Look. I tried to find a picture for this story but Screened used the only good one and WordPress is really annoying me today with its finicky attitude toward two images sharing the same line.
Anyway, the guy who directed Brick, which was awesome, is collaborating with the guy who directed Primer, which was awesome. They are working on Brick guy’s movie about time-travelling-hitmen. Or maybe the hitmen themselves don’t actually travel time. They just get their victims FedEx’d to them from the future so the bodies can be disposed of without a trace. Sounds pretty great to me!
Truth be told, I haven’t watched Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim since it’s glory days. From what I understand, I haven’t missed much besides two or three hundred episodes of Family Guy.
Now, thanks to Conan O’Brien and a blonde wig, I have a reason to start again:
Like most people, I kinda accidentally got sucked into the Golden Globes. They really weren’t that interesting, and the mix of celebrities was a bit odd, but it was on. I ate and even started to read while they played in the background.
Then Natalie Portman freakin’ laughed.Â
I spit out my taco, threw down my book, and stared, mouth ajar, at the pregnant lady on my screen emitting this weird noise.  I believe a small poodle also died.
The actual video is on YouTube, but I tend to prefer this one. WARNING: This is very annoying, although Brendan Fraser seems to dig it.
Welcome back, kids! Long time, no see. Did you enjoy our 2010 wrap-up show? I know we sure did!* Anyway, a lot has happened since we last spoke. Anne Hathaway was cast as Catwoman**, Tom Hardy was cast as Bane***, and it appears that Regis Philbin will be retiring soon****.
However, what the net is most abuzz about are the 2010 Oscar nominations. There really aren’t many surprises this year. I’m glad to see that Christian Bale finally got nominated. I really hope he’ll win so we can watch him accept the Oscar as Batman or John Connor or whoever the hell he thinks he is that week. Meanwhile, I may be the only person in the world who is happy to see that The Wolfman got nominated for Rick Baker’s makeup.
The full list of nominations can be found here. Now is the time to start preparing for the big night by watching the last few minutes of TheNaked Gun 33 1/3.Â
*Lie.
**Meow!
***Who and who?
****There is nothing funny about this. The man is a legend.
Remember, kids, you can check our respective IMDb pages (Logan hereandRyan here) year round if you want to see what we gave a particular film. But here, for your reference, is each of our complete ratings for 2010. And below that, our respective best and worst lists.
To hear us chat about this year in movies, make sure to catch our 2010 Wrap-Up podcast.
All ratings are on a 10 point scale.
LOGAN’S LIST
A Nightmare on Elm Street – 4
Alice in Wonderland – 4
Altitude – 2
American Grindhouse – 5
Babies – 7
Black Swan – 6
Centurion – 5
Clash of the Titans – 6
Devil – 3
Easy A – 5
Edge of Darkness – 7
Faster – 6
From Paris with Love – 5
Frozen – 6
Furry Vengeance – 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – 5
Hot Tub Time Machine – 5
How to Train Your Dragon – 6
I’m Still Here – 4
Inception – 8
Iron Man 2 – 5
Jonah Hex – 4
Kick-Ass – 8
Knight and Day – 4
Legion – 4
My Soul to Take – 1
Paranormal Activity 2 – 4
Piranha – 5
Predators – 6
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – 4
Repo Men – 5
Resident Evil: Afterlife – 7
Robin Hood – 6
Salt – 5
Saw 3D – 6
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – 8
Shutter Island – 4
Skyline – 3
Tangled – 7
The American – 5
The A-Team – 5
The Book of Eli – 7
The Crazies – 6
The Expendables – 5
The Final – 1
The Last Exorcism – 7
The Last Song – 4
The Losers – 5
The Possession of David O’Reilly – 5
The Runaways – 5
The Social Network – 7
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – 6
The Wolfman – 7
Toy Story 3 – 7
TRON: Legacy – 7
True Grit – 8
Valentine’s Day – 3
Vampires Suck – 3
When in Rome – 6
RYAN’S LIST
A Nightmare on Elm Street – 4
Alice in Wonderland – 5
Black Swan – 7
Clash of the Titans – 6
Cop Out – 5
Date Night – 6
Despicable Me – 7
Devil (2010/I) – 4
Edge of Darkness – 7
From Paris with Love – 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1Â – 8
Hot Tub Time Machine – 6
Inception – 7
Iron Man 2Â – 7
Jonah Hex – 5
Kick-Ass – 7
Knight and Day – 6
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole – 5
MacGruber – 4
Marmaduke – 3
My Soul to Take – 2
Paranormal Activity 2Â – 5
Piranha – 7
Predators – 6
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – 4
Repo Men – 6
Resident Evil: Afterlife – 6
Robin Hood – 5
Salt – 5
Saw 3DÂ – 5
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – 9
Shutter Island – 8
Skyline – 3
Tangled – 7
The American – 6
The A-Team – 6
The Crazies – 5
The Expendables – 4
The Last Exorcism – 6
The Losers – 5
The Social Network – 8
The Tourist – 5
The Wolfman – 5
Toy Story 3Â – 8
TRON: Legacy – 7
True Grit – 7
Logan’s Best of 2010
1. Inception
2. True Grit
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Kick-Ass
5. The Social Network
Logan’s Worst of 2010
1. My Soul to Take
2. Devil
3. Skyline
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Alice in Wonderland
Logan’s Yearly Average – 5.10
Ryan’s Best of 2010
1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Social Network
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
5. Shutter Island
Ryan’s Worst of 2010
1. My Soul to Take
2. From Paris with Love
3. Skyline
4. Marmaduke
5. Devil
It’s our third annual best/worst show. Place your bets! REVIEWED: The highlights and lowlights of 2010. PLUS: Our first same-room recording since the beginning.
Hey kids. We’re taking the week off to prepare for and produce our big ol’ 2010 wrap-up podcast and yearly rating posts. We’ll be back soon, but until then, why not reminisce with our Best of 2009 podcast.
Episode 1 of TellTale’s Back to the Future game has now come and gone, scoring some pretty positive reviews along the way. Meanwhile, there are a few of us who are pretty pumped about the upcoming Jurrasic Park game that they announced a while back. Nothing official has been posted online yet, but Game Informer magazine (Remember magazines? They’re all made of paper and junk) recently ran an article which featured the first screenshots. Needless to say, it was only a matter of seconds before generic Fanboy #684 scanned them all into his parents computer.  Let’s have a quick look at a few, shall we?
Nothing breathtaking, but it looks like Telltale knows the world and has got another fun ride in store for us. See all of the scans at lazygamer.
Once again, a strange lack of interesting entertainment news has flooded the internet. Isn’t it time for for another celebrity to die or something? What about Gene Hackman? He hasn’t done much these past few years.
All kidding aside (seriously Gene, we loved you in 2004’s Welcome to Mooseport), the internet is buzzing with the news that James Bond #23 is finally going into production (yay!). This reminded me of a video some online nerd put together of all the James Bond “Gun Barrel Openings” from Dr. No to Casino Royale. I’d forgotten that Sean Connery wore a hat in every one of his openings. It’s also fun to notice how the theme changed over the years.
Argue if you want, but my personal fav is still 2002’s Die Another Day where Bond actually shoots down the barrel of the gun.  Now that’s my James Bond.
These past few years John Carpenter has been restricted to producing horror films and writing/directing the occasional Masters of Horror episode. He hasn’t really made a film since 2001’s John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars, and quite frankly, that’s fine with me.
Then Wes Craven had to go and ruin it all by making Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take, a film that me, Ryan, and nearly everybody else who was tricked into seeing it agreed was one of the worst films of 2010.  However, our pal John Carpenter took one look at it and thought, “Now there’s a bank full of retirement money for old, overrated filmmakers like myself! Kids will pay for anything! It was true when I made John Carpenter’sHalloween H2O and it’s true now!”
Hence:Â John Carpenter’s The Ward.
So is it just me, or is the twist going to be that she’s the one doing all the killing? Oh well. At least John Carpenter isn’t attempting to take us “closer to terror than we’ve ever been before …in 3D”, much like the trailer of that Wes Craven film promised.
I don’t think we ever posted it here, but I’m a big fan of this video of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon doing their dueling Michael Caine impressions:
Michael Caine, apparently, doesn’t dig it so much. Or at least, he felt compelled to have a little fun at the expense of anyone who tries to imitate his Britishy tones:
/Film reports that the Razzies have added a new category this year: Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D. The contenders? So far it’s Piranha 3D, The Nutcracker in 3D and Resident Evil: Afterlife.
Now that’s not the whole list of eligible 3D movies (which isn’t yet available), but it’s the one the media is circling around. Nutcracker makes sense. There’s no reason for that to be in 3D. But where did the other two come from? Resident Evil is a bombastic action flick, a perfect candidate for 3D. I’m not saying it’s great, but how is that a “misuse of 3D?” And Piranha 3D? Half the joke of that movie is that it’s in 3D! I don’t understand it’s inclusion here.
This hallway has so many dimensions!
You want to talk misuse of 3D? How about My Soul to Take? It wasn’t shot for 3D and was post-converted without Craven’s input. It gains nothing from being in 3D and the 3D itself sucks. Surely that’s a better fit for “misuse”. Or what about cheapo afterthought conversions like Clash of the Titans? If you’re just going to make the category “Worst Movies that Were Coincidentally Available in 3D” then call it that.
Back in July, Harry Hanrahan made a very fun video featuring his picks for the 100 greatest insults ever to grace the silver screen. It’s a slow news day*, so I was thrilled to see that he recently released a “sequel” video, featuring 100 more awesome insults.  Honestly, I think I may prefer this list more.Â
Once again, I implore you to crank up the volume, gather your co-workers around the screen, and see who can name the most films. Winner buys the first round after work tomorrow.
*Seriously.  The only entertainment news I could find was about Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal’s break-up, and I’m sure as hell not going to report that. However, I will take this time to say “OMG!”
