This week we have a few films to choose from; up from the two that we’ve had for the passed couple of weeks. On the flip side, however, Joe will be out of town this weekend, so at this moment we’re not sure exactly what will happen, but please feel free to vote. If it comes down to it, I will simply go see the movie myself and sit alone in the dark…by myself…with no friends…
It’s no surprise that we at P&B absolutely love George R. R. Martin’s Ice and Fire series. You combine an epic story told in a way that neither talks down to the reader nor makes things too easy over the span of thousands of pages and you pretty much have us hooked. Well it turns out that we’re not the only ones.
I have attempted to try and not get too excited about the potential release of this series since hearing about its mumblings last year. HBO has spearheaded the task force in creating the television series, having already shot a pilot in late 2009. Up until now, however, they’ve kept their secrets tight like so many three hundred foot tall walls covered in ice (THAT’S AN ICE AND FIRE REFERENCE, FYI), allowing but little information to leak out. Luckily, the Chicago Tribune has posted a few tasty bits of news for all to enjoy. In summary, they have a full cast list and a couple of quotes from George himself on the matter:
“From the start of this, I’ve told myself, ‘Don’t get too emotionally invested in this, or you will be devastated if it doesn’t go.’ Wise words, those. I’m a smart guy.
“But easier said than done. I’ve failed. I am totally emotionally invested, and if HBO does indeed decide to pass, for whatever reason, I will be gutted.
“So let’s all hope I am soon doing the happy dance instead.”
You can read the rest here.
Thanks to all who voted last week! We just realized that “At the Movies” was already taken, so we needed to change up the title of our segment a little bit. I think we’re all better off for it in the end anyway. Like last week we have but just a couple of films to choose from. Unlike last week, however, these films could prove to be much more interesting. As a reminder: the poll is located both in the sidebar and at the bottom of this post. Vote for which you’d like to see discussed!
We only have two new films out this week at our local theaters. The polls are now open (and will close on Saturday at 5pm). Choose wisely, young grasshoppers.
Directed by Kevin Smith (‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’), ‘Cop Out’ features two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card who find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter’s upcoming wedding, and Paul (Tracy Morgan) is his “partner-against-crime” whose preoccupation with his wife’s alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.
Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy…until suddenly it isn’t. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the “American Dream” gone horribly wrong, four friends find themselves trapped in their hometown in ‘The Crazies,’ a reinvention of the George Romero classic directed by Breck Eisner from a screenplay by Ray Wright (‘Pulse,’ ‘Case 39′) and Scott Kosar (‘The Amityville Horror,’ ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’).
David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) is sheriff of Ogden Marsh, a picture-perfect American town with happy, law-abiding citizens. But one night, one of them comes to a school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ready to kill. Another man burns down his own house…after locking his wife and young son in a closet inside. Within days, the town has transformed into a sickening asylum; people who days ago lived quiet, unremarkable lives have now become depraved, blood-thirsty killers, hiding in the darkness with guns and knives. Sheriff Dutten tries to make sense of what’s happening as the horrific, nonsensical violence escalates. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh…with insanity.
Now complete anarchy reigns as one by one the townsfolk succumb to an unknown toxin and turn sadistically violent. In an effort to keep the madness contained, the government uses deadly force to close off all access and won’t let anyone in or out — even those uninfected. The few still sane find themselves trapped: Sheriff Dutten; his pregnant wife, Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker), an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson), Dutten’s deputy and right-hand man. Forced to band together, an ordinary night becomes a horrifying struggle for survival as they do their best to get out of town alive.
Which film should we discuss for the weekend of 2/26/10?
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As mentioned in Episode 89, we’ve started a new segment to the show where Joe and I see one new feature film at the theater. But there are so many films to see! Whatever shall we do?
The answer, of course, is to elicit help from you, the viewing audience. Every week after the show it put up, we will list the following week’s new films. On the side of the page you will be able to vote on which you’d prefer to see reviewed. It’s that simple. Let’s get started.
This week we have quite a few choices. In the event that a specific film is released but not available to view in our area, we will choose the next highest voted on film. Here is this week’s list:
Awww suki suki now; just last week we were treated with another teaser trailer at the superbowl, but now we have a full fletched theatrical trailer on our hands of The Last Airbender!
We finally have some audio on a couple of characters speaking, as well as a closer look at how Aang’s tattoos are depicted (hint: they’re badass). Trailer after the break.
Make no bones about it, Avatar: The Last Airbender came way before Avatar: The Blue Thundercats, and it is also much more awesome. (Henceforth on this website, “Avatar” will refer to The Last Airbender rather than that fluff Cameron did.) There are currently two trailers for the Avatar movie that is coming out in July, and if you’ve been to a theater and seen any number of movies in the last six months, you’ve probably seen the first teaser trailer.
This weekend, when the stuporbowl is airing, there is plans to show the second teaser to the masses for massive mass consumption. Luckily, the internet always wins in regards to everything, and the trailer is online already, courtesy of aintitcool.com:
Yeah, you heard me. We need more Twilight to come to the big screen so that the fourth book in the series can be make into a film. From what I understand, the third is supposedly being made right now, but just in case the Manhattan Project 2 comes around and they decide the best test site should be on the lot where these films are being created, we need to make sure movie execs know we want to see the fourth movie.
“Why oh why would you ask us to take part in such crimes against nature?” you ask. Well, I can’t really do it justice, so you’ll just have to read it yourself, but the guys over at Chud.com have a great understanding on why there needs to be a fourth Twilight film. A quote:
Breaking Dawn opens with Bella Swan, the lacteal heroine of the series, finally getting married to Edward Cullen, the mopey vampire hero. They go off to honeymoon on Isle Esme, a Brazilian island the Cullen clan owns (this is already ridiculous beyond belief. Imagine a vampire going snorkeling; it basically happens in this book), and Edward is afraid to fuck his new bride. The reason: he’s super strong and she’s just a human – Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex type of situation here. But Bella wears him down and Edward throws it in her – and knocks her the fuck out, leaving her badly bruised.
Let’s go over that again: Edward fucks Bella into unconsciousness. This alone should have you running to Fandango to pre-order your tickets, but it only gets better.
Head over to Chud for the full article.
Guess what everyone who lives in the greater OKC area: you can’t see Terminator Salvation early during the advanced screening that will show May 18-19, two-thousand nine. BUT, if you happen to live in a more human-destroying robot friendly town, you might just have the opportunity to see Christian Bale yell at some metal bipeds rather than crew members a little earlier than your buddies.
All you have to do is send a text message to some crazy number, and via magic you will be entered into a drawing to win some tickets. Here are the instructions from Forty Three Kix (a place I’ve never heard of until just now):
Screening VIP passes mean no waiting in line & two specially reserved seats for you and your guest. Advance screenings will take place the week of May 18 – click here for list of cities.
To enter to win, you must fill in the forms below or text SALVATION and your zip code to 43549 (example text: SALVATION 91505). You will receive a text message with a link that is unique to your entry. You can forward the text containing the link to your friends, family or whoever you think will help you win. The more times people click on that link, the more entries into the contest you will get.
The contest will end on Wednesday 5/13 @ 11:59pm PDT. Exclusive VIP winners will be randomly chosen out of all eligible entries within a 30 mile radius of each theater and notified via text on Thursday 5/14 or Friday 5/15 with further instructions. The prize for the winner will consist of two (2) VIP seats held until thirty (30) minutes before the start of the screening. This film has been rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and language.
Now let’s just hope the movie doesn’t suck. I know we can’t trust Bale’s acting after that whole Batman thing.
Yahoo! News reports today that this coming Monday will mark the first showing of Ron Howard’s “sequel” to The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons. The best part, as if Howard and Co. wanted to piss off the Vatican, is that the premier will be in close proximity to Vatican City.
“Angels & Demons ,” again starring Tom Hanks as Langdon and directed by Ron Howard , premieres in Rome Monday at a theater a mile away from Vatican City .
In the film, Langdon is recruited by the Vatican after the pope dies and four cardinals who are favorites to succeed him are kidnapped
One wonders if they set the film after or before “The Da Vinci Code,” as the novels were originally constructed, or if they went easy mode and somehow tried to make the events in “Angels & Demons” come afterward. One also wonders if the 5% who would actually care about this continuity will even give a flip.
Regardless of all of that, A&D is bound to be a more entertaining film simply because it costars Ewan McGregor and the freaking ILLUMINATI. Both of these things are way more cool that Holy Grail Ovaries.
As of now, the Vatican has yet to flip out over A&D, citing the publicity would just make more people go see the movie. They did that with The Da Vinci Code and don’t want to make that mistake again. You can fool the Vatican once, but not twice. They can’t be fooled again.
“Dramatizing the issue involuntarily gives publicity to Angels & Demons,” said Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, in an interview with Italy’s La Stampa newspaper.
“Be careful not to play their game.”
The Da Vinci Code upset the Vatican and some Catholics because of its storyline, in which Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children, creating a royal bloodline that Church officials kept secret for centuries.
Christians are taught that Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead.
Despite the controversy, and a critical mauling at the Cannes film festival where it was launched, The Da Vinci Code went on to gross more than $750 million worldwide, supporting the theory that no publicity is bad publicity.
However, the Rome archdiocese did refuse Angels & Demons the right to shoot in historic churches, forcing the crew to recreate them in Los Angeles .
And in the United States, Bill Donahue , president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, accused Brown and Howard of “smearing the Catholic Church with fabulously bogus tales.”
The Vatican may be on to something with their silence, however, as any form of media that is outwardly highly fictional that might make a God fearing Catholic question the teachings of a centuries old book written and canonized by humans over the course of many years after the initial incidents is a bad thing.
Howard states that his movies are not Anti-Catholic, and who would argue, that face doesn’t lie.
“Angels & Demons” is set to release in the U.S. on May 15.
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