7.31.2004
Holy crap!
They traded Nomar!
To the Cubs!
For basically nothing in return!
... Is this the Introduction To The Opposites?
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# Posted by Rachel on 6:02 PM
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7.29.2004
J.Lo sees her life entering Phase 2 this summer, apparently.
Y'all, I'm pretty sure 'Phase 2' is the part where her face peels off to reveal the cyborg underneath, and she kills all the humans. Terror alert level Orange!
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# Posted by Rachel on 6:12 PM
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What's a Batman fan to do? My loyalties are torn. On the one hand, being a fan of Batman pretty much requires me to hate the Batman movie franchize and everything associated with it; when not even George Clooney can save a movie, you know you should just let it die already. No more sequels.
On the other hand, I kind of love Christian Bale, who plays Batman in the coming-in-summer-2005 film, Batman Begins. And I'd really, really like to think that the combination of Bale as Batman, Christopher Nolan directing, and no Joel Schumacher will make it a decent movie. On the other hand, I have trouble believing that it's even possible to make a decent Batman movie at this point.
On the upside, the movie is the story of Bruce Wayne becoming Batman for the first time, and thus is based on--or at least inspired by--Frank Miller's Year One graphic novel. Which would be pretty cool. On the downside, I'm pretty sure that neither Scarecrow nor R'as Al Ghul were in Miller's story, so instead of a young Bruce/Batman struggling to conquer the corrupt Gotham politicians while a semi-young Jim Gordon tries to clean up the equally corrup Gotham police and the hetero life partner duo they form, we have, well, a Batman movie.
Warner Brothers has just released the new trailer, and I've got to admit, it looks pretty cool. But again, on the downside, the monologue is a bit over the top. So I suppose I'll just have to wait and see.
Funny, I said that as though I wasn't going to shill out eight dollars a shot to see the movie four times, regardless of quality...
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# Posted by Becky on 3:55 PM
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7.28.2004
According to the imdb:
Matt Damon's upcoming flicks:
Ocean's 12, The Brothers Grimm (directed by Terry Gilliam), Syriana (a political film a la Traffic starring George Clooney), and he's just signed on to do the next Scorcese film with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ben Affleck's upcoming flicks:
Surviving Christmas " A lonely guy rents himself a family for the holidays."
There is apparently some kind of yin/yang to the universe that both of them can't have a good thing going at the same time. When Ben was doing his "blockbusters," Matt had so few job offers he did a stage play in London for a while. And now that Matt's got his career together, Ben's still reeling from the Gigli fiasco.
You guys. Seriously. Ben should do the comedies, Matt should do the real acting, and y'all can come home to Cambridge and get married happily ever after.
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# Posted by Rachel on 8:45 PM
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He's doing it again. It's not enough that the DVD releases of Star Wars are going to be the "director's editions" (so, no Ewok song, but also, Han Solo is a big pussy); now he's gone and had the images at the end of Jedi changed so that Hayden Christiansen is the ghost of Darth Vader.
Stop fucking with my childhood memories!
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# Posted by Rachel on 8:33 PM
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7.27.2004
God, I loved Young Indiana Jones. I mean, really. Right up until the point where I rewatched an episode last year, and realized how kind of terrible it was. That doesn't mean I didn't have "Young Indy and the Secret of the Blues" on VHS for like, ten years.
So what kind of expectations can one have for "Young James Bond," really? Allegedly to star Orlando Bloom, and apparently to take place after James gets kicked out of Eton.
Orli, much as I love you, and much as I recognize the Bond films don't require "acting" so much as "smirking," I've seen you in a suit. And you, sir, are no James Bond.
This has to be because The Bourne Supremacy just opened up bigger than any spy movie sequel, ever. (Ben Affleck's Sum Of All Fears, I'm looking in your direction.) But that's probably because it's not so much a "spy movie," as a "movie where things blow up, but mostly you get to watch more of a character who's engaging and thoughtful while kicking ass and being angsty." (Spiderman 2, I'm looking in your bloated and obnoxious direction.)
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# Posted by Rachel on 11:23 AM
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7.26.2004
Because this shit is, apparently, freaking some people out, here's how it breaks down:
Brad Pitt is 41. Well, he will be in December. He was born in 1963.
George Clooney is 43. He was born in '61. He already had his birthday. If you had your hand up as "at least ten years older than Brad," (and god knows I did) you can put it down now. Jesus.
Matt Damon is 34. Or, he will be in October. He was born in 1970. I know the going theory is that he was about 25 when he did Good Will Hunting, and against all laws of physics is somehow still 25, but it's not true. (Y'all, he's older than Ben Affleck!) Nicole just had a minor heart attack when she learned that. That makes him 9 years younger than Clooney and 7 years younger than Pitt. That's sure as fuck not how I thought the breakdown went. I was pretty sure it went "Clooney, fiftyish, Pitt, fortyish, Damon, thirtyish." Weird.
This "believe it or not" moment brought to you by the infallible people at the imdb.com.
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# Posted by Rachel on 8:12 PM
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Awwww. Nick Carter and Paris Hilton broke up! Now, who had "won't last" in the office pool?
Everyone, you say? Absolutely everyone on earth, ever? Including farmers in Nepal who've never even heard of Nick Carter or Paris Hilton? Well, I guess that's settled, then.
In other "Ha ha ha ha ha... whoo! That was funny! Wait... You're serious with this shit?" news, Nick says the Backstreet Boys will be touring starting in September, and the new album comes out "in the autumn."
Yeah. In the autumn in hell.
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# Posted by Rachel on 6:36 PM
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Way back in my sophomore year of college, I was having a conversation with my roommate, and somehow in the midst of discussing the name of the next Star Wars Prequel (back when people cared about such things and didn't want George Lucas to die a thousand horrible deaths) my conversation on the phone and her conversation over IM got intermingled, and she misheard me as saying the second film would be called "Star Wars II: Grandma's Dead."
I still say it's a better goddamn name than Attack of the Clones, but to each his own. (Die, Lucas, die! And take your "special edition only" DVD releases with you!)
The third (sixth) movie title has been revealed. Apparently it's to be called "Revenge of the Sith." That's sort of... Yawn. Much like the movie itself will be. (Memo to Natalie Portman: When you are the bad-acting half of doppelganger twins with Keira "I'm too skinny for this shirt" Knightley, it is time to get a new job.)
In unrelated news -- except for also being lame -- the new M. Night Shyamalan movie looks terrible. I thought the other movies were tiresome, and I guessed all their stupid twist endings, so I won't be going to see this one. "Let the bad color not be seen"? You and your smug-interview-in-EW-having ass can go away now, please, and come back when you're less incredibly lame. Which will be never. I don't have high hopes for his adaptation of Life of Pi, while we're at it.
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# Posted by Rachel on 6:25 PM
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Ocean's 12... Best movie idea ever (Hot men! Being hot together!) or worst movie idea ever (overpaid Hollywood stars working on a vanity project sequel to a movie that was itself a remake of a bad vanity project) ? I'm on the fence, frankly, since I don't think Brad Pitt and Matt Damon are likely to make out at any point during the film. I love the first one -- it's certainly the most stylish movie I've seen in a long time -- but cringe whenever I hear the title. Ocean's 12? That was the best they could come up with?
Here's a little something to help you make up your mind about where you fall on the love/hate spectrum: a summary of the plot (spoilers?) from an interview with Matt Damon: "The basic plot of that one is that, a master thief in Europe played by Vincent Cassell gives our names to Terry Benedict the Andy Garcia character and so we are basically all caught at the beginning of the movie and this master thief does this because he wants to challenge us, cause he wants to prove that he is the greatest thief in the world and he thinks that we're just a fluke. So we are forced to compete with him because we have a certain amount of time to get Andy his money back or we gonna go to jail or worse, so that's basically the premise of the movie. So we go off to Europe to start pulling jobs in order to pay back Terry Benedict."
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# Posted by Rachel on 6:16 PM
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