Midnight Screenings: "The Sitter" and "New Year's Eve"
The midnight screenings are back for December! First up, Brad and Boyd see "The Sitter."
Then Brian and Jerrid are the only two people not in the movie "New Year's Eve."
Then Brian and Jerrid are the only two people not in the movie "New Year's Eve."
having a cigarette on film now is a automatic R
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I hear that inserting product placement digitally into movies (and TV) is the cool new thing to do. Great...
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Yeap, I've heard of them adding in modern adds into older films for TV broadcast!
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I believe it was Bruce Altman you was talking about when you mentioned that actor you couldn't remember.
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Isn't Carla Gugino the woman who delivers the "Valentine's Day" DVDs? I've been reading reviews of "New Year's Day" and one mentioned her moment in the bloopers with kindness. I want to see Garry Marshall do "Garbage Day" next, in which Eric Freeman goes on a homicidal rampage and guns down all of the ensemble cast. He can spare Carla Gugino, if only because she was in "Sin City," which had an insanely large ensemble cast and was actually worth a damn, and not just for her nude scene.
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You totally need to snob I Come In Peace. That's my second favorite Dolph Lundgren movie, after Rocky IV.
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I'm not sure but is this the same one either Phelous or Loopa reviewed? The one where he's a German Olympic runner?!
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You are thinking of the movie "Penthatlon", which was a Film Brain episode.
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Where's Jake, without him, the Midnight Screenings are a hollow lie. This is his show, Brad just pays for it.
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I don't think anything happened to David Gordon Green. His early movies all sucked, and were deathly boring (though beautifully photographed! lol).
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Maybe that's people compared him to Malick
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For the S(h)itter!
I had little interest in this movie from the get go! I saw the trailer shortly after Ya'll the Chang Up review and recall the dislike of cursing in front of children and the trailer for this movie made me laugh because of the abundance of it! I heard other reviews of it and they say the same if it was just Jonah Hill and the one boy it'd been an ok comedy, but due to the Hispanic kid and the little girl it was annoying to watch!
I think the Three Stooges movie looks funny! I think it's Johnny Knoxville of Jackass as Moe and he's doing a pretty good job at it. Will Sasso as Curly is great... because speaking of an actor putting weight back on for a role. He lost a lot of the weight he had while on MADTV and here he looked heavier than he was then. And as for the Snooki crap they punched her in the face at the end of the trailer it wasn't like she was in the whole thing with them. Maybe her scenes will be cut in the final version!
The movie you were talking about and couldn't think of the name for was Chronicle and it looks pretty badass to me too! It looks and sounds a lot more like an Akira movie than that abortion they're currently trying to produce! The 3-4 boys gain psychic powers and one of them goes crazy with it and starts hurting and killing people and the others gotta stop him. My only problem is I'm not the hugest fan of Found Footage because it can screw with a ood film idea like this by limiting it. Like I don't know why or how but there's a scene from the trailer where they're flying and it looks like they're fighting and I'm wonder why would they be filming that?
Ok, New Year's Eve!
I couldn't give a damn if you were paying me that movie looks like total crap from the trailers! The only way you could get me excited about a cast that large full of "named" actors is if they finally made a big budgeted live action Justice League movie! It also doesn't help that half the "named" actors in this movie I HATE with a passion!
Well, Jerrid's kid-like-innocents saves him again in yet another terrible movie!
So, next week Jake gets to enjoy the another AWESOME children's movie! So, who else drew the short end of the stick and has to sit next to him in this movie?
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That's actually Chris Diamantopulos (Rob Weiss from "24") as Moe.
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Good news, I just went and saw Hugo tonight and it's definitely really good. Not as highly great as Brad says, but it's still worth anyone's time.
I will say though that I hope it gets more people interested in watching silent movies and learn more about cinema history. I myself would like to buy as much silent movies as I can on DVD or Blu-Ray.
I heard that Kino is the premier distributor of silent films considered lost in time including Fritz Lang's Complete Metropolis and (for you Brad) Giorgio Moroder's 1980s version.
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Excerpt from a 2001 interview that The Austin Chronicle did with "The Sitter" director David Gordon Green:
AC: What about the other indie directors who make highly self-conscious films?
DGG: [Kevin Smith is] the only one I don't like particularly. I respect most of them. He's the one I can't identify with in any way. I just have no idea what it's like to work in a convenience store, and it doesn't interest me either. It's that kind of mentality of dialogue that just feels really scripted; it's like it's trying to encapsulate a generation, which I wouldn't be so bold if I was going to write something ... I just feel like it's boring.
AC: But at the same time, people like Kevin Smith produced that wave of film that finally made indie films commercially viable and got people who normally wouldn't to notice independent filmmaking.
DGG: He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard. I'm sure their parents are proud; it's just nothing I care to buy a ticket for.
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What a surprise. He's a prick =)
Hey Dave, I was never emperor of Rome, but "Caligula" is still my favorite movie.
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I totally agree!
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Well, that is a bit harsh, but I don't like Kevin Smith either. Not because I don't work at a convenience store, I just find his films to be trite garbage. I feel "Cop Out" was the rule, rather than the exception.
Oh well. To each his own.
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Jerrid, Quit yelling "Don't See This Movie" Garry Marshall can make as many of these movies as he wants, whether they make a ton or not. He's a grandfather of Hollywood.
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That just means he's been making terrible movies for a longer time.
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I saw project X trailer...it looks awesome as it seems like just like a party that got out of control and makes the equal to a day at the UK riots
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Is it just me, or is Jerrid channelling Ed Gein in this one? Just needs a flannel hat.
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Funny reviews guys! Had me laughing out loud constantly.
Oh, so you guys know, Asperger's Syndrome is a form of Autism, which I happen to have. It does a few different things.
1) Makes you obsessed with something (to excessive ends)
2) Makes you very intelligent and knowledgeable about your obsession.
3) Makes you socially awkward without realizing it.
4) Makes you paranoid.
5) Makes you obsessive compulsive.
It does more things, but I can't remember them all at the moment.
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I wasn't poking fun at people with Asperger's. If you saw the Glee 3D review we did back in the summer, that was my first piece of knowledge of the condition. What I was doing there was referencing that review. Kind of an inside joke.
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The joke is old by now Jerrid. We enjoyed the goof up last summer, so don't ruin it for us by running it into the ground. Let it go...
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A lot of those are the same symptoms of OCD!
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Another autism goof? First Doug, then Lindsay, now Jerrid...does every TGWTG contributer have to go through this?
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Jake's gonna have to go see the squeakquel's sequel. Can't wait to see that rage.
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Hmm Jerrid your reaction in the Glee episode was exactly like Cartman's in the "Assburgers" episode. But Cartman is 10 or so ; )
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Foils do you have a younger brother named Greg? just asking because good guy greg looks like he could be your bro
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I watched Brad's rewiew of "Spy Kid 4", then I saw "Spy Kids 4"...and I agreed with Brad (I hated that movie).
I watched Brad's review of "The Tree of Life", then I saw "The Tree of Life"...and I agreed with Brad (I didn't like that movie).
I watched Brad's review of "Sucker Punch", then I watched "Sucker Punch"...and I agreed with Brad (I also hated that movie).
I watched Brad's review of "Tron Legacy", then I saw "Tron Legacy"...and I agreed with Brad (I loved that movie)
I watched Brad's review of "Apollo 18", then I saw "Apollo 18"...and I agreed with Brad (I also loved that movie)
I watched Brad's review of "Super 8", then I saw "Super 8"...and I agree with Brad (I also loved that movie).
At this point, if Brad says that "The Sitter" sucks, then I belive him.
But then again, I kind of expected it, since Jonah Hill is a wart in the ass of cinema.
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Is it me, or ar arthouse movie director going "mainstream" and selling out more and more these days?
We have Michel Gondry, who has gone from arthouse movies to "Be Kind Rewind" and "The Green Hornet".
We have Tarsem Singh, who has gone from arthouse movies to "Immortals" and that Snow White movie.
We have Lord knows how many directors who have gone from arthouse or indie projects to directing installments of The Twilight Saga.
And now we have the director of "The Sitter".
What's next? Paul McGuigan directing a Narnia movie? Terence Malik directing a Disney animated movie?
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I would kill to watch a crap movie with Jake, even if I run the risk of being killed when he finally explodes.
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Jerrid has the most infectious laugh.
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I can't get past the fact of Brad, Boyd and Brian all having glasses, a rather similar-looking beard, and a name starting with B. It's like a comedy triplet.
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Is David Gordon Green going to remake Suspiria?
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Thanks to this movie i almost had a poppers penguins incident. until that fucking family turned around
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what the hell Jared? ass burgers? I'm glad that didn't get much laughs in the car that was in such poor taste, you obviously don't know anyone with Asperger's syndrome or you probably wouldn't find that funny...that was dissapointing.
oh this movie looked boring from the commercials so i voted no opinion because you guys's opinion wasn't really surprising. that comment about the giant Robert Downey (<--probably spelled that wrong)Junior face was pretty funny though
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It really wasn't THAT offensive. I mean, Jared acknowledged it was a terrible joke. I don't want to speak for everyone with Asperger's, but I hate that people who aren't on the autism spectrum feel the need to 'defend' us or walk on eggshells around us. It's ok, we won't bite your head off for making a lame autism joke. As long as no harm is meant by it.
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To add to the list of "other adjectives"; safe would be one of them. Because sure the movie is cliché but audiences will eat up the retarded stories because the want to play "I Spy a celebrity" during the movie and say it was a good because their favorite actor is in it.
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haven't seen the sitter. after the review, probably not going to.
as for new year's eve, yeah i saw that, as brad once said, piece of dick. my family forced me to go see it, and i hated it. my sisters liked it, but then again they're probably the target for the movie. i honestly agreed with brian that they should make a new year's day. that'd be hilarious
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