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Meh... I don't know. Haven't we seen all of these jokes before from Mike Meyers? Or maybe that's the point... like the midget gag. Anyway, here's the trailer for The Love Guru.
More importantly though, how did they dig up this old picture of me from high school?
I caught the abridged version of this trailer on Lost last night (the first episode this season that didn't actually move the story along at all), but MySpace is hosting the full version of the new Iron Man trailer. 
Here's my fear though... Robert Downey Jr. is so good, so funny, so absolutely freaking perfect as Tony Stark, that he'll overshadow any of the Iron Man action scenes when he's in costume. I hope I'm wrong, and both parts of the movie can hold their own.
... you get pleasantly surprised!
I was not optimistic about Get Smart (Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway) due to Peter Segal's non-impressive resume, but the trailer actually made me laugh. It's really coming across as a Michael Scott as James Bond adventure, which just might work.
Then, I can't tell you how disinterested I was in Step Brothers. I just don't find John C. Reilly funny, and I think audiences agreed based on the box office take of Walk Hard. But... the trailer is hilarious. I couldn't be more stunned.
Ken Levine has a very funny blog. However, he's not making the funny this time. No, he points us to a colleague of his, Bob Gale (he wrote Back to the Future... the film that made me want to wear orange vests all year round) and his thoughts of 2007's Best Film of the Year, No Country For Old Men.
Excerpts: (Oh, SPOILERS AHEAD!!!)
Javier the bad guy wanders around Texas doing a bad impression of The Terminator, lugging a big compressed air tank and hose instead of just carrying a pistol with a silencer that he could put in his pocket. Right.
Josh Brolin fires a shotgun with double aught buck at Javier who is 6 feet away from him behind a door and he doesn’t kill him, nor blow up his compressed air tank. What planet are we on where the laws of physics work in such mysterious ways?
Josh Brolin can just walk across the border into Mexico AT A BORDER CROSSING, dripping blood, without being stopped by the Mexican authorities. What is this, some special “Bleeding-fugitives-can-get-into-Mexico-free Day?”
Javier is looking all over Texas for Josh and can’t find him, but Woody Harrelson finds him immediately in a hospital in Mexico. I guess I also missed the scene where they explained that Woody had super-powers.
I saw a 2007 version of this in the Sunday New York Times this weekend, but here it is, in all it's glory for every film from 1986-2007.
This is possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Crap... I am such a nerd.
I've been super busy, family, work, life, honest to blog... blah, blah, blah, so I apologize for the lack of writing. I'm about to take the kids out, but I figured I had to get a few chicken scratches out before tonight's big ceremony.
Can't wait for Jon... but let's keep the strike jokes to a minimum - most of the country doesn't care.
Anyway, I wrote about this a while back, but here are my predictions (not what I want to win... what I think will win) for the categories that we care about:
Best Picture: No Country For Old Men will win - I'm feeling 100% confident about this one.
Best Director: The Coen Brothers, No Country For Old Men again - Super high confidence... 100%
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood. Clooney would have had a shot in any other year that DDL didn't perform. Confidence = 98%
Best Actress: This is a total mystery to me. I'll pick Julie Christie, Away From Her, but it could easily go to Marion Cotillard, who apparently has been making a big late push, and maybe they split the vote and give it to Juno's Ellen Page. Confidence = 35%
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men. This is done and done Friend-o. Confidence = 100%
Best Supporting Actress: Another wide open one. The critics love Amy Ryan and Cate Blanchett, but no one saw those movies and Cate literally just won for The Aviator when she played a real person. I think Tilda Swinton gets this. She's put up a great body of work already, the Academy gets to give a nod to Michael Clayton (which will unfortunately lose everywhere else), and it was one of the three phenomenal performances in my favorite film of the year. Still... confidence = 60%
Best Original Screenplay: I still think Diablo Cody for Juno will win this, but I'm wondering if she's lost some ground to Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton, just because I'm not sure the Academy wants to put her up onstage (you know... the whole former stripper thing), but it's really the one script that everyone talked about all season. Confidence = 85%
Best Adapted Screenplay: It seems like the Coens should get this, but I'm still wondering if there's enough sentiment to give something to There Will Be Blood. I'm picking No Country For Old Men, but I'll put it at 75% confidence.
Does anything else need to be said? Go watch it.
