It feels like it's halfway over, doesn't it? The cussed (that's pronounced cuss-pause-ed) thing started on May 7 so technically I guess I am correct. What are all these shenanigans going on with the box office numbers? The media frets "Ohh, the numbers are down - people aren't going to the movies!" We both know why presumably: Your Movies Suck. In lieu of that and in light of the new Twilight movie there is some good stuff coming up. I am like a kid fighting through dinner to get to the ice cream and just as impatient: Gimme gimme gimme some good freakin' movies. No Shrek bullshit, no god-damned Tom Cruise movie with a cute title like Knight and Day (Get it? Someone in the movie is named Knight and someone is probably named Day), and no Adam Sandler crap where the best parts are in the trailer, a dead giveaway because the trailer wasn't all that funny. The remakes and the sequels are out of their cages and now it's time for them to die and make room for some good and original stuff. To wit:
Inception - It's got DiCaprio (watch Catch Me If You Can and The Departed and you'll be waiting for every next thing he does), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (he's gonna be an A-list movie star someday - watch Brick and (500) Days of Summer) and Chris "I-Directed-The Dark Knight" Nolan directing. They steal shit out of people's brains while they're sleeping.
Dinner For Schmucks features Steve Carell as a pathetic loser and Paul Rudd as the guy who is exploiting him. But something tells me that Steve is gonna go all Fatal Attraction in the most hilarious and uncomfortable of ways.
Salt featuring Angelina Jolie. She might or might not be a secret agent. Even she doesn't know. What is it about her in an action film that is so compulsively watchable? Besides her rack...
Get Low features the Greatest Living Actor Mr. Robert Duvall as a hermit who is planning his own funeral and Jimmy Stewart's Evil Twin Bill Murray as the undertaker. There have been rumors of an Oscar nomination for Duvall. I met him one time and I wasn't disappointed.
I can't wait to see The Other Guys which features Marky "when did I get so respectable" Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell as cops trying to bust a big case. Ferrell is nerdy and deskbound and Wahlberg is given one last chance despite his short temper. It's from the writer of Talladega Nights and the other Ferrell stuff.
If you grew up in the 80's like I did then you'll probably want to check out The Expendables just on principle. It has (I swear I'm not making this up) Sly Stallone, the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren and Eric Roberts as well as some other people who were, like, ten when these guys were at the top of the box office. How do you miss this one?
And maybe the movie with the most reliable built-in fan base is Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. Based on a popular graphic novel, this one has Michael Cera as a geeky (go figure right?) musician who has to defeat seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to win the girl of his dreams. That sounds ok and might be enough to get me to a theater but what really puts it over the top is Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) directing.
Ok, that's about it. Except for a Jennifer Aniston movie. The good: if it sucks bad enough she might not ever make another movie again. The bad: it has Jason Bateman who is borderline very good/awesome. I have a feeling I'll be disappointed and it will be halfway decent and she'll keep making movies.
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