I love these mashups of overused Hollywood devices. Of course, I cannot blame Hollywood because we are to blame. We are the ones who crave the predictability in our movies and TV shows. Life just isn’t that convenient so we retreat to the world of fantasy.
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It would appear that somebody, pardon me, more than one person believes that Stephen Baldwin should be a big Hollywood star. The folks at RestoreStephenBaldwin.org believe that his lack of success in Hollywood is due to the fact that he declared he was born again.
So let’s get this straight, they are saying, Bio Dome, 8 Seconds, The Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas, The Usual Suspects and Half Baked are not successful films. Alright, to be fair I have never seen any of those, but I have heard of them. I recognized a dozen other films of his in the list of 80 on IMDB. I could make an argument against their definition of success, but my point is that he might be where he is because of his script choices.
They also give the impression that his fall from the top of the A-list (Because we all know that the Hollywood A-list is a permanent structure and not something that changes overnight) has led to his bankruptcy. Um… What about talent, script choice, his spending habits?
I’m just saying that my stripping career has really faltered and I need your help. It has nothing to do with my weight or the rash that covers 46% of my body. Please you guys, start a website called ReFillSikksMontyToFull.org.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAfzmm6ZvZ4
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Don’t forget to check out the Donate page on the site. They’re asking for donations of $4.21. That’s right for the price of a Starbucks cup of coffee you can feed and clothe this down and out actor.
via Daily What
I recently saw Hot Tub Time Machine and I loved it. The film may be funny to those of you not from the 80′s but some of the funny is you had to be there humor. All the day-glo neon in the film influenced the design tweaks here at Sikkdays.com.
I apologize. All I really wanted to do was get rid of the Flash title above. So instead of getting with the future and removing Flash, I went back to a time before Flash. Oops.
Uhg. It is so hard to find anything original on television. Stuckey and Murry show you one of the many, many clichés.
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Oh my stars! I found this on the weekend, shame on me for not sharing sooner!
Please Hollywood make this film. No really, the next time you get the urge to make another one of those awful parody films do this instead. I guarantee it won’t do worse than that crap you’ve produced.
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Do you know why that is truly brilliant? The comic is written by 5 year old Malachai Nicolle and drawn by his 29 year old brother Ethan. Learn more and read the comic at Axe Cop.
Rich Juzwiak takes aim at another Hollywood device, the mirror.
See more of his stuff at his website fourfour or stick around here to look at the videos of his that I have shared.
There’s this amazingly funny movie called Death At A Funeral that came out in 2007. So, Hollywood decided they could do better than director Frank Oz (The Muppets Take Manhattan, Little Shop of Horrors, Bowfinger, What About Bob?) and remake it. Oh, aside from all those movies Frank Oz directed, he was basically Jim Henson’s partner for 27 years. The man knows something about entertainment.
What the original 2007 movie lacks is the Hollywood cliché of STAR POWER! Thus, they’ve taken the original and threw a bunch of stars at it. Since the movie is barely 3 years old, watching the trailer just makes me think CollegeHumor or SNL did a parody trailer. Look, they put Martin Lawrence in a suit and a pair of glasses, he must be playing the successful brother. How rich.
You’re saying, “Chris, what’s the big deal? Nothing is original.”
While I agree that there is much imitation in art, this remake is practically a carbon copy. They are so lazy that they’ve cast the same guy as the little person. There has to be more little people actors, right? Obviously, Hollywood has decided to go for the African American box office money, so why not get Tony Cox from Bad Santa and all those awful parody movies like Epic Movie.
To me, this movie is the poster child for everything that is wrong with the industry. The only motivation for this film is cash money. They’ve rehashed a script, at least one actor and probably the original score just to throw it at a demographic. This is not your tongue in cheek remake of The Brady Bunch or a tween reboot of Star Trek. It is not re-imagined in 3D with robots or cute woodland creatures. While all that stuff may be more gimmicks to make cash, there are still creative things happening somewhere in the production. Good or bad adapting the story, characters & iconic imagery for a new audience is at least, a bit artistic.
If you’d like to compare, the original movie’s trailer. According to BoxOfficeMojo the original film’s budget was $9 mil and worldwide it grossed $46,686,101.
And while I am bitching about remakes, why can’t they make a Robin Hood movie with someone below the age of 50 playing Robin Hood? Truthfully, a guy running around in tights who is a bad ass with a bow & arrow is quite dated and boring. Yet, it would seem like easy Hollywood money if you put Michael Bay at the helm with Shia LeBeouf & Megan Fox in it.
Now if you’re lucky burdenday will swoop in within the next hour and post a remake of this rant.
