Tuesday, May 31, 2011
F This Movie! - Taken
Friday, May 27, 2011
Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of May 23)
I'm king, and they know it. When I snap my fingers everybody says show it. I'm hot, and you're not. But if you wanna hang with me I'll give it one shot. TOP THAT! #teenwitch
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
F These Comedy Sequels
The Hangover II: Still Hangin' Over is in theaters this week to prove that comedy sequels are almost never a good idea. At BEST it can be kind of funny and feel like the first movie, but can it really surpass the original? And I'm not even saying the original is great. I'm saying can the sequel even reach the same dizzying heights of "It's just ok?" Can any comedy sequel? I'll die if I don't find out.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
F This Movie! - The Princess Bride
Patrick and Doug apply the Goonies Derivation to Rob Reiner's 1987 classic The Princess Bride and come up with very different results. Spoiler: one of them is right.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Please understand that I really wanted to like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth film in the insanely successful Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Unfortunately, director Rob Marshall makes that prospect very, very difficult.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of May 16)
Confession time: I haven't watched a lot of movies lately. I know, right? RIDICULOUS, especially for a film Web site. I SHOULD BE FIRED!* Dude (dude?), I've just been busy. LIFE. It gets in the way. This guy (you in the back) knows what I'm talking about. For example, I bought a grill last weekend. HOWEVER, after I bought the grill, drove the grill home and hauled the grill up three flights of stairs, I realized that the box the grill came in was open and a grill part was missing. So, I exchanged the old grill for a new grill. Assembled the grill. Cooked on the grill. What I'm trying to say that is my existence has become VERY grill-based. On another note, did you ever stare at a word for so long that it doesn't even look like a word anymore? GRILL. GRILL. GRILL. GRILL. GRILL. Phew! Even though I haven't watched a lot of MOVIES lately, I have been keeping up with movie TRAILERS. Exciting, right? Yeah -- you're excited. I can tell.
*Patrick, please don't fire me!
*Patrick, please don't fire me!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Take Two: Godzilla (1998)
by Patrick Bromley
Roland Emmerich makes two kinds of stupid movies: fun stupid and bad stupid. Independence Day? Fun stupid. 10,000 B.C.? Bad stupid. Stargate? Fun stupid. The Patriot? Bad stupid. 2012? Fun stupid and bad stupid.
His 1998 remake of Godzilla should have been two tons of fun stupid. Instead, it's stupid stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
Roland Emmerich makes two kinds of stupid movies: fun stupid and bad stupid. Independence Day? Fun stupid. 10,000 B.C.? Bad stupid. Stargate? Fun stupid. The Patriot? Bad stupid. 2012? Fun stupid and bad stupid.
His 1998 remake of Godzilla should have been two tons of fun stupid. Instead, it's stupid stupid. Stupid stupid stupid.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Director Essentials: Steven Soderbergh
by Patrick Bromley
For today's Director Essentials entry, we look at the amazingly prolific and varied career of Steven Soderbergh, aka Peter Andrews, aka Mr. Jules Asner.
Monday, May 9, 2011
F This Movie! - Thor
Summer has officially arrived on F This Movie! as Patrick and Mike take a rainbow bridge to Asgard for a discussion of Thor, The Avengers and tiny scientists.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of May 2)
Happy Cinco de Mayo (+1), everyone! Or, as we here at F This Movie! like to call it, "Cinco de Mayo de Rapido," which roughly translates to, "You should all go out and see Fast Five, which, while flawed, is still a fun, summer movie!" If you're too cool to SEE movies, then use your ears and LISTEN to our podcast on Fast Five. Tequila!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Director Essentials: Paul Verhoeven (Doug's Take)
by Doug Schultz
Today's entry in F Directors! comes from Doug, who examines the essential films and nude scenes of Dutch madman Paul Verhoeven.
Today's entry in F Directors! comes from Doug, who examines the essential films and nude scenes of Dutch madman Paul Verhoeven.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
F This Movie! - Fast Five
Patrick and Doug don't exactly see eye to eye on Fast Five, the fifth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise. That's because one of them is a cop.
Monday, May 2, 2011
10 Awesome Villain Deaths
by Patrick Bromley
Inspired by nothing and for no reason at all, today seems like a good day to talk about some awesome bad guy deaths. Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS lie ahead.
Inspired by nothing and for no reason at all, today seems like a good day to talk about some awesome bad guy deaths. Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS lie ahead.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Like You Were There: Ebertfest 2011 (Day Four) (JB's Take)
JB is taking over Like You Were There this week, as he reports daily from Champaign, Illinois, while attending Roger Ebert's annual film festival, Ebertfest.
It had to happen. It happens almost every year at Ebertfest -- a film so good, so well intentioned, so meaningful that it puts all of one’s petty gripes and snarkiness to shame. A film that conquers cynicism
with talent, heart and intellect. That film is A Small Act, a moving documentary by Jennifer Arnold. At its conclusion there was not a dry eye in the house.
It had to happen. It happens almost every year at Ebertfest -- a film so good, so well intentioned, so meaningful that it puts all of one’s petty gripes and snarkiness to shame. A film that conquers cynicism
with talent, heart and intellect. That film is A Small Act, a moving documentary by Jennifer Arnold. At its conclusion there was not a dry eye in the house.
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