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Rome: The Movie?
1 December 2008 6:51 PM, PST
My buddies and I had few traditions in college not involving Seagram’s 7 and football. Half of them I can’t repeat here for fear of prosecution. But one of my most cherished was the Sunday HBO Couch-Sit. Those lazy weekend-ender sessions of taking one night off from binge drinking to relax, roll a blunt, and catch whatever show HBO was pimping at the time. For most of the time I spent as an undergrad, The Sopranos was the top dog. And rightly so. But in my last year, we heavily got into the mammothly underrated and atrociously under-appreciated Rome.
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Meet Dave DVD Review
1 December 2008 4:04 PM, PST
The magical mechanical box that spews out Eddie Murphy comedies treats us this year with Meet Dave. The “Dave” of the title is actually an intergalactic human sized and shaped spaceship piloted by tiny little aliens, just like in Men in Black or, from the point of view of Trelane in “The Squire of Gothos,” the crew on Star Trek. There’s this tiny little Eddie Murphy Captain Kirk in charge of the crew of the Dave, and they explore Manhattan, on a mission to find a device that was sent down earlier to drain the earth’s sea that landed mistakenly in the fishbowl of the little boy who’s dad recently died… Sigh… was this how the pitch session went? Really?
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‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Spoilers
1 December 2008 1:03 AM, PST
“From the beginning, I told the studio, ‘I don’t think this is gonna be a movie for four-year-olds.’ And I think they said ‘Oh, okay,’ but I think that when they saw it, that’s another… you know, that’s something else.” - Spike Jonze Where the Wild Things Are. The film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak book. It’s part of our collective childhood. And next October it will become part of our multiplex. Will it live up to near insurmountable expectations and become the instant classic we all want it to be? Or will Fox have meddled with the unique Jonze vision enough to forever taint the story’s good name? Let’s go Where The Spoilers Are and find out…
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Wolverine: Gambit First Look
1 December 2008 1:02 AM, PST
Empire Online has the first photo outside of Comic-Con of Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau, otherwise known as “Gambit,” from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Leading up to the events of X-Men, Wolverine tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe.” X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins., kicks off Summer on May 1st, 2009.
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Avatar Producer Talks 3D Overkill
1 December 2008 1:01 AM, PST
Variety has an interesting article on 3-D as the future of cinema. “Amid the buzz, there’s already some backlash, notably from critic Roger Ebert and L.A. Times blogger Patrick Goldstein, who’ve been skeptical about its creative potential. Some in the 3-D community have worried that when an expensive 3-D release flops, as some inevitably will, the industry will sour on stereo. Avatar producer Jon Landau says the key is not to count on 3-D to sell an otherwise weak picture. “Technology does not have to live up to the hype; storytelling does,” says Landau. “If you do not make a good movie, you could be in black-and-white, you could be in mono, it does not matter. People are not going to go.” Disney’s Mark Zoradi says there is a risk of overhype, but echoes Landau: “If a movie fails in 3-D, then it probably would have failed in 2-D as well.
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