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Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Facendo un Giro di con Tourette's

Quentin Tarantino on the state of Italian filmmaking:

"New Italian cinema is just depressing," Tarantino said. "Recent films I've seen are all the same. They talk about boys growing up, or girls growing up, or couples having a crisis, or vacations of the mentally impaired."

Tell me about it. If I see Roberto Benigni in another "Rain Man Lives La Dolce Vita," sto andando vomitare, if you know what I mean. Though maybe I should dust off my screenplay (you know, the one about the oft-bullied but smart and witty adolescent boy who is basically raising his sister (who has Down Syndrome) on his own because his widowed schizophrenic mother has two personalities that are constantly falling in and out love with each other, but they all bond together on a peaceful little trip to the ocean and have a nice time until the sister almost drowns) and have it translated into Italian.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Can the Catchphrase Stay in Vegas?

In an unembarrassed failure of imagination, 20th Century Fox has announced it's going to begin production on a film set in Las Vegas titled, you guessed it, "What Happens In Vegas..." Now, you and I know that product and even place marketing and the film industry have a long history together, but actually using an advertising slogan as the title of a movie is, I don't know, crass, even for Las Vegas and Hollywood. Ripping off catchphrases is the provenance of B-movies, and even then it's just for the film's tagline, not its title. And creating films explicitly as marketing ventures for corporate entities used to be the provenance of people like Michael Bay (TRANSFORMERS 7-4-7!) and the three-headed beast of Matthew Modine-Paul Reiser-Randy Quaid (Bye Bye Love, which is set almost exclusively in a McDonald's, if you forgot about that masterpiece.)

"What Happens in Vegas" (I can guess without even reading a plot summary: drinking, gambling, marriage, possibly interaction with strippers and/or Mafioso) will star two paragons of artistic integrity, Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutchner. What I really want to know is, what's next in this creative vein? Will Demi Moore grab the lead role as a corporate chocolatier in a movie set in Derry Township, PA (home of Hershey's) called "Where It's Just Sweeter"? Josh Hartnett in a revenge drama set in Quebec called "I Remember (All the Wrongs Done to Me)" (Seriously, that's the motto, click the link and scroll down to Quebec.)

Just thought you'd want to know.

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Friday, April 6, 2007

Important Keith David/David Keith News

Keith ("There's Something About Mary") David will, unfortunately for us, be appearing in a movie we will intentionally not see (rather than the 600 or so movies he's been in that we unintentially missed by virtue of not having ever heard of them): the upcoming Larry the Cable Guy vehicle "Delta Farce," which comes attached with one of the most unimaginative taglines possible: "War isn't funny... but this movie is." Dubious claim, especially if you feel the need to make it so blatantly. I'm glad Keith got paid, though. I don't begrudge him that.

Through the character-actor looking glass to the considerably less exciting world of David ("Ernest Goes to School") Keith, we discover that David's next project is the widely anticipated Gary Busey "vehicle" "Succubus: HellBent." Lorenzo Lamas is also on board, so you know you'll see this one on your local CW affiliate at 2AM some Thursday night next year. Unbelievably (well, not really) this movie's tagline is more on-the-nose than Delta Farce's, and it seems like it might have been altered a bit after bumping up too close to a certain desert city's registered marketing catchphrase: "Sometimes what happens at Spring Break doesn't stay at Spring Break... it follows you home." If you go right home, that is. If you have a layover in Dallas/Ft. Worth, it follows you there but will usually get lost changing terminals.

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