Category: Movie Previews

Becoming Jane

MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 2:00 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Becoming Jane
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Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy
MPAA Rated: PG
Released By: Miramax
Directed By: Julian Jarrold

Sometimes I have no problem with the girly-type film, hell I liked “Nancy Drew,” but other than the fact Anne Hathaway is in this film I have no real desire to see it. Supposedly it’s about Jane Austen before she became famous, and how she developed her style because of the things that happened around her.

Look, I’m not saying it doesn’t look like a decent film, it does look like some fun for young girls, but I really don’t like period pieces set across the pond. Take the girls to see “Becoming Jane,” I’ll probably be catching “Rush Hour 3.”

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Because I Said So

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:42 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Because I Said So
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Starring: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Piper Perabo, Lauren Graham
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Universal Pictures
Directed By: Michael Lehmann

Okay, I know this is totally a chick-flick, and I’m a Mandy Moore and Piper Perabo fan, but so far the only reason I have to legitimize my going to see it is because there doesn’t seem to be any other movies I really want to see that opens the same weekend. I can see myself in the theater right now, with about 20 dudettes, all of them looking at me funny.

The things I have to do to review movies sometimes.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Be Kind Rewind

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:42 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Be Kind Rewind
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Starring: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: New Line Cinema
Directed By: Michel Gondry

I have to say that the premise of this movie made me laugh, the trailer left me laugh, but I hope all of it isn’t blown on the trailer.

Jack Black works in a video store where they rent VHS video tapes (already a quarter of the population might be confused about the movie). In any case, one day he becomes magnetized and erases all of the movies. What is the easiest way to replenish the video supply at the cheapest cost? Why recreate and film their own versions of films like “Ghostbusters,” “Robocop,” and “Driving Miss Daisy,” among others. The thing is that the customers love their recreations better than the originals and even though the store is now making a name for itself, there might be some problem of renting “self-made” versions of actual movies.

I do find the trailer amusing, Jack Black looks to be back in the funny, and Mos Def has shows his is good as the straight guy to the comedic dork. I’m actually looking forward to “Be Kind Rewind.”

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Batman Begins

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 2:20 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Batman Begins
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Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Warner Bros.
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Directed By: Christopher Nolan

I hate to stereotype an actor, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name Christian Bale is some Huey Lewis & The News playing, a diatribe about Huey’s music, and a woman being chased with a chainsaw. Such is the influence of Christian Bale from “American Psycho.” But how does that relate to “Batman Begins?” Well, it doesn’t, it’s just that’s the first thing I think of hearing the name Christian Bale.

Alright, this movie is a ways out, but it looks to return to the darkness that made the “Batman” with Michael Keaton one of my all time favorite movies. This one gives us a younger Bruce Wayne, a Bruce Wayne learning how to fight, learning there is a cave under the mansion, and learning to become Batman. He has his mission, keep Gotham City safe from the bad guys, and this one gives us one of the favorite comic book bad guys, The Scarecrow.

The story is there, the bad guy is there, as long as they don’t mess around too much with the Batman formula, this should be a good one. We’ll have to wait and see as things get a little closer.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Bangkok Dangerous

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:40 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Bangkok Dangerous
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Starring: Nicolas Cage
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Lionsgate
Directed By: The Pang Brothers: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang

Some roles I don’t like Nicolas Cage in, but “Bangkok Dangerous” seems to be one of those movies I think I’ll like to see because he seems to play the brooding, loner, in this case being a kick-ass assassin, but then develops some kind of morals, maybe forgetting his basic rule of not getting personally involved with, well, people. For this one Joe (Cage) is hired to off a group of dudes, and, needing some help, he hires a street dude to sort of be his personal delivery boy. All of a sudden Joe learns a lot more about the killing work he has been hired to do, sure, there’s a cute Asian girl involved, and now he is on the run, looking to, oh, who cares? It’s rated R, there looks to be some quality kills, some sex, and maybe even some bad language tossed in for good measure!

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Bad Boys 2

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 2:27 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Bad Boys 2
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Starring: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Joe Pantoliano
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Columbia Pictures
Directed By: Michael Bay

Did you know the original “Bad Boys” was released in 1995, that was like 8 years ago, and did you know that its original budget was around 23 million dollars and it made about 141 million worldwide? I didn’t, but I’m sure the folks at Columbia pictures did, hence a remake of a movie I didn’t even see.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back as the cool cops, funny yet getting the job done at the same time. This time the twist is that Smith’s character falls for Lawrence’s sister, and it might get in the way of their case.

This is another movie that the plot really doesn’t matter. You will go and see it because it looks funny, Lawrence and Smith had good chemistry in the original, and you know there will be cool car chases, things blowing up, and maybe some nudity.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Babel

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 2:22 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Babel
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Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal and Kôji Yakusho
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Paramount Vintage
Directed By: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The trailer for “Babel” reminds me a little of “Syriana” where you get a bunch of different stories that somehow intertwine, and how no one seems to be able to understand each other. The trouble seems to start when Susan (Cate Blanchett) gets shot and her companion Richard (Brad Pitt) is having a hell of a time communicating to the people in the town that he needs help, needs to call the US Embassy, and then, somehow, this shooting turns into an international incident bringing even more people into the story.

I’m sure this is supposed to be put on the radar for some Oscar nominations, and it does look interesting, but “Syriana” was hard enough to follow without the language issue, now we’ve got intertwining stories where people can’t understand each other.

A renowned director and a good cast, so I suppose I’ll do my best to catch this one.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Atonement

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 2:10 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Atonement
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Starring: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Focus Features
Directed By: Joe Wright

From the best I can tell and from the synopsis I read that just seemed confusing, in the end it looks like a movie about he loves her, her loves he, she loves he, she frames he, he can’t see her, she feels bad the rest of her life while he tries to find her for the rest of his life.

As a fan of Keira Knightley I do want to see this movie, but I worry that since it is in the art-house side of December the movie might not make it to my gigaplex. In an artsy way this movie looks great, and in a sexual way this movie looks great, I just hope it might open near me, although this one might be better in the privacy of my own home.

It’s movie award time, and this movie is looking to try to snag a nomination or two, and since most nominating folks aren’t snobbish about sex, this movie might have chance.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Boat Trip

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:34 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

Boat Trip
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Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Vivica A. Fox, Victoria Silvstedt
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Artisan Entertainment
Release Date: 2003
Directed By: Mort Nathan

Alright, so you get Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz as ladies men, but things aren’t going too well for our ladies men on dry land so the book themselves on a cruise and figure it would be a great place to pick up the ladies. The problem is that the end up on a gay cruise, filled with men looking for action, and our boys being the action. So Cuba and Horatio are freaked, want to get off the boat, all until they fall for some of the boat staff. Now they have to pretend they are gay men just looking to be friends with the dudettes, when actually, like most men, they really just want to get in their pants, and maybe have a relationship.

This movie looks kinda funny, but can a movie keep being funny after the first half hour of homophobic gay jokes? We’ll see.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

The Black Dahlia

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 2:01 Long
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– The Dude on the Right

The Black Dahlia
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Starring: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 2006
Directed By: Brian De Palma

He’s got the reputation. He’s got Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. He’s got up-and-quickly-comer Scarlett Johansson. And he’s got Josh Hartnett. Okay, hopefully Brian De Palma pulls the best out of Josh Hartnett, but the movie does have an interesting story to start, about what the film site says is “Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history.”

It’s the 1940’s and Bucky (Josh Hartnett) and Lee (Aaron Eckhart) are police officers. They’ve been assigned to cover the death of an actress, Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner), whose body has pretty much been mutilated, in the largest sense of the word, and there are tons of twists and turns that seem to involve everyone’s life. Some people are good, some people are dirty, and some people are totally obsessed, but isn’t every good murder mystery supposed to do just that?

Nothing against Josh Hartnett, but the trailer isn’t looking too promising for him, amongst the other casts in the lead roles, but I’ll still try to bump this up on my “must see” list because of Scarlett and Hilary.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!