Drink at Work Weekend Picks™
With the fall season officially upon us, the dark days of winter can't be far behind. So, with that in mind, we give you our movie picks for this, one of the last weekends we can leave the house without "layering". Trailers and comments below.
Surrogates
Picked by Corey
I wonder if I pick these sort of films just so I can watch Carol role her eyes, or if I'm just in need of a little action from America's tough guy, Bruce Willis. A little from column A, a little from column B, me thinks. Plus, if you've never seen a good eye roll a la Blondie Hartsell, you don't know what you're missing. ANYWAY, Surrogates. A movie about society being replaced with AI-type robots that we control from some sort of Matrix meets Minority Report kiosk. Of course, one of the surrogates kills an actual person, causing Mr. Macho Willis to leave his coma behind and fight the power. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords and look forward to the weird human/surrogate sex scenes sure to follow.
Carol's eyes will ache from the involuntary circling in her head.
Fame
Picked by Ned
If Corey's really interested in "America's tough guy," he should just stay home and await the premiere of the sure-to-be-awesome Steven Seagal: Lawman. I mean, come on. He's a real lawman now! But I digress. This week I find myself at a loss, since I haven't actually already seen any of the movies opening. So I'm reaching blindly into Hollywood's bag of last-weekend-before-prestige-season releases and pulling out... Fame. Now, I'm as big a fan of plucky youngsters dreaming a dream that life could be as the next gay, but I'll admit this remake seems a bit too So You Think You Can Dance-y. So instead, I'm suggesting you stay home and rent the original. Or the TV series. Or just run around singing the three lines of the theme song you know, jumping on neighbors' cars.
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Picked by Carol
Sorry if there are any type-os in this, I can't see because my eyes got locked backwards after reading Corey's pick. I eagerly wait the day when I no longer have to see poster after poster of skinny, dead-eyed models with robot spines where their emaciated abdomens should be. I'm sure there are a godzillion reasons to not see Surrogates, but you only need one: Bruce Willis' surrogate hair...Bruce + Blonde Bangs = Carol does not see this movie.
Oh, and could Ned be gayer?
My pick this week is The Blue Tooth Virgin. It looks funny and it's about art and writing and Hollywood, which means Ned should like it — but it doesn't have caterwauling teens in it so I guess it didn't hit his radar. Also, my friend Tom Gilroy is in it and he's pretty awesome.
Sean is at work with no access to a computer, so I'll do his pick for him.
Pandorum
Picked by Sean
Bluhhh...me Sean Crespo. Me like big budget horror movie with Dennis Quaid. Me have no thoughts other than hungry and surprise. Eat popcorn and butterfinger nuggets with scary movie. It this movie or Coco Before Chanel cause that look pretty scary ha ha ha. I comedian. Bye.
Surrogates
Picked by Corey
I wonder if I pick these sort of films just so I can watch Carol role her eyes, or if I'm just in need of a little action from America's tough guy, Bruce Willis. A little from column A, a little from column B, me thinks. Plus, if you've never seen a good eye roll a la Blondie Hartsell, you don't know what you're missing. ANYWAY, Surrogates. A movie about society being replaced with AI-type robots that we control from some sort of Matrix meets Minority Report kiosk. Of course, one of the surrogates kills an actual person, causing Mr. Macho Willis to leave his coma behind and fight the power. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords and look forward to the weird human/surrogate sex scenes sure to follow.
Carol's eyes will ache from the involuntary circling in her head.
Fame
Picked by Ned
If Corey's really interested in "America's tough guy," he should just stay home and await the premiere of the sure-to-be-awesome Steven Seagal: Lawman. I mean, come on. He's a real lawman now! But I digress. This week I find myself at a loss, since I haven't actually already seen any of the movies opening. So I'm reaching blindly into Hollywood's bag of last-weekend-before-prestige-season releases and pulling out... Fame. Now, I'm as big a fan of plucky youngsters dreaming a dream that life could be as the next gay, but I'll admit this remake seems a bit too So You Think You Can Dance-y. So instead, I'm suggesting you stay home and rent the original. Or the TV series. Or just run around singing the three lines of the theme song you know, jumping on neighbors' cars.
The Blue Tooth Virgin
Picked by Carol
Sorry if there are any type-os in this, I can't see because my eyes got locked backwards after reading Corey's pick. I eagerly wait the day when I no longer have to see poster after poster of skinny, dead-eyed models with robot spines where their emaciated abdomens should be. I'm sure there are a godzillion reasons to not see Surrogates, but you only need one: Bruce Willis' surrogate hair...Bruce + Blonde Bangs = Carol does not see this movie.
Oh, and could Ned be gayer?
My pick this week is The Blue Tooth Virgin. It looks funny and it's about art and writing and Hollywood, which means Ned should like it — but it doesn't have caterwauling teens in it so I guess it didn't hit his radar. Also, my friend Tom Gilroy is in it and he's pretty awesome.
Sean is at work with no access to a computer, so I'll do his pick for him.
Pandorum
Picked by Sean
Bluhhh...me Sean Crespo. Me like big budget horror movie with Dennis Quaid. Me have no thoughts other than hungry and surprise. Eat popcorn and butterfinger nuggets with scary movie. It this movie or Coco Before Chanel cause that look pretty scary ha ha ha. I comedian. Bye.
posted by Fake Rockstar at 4:30 PM
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1 Comments:
The more I saw of the previews,the more I thought that it just looked like a rental.Looks like I might be right.
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