a bunch...


We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank by Modest Mouse
Well, I'm sure everyone knows by Jhonny Marr of the Smiths fame is an official member of the band lending his guitar and songwriting talents. I personally haven't liked this and the last record but if you are a fan of "good news" then you will love this one...

Living With The Living by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

I didn't like it... I think I already deleted my advance copy.

New Crap Tuesdays 3/13/07

Not too much coming out this week in the world of film or music...

DVD


Short Bus 64(metacritic)

John Cameron Mitchell follows up his debut feature, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, with an erotic drama about criss-crossing characters - male and female, straight and gay - who live in New York City and converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a celebration of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.

This does look promising and maybe even something to watch just to say you have seen it. Was Hedwig very sexual? I never watched it cause everyone I knew that liked it was kinda strange.

Casino Royale 80(metacritic)

A critical and commercial success, this reinvention of the James Bond franchise introduced Daniel Craig as a gritter, tougher 007.

I watched it, I talked to my girlfriend the whole time. The movie was ok.

Harsh Times 56 (metacritic)

Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez star in a drama about an ex-Army Ranger who falls into a life of crime when he returns home to Los Angeles.

I wanted to watch this but I never got around to it. Doesn't seem like the type of role bale would do but w/e...

Music


Sound of Silver
Artist: LCD Soundsystem

I'm going to download this and review it cause I don't like it, but might so as a service I'm putting it down anyways...

Inhuman Rampage [CD/DVD]
Artist: Dragonforce

Ha ha powermetal is funny for a track or 2. Tons of talent in the guitar dept... Just watch the video and ignore the album...





Making Love
Artist: Shiner

Apparently all live tracks, I like the band but I haven't been able to secure a copy of it...

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.

Battles The Band

The new (and first proper)album by Battles comes out May 15, I have a copy of it and it's some of the freshest stuff in instrumental post rock whateverness. Some of the songs could almost be on the radio. Some of the songs are very long and downright epic requiring multiple listenings to fully grasp the tracks. Every track is different and has elements not present on the ep's. Melodies are present which is uncommon for this stuff often times. I like the track rainbows, probably the most. It's crazy. Oh, and it's not fully instrumental though I can't make out a single word. It seems like they are using effects or he's doing the sigur ros thing and just making up a new language.


From Wikipedia:

The group's lineup is composed of well-known musicians, including ex-Helmet drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, and Tyondai Braxton (son of Avantgarde Jazz musician Anthony Braxton), who also plays guitar and keyboard and creates live voice samples.

Here is a video for their song(atlas)...

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

new crap tuesday 2/27/07

Music

"Explosions In the Sky" "All of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone": More of the same instrumental crap that sounds good when I'm stoned, not so much when I'm not. I think there are enough instrumental bands out there and this one kinda get lost in the fold. No radio singles here(which is a good thing mind you). Try it out, maybe you'll fall in love.

!!!"Myth Takes": !!!(chick chick chick) is a band I have ignored for quite some time, mainly cause of the fans. I didn't realize they were a dance band(hey I can't keep track of every group). I was pleasntly surprised when I played it for the first time. They sound like a more dancy version of gang of four. Yes they play the forbidden drumbeat(un tiss un tiss un tiss un tiss) but they do some good things with it unlike the other bands that rely on it. Lots of multi-instrumentalization is present. The strangest track to me is "Must be the moon"...

Green Day "1039/smoothed out slappy hours": Good old fashioned pop punk from before green day was a huge successfull band selling out stadiums and stuff.

Ladytron "604": Haven't actually checked this one out yet, though I'm sure it's more of the same... For the uninitated, Ladytron plays electronic pop stuff...

Sisters of Mercy "A mecifull release": Well that was all the information given at billboard.com. I'm guessing it's a re-release of an old album. Check out the wiki for more info


Arcade Fire "Neon Bible" Yaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn.... I tried it, I want my bandwidth back...

DVD


stranger than fiction: This movie did poorly in the theaters. Good for a movie theater employee, bad for the business. This film could have been so much more. I did laugh out loud more than once and overall I think it deserves a rent.




Well, I'm already behind so hopefully next weeks one cometogether better...

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?

I just came up on an advance of the new Poison the Well album "Versions"

I was checking the oink top 10 today and was pleasantly surprised to find a leak of the new PTW album "versions". After an initial listen I must say it's the most unique album of theirs so far.

It has electric piano and lots of mellow stuff. Gone are the riff riff chugga chugga breakdowns and it now has a kind of Hope Conspiracy and American Nightmare feel too it with maybe a little bit of the Converge's "You Fail Me" album feel as well. So strange...

Gone also is the clean whiney singing and the outright growls back an forth. Don't get me wrong, there is clean singing and screaming, but the vocal style has changed up a TON.

Here is a fan video of them doing Smashing Pumpkins "Today"



And here is the video for "botchula"...