Year: 2006 (Page 37 of 228)

Box Office Roundup: Jackman, Bale make movie audiences disappear.

October 22, 2006 /

Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:

1) The Prestige: $14.8 million (first week)
We’d take this moment to rejoice the first place finish of Christopher Nolan’s awesome magic flick, but we just know it’s going to get slaughtered by “Saw III” next week.
2) The Departed: $13.7 million ($77.1 million, third week)
Fast fact: The first Martin Scorsese movie to break $100 million was…”The Aviator.” Who knew?
3) Flags of Our Fathers: $10.2 million (first week)
Between this and the underwhelming performance by “Jarhead,” it appears that we are suffering from patriotism fatigue. And the studio is suffering from being $80 million in the hole.
4) Open Season: $8 million ($69.6 million, fourth week)
“Well, it stars Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher…” “Stop. We’re not seeing it.”
5) Flicka: $7.7 million (first week)
Tied with “The Grudge 2.” One of the studios is lying.

Movies, News

The Office: The Phone Conversation

October 21, 2006 /

So Pam and Jim finally reconnect and have a long conversation. I love the bit about Pam’s confusing “28 Days” with “28 Days Later”:

Pam: “I kept waiting for Sandra Bullock to show up.”

But the conversation ends abruptly and awkwardly when Ryan and Dwight return from the Tests. Pam says “bye” to Ryan, and Jim thinks she’s saying it to him. Pam’s a receptionist – doesn’t she know to cover the phone when she’s talking to someone else? Geesh!

Here are a few of my favorite moments from the episode:

Dwight: (talking about Ryan’s future) “Is he going to be a slacker/loser/wiseass like Jim or will he join Dwight’s Army of Champions?”

Karen: (as Jim sings the Cardigans’ “Lovefool”): “That is not a proportionate response.”

That was a great shot of Dwight tearing off in his Firebird, leaving Ryan alone in the field.

Dwight: (after Ryan says that competition is the biggest threat to Dunder-Mifflin) “Wrong! Flash floods!”

The Office, TV, TV Comedies

Battlestar Galactica: “Exodus”

October 21, 2006 /

So the jailbreak is on, but Tigh has to poison his own wife first. She gives a nice speech, making him feel even worse about what he had to do. With all her faults, it was obvious that he really did love her. But you know what they say: once you go Cylon, you can never go back. Here’s hoping that Tigh loses his eye for good – how great would he be with a black patch?

The coolest thing about the escape was Adama’s ruse with the drone ships and the subsequent jump into New Caprica’s atmosphere. There’s Galactica, crashing to the planet, but he’s able to launch a crapload of vipers before jumping away.

For a moment there, it looked like he was going down with his ship, but you just knew that Lee would show up with the Pegasus to save the day. I thought it was interesting how the writers figured out a way to save Galactica while destroying Pegasus at the same time. After all, it the show isn’t called “Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus,” is it?

I have to say that the special effects on the show are tremendous considering how much the creators grumble about limited budgets. The space battle scene was extremely action-packed, and the effects are getting so good that you don’t get lost in little details that look odd, which was still a problem for sci-fi television as recently as a few years ago.

It looked like both the Cylons and the humans were each going to leave New Caprica with a hybrid baby, but Casey turned out to be a random human child. Katee Sackhoff’s (Starbuck) acting was terrific in that scene on the ship. When she discovered that she wasn’t Casey’s mom, she looked like she had just been punched in the gut.

I’m curious how Maya died on the way to their ship, leaving the baby Hera for the Cylons. Roslin stressed to the leaders of the insurgence how important it was that they get off the planet, and while tons are others are able to escape, they are not. I wish we had been able to see how that happened. Maybe they can tie a flashback into a future episode to explain it.

The Admiral looks better without the ‘stache. Now if we can just get Lee to go on a diet…

Battlestar Galactica, TV, TV Action, TV Dramas

Beauty and the Beast: Monsters and their Molls

October 20, 2006 /

Every year, when October rolls around, we here at Bullz-Eye start scrambling to come up with a Halloween-themed feature. Last year, we put together a list of our top-15 horror movies, and, sure, we could’ve done that again, but what would’ve been the point? Were there really any releases within the last year that would’ve changed our list? Granted, “The Descent” was creepy…but not top-15-of-all-time creepy. So we started thinking of other aspects of Halloween, and we kept coming back to the idea of doing something on monsters. But as we looked at our list of monsters, we – and by “we,” I mean the wife of one of our editors (hi, Jenn!) – noticed an interesting trend: Behind every good monster is a woman. Sometimes she loves him, sometimes she doesn’t…but if she doesn’t, well, hey, he’s a monster; that’s not going to stop him from loving her. So with that premise in mind, we’re presenting a list of our favorite monstrous men (and beasts) and their lovely ladies.

Here’s a sample…

Jason Voorhees and his Mother: The first love of a man’s life is invariably his mother, and unless you develop an Oedipus complex, that’s pretty normal. Too bad “normal” is about the last adjective you’d use to describe either Jason Voorhees or his mother, Pamela. If you’re a dedicated viewer of the “Friday the 13th” film series, you already know that Mrs. Voorhees had her problems; she was already suffering from schizophrenia before she gave birth to a hydrocephalic child…and when she thought he’d drowned off the shores of Camp Crystal Lake, well, that really sent her over the edge. Nine murders later — each done in Jason’s name, of course — Pamela got her just desserts in the form of decapitation; to be fair, though, it came courtesy of the machete she’d been wielding against an innocent girl only moments before. Jason – who, funnily enough, wasn’t actually dead after all (whoopsie!) – paid tribute to his late mother by taking both her head and her body to his shack in the woods, where he built a very lovely shrine/corpse storage area in her memory. It’s just what Pamela would have wanted. – WH

You can check out the entire list here.

Actors, Actresses, External Movies, External TV, Horror Movies, Movies, TV

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