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1. Colin Farrell (DUH)
2) Clive Owen
3) D.B. Woodside
4) Lenny Kravitz
5) Jeff Goldblum -- I know, it's weird, but I've always had a thing for him.
7/10... would be 8/10, but way too nasty, you are warned.
Well, the thing is all three leads are good, but what is the movie about (I was thinking before I saw the movie)!?!?!?!? I heard the trailer is NOT explanatory. I only saw the preview and had a chance to see it. Let me say that it is sensational. Not to be recommended to the parents ;)
Well, dreadful in the sense that I spent 80% of it doing absolutely nothing. No softball, no golf, no nothing.
On a high note, I bought a few things. The new Megadeth album United Abominations. I quite like it. I think it's better than the last album and pretty solid throughout. I also bought the new Chevelle album Vena Sera because I heard the song Anti-Saint in the game MLB 07 about 50 million times and I couldn't get it out of my head. I haven't decided how I feel about the rest of the album yet though. So far, it's OK. Yep, I'm a hippo crit.
Oh yeah, I also did something amazingly stupid and bought a Playstation 3. I convinced myself that I needed to play MLB 07: The Show in high definition and because I got almost $200 in store credit at Gamestop due to the weekend's super PS3 deal, I got one relatively cheap. I'm a complete sucker for silly details like flapping jerseys and 3D modeled crowds that react to foul balls. Next up, NBA 07 so I can take Kobe's punk ass to the hoop like only an out-of-shape honkey can in his bedroom.
I did also watch some movies to pass the time. I got the original Nosferatu from Netflix and while it definitely had some moments of pure hilarity, it was way too slow and corny to really appreciate. Perhaps I'm unmoved by much of horror at this point because the gore and violence has become too pedestrian and this, in turn, has caused me to really find most of the "classic" stuff extremely slow and boring. If I could re-edit Nosferatu too just include the parts where Dracula is on screen, it would probably be an amazing movie, albeit 20 minutes long....tops.
Next, The Office. Yes, I have watched Season 2 about 50 million times but the show is like heroin for me. Everything about it makes me less angry, bitter, whatever else. In the same way The Simpsons has, I find new things I like every time I watch an episode again.
Third, Greenfingers with Clive Owen and Helen Mirren. I'll basically watch anything with Clive Owen because he whomps. This was a pretty interesting British indie flick where Owen is a con that takes up gardening in prison and eventually enters a piece in the largest garden show in England. It is apparently based on a true story and it was well done.
Last, I capped off a blah weekend with the Arnold classic Predator. I will fistfight anyone who denies this movie. OK, maybe not fistfight but I will rant and rave and stomp my feet like a 5 year old. If I saw Predator for the first time now, I'd probably still like it. It just rules. I can't explain exactly why. It just does.
So yeah, weekend = suck. Next weekend will probably suck too. I can't wait.
Saturday night we went to see Children of Men with our friends Laura and Henry. Within the first 15-20 minutes, our pleasant vanilla vodka shot induced buzzes were completely GONE. By midpoint, I was so tense, my shoulders had creeped up to my ears, and Ray and I were crushing the bones in each other's hand to powder.
This was a really good film, and I highly recommend it, but it is not the type of movie to see when you're interested in having a good time with your buddies, drinking and smoking and whatnot... We were all depressed afterwards, and spent an hour in the bar trying to recover from it.
See, we were victims of the media's LIES LIES LIES! Where the fuck was the uplifting ending??? That's why I hate commercials for movies, they're usually misleading. The studios put a slant on the film and sell it to the market they think it will appeal to...honestly, I would have seen this movie anyway if they had told the truth about the subject matter in the advertising. But I wouldn't have chosen it as the movie to see on a Saturday night when I was trying to have a little fun!
The saving grace was Clive Owen, because every once in a while I could break out of the movie's meatgrinder to look at him and go "Now there's one sexy motherfucker!"
Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as Rambo in the fourth installment of the franchise. Also, Wesley Snipes and Jean-Claude Van Damme are teaming up for The Hard Corps. In the movie, Van Damme plays a combat veteran who becomes the bodyguard of a former boxing champ. Complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister is falling in love with Van Damme. You have got to be effing kidding me! After Rocky VI, Rambo IV and the return of Van Damme to the big screen, it can't get much worse. Unless Ah-nuld decides to do Terminator 4.
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black are teaming up for director Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy Holiday. The film is about the friendship between two women, both of whom have recently been dumped.
Kevin Costner will play the titular role of a serial killer in Bruce A. Evans' psychological thriller Mr. Brooks.
Michael Caine is joining Clive Owen and Julianne Moore for filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of The Children of Men. Caine is also re-teaming with Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale for Warner Bros.' The Prestige. Hugh Jackman also stars in the film, which features Caine as a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a rivalry with another magician (Bale).
Erin Brockovich's Aaron Eckhart has signed on to star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Castle Rock's remake of the 2001 German film Mostly Martha. Zeta-Jones plays the titular character, a chef who loses her sister and is obligated to care for her 10-year-old daughter. Eckhart plays a fellow chef and romantic interest.
Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III) has been cast in three new movies. First, he joins Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Jimmy Fallon for the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl. Miller plays Sedgwick, Pearce plays Andy Warhol, and Christensen landed a role based on Bob Dylan. Christensen is also teaming up with Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Alba for the psychological drama Awake. Finally, he'll star opposite Christina Ricci in the modern-day fable Penelope, about a woman under the influence of a curse.
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd will lend their voices to Lions Gate's 3-D animated comedy Foodfight! The movie takes place in a supermarket that comes to life after hours.
Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman have signed on for the indie flick Delirious. The film follows a celebrity photographer (Buscemi), a homeless man with a desire to become an actor (Pitt) and the hottest pop star of the moment (Lohman), as their paths intersect.
Michael Vartan (Never Been Kissed) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) are teaming up for the Weinstein Co.'s thriller Rogue. The movie is about a giant crocodile stalking tourists in the Australian outback.
Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing) is joining Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) for Warner Independent Pictures' romantic comedy Chaos Theory. The movie centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process starts a romance with Mortimer's character.
The "flying" Ford Anglia seen in the Harry Potter movies has been stolen from the lot of South West Film Studios in southwestern England.
Charlize Theron won Best Actress at the Hollywood Awards for her performance in North Country, while Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
A weeklong celebration is being planned in Hong Kong to mark the unveiling of a statue of Bruce Lee on the city's Avenue of Stars on Nov. 27, which would have been the actor's 65th birthday.
Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson will host the 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards live on CBS on Jan. 10.
Of the 91 countries invited, a record 58 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Film Award category for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The 58 will be narrowed down to five on Jan. 31, when the nominations are announced.
Stanley Kubrick's archives will be housed at University of the Arts' London College of Communication for public viewing and student research beginning summer 2006.
Actor William Hootkins (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark) passed away Oct. 23 from pancreatic cancer. He was 58.
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