Xander ,'Empty Places'
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he is a sort of nicely carved block of human
Ick, not from the neck up. Take that back.
Jonah Hill is already my idea of a really bad time, so putting him in a movie with Channing is like vomit icing on the shit cake. Calling it 21 Jump St just makes it all the more stupid, but there's no way I'd have been going near that movie anyway.
During Haywire, when Tatum died, I whispered to Jason "He's dead? How can they tell?"
I don't mind Jonah Hill, and the way he plays the title kid on that new animated comedy Allen Gregory is deliriously wrong and really funny. I can't watch Will Ferrell anymore, though.
eta: in response to Scrappy: Seriously.
So far, Jonah Hill's onscreen appearances have all been pretty custom designed to make me itch and scream.
I went to see Underworld: Awakening today thinking it would be a cheap rip-off of Ultraviolet from the previews. Instead, the story held together pretty well (J. Michael Straczynski had a story credit) and almost everything made sense except the budget-mandated necessity of having everything happen in the same nameless Eastern European city that the first one was set in .
However, the cinematography was for shit - the whole thing looks like it was shot through murky blue filters that only let other colors through for fiery explosions. And the tacked-on 3-D is a decidedly unspecial effect.
I saw the trailer for 21JS during the football game, and I couldn't believe it. Because seriously: no WAY do those guys look 17. Not even in tv-land. So, basically, they're doing the same thing they did with Starsky & Hutch and turning it into a comedy?
Pfeh.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
Why am I okay with S&H being a comedy? Because I liked the actors more, maybe? I don't know.
Possibly also because S&H is prominent enough that skewering felt like you could do it with great affection and as an offhanded tribute to the original. With 21 Jump Street, it's relatively obscure, and it feels like mocking to me instead.
no WAY do those guys look 17
right? they would be arrested at any HS I know.
Maybe Channing's character convinces them he was held back multiple times like Jethro Bodine? I'd buy it.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
Ah sing it, sister!