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:: Friday, June 07, 2002 ::
...Following up my entry about AMC night with Paul, the new full trailer came out for "Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course". Now here's a movie that you should be loaded to watch!
Don't watch the teaser trailer, watch the full thing. The teaser makes it look like an episode of Crocodile Hunter stretched out for 90 minutes with bad, token plot thrown in to keep you in your seat for the full stretch...
...the second trailer confirms it! But this looks like a great, campy film. This summer is looking unusually barren of good movies. Sure, there's "The Sum Of All Fears" opening today, and I'm interested in seeing it. Same thing with "Bad Company". But I see both these movies as rentals. I would much rather see Attack Of The Clones on the big screen again than blow $13.50 per person on those movies.
Coming up, here's what I'm interested in:
Seeing Episode II again. Either that or "About A Boy"... another movie from a Nick Hornby novel - he wrote "High Fidelity".
Opening this week, Bad Company is the only new movie I could be dragged out to see. It looks good, but so did the Batman franchise until Joel Schumacher got his hands on it - he directs this feature too.
Opening June 14, "Windtalkers" - more Nicolas Cage crap, and directed by John Woo, who I still haven't forgiven for making Mission: Impossible 2 so brain-dead. Also opening is the cartoon-to-movie conversion of Scooby Doo, starring an all teeny-bopper cast. As much as I hate Matthew Lillard, he does a Shaggy voice that Casey Kasem would be proud of. About the only movie opening on the 14th worth my time and money is the Robert Ludlum movie adaptation, "The Bourne Identity". Matt Damon in an action flick. I hope it makes up for "All The Pretty Horses".
June 21, we finally get to see Tom Cruise in a Steven Speilberg sci-fi action flick. This could very easily be lame since it looks like AI meets M:I 2... MAI2? The new Disney movie "Lilo & Stitch" starts today and looks like good entertainment. Maybe they're trying to make up for last year's "Atlantis" and it's documentary-like excitement.
"Pumpkin" looks like it puts Christina Ricci in a teen comedy. That's sad. The new Adam Sandler flick looks like Happy Gilmore stuck in the world of Billy Madison. Nothing else worth talking about for this week ... I'll probably go see Episode II for a third time by this point.
The "King of the July 4th Weekend" returns to claim his throne in "Men In Black 2". Will Smith gained the title after pulling a one-two punch with MIB and ID4 in consecutive years, but has fizzled since. He had no holiday weekend release in 1998, and in 1999 his movie "Wild, Wild West" sucked ass. I think his soundtrack rap did better than the movie.
According to the director Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones was a lot more comfortable with his role in a comedy in this movie, so I'm hoping for even better chemistry between the two actors for MIB2.
In the same weekend, there's the "PowerPuff Girls Movie". I'm not sure about watching candy-like bold cartoon drawings on a giant screen, but it may be a healthy alternative to Scooby Doo.
Well, that covers up to the next month. I'll revisit this topic once we get closer to July... or when I'm bored at work again. Whichever comes first.
:: Stephen 3:43 PM [+] ::
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