Watching THE WATCHMEN from Japan

1 comment January 7th, 2009

Here’s a Japanese trailer for THE WATCHMEN which, assuming Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox sort out their differences, will be in theaters this spring. I know I’ve posted versions of this trailer before, but this take shows more of the political context of the story (and the original comic book has a lot of political context), including just where one of the “heroes,” the Comedian, happened to be on Nov. 22, 1963…

Worse than THE LOVE GURU? Really?

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A poll of critics for NEW YORK MAGAZINE has picked the worst movie of last year, and it turns out to be…

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 … Will Smith’s Oscar-bait drama SEVEN POUNDS. To quote the NEW YORK TIMES A.O. Scott: “One of the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made.”

Here are the complete ballots, which include picks for everything from THE LOVE GURU to SPEED RACER to THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Me? I didn’t see SEVEN POUNDS or Mike Myer’s unbelievably bad-looking THE LOVE GURU, but I did see THE HAPPENING, and it’s hard for me to imagine a worse movie than that. Oh, and I watched THE WOMEN, too. (Review coming soon.) That was really bad, but not as bad as THE HAPPENING.

If you did see SEVEN POUNDS (or don’t mind the plot being spoiled), click this link for a funny poster that spells it all out in old-movie story.