For this week’s B-Movie Bonanza, we bring you Ed Wood’s masterfully awful Plan 9 from Outer Space:
When we hear “Facebook movie,” the first names we think of are not David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg, and Justin Timberlake. We are wrong.
Fortune: “Michael Moore takes on capitalism.” Our bet’s on capitalism, although we’re not sure they’re in the same weight class. Moore could probably qualify as his own consumer culture. ZING!
If any of our Kentucky readers are looking for her big break, this is probably not it.
Linda Holmes at NPR asks the right questions about the role of 3D technology in the film industry. How long will people continue to pay a premium to watch movies in 3D? What exactly are we paying for? Here’s a hint: it’s not the glasses.
For this week’s B-Movie Bonanza, we present the opening scene from Zardoz. Zardoz is a giant, floating, stone head, and he rules over the people of a post-apocalyptic Earth. In this clip he gives some excellent advice, including “The penis is evil.” And yes, the man who fires the gun at the camera at the end is, in fact, Mr. Sean Connery.
So Columbia has obtained the rights to a Smurfs movie. Amy Wilkinson suggests Ricky Gervais for the role of Gargamel (= Awesome). I’ll see it if they do it Donnie Darko-style.
Here‘s an interesting article from the LA Times about how the clogged release schedule, combined with weak box-office attendance, is making for unpredictable earnings. Hollywood, as an industry, has always been cooperative and not competitive. It seems like that may be changing, which hopefully will lead to greater discretion in greenlighting projects. In a competitive environment, maybe they spend 50 million less on something like Zohan.
Hey, you want to start a comic-nerd riot? Try leaking a story that Captain America is going to appear in your new, lucky-it-even-got-made-after-the-first-one, Hulk movie. Then, just decide to leave that part out.
I’m only linking to this because the article’s headline somehow references my three least-favorite things in the whole world.
I may be wrong, but if I were making a Street Fighter movie, it wouldn’t focus on Chun Li. And it definitely wouldn’t do so at the expense of omitting both Ken and Ryu. Sheesh.
And for this week’s trailer theater we present Seth Rogen and James Franco in Pineapple Express. And if you, like me, fall in love with the song in this trailer, it’s M.I.A. performing “Paper Planes.”
For this week’s B-Movie Bonanza, we present the “greatest fight scene ever” from the obviously amazingly awful movie, Undefeatable, which was made in Hong Kong but stars English-speaking actors. Just to give you an idea of how incredibly awefulsome (a new word I invented, meaning awful and awesome) this movie is, here is its plot synopsis from IMDB: ” Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) avenges her sister’s death at the hands of a crazed martial arts rapist.” The clip to follow is pretty violent, but also completely jaw-droppingly sweet.
When I first heard of the upcoming fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop series, I said, “I thought Eddie Murphy’s career was over.” Turns out, I was right.
So when I read that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay were filming a remake of the hit 1970’s TV show, Land of the Lost, I had one of those crazy moments of intense, unexpected memory of the 90s remake of the series. A quick YouTube search didn’t disappoint:
This very well could be the single most frightening list I’ve ever seen.
Who messes with the Zohan? Turns out Robert Cabell does.
And finally, we present this week’s Trailer Theater. How does the new Coen Brothers movie, Burn After Reading sound? Yes, please! Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt? Yes, please! How about Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton? Yes, please! We’ll even throw in a little bit of John Malkovich and the dad from Juno. Enjoy.
Unconfirmed rumors are swirling around possible Spider Mans 4 and 5. Supposedly, the two films will be shot simultaneously, but will not feature Tobey Maguire. Latino Review claims to have insider information that producers are leaning toward either Patrick Fugit or Michael Angarano. Here’s where it gets kind of weird. You may remember Patrick Fugit in his breakout role as William, the young journalist in Almost Famous. Now, Michael Angarano was also in Almost Famous, playing William at a younger age. So the two have played the same character in the same movie. Angarano also played the role of Young Red Pollard in Seabiscuit. The character of older Red Pollard is played, of course, by Tobey Maguire. The movie incest is so thick, my head is spinning.
I am officially announcing the first WWM field trip! Who’s coming? (The movie also stars Sean Penn.)
If you, like me, are a fan of Woody Allen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and old-man legs, then this is nothing but good news.
Paste Magazine is picking the best b-movie of all time. Their choices are all pretty great, although sadly, the greatest of them all, the almighty Black Samurai was left off their list. Of the choices they’ve provided, I think my vote has to go to Killer Klowns from Outer Space:
I rarely support censorship, but anything that keeps people from having to look at Sarah Jessica Parker is OK by me.
I can’t put my finger on it, but something in this quote seems extremely inappropriate.
My nominee for the “Best Award” award at the Award Show Award Show.
In case you happened to be wondering what the biggest movie of 2009 will be, here you go.
2 early scripts for the first X-Men movie have been uncovered, and still no Gambit.
And in this week’s Trailer Theater, we present Monster Camp, which is threatening to dethrone The Foot Fist Way as my favorite movie that I haven’t seen. You can’t really argue with a trailer that contains the exchange: “I eat your mind, one. I eat your mind, two. I eat your mind, three.” — “What’s that do?” — “Your mind is gone.”
“We watch movies” is not just the title of this blog, but also a brief, but eloquent statement of fundamental truth. We really do watch movies… a lot of movies… pretty much all the time. In fact, it is actually kind of ridiculous how much time and money (or at ... Continue reading →
We Watch 
