The new Steve Carell comedy Get Smart opens this weekend and, God help me, I’m starting to look forward to seeing it. I’m not a big fan of revamping old TV shows for the big screen. For every good one like the satirical Brandy Bunch movies you get dozens of lackluster films like The Dukes of Hazzard, I Spy, and The Wild, Wild West. And so when the original announcement came out the they were doing a big screen version of Get Smart, I was less than enthused. With the exception of the perfect casting of Steve Carell in the role Don Adams made famous, I didn’t really see anything worth plunking down ten bucks for. And then the more I started reading about the film the more intrigued I became. It started sounding less and less like an Austin Powers clone and more like an original take on the old show’s sit com oriented formula. The producers wanted to make a real action film and drop an intelligent but completely inexperienced person into the middle of it. Now that sounds like an interesting film I would like to see.
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This is weird. Will Smith has a new movie scheduled to come out over the July fourth weekend, which is almost a tradition nowadays, where he plays a superhero who has some very human problems. So where is all the promotion for Hancock? All I’ve seen so far is a door banner at Best Buy and a trailer at the new Indiana Jones movie, that’s it. This makes no sense to me, it’s Will Smith for frak sake, one of the biggest and most bankable box office stars working today. So why no push with the film due out in less than a month? It can’t be that the studio thinks the film isn’t good, Wild Wild West proved that even if its a stink bomb people will still go see a Will Smith movie. So what’s the deal?
In reading about China’s understandable reaction to Sharon Stone’s karma remark concerning the devastating quake that hit the country earlier this month, I couldn’t help noticing the irony contained in her statement. Stone said, “I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?” Sniff…sniff…why is that the unmistakable stench of patronizing hypocrisy emanating from from Stone’s ill thought out statement? Why yes it is. I sure hope nothing bad happens to her for not being nice to people who are suffering a great tragedy. But then I guess that would just be bad karma…right?
