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Entries from July 2007

Weekend Cheat Sheet: The Simpsons Movie, No Reservations, I Know Who Killed Me, Who’s Your Caddy, Sunshine and Rescue Dawn

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

The Simpsons Movie
The Players: Several well known yellow people.
The Story: Ahmmm, something to do with Schwarzenegger being President and Homer having a pig?
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% (lots of reviews will come out tomorrow tough)
Trailer
Here is what you have been waiting for. After 18 years they finally got around to making a full length movie. It better […]

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Top 10 Things I Learned by Watching The Simpsons

July 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 
As everybody knows, The Simpsons Movie opens this week. In celebration of that I decided to take a look back at my 18 years of watching The Simpsons on TV in order to ponder the several important lessons that the show has taught me over the years. Here are the top 10 I came up […]

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The Host Review

July 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A really good monster can make for a good monster movie. However, it rarely ever makes for a great monster movie. Most of those are actually not really about the monster at all, but about how people react to the threat that the monster imposes. Think about the Romero zombie films. Are the zombies that […]

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The Weekend Boxoffice: Good News All Around Edition

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Movie
Weekend Gross
Total Gross
% Change

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
$34,233,750
$34,233,750

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
$32,511,350
$207,866,865
-57.8%

Hairspray (2007)
$27,476,745
$27,476,745

Transformers
$20,514,497
$262,978,000
-44.6%

Ratatouille
$10,899,179
$165,519,955
-39.5%

Live Free or Die Hard
$7,101,638
$116,267,866
-37.0%

License to Wed
$3,577,230
$38,495,133
-51.1%

1408
$2,621,194
$67,453,524
-46.9%

Evan Almighty
$2,552,890
$93,567,015
-47.8%

Knocked Up
$2,292,640
$142,698,885
-37.6%

(source:boxofficemojo.com)
This is one of those weekends that leaves everybody at the studios happy.
At number one we have Chuck and Larry, with $34 million. This is a bit below Sandler’s average […]

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I Sense There is Something Different…

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

As you people probably noticed, the site’s design changed a wee bit. Hopefully for the better.
I’m still messing around with a few things, but I it’s mostly done now. Hopefully the posting frequency will ramp up now.

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The Weekend Cheat Sheet: I Now pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Hairspray

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
The Players: Adam Sandler and Kevin James (King of Queens, Hitch)
The Story: Straight firefighters Adam Sandler and Kevin James get marries for the benefits. Hilarity Laughter Some amusement ensues.
Rotten Tomatoes: 14%
Trailer
It’s a Adam Sandler movie. We all know what that means and whether we like it […]

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Battlestar Fantastic

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

I know I’m late to the party on this one, but I just watched the third season finale of Battlestar Galactica, and man was that good. Overall I think the third season was better than the second season, which had a few too many weak episodes, and it cemented Battlestar on my mind as one […]

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