FTM 625: LOOPER

Patrick and Rob don't want to talk about time travel. 

Review: 7500

by Rob DiCristino

“Well, tell your disappointment to suck it. I’m doing a bottle episode!”

Reserved Seating Swings for the Fences: ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1994)

by Rob DiCristino and Adam Riske

The review duo who believe their eyes and ears but not angels.

Start at the End: Scott Frank's The Lookout

by Rob DiCristino

“You can’t tell a story if you don’t know where it’s going.”

Review: The Night Before

by Patrick Bromley

Ho ho ho.

Heath Holland On...Angels in the Outfield vs. Angels in the Outfield

by Heath Holland

It’s that time again! Baseball season starts this weekend and millions of people across America are going to be root-root-rooting for their home team and chomping on Cracker Jack. What better time to take a look at the two versions of Angels in the Outfield and compare the classic baseball film from 1951 to the remake from 1994? Play ball!

Review: Don Jon

by Patrick Bromley

Don Jon, the new romantic comedy that marks the directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is a mess. But it's the kind of well-intentioned mess that only a first time writer-director makes.

Take Two: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

by Patrick Bromley

Knowing is half the battle.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (April 13)

I know you're itching for the latest trailerz, but I have a few questions first. Has anyone else seen those WeatherTech commercials advertising vehicle floor liners? The one where the guy points a red light at a car's carpet and the narrator tries to convince us that the mats are "laser measured" (I don't even know what that means!)? HOW IS THIS COMPANY IN BUSINESS? Is America's demand for all-weather plastic floor coverings that out of control? Am I oblivious to the hundreds of thousands of car interiors whose carpets are RUINED by snow, spilled coffee and (I'm assume) semen? Don't commercials and sponsorships cost a lot of money? Are floor mats from the car's manufacturer really that expensive? Or it because they're made in America, and I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I put my boots on plastic liners made in China? I get the feeling that this business is propped up by some insane Howard Hughes-like molded-plastic magnate who will not stop dumping money into this crazy scheme (probably the brainchild of his deadbeat nephew) until he's buried beneath a pile of his own urine jars. I'm just so confused, is what I'm saying!

Movies I Love: 10 Things I Hate About You

by Patrick Bromley

When it comes to talking about movies, the internets can be an ugly, hateful place, devoted to tearing down anything and everything but rarely stopping to build anything up (unless it's directed by Christopher Nolan). And while we here at F This Movie! are often guilty of bitter negativity, we do (believe it or not) try and temper our hate with thoughtful reasoning and optimism for the endless possibility of something better. Because a spoonful of sugar makes the arsenic taste slightly less poisony. Or something.

Sh!#ting on the Classics: (500) Days of Summer

I think I liked (500) Days of Summer better the first time I saw it, when it was called (Every) Other Romantic Comedy Ever Made.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of May 30)

I caught a little Starship Troopers on Starz before I went to bed the other night. Man, what a great movie. A few years after first seeing it, Patrick and I were so desperate to "discover" another worthy, kick-ass, under-the-radar space opera, that we actually saw the VERY FIRST SHOWING of Battlefield Earth in the theater the Friday it came out. What a nightmare! Suffice it to say (which is an expression I hate), NOTHING has compared to watching Starship Troopers for the first time 14 years ago. THE REASON I BRING THIS UP: Amy Adams has just signed on to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, which is a Scientology-inspired drama. So, after years of limbo, one of our favorite directors is finally getting to make another movie! Yay! F Battlefield Earth!

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of February 21)

OSCARS!!! YAY!!! Or, wait ... no? I mean, we're ALL excited about the 83rd annual Academy Awards (no a'doy), but, really, it's getting a little out of hand. It's 2011 -- do we still care about dresses and pageantry and Jack Nicholson's sunglasses? Is Bruce Vilanch still relevant? Or funny? UGH. REGARDLESS, we here at F This Movie! will be live-tweeting the broadcast this Sunday, Feb. 27, from the comfort of JB's house. Jealous? Well, you don't need to be! Just follow our Twitter feed and laugh along with us!

Bad Teacher
Release date: June 17, 2011



This trailer is NSFW (headphones up!), but it's also pretty funny. RED BAND in the HOUSE! Cameron Diaz plays a "bad" "teacher," who, upon meeting Justin Timberlake, wants to be the BEST teacher in order to win a cash bonus that will enable her to buy breast implants, which, she hopes, will make JT love her. Pretty airtight plot synopsis, if I don't say so myself. Also, Phyllis from The Office, and Jason Segal, who ROCKS. Speaking of Jason Segal, when is The Muppets coming out?

Hesher
Release date: April 2011



Natalie Portman again? Oh brother. This movie first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010[!], but it doesn't have a firm release date yet. In the film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt channels his recently deceased brother, Burning Dan. Some question whether or not this is a legitimate trailer, but who cares! It looks interesting, albeit a little (as JB would say) Indie Precious[tm].

Arthur
Release date: April 8, 2011



I'm feeling a little lazy today (boo!), so I will again defer to Patrick and his wonderfully written review of this trailer on his About.com Comedians site, here. Personally, I'm looking forward to Russell Brand's remake of Arthur 2: On the Rocks, in which Katy Perry demands to adopt a baby from a washed up Aldous Snow (huh?).