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With this summer being a textbook example of big releases with big followings, I started to think back and wonder if we’ve had these same obsessive tendencies in the past. In “honor” of our very own ‘Dark Knight’ obsessed movie geek intern Charles, who has now officially tallied a total of six (6) screenings of [...] Continue Reading...
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The great people over at Titanbooks sent us 3 copies of this badass new book called ‘The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made’. Here are just a few things that are included in this book.. “Steven Spielberg’s Night Skies, Stanley Kubrick’s Childhood’s End, Philip Kaufman’s Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, Kevin Smith’s Six Million Dollar Man, [...] Continue Reading...
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Earlier today, the crowd at the ComicCon/Warner Brothers panel got a first look at the new footage and new trailer for ‘Terminator: Salvation.’ The panel included director McG, along with actors Common, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, and Sam Worthington. McG spoke to Christian Bale over the phone who was in Japan promoting ‘The Dark Knight.’ The film’s rating, McG said, will be determined, “after they finish making it. It could be Rated R, could be PG-13, but they’re not making it for a specific rating.” The new trailer for ‘Terminator: Salvation’ will debut with Quantum of Solace on November 7.
Source: Coming Soon.netClick here for more pictures of the new Terminator.
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (1)
We are giving all of you guys the chance to go see one of the best documentaries of the year, ‘American Teen’. If you have read the site, you know we already gave this movie a solid 4 out of 5 stars, and its great for anyone who enjoys movies.
The screening will take place on Tuesday August 5th 2008, at 7pm.
To win tickets, all we need you to do is email us a picture of yourself from High School! Email all your pictures to contest@wearemoviegeeks.com.
Below you can see our high school pictures:
Rated PG-13 for some strong language, sexual material, some drinking and brief smoking-all involving teens.
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (2)
Since we have been bombarding all of you with a slew of superhero action films we decided to tone it down a little bit and give away some tickets to a little more tender movie. Movie Geek Girls, this one is for you, and guys do your wives/girlfriends a favor and take them out to see it!
We are giving away 25 tickets for the screening next Thursday, July 29 at 7pm. Winning is simple, post a comment below detailing your all time favorite chick flick, and why. Make sure to use your real email address, so that we can contact you.
Here is the synopsis for ‘Sisterhood of the traveling pants 2′:
“Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, Blake Lively and Alexis Bledel reunite onscreen this summer as the lifelong best friends audiences fell in love with four years ago.
Based on Ann Brashares’ best-selling series of novels about four young women who share an unbreakable bond through the unpredictable events of their lives, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” catches up with Tibby, Carmen, Bridget and Lena in the months following their first year of college. Having been apart all year, their plans for the summer will take them even further along separate paths as each experiences the freedom, love, choices and challenging life lessons that mark their individual journeys toward adulthood. Now, it will take more than a hurried note or even a treasured pair of pants passed back and forth among them to keep their lives connected.”
Rated PG-13 for mature material and sensuality, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” opens nationwide on August 6, 2008.
Click here for the official site and you can watch the trailer, download wallpapers, and much more.
Posted by Trevor on July 25, 2008 digg it No Comments
According to News Askew Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier will sit down with the MPAA, watch “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and then argue/defend why their movies should get a R rating. Kevin has already made cuts to the movie and I hope he doesn’t have to make anymore. Scott(Mr. Movie Geek) and others have wondered how the donkey scene and all the dirty talk of going @$$ to mouth only got a R for “Clerks 2″ I loves me some Kevin Smith but even those 2 items made me quite uncomfortable. So this weekend while you are out and about keep in mind Kevin and Scott will be fighting for you and for your cinematic enjoyment!
Also check out the Zack and Miri site for some cool pics and a screen shot from “Entertainment Weekly” that has a small tid bit o’ dialogue.
Posted by Travis on July 25, 2008 digg it No Comments
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about the ‘Heroes’ TV show. I love it! It’s a great show, but I think some people are getting a little carried away. I mean, fans are fans, but seriously … I was playing around on eBay and found this autographed card of Hayden Panettiere (plays Claire Bennett) which was pulled from a box of Topps ‘Heroes’ trading cards. I couldn’t believe what it was going for! As a point of reference, I checked the current maximum going prices for three other REALLY popular female celebrity icons on both eBay and the Internet marketplace in general, and this is what I found:
Angelina Jolie … Autographed 8×10 photo, up to $550.00
Scarlett Johansson … Autographed 8×10 photo, up to $125.00
Myley Cyrus … Autographed 8×10 photo, up to $80.00
Whoa! Jolie, understandably, still blows the pack away. [Then again, this was just one item listed at that price. Jolie's autographs actually being bid on/sold have a much more "reasonable" price.]
Panettiere is a rather petite young lady, so its safe to say that her autograph is going for at LEAST $1 dollar per pound (body weight) and with over one day left on the auction, will possibly get pretty close to $2 per pound. [Sorry if this sounds like I'm equating women to deli meat. That's ABSOLUTELY not my intention.] What do you think? Is her autograph worth this? If not, is anyone’s autograph worth this?
Posted by Ram Man on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (1)
Leonardo DiCaprio is taking over a role made famous by Rod Serling in the 1960’s, hosting The Twilight Zone. DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way are in the early stages of gathering story material and script ideas. The studios are not interested in making another episode driven feature film similar to the last Twilight Zone film in 1983. This time they want one continuing storyline based one one or more episodes for the original series. The original series aired approximately 156 episodes so they have a deep pool to draw from. I personally can’t wait to hear the eerie music start to play and see those words come in to focus from out in the stars.
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DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg has apparently said that George Lucas will re-release the Star Wars films in 3D! Now I am a Star Wars geek so this is pretty neat. In spite of my geeky-ness I am a little tired of all the re-releases and edits he has made in the past. I already have episodes 4 through 6 in the original theatrical on VHS and DVD and special edition VHS and DVD’s and episodes 1 through 3 on DVD ( my brother has 1 on VHS.) Now I will have to buy them all over again in 3D! Either way I am still excited. I remember watching “Return of the Jedi” at my friends house right after he got surround sound back in ‘98 and being amazed and the sound of the TIE fighters flying around me. Now imagine hearing them flying around me and then seeing them coming right at me!! Sweet! It will be even better on the big screen! The lightsabers! The explosions! The Wookies!
I read about it here.
Posted by Ram Man on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (1)
It’s amazing how they keep churning these out every year near Halloween. Especially when they killed the villain off in the third one! Yet, this October we will be “Treated” to the 5Th installment of SAW. Let the Blood Flow…
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With the recent flick “Speed Racer” flopping and the unexciting news of an “Akira” remake this story gets my blood a boiling!! They are talking about making a live action “Cowboy Bebop”!!!! If you have not seen the greatest anime to come out of Japan you are missing out! The story, the animation, the music! Oh god the music is phenomenal!!! As long as they keep the story, or write a good one, use the music from Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts and have some great effects this movie will be fan-double-tastic! It may not be the most popular anime from Japan so it may also flop at the box office. I hope that it will expose this great anime to more people and it will become more popular. If they are going to make a Dragonball and Speed Racer flick they have to make movies of far superior source material. Erwin Stoff is the producer and he also worked on “A Scanner Darkly” and “Constantine” so he is familiar with Keanu. I like Keanu, I have no problems with him… I just don’t see him as Spike Spiegel. I just wonder who will play Faye!
If you have not seen “Cowboy Bebop” I urge you to check it out. For just a taste of the music check out the opening title sequence. “Tank” is the name of the tune.
Posted by Travis on July 25, 2008 digg it No Comments
Director Tim Burton has apparently taken the next step and has announced he’s discovered his lead for his remake of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. The young Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (Rogue) has been selected to slip into Alice’s shoes and go for the journey of her life. Burton is directing a script written by Linda Woolverton, which has some wondering whether we’ll be seeing a darker version of ‘Alice’ or just another Disney version, especially since Disney is the backing studio. [news comes via JoBlo.com]
Posted by Travis on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (8)
With this summer being a textbook example of big releases with big followings, I started to think back and wonder if we’ve had these same obsessive tendencies in the past. In “honor” of our very own ‘Dark Knight’ obsessed movie geek intern Charles, who has now officially tallied a total of six (6) screenings of ‘The Dark Knight’ [so far], I’m throwing this topic out onto the virtual floor for dicussion… What movie(s) have you obsessed over?
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it No Comments
Brett Ratner is going the way of Uwe Boll, and by that I mean effing up great video games when he adapts them into movies. Ratner is one up on Uwe though because he effs up more than just Video Game movies… he doesn’t discriminate, he screws them all up equally.
here is some info on the God of War video game series…
“More than ten years in the past, Kratos was a young and ambitious Spartan captain. He became a servant to Ares, the God of war, during a battle against an immense barbarian horde numbering in the thousands, Kratos and his men were far outnumbered. After the merciless Barbarian onslaught couldn’t be stopped by the disciplined Spartans, Kratos realising that he could not win, offered his life and servitude to Ares in exchange for salvation. Ares who saw the makings of a God in this mortal, heeded this plea and subsequently saved Kratos and his men from a massacre, using his power to destroy the barbarians. He then instructed Kratos to rebuild his army and use it to conquer areas of Greece, as a display of devotion and piety to Ares. He granted Kratos great strength, and also gave him the “Blades of Chaos”; short-bladed swords connected to long, whip-like chains seared to Kratos’s arms, impossible to remove. The blades also served as a reminder of Kratos’ pledge.”
Posted by Movie Geeks on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (4)
It has been 6 years since Chris carter’s hit show “The X Files has been on television. So he chose now to see if there is still an audience out there by debuting his new film “X-Files: I Want To Believe”. Carter reunites David Duchovney and Gillian Anderson as former FBI agents Scully and Mulder and tell the story of what happened after they were run out of Washington D.C. There are some new faces with Amanda Peet and Rap star X-Zibit (fitting actor for X-Files) as FBI agents in need of a paranormal expert to assist in a current investigation.
We start out in the mountains of West Virgina, where a FBI agent is abducted. The bureau enlist a convicted pedophile Father Joseph Crissman, who happens to be a psychic, to help find their agent. Lead investigators Drummy (XZibit) and Whitney (Peet) believe Father Joe has hit a wall and seek out the assistance of The FBI’s authority on the paranormal Fox Mulder. Working through his live in girlfriend Dr. Dana Scully they manage to track down Fox who had fallen of the bureau’s radar. They work out a deal to forgive his past if he will help with this case. Mulder begrudgingly agrees and the team is back…or at least thats what we thought. Scully informs Mulder that she is a doctor and has left the life behind her. X-Files normally turns in a paranormal twist on crime, but “I Want To Believe” turns out to be a simple serial abduction case. These Russians (isn’t it always the Russians) experts in stem cell surgery Janke Dacyshyn has been abducting people and harvesting thier bodies to keep his lover Franz Tomczeszyn alive. Unlike the hit TV show there are no twists and you know who did what and why half way through this film.
I went to the “X-Files: I Want To Believe” wanting To Believe it was going to be an enjoyable blast from the past, but instead, X-Files closed up shop when Mulder and Scully were kick out and this ranks like a long last season below average episode from the TV series. This movie lacks some familiar faces that would have transitioned it into a fine feature. Mitch Peliggi shows up at the end of the film as Asst. Director Skinner (to the only crowd response in the film), why not have him show up earlier in the film to renew his relationship with Sculley and Mulder. I was a big X-Files fan, and for me, there was a notable absence of the trio of trouble, the Lone Gunmen. These small changes and a little better writing could have put a entirely different spin on this franchises attempted comeback. X-Files: I Want To Believe …I Believe Duchovney is heading back to Californication and Anderson will slip back into obscurity. X-Files are simply put: CASE CLOSED!
(1.5 out of 5 stars)
I’m going to come right out and say it … ‘X-Files 2′ was one of, if not the biggest let down of the year for me. Seriously though, I was realistic enough going into the screening to know that it wasn’t going to be great, but it failed at even being acceptable. I was never what you’d call an ‘X-Files’ fanboy, but I did really enjoy the TV series and watched regularly. I still think its one of the best shows that’s seen the light of picture tubes in the last 20 years. With that said, I also firmly believe the ‘X-Files’ should never have hit the big screen to begin with. The first movie was better than its follow-up, but it was a far cry from being worth the risk as well.
‘X-Files: I Want to Believe’ failed tremendously in making me believe, and while I wanted to believe it could revive Chris Carter’s creation, I now feel once more like I’ve been forsaken. This movie is less of a sequel than it is another feature-length episode of the TV series. An episode that is long and not very entertaining, ranking somewhere between poor and mediocre on a scale of favorite episodes. David Duchovny is certainly still Fox Mulder, but the time he’s spent away from the show that lifted him out of ‘Red Shoe Diaries’ and into mainstream success has taken its tole on his ability to connect with the character. Gillian Anderson also returns as Dr. Dana Scully, who now practices medicine in a small, church-run hospital. Ironic indeed, for the habitually persistent non-believer. Neither Mulder or Scully work for the FBI in this film, both of whom seem to have swapped ideologies slightly, when the FBI calls on Scully to bring Mulder out of hiding to help find a missing agent. Apparently, the backstory to be filled in suggests the FBI framed Mulder who is now a fugitive… oh yeah, and apparently sometime between this movie and the last, Mulder and Scully had quite a thing going on, or so the extrapolated dialogue would indicate.
I will say I managed to stay awake through the entire film, but there were a couple of rough points. Some of the movie was engaging and Mulder was humorously sarcastic as always, but much of the film felt old hat, repetitive of elements already done to death and a completely unsatisfying romance subplot between the former partners that barely gets off the ground and then goes nowhere, except in the general direction of a truly lousy, uncharacteristic ending. By the way, no aliens or creepy unexplained creatures or phenomena here … just a few missing persons, a dying boy, a psychic “priest” and a couple of freaky Russians who were mistaken and thought they were in ‘Brokeback Mountain’. The “truth is out there” element is extremely weak in this film and the anticlimactic climax to the unsuspenseful suspense is, well… you get the point. On a positive note, the “priest” was played well by Billy Connelly (Boondock Saints), a Scottish actor whom I enjoy but unfortunately see very little of anymore.
(2 out of 5 stars)
I wanted to believe that 20thCentury Fox set out to make a serious, paranormal sequel, however the incoherent mess they ended up with was just a 2 part episode to the popular t.v. show. And man, did I want to change the channel. The film begins with Mulder and Fox, no longer F.B.I. agents, quickly brought back into the fold to help solve the disappearance of an fellow agent. I couldn’t help but notice that from then on, the story takes unadulterated pot shots at Catholicism…Fox’s only clue to the missing FBI agent is a “psychic,” defrocked, pedophile priest (Billy Connelly), Scully, now a doctor working at a Catholic hospital, is at odds with its director, an unsympathetic Catholic priest, who wants nothing to do with Scully using, of course, stem cell therapy to save her dying patient. To top it off, the surgery is overlooked by 3, frowning nuns. By that time, I was confused why director and creator Chris Carter had us playing connect-the-dots…are we watching a love story? a serial-killer story? a supernatural thriller?…good God man, make up your mind! With the addition of two forgettable agents played by Xzibit and Amanda Peet, die-hard fans will appreciate the brief scene with Mitch Pileggi’s Assistant Director Walter Skinner. While I have no doubt that loyal X-Philes fans, as they’re known, will be drooling over the sequel, the plain out bizarreness rates a 10 on the sphincter scale.
(1 out of 5 stars)
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (3)
It is being reports by an unnamed news source (variety) that there is going to be a ‘Harold and Kumar 3′…
At this point there is no storyline, but John Cho and Kal Penn will be reprising their roles as Harold and Kumar.
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it No Comments
Thanks to our buddies at The Movie Blog for the hookup…
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Check out the early poster for ‘The Goon’ which surfaced at the San Diego Comic Con, courtesy of DreadCentral.com
Posted by Scott on July 25, 2008 digg it Comments (1)
There is another poster for you courtesy of MoviesOnline.
Here are a couple of screen shots that will give you an insight to how the movie will be shot thanks to Filmz.ru:
Damn! I don’t know if I am more excited to see Rose McGowan in this sexy role, or how the movie will hold true to how it was done in the 80’s!
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Need help to reestablish yourself as a comedy king? Hire Judd Apatow to help write/produce your movie. As the reigning golden boy for Hollywood comedy movies, Judd lent himself to ‘Step Brothers’ and along with Will Ferrell, John C Reilly and Adam McKay, created comic gold platinum.
There isn’t a lot of story in ‘Step Brothers’ but you don’t need it with WIll Ferrell and John C Reilly throwing at you two of the funniest characters we have seen from either of them in a while. Ferrell has stepped back to his ‘Anchorman’ days and really delivers a powerfully funny performance. These two guys know how to play off each other better than anyone else in Hollywood right now.
The most surprising thing in this movie is probably the gratuitous balls on the drums scene, no I am kidding. At the end of the movie Reilly and Ferrell rock out to a Spanish opera song with Ferrell singing… so yes, in this movie he does speak Spanish!
If you want to see a movie and laugh until you pee yourself like a little girl, then go see this movie tonight!
(3.5 stars out of 5)
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are related, at least the are for a couple of hours this summer in the new smash comedy “Step Brothers”. Ferrell and Reilly have team with Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay to create this hilarious tale of growing old but retaining your inner youth.
Brennan Huff (Ferrell) is a spoiled 40 year old idiot that still lives with his mother Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Dale Doback (Reilly) is a 40 year old lazy slob that is living at home sponging off his dad Robert (Richard Jenkins). When the parents meet and fall for each other at a medical conference it begins a truly unholy union of two siblings. They don’t work..they don’t do anything except watch TV, play the drums, and devise ways to eliminate the other brother and become the sole spoiled kid of the house again. This film is loaded with physical comedy..from Dale and Brennan beat up by 12 yr. olds and forced to eat dog crap..Brennan rubbing his ball sack all over Dale’s drum set. There are numerous fights and one scene where Brennan buries Dale alive in the front yard. This begins to drive a wedge between Nancy and Richard ..so they lay down the law… Get Jobs and become responsible… because we are selling the house and sailing around the world! Dale and Brennan finally bond and unite over a common foe..Brennan’s younger successful brother Derek (Adam Scott). Derek runs a successful helicopter sales and leasing business and has the perfect family..wife Alice (who hates the very air he breathes)and two kids Tommy and Tiffany. The four spend their time running with the A-list and singing Guns N Roses in four part harmony. After Dale punches Derek in the nose,Alice is smitten with him and the rest of the movie they begin a not so secret romance.Dale and Brennan, or we can call them tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber, decide to start their own international entertainment company and shoot a music video. Didn’t I mention that Brennan has the voice of an angel… NOT. So the two shoot a music video “Boats and Hoes” and just as the song ends ..Richard yells “who’s driving my boat?” That’s when it crashes and sinks… destroying their plans and whats left of the marriage.
Step Brothers, while being a tad too long is hilarious from start to finish. You can definitely see that Ferrell and Reilly make a great team and should continue to do projects together in the future. A word of warning though… this one is rated R for a reason. There are more dirty words and F-bombs in this than in all of the seasons of South Park combined… so keep the kids at home. Step Brothers is a fun movie that will have you re-thinking the phase … “He’s my brother from another mother!”
(4 out of 5 stars)
Its Will Ferrell! What did you expect? Sure, he’s done ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ which ended up being a surprising semi-dramatic role for him and he did very well. But, what do we all expect when going to see a Will Ferrell movie? That’s right … crazy, off-the-wall, sometimes raunchy, otherwise Ferrell comedy. Throw in John C. Reilly and you’ve got the return of “shake and bake” … only better! Brennan’s (Ferrell) mom meets Dale’s (Reilly) dad at a medical conference and they fall in love at first sight. They quickly get married and decide to move into one house, all four of them. Yeah, Brennan and Dale are both 40-year-old men who never grew up and still live at home. Now, they must live together as sworn worst enemies … step brothers!
Are you still with me? Good, because we’ve covered about 75% of the story now. You weren’t expecting something intelligent, were you? Despite there being ay significant amount of story, there is enough to make a film… a very, VERY funny film. Ferrell and Reilly work so well together and have a chemistry in comedy that we don’t see much anymore. I’m not suggesting these two comedic thespians equal the likes of Laurel and Hardy, or Abbott and Costello, but their chemistry together reminds of the classic past successful pairings. Through a series of mishaps as enemies, brought upon by their own immaturity, Brennan and Dale have a mutual epiphany that they’re actually best friends. Then, through another series of mishaps as best friends, they are forced to grow up and change their lives to save their parent’s marriage.
‘Step Brothers’ holds nothing back in the face of good taste, relying at times on gags involving reproductive organs, abusive physical comedy and good ole fashioned foul language. The key to why all this old school low-brow comedy works is the impeccable timing and talent of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. In an attempt to divert the spotlight momentarily away from the big shot brothers, Dale’s father (Dr. Doback) is played by Richard Jenkins, a favorite character actor of mine. Jenkins comedic ability is truly on display in ‘Step Brothers’ but unfortunately will go under-appreciated as he’s left acting in the shadows of the two stars. Don’t see this for any reason other than a solid 95 minutes on non-stop, belly-quivering, “holy crap I can’t breath laughter”. Kids need not attempt to see this film without adult supervision, but when has that stopped us? Actually, this movie will probably find itself more detrimental to unsuspecting proper adults than to kids who will probably relate quite easily to these two 40-year-old brats.
(3.5 out of 5 stars)
The last time we saw these two funny men was in ‘Talladega Nights.’ This time Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, along with director Adam McKay, have decidedly stepped it up a notch playing 39 & 40 something losers who still live with their respective single parents in their latest uproarious collaboration, ‘Step Brothers.’ To make things worse, when Nancy and Robert (Mary Steenburgen and Richard Jenkins) marry, Brennan and Dale are instant step-brothers in this screwy dysfunctional family. After their constant bickering, brawling, and a bullying brother, Derek (Adam Scott), threaten to destroy Mom and Dad’s marriage, the two join forces to become true brothers in order to keep the family together.
(4 out of 5 stars)
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