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I guess I'm just a sucker for John C. Reilly. Especially when he sings.
I'd prefer it if Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts weren't the stars of Charlie Wilson but the story fascinates me and I was completely enthralled by the trailer.
Now I haven't actually seen either picture so I will come back with my tail between my legs once I have if they turn out to suck.
You can't go wrong with Enchanted.
Jessica Simpson’s new movie Blonde Ambition was released on 8 screens this weekend in Jessica’s home state of Texas, before it gets dumped on DVD next month (January 22nd 2008 to be exact). /Film correspondent Steve Mason sent us this hilarious report:
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Blonde Ambition averaged $48 per screen on Friday for a total box office of $384. Based on an $8 ticket price, that means that 6 people paid to see the movie at each of those theatres, and only 48 people went to see the movie! That’s amazing! One of the worst performances a movie has ever had.
I am projecting that Jessica’s “star vehicle” will gross just $1,190 this weekend or $149 per location.
Charlie Wilson stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, two of my most hated.
Tom Hanks doing a bad fake accent. Ptui.
Julia Roberts doing anything, but especially being a hooker with a bad dye job looking into the camera and braying at us. Maybe that's not the film though....maybe the trailer guy needs to spend a weekend in Gitmo. I might see "Walk Hard" but to be honest, there are very few movies that make me want to rush to the theater, knowing I can catch the video in six months. Don't understand why anyone would go to the Chipmunks, ever, though. With you on that one.ETA: And I'm now a big Aaron Sorkin fan, but not too long ago I rewatched "A Few Good Men," which I remembered very fondly, and it didn't really say anything, although I thought so at the time. I mean, Jack did his thing, and Tom did his, but I hadn't really realized how little actually happens in it. Ironically, that truth was hard to handle. So AS' name is not like The Good Housekeeping Seal or anything.
keep in mind the trailer guy's job is to get the average person to want to see the film. They're trying to make "Walk Hard" look like the sequel to "Talladega Nights".
No, actually, I think it's "Charlie Wilson's" trailer that I've taken the dislike to. But my favorite "Walk Hard" ad is the John Mayer one. "That bastard is your father,"
Mike Nichols directed Charlie Wilson, so I havet hope it will be somewhat nuanced. Maybe I am a soft touch, but Walk Hard looks like a movie I'll dog--they got good songwriters to write the parodies and if they get the tone right, it could be good silly fun.
Charlie Wilson stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, two of my most hated.
I'm watching Polar Express for the umpteenth time, and every character but like three are Tom Hanks. It makes the movie additionally horrific. (Although, The Hobo may be my favorite Tom Hanks character, and replacing the actual dialogue with Hanks' dialogue from Saving Private Ryan can be amusing).
Another surreal and slightly tragic bit is that one of the three not-Tom-Hanks characters is Peter Scolari, the "other guy" from Bosom Buddies.
I just watched Atonement. about all i can muster is...guh.
good guh though, right?