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Archive for December, 2007

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

You are an intelligent person, so you know that the American version of foreign movies is always worse, right? I mean, look what the Americans did to Three Men And A Baby. The original French version, Trois Hommes Et Un Couffin, sounds like it was way scarier.
So, same deal with The Orphanage. The original [...]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp as some guy whose name I don’t remember. I was excited to see a movie about a demon barber but it turns out he is just a barber for regular people. What? Right. Whatever, though, because he isn’t even a good barber. Maybe that’s what they mean.
Helena Bonham Carter is [...]

27 Dresses

“27 Dresses” is a remake of “Pretty Woman,” except here the ingenue is a bridesmaid instead of a hooker.
Sigh.
I could try to say something smart here about a wedding fetish, but really, it’s not even worth it.

AVPR

I’m usually real good at these movies that have letters, but I had a real hard time with this one. Usually there’s a number, and that helps. I was great at T2. When I saw the title I thought I was looking at a Best Buy ad, but then I saw this picture. So [...]

Flakes

Flakes might be the saddest movie I haven’t seen. Not because it’s a tragedy or because it’s touching, but because its distributor is giving it the worst support I have ever seen.
There’s no trailer. There’s no website. IFC Films has a page about it with a “visit official website” link that goes nowhere and an [...]

The Bucket List

This whole aging Baby Boomer thing is really bringing me down. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot more movies about old people who are just about dead but can still physically and financially do anything they want to. This is going to make actual old people that have real [...]

The Perfect Holiday

I can’t top the marketing department on this one, so I won’t try:
Emily heard her mom say that all she wanted for Christmas was a compliment from a man, so that’s exactly what she tells Santa. Ironically, Santa, as it turns out, is office supply salesman and struggling songwriter Benjamin, who ends up giving Nancy [...]

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Before I even start this review, you should know that “Cox” can mean penises and that “Hard” can mean hard penises. Oh yeah, and “Dewey” means moist.
OK, so Walk Hard is brought to you by the guy who makes the movies that have posters with the guy looking at you, and they’re all, “der?”
But [...]

Nanking

I found this picture of the Nanking movie, and I just have to say: Best Makeup Ever!
I mean, Mariel Hemingway still looks kind of the same, but the rest are totally unrecognizable.
I didn’t know what the heck “Nanking” was before this movie, but I figured it out because it is a movie about how during [...]

The Great Debaters

The theaters are full of black-people movies these days, which is great, because why shouldn’t they have to suffer like everyone else? This one’s getting marketed to everybody, though, because it has the two black actors that white people can name: Denzel Washington (reprising his role from that other movie where he is teaching [...]