I don't get a good vibe off this one. I like the premise enough and mocking the flagrant stupidity of leftists is rich ground. I watch this and the presence of Bill O'Reilly and Trace Adkins - are you kidding me? I can only hope the image of Adkins on stage is only a brief, VERY BRIEF, moment in the film and they don't have the poor judgment to force that horrible music on the audience. If done right, this simply shows the leftist's arguments against America for what they are - childish hysterics from a bunch of spoiled malconents. If done wrong, this will be a series of propped up gags that are just as blunt as the leftist arguments they're attempting to mock. It sure seems like its the latter of the two.

The Naked Gun series worked (at least the first two films) because they had firm and traditional story strucutures and the jokes were laced into the story afterward. Frank Drebin's quest to find the men who shot Nordberg was actually a good piece of structure. This outing looks more like the Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer school of comedy (Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Scary Movie, etc.) where humor is replaced by disposiable gags. No strucuture and not funny.






Screenwriter: David Zucker (Top Secret!), Lewis Friedkin (BASEketball) and Myrna Sokoloff
Director: David Zucker (Ruthless People)
Actors: Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammar (Swing Vote), Jon Voight (National Treasure), Robert Davi (The Hot Chick), Trace Adkins, James Woods (Be Cool), Dennis Hopper (Swing Vote), Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear) and Kevin Sorbo (Meet the Spartans)

Labels: Dennis Hopper, James Woods, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammar, politics, Zucker Brothers

Maybe the best sports film of all time. Following the rise of a small town basketball team, this film inspires and entertains. Gene Hackman gives a top notch performance as the troubled head coach Norman Dale. An absolute must-see for anyone who loves sports.


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Labels: basketball, Dennis Hopper, film, Gene Hackman, movie review, sports movie

More retro nonsense coming from the Rodriguez/Tarantino camp. Its bad enough our culture has become so stagnant and corporate controlled that we're rehashing every marginally successful film and television series. Now we have more and more people making dimwitted pastiches to kitsch flicks. Somebody stop the culture, I want to get off.





Screenwriter: Larry Bishop (Underworld)
Director: Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time)
Actors: Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Vinnie Jones (Snatch), Eric Balfour (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and Larry Bishop (Underworld)

Labels: Dennis Hopper, Eric Balfour, film, Michael Madsen, movie trailer, Vinnie Jones

Director: Isabel Coizet (The Secret Life of Words)
Screenwriter: Nicholas Meyer (The Informant)
Actors: Sir Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast), Dennis Hooper (Land of the Dead), Penélope Cruz (Vanilla Sky), Patricia Clarkson (The Green Mile) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead)

Labels: Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, film, movie trailer, Penélope Cruz