Evan Almighty (June 22) Check out the new, loooooong-ass trailer, below! Steve Carell stars as a typical guy who meets God (obviously Morgan Freeman) and gets assigned to build an ark before the great flood. Excessive body hair and genital-hungry animal antics ensue. It’s kind of like the rich man’s version of Ellen’s AmEx commercial.
Ocean’s Thirteen (June 8) "If you cross one Ocean, you face them all"… and if you see one Ocean’s,you must see them all, until you get to 99 and say hey wait, how am I258 plus whatever age I was in 2007 years old? (What?) The handsomegang who love each speaking one word of a group-effort sentence are atit again, now with Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino! C’mon guys… an Oprahjoke? Really?
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (July 20) OMG, are you homophobic? You will love this movie, starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James as two firefighters who marry to get a pension plan, in which the mere implication of gayness is so gross it makes you fall down ladders!
Clearly you didn’t watch the trailer for Chuck & Larry b/c they are FIREFIGHTERS, not cops.
The trailer for Evab Almightly that was shown Thursday evening during “the office” on TV revealed WAY to much plot detail. I feel that I sat through the whole movie.
sorry, but all three trailers look like crap… and the Evan Almighty trailer… was the the entire movie… cause frankly it felt like it.
Is anyone else a little twitchy that the idea for Chuck and Larry comes from Alexander Payne?
Wow, who knows if Evan will get the ark finished or if the animals will come or if it’ll set sail. Wait, I do.
Maybe Payne is doing something for the studio so they’ll bankroll another project for him later?
Hope floats. Barely.
I hope that “Ocean’s 13″ will actually have a decent heist, and not just a bunch of A-list actors hanging out, attempting to out-cool each other. I hope that this film will finally justify all the hype around Steven “Boring” Soderbergh, and prove that he can make an amazing film.
I hope that “Evan Almighty” will be more than simply an 1 hr and 22 min extension of the trailer. I hope that Steve Carell can outwit the big-budget industry by peppering the cliched script with his own puns, ala “Anchorman” or “Virgin”…
I hope that “Chuck and Larry” won’t turn out so petrified of its own subject that its PC-ness will be its most offensive factor. I hope that it won’t be too scared to stick to its convictions, and that Payne will take it one step further and make it both a poignant and laugh-out-loud experience. Somehow, the presence of masterclass director Dennis Dugan (known for poignancy) makes me doubt that.
Hope floats. Barely.
Sorry Blurb, but I don’t think hope has a chance with three millstones like these around it’s neck.
You don’t like Soderbergh though? Not even The Limey or Traffic?
The Limey was alright but not amazing. A distant little indie story.
Traffic was overlong and overrated. Drugs. Trafficking. Bathed in orange, Michael Douglas rages.
What’s up with the hype over Erin Brockovich? Ugh, as conventional as they come.
Kafka was the worst excuse for entertainment ever.
The most pointless idea: let’s remake Solaris! With. George. Clooney.
I’m having difficulties trying to remember a more pretentious and irritating film than Full Frontal.
Out of Sight is inferior to Jackie Brown (which came out almost a the same time but was a critical flop), though it does have a decent script, and marks the first and last decent performance from JLo, stripping down her ‘diva’ and putting on a ‘cop’. Again, style over substance, way too overrated, and quite forgettable.
Finally, Soderbergh’s “indies”: Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Gray’s Anatomy and Schizopolis – all bland, pseudo-intellectual fair than dims in comparison to the works of his contemporaries.
Wow, for disliking the guy, you’ve seen more of his movies than I have. I didn’t bother with Erin Brockovich, Full Frontal or Solaris (I’m generally against movie remakes to begin with and Tarkovsky did a good enough job with the original, even with the deathly slow beginning, that I steered clear).
But I have to disagree over Traffic. I thought there was a lot of good stuff tucked away in there: the “write two letters” monologue, the interplay between Don Cheadle and Luis Guzmán and it taught me how to freebase.