Not that I’m falling behind or anything. At least I got to it before the first batch of movies opened.
3.2.2006
So many films, and almost all of them look terrible! It must be February! The only thing I’m remotely interested in is Tommy Lee Jones’s directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which did well at Cannes. But everything else…Something New, which just screams “bad rom-com” to me, mixed with faux-racial commentary, looks awful. And yet, I’d still rather see it than either When a Stranger Calls, the latest totally unnecessary remake of a horor film that wasn’t that good to begin with, tarted up with high-tech gewgaws, or A Good Woman, purportedly an adaptation of Lady Windermere’s Fan. Why, I might ask, do you need to “adapt” Wilde, and why do you then cast Helen Hunt? The fact that it’s over a year old and just now getting released adds to my considerable unease.
Lest we forget, What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole, a retool of/sequel to What the Bleep Do We Know? a film whose contribution to science can best be described as “destructive.” A certain astronomer friend of mine can probably say more about that.
10.2.2006
Wow! What a slate! Harrison Ford tries to cling to his diminishing action star persona, the third in a desperately uninteresting splatter film series, or the least-necessary remake of all time!
Fucking February.
Oh, and I forgot Curious George, a truly ugly looking cartoon that calls into question my whole “3-D bad, 2-D good” stance on modern animation.
The IMDb claims that Jonathan Deme’s Neil Young documentary opens today, and it damn well better or I might do something desperate like pay money for The Pink Panther.
17.2.2006
Freedomland has a trailer and cast that makes it look not-entirely-awful, and that’s all you can hope for at this time of year, I guess. Not a lot else getting dumped into this weekend – Date Movie is getting a lot of ad space, but I’m happy to say that I don’t know a single person likely to see it. Disney has a family-friendly epiclette in Eight Below, which does not seem so cold as to be impressive to me, and the Russian horror film Night Watch finally gets released, although despite its buzz, there weren’t a whole lot of trailers I found less interesting last year.
24.2.2006
The latest Tyler Perry opus, Madea’s Family Reunion, will hopefully inspire another brilliant Ebert pan like its predecessor, but I have no hope for anything else. Milla Jovovich stars in another goddamn sci-fi thriller, because that’s worked out so well. And Running Scared, a movie about which I know nothing, but allows me to bitch that Cameron Bright needs to stop playing strange creepy troubled kids, and make some talking bear movies like that nice Haley Joel Osment.