In the "near future" (near future always seems to mean there's lots of trash around, everyone is grimy and big corporations run everything) there some game where human players control real people in a giant multi-player television show. So, its Death Race without the cleavage or cool cars?
Hey Hollywood, just because you find a concept doesn't mean you have to run with it.
Screenwriters: Mark Neveldine (Pathology) and Brian Taylor (Crank)
Directors: Mark Neveldine (Pathology) and Brian Taylor (Crank)
Actors: Gerald Butler (300), Alison Lohman (Drag Me to Hell), Milo Ventimiglia (Pathology), Kyra Sedgwick (Something the Lord Made), Michael C. Hall (Paycheck), John Leguizamo (Ice Age) and Keith David (Barbershop)
Labels: Alison Lohman, film, Gerald Butler, John Leguizamo, Keith David, movie trailer
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 1:00 PM
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I can't imagine letting my kids watch this. If for no other reason (and there appears to be plenty) I wouldn't want to listen to them cry because they're scared by the imagery.
Screenwriters: Henry Selick
Director: Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach)
Actors: Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds), Ian McShane (Hot Rod), Teri Hatcher (Resurrecting the Champ), Keith David (The Chronicles of Riddick) and Jennifer Saunders (Shrek 2)
Labels: Dakota Fanning, film, Ian McShane, Keith David, movie trailer, Teri Hatcher
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 6:00 PM
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Based on the Russian fairytale The Frog Princess, this film changed the name of the story after complaints from African-American pressure groups (we can't have the title imply the African-American lead is a frog). The story centers on a girl in New Orleans during the 1920's "The Jazz Age". The film's lead used to be named Maddy and was a chambermaid until African-American pressure groups had her name changed to Princess Tiana. So, if you're black and your name is Maddy, you're going to have to change it, its just not acceptable. The race of the villain is also being reconsidered, again thanks to African-American pressure groups. The African-American pressure groups also led to Maddy's...er, Tiana's love interest Prince Harry (conceived as being a Cary Grant type) to be modified to be Prince Naveen (who is of Middle Eastern descent). They've also toned down the voodoo. Oh, and the African-American pressure groups were also apparently irritated that the film takes place in New Orleans. The city destroyed by Katrina is not acceptable to portray on film.
I'm sure this film will be delightful. Heaven knows stories written by a committee all turn out to be fantastic.
Director: Roger Clements (Aladdin) and John Musker (Treasure Planet)
Actors: John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Keith David (Requiem for a Dream), and Jenifer Lewis (Meet the Browns)
Labels: animated, film, John Goodman, Keith David, movie trailer
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 6:00 PM
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Yes.
Now, this is how you "re-envision" a movie. I consider John Carpenter's reworking of the 1951 classic monster movie The Thing from Another World one of the best horror movies ever made. He remolds the story into something believable and haunting.
A group of scientists working in an outpost in the South Pole are attacked by an alien that acts as a doppelgänger. The shape-shifting alien forces the scientists to fall into paranoid, survival mode since they don't know who's real and who's been replaced by the creature. Carpenter plays the paranoia perfectly to the very end and his alien is just plain creepy.
Kurt Russell anchors the film with a variation on his Snake Plissken persona.
The film has maintained itself well over the years and still can give a shock or two. If you haven't seen it, and you can handle the sight of blood - lots of blood - you should give it a chance.
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Roger Ebert
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Labels: film, John Carpenter, Keith David, Kurt Russell, movie review
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 12:00 PM
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