Edgar Allan Poe chasing a serial killer? Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires? Sure, why not? This is Hollywood, where nothing is sacred, least of all real historical fact. In today’s Roundtable, we make our own suggestions for ways that Hollywood can bastardize history for our populist blockbuster entertainment.
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Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller are maturing and it really shows in their latest flick, ‘The Five-Year Engagement’. Picking up right where the average rom-com would end – after the struggling couple ends up together – their new film shows what happens between the proposal and the wedding, and depicts all of the crap that a couple must wade through before getting to the “happily ever after.”
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While Edgar Allan Poe may be a well-known American poet and author, I’ll be the first to admit that a movie about him doesn’t sound all that appealing. But if the screenplay has sensationalized his life, moving him from author to character in one of his own blood-drenched stories, then it might be worth watching. Make it a murder mystery blend of ‘Se7en‘ and ‘Sherlock Holmes‘, add John Cusack and ‘V for Vendetta‘ director James McTeigue, and it’s something worth checking out.
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Although I enjoyed two of the major movies opening this week, I’ve got to be honest that next weekend’s release of ‘The Avengers’ is causing so much anticipation that (almost) nothing could get me excited for what’s hitting the big screen today.
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Although ‘The Hunger Games’ finally got muscled out of the #1 spot on, this, its fifth weekend of release, the film managed to only drop another 31%. Coming in at third, ‘The Hunger Games’ has now made $356 million domestically.
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Back in 1996, director Scott Hicks burst onto the international cinema scene with his art house hit ‘Shine’, which went on to be nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Today (literally today), Hicks’ latest movie ‘The Lucky One’ is a generic weepy romance starring Zac Efron that was adapted from a Nicholas Sparks book. I guess a fella’s gotta eat. Today’s Roundtable takes a look at other obvious “sell-out” movies made by talented (or at least once-talented) people clearly just cashing a paycheck on projects beneath their abilities.
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DisneyNature’s releases have been hit-and-miss for me. I couldn’t make the press screening of ‘Earth‘, so imagine how pissed I was when I paid to see it and realized that it was nothing more than an extended episode of the first hour of ‘Planet Earth‘, which I already owned. The following year, I was disappointed by ‘Oceans‘ because it showed cool images but featured a voice-over that revealed nothing about what was on screen. ‘African Cats‘ wasn’t anything special either, but ‘Chimpanzee’ has finally won me over.
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What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today.
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In today’s edition of Posterizing, we take a look at some truly unique poster designs and wonder if the generic artwork on the ‘Total Recall’ poster is a bad omen for the movie.
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For some reason, movies about adults who we would perceive as losers make for great comedy. The next couple of trailers have grown men who never grew out of their “Hall Monitor” days, and who simply failed at getting things the way they had hoped.
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