Daily Call Sheet: Monty Python Returns, R-Rated ‘Terminator,’ Studios Losing Netflix War
by John Nolte
NEW ‘TERMINATOR’ FILM TO BE R-RATED
That’s the ONLY news on ‘Terminator 5.’ Nothing else is really happening, just a tweet from the woman funding the film.
This might be heresy, but I thought “Terminator 3″ was damn good and could care less about the rating. The story was tight, held my attention, surprised at the end, and contained all kinds of superb action scenes. “Terminator: Salvation,” on the other hand, was utter crap; a third act right out of a Sy-Fy Channel movie.
Worry about the storytelling. Let that process take you to the rating, not the other way around.
MONTY PYTHON MEMBERS SET TO REUNITE FOR SCI-FI COMEDY ‘ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING‘
“Life of Brian,” “Meaning of Life,” and “Holy Grail” are all brilliant, but something happens to these guys as they get older. They lose their comedic edge and just get meaner towards “safe” targets, and an obvious political correctness seeps into their work:
“a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do ‘absolutely anything’ to see what a mess he’ll make of things — which is precisely what happens. There’s also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does.”
Who knows where this could lead, but let’s hope that self-importance is off limits. As a Christian and Catholic, it’s an honor to get my butt kicked by the boys in the trio of films listed above because the films are clever, not mean-spirited, avoid preaching, and come from a less fascist time when it was still okay to make fun of everyone.
Because liberals ruin everything, that’s just not the case today.
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AUCTIONS OFF MOVIE MEMORABILIA
I’ve walked through many a studio prop and wardrobe warehouse, which is just as delightful as you would imagine. What’s amazing is how cheap, fake, and worn out everything looks in reality and how perfect it looks on a television or movie screen. Some of this stuff goes back to the Golden Age — suits worn by Cary Grant, gowns worn by Irene Dunne — and yet it might show up on “Law and Order” the following week.
I’ve never understood why the studios don’t track down the history of every dish, chair, hat, and rubber gun, and auction this history off. You would think there would be a market for it, a market for a piece of Hollywood history.
Back in 1989, I came across a shirt John Wayne wore in one of his films. It was for sale at a store in Disney World for only a couple of hundred bucks. That’s still a lot of money, but at the time it was a fortune. I still should’ve bought it, though, and wish I had.
‘LOCKOUT’ TRAILER: GUY PEARCE BREAKS INTO SPACE JAIL
Well, this sounds promising:
Guy Pearce stars in the film as a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy and espionage, who is offered his freedom in exchange for a big task: break into an orbital prison that has been overrun by inmates, in order to rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace). That premise alone has a throwback action movie feel to it (in the best possible way).
This can only go two ways: Awesome or suck.
The good news is that Guy Pearce has finally put a decent amount of weight on. For a while there he looked like someone Sally Struthers might lose sleep over.
In a nutshell, Netflix is reporting that streaming subscriptions are up and DVD subscriptions are declining and won’t stop declining. This, after the studios enacted a 28-day wait period and are about to increase that wait to 56 days. But here’s /Film’s bizarre conclusion:
All of this suggests a power shift away from Netflix back towards studios, as Netflix accepts less than favorable DVD deals. And that power shift cements the idea that Netflix doesn’t believe in DVD as a media any longer, with all its priority going towards streaming media and original content.
What!?
Where’s the context? Today the number-one DVD rental retailer is Redbox, an outlet the studios hate as much as Netflix and one that is under the exact same 28 to 56-day wait period as Netflix. Sure, you could say that the power shifts back to the studios if the studios were seeing a bump in DVD sales, but they aren’t. DVD sales have continued to decline since these wait periods were enacted.
The only way you can say the studios have the power again is in the same way a worker has the power to go on strike. But that worker isn’t making a salary and the company is suddenly discovering that worker is more obsolete than they originally thought.
More and more of the customers are deciding that the days of purchasing crappy moves are over and so are the days of paying more than a buck or two to rent a crappy movie.
And how much of this is a political statement; is Middle America hating Hollywood back? I don’t know about you, but every time I Redbox or Stream, it feels like I’m sticking a finger in the eye of Hollywood — and it feels pretty good.
We like Redbox and we love Streaming. In the meantime, the studios are stomping their feet and cutting their own throats under the mistaken belief they hold some kind of leverage with these waiting periods, when they don’t.
As the 2011 data proves, wait periods did not increase DVD sales, did not stop Redbox from becoming the top rental outlet in the country, and did not stop Netflix from rebounding through… STREAMING.
Bottom line: We don’t need your stinkin’ movies, Hollywood. We can wait. In fact, we’re happy to wait. Those aren’t chips in your hands, that’s shit. Your product is shit and you can’t carrot-and-stick us with shit into purchasing shit or renting shit.
Want to see even more throat-cutting? Read on…
WARNERS WON’T ALLOW NETFLIX CUSTOMER TO WAIT-QUEUE UPCOMING RELEASES
Talk about petty:
There’s also a weird wrinkle in the Warner Bros. delay window plan. The LA Times points out today that Netflix uses won’t even be able to add WB movies to their disc queues until a 28-day window is over. That’s a pretty strange thing; as most Netflix users are aware, discs that are not currently available can still be queued via the ‘save’ option, which helps keep user queues current.
Obviously, Warners is under the strange belief that if one of their new titles is in our queue, sitting there until the waiting period is over, we’re more likely to wait during the waiting period — as opposed to running out and buying the title.
This is what you call “flailing.” You can smell the desperation.
Out of sight, out of mind. We’re not going to run out and buy a lousy title because we’re not allowed to queue it up in advance. WE’RE GOING TO FORGET ABOUT IT.
The customers are at Redbox and Netflix and the studios are pitching and promoting their wares elsewhere as though they’re in possession of a high-end specialty product like Bose radio. But it’s not Bose. It’s shit.
Hollywood has spent the last ten years self-destructing with lousy product, a fetish with metrosexuals that killed the movie star, insulting over 60% of their customers, and betraying their country during a time of war. And today the chickens have come home to roost because the industry doesn’t have the product quality or the goodwill necessary to survive this market shift.
You’ve already lost, Hollywood. It’s just a matter of how many more casualties you want to take.
In the meantime, we’ll be at Netflix and Redbox. If you want to stop by, great. If you don’t, nobody cares. Go watch “30 Rock,” you’ll feel better.
Idiots.
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LAST NIGHT’S SCREENING
Thank heaven the GOP debates are over for at least a month.
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SCOTTDS’ EPIC LINKTACULAR
R.I.P. JOHN LOWRY, RENOWNED RESTORER OF CLASSIC FILMS INCLUDING ‘SNOW WHITE’ AND ‘CITIZEN KANE‘
INTERVIEW WITH OUR OWN ADAM BALDWIN WITH OUR OWN CARL KOZLOWSKI
STEVEN SODERBERGH’S ‘SIDE EFFECTS’ GETS CATHERINE ZETA-JONES BUT LOSES ITS FUNDING
‘HANGOVER 3′ STARS NEARING DEALS FOR BIG PAY INCREASES
LISTEN TO SOME OF MICHAEL GIACCHINO’S SCORE FOR ‘JOHN CARTER‘
10 BADASS ADVERSARIES WORTHY OF FIGHTING LIAM NEESON
JOSS WHEDON’S SCREENWRITING HURDLE: DOES ‘THE AVENGERS’ HAVE TOO MANY CHARACTERS?
‘THE ARTIST’ PROVES WE HAVEN’T ALL FALLEN UNDER THE 3D SPELL…
…BLOOPER REEL FOR ‘THE ARTIST’ ONLINE
MEET THE EXPERTS WHO PUT THE SCIENCE IN HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE FICTION
10 SHOWS THAT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER IF THEY KILLED OFF A MAJOR CHARACTER
HOW INDIE MUSIC HYPE CANNIBALIZES ITS YOUNG
WYLD STALLYNS! THE BEST FICTITIOUS MOVIE BANDS
6 MYTHS EVERYONE BELIEVES ABOUT SPACE (THANKS TO THE MOVIES)
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COMING SOON TO HOME VIDEO
Meet the Browns: Season 5: The Brown family will have you rolling on the floor with laughter as Lionsgate releases Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 5 on DVD this spring. Starring the 2011 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, David Mann (Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family) as Mr. Brown – a kind father and friend who tries to keep his family together despite the ongoing craziness – the laugh-out-loud comedy also stars Tamela Mann (Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family), Lamman Rucker (Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?), Denise Boutte (Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?) and Juanita Jennings (Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls). Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns: Season 5 DVD is complete with 20 episodes across three discs.
Mr. Brown’s “retirement home” started as a complete fluke – a result of a misunderstanding followed by a happy accident in a neighborhood full of lively and unique individuals. While Brown might not be the brightest bulb in the house, he’s managed to create a combination safe haven and circus act under his “Brown Meadows” big top. The new “family” members – young and old – who now call Brown Meadows home hail from all walks of life, but more importantly, they share trials, tribulations and lots of laughter. Meeting the Browns will surely make you a part of this fun family too. –Pricing: DVD – $29.98
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Crew 2 Crew: Break out the dance moves as Lionsgate debuts Crew 2 Crew on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand this April. Inspired by true events, the drama tells the story of one person’s love of hip-hop dance. With the old school vibe of Dirty Dancing, the film stars Jordan Bridges (TV’s “Rizzoli & Isles”) and Brooklyn Sudano (Alone in the Dark II) with Kate Nauta (Transporter 2). The Crew 2 Crew DVD includes an alternate ending and a behind-the-scenes featurette.
Luca (Andres Londono, Kingdoms of Grace), longs for more than his small town can offer him. Inspired by his love of hip-hop dance, he joins a break dancing troupe that allows him to travel the world in pursuit of his passion. But soon Luca struggles to choose between his love of dance, and the love of his family and girlfriend. –Pricing: DVD – $26.98
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CLASSIC PICK FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 28
12:00 AM: Soylent Green (1973) — A future cop uncovers the deadly secret behind a mysterious synthetic food. Dir: Richard O. Fleischer Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young. C-97 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
I’ve read that the last scene The Mighty Edward G. Robinson would ever film was his poignant death scene in “Soylent Green.” The legendary actor was dying in real life, everyone knew he was dying, and it was quite an emotional day’s work. And it’s really Robinson who makes the film work, especially his scenes with Heston that glow with human warmth.
Imagine how much better off today’s film industry would be if they had even a quarter of the star-power that was around in 1973.
The great thing about DVD is that today’s lack of star-power is Hollywood’s problem, not ours. Whenever we want them, they’re just a click away.
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"Back in 1989, I came across a shirt John Wayne wore in one of his films. It was for sale at a store in Disney World for only a couple of hundred bucks."
"Sid Cahuenga's" at the Hollywood Studios. Interesting store, even if they don't have the variety they used to. I've been sorely tempted by some of the items there.
Paying 1 billion dollars in 2012 for streaming rights to television shows. That's a billion dollars in the pockets of studios who would otherwise have lost that revenue had Netflix focused more on competing with Redbox through its already established DVD mailing business. The day's not far off when Netflix will be goon-armed by ISPs for a billion since it uses up a huge percentage of their bandwidth. Netflix: WINNING!
Hollywood stars dominated the screen. That just isn't the case anymore. [Shrug]
‘LOCKOUT’: I liked it better when it was called "Escape From New York."
If Monty Python had balls, they'd do the Life of Mohammed.
Of course, they'd lose their heads the first time they went out in London without armed bodyguards.
Today the number-one DVD rental retailer is Redbox————-Since I dont subscribe to the 10 dollar per ticket at the Box Office along with my 15 dollar tab at the concession stand, I can wait for whatever theyre making, how ever long it takes!
Now Hollywood stars just dominate your politics!
“a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he’ll make of things
almost right. It should read "a group of earthlings who endow an alien ……….
That is the story of this presidency.
Never mind Netflix, Redbox or streaming. We get our movies from the county library. Big selection, esp. classics, foreign, docs & TV; new releases (might have to wait my turn, but I am an adult and don't have to have my gratification RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT); and free. Studios don't get a dime from me, and the library probably paid a discounted rate.
Okay, let's try this again, Hollywood star–just–don't dominate the screen like they use to.
"Touche"!
let us not forget that these hollywood elitist tried to suppress the vcr DVD player and dvr.
After they failed to suppress their releases they wemt on to make billions more dollars because of them.
now they are aiming at the internet.
I loooooved Terminator, but all of the sequels have fallen short because they've made the robot the hero. How can you have a humans vs. robots story where the humans only win with the help of a robot with a heart of gold? Ugh!
"But here’s /Film’s bizarre conclusion:
'All of this suggests a power shift away from Netflix back towards studios, as Netflix accepts less than favorable DVD deals. And that power shift cements the idea that Netflix doesn’t believe in DVD as a media any longer, with all its priority going towards streaming media and original content.'"
Typical /Film analysis. They claim to be oh so independent yet they've consistently chided and been snarky towards Netflix while propping up the studios. If it weren't for their breaking of news and updates on what I'm interested in, I wouldn't visit their bastion of snobbery.
In the meantime, we’ll be at Netflix and Redbox. If you want to stop by, great. If you don’t, nobody cares. Go watch “30 Rock,” you’ll feel better.
Idiots.
Thank heaven the GOP debates are over for at least a month.
John seems to have articulated my views perfectly. Except when I tried quoting him the other day BH's software didn't like one of his words and deleted my comment immediately. No waiting for the moderator
Best line from Steve Martin's The Jerk "I'm in the phone book! I am finally somebody!"
The man with 2 brains – always when you have gender switching roles you get hilarity. I liked the bathroom scene. I remember how funny that was years ago and will look for it on amazon.
Update – I think I am thinking of All of Me – Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin – not the Man With 2 brains
"Spamalot" was a great reinvention of "Holy Grail" for the stage. It wasn't just a copy but a reinterpretation. It gives me hope that these guys can buck the odds and hit one out of the park.
Amen to that article about tv characters that need to be killed off. When I read that title, Rick from "The Walking Dead" and Winona from "Justified" immediately leapt to mind. Glad to see they were included on the list.
When the studio hype which is a hefty chunk of the movie's cost is forgotten, I can see it on my tv and laugh when I remember the urgency of the hype and be glad of the savings. Netflix:WARLOCK?
I'm confused. is that "Meet the Browns" blurb an endorsement or just the copy from the press release? I've tried to enjoy the Tyler Perry TV shows, but I'm sorry. They are just just awful, shrill, self-indulgent and simple-minded.
Bose is high end? John try out some Bowers and Wilkins Nautilus or 800 series speakers, the Bose will then go to Goodwill.
The Terminator series jumped the shark early, when Arnie wasn't allowed to kill anyone in T2. Compare and contrast the following James Cameron-generated notes from T1 and T2:
On Kyle Reese in T1: "He's a hotwired rat in an urban maze."
The story of T2: "Young John Connor and the Terminator who befriends him."
They need to get back to the intensity, desperation, and taut story of the first. Also, limited CGI and no shakycam.
"Terminator 3" was an excellent movie. For sheer rewatchability it's the best of the series, IMO. It might not have the same artistic merits as "T2," or the timelessness of the original, but it was VERY well acted, well directed, and well edited. If folks haven't watched it because they think it's a trainwreck, they couldn't be more wrong.
I still haven't seen "T4," and I'm leery to do so. It looks like too much CGI and not enough character. I'd prefer to keep my memories confined to the first three than ruin them with an unnecessary fourth.
The Terminator HAS to be an R-rated movie. It's almost by definition. Otherwise, it's like having a G rated slasher film.
"All of this suggests a power shift away from Netflix back towards studios, as Netflix accepts less than favorable DVD deals. And that power shift cements the idea that Netflix doesn’t believe in DVD as a media any longer, with all its priority going towards streaming media and original content."
I'm with you, Mr. Nolte. That makes absolutely NO SENSE. It's utterly contradictory to the facts of the situation.
Totally agree about Terminator Salvation — total crap.
Socialist!!!
I do the same thing. Cheap bastards of the world, unite!
Saw the Breakout trailer. Looks pretty good – for a retread of Escape from New York
Top Ten Steve Martin films? He pretty much hit all of mine, espcially "Leap of Faith" which I found excellent, displaying Martin's dramatic chops.
Martin deserved an Oscar nod for "Roxanne," just for the bar scene alone, where he actually does twenty eight "something betters." The voice, the pacing, the movements. Effortless. Not many comedians then or now could have carried that scene off.
I didn't like the ending of T3 for the same reason I didn't like Alien 3: because it took the hard-earned hope of the previous film and trashed it in pop nihilism. T2, whatever its flaws, has an optimistic message at its core: our future isn't set, and we can prevent disaster through courage and trust. Likewise, Aliens was a paean to the strength and power of motherhood, and to the redeeming quality of maternal love. Alien 3 dispensed with all that in the first five minutes; at least it took T3 until the final reel to let us know that yes, we will be crushed by our inevitable destiny. Which may be true, but dadgum if it isn't depressing as can be.
I didn't like T3 on first viewing, but it grew on me. Yeah, it ended on a down note, but it was inevitable. Nick Stahl was good as John Conner …. my only gripe was that Arnie was back in good-guy Terminator mode. Would have rather have had him back as the unstoppable killing machine role.
Not that interested in a Python reunion. They've made some undisputed classics, and would hate to see those memories diluted. Though it wasn't technically a reunion since it only had John Cleese and Michael Palin, if they could make something as brilliant as "A Fish Called Wanda," I'd be thrilled.
I thought Hangover 2 did a lot worse than the original Hangover — why would they pay the guys MORE for hangover 3? Are they expecting it to be miraculously better?
What am I saying – this is Hollywierd…
Good point, I couldn't name any actor that hasn't been around for more than 10 years.
No socialist – a capitalist saving my money in order to invest it elsewhere ;-p
It's a funny to watch Warner Brothers in denial, just like the rest of Hollywood.
They call it the dream factory, you have to wonder who is doing the dreaming lately(it's not the audience).
Quite right. The premise sounds a lot like EFNY.
I liked T3 too, especially the ending when the heroes realize trhat her father sent them to the old bunker to survive, not stop Skynet. Darn good yarn.
Glad to see "Leap of Faith" on the top 10 Steve Martin films list. Much underappreciated when it came out.
I do the same thing.
So the Pythons want to get together to make a new movie about “a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do ‘absolutely anything’ to see what a mess he’ll make of things".
Call me a Monty Python purist, but I don't see how they can make a new movie as the Pythons after the death of Burgess Meredith..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dingle,_the_Stro...
No, Hangover 2 did much better at the box office than the first one. #2 was the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time.
So Hangover 2 DID much better than the original, but Hangover 2 WAS a lot worse than the original.
Anyone see the premier of "Touch" with Keifer Sutherland? My wife and I watched it and found it really good and intriguing, especially because they got the kid right. He doesn't talk, flinches when touched by anyone, and acts according to his perceptions and understandings instead of those accepted by society. In the opening act, the kid has left school and climbed a utility tower. Dad (Sutherland), who knows his boy, handles it the same way I would: Not raging at his son, but dealing with it calmly and compassionately to get his son down safely.
Many such kids truly march to the beat of a different drummer. Not wrong, just different. As a dad of special needs kids, I appreciate just how well this show seems to understand such kids.
Roxanne is easily one of my favorite movies from the 1980's. The bar scene is GENIUS. I used to rewind my VHS copy over and over and over again to rewatch that scene. "Dirty: Your name wouldn't happen to be DICK… would it?" Fantastic.
Oh, OK , my bad — Still, I didn't see either, and I won't see the third — So I couldn't really care any less…
"Trying to avoid the dreaded typecast he tried his hand at musical drama with Herbert Ross’ “Pennies From Heaven”. The film was a critical and financial failure, of which Martin openly but wrongly took the blame."
It may have been a failure with critics (of which I could care less) but financial failure is apparently in the eye of the Academy voter.
Saw a screening of Pennies From Heaven at last year's TCM Film Festival (introduced by the lovely and talented Illeana Douglas) and it was an immense treat for those of us who are fans of both Martin and musicals.
This song and dance number featuring Christopher Walken is alone worth the price of admission.
Interesting article but not enough penis and testicle references for my taste.
The great thing about the first Terminator movie was each of us coming to realize that the greatest, most important battle in the history of the human race was fought right under our noses and we never even knew it – all right, 17 cops killed inside a police station would attract attention and be hard to explain, but you see the point I'm driving at.
T2 and T3 were good movies but for me the big problem with them was there was no way humanity could not have noticed the battles between the terminators. Come on, the crane sequence in T3? That would have been front page news on every newspaper on the planet.
There is something so cool, so sci-fi about the world remaining blissfully ignorant of the stakes involved in the battle in the first movie.
John Nolte…SHAME!!!
Kurt Russell "Escape from LA" Snake Pliskin goes in to rescue President Cliff Robertson's daughter…
‘LOCKOUT’ TRAILER: GUY PEARCE BREAKS INTO SPACE JAIL____Well, this sounds promising:____Guy Pearce stars in the film as a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy and espionage, who is offered his freedom in exchange for a big task: break into an orbital prison that has been overrun by inmates, in order to rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace). That premise alone has a throwback action movie feel to it (in the best possible way).____
Whenever anyone starts talking about the death of DVD and how steaming is going to be all there is, I keep thinking about my mother-in-law out in the country that has slow as molasses dial-up, and my friends who live 500 feet from the last house with cable, and the company wants $2000 to run the line that 500 feet, so they don't have internet except on the smart phone and that costs per minute. DVDs will be around for awhile in the heartland.
As a fan of SOA, I would have no problem with Tara being "offed" or just moving away. The Tara character started out interesting…but has since become grating.
I would add Anthony DiNozzo from NCIS to the characters to kill off list. He is just this weak, mewling, emasculated thing now on the show. Ick!!
Oh…and Ziva needs her cojones back, too!!
For my 16th birthday, my mother's finacee went to a studio auction and bought me a leather jacket worn by James Cagney. Wore that old cracked leather jacket for years and it is still hanging in my closet.
Agreed…I thought T3 had a great storyline and was well done.
A Fish Called Wanda…great flick…so many memorable scenes from the naked Cleese to Kline breathing in and out of JLC's boot…to Palin with chips in his nose.
Love that movie.
Can't you just imagine the black cleric laying there fighting after he lost his arms and legs?
All those graduates from Full Sail have really crapped out the SF channel,and it's starting to bleed into Hollywood.On the other hand,check out the Phase II Star Trek production people-absolute genius,spectacular visually,great,down to earth dudes and dudettes.They just did a Starship Farragut episode five minutes from my house last year.
Right down to the dog that's smarter than any other adult in the residency.
Touch is out already?
I'll match,and raise,those B & W's with a pair of Apogees,my Bang & Olufsen Century sound2000(and just to sweeten the pot,a set of JBL 4412 control monitors,connected to an SCS ref amp!
)
Give the Bose to hip hop listeners.
My fave Steve Martin films would be All of Me, Roxanne, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Spanish Prisoner and Man With 2 Brains (c'mon…we always thought there was something a bit off about Merv Griffin!).
A good comedy generally follows a formula.
"I'm in the phone book! I am finally somebody!"
In comedy,that's the all time one liner,like "I'll be back", for sf.Whenever I have extremely good fortune or reward for hard work,I like to jump around and pick up odds and ends while saying that.Great conversation starter.
by YOUR definition Psycho pstunk
It was a sneak preview. Starts showing regularly sometime in February.
Yes, just before they toss the Holy IED at the killer rabbit.
"'Religious: Ah what happened? Your parents lose a bet with God?"
Oh great, so we can expect a feeding scene with Michelle up to her elbows in Lobster tails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXH_12QWWg8&fe...
Best comment on Tyler Perry came from an episode of The Cleveland Show…
'Tyler Perry Presents: Wine. Rich, fruity and not at all complex.'
Your name wouldn't be 'Dick', would it?
Roxanne is in my top 25 all time favorite films. Sometimes I like to go out into the woods and just…be. Sometimes I bring along a meat sandwich.
That is a big 10-4. Hope we only have to shoot it once, we have a budget.
I've long suspected that Bose is nothing but hype, that their products are perfectly pedestrian, middle of the road and nothing special, but that they just decided to sell them as if they were somehow phenomenal.
I would pay a dollar to see that
Will you come over and upgrade my house, please?
Ditto!
(myths about space article)
That's a relief…thought I had missed it
Never saw "T3" because I don't know how I can handle Nick Stahl as John Connor.
Guy Pearce put on weight FOR Sally Struthers' sake, John.
He's a reminder why I thank God for Australia and New Zealand.
Shows to marathon….and not a mention of all 14 episodes of "Firefly"?! Seriously??
Buying costumes and Hollywood props/articfacts:
Back in late 2001/very early 2002, eBay had an auction from "Black Hawk Down." It was for the uniform of Pvt. Blackburn, worn by Orlando Bloom.
At the time, think LOTR was JUST released or still unreleased (BHD was limited release in December 2001, with wide release in January 2002), so if memory serves, America (and for that matter, the world) had not yet got a taste for an elf who hangs out with pirates.
The winner of that auction only paid $200.
And it wasn't me. Like John, I thought I couldn't afford it.
To this day I regret not getting it. Not because of Orlando Bloom (although that helped), but because it was part of "BHD." Argh, that's a scar that will never go away.
LOCKOUT: the wonderful thing about orbital prisons being overrun by inmates is orbital decay.
My husband always says Bose is "yesterday's technology at tomorrow's prices."
No Worries…
…only a flesh wound.
Always look on the bright side of jihad.
While I mightily disagree about the quality of Terminator 3, I do enjoy reading movie reviews that defy the general consensus, unless they're being contrary for sheer shock value.
Diva's or Grands?
Maggie Grace – beautiful girl, but it seems her career after "Lost" is limited to playing kidnapped daughters needing rescue (see "Taken").
Pretty, yes. Rangy, not so much.
I thought T3 was a little too self-conscious. And that the director didn't have the guts to tell Arnie, "No, your Terminator will not do that."
OTOH, I'm one of the few people who enjoyed Terminator: Salvation.
Shows to marathon: I'm a bit more than halfway through "The Event", and it's terrific. The episode with the church standoff was terrifically exciting. And while the main characters of the President and his security advisor start out as cliches, they change in dramatic but utterly believable ways. I hope it finishes well.
They won't.
I also enjoy Steve Martin, but I have to disagree with the notion that his more family oriented movies are not good. I thought Martin was both poignant and hilarious in Father of the Bride. I am not sure anyone else could have carried off the role as well. Other comics might have just played the role for laughs. Martin managed to be funny but believable as a father who is struggling to accept his daughter has grown up and is no longer Daddy's little girl. Maybe I am a sap, but it is still one of my favorite Steve Martin roles.
One of my favorite series of shots throughout the whole series is in that movie at the very end, where the missiles are silently launching underneath Connor's monologue and crisscrossing the planet in a rain of destruction. Something eerily haunting about it.
What a rip-off. Top ten shows that would be better off if they killed off a major character nothing about The Ed Schultz show….
"Guy Pearce stars in the film as a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy and espionage, who is offered his freedom in exchange for a big task: break into an orbital prison that has been overrun by inmates, in order to rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace). That premise alone has a throwback action movie feel to it (in the best possible way)."
I liked this movie when it was called ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.
Here here. There's a special place in hell for people who remake/ripoff John Carpenter.
Here here. There's a special place in hell for people who remake/ripoff John Carpenter.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner folks.
Glad some people out there are on board with T3. Not an all-time classic like its predecessors but a very good movie in its own right. T4 isn't terrible. But it feels more a like a fanfic add-on than an actual piece of the story. Pretty much every scene is derivative of a far more memorable one from another far superior 80's sci-fi movie ie ROAD WARRIOR, ALIENS, and of course the other TERMINATOR movies. Still, it's always nice to see gold ole Michael "I'm Revok. DARYLL REVOK!" Ironside at work.
PSYCHO is R-rated and, for its time, was extremely brutal and graphic.
Fair assessment. But let me ask you this: would you rather those movies try something different or simply recreate what happened in the previous installments? Call it "pop-nihilism" if you must but sometimes the best thing you can do for a franchise is dispense with the happy endings and kick audience expectations to the curb. Case in point: EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Fair point about going in a different direction, but if the different direction you go in requires the *complete* dismantling of whatever good was gained in the previous movie, it might not be the right direction.
As for ESB, it does make the point that friendship and devotion aren't always enough to overcome evil in the short term, but it ends on a note of hope ("I'll meet you at the rendezvous point on Tattooine") that the hard-won order of the world will be restored in the next movie. T3 offers only the hope that the way things *were* (before the events of T2) IS the order of the world, and that's scant hope indeed when you're talking about machine-driven thermonuclear annihilation and the attempted extermination of the human race. Alien 3 was a lot more nihilistic, implying that self-destruction is the only rational choice.
You can go a different direction, in other words, as long as you don't dispense entirely with whatever statement the previous movie made about the world. T2's statement was "You can change your future." T3's was "No, you can't."
The 901 speaker from the 70's was an innovative product, not an audiophile grade speaker but innovative. Bose has perfected marketing a name and remains a sub par speaker company.
Yesterday being 1979 and not even the best of that year for High Fidelity sound.
You folks nailed it!!! Perfect ideas for the script! Too bad that will never be seen by us!
Rolly
I've reached the point where I'm not even waiting for movies to come out on DVD. I go through Walmart or Target's video sections from time to time out of curiosity, just as I do in Big Lots. I almost never consider going to the theaters, because I'm almost never interested in the offerings.
Attempts to "punish" one outlet over another only works when I actually want to see something. Most movies aren't in my price point until the disc drops to $5. When will the studios realize they are providing a luxury service in a bad economy?
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