Over the past couple weeks, I’ve mostly managed to catch up on my movie-watching. I still need to see Milk and The Reader but those should be easy to take care of this weekend. I’ll probably also see Valkyrie at some point. Fortunately, although this weekend marks the first true 2009 releases, they’re of course complete crap, so I won’t be falling any further behind.
Movie that I’ve already seen:
Timecrimes (trailer)
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
I saw this waaay back in March during a festival screening, and, well, read for yourself. If you’re very lazy, just read the last two words of the review for all you really need to know.
Metacritic: 66
The rest:
Bride Wars (trailer)
Director: Gary Winick (Tadpole, 13 Going on 30, Charlotte’s Web)
Not content simply to make sure her own career is completely forgotten in 15 years, Kate Hudson works to take Anne Hathaway down with her.
Metacritic: 24
House of the Sleeping Beauties (trailer)
Director: Vadim Glowna
Roger Ebert: “It might — might — have found an audience in that transitional period between soft- and hard-core, when men would sit through anything to see a breast.”
Metacritic: 25
Moscow, Belgium (trailer)
Director: Christophe Van Rompaey
A woman with three kids exchanges words with a younger guy after a fender-bender, and romance ensues. Some good reviews here but I don’t see anything appealing about it, quite frankly.
Metacritic: 74
Not Easily Broken (trailer)
Director: Bill Duke (A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Hoodlum)
Starring Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson as a couple working through issues in their marriage.
Metacritic: 43
The Unborn (trailer)
Director: David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible)
A look at the credits has made me aware that Gary Oldman is in this, playing what I guess is the equivalent to the Max von Sydow role in The Exorcist, which I didn’t realize previously because he’s been completely absent in the marketing campaign save for a quick line or two in the trailer. Now, I know that Gary Oldman isn’t exactly Will Smith in terms of box office draw, but I figure that he’d draw more people than he’d turn away. Why would you hide him from the advertising?
Metacritic: 34
I really do not understand how Hathaway ended up as the second-billed lead, in an early January release, to someone who just played second-fiddle to Dane fucking Cook. It’s almost as bad as making a psychic plane crash survivor movie that basically goes direct-to-video.
Re: Not Easily Broken. I remember when I thought Bill Duke was going to be the next big thing post-Deep Cover. So young and naive…
It looks like the lead in the Unborn is pretty hot. I might sit through it if she shows a breast.
I just enjoy that someone finally went out and crafted a hardcore Jewish horror movie (with tits).
Alas, JS, The Unborn is PG-13. Looks like House of the Sleeping Beauties is the movie for you.
Wasn’t she the one in Cloverfield? Who they go find in the tilted building?
Useless trivia of the day: She was also the girl screaming as Ironhide used his weapons to vault himself off the ground as he tumbled forward and transformed and it was in slo-mo and the girl was screaming.
Just thought I’d throw that out there to show too much of my Transformers fascination…(James must be loving this after I questioned his, what was it? Crank fascination?)
What the hell is Ironhide? Oh, Transformers. Jesus…
Did you see Marley and Me, yet?
I was kidding with the dog movie, actually…going tomorrow to see Revolutionary road and Milk…gonna do a double feature…
Ok good. Just denounce Transformers and all will be right!
Filmman sits in the front row of a theater with lid-locks in his eyes as James places water-drops in his eyes as they show Transformers over-and-over and Filmman screams:
“Stop it! Stop it, please! It’s a sin! It’s a sin! It’s a sin!”