Did anybody see that stabbing on “24″ last night coming? Whoops. Hope I didn’t ruin it for anyone. It’s not that often you see Jack Bauer get stuck with a shiv. Do you know what the big problem with “24″ is (other than this Dana Walsh sideplot garbage!)? You know that nothing is going to happen to Jack. When he gets stabbed, he shakes it off. Electrocution? Meh. Jack is like a zombie…you have to behead him to kill him.
Speaking of “24″, the movie rumors are cranking up again. Unbelievably, Fox hasn’t picked the show up for next season yet. Sure, ratings are down a tick but it is still #3 on Fox behind “American Idol” and “House”. Kiefer Sutherland has some interesting things to say about the idea of the movie running into the show or vice versa: “In a media world that is changing unbelievably fast, a television series can either act as a great trailer for a film, or a film can act as a great trailer for a television series. And I think the first person who actually does that is going to change the way television interacts with feature films.”
Eric Bane and Rebecca Gayheart are going to have a kid. Should child protection services just be present at the birth in an effort to not waste time?
Tim Robbins has signed up for a part in “Green Lantern”. He will be playing the father of the Peter Sarsgaard, who is playing the guy that goes crazy and gets all evil and stuff. Susan Sarandon was too busy playing ping-pong with 19-year olds to be reached for comment.
It’s all comic books all the time. This time, it’s one that people actually care about. All knowing Nikki Finke is reporting that David Goyer bailed on the failed ABC show “FlashForward” in order to start writing the next Batman movie. This is the greatest news of all time that you will read about today.
What’s next for the “Lost” actors? No doubt Matthew Fox will try to get into movies like he did with “Vantage Point” and “Speed Racer”…which means fail and get back in a kickass TV show. Daniel Dae Kim is going to star in the “Hawaii Five-O” remake…which means fail. Evangeline Lilly may bail on acting altogether and move to Rwanda. I can confirm that this in no way will affect the fact that she is smoking hot.
Finally…Mickey Rourke said the following regarding Megan Fox. She is “probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with”. Oh no. Somebody make sure that Mickey isn’t drinking again. I can confirm that Mickey’s opinion in no way will affect the fact that Megan Fox looks like she needs to take a shower.
It’s been a bit over twelve hours since New Orleans won the Super Bowl. I haven’t checked the news in a few hours but is New Orleans still standing? I know it’s not cool to knock the city and all these days…but most of those people are on perma-drunk as is. Do they need an excuse for another parade? Most folks there wake up and say, “Hey it’s Tuesday…how ’bout a parade?” Oh sure, I’m just a prude that doesn’t want to have a good time. No, no, that’s not true. I like to have fun…I just don’t like to constantly smell vomit while doing it.
So, there’s Sunny Opinion #1 of The Super Bowl. Here are some others…
Betty White made the Snickers commercial pretty damn awesome but once Abe Vigoda showed up, it became an instant classic. I’m still not going to buy a Snickers bar in the near future though. Funny rule #1: Old people doing crazy things is always funny.
Any use of beaver puppets is a winner for me.
People seemed to like the Doritos commercials. I thought they were way, way too stupid. The dog collar bit is Jackass-funny…dog barks, see guy get shocked. It’s Idiocracy. If anything, I liked the kid giving his mom’s date a hard time. That was slightly amusing.
The Green Police? The Tim Tebow ad? Hmmm…which of those commercials was really pushing an agenda?
Where’s the love for Chuck Barkley’s Taco Bell song? Of course, I’m not going to run out and pick up that $5 angioplasty-in-a-b0x, but the commercial was funny.
E-Trade needs to knock it off with the talking babies.
Since when was Tracy Morgan the straight man to Stevie Wonder? Life is actually better that way.
It was cool to hear Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” during all those NFL commercial. It’s even cooler to hear that every dime made from those heads straight to Haiti.
GoDaddy and Budweiser need to go back to the drawing board.
These are the new movie release dark days folks. The chances of actually seeing a half-decent new movie have gone by the wayside for a month or two. Case in point: “Dear John” and “From Paris With Love”. Is it possible for two movies to be released on the same day that are so awful for completely opposite reasons? “Dear John” looks like an even weaker version of “The Notebook” while “From Paris With Love” looks like…like…well…like dogs***. So if you are a sappy chick that likes crappy romance or a meathead guy that digs crap action flicks, it’s all out there for you today.
Of course, this meathead wants to see Mel Gibson get revenge all over yo’ face in “Edge Of Darkness”.
Who has seen “The Red Riding Trilogy”? After reading this EW.com article, it sounds damn awesome. Creepy, but awesome. They are apparently an adaptation of the even better book series…has anyone heard of these mysterious “book” things I keep hearing about?
Is this Percy Jackson kid going to be the next Peter Parker/Spider Man? The word is that he is talking with Sony about the possibility. Sadly, that third flick really soured me on the entire idea of a Spider Man movie. Besides, hasn’t Batman and Iron Man cornered the super hero market these days?
The genius that is Tim Curry has joined the already impressive cast of “Burke and Hare”, a dark comedy set in the 1800s about Scottish corpse thieves. Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis are already playing the two leads, which means that I’ll be beating down the door to see it. Does anybody else think that Tim Curry was badass in “Legend”? No? Well…me either then.
Is Joe Simpson as bad as say…Lindsay Lohan’s dad? Hardly. Is he pure evil that needs to be stopped? Most definitely. Joe now has a deal with Nickelodeon to produce a show about a pyschiatrist raising two daughters in Texas…how original! Where did he get this idea?
Finally…Flicksided.com picks their ten favorite Bill Murray roles since 1990. Why just since 1990? That leaves out “Ghostbusters” and “Stripes”. Since Bill Murray is one of my several Leaders and Life Coaches, here is my top ten. Have a bitchin’ weekend.
10. Grimm, “Quick Change”
9. Ernie McCracken, “Kingpin”
8. John, “Stripes”
7. Jeff Slater, “Tootsie”
6. Steve Zissou, “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou”
It’s been quite a long day. I can’t stress the difficulty of finishing up a “Lost” piece, playing Bejeweled on Facebook, watching my IRA tank, avoiding job responsibilities, all doing so without alerting those that can bring the hammer down on me. It’s tough, tough work being a slacker.
Tiger is cured! Hallelujah! It’s good that he’s going to leave sex rehab and instead of, you know, taking some time to be with his kids and trying to reconcile with his smoking hot wife, he’s going to try to squeeze in the Accenture Match Play Championship. Why is Tiger so hot to get in this event? From what I’ve read, one on one matches aren’t really his speed anyway. Pow.
Apparently, Brittany Murphy died due to a combo of pneumonia and prescription drugs. One would think that mix would be dangerous for a lot of people, much less someone who reportedly had some serious health concerns. Poor Brittany.
Sigh. Columbia Pictures is moving forward with another production of a Dan Brown-Robert Langdon novel. At this point, they are just duping the idiotic general public. These movies suck, the books suck, Dan Brown sucks, Ron Howard sucks for directing them, Tom Hanks sucks for starring in them…but mostly, it sucks because they are all sleeping on huge piles of cash because of it.
Carrie Underwood is going to be in a movie. No thanks, I’ll pass. Wait…what’s this…a surfing movie…so she could be in some sort of wet suit or surfer chick gear? I’m in.
Roger Friedman writes this post like nobody has ever heard or seen Jeremy Renner until “The Hurt Locker”. Dude, nobody saw “The Hurt Locker”. It barely made any cash. If anything, I bet people remember him from “28 Weeks Later”. He was really good in “The Assassination Of Jesse James”. That’s it. If anyone else can win Best Actor other than Jeff Bridges, it better be Renner.
Finally…”Cyrus”, “Get Low”, The White Stripes documentary, “MacGruber”…I gotta get down to the SXSW Film Fest.
It’s been two days since the two-hour season six premiere of “Lost” and I’ve finally collected my thoughts. Of course, it’s going to be difficult writing about the show as there is no way to tell what the hell is happening. Even at its most wheels off, insane moments, I always felt that I had a handle on what was happening on the show. After “LA X”…well…not so much.
Ha. For the tens of you eagerly awaiting my deep thoughts on the first two hours of the final season of “Lost”, you’ll have to hang on for a few more hours. I’m trying to decide the best way to tackle all that went on…oh, I have to do this stupid job too.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I really dig Orlando Bloom. I don’t even know if he’s that great of an actor and I really am not a fan of the “Pirates” movies. It’s really Bloom’s involvement with “Kingdom Of Heaven” and “Elizabethtown” that makes me dig him. Why the Bloom praise? He’s going to star in “The Good Doctor” and his role as an insecure doctor sounds like a needed change for him.
Lee Zolotoff is back in the news. What’s that? Who the hell is Lee Zolotoff? Exactly. He’s the creator of “MacGyver” and he is apparently pissed off about this whole “MacGruber” movie. I suppose he’s mad about the fact that this new movie spoofs on a show that hit its popularity peak about twenty years ago. Those SNL folks…always striking while the iron is hot.
This is neither here nor there or a news story but shouldn’t NBC just put “Saturday Night Live” out of its misery? Whoa…how Larry King of me.
It sounds like the next Harry Potter and Transformers flicks will be released in 3D. Michael Bay once said that 3D was a fad. Then, somebody showed him the amount of cash “Avatar” has raked in and Bay changed his tune. Is there a bigger show biz whore than Mikey Bay?
In some sad news…Phil Harris, he of “The Deadliest Catch”, had a stroke last Friday. He is the bearded, scruffy Captain of the ship called Cornelia Marie. I don’t want to point fingers but the guy seemed to permantly have a Marlboro Red attached to his lip. Now I’m not doctor, but that can’t be good. My wife and I dig that show and he is one of the more entertaining guys on it so this is a real bummer. Here’s hoping he comes through okay.
Finally…you want a lightdisc? I can get you a lightdisc. I can get you one by 3:30…with nail polish.
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning and, as usual, there are some expected nominations and some controversial ones.
“Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” tie for the most nominations? That’s probably right.
If “Avatar” wins Best Picture, it’s safe to say that in a few years we’ll all be giving it the “Shakespeare In Love” treatment…as in it shouldn’t have won and “The Hurt Locker” is the far better movie.
“The Blind Side” over “Star Trek”, “(500) Days Of Summer”? ”Precious” over…well…anything?
The saving grace of all the nominations is “A Serious Man” for Best Picture. I’ll have my Coen Brothers Foam Finger on for Oscar night, even knowing that pulling for it to win is like rooting for the Kansas City Royals.
How the hell does Lee Daniels get a Best Director spot over the Coens or Neill Blomkamp (District 9)?
Hey, I like Penelope Cruz as much as every heterosexual male alive, but her Best Supporting Actress nom for “Nine” came out of nowhere. I haven’t seen “A Single Man” but I understand that Julianne Moore was much more deserving for her role in it.
Let’s just give Jeff Bridges the Best Actor trophy and be done with it okay? He’s lights out greatness in “Crazy Heart” and deserves all the praise that he is getting.
I’m firmly in the Anyone But Mo’Nique camp. She is so obnoxiously annoying. How can anyone from the cast of “Soul Plane” actually have an Oscar? She will have exactly as many as Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese. Pathetic.
“(500) Days Of Summer” has been shut out. Nothing. Nada. I will go pout in the corner now whilst listening to The Smiths.
Just to make something a bit clear, it’s not that I don’t like “Precious” or anything since I haven’t actually seen it. I just can’t stand Mo’Nique. She’s not even good at her regular job of stand-up comedy.
It was a big weekend for Mrs. Cinematically Correct and I as we celebrated our first wedding anniversary. I personally wanted to celebrate it by seeing Mel Gibson revenge-beat several people in “Edge Of Darkness” but that was quickly put down for more upbeat things to do. I didn’t watch anything, see any movies, barely listened to any music, etc. Well, I did watch last night’s new “Family Guy, which wasn’t too terribly funny. It’s been an iffy season so far for the show.
There was one other thing I watched over the weekend…the NFL Pro Bowl. Good Lord, what a time waste. Tiger Woods could save cash by watching replays of this sucker instead of buying up all that Ambien. As an Eagle fan, it really grinds my gears to watch Donovan McNabb run all over the place in a game when he knows he’s not going to get hit and then see him take sack after sack in real games because he refuses to run anymore.
Oh, forgot about the other things I watched over the weekend…the Twitter pages of Jopinionated and Erika Olson. Each of them attended the big “Lost” premiere party in Hawaii on Saturday night and provided some sweet pictures of the event. They also got to watch the first episode of season six on the f’ing beach. Lucky.
Apparently the Grammy Awards were last night. Taylor Swift won a whole bunch. So did Beyonce. Blah blah blah…the Grammy is worthless. Need proof of that? They gave Herbie Hancock the Best Album award for a record full of Joni Mitchell covers last year…or the year before last. Who cares? When Radiohead releases an album and doesn’t win the big prize, your awards are illegitimate.
Kevin Drew of Canadian hipster indie supergroup Broken Social Scene has told Pitchfork that the band will release an album on May 4th. It will even include former member and now pop superstar Feist! I realize this news means nothing to most people, but this is a really big deal for me…so you have to know about it too.
I finally checked out the Sam Rockwell-starring flick “Moon” last night and I have discovered a few things. First, Rockwell is greatness. If you ever needed proof that he can carry a movie, “Moon” is most definitely it. Second, after the movie ended, I looked up the director, Duncan Jones, on IMDB and discovered he is David Bowie’s son! This immediately made me sing the Flight Of The Conchords “Bowie”. Third, I am pretty much sold on the fact that I have to see everything Sam Rockwell does.
Oh yeah, the movie was pretty kickass too.
If you pay to see “When In Rome” this weekend, you should be banished from movie going for the rest of your natural life. No link or anything here, just a message/opinion/threat.
It’s going to be a busy weekend for me, but I’m still holding out hope that I get out to see “Edge of Darkness”. Yeah, I know Mel Gibson’s a whacko but so are 80% of the actors working today. They are all crazy. Now, what could keep me from seeing it is its mediocre 56% Rotten Tomatoes score.
It seems almost like a match made in pop culture/movie geek heaven: James Bobin, director/co-creator of “Flight Of The Conchords”, is in line to direct the upcoming Muppet movie. Thrown in the fact that Jason Segel is writing and starring in it and you’ve got a volatile mix of nerdom.
You know, I have never seen Sarah Polley’s directorial debut “Away From Her”. I really wanted to see it, but just never got around to it. Is it sad that because Seth Rogen is going to star in her follow-up “Take This Waltz”, it’s a virtual certainty that I’ll see it?
Russell Crowe, Simon Beaufoy (writer of “Slumdog Millionaire”), and Maria Bello are hooking up for an HBO show called “Emergency Sex”. The title may sound racy, but it’s definitely not. It’s about a UN peacekeeping mission during the 1990s…in Cambodia. Sounds hot. Crowe and Beaufoy are producing, while Bello will star and just be smoking hot overall in it.
I’ve tried. I really tried to hold back and not write anything about the upcoming final season of “Lost” until the show started up next week. There have been so many cool stories, interviews, and rumors out there that I wanted to write about, but I didn’t want to turn Cinematically Correct into a “Lost” worship site. Besides, I don’t do half as good a job on that as other sites like Get Lost With Jopinionated, Long Live Locke, and especially the Mecca of “Lost” websites, DarkUFO.
However, a friend of mine yesterday informed me about something pretty slick happening on Kayak.com. If you search for a one-way, non-stop flight on September 22, 2010 from Sydney to Los Angeles, one of the results is Oceanic Flight 815. It’s nothing more than a cool little trick that links to really nothing. Check out that price though. Steep.
