Author: David Medsker (Page 43 of 65)

Good things come to those who get disemboweled onscreen

August 25, 2006 /

Here’s a show that will give the MTV Movie Awards a run for its money: The Chainsaw Awards, a joint production between Fuse and Fangoria, airing on Fuse Sunday, October 22nd.

Sounds like a joke, right? But one quick look at the categories and nominees, and it’s clear these people have done their homework. Okay, some of the music video categories are a joke – anything that threatens to hand any award that’s not a Razzie to She Wants Revenge is a joke – but I’ll definitely tune in for Best Death Scene (which, for my money, is a tossup between “Snakes on a Plane” and “Saw II”) and Bloodiest Beatdown. Get your freak on, kids.

To vote for your favorites, go to fuse.tv between September 1st and (oh, geez) Friday, October 13th.

www.fuse.tv

Horror Movies, Movies, Snakes on a Plane, TV

Box Office Roundup: Snakes on a motherfucking Netflix queue

August 20, 2006 /

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

1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: $14.1 million ($114.7 million, third week)
Un, fucking, believable. That’s all we’ve got. How people still went to this movie in its third week when the Greatest Movie Ever Made is two theaters down is beyond us.
2) Snakes on a Plane: $13.9 million ($15.3 million, first week)
Absolutely unacceptable. How does the Greatest Movie Ever Made only make $15 fucking million on opening weekend? Motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane, people!
3) World Trade Center: $10.8 million ($45 million, second week)
Still bothered by the “Snakes on a Plane” numbers to bother making a joke about this.
4) Accepted: $10.1 million (first week)
Justin Long, John Cusack. John Cusack, Justin Long. I think you’ll find that you have a lot in common.
5) Step Up: $9.9 million ($39.4 million, second week)
Whither, “The Illusionist”?

External Movies, Movies, News, Snakes on a Plane

The Snakes have landed

August 18, 2006 /

At long, long last, All Snakes Day has arrived. So did the movie live up to the hype…?

Hell, yes.

Okay, so it’s not the Grestest Movie Ever Made, as I have insisted it would be all this time, but I have never had that much fun at a movie in my life. The first ten minutes of the movie are bad, bad, bad. Bad acting, bad dialogue, painful exposition…but then the plane takes off, and suddenly the movie explodes into the craziest deathfest you’ll ever see. My favorite detail was that it had a nice dose of mean. Innocents get taken down in equal numbers as the sinners. Beautiful.

I would also like to add, even for those of us with 93″ HDTV systems and who hate going to the movies, this is a movie that absolutely has to be seen in a theater, preferably late at night, with a rowdy crowd. When Samuel L. Jackson’s big line came, as gratuitous as it was, we yelled it out right along with him. The place went NUTS. Hot damn, was that fun. I can’t wait to see it again.

It’s still early on the west coast, so I’m going to wait for a bit, but “Snakes” director David Ellis said for me to call him today and tell him what I thought of the movie. If someone can think of a better response than “SNAKES ON A PLANE, MOTHERFUCKER!”, I’m all ears.

So let’s hear it, people. Did you see “Snakes on a Plane” last night? What did you think?

Action Movies, External Movies, Movies, Snakes on a Plane

Box Office Roundup: You’ve got a fast car…

August 13, 2006 /

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

1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: $23 million ($91.2 million, second week)
Will Ferrell gets to reign one last week before the Greatest Movie Ever Made (that would be “Snakes on a Plane,” for the unwise) hits the theaters and shakes us to our very foundation.
2) Step Up: $21.1 million (first week)
They lost us once we realized this wasn’t a movie about the Stereo MC’s.
3) World Trade Center: $19 million ($26.8 million, first week)
Too soon? No, try too boring.
4) Barnyard: The Original Party Animals: $10.1 million ($34.1 million million, second week)
We refuse to dignify this movie with a clever one-liner about it. It’s just not worth the trouble.
5) Pulse: $8.5 million (first week)
Scout’s honor, we didn’t even know this movie was released this weekend.

Movies, News

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