For your viewing pleasure: STAR WARS as a silent film
1 comment December 17th, 2008
It’s amazing how old-fashioned it looks when you speed up the action just a tiny bit…
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The Onion picks the year’s best movies
2 comments December 17th, 2008
Following up on yesterday’s worst list, the critics at the Onion AV Club reveal their picks for the best movies of 2008. Topping the list? A little movie about a lonely robot, a ruined Earth and a spaceship full of fat, dead-eyed humans.
Read the whole list — plus individual picks from the critics — here.
Did anyone see DELGO? Anyone at all?
5 comments December 17th, 2008
According to this post at Cinematical, the computer-generated fantasy DELGO (which boasted the vocal talents of, among others Kelly Ripa, Burt Reynolds and Jennifer Love Hewitt) could possibly be the biggest major release bomb of all time.
“If you limit your scope to films released in over 2000 theaters — DELGO  occupied 2,160 — then the raw numbers back up this claim: DELGO’s $237 weekend per-screen average and $511,920 gross easily top the chart of all-time worst openings in that category. On the other hand, just this September a quasi-documentary called Proud American opened on 750 screens and managed an even more impressive $128 per-screen average. And DELGO even has competition this December: just the week before, the Alan Rickman action comedy NOBEL SON opened on 893 screens to a comparable $374 per-screen average.”
Again, I ask — did anyone see this movie?
