{"id":24612,"date":"2011-11-11T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=24612"},"modified":"2018-03-20T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:15:46","slug":"weekend-movies-nov-11-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/weekend-movies-nov-11-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Movies: Men in Armor Meet Men in Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love watching bad movies tank at the box office. Unfortunately, even the worst of Adam Sandler’s movies still typically gross more than $100 million, so I probably won’t get to laugh at him come Monday. But I’m pretty sure I’ll be chuckling when the numbers for ‘Immortals<\/strong>‘ role in on Sunday afternoon.
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Ever since Vinnie Chase did it on ‘Entourage<\/a>‘, I love watching actors bash the bad movies they’ve filmed. A few months back, Mickey Rourke was quoted calling ‘Immortals<\/strong>‘ “shit.”<\/em> I could have told you that from the preview, but it’s funnier coming from his mouth.<\/p>\n

The trailers for ‘Immortals’ not only look like a direct rip-off of ‘300<\/a>‘, but make a point to blast that the film is “from the people who gave you 300.”<\/em> Every single ad tries to bank off Zack Snyder’s hit, so much so that I’ve met several different people who mistakenly believe (due to the ads) that it’s actually a sequel to ‘300’. Boy, are they going to be disappointed.<\/p>\n

Speaking of disappointment, what the hell happened to Adam Sandler? Remember when he used to make movies that were actually funny? Why is he going down the gender-bending road of Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry? He’s better than that\u2026 Well, he used to be. In ‘Jack and Jill<\/strong>‘, Sandler plays both a brother and sister who are forced together over the holidays. This movie is complete shit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clint Eastwood tries to win Oscar gold again this year with ‘J. Edgar<\/strong>‘, a bio-pic about J. Edgar Hoover’s creation of the F.B.I., his role in finding the Lindberg baby, and the speculation that he was gay. Written by ‘Milk<\/a>‘ scribe Dustin Lance Black, ‘J. Edgar’ had the potential to be great \u2013 but as directed by Eastwood, it comes across bland and boring<\/a> instead. <\/p>\n

Another Warner Herzog documentary hits the theaters this weekend. ‘Into the Abyss<\/strong>‘ features interviews with Michael James Perry, a Texas inmate sentenced to death after allegedly gunning down a nurse and stealing her Camaro. From Day One of his arrest, Perry claimed to be innocent, yet was put to death on July 1, 2010. Knowing Herzog, this intimate in-depth look at murder and capital punishment ought to be worth checking out. [Ed. Note: This movie is depressing, but really terrific. -JZ]<\/em><\/p>\n

Cannes contender ‘Melancholia<\/strong>‘ finally hits U.S. theaters this weekend. Director Lars von Trier may have hurt his box office potential with some obnoxious remarks about sympathizing with Nazis<\/a> that he made at the film’s premiere earlier this year. Told in an artistic and semi-pretentious manner, ‘Melancholia’ tells the story of two sisters who battle with hereditary depression, and how each is affected by the impending apocalyptic threat of a rogue planet headed on a collision course with Earth. The movie may not be for everyone, but I liked it a lot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, ‘London Boulevard<\/strong>‘ makes its way to the U.S. as well. Written and directed by the Oscar-winner writer of ‘The Departed<\/a>‘, the film stars Colin Farrell as an ex-con who’s hired as the bodyguard for a popular actress (Keira Knightley). Trouble brews when the two fall in love. It sounds like ‘The Bodyguard’ through the eyes of Guy Ritchie, which might make it worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love watching bad movies tank at the box office. Unfortunately, even the worst of Adam Sandler’s movies still typically gross more than $100 million, so I probably won’t get to laugh at him come Monday. But I’m pretty sure I’ll be chuckling when the numbers for ‘Immortals‘ role in on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[650,1524,773,4089,4121,3853,3449,1294,751,803,4122,3000,890,134,1300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25463,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions\/25463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}