Category: Movies (Page 449 of 498)

The Snakes have landed

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?

Another beloved Disney character to be ruined

Because Disney can’t seem to create enough original characters these days (they’d apparently rather leave that to the folks at Pixar), they’re once again trotting back to the Disney Vault and recycling a pre-existing one: Tinkerbell. They’re going to make a straight-to-video Tinkerbell movie, and, for the first time in Disney’s history, they’re going to give our girl Tink a voice…and it belongs to Brittany Murphy.

I gotta tell you, Tinkerbell’s reputation really went downhill when Disney merchandised her to places like Hot Topic, who’ve put her on hot pants and lace tops. It’s, like, “Hey, kids, Tink’s a slut now! Wait ’til you see what we’re doing with our revamp of Snow White; let’s just say you’ll be pretty sure she ought not to be wearing white anymore! Wink, wink, nudge, nudge…!”

So where do they screen “Living in Oblivion,” then?

Baseball fans in Dyersville, Iowa got a treat last weekend when Kevin Costner showed up at the legendary “Field of Dreams” cornfield ball park to throw a few pitches to the kids and play a 75-minute set with his band (Kevin Costner has a band?).

The appearance was part of online video rental service Netflix’s “Rolling Roadshow” summer promotion, which features public screenings of classic films in thematically appropriate locations. Other stops on the 10-site tour have included screenings of “Jaws” in Martha’s Vineyard, “The Warriors” in New York City, and “The Shining” in Estes Park, Colorado.

Not yet added to the itinerary: A screening of “Deliverance” in a backwoods shack down by the river.

DVD shuffle: 08/15/06

Out on DVD this week:

1) Scary Movie 4 – PASS: By far the weakest of the horror spoof franchise, if you have to see this installment, then see it for the excellent slapstick performance by Craig Bierko.

2) RV – PASS: Three words: Big rolling turd.

3) Hoot – RENT: There’s nothing particularly outstanding about this environmentally-sensitive film, but it’s worth picking up for your kid to watch on a rainy day.

4) Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier – BUY: One of the greatest war flicks ever made, the new DVD features both the theatrical and extended (“Redux”) cut, and also includes hours of new bonus material.

Also out on DVD this week is the 1998 Sundance hit, “Safe Men,” and new TV season releases of “The Simpsons,” “Rome,” “Sealab 2021,” “Full House,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “3rd Rock From the Sun” and “The Weird Al Show.”

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