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I've never seen any Partridge, either. Looks kinda off-putting.

I know Coogan from, like, The Trip. Tropic Thunder.

Oh yeah, they kept putting him in movies. That was weird.

There may be a complete overlap, but only in the case of the smaller Alan Partridge fan base being among the fans of The Office. Few search out earlier shows they had ignored that inspired their new favorite.

A risqué comedy done properly. We're The Millers delivers lot of outrageous jokes wrapped in a fun story. If you liked Californication, this movie will make you laugh (and you'll never look at that kid from Narnia the same way again).

I can't believe that isn't on the poster 

Apart from the brilliant Sweeney Todd, this is the best Sondheim adaptation to make it to screen thus far, but that doesn't make it the perfection that the stage show is. On the contrary, while many of its cuts are wise a few are horribly ill-advised and result in a third act that feels incredibly rushed. Some of the casting was spot-on, but Johnny Depp is distracting as The Wolf, and Daniel Huttlestone is far too young for Jack. The most annoying thing had to be the singing. Half of the vocal performances were pitch-shifted to hell and back; on some it was only noticeable as an unsettlingly shiny-sounding feel, but on others the garbled sliding is completely up front and is horribly distracting. Sondheim's songs don't require note-perfect vocal performances, and trying to "fix" the ones here by computerizing them does his music a horrible disservice.

Watched a 1969 Alain Delon flick I'd never heard of before called The Sicilian Clan. Interest peaked as the late 60s early 70s are basically the golden era of French crime films, with this sandwiched neatly between Le Samourai and Le Circle Rouge, and I was right. It's terrific, looks gorgeous (the blu-ray transfer is great), has an all star cast, a wonderful Ennio Morricone score, and very elegant 70s film-making.

If there's a knock against it, it's that this feels like a bit of a big budget cash in on a genre and actors who were becoming extremely popular internationally. So you have 3 big name leads, and a pretty predictable heist story that goes from Paris to Rome to New York in a way that feels sort of similar to what we see now with movies suddenly going to China in the 3rd act to rake in the foreign dollars. 

That being said, while it's not as raw and restrained as Le Circle Rouge or Le Samourai, for a big budget version of that kind of movie, it's still really awesome and retains that cool genre vibe.

Yeah, it seems like Jonathan Liebesman tried really hard to emulate his new mentor.

I find TMNT more tolerable than the Transformers sequels (it's shorter and less exhausting), but it's still bad. Megan Fox as April O'Neil? Dooo nooot waaant....

I watched a Steve Gutenberg double-feature: Police Academy and The Boys from Brazil.

Police Academy holds up for what it is, a thinly-veiled mash-up of Stripes, Animal House and The Bad News Bears filled with juvenile humor. The Gut is a screw-up with an attitude problem who gets sent to police academy along with a bunch of misfit wannabes but who learns a lesson and helps some of them succeed in the big game, which in this case is a riot.

Note: The upcoming Lavalantula reunites the Gut with some of his Police Academy costars.

The Boys from Brazil is a B-grade thriller--maybe less--with a clever premise but that seems to be trying ineptly to capture the magic of The Omen. Mad scientist Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) leads a leftover Nazi organization that has been creating 94 little Hitlers and now has reached the point at which little Adolf's abusive father died suddenly. The operation raises the Gut's suspicions, and he involves Nazi-hunter Lawrence Olivier. The finale's theatrics and 1970s-slang-spewing mini-Hitler has got to be seen to be believed.

Last edited by Zarban (2015-01-08 23:03:23)

Not just Eddie's recommendation, but errobodies.

But yes! It's tremendous.

BTW, Hedwig's haircut after that scene is fucking FIERCE.