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Trailer Park: Descending Youth and Revolting Goats
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Trailer Trash », Remakes and Sequels »
The Men Who Stare at Goats
If only they gave an Oscar for Best Film That Sounds LIke a Really Depraved Porn Flick. In reality this is a pretty awesome looking comedy in which George Clooney plays a soldier who is part of an elite force of psychic operatives and Ewen McGregor is the reporter out to get the story. Watch for this one on November 6.
Inception
This trailer for the latest film from Chris Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) will give you a serious WTF feeling, but I mean that in a good way. There's some Matrixy stuff at work here. This one hits on July 16.
The Descent: Part 2
In a move that reminds me a bit of Aliens, the survivor of the original The Descent returns and makes another trip down into the caverns where some albino creepy crawlies made mincemeat of her friends. The original was a great scare flick and I get claustrophobic just thinking about it, but is a sequel really necessary? No U.S. release info yet.
Sundance Review: Adventures of Power
Filed under: Comedy », Sundance », Theatrical Reviews »
Wow. You just don't expect to see a movie this awful playing at the Sundance Film Festival (even if a good deal of the film was shot in Utah). Truth be told, I don't expect to see a movie like this anywhere, but man oh man. I always try to think of something positive to say, no matter what the movie is, but this experience has defeated, deflated and depressed me. I'm actually a little irritated about it.
The flick is a very broad comedy called Adventures of Power, because the lead character is named Power. It's a waaaayyyy-too-late Napoleon Dynamite retread that would have been just as witless had it arrived two weeks after that overrated little hit. For the record, I have nothing against writer / director / lead actor Ari Gold; as a matter of fact, this movie was my very first experience with the guy -- despite the fact that he's already appeared in several indies and some award-winning short films. But going only by what I just witnessed in Adventures of Power, Mr. Gold is A) a plainly bland and lifeless director, B) a (gotta say it) pretty damn terrible screenwriter, and C) a lead actor with the screen presence of cottage cheese.
Live from Sundance: My First Walkout!
Filed under: Comedy », Independent », Sundance », Festival Reports »
By this point in the festival, you start to feel a little fatigue. You're sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated. And this often manifests itself in a lowered tolerance for bad movies. That's right, I had my first walk-out of the fest today. I made it through about 20 minutes of Adventures of Power before deciding that life was too short to sit through yet another lame Napoleon Dynamite wannabe.
Hey, look! The main character is a small-town nerd who doesn't realize what a joke he is! He has odd, useless talents that he thinks are awesome! He wears a headband and a fanny pack! Har har!
It's not that it was the worst film I've ever seen. Heck, it's not even the worst film I've seen this week. (That'd be Downloading Nancy.) It was just that on Day 7 of a film festival, you're not as inclined to put up with crap as you are earlier in the week.
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