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Weekend Linkage: 10/3/08
[By Jeff Sneider] If you've been watching the glorious resurrection of HBO's "Entourage" this season, you'll appreciate this fake poster (aka fauxster) for "Smoke Jumpers" that the guys at ibored whipped up. You have to admit, it would be cool to see Ed Norton as a firefighter. Speaking of which, isn't it amazing that no one has dared to try and top Ron Howard's "Backdraft," which has to be the greatest "fire movie" ever made. Give credit where credit is due, folks.
AICN's Moriarty and Mr. Beaks offer their views on a 25-minute presentation of Zack Snyder's "Watchmen." I attended a similar sneak peek at Snyder's "300" two years ago and was floored by the footage, which looked unlike anything I had ever seen at that point. Then I saw the movie and was more than little underwhelmed. This time around, I have a feeling Snyder won't disappoint. Everything I'm hearing says "Watchmen" will deliver the goods next March.
Spout's Kevin Buist examines five Doomsday movies and the likelihood of their scenarios, including this week's "Blindness." By the way, if you're looking for a feel-good movie this weekend, don't go 'see' "Blindness."
The Onion's AV Club has compiled a list of 26 Actors Who Deserve Better Careers. It's an entertaining if not completely random list, but I must take issue with their suggestion that Michael Keaton go do cable TV. That guy is a movie star, dammit! And if the Ghostbusters can come back, so can Beetlejuice. Or someone could take advantage of the Elmore Leonard connection and edit Ray Nicolette into John Madden's "Killshot" before it finally gets released in January.
Tom O'Neil lines up some Oscar "experts" and they seem to echo the same sentiments as every other prognosticator. I don't know why I'm never asked to participate in these kinds of things. Doesn't O'Neil know I predicted Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem would win last year? I belong in Mensa.
Jeff Wells reported last week that Jim Sheridan's "Brothers" has been bumped back nearly a year to Fall 2009. That sucks for us guys who really wanted to see a Natalie Portman film this year but weren't confident enough in their masculinity to brave "The Other Boleyn Girl," aka "No, not that Boleyn girl, the other one. Yes, the one behind her. On the left."
In Contention's Guy Lodge runs down the full list of contenders for the Foreign-Language Oscar, calling Matteo Garrone's Italian crime film "Gomorrah" the one to beat. I'm not familiar with enough of these to wager a guess yet but I'm sure the they'll start screening next month once the Academy narrows down the finalists. Let's just pray they don't royally screw up like last year's omission of "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days."
And finally, AICN's Massawyrm isn't exactly Manohla Dargis but his reviews sure are fun to read. Lately, The Wyrm weighs in on "RocknRolla," which I am now convinced will be good. He says Guy Ritchie "is back at the top of his game." He's also seen "City of Ember," which I'll probably see because of Gil Kenan, who made quite an impression with his Amblin-esque "Monster House." Plus it'll be good to see Bill Murray again outside of a Wes Anderson film. Meanwhile, Massaworkhorse has watched "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" and inexplicably braved "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" for all those AICN readers dying to know how it turned out.
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It's a good poster but if you watched the last episode, it looks like Vince wont be starring in the movie.
Posted by: Jamaal | October 04, 2008 at 08:19 AM