Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? No kids, we're still not at Oscar season. This week's releases make that fact painfully obvious.
Damn you studio system! Damn you to hell!!!
1) Criminal
2) Paper Clips
3) Screw it. Stay home and jerk off.
I am not going to accept the probable excuse of "it's September 11th, we're trying to be sensitive to a distraught and mourning nation." Since when was Hollywood ever sensitive? Since when did potential profit not replace conscience? I am terribly disappointed.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Skinny Mini must save Raccoon City from a virus that turns people into zombies.
Is it just me, or does this little bit of casting featuring a stick figure/super model as a zombie-killing machine seem a little bit far-fetched. If I were in the driver's seat on this movie, you’d be seeing a hard-core butch lesbian or Vin Diesel in drag in the role of Alice before Milla Jovovov-whatever even had a chance to audition.
Now that, I would pay $10 to see.
Criminal
A con artist and his protégé attempt to pull of the score of a lifetime, but not before blowing it all to hell. Good cast, but it's a first attempt at the helm for Steven Soderbergh's assistant director. Hmmm. Looks like a gamble to me.
Cellular
A woman being held hostage MacGyver’s a smashed telephone and randomly connects to some guy on his cell phone. Lucky for her, he just happens to be a Good Samaritan who doesn't mind risking his life for someone he doesn't even know.
What are the odds that this guy is that stupid?
Reconstruction
A young man has a love affair with a married woman. He's in love. How sweet. He wakes up to find his entire life is gone. His apartment isn't his. His friends have no idea who he is. Job gone. Adulteress doesn’t even recognize him. Where most people would turn themselves into the local mental ward, this little Frenchman decides he needs to get his girlfriend back and does whatever it takes to feel her love again. Ah, Amore!
Paper Clips
A class of Southeastern middle school students collects 6 million paper clips from 6 million people to represent all the Jews who died in the Holocaust.
I'll admit it. I cried like a baby during the trailer. We survived, therefore we are Jewish.