Despicable Scarlett

We have a double dose of reviews today, one being top of the line new, and one being top of the list but is 71 years old!!

Despicable Me!

I'm a very big Steve Carrell fan. So I was excited to see this movie. I knew it was an animated film geared more towards children then grownups...but hey...I'm a grown child. The movie is about Gru (Steve Carell, Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, 40 Year-Old Virgin), a down on his luck thief, who just can't seem to get that big steal to make his name remembered forever. There is another new comer who has stolen the spot light and making it really tough for Gru to accomplish his goal. Vector (Jason Segel, Dead Man on Campus, SLC Punk!, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) has just stole one of the Pyrmids of Giza and Gru has a better idea. THE MOON!!!! Mwa ha ha ha. Part of his master plan is to adopt 3 orphans, Margo (Mirand Cosgrove, The School of Rock), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnus (Elsie Fisher) who don't make things an easier for him. Love ensues.

Also with voiceovers are Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bedtime Stories, Get Him to the Greek) as Dr. Nefario, Gru's sideckick of sorts. Julia Andrews (Marry Poppins, The Sound of Music, The Princess Diaries) as Gru's mother who just never seems to accept his accomplishments. Will Arnett (Ice Age: The Meltdown, Semi-Pro, Monsters vs. Aliens) and Kristin Wig (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Extract, How to Train Your Dragon) fill minor rolls.

This movie was a delightful surprise. I didn't see it in 3d and I'm pretty happy I didn't because it didn't need it. Steve Carell puts on a good performance as, I'm guessing as a french-american, with funny little quips and funny one liners. My favorite character was Agnus, to cute for words with a few stolen scenes. The story is easy to follow and has its heart warming moments. Not a bad movie to take the kids to see or to see on a date. I feel like Russel Brand was a really bad choice for Dr. Nefario as they could have probably gotten some old actor that would have fit way better. Not that Brand did a bad job. I had some fun with this movie and would recomend seeing it when it comes out for Redbox.

Gone With The Wind!

Ranked #6 on the AFI's top 100 movies of all time. The movie is about Scarlett O'hara (Vivin Leigh), who is the king of all hussy's. She will do whatever it takes to get the man she loves, and save the town she cherishes. Death, Murder, Famine, War, Greed, nothing will stand in her way. However there is one man who knows what kind of women she is and doesn't want to rush her, but loves her, and the type of women she is, selfish, narcissistic and to say the least disdainful. Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). The charming, sweet talking, humorous, daring, dashing (add any kind of suave comment here) man knows he is in and spans time to get her love. All of this is set to the civil war, to add drama.

I really enjoyed this film. It was however rather long, almost 4 hours long. I was routing for Scarlet even though she was queen of the hussys. Marrying men for her own selfish ways, stealing men that weren't her's but were betrothed to her sisters. She got greedy, she fought to save the town that she grew up in and loved but in a petty way. She thought she was in love with another man and swore she was. The mans' wife always sticks up for Scarlet no matter what she does, even embracing her husband in public. She was a pretty wicked person. Rhett Butler however was a cross man, who spent his time worrying about himself, drinking, gambling, spending time with, what I'm guessing were whores. He knew he loved her but couldn't get her to see that he was the man for him. Eventually her selfishways tore away the one man that truly loved her for the real her, and not the fake persona she put on for everyone. His words said it all "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"

I must say some of the sets were enormous, there is some great scenes of riots throughout the city that looked great, especially for 1939. There was a scene where Rhett saves Scarlett in a horse drawn carriage and I'll be damned if I didn't have a shit eating grin stuck to my face. The feel and music reminded me of those old films where the bad guy with the ominous look in his eyes and sinister mustache has the women on the train tracks and the hero is rushing to save her. There are some gruesome scenes of war and I swear this was some kind of south propaganda. This movie made the south look like the good guys and the north as thieving ravenous beasts, who were ready to rape and pillage all who got in there way. All in all I'm glad I got to see this classic film and hold it in high respect, but I probably won't have another urge to sit down and watch the whole thing.

Name These Quotes:

1) "They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time"
2) "Check out the big brains on Brett"
3) "You mean sleep over" Well, ok...but I get to be on top!"
4) "Cause I'm trying to describe to you how these DATs keep your ass on the ground, so that if I were to kick you in the balls, and you don't know how to work them, what happens to you?"
5) "I did it when I was a freshman, and you'll do it when you're seniors. Now fry like bacon you little freshman piggies! Fry!"

Netflix Instant Watch of the Week: HACKERS! This is one of Angelina Jolie's first movies about some rouge hackers who get blackmailed by a "security" hacker working for a major corporation. Matthew Lilliards in it and he rules!


Netflix DVD of the Week: Run! Lola Run! A great movie about the minor things that can change an outcome. This is a German movie about a girl named Lola who knows something bad is going to happen to her boyfriend and she tries so hard to tell him. They show three different scenarios due to a small change.


A little bit of movie news:

Mad Max 4, crazy amount of stunts!
In the new mad max movie due to come out sometime in 2012 is called Mad Max: Fury Road and the big "action" news is that it will feature 130 cars and bikes and about 300 stunts. THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS! I'm a big fan of the mad max movies, that post apocalyptic oil craze its a fun ride. However I'm not a huge fan of remakes, but the director, George Miller, has a weird tract record. He's directed the first 3 Mad Max's followed by a few never heard of's then produced Babe, and directed Babe: Pig in the city, and Happy Feet. Soooo, you tell me. Here's the whole story and some pictures at slashfilm.com http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/02/mad-max-fury-road-will-feature-130-cars-and-bikes-and-298-stunts/

Buried.
So I don't know if anyone has heard of this movie Buried, featuring Ryan Reynolds (National Lampoons: Van Wylder, Just Friends, Waiting). The movie apparently is about a man who is kidnapped while in a middle eastern country and buried alive with a cell phone and a lighter. That's it. With R.R. giving the only on screen performance. Also, apparently the movies is supposed to take place entirely inside the coffin. Well at all the different festivals its played this past summer it got great reviews. Needless to say I'm excited to see it, 1) because I'm curious how the premise will make a good movie and 2) I'm a fan of RR. Here's is the international trailer http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/02/international-movie-trailer-buried/

Thanks again to all the supporters.

The Expendables can be expended

This is gonna be a short one, at the end of this fine week.

The Expendables

The Expendables...I knew what I was getting myself into when I went to see this one. I was actually really excited to see this movie, written and directed by Stallone. I loved his last movie the newest Rambo which he also wrote and direct so why not be excited? It was a hugely hyped movie considering its giant pay roll featuring, Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo), Jason Statham (The Transporter Trilogy, Crank's), Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4, Kiss of the Dragon) Dolp Lungdren (Rocky IV, Masters of the Universe) Mickey Rourke (Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man, Sin City, The Wrestler) Steve Austin (WWF Wrestler) and a bunch of other forgettables. There was a quick cameo by our governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger which was...meh. Like I said I knew I was gonna get a basic, simple story, cheesy lines, bad acting, and over the top explosions and kills. But did I actually get that stuff?

The movie is about a bunch of mercenaries hired to do a job on a small island. They go, meet this girl get shot at, decide we don't wanna do it. Well Stallone wants to go back for the girl and thats pretty much the story.

Well the set up was way way too long. Listen we don't need to care about any of these characters at all, not one bit. We just want to see them kill and blow up things. The opening scene was weak and was in most of the trailers. The next hour or so is a story set up. I DON'T CARE! Jason Statham has a bunch of scenes with his girlfriend only to set up a fight in a basketball court thats not really that great. Ya take those 30 mins you add that to the gun fight at the end. The actual editing or something was wrong. There was all this character set up, then in the blink of an eye there off on this island fighting? The hand to hand fight scenes, which there are way to many, were filmed terrible numerous quick tight shots. Either 1) Stallone didn't know what he was doing and was going off Rocky thoughts or 2) this was making up for what these old guys couldn't do anymore. I wanted cheesy dialogue and machoism, yet there wasn't a lot. Dolph Lundgren was my favorite part of the movie because he encompassed the whole 80's action film. I wanted this to be a throwback, homage to 80's action films. Terrible acting, cheesy one liners, good music, small story, lots of bloodshed. But it fell way off that mark. With the talent of corny/cheesyness that they could have sucked out of these guys I was disappointed to say the least.

Invisibles: Answers

I apologize I cant find the pictures to fill in the answers but I can give you the answers

1) Barber Shop

2) There Will be Blood

3) Apocalypse Now

4) The Last Castle

5) Twister

6) Polar Express

7) Nim's Island

8) Willard

Congrats if you got any of these, and there shall be more.

little movie news:

And The Most Dangerous Celebrity Is....

According to computer anti-virus company McAfee, Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity...to search on the internet. McAfee said the there is a 10% chance that if you search for Cameron Diaz you can run into some problems. Here's the top ten list.

1. Cameron Diaz

2. Julia Roberts

3. Jessica Biel

4. Gisele Bündchen

5. Brad Pitt

6. Adriana Lima

7. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Nicole Kidman

8. Tom Cruise

9. Heidi Klum, Penelope Cruz

10. Anna Paquin

Notice how most of them are women, I wonder why people would be searching them and come up with some sketchy stuff?? Check out the whole article at Slashfilm.com http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/21/cameron-diaz-is-the-most-dangerous-internet-celebrity/

Sorry this week was a small one, I just wanted to get this review up and the answers for all of you waiting on baited breath. So if you see any mistakes just forget about them I threw this together quickly...sorry.

WHOOOOOOA!

As I like to say thanks to all the people viewing my page, thank you more to the people voting on the polls, and thank you even more those of you commenting. I do love you all the same, accept the ones commenting they get a lil more.

Get in on the new poll select your favorite Movie psychopath. Looks like the vile, fetid, and dispicable Anton Chigurh is in the lead. I likes.

I'm also going to try to add a few more "quiz" like elements to the page so look out for those...don't cheat cause that is NOT kool.

so for the movie review

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

So I was not pumped by any means about this movie when it first came out. All I knew was that this was some hippster comic strip garbage that people read and probably wasn't the type of humor I was into. I especially think Michael Cera, playing the same character over and over, has worn out his welcome. So this movie wasn't very high on my gotta pay $12.75 at the movie theatre meter. (I only payed $7.00 though because I had a coupon and got a Regal Card, and $1.00 popcorn)

The movie is about 20 something Scott Pilgrim (said guy who plays the same character over and over again) who is pretty average and lives in Toronto. He's in a pretty average band and has a 17 year old high school "pretend" g/f. He then meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sky High, Final Destination 3, Live Free or Die Hard). Well she's got some baggage and Scott's gotta fight her 7 evil X's, TO THE DEATH!!!!!

Warning, you probably will not like this movie if your not a Nerd, Dork, Geek, Video Game Junkie. I feel that if you aren't in any of these genre's you will go into this movie and think its stupid. Also another warning, I'm in all of these genres so I'm very biased. This movie has a great "new-post-modern"?????? style to it. The style really makes this movie pop, and captivates your senses when the movie lulls. It takes what the comic book/graphic novel had and puts it on screen. It's essentially a live action comic book and the style works for it. The movie is very ADHD centered. There are an abundance of quick cuts that take about 10 hours and put it into about 30 seconds. These moments work for the film because it stays very true to the rest of the style of the film. For the gamers out there...There are so many elements where your jaw will be open and your eyes will be wide, and you'll probably be drooling. Old school game sounds/music, and the fights scenes. OMG the fight scenes (I really didn't mean to use OMG). The fight scenes have use kung fu because kung fu is "epic" (choice vernacular for hippsters). The fight scenes incorporate the "you vs him" element, and the FIGHT! element. They were amazing, mixed with the style of the film and the video game elements made it so fun to watch. The humor is spot on, and a little dry. There is a great scene ragging on vegans, and why shouldn't there be. All in all with low expectations at first, then raised after doing some research and seeing the trailers, I came out with a very fun GEEKfilled time at the movie theatre

I found this great website on-line that has still pictures from movies, but with the people taken out of them and you have to guess the answers. I'm definately gonna put these in here and see if people can get them.

INVISIBLES!

So I got 5 out of 8 with one really good guess, if anyone gets the last 2 without cheating...well shit...your good. GOOD LUCK!!!!

Netflix Instant Watch of the Week: Sin Nombre. Remember if you see any of these movies let us know what you thought. Don't miss out on these great flicks.

Netflix DVD of the Week: The Wild Bunch! Go old school wit this classic film. Remember if you see any of these great films let us know.

Remember if you see, or have seen any of these movies let us

know what you think.

A little movie news..

Another work of Art from Hollywood

Welp....Hollywood has done it again. Set for 2011, a homeland security thriller featuring...yep you guessed it. Joey "wooooooooa" Lawrence (Oliver & Company, Nothing else anyone has ever seen Blossom), and Wesley "kung fu" Snipes (Major League, New Jack City, White Man Can't Jump). Do not restart your computer to re-read this...its the truth. If I could add a sound bite it would be the "bum bum ba bum" from The Price is Right (by the way when are they gonna make a movie 1) about Bob Barker or 2) about the game show) or a fog horn. Read the little blib on Cinemablend.com http://cinemablend.com/new/Joey-Lawrence-And-Wesley-Snipes-Finally-Team-Up-For-Havana-Heat-20237.html

The Black Swan

Its a slow news week so here's a movie trailer for The Black Swan. It's directed by Daren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler) starring Natalie Portman (The Professional, Star Wars I-III, The Darjeeling Limited), Mila Kunis (Family Guy, That 70's Show, Max Payne) and Vincent Cassel (Shrek, Oceans Twelve, Eastern Promises) Portman and Kunis play ballerinas and Casell is the director of sorts. From what it seems like Kunis gets the lead over Portman for no reason, crazyness ensues.

I just saw a good title for a Blog...dude's was called The Blogfather. If anyone has any good, clever, smart ass, names let me know

Stick to TV

Due to my busy schedule, now that I'm a working man and phillies baseball, my movie consumption has been on low. My new schedule has me waking up at about 6:30am and going to be at 11:30pm. Don't shed a tear for me, OH NO! I will overcome.


The Poll from last week (which is located on the right hand side of the site ===>) has come to a conclusion and the people have spoken. One person told me, "Oh, 'Mr. Movie' you forgot The Nightmare Before Christmas, you big fat loser", ok he wasn't THAT mean but u get the point. However, The Nightmare Before Christmas was written and produced by Tim Burton not directed, soooo. SHHH! The total amount of votes, 1 for Batman and Sleepy Hollow, 2 for Big Fish, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and Bettlejuice and the big winner with 4 votes
Check out the new poll, lets get some more voters!!!



Here is a top 4 I came up with at work while googlging through the garbage that is pop culture.

The Top 4 People Who Aren't in Movies and Probably Will be but Shouldn't!

4) Rappers
I'm not trying to ride on dubs at the movie theater

I never really loved any musicians who tried there foot in the movie ring (accept Justin Timberlake who I have a man crush on). Especially rappers. All there movies are usually the same, guns, money, rise from nothing, big rims, and women with big butts. There are a few who are already "actors" for instance T.I., sorry man your movies aren't really that good. Plus they take each other with them. In the new movie Lottery, Lil Bow Wow...excuse me...Bow Wow wins the lottery. T-PAIN IS IN THE MOVIE...please stop.

3) Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
and anyone else who has a similar idea

I know these guys are already in film but whatever. These are the guys that brought you, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, and the Scary Movies (the first one was good). But they spawned others like Craig Mazin who is responsible for Super Hero Movie, and Craig Moss who is responsible for The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About it. Really guys, get a life. Your destroying something these people created because you have not one iota of creativity or humor in your body. These guys drive me nuts, talk about doing it for the money, not that they can make that much. This is just letting other people think they should and are allowed to do this. DON'T DO IT

2) Athletes
stick to television

Don't get me wrong but I do enjoy a nice cameo if the movie is sports related. It gives it a feel of authenticity. But man, u ever see Dan Marino in Ace Ventura???? No athlete has been in a good movie with a major role. With athletes running around with $10000000 and them all now wanting to be "entrepreneurs" there's bond to be one coming around thats gonna produce a movie and try to be in it.

1) Lady Gaga
NOOOOOOOOOOO!

She annoys the crap outa me and the way things are going for her it's only a matter of time. December 12th 2012 maybe?

So there's my list, if you disagree, agree or have your own thoughts let me and the viewers know!



Netflix Instant Watch of the Week: Sin Nombre. A great foreign film about a young man trying to escape the violent gang he is mixed up with in Honduras. He steals a ride on a northbound train with 100's of other Hondurans trying to make it to America. This journey movie looks and feels great and you will be rooting for Casper the whole time as he and his new friend Sayra try to dodge danger and find hope in the states.

Netflix DVD of the Week: The Wild Bunch! A great action flick. I've seen a bunch of top 10 lists of best gun fights in a movie and The Wild Bunch is always in it. A different type of old wild west movie. These guys are no John Wayne, they are rough around the edges and are quick to pull the trigger for things they want and believe in. Ranked 79th on the AFI's (American Film Institute) top 100 movies of all time. Thumbs up!

Now.....a little bit of movie news:

Why the Expendables was Van Dammeless
I was pretty bummed when I found out that Van Damme (Blood Sport, Street Fighter, Universal Soldier: Regeneration) wasn't gonna be part of the newest action-packed bloodbath written and directed by Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (Rambo, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Rocky). The movie debuted Friday to rave reviews from action fans, I'm pretty ecstatic to see it. I figured that Stallone flat out didn't offer JCVD a role because how could he say no to something like this if he had. If you don't know the movie mixes some of the top action movie stars from the last 20 years. However it was found out that Stallone did offer him a spot, and more or less denied because he is trying to expand his horizons. Yea that's why hes set to be in Kung Fu Panda 2, a movie called Weapon and Universal Soldier: The New Dimension which is the third installment. Yea way to ruin it JCVD. The rest of the article can be found at Yahoo! movies http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-why-was-jean-claude-van-damme-deemed-expendable.html

Star Wars Blue Ray!!!
All you need to know is that its set to release in the fall of 2011. All 6 will be upgraded and there will be extras like, "documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives". The whole article found at Slashfilm.com http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/14/star-wars-blu-ray-announced-for-fall-2011-deleted-scene-revealed/

Freakonomics...the movie?
Magnolia Pictures (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, District B13, Jesus Camp, Humboldt County) is releasing an adaptiation-documentary of the book Freakonomics. This is interesting, especially for people who have read the book, because the book realy has no ryme or reason in the sense of telling a story. The book is made up of 10-12 different subjects that Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt write about. So the movie is going to be made up of segments directed by documentary elitists that brought you "Super Size Me, Jesus Camp, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Why We Fight, and The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." I looooooved The King of Kong documentary so check it out if you haven't. The rest of the story and the trailer at Slashfilm.com http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/12/movie-trailer-freakonomics/

Movie Art
I love movie art. When people take ideas from movies I love and create something different yet familiar I get all excited inside. Here is some art from a group called Gallery1988 with some great concept art from 3 great movies, The Goonies, Gremlins and The Ghostbusters.

Dinner for Depps

Dinner for Schmucks

Today's movie review is Dinner for Schmucks starring Paul Rudd (Clueless, Romeo & Juliet, Wet Hot American Summer), Steve Carell (Curley Sue, Even Almighty, The 40 Year-Old Virgin), Zack Galifianakis (Corky Romano, Reno 911, The Hangover), with smaller roles filled by Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), Stephanie Szostak (The Devil Wears Prada), Lucy Punch (Hott Fuzz), and Ron Livingston (Swingers, Office Space). This is a remake/americanized version of a french film called Le dîner de cons (1998) which got great reviews in France when it debuted. I haven't seen the original but it is on my Netflix que, so look for that review later.

The movie is about Tim (Paul Rudd) the "stock broker" or something like that, who is given a chance to get a raise he's been yearning for. The only way he can obtain this raise is to come to a dinner, where he has to invite someone "unique" which really means a complete and utter idiot. Well, Tim runs into the perfect guy for the dinner in Barry (Steve Carell), who collects dead mice for his "mouseterpieces" and is a complete and utter idiot. Barry, the bumbling idiot, tries to help Tim with his love life, his professional life and is more then happy to attend said dinner; hilarity ensues.

Steve Carell steals the show. His take on this bumbling idiot is spectacular. There are so many small subtle things that he does that makes his lines and actions even funnier. Small facial expressions to questions or events that seem like they shouldn't be there are hilarious. The way he delivers his lines are great in the mind state of this bumbling idiot. Paul Rudd is really Paul Ruddish and doesn't really break out by any means, but drives the underlying story about Tim the "stock broker". The story is simple and to the point, Tim meets Barry, Barrys and idiot, Tim needs Barry to get a raise, Barry does dumb stuff. The story obviously is not really the selling point of the movie as much as it's Barry being a schmuck. A lot of the funny parts you've already seen in the previews but there are a few serious laugh out loud moments solely because of Steve Carell. However, somewhat new comer Lucy Punch steals a few mins as a crazy love struck stalker who can't get her mind off Tim. However she isn't getting the fact that Tim is married and she try's forcing her into his life, which makes for a really funny, highly awkward situation in the movie. The actual dinner scene lacked for me, but other scenes with Steve Carell were hilarious. Zack Galifianakis also steals a few mins but he's been funnier in other roles. I think this will be one of those movies that are funny but gets funnier after u see it 100 times, because you will because when its on Tv you won't turn it off.


With the poll I recently put up, "What's your favorite movie directed by Tim Burton", which didn't include A Nightmare before Christmas because he wrote and produced that not directed, made me realize that almost everyone of Burton's movies have Johnny Depp in it. So...

The Top 5 Movie Roles Johnny Depp played in (that I saw)

5) A Nightmare on Elm Street
Sorry Johnny, you look great alive, but even better when 10,000 gallons of blood come pouring out of your bed.

Ok, so maybe this isn't his greatest role, but its the one that got him started. A young hunk of man, put into a movie where he doesn't really need to act just know how to look pretty and get sucked into a bed that apparently eats you with its razor sharp teeth and spits out all of your blood and bones. Which I think is some other peoples bones and blood too, because man, that's alot.

4) Edward Scissorhands
Still looks great with all that makeup, hair, scars and, well, scissorhands.
If it wasn't Platoon that got him noticed, it was definitely this movie. People started seeing and hearing about Johnny Depp after this movie hit. He played a great eccentric outcast, who is innocent and ignorant to suburban America. Also, this is where he met his first wife, Winona Ryder, where he got a tattoo on his arm reading Winona for ever, which he then got turned into wino forever after the divorce. Guy must really love wine.

3) Pirates of the Caribbean
a mixture of Johnny Depp, Kieth Richards and Rum "...but why's all the rum gone?"
Ok the man looks great in anything, even filthy drunken dreads and AMAZING facial hair. This movie put this guy into the upper echelon of movie actors. Of course he had other great movies under his belt before this but this put some serious coin in his pocket and started a slew of Pirate movies with another one coming next summer. His wild portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow had so many people praising him saying he could really do anything from, serious and depressing (What's Eating Gilbert Grape) to bio pic (Blow) to goofy pirate who loves to swill rum and loot.

2) Blow
"George what do you know about...cocaine?"
Still a gorgeous hunk of man, even when he's all coked up, strung out, and puts on about 30 lbs. I'd say that this was kind of a revival for Johnny, as far as box office goes because he had a string of flops, The Astronauts Wife, Sleepy Hollow. Still good movies but not great. This revived the fact that this man can carry a movie. A great rise and fall story, and he kills this role.

1) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
There is just a lot of stuff going on in this movie.
A great film adapted from a novel written by Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Depp took this roll and ran with it. I almost want to say that he was on drugs during this movie he was that believeable. I feel like this movie is the epitome of Depp's goofier characters (regardless of the fact edward scissor hands came out first). Every character that is somewhat different later on in his career felt like it started from this roll. The chemistry between him and Benicio Del Toro was impeccable I think solely due to Depp. Great roll, great film.

So again these are the movies I've seen with Depp that I thought were his best. I know there are others I haven't seen so if u disagree or want to add a thought about it let me know.

Netflix Instant Watch of the Week: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. After doing the top 5 Johnny Depps, I figured this is flick some regular movie goers probably haven't seen. If you wanna see a wild drug/alcoholic induced adventure this is your flick. Rememebr if you see or have seen this movie let us know what you think.

Netflix DVD of the Week: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRIORS...come out and PLAAAAAAAAAY! The Warriors. CAN YOU DIG IT! A cult classic about a a gang of guys called the warriors are blackmailed for killing the guy who was going to be responsible for Gang peace. Great late 70's early 80's (1979) cult film. A great watch for people who are fans of 70's and 80's cult classic films

Remember if you see, or have seen any of these movies let us
know what you think.

Little bit of movie news:

The Colonial Theater
I'm still getting ready to volunteer, but I'm still deciding what days, hours and positions I want to help out at. If your from the Phoenixville Area you should really check this place out, its an hardcore cinephiles dream. Indie films, foreign films, documentaries and classics all on the big screen. You can't see these at your regular movie theater so get up off your butt and pay only $8 to see these great films. Feature Film: Please Give, Classic Film: Monterey Pop

Unstoppable
So I'm not one to let a trailer totally influence me about how I think a movie will do. It does however have a small percentage of influence. This movie looks like its gonna be a keeper. Unstoppable features Denzel Washington (Glory, Richochet, Training Day), Chris Pine (The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Star Trek as Captain Kirk), Rosario Dawson (Josie and the Pussycats, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Rent) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire). Its about an unstoppable train, check out the trailer at slashfilm.com http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/05/movie-trailer-tony-scotts-unstoppable/

Inglorious Basterd Nazi in new Spiderman??
Chritopher Waltz did an amazing job in The Inglorious Basterds, that got him a lot of acclaim and a lot of attention. Now seeing that he can be a really nefarious evil mother f'er he's beeing looked at for other films. He's due to play the villian in the new Green Hornet movie, but CinemaBlend.com says that Sony is interested in Waltz to be the main villian in the new "revamped" Spiderman. See the whole article at http://cinemablend.com/new/Hans-Landa-May-Fight-Spider-Man-20029.html

Entourage over??
Entourage is in its 7th season and CinemaBlend.com says it will have a shortened 8th season which will then be followed by a big screen film. I do love Entourage but the last few seasons have been lacking. I'm kind of weary about this one seeing as Sex and the City did the same thing and I heard it wasn't that great of a film, and then they went ahead and made a sequel. So good or bad idea? I'm guessing for creative quality a bad idea but to make a few $$$ good idea. See the full article at http://cinemablend.com/television/Entourage-To-Wrap-Up-And-Head-Off-To-The-Big-Screen-26212.html

OLD MOVIES. No such thing. Anything you haven’t seen is a new movie. -Steve Smyth http://www.stevesmyth.net/?p=795

Banksy and Repeat Offenders

Today folks I'm going to start off with a review of a movie I saw recently that will lead into some thoughts I have had, which you can sound off on...

EXIT Through the Gift Shop

**May contain Spoilers**

Exit through the gift shop is a documentary about a guy named Thierry (pronounced terry) who is a French immigrant who lives in LA and was compelled to always have a video camera with him at all times. At some point it gets him in with a "street" /graffiti artist. As he meets one artist he starts to meet many and accidentally starts documenting the rise of "street" art. He runs into one guy in particular named Banksy, a well known English "street" artist which no one has ever seen his face (accept close friends, they blank it out for the movie). Eventually Bansky turns the camera around and tells Thierry to try his hand at art and he gets wild.

The movie is overall very entertaining, watching this eccentric guy running around with a camera filming his family/friends, accidentally running into celebrities and also street artists. There's a special charm that this movie has for the first 2/3 of the movie until you get into what's really going on. Thierry is a likable guy, I was routing for him the whole time, regardless of the fact he sort of neglected his family and his work, but he was doing what he loved. The 2/3 is a great, charming, funny, and overall entertaining documentary about Thierry and these amazing artists. We watch as these creators of urban spledor show us there work and how they go about getting it done. We listen to them talk about Thierry which is hilarious because its all so true. Clumsy, absent minded, genuine, caring, generous, persistent. We watch as Banksy becomes the first ever "street" artist to hold a gallery viewing of his work (as apposed to just having it on the streets). Then there's a very subtle twist to the film. Banksy tells Thierry to go out and try his hand at it. We see this kind of transformation, sure I was routing for Thierry when he started but his work started becoming eerily similar to some of the people he emulated. Even putting some art in the same locations, even going as far as covering some up other artists work. Slowly I started to disliking Thierry, now self proclaiming himself "Mr. Brainwash". He is now pretty much riping-off, even if he wasn't really trying to, but did rip-off those he used to emulate. Taking what he thought was art, and hyping it and inflating it; people were eating it up. What once was an amazing unique art was now, wrapped up, used, abused, and sold for over a million dollars. The artists once praising Thierry for his innocence and genuine curiosity are now subtly showing/telling us that he's a scum bag who just took something beautiful and destroyed it because of a dollar sign. Overall the movie was entertaining, really funny and charming in parts, but the twist at the end I wasn't expecting. It was short but sweet, and it really left me thinking. Here is some of the artist's Bansky's work




This leads me to some thoughts I had in general:

Repeat Offenders, hate em.

All mediums of entertainment or art is crap. Pop art, music, film, everything. Is there no original idea's out there anymore. Take Banksy, he did, in essence, start the rise of this sub-culture of graffiti called street art, but he made it his own. He worked at it, he put the time in, the struggle. Other people took part in this "street" art but from what I saw people had their own goings on about how they would leave their mark. Then all of a sudden Banksy gets rich, but as we find out in the movie he wasn't doing it for the money, he as doing it for the message. Not everyone works this way. Thierry took about a year to become what he had became. Now, this market got saturated with people biting off each other, chewing up others work and twisting it just a little, why, to be different, no. To make money. Banks was genuinely upset about this transformation that this art that he loved took, and it pretty much started with him. "I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore. " says Bansky in the film, and shit I don't blame him. I hate pop art as it is, a lot of Thierrys work looked like an even more stupid Andy Warhol. I hate those magazine about celebs, and the new gossip. makes me sick

Music, who makes decent music, all you hear on the radio is rappers or singers with auto-tune with someone else's original sound or beat just "mixed up" or sampled.

And would I dare say it...yes film. I feel like some movies I see these days people put together because the marketers found there was a sample of people that would love something crappy. I blame pop culture for all the repeat type movies we've seen. Paul Blart/Serve and Report, now by no means a similar movie, accept the fact they are mall cops. The Losers/The A-team, The Prestiege, The Illusionist (which are great movies). As much as I love certain marvel movies, but some were garbage because they knew they could make a dollar off of the property coughthefinalfourcough.

Pop Culture sucks and I can't say myself I'm not poisoned by it because they only way you couldn't be is if you lived in a barn with out electricity or contacts to humans.

...and those were my ramblings.

Netflix Instant Watch of the Week: Last week Caddy Shack turned 30, and isn't it a shame that some people have NEVER seen this movie...people if you wanna laugh, make sure you see this movie. Remember if you see the movie let us know.

Netflix DVD of the Week: Here is another one of my favorite movies. At first I was so skeptical about this movie and if I would even like it one bit. Turns out its one of my favorite movies, definitely top 5. Casablanca. I was scared to see this movie as it is in high esteem in the film world, and who was I to say it was bad. Plus it's old (1942) and in black and white. It will steal your heart and Humphrey Bogart is the all time ultimate bad ass.

Remember if you see, or have seen any of these movies let us
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Little bit of news:

The Colonial Theater
Well your's truly finally got a big boy job so now I don't have to worry about money (that much) I finally think I'm going to be taking the first steps I may need to head in the direction I want. Where that is, well I'm not sure, but I know this will start if it off, what did Bilbo say "It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to". I think that pertains. Well I'm going to try to start volunteering at The Colonial Theater and maybe that will open some doors for me. Come visit me (if I get the position).

Live Action Fairly Oddparents...
Going back to some thing I said earlier, man we just can't get an original idea, accept Inception. The Nickelodeon show, The Fairly Oddparents is set to be made into a live action movie starting, so far, Jason Alexander (Cone-Heads, Sienfeld.) and Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Goodnight Vagina, haha). Now really? Maybe I should just go into business making kids films like this because there is no way this is gonna be good, even in kids standards. I mean I tend to tune in and watch The Fairly Oddparents, but I want them to stay cartooney and on the tv. The article is at Slashfilm.com where you can see Alexander and Hines with there wigs on http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/02/first-look-jason-alexander-and-cheryl-hines-in-makeup-for-nickelodeons-live-action-a-fairly-oddparents-movie/

Miramax Sale is Official; Disney Offloads the Label for $660m
Miramax, responsible for movies like (starting from earliest to latest), The Grifters, The Crying Game, Clerks, The Crow, Kids, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Don't Be a Menace in Southcentral while Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Chasing Amy, Copland, Goodwill Hunting, Rounders, Shakespeare in Love, Dogma, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chocolate, Amelie, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Full Frontal, Gangs of Newyork, Chicago, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Deep Blue, The Aviator, Garden State, Hero, Infernal Affairs, Cinderella Man, The Queen, The Lookout, Gone Baby Gone, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, City of Men, Doubt, Extract, and everything Tarantino had his hands on.

That list of movies, and Miramax went bankrupt? Well Ron Tutor of Tutor Perini Corp and the investor group Filmyard Holding finally made a bid. It would be sad if we lost something as spectacular as Miramax. Article thanks to Slashfilm.com

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