tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68044091250111264112024-02-18T23:11:04.217-06:00Tuesday is Your Krull NuggetA Place to Talk About Stuff.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.comBlogger342125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-20887586574790498182012-06-14T09:36:00.000-05:002012-06-14T09:36:22.636-05:00Get the Gringo
Don't believe anything the poster above tells you. The movie isn't called "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" nor is it coming out this summer (unless you call DTV coming out). With this movie, Mel has entered the "Late 90's early 00's Schwarzenegger" stage of his career.
The movie tries to be Payback's Porter South of the Border. Mostly because it centers around a tough guy who's focused on Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-34644328147488819962012-06-13T07:00:00.000-05:002012-06-13T07:00:15.765-05:00Detention
This is "kitchen sink" movie making. Teen comedy. Check. Romance. Check. Oh, and don't forget time travel, slasher, sci fi and 90's period film. And you know what, it's pretty good. When I say "good" I mean I'm glad I saw it. The best way I can describe it is a fever dream.
I really don't think I can describe the plot. But if you're open to new things and have pop sensibilities, it is worth Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-13664180922265441082012-06-12T07:00:00.000-05:002012-06-12T07:00:13.422-05:00American Reunion
Eight movies (4 released in theaters with the "real" cast). Eugene Levy was in all of them. In practice, American Reunion is a great idea. It has been about 15 years since the the original hit theaters. You could just start doing reunion movies every 5 years or so. But...judging by this movie, the next one will be in 30 years called "American Funeral"(how great would it be if that were true).
Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-67450367298863915032012-06-11T20:14:00.004-05:002012-06-11T20:19:17.017-05:00Conan in ChicagoMrs. Nugget, @CircleGetSquare, @LisaHammertime and I attended the Monday taping to CONAN in Chicago at the Chicago Theatre. So much fun. We're TiVo-ing it tonight to see if we made it on camera in the crowd.
Nice seats! ROW B!
#CHICOCO
The Gang
The Set
Conan chatting w/ the band during a "commercial"
Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-25964046727220445912012-05-31T07:30:00.000-05:002012-06-14T09:37:29.635-05:00Cabin in the Woods
For all the hype around the big "twist" of the movie, they reveal what it is in the first scene. And the movie is better for it. I would consider this a mainstream horror movie. Some compare it to Scream, and I'd say that's fair, but not for the reason they think when they say it. Above all, Scream was a smart slasher film. Well, The Cabin in the Woods is much the same way in that it's about Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-69216948162926041872012-05-01T07:00:00.000-05:002012-05-01T07:00:17.712-05:00Lockout
I first saw the trailer when the movie was called "MS-1" (stands for maximum security one) and it was just a scene of Guy Pierce getting interrogated and punched. Sounded cool at the time. The actual movie is garbage. Horrible CGI effects. Terrible "acting". And even with a stupid plot and twists that no one cares about, I was going to let that slide, until the ending. It unravels with scene Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-2835825382599783102012-04-30T19:45:00.001-05:002012-04-30T19:45:11.879-05:00Goon
Goon is a nice little indie hockey movie. The overall message is a good one about finding your place in this world. Plus it's got dudes beating the hell out of each other.
Seann William Scott plays Doug. He's a big tough idiot, who works as a bouncer. He gets discovered by a local hockey team after his friend taunts a hockey player in the penalty box until he climbs into the stands. So Doug Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-42709574394195622202012-04-25T07:00:00.000-05:002012-04-25T07:00:05.480-05:00Hunger Games
Last year when they started casting my only thought was "who cares" and "another Twilight"? Then when Amazon offered a cheap kindle copy of the book, I decided to get it. Yes, it is a young adult series. But it's definitely refreshing to see this kind of post apocalypse tale become so popular.
In the future there are 12 districts all run by "the Capitol". Every year all the districts are Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-20235638441922071102012-04-23T20:43:00.000-05:002012-04-23T20:43:29.722-05:00Casa De Mi Padre
So, now Will Ferrell is taking his grown man-child persona south of the border. But if you're looking for Anchorman en espanol, you won't find it here. What you will find is a telenovela with bad edits (on purpose) and heightened emotional outbreaks. From the first scene, Ferrell goes to pick up a cow (brown and white, probably 500lbs) and then in the next cut it's black and weighs about 70lbsGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-87205804775410464292012-04-23T07:00:00.000-05:002012-04-23T07:00:15.169-05:00John Carter of Mars
The nefarious FILM CRITIC HULK does a great job of dissecting the screenplay to this movie here. If you have the time and interest you should definitely read it. The main problem with this movie is three fold.
1. Too late. The book used as the source material for this movie has been cherry picked of most plot points. To be fair, the book is 100 years old. Supposedly George Lucas wanted to Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-25356250392155890452012-04-17T19:40:00.000-05:002012-04-17T19:40:05.221-05:0021 Jump Street
I think I have covered this before? It feels like deja vu. Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. Rarely are fond memories as good as what actually happened. Sometimes you get something that lives on the perifery and someone makes it even better. This is one of those times.
I vaguely remember 21 Jump Street. I don't think I ever actually saw an episode. But I am well aware of the main conceit.Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-21464630251883813542012-04-03T09:19:00.003-05:002012-04-03T09:19:59.518-05:00Woman in Black
You don't get a lot of period piece horror anymore. Now everyone is connected to everyone else and everything at all times. I think that is why movies like this can be even scarier. Besides getting a good scare, it can make you fear isolation.
The central spooky mystery surrounds a house in the middle of a marsh / bog and the spirits that reside there. An elderly lady has passed away and Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-37862062412633933462012-03-30T10:39:00.000-05:002012-03-31T10:40:19.809-05:00Chronicle
Found footage is an interesting genre of film. It lets you get away with lower production values. But it can also become a lazy man tool. It is mostly used in conjunction with the horror genre. But now we have a merger of the superhero and found footage. An origin tale in the first degree.
I would compare this film mostly to Unbreakable. In this case, three high school kids find a weird Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-35247181447791836972012-03-29T10:30:00.002-05:002012-03-29T10:30:51.513-05:00Ghost Rider 2
The first Ghost Rider movie was pretty bad. The sequel had promise (in theory) because the gonzo minds behind the Crank movies were going to be making it. Nope. Ghost Rider is 0 for 2. It is just terrible. And to add on top of it, it doesn't even have good 'crazy' Nic Cage.
On the minuscule bright side, Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy) is in the movie for a split second.
Did you enjoyGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-10972537969461731342012-03-28T09:57:00.001-05:002012-03-28T09:57:19.688-05:00The Adventures of Tin Tin
With so many great people involved in bringing this Belgian Comic to the big screen, you would think it would be a lock. Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Edgar Wright. But the result is somewhat hollow experience. Plus I took my 3D glasses off for a while during the movie and a lot of it technically wasn't in 3D. So, that's a bummer.
I would love to talk to someone who liked the comic and seeGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-31947591738813095472012-03-27T07:30:00.000-05:002012-03-27T07:30:03.519-05:00The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (USA)
I do not understand people. Now, I enjoyed the story told in movie (and I would guess more graphically in the book that I haven't read). But how this can become a nation's best seller, I have no idea. The things that happen here are the type of things that supposedly appall middle America (which, you know, I'm from, so forget stereotypes).
The plot for those of you living under a rock Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-66360468095453714442012-02-29T14:29:00.000-06:002012-03-26T21:44:17.408-05:00Sherlock Holmes and the Game of Shadows
It looks like we'll get a new Sherlock Holmes sequel every couple years. But unfortunately, if this sequel is the case, we'll lose more and more of the mystery element.
Since the movie came out in December, let's blow through the plot, shall we? We start a while after our last outing. But we're still following Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) and her mysterious benefactor, Professor Moriarty (Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-74848815736137147512012-02-14T07:00:00.000-06:002012-02-14T07:00:18.611-06:00
Don't forget the romantic music this Valentine's Day...
http://stackofmonkeysinadress.tumblr.com/post/16234762279/dysfunctional-love-dont-touch-me-there-crystalGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-41504137253873430982012-01-30T10:00:00.000-06:002012-01-30T10:45:36.737-06:00Reel Steel
When I first saw the trailer of this movie I thought it had to be one of those joke trailers that they do on Saturday Night Live. Then I remembered that it's only funny because it's true that we live in a world where Hollywood would make a movie about Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
And you know what, the other surprise is, that the movie is pretty good. They take a classic formula, humans (and Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-55096968233338898362012-01-27T08:00:00.000-06:002012-01-27T16:10:17.314-06:00The Grey
Liam Neeson's face is all the marketing department needs to sell this movie. Maybe it's because I sat in the front row, but I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. People seem to really like this movie.
Aint It Cool News
CHUD and CHUD
Roger Ebert
Badass Digest
And I guess it does deliver on its promise. Liam Neeson and seven other plane crash survivors against some wolves.
The Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-26145793793382501232012-01-26T08:00:00.000-06:002012-01-26T08:00:04.333-06:00Haywire
One sentence summary: Steven Soderbergh has made an action movie. That's going to either sell you or not. The music reminds me of Out of Sight. Other people say it reminds them of The Limey (haven't seen it). The guy sitting behind me at the theater complained about how much he hated it for 30 minutes and then fell asleep. How do I know he was asleep? Because he was snoring (true story). ThenGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-50534280634769548952012-01-25T08:00:00.000-06:002012-01-25T08:00:07.847-06:00The Sitter
This will be known as the last fat Jonah Hill movie (until he gets fat again...). He was just nominated for an Academy Award, not for this movie, for the other one he was in this year, Moneyball. So hopefully that will ease the pain of having to remember he made this movie.
That's not fair. There were a lot of people dumping on this movie when it came out. My excitement petered by all the Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-66432394935511476082012-01-24T08:00:00.001-06:002012-01-24T11:19:01.222-06:00Academy Award Nominees
*UPDATE*
We've got our nominees. I'm actually pretty surprised by a lot of these. And I've already seen people call "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" the worst movie ever nominated for an Academy Award. Even though I tried my best to not see any possible nominated movies, I have already seen Moneyball and Midnight In Paris (boo). But I still plan on attending the AMC BPS. They said theyGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-85920167706672108502012-01-24T08:00:00.000-06:002012-01-24T08:12:11.286-06:00We Bought A Zoo
Over the Christmas holiday, the family usually gets together to see a movie. This year (on both sides) no one could come to a decision on what to see. That led us to see We Bought A Zoo. I think that sums up the movie pretty well.
This is the non-offensive story of a family who has lost their matriarch. Everyone is set a drift and looking for something to bring them together. That something isGabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804409125011126411.post-74830182830332122782012-01-23T08:00:00.000-06:002012-01-23T08:00:16.800-06:00Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Time heals all wounds. As time has passed Tom Cruise's "nutty" period has become a faint memory. Or as Mrs.Nugget asked "What did he do again? Jumped on Oprah's couch and yelled at someone about medicine?" The same is true for the M:I series. What started strong in 1996 has had diminishing returns in two sequels (in 2000 and 2006). But there seems to be a reason Tom keeps having these movies Gabehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07218436131871736376noreply@blogger.com0