A new comedy is coming out to theaters called Superhero Movie. The ads show it to be made in the mode of the Zucker Brothers/ Abrams style of comedy, a series of literal sight gags and verbal jokes, heck it even has Leslie Nielson in it. The Patient One thinks it will be a big hit, but I’m not so sure. Similar type comedies like Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans failed miserably at the box office and I think this film will quickly sink from view. That type of film comedy doesn’t seem to be in vogue right now, as witness the steady decline in popularity of the Scary Movie franchise. What’s big now is a throwback to the late seventies/ early eighties teen sex comedies like Superbad, which are already stretching out to be more family friendly with Drillbit Taylor, which is sure to be the number one movie this weekend. But these things are cyclical, like horror films or westerns, you just have to wait and they will become popular again.
Archive for March, 2008
Finally got around to seeing the third and for now final version of Blade Runner this weekend. I get the feeling that Ridley Scott is going to be like George Lucas and will continually tweak his, admitted, masterpiece and release a new version every so often, saying he is finally satisfied with it each time. Aside from fixing a mathematical faus paux that has plague the film since it’s original release, a quick revamping of dialog clears up the mystery of the missing replicant (Spoiler alert! Now it is two replicants got fried on an electric fence instead of one) not much has been done to film. Little in the way of new footage was added, all they did was enhance the sound and picture a bit but it just seems like a lot of fuss over nothing. The only real bonus is the four disc set includes the original version so that die hard fans can compare and contrast. If you really get into seeing even more shots of Harrison Ford drinking and looking pensive, more power to you. I am just not that die hard.
I was flipping through a magazine at Borders the the other day and saw a little blurb about how they’re going to go ahead and make an A-Team movie, only this time it will be a serious action flick about fighting terrorists, you know like the Miami Vice movie was a serious action flick about fighting drug runners. Please Hollywood stop raping old and beloved TV shows to make a quick buck by cashing in on nostalgia. Here’s an idea, how about you try making something original? And if that’s too difficult, how about adapting good books, you know like Lord of the Rings or No Country For Old Men. I understand they made money and won some Oscars. But please, please, for the love of God stop destroying my childhood memories with “newer and better” versions. I am so dreading Get Smart this summer.
