Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up opens tomorrow (my review here!) and one of the film’s many deleted scenes (the original cut was three hours long because these guys are brilliant improvisers) has hit the net. It showcases Jonah Hill giving Brokeback Mountain its best notice since “Brokeback to the Future”. Enjoy and go see Knocked Up this weekend or I’ll stuff you into a uterus.
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You don’t know it yet, but this video is going to make your day.
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Say what you will about Republican Evil; at least its an ethos. This week, when the going got tough, the Democrats in Congress got going in the opposite direction. Too scared to be painted as not supporting the troops (because how could the Democrats let anyone but the Republican Party define them?) and too stupid to realize that capitulation to a petulant President could end up losing them their gains in the House and Senate not to mention The White House, Democrats passed an Iraq spending bill that gave them…nothing. And gave the President…everything. Way to compromise guys. Henry Clay would be proud. You can tell by how much he’s spinning in his grave.
In any case, Keith Olbermann said it better than I ever could so check out his Special Comment below:
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This trailer for Assassin’s Creed is absolutely wonderful. I don’t care if it’s bullshot (although I don’t think it is), I don’t care if it turns out to be wretched crap (alright, I care a little). This is one of the best videogame trailers I’ve seen in a long damn time.
And sure, it’s coming out on PlayStation 3 as well, but there’s a much better reason to get an XBOX360 and that reason is called Halo 3.
Oh, and if you’re wondering about what music they used in the trailer, the song is “Lonely Soul” by UNKLE.
Learn about Motorcycles: The Best Kind of Car from Creed at Creed Thoughts !
Spend Schrute Bucks! (They’re worth 1/100th of a cent!)
Spend Stanley Nickels! (The ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks is the same ratio of leprechauns to unicorns. Compute.)
Wish Jenna Fischer a speedy recovery on her MySpace page!
New review for you to view:
If this and my recent review of Deliver Us From Evil seem like an embarrassment of riches (or just a plain on embarrassment), I’m trying to review films right after I watch them if I catch them on DVD and they were released in the past year or so. This means that if you’re extra good, you should have a review of Seraphim Falls coming your way in the near future. You’re welcome.
Okay, for most of the season, Damon Lindelof has been talking about a “game-changer” coming at the end of the season. We recently learned that the game-changer will come in the season finale and will be unmistakable. While I think the last two season finales are weak because they offer a huge narrative thread for the next season with none of the excitement (since none of the viewers know how a plot development will factor into the storyline and for how long), I do believe that this time, Lucy will hold the football for us.
And since I believe that the game-changer will actually change the game, I’m putting down my prediction right now so that if and when it happens next week, I can release the balloons and confetti and shout “I Called It!”, Stephen Colbert-style.
I usually don’t post single reviews but sometimes a film strikes me so powerfully that I’m drawn to write my thoughts on it immediately. After watch Good Morning, Vietnam and Night Falls on Manhattan (not bad and pretty good, respectively), I put in the DVD for Deliver Us From Evil, one of last year’s nominees for Best Documentary Feature. Throughout the film I was shocked, outraged, and at times, even brought to tears. Click on the link below to read my full review:
According to self-congratulatory Gamestop officials who make sure that you’re molested about fifty times during your visit to one of their stores (I used to personally molest people in between making sure the racks of used games were alphabetized for five seconds before being messed up again in the general ebb and flow of consumers’ perusal habits), Halo 3 has over four-million pre-orders which would make it a record of some kind.
Now I’m not necessarily against the practice of pre-ordering. You need to do it when a big system launches. You need to do it when a small but less-marketed game launches (i.e. Phoenix Wright, Hotel Dusk). But what you probably don’t need it for is when Halo 3 launches. This stat basically says that not only is Halo 3 the must own game (because with Halo 2, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, and well, I’m still going to to be out sixty bucks), but that there are 4 million people so worried that they won’t get to play it on its release date, that they’re going to put at least $5 down to make sure they get at least the regular version of the game, if not the Collector’s Edition or the “I-Have-Too-Much-Money” Edition.
So right here, right now, I will issue a challenge. This November, on whatever day Halo 3 arrives. I will walk into a store and purchase it without a pre-order. Did I just blow your minds?
Set your Internet. It’s happening.
(Also, if you could remind that it’s happening, that would really help me out. Thanks.)
New reviews, in your movie-watching face.
Black Book
Disturbia
Grindhouse
Knocked Up
Lucky You
Once
Spider-Man 3
TMNT
Waitress
Year of the Dog
