PREVIEWS OF COMING ATTRACTIONS
January 18th, 2008 at 09:46pm Will Pfeifer
If you’re reading this post, congratulations! The Movie Man blog doesn’t officially launch until Tuesday, Jan. 22, but I’m posting this entry early to give the software a test drive — and you discovered it. Nicely done!
 If you ask me, this is a heck of a time to start a film-related blog. The Sundance Film Festival is just getting underway, “Cloverfield” is finally in theaters after months of savvy Internet hype (click here for an example — and yes, it really is a related to the movie and not hyping Japanese soft drinks) and, of course, the Oscar nominations arrive on Tuesday. Plenty to write about, and that goes for you, too. So sign up and get ready to comment. I’ll see you here on Tuesday.
And shut off that cell phone — I hate a lot of noise in the theater!
7 Comments Add your own
1. Bob Schaper | January 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Movie Man, I’m glad you’ve entered the blogosphere, and I look forward to reading your insightful comments. I will also look to you for movie information and the answer to certain questions I may have from time to time.
For example, this weekend I watched “The Prestige.” While I generally enjoyed the movie, I was puzzled by the machine that apparently was able to duplicate matter. I thought matter could neither be created or destroyed, but the scientist made matter like crazy.
Furthermore, if one COULD duplicate matter (which one can’t), wouldn’t he choose to duplicate something like gold bars? Why would he create - and then kill - duplicates of himself?
Also, is it plausible that Christian Bales’ long-suffering wife would not know that she was sleeping with twin brothers? And why didn’t the brothers bother to communicate what knot one of them tied on the doomed stage assistant, who subsequently drowned. I get that one of the brothers honestly didn’t know (because his brother tied the knot, not him), but don’t they ever SPEAK?
I look forward to your answers.
2. John N | January 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Bob asks some good questions. My take on why he didn’t duplicate, say, gold bars is that he wasn’t obsessed with money. He had money and it brought no happiness. His obsession was the secret to the trick. As the movie noted, when one is obsessed with something, it consumes him.
Congratulations, Will, on your new blog.
3. Adam | January 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
Hey Will go to Barrington AMC 30 to see There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day Lewis is extraordinary and raises the film to another level. I’ve seen all five of the best picture nominees, and There Will Be Blood is the best. Also glad to see Viggo finally get a nomination he deserved it for Eastern Promises, wish the film would have gotten more nominations as well, especially for Cronenberg.
4. Kevin Haas | January 22nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Where do we post our comments on whether or not we like Amazon Attacks
5. Will Pfeifer | January 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
At every other site on the entire Internet, Kevin! Thanks for asking!
6. Teri | January 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I was wondering if you had any insght into why Cassandra’s Dream is not playing at any of the theaters in town or if it was opening at a later time?
7. Will Pfeifer | January 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Teri, I think that movie is just starting to open in theaters. (I actually had to look it up before I remembered it’s Woody Allen’s latest.) The review just ran this week in Entertainment Weekly, which usually means its opening in New York and L.A. According to the Internet Movie Database, it’s opened at film festivals all over the world but is just coming to the States. My guess is it will be in Rockford in a few weeks, now that the last of the Oscar nominees are arriving here. We almost always get Woody Allen’s movies.
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