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Here's a poster that Super Mercado made for The Case, the short film that the kids are making in Super 8 when an Air Force train crashes into their business.

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The nerds are embracing this movie, which is great, since it was made for them in the first place.

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Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:59:00 -0700 So, PRINCE OF PERSIA Is On... http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/so-prince-of-persia-is-on http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/so-prince-of-persia-is-on

...which is a terrible, terrible movie. Let me mention just a couple of the things that happened in the first half hour of this movie I've never seen that make no fucking sense whatsoever.

  • Random people who Gyllenhall's character has never met are recognizing him as a prince, even though photography does not exist and most subjects had no idea what their rulers actually looked like at the time this movie supposedly takes place.
  • News of the price that has been put on Gyllenhall's character's head is apparently traveling faster than they are while escaping even though the goddamn telegraph won't be invented for hundreds of years.

There. There are just two things. I won't get into the fact that all the extras are swarthy Middle Easterners while the characters that we're supposed to care about are all as white as Rick Santorum after he Googled his name for the first time. That's just the usual Hollywood racial ignorance on display. Sort of like how the leads all have British accents while the extras are allowed to sound like pseudo-Persians.

Ahh, racism...few do it better than you, Hollywood.

But the ultimate point that I want to make is that this is a terrible movie that doesn't even understand its own faux-historical context.

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Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:34:00 -0700 Regarding GREEN LANTERN http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/regarding-green-lantern http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/regarding-green-lantern

I'm probably not going to bother seeing it. That's a strange thing for me to write, because I've been a proponent of a Green Lantern movie for a long, long time.

But I never wanted Ryan Reynolds in it.

He's a fine performer for certain things, and I've liked him in some movies. But he isn't Hal Jordan, and from what I've seen of the film in trailers and such, it's nothing we haven't seen before: a chosen one; training montages; a new recruit introduced to a larger world. Hey, Green Lantern producers: I've already seen all of those Harry Potter films. Although we shouldn't be surprised that Warner Brothers is aping the story points of their very successful wizarding franchise.

It just looks dumb, and cheesy, and with an over-reliance on CGI (which, arguably, is the only way you can make a GL movie, I know...but did his costume need to be computer-generated? The answer is NO.).

It just looks wholly unremarkable, and I can't afford to blow my money on films that are wholly unremarkable. That said, I've heard really good things about X-Men: First Class, and today it'll only be 5 bucks. So, yeah...sorry, Green Lantern: I won't be seeing you this Friday, or whenever you come out.

It's your own fault for looking so fucking bland.

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Mon, 30 May 2011 07:04:00 -0700 Untitled http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/54949701 http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/54949701

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This Memorial Day, please take a moment to remember the shirts that have been sacrificed by our valiant military men for the service and protection of this nation and world from all enemies, be they foreign, internal, or interplanetary. These men are still out there, and they're cold, and their nipples are hard.

Thank you.

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Sun, 29 May 2011 18:32:00 -0700 Banjo Kid Don't Like It http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/banjo-kid-dont-like-it http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/banjo-kid-dont-like-it

I'm watching Deliverance right now, and a nightmare scenario just occurred to me: some day, a bunch of classless, tasteless, visionless douchebags are going to try to remake this perfect film.

That realization is sorta killing the experience. Thanks a lot, Hollywood.

Deliverance

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Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:46:00 -0800 THE PRESTIGE http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/the-prestige http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/the-prestige

Prestige

It gets sort of forgotten by the wayside with all of these Dark Knights and Inceptions, but in my opinion The Prestige is Chris Nolan's real masterpiece. Then again, with its dueling magicians, Victorian-era fetishism, and Nikola Tesla balderdash, it's almost like it was designed from the ground up to be one of my favorite movies.

Watched it last night. Watching it again right now.

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Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:44:52 -0800 Speaking of Green Arrow... http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/speaking-of-green-arrow http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/speaking-of-green-arrow
Hunnam

Here's your Oliver Queen right here, fuckers. I invite Hollywood to pull its head out of its ass and give us some good, old-fashioned, badass, angry lefty Robin Hood action.

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Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:32:00 -0800 Look It up Yourself http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/look-it-up-yourself http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/look-it-up-yourself

I was going to post about today's Superman casting news, but then I remembered that I don't now, nor have I ever, given two shits about Superman. They chose somebody handsome. Is there any other requirement for playing the dullest superhero in the world?

You want to get into casting for Green Arrow, or Lobo, or, I don't know, Blue Beetle? I'll theorize and pontificate until the cows come home. But the only people who really care about who plays Superman are childred, grown men who have never known the touch of a woman, and Spandex fetishists.

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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:59:51 -0800 Let's Play a Game http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/lets-play-a-game http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/lets-play-a-game
Candyland

I watched a bunch of my roommie's Saw movies over the past couple days, and even though I know they're not good for me, I sorta like them anyway. There's a sort of old-school, Hammer horror, Grand Guignol about them, and I like that. So sue me.

Also, Tobin Bell is a badass.

Fuck you.

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Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:42:00 -0800 My Taste Is Impeccable http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/my-taste-is-impeccable http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/my-taste-is-impeccable

My roomie bought a DVD combo pack including The Hangover and Wedding Crashers. You may have seen my recent post enthusing about The Hangover, so I thought I owed Wedding Crashers, which I'd never seen, a shot as well. After all, they were packaged together, right? Perhaps the style of humor in the second movie would appeal to me as much as the first one.

Nope.

Maybe it's just my allergies to both Vince Vaughn and weddings, but I couldn't watch more than half an hour of Wedding Crashers. There is literally nothing I enjoyed about that formulaic pile of rom-com garbage. You know, just because a movie has some nice tits and some raunchy jokes in it, that doesn't make it "special" or more than a paint-by-numbers exercise in predictable, crowd-pleasing swill.

Blech.

Somebody please explain the appeal of this movie, and while your at it, define Vince Vaughn's queasy, Sasquatchian "charm".

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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:12:12 -0800 Please Let This Be True http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/please-let-this-be-true http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/please-let-this-be-true
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Apparently, the virtually talentless bag of cinematic retardation and self-promoting flatulence known as Kevin Smith has claimed in an interview that after he makes an upcoming hockey movie, he plans to retire from film-making. Are we supposed to be sad about that? The man should never be allowed near movie-making equipment. Even his "best" movies are nigh unwatchable. The only things he's good at are talking about himself, selling merchandise, and convincing an entire generation of undiscerning movie watchers that he legitimately has something to say besides, "Hey, mom! Look at me, I mades a moovee!"

I'd love to believe him, but considering that he lies about shit all the time, I'm not going to get too excited. Smith loves attention, and the best way to get it is to keep rolling out shitty movies.

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Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:31:52 -0800 THE HANGOVER = Classic http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/the-hangover-classic http://hungrylikekevin.posterous.com/the-hangover-classic
Hangover

I watched The Hangover for the second time since the theatrical release, and it was just as, if not more, enjoyable than it was the first viewing. I'm always afraid with raunchy comedies that they're not going to be fun once the shock value wears off, but this one's got what it takes to last. Folks are going to still be watching it in 20 years. The performances are all top-notch and the story of a Vegas bachelor party gone bad is timeless.

It's just good, people. If you know me, you know I don't usually go for dumbass comedies, but this is a special dumbass comedy. From the moment the opening credits roll to Glenn Danzig's "Thirteen" rather than a more obvious good-time party song, you know that you're in for a sweet ride.

I know it's not "good for me", but I love it anyway.

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