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Why Andy Serkis Deserved the Nomination

Posted in Movies on January 25, 2012| 3 Comments »

This makes me sick that he didn’t get one. What I posted is a video of Andy Serkis playing Caesar in last Summer’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This video is CGI-less and has him in a motion censoring suit. It’s very well done and props to him. Outrage I say, outrage.

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Well Let’s See those Oscar Nominations

Posted in Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , , , on January 24, 2012| 2 Comments »

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (actress)

Well, the nomination list for movies biggest night is here.  And I’m pleasantly surprised and angrily pissed off at the same time.  Of course.  The Academy will never be able to quench everyone’s thirst, and in all honesty, so far there isn’t as clear a winner as it was so obvious last year with the King’s Speech.  Anyways, I’ve dedicated today’s Quips to the nomination list with a little color commentary.  Enjoy

Best Picture [Adjusting from 10 to ‘fit’ the Academy’s best interests?  9 huh?  Big change there Academy]

  • The Artist
  • The Descendants
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 
  • The Help
  • Hugo
  • Midnight in Paris
  • Moneyball
  • The Tree of Life
  • War Horse
See the rest down below

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Morning Oatmeal: 9 Vets Whose Biggest Box Office Hits Aren’t Their Best Movies

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , on January 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Pajiba compiled some of film’s biggest names and compared what they’re known for artistically to what their biggest box office hits.  It’s rather disappointing.

9 Vets Whose Biggest Box Office Hits Aren’t Their Best Movies

 

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Banana Unpeeled DVD Review: Cowboys & Aliens

Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on January 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Getting Harrison Ford out of bed to do a movie isn’t an easy task.  You either have to be George Lucas/Steven Spielberg or he must owe you a favor.  So when rumors were out that he was doing a cowboy movie, the industry was fairly intrigued in what he was signing up for.  There was a large number of things that made Cowboys & Aliens look like a promising project: news released that he would costar with Daniel Craig, and Iron Man director Jon Favreau would be helming the project, and source material from a beloved graphic novel.

Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of a desert with a wound on his side, mysterious piece of swag attached to his arm, and an inability to recollect anything that happened to him.  When he finally makes his way back into town, he finds out that he’s a wanted criminal and is prepared to be shipped off to jail by the bad-ass Indian fighter warhero, Woodrow Dolarhyde.  All of a sudden the town they’re in is attacked my mysterious flying spaceships that abduct some of the townsfolk.  After all the rubble settles, the remaining settlers, including a mysteriously beautiful Ella Swenson (Olivia Wilde), accompany the two of them on a journey to recover their townsfolk as they travel the dangerous west where they encounter bandits, Indians, and more aliens.

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Morning Oatmeal: 6 Villains that Technically Saved the Day

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , on January 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Cracked is unbelievable when it comes to debunking hidden messages and finding inconsistencies in movies.  This time, they’ve found 6 instances when the movie’s main villains technically saved the day.  The list is rather amusing so I highly recommend you test it out.

6 Villains that Technically Saved the Day

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Banana Unpeeled DVD Review: The Help

Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on January 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The idea of a period drama about a repressed ethnic group is usually the first sign of Oscar bait.  I find that most period dramas distinguish themselves with others through the strength of the cast.  Mainly because with period dramas, one can usually determine the outcome of the stories with relative ease and there’s only so many ways a director can make a period drama stylish.  There are only so many endings to stories about an African American woman in the 1950s.  The same can be said about most period dramas, given because they’re based on historical fact.  In The Help, the incredibly strong cast and a touching script drove it home and may be one of the more emotional movies I’ve seen this year.

Aibileene Clark  (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) are one of the dozens of African American maids working in Jackson, Alabama for white families in 1950s America during the peak of the Civil Rights movement.  Being in the south, new ideas and racial equality haven’t necessarily reached them, so much to the point ‘The Help’ are even punished if they use the same toilets as their employers.  When Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), an ambitious young journalist, wants to write their story, Aibileene and Minny are reluctant at first, but the increasing tensions of the Civil Rights movements slowly change their minds.

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Morning Oatmeal: 10 Hilariously Underrated Comedies

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , , on January 20, 2012| 1 Comment »

IFC has given us a list of 10 comedies that were initially shunned but now have gained a cult following.  I personally haven’t seen all of these movies, but from the ones I have [The Ten, Burn After Reading, Hot Rod], I wouldn’t mind taking another look at the other entries in this list.

10 Hilariously Underrated Comedies

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Steve Carell Nails the Anchorman Audition

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I was just goofing around on Youtube the other day [who doesn’t do such things], and I found this rather hilarious audition tape of Steve Carell auditioning for the role of Brick in Anchorman, who he later immortalized.  Watch the clip and as one Youtuber said in the comment section, “this is better than the actual part in the movie.”

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Michael Bay Infographic

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , on January 18, 2012| 1 Comment »

Michael Bay is hilariously known as the Director Who Would Rather Use Explosions than a Story.  His movies are notoriously loud, horribly acted, and chock full of explosions.  What’s even more hilarious is that someone from Frankenspace.com made this awesome infographic that pretty much sums up everything awesome/horrible about Michael Bay.  Enjoy the rest below.

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Morning Oatmeal: The BEST GIFS of the Year

Posted in Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , on January 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The people at Uproxx [some of my favorite people] have compiled some of the best pop culture GIFS of the year.  Above is just one of the best.  There’s at least 20 more at the link.  Be sure to hit it and view it for your own pleasure.

The BEST GIFS of the Year

 

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What If Director Darren Aronofsky Used His Talents for Good? The Meth Project

Posted in Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , on January 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Darren Aronofsky, most known for things like Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream, is known for his trance inducing, colorful and visual filmography.  So if he makes projects as large as Requiem for a Dream to be that memorable, can you imagine if he made a real drug commercial?  Well he did just that.  I’ve compiled some of Aronofsky’s drug commercials that are about as scarring as that one Jennifer Connelly scene in Requiem for a Dream.  Be prepared if you view them below.

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Morning Oatmeal: The 5 Worst Movies of 2011

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , on January 17, 2012| 1 Comment »

Some movies are just so bad, that they’re just not worth watching.  There are literally dozens of these films released every year.  Collider has taken the effort to compile and rationalize what their opinion was the worst 5 movies of 2011.

The 5 Worst Movies of 2011

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Rendering Disney Princesses to Life

Posted in Character Profiles, Movies, tagged , , , on January 16, 2012| 6 Comments »

Beautiful Belle may not fall for Beast right away, but he'll find a way to win her over.

It’s not a surprise to anyone that Disney Princesses are the pinnacle of perfection in terms of looks.  But at the same time, they’re cartoons.  So an artist decided to render them in real life using models that closely resembled their backgrounds.  Thanks to Yahoo! for showing this.  Credit to http://jirkavinse.wordpress.com/ for creating them.

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Banana Unpeeled DVD Review: The Hangover, Part 2

Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 16, 2012| 1 Comment »

Todd Phillips follows up his 100 million  dollar R-rated comedy hit in 2009 with a sequel set in Bangkok.  As with most sequels, there lies the difficulty in making it bigger, badder, and better than the first one and simultaneously maintaining a sense or originality.  Here in the Hangover Part 2, it doesn’t even look like Todd Phillips tried to make this second movie more original, as it’s a copy and cut paste from scene to scene.  And while the funny Alan jokes are still there and the slapstick is a bit more disgusting than the first one, the movie loses the general shock and awe that made us fall in love with the wolf pack in the first place in favor of shedding light on the dangers of Bangkok.  And with no change or twist to distinguish itself from the first one, it’s difficult to call Hangover Part 2 nothing more than a good reason to send these guys to a tropical paradise for a couple of weeks to reshoot a movie they already did.

When Stu (Ed Helms) is getting married [again], he sends himself and the wolfpack [Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper] to Thailand for the ceremony and to meet his fiancé’s family.  The trio have one beer next to a calm bonfire on the beach with their fiancé’s brother and next thing they know they wake up in a motel somewhere in the middle of Bangkok, with new slew of slapstick shticks: a tattooed face, a shaved head, and a highly trained monkey.  They find out that Stu’s fiancé’s brother is missing and set out onto Thailand in an attempt to regain their memory and find him

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Morning Oatmeal: The Dragon Tattoo Series Pushes On

Posted in Movies, tagged , , , , , , on January 16, 2012| 1 Comment »

With a relatively low box office and despite heavy advertising, it would be unknown if the sequels to the Dragon Tattoo series would be worth making.  Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara had already signed up to do the full trilogy, and David Fincher is unknown if he would return.  But in recent news, we’ve found out that the series will be moving forward with or without Fincher.  Read the full scoop at Screen Rant below.

The Dragon Tattoo Series Pushes On

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My 10 Favorite Movie Characters of the Year

Posted in Lists, Movies, tagged , , , , , , , on January 13, 2012| 6 Comments »

One would believe that this post was inspired by the recent popularity of my Tuesday post, 10 Favorite TV Characters of the Year, but in reality, both of these posts were written back to back and I just simply queued this one for a later date.  And especially as the ‘new year’ escapes us, I wanted to publish as many of these, ‘wrap up 2011’ posts as quickly as possible.  So please don’t fry my buns and deem this post as a selfish attempt to get more views.  But even if you never thought that in the first place, let’s get on with the show.

As I searched through 2011 movies, I’m rather disappointed in the relative lack of new characters.  Another heavy year of sequels and remakes, it was difficult finding 10 worthy characters that truly inspired and put goosebumps in my skin.  Out of these 10, I believe only about 6-7 truly deserve any praise, but I chose 10 to give some benefit of the doubt.  Only unfortunately, I haven’t seen EVERY movie in 2011, especially the tons of December releases, but I made it about as clear cut as I could.  Here’s the list below.

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Morning Oatmeal: The Ten Best Trailers of 2011

Posted in Movies, tagged , , on January 13, 2012| 1 Comment »

Collider does it again as it compiled some of the best Trailers released in 2011.

The Ten Best Trailers of 2011

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Watch Pulp Fiction in Correct Order

Posted in Movies, tagged , , on January 12, 2012| 1 Comment »

Pulp Fiction is known as today as one of the greatest films in American cinema [depending on who you’re talking to].  It’s unchronological time frame and sharp dialogue made it memorable and extremely unique.  So when someone at IFC dug up a person who reedited Pulp Fiction and made it in chronological order, I simply had to watch it.  The weird part is, it kinda makes sense to do this, and I don’t know why I haven’t tried it before or even heard of it.  Hit the link below to check out IFC’s research on the subject matter.  It’s actually rather hilarious.  It talks about how some dude in the 90s had to do this…but with VHS tapes.

IFC digs up Pulp Fiction Recut

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Banana Unpeeled DVD Review: Kung Fu Panda 2

Posted in Movies, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2012| 3 Comments »

With Cars 2 pretty much out of the way for the best animated picture of the year, Dreamworks has a pretty good chance at nabbing the spot with their two blockbusters this year: Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots.  I’ve finally gotten a chance to see Kung Fu Panda 2, the sequel to the very enjoyable original Kung Fu Panda released in 2008.  As with most sequels [once again as exemplified in Cars 2], it’s risky to come up with both an engaging and original story.  But with a strong emotional story and fleshing out its likable supporting players in balance with its lead, Kung Fu Panda 2 exceeds my expectations and is, in my opinion, the best shot of best animated picture of the year.

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Morning Oatmeal: Franchises and Sequels to Rule 2012

Posted in Movies on January 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Box Office Mojo has taken a look into the power house films of 2012 and analyzed what is most likely to bring in the biggest buck.  And based on their conclusions, they’ve come to realize that with sequels and franchises like The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Hunger Games and even Prometheus, a supposed prequel to Ridley Scott’s original Alien, are going to rule the box office.  Makes sense.  Check out the full article below.

Franchises and Sequels to Rule 2012

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