Archive for August 15th, 2008
August 15th, 2008
… because it’s a sure bet that Entertainment Weekly feels worse. Here’s the cover of their Fall Preview Issue, hitting the stands right about now:
That’s Fall Preview Issue. As in Fall. As in movies opening sometime before, oh, say, next July.
As Sean Smith says in the EW Blog, “EW and Warner Bros. share a parent company, but they clearly do not share, you know, important friggin’ information.” Â
August 15th, 2008
Whether you agree with the politics behind this film (and frankly, I don’t), this looks bad. Really bad. Yes, Jerry Zucker was one of the guys responsible for AIRPLANE! and THE NAKED GUN! (and, before that, KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE), but apparently the mighty have fallen. The jokes are nothing better than something you’d see on an old episode of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS or one of those awful “parody” flicks Tinseltown keeps churning out, like EPIC MOVIE or MEET THE SPARTANS. There are funny guys out there with a conservative viewpoint — writer P.J. O’Rourke, for example – but apparently none of them were involved in this movie.
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August 15th, 2008
I was excited by the prospect of Quentin Tarantino doing a modern take on the World War II movie with his new version of INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, but now I can feel that excitement starting to wane. First, Eli Roth (bad director, worse actor, decent horror fan) has joined the cast, and now Variety announces  that Mike Myers — yes, the man behind THE LOVE GURU – will have a role as well.
I know Myers considers himself the latter-day version of Peter Sellers, but he’s dreaming. (Though, by many accounts, both of them were notoriously difficult to work with.) Maybe he’ll use the same lame accent as that annoying Simon character he did on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
Still, the guy has — or at least had — talent. WAYNE’S WORLD was a sharp comedy, and some of his bits on SNLÂ were funny (until he inevitably beat them into the ground). Maybe this is the sort of change of pace he needs. To give Myers his credit, he wasn’t bad in the disco drama 54, and if the movie had focused on his character instead of the idiot busboy played by Ryan Phillippe, it would’ve been a much better movie.
