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All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one ~ Al Pacino as Tony Montana, from the Gangster Epic, Scarface.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne, from the film The Shawshank Redemption

It's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday. ~ Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey, from the 1999 classic American Beauty.

There's too much for me to wanna stay in one spot, another day of monotony, has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail, I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot; Success is my only mothaf**kin option, failure's not; Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go, I cannot grow old in Salem's lot, So here I go, this is my shot; Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got ~ from the lyrics of his Academy Award Winning Song, Lose Yourself, by Eminem

We gotta make a change...It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere, unless we share with each other, We gotta start makin' changes, learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers, and that's how it's supposed to be; How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things changed, and that's the way it is.. ~ Tupac Amaru Shakur, from the song Changes.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. We want justice by any means necessary. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary. ~ Malcolm X

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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Prince of Persia. What a Waste of Time. Shitty Summer For Movies I Reckon.

There are a lot of movies out there where you know when it's shit, it's shit.

I've been paying attention to Prince of Persia for quite a while now, since its trailer debuted last year, and really, I was not impressed. Frankly speaking, the minute you get a white boy playing a Persian, the movie just fails for me on all levels. Yes i know the rhetoric behind the decision is, hey well they are famous and casting an unknown would be probably kill the film, and as Bruckheimer says, well you know, most Persians back then were blonde haired and blue eyed beauties. Now, you could try passing off Gyllenhall as a Persian, but you can't pass off a shitty movie for a good one. No way sir. I just can't fall for that one.

I never was familiar with the game. In fact, the only times I was ever exposed to any Prince of Persia games was when i was watching some 8 year old kid try to make the Persian jump up and down on some wall while he got his ass kicked in some video game store. Hmm looks pretty shitty i said.

Contrary to what i though, the game itself was ridiculously succesful and a lot of people loved it. So much in fact, that Hollywood thought, damn, we could actually cash in on this sucker.

Well sure you can, but really, this ain't no Pirates of The Carribean. There is no original film making here, nor is there any ground breaking acting by Jake Gyllenhall, ( Johnny Depp was an exception to the rule, where tent-pole summer movies could be successful on the basis of brilliant acting by Depp.) But to be frank the acting was absolutely terrible. I mean these are actors whom i had such high regard for. Gyllenhall was brilliant in his breakthrough performance in Donnie Darko, and i loved him in Brokeback Mountain, hell the guy got nominated for an Academy Award! Sir Ben Kingsley is always a joy to watch when he does it right, but lately there have been so many shit movies of him in it, you just wonder, okay old man, enough with the paychecks, just try doing something that means something to you for once.

And what in the anus of zeus is up with the god awful British Accents. Gyllenhall's accent was so bad i kinda got confused if he was doing an Australian or a British accent. Hell he could have been doing an Italian accent for all i cared, it just sounded wrong when they were wearing tunics and Persian costumes. I've never ever heard any Persian speak in such accents. Wait? Is it because the Americans are so daft that if they actually did speak like true Persians they would be sounding like ....*gasps*... terrorists?!?

Silly Hollywood.

But really Prince of Persia has not not been the only god awful movie this summer. With the exception of Shrek the Fourth, so far, I could say the heat of the summer movies are as hot as a dead salmon on ice. Frozen stiff below zero.

This weekend saw four new movies open in America, none of which came close to dislodging "Shrek Forever After" from the No. 1 slot. Universal had hoped its raunchy comedy "Get Him to the Greek" would be another "Hangover," but after seeing its humdrum opening weekend numbers, the studio is now hoping it might emulate "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," a far, far more modest comedy hit from 2008. "Killers," which was the most expensive release in Lionsgate's history, opened at No. 3 with $16.1 million, which by Lionsgate's own benchmarks makes it a potential money loser, especially after receiving a giant splatter of bad reviews. Killers by the way is so awful i'd rather smell shit than burn in the cinema with this loser. Have you seen the poster? Yeah well that itself explains a lot. Urgh.

Fox's family film "Marmaduke," which opened to a weak $11.3 million, actually got worse reviews than "Killers," earning an 11 Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes, and isn't expected to find any bigger audiences in the coming weeks. Warners' horror film, "Splice," only made $7.5 million, a number that will plunge further downward, since most horror films drop off considerably from their opening weekend performance. The movie though did get glowing reviews for it's originality. I guess there was something seriously wrong with the marketing of the film.

Despite the grim news so far this summer, I'm not predicting a box-office recession. It's way too early for that. But if the box office rebounds, it will be for the same reason that it is now slumping. It won't be the sequels that will save the summer, it will be the original movies. In fact, most of the films that have the best buzz right now are original movies, led by Christopher Nolan's "Inception," which is pretty much everybody's pick for the breakout movie of the summer, followed by the Tom Cruise-starring thriller "Knight & Day," the Adam Sandler comedy "Grown Ups" and the Steve Carell comedy "Dinner For Schmucks."

No one's saying that a sequel like "Toy Story 3" or remakes like "The Karate Kid" and "The A-Team" won't be big hits too. But the difference-makers -- the films that will help decide whether this is a miserable summer or just a modestly disappointing one -- are going to be the original movies. There are still a host of other factors impacting the business these days, not the least of which being the steep rise in ticket prices, especially for 3-D movies, which could be keeping marginal moviegoers away from all but the most obvious most-see releases.

(If I was a betting man, I'd be very worried about a 3-D film like "The Last Airbender," which judging from audience reaction to its trailers looks like exactly the kind of film most likely to be hurt by lack of moviegoer willingness to pay top dollar to see it in 3-D.)

But what really counts here isn't so much sticker shock as the shock of the new. Even in the summer, when we're accustomed to expect a never-ending deluge of reworked ideas and retro-fitted story lines, it turns out that it's the movie that delivers something startlingly new that reminds audiences why they started going to the movies in the first place.


Where the hell is the magic in movies nowadays anyways?? Bleh.


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