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Every movie blog on the planet today is talking about the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming film, Bruno, received an NC-17 from the MPAA on its first pass through.
Would all the idiots screaming in horror, please move to the back of the bus?
They’ll adjust it, they’ll get their R-rating, but in the meantime, Bruno just got a TON of publicity on March 30th, almost 4 months before the film is released.
Nicely done, Universal marketing department. Nicely done.
So there’s this movie you’ve never heard of… it’s called One Week and it stars Joshua Jackson. Fine. I’m not here to rip (or praise) the movie. However, in their marketing of the film, they took out a print ad and filled with quotes about how great the movie is. Great – marketing departments do this all the time, filling out posters and ads with quotes from critics.
Oh, wait. What? Did I say critics? Sorry. What I meant to say was, “random anonymous people who comment on YouTube and haven’t seen the film.”
Let’s take a quick zoom in on the bottom left, shall we?
It’s like Heat, with Michael Mann and everything… only about 100 years ago, and Depp and Bale could certainly be the new generation’s DeNiro and Pacino, right? ;)
I know. Nothing on the Globes, nothing on the Oscars. That’s right – the inspiration just isn’t there. I’ll just say this: I loved the Oscars this year and what they did with the show. They could have killed the second musical act (with Beyonce and Zac Efron) to save time, but the show finished ahead of schedule anyway. They also could have done some more thinking about who was giving the speeches to the various nominees. DeNiro to Penn was awesome, but Cotillard to Kate Winslet? How was that not Emma Thompson? Adrien Brody to Richard Jenkins? Cuba Gooding Jr.?!?!?
And with that, let’s move on.
Watchmen is coming out this week and David Poland has pointed out some interesting commentary from one of the cast members.
Matthew Goode plays Andrew Veidt/Ozymandias in the movie, expected to be one of the biggest hits of 2009.
But the 30-year-old actor – who has previously appeared in Match Point and Brideshead Revisited – went on the offensive after learning hardcore fans are saying he doesn’t suit the character before even watching the film.
He said: “The negative feedback is relayed by my friends. I think the fanboys aren’t particularly happy – there are a load of people they’d have rather had in before me.
“It’s already being slated before they’ve seeing anything.
“But if fanboys still hate the film after going and seeing it, they can all line up and s*** my d***.
“I don’t give a f***.”
Matthew added: “I’m having a child and that’s more important to me – so I don’t give a f***. Grow a d***.”
Is it bad that I think that he actually has the proper perspective here?
Now, there are people that have seen the film, like David Edelstein of New York Magazine, who says, it is an “awe-inspiring corpse: huge, noisy, gaseously distended by its own dystopia.”
Good times.
