17 January 2007: Coming to a Big Screen Near You Soon
I was perusing the BBC film diary earlier today, to see what gems of cinematic entertainment are heading our way this year:
There are a number that I'm dreading... 'Norbit' - another film where Eddie Murphy plays more than one character - I don't get why he does that, it seems, in every film. Another Mr Bean movie, another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, another Pirates of the Caribbean film, Ocean's Thirteen (which can't be as bad as the second half of Ocean's Twelve), another Die Hard film and the Jim Carrey-less sequel to 'Bruce Almighty'.
The description of 'Music And Lyrics By', in fact, the first five words of the description drove fear into my heart as well: "Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play, respectively, a washed up composer and the girl who inspires him in the new rom-com from Miss Congeniality helmer Marc Lawrence."
The strangest casting decision of the year seems to be in 'Reign Over Me', the story of a grieving man who lost his family on September 11th. The aforementioned man will be played by Adam Sandler. I hope it's really good, perhaps Mr S has found a type of film/role that he's more suited to than the hideous stuff he's done in the past.
To stop being so negative, there are quite a few films I'm eagerly anticipating: 'Casablanca' is being re-issued for Valentine's Day, as it 'Dirty Dancing' (which I'm less excited about). I shall be paying money to see 'Hot Fuzz', the (hopefully less bloody) follow up to Shaun of the Dead and the film adaptation of the book 'Fast Food Nation', billed as "a powerful drama tracing the journey of a burger through a chain of human stories".
The film I'm eagerly awaiting for 2007 however is 'The Simpsons Movie'. If the trailers are anything to go by, it should be very very funny.
The photo is of a small selection of my videos and DVDs.
17 January 2007: Coming to a Big Screen Near You Soon
I was perusing the BBC film diary earlier today, to see what gems of cinematic entertainment are heading our way this year:
There are a number that I'm dreading... 'Norbit' - another film where Eddie Murphy plays more than one character - I don't get why he does that, it seems, in every film. Another Mr Bean movie, another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, another Pirates of the Caribbean film, Ocean's Thirteen (which can't be as bad as the second half of Ocean's Twelve), another Die Hard film and the Jim Carrey-less sequel to 'Bruce Almighty'.
The description of 'Music And Lyrics By', in fact, the first five words of the description drove fear into my heart as well: "Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore play, respectively, a washed up composer and the girl who inspires him in the new rom-com from Miss Congeniality helmer Marc Lawrence."
The strangest casting decision of the year seems to be in 'Reign Over Me', the story of a grieving man who lost his family on September 11th. The aforementioned man will be played by Adam Sandler. I hope it's really good, perhaps Mr S has found a type of film/role that he's more suited to than the hideous stuff he's done in the past.
To stop being so negative, there are quite a few films I'm eagerly anticipating: 'Casablanca' is being re-issued for Valentine's Day, as it 'Dirty Dancing' (which I'm less excited about). I shall be paying money to see 'Hot Fuzz', the (hopefully less bloody) follow up to Shaun of the Dead and the film adaptation of the book 'Fast Food Nation', billed as "a powerful drama tracing the journey of a burger through a chain of human stories".
The film I'm eagerly awaiting for 2007 however is 'The Simpsons Movie'. If the trailers are anything to go by, it should be very very funny.
The photo is of a small selection of my videos and DVDs.