I have no idea why Bradley Cooper is a lead in a feature film. Still can't wrap my head around it. Clive Owen, Gerald Butler, this fool, it's like Hollywood wants to lose money.
@jasonelias: Someone was trying to save money and convinced themselves that he was a serviceable substitute for Josh Lucas or Patrick Dempsey or someone of that ilk. Someone was wrong.
@pushupbraaah: You really think he "led" The Hangover? You think a significant percentage of the people who went to see that movie went because he was in it, and not because they'd heard the movie was hilarious? I'm so tired of the fallacy that actors are what make movies profitable.
I was hoping this movie would be so awful that it was sublime (see "Showgirls" and the "Star Wars" prequels), but it sounds like it's just awful. Too bad -- I like Sandra Bullock. But I gotta say, Kyle Smith has been my favorite movie critic for the past couple of years -- he's mean, spot-on, and usually pretty funny. (Yes, I know he works for the NYP, but still.)
His finest hour came two years ago, when he reviewed Nic Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." He wrote it from he actor's perspective. Here's just the beginning:
"THIS is Nicolas CAGE. Remember when I used to make quiet movies for smart people? Things have CHANGED.
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is my latest LOUD movie for IDIOTS. It's another flick about maps, landmarks and buried treasure that makes "The Da Vinci Code" look like TOLSTOY. Remember how cleverly one clue led to the next in "National Treasure"? The sequel is more like CONNECT-THE-DOTS. And yes, I do continue to develop my HABIT of suddenly YELLING in the middle of a sentence."
I re-read this whenever I need a giggle. (Is that wrong? Perhaps I need help . . .)
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@The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx: Last night I was entertained by Roger Ebert's review of The Spirit:
"To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material...At one point, The Spirit takes three bullets in the forehead, leans forward and shakes them out. At another, he is skewered by a broadsword. Why, oh why, does he never die, he asks himself. And we ask it of him."
Nothing is wrong with you. I have a fondness for reading reviews of bad movies.
His review of Blood Diamond is one for the books, too. I loved that movie, because it's so enjoyable in that retarded, throwaway Big Hollywood way, and I also love the hating review K Smith wrote about it.
Yah, I knew this movie was going to suck balls once I saw the sheep-shag wig Sandy was wearing. And you know, she, Cooper and Haden Church were on Bravo or something doing a junket appearance for this shite, and Bullock said all of two words the entire time, and her face looked like she was in abdominal distress. I'm thinking she desperately didn't want this movie to come out and ruin her Proposal high. She probably totally thought it would be shelved indefinitely or go direct to DVD, but Bradly Cooper had to get all Hungover and crap, so now she has to wear a shit-suit and tell everyone it's a ball gown. Just like with Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fucking Awful.
@Spirit Fingers: Thomas Hayden-Church and Bradley Cooper also seem utterly cowed by the lameness as well. They both come across as charmless, unfunny dolts in all the publicity I've seen them doing for this junk. The highlight was Norm MacDonald steamrollering Hayden-Church on Conan.
Honestly, something about the poster for this movie always makes me think that it's a horror movie. The menacing way she is wielding the knife (which at first glance I always think is some sort of sword) mixed with the shirt that appears to have large bloodstains on it always confuses me.
When a movie like this one comes out I always look when it was filmed. This started shooting in July... of 2007. Never a good sign when a film doesn't involve state of the art special effects. I'm going out on a limb and assuming this one does not include state of the art special effects.
Did anyone see the horrible, horrible, horrible "comedy" ads for this crapfest on Hulu? I wanted to physically punish whoever was responsible for those, and having seen them, knew beyond all doubt that whatever they were advertising had to be an abomination. And lo, it came to pass.
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His finest hour came two years ago, when he reviewed Nic Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets." He wrote it from he actor's perspective. Here's just the beginning:
"THIS is Nicolas CAGE. Remember when I used to make quiet movies for smart people? Things have CHANGED.
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is my latest LOUD movie for IDIOTS. It's another flick about maps, landmarks and buried treasure that makes "The Da Vinci Code" look like TOLSTOY. Remember how cleverly one clue led to the next in "National Treasure"? The sequel is more like CONNECT-THE-DOTS. And yes, I do continue to develop my HABIT of suddenly YELLING in the middle of a sentence."
I re-read this whenever I need a giggle. (Is that wrong? Perhaps I need help . . .)
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"To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material...At one point, The Spirit takes three bullets in the forehead, leans forward and shakes them out. At another, he is skewered by a broadsword. Why, oh why, does he never die, he asks himself. And we ask it of him."
Nothing is wrong with you. I have a fondness for reading reviews of bad movies.
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His review of Blood Diamond is one for the books, too. I loved that movie, because it's so enjoyable in that retarded, throwaway Big Hollywood way, and I also love the hating review K Smith wrote about it.
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Then how do you explain the vast open spaces in the Mid-West snuggled in between the coasts, Movie??? How do you explain Alaska?
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