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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Sometimes the straight to DVD surprises.
Cruel Intentions 2 gave us the giggles and guffaws--yeah, we watched as a group. If you've seen Cruel Intentions you've seen Cruel Intentions 2, which is basically the same movie, only self referential of the original--wrap your head around that. Amy Adams was wonderful as Catherine.
Cruel Intentions 2 was a reworked Fox pilot, with bonus nudity! That I (self-pimp alert)recapped.
Dude needs to stop re-making old movies and do the Hobbit. I hate to say it, but Ian McKellan isn't getting any younger. (Yes, I know there's still a big legal mess with the rights, but I want to see it and I can't imagine anyone else playing Gandalf.)
I can't imagine anyone else playing Gandalf
Grover!
I'm heartened by the fact that McKellen tends to play older than he actually is. In interviews and such he seems more hale and hearty than he does in the movies.
Plus, sheer fabulosity should see him through into his 90s at least...
Clash of the Titans:
Wal-Mart, which accounts for roughly 40% of all DVD sales nationwide, is not happy about Apple's plans to distribute movies on the iTunes store, and is making its feelings very clear to movie studios. "The notion of kids running around with full-length movies on new, wider-screen iPods that Apple is expected to unveil as well is causing grief in Bentonville, according to Hollywood executives. The $312 billion a year retailer, they say, wants concessions that could include lower DVD wholesale prices... A large wholesale cut for Wal-Mart, of course, would amount to hundreds of millions in lost studio revenues each year at a time when DVD sales are slowing." According to the article, only Disney has agreed to let Apple sell movies. Other studios may come later, but are waiting to see what happens.
In related news, I read a rumor that iTunes will price movies at $14.99 for newer ones and $9.99 for older ones.
Hobbit Film Rumor from TORN via SciFi Wire.
So, if I'm going to go to the movies this weekend, what should I see? Nothing playing looks especially appealling. Is there something I'm missing? Recently, I've seen Little Miss Sunshine and Idlewild.
This Film is Not Yet Rated and Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles both just opened (in NYC, anyway). Oh, and the Quad still has Viva Pedro! going on through the rest of September.
DH is also telling me from the other room that we have to see The Illusionist and Half-Nelson this weekend, so I guess those are out too.