In non-Trek news, Seriously?!?!
Simon Baker, star of the hit series "The Mentalist," is playing an attorney on the trail of a murderer in "The Killer Inside Me," Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir classic that stars Casey Affleck.
The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from bored small-town cop to ruthless, sociopathic murderer. The cast includes Jessica Alba as a prostitute and Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend.
Affleck, maybe, but Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson??
If anyone could make that cast work, it's Michael Winterbottom. But if anyone could screw up a movie trying to do something impressive with a cast like that, it's also Michael Winterbottom.
This preview looks like the worst movie ever that I want to see: Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus!
That is the most awesome thing ever. The only possible way it could even be a tiny bit better is if it stars Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson.
Wait, IT DOES!
Huh. HuffPost is also carrying the preview. They say:
Asylum films released the trailer for its new "mockbuster" this week: "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus." The low-budget brand that has released dozens of straight-to-video movies is best known for making films that are sort of like big studio pictures, but stranger. For example their last film was "Terminators" about humans fighting cyborgs. This should not be confused with "Terminator."
Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus (VIDEO)
hey, annotations for the Star Trek movie:
geek out, people:
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God, I think I already knew all of those.
I just watched
The Player.
I was hoping to like it more than I did. I didn't think it was all that funny, and the story didn't really go anywhere. Plus, the protagonist was unsympathetic. I didn't hate it or anything, but it didn't do much for me. I prefer
Nashville,
which is weird because I didn't think I'd like that one at all.
I love the hell out of The Player, but it's full of inside jokes about Hollywood. Altman was simultaneously making and satirizing a mainstream blockbuster. Griffin Mill isn't supposed to be sympathetic. He's sort of a monster, although a very particular kind of monster. Also, most Altman flicks are pretty light on plot. His movies are more about the people in them and the unspoken stories rather than the narrative.
