Category: Movies

What’s New? A Movie Review of “Strange Wilderness” and a DVD Review of “The Game Plan.”

As The Dude on the Right prepares for the Super Bowl, he pounded out a couple of
reviews. One was of the movie
"Strange Wilderness," which he saw the other day, and thinks the movie
might be the worst movie ever. Of course that means he gave it 2 stars and
laughed during the film, mostly laughing about how bad it was.

He is also
trying to get more DVD reviews done, so this time it’s a movie with The Rock.
No, it’s not a super action flick, The Dude reviews the DVD version of
"The Game Plan." If you’ve got a 5 year old girl it’s probably a movie
for all of you to enjoy together, but if you’re a dude, you’ll probably want to
catch the ESPN extras on the DVD.

What’s New? A Podcast of: An Apology, Movie Talk, Some New TV and MTV, but No Stu.

Even though it’s normally a day for a Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast with Stu Gotz, The Dude on the Right and Stu couldn’t figure out how to meet up today so The Dude on the Right handles the podcast duty flying solo. The Dude apologizes for his choice of words in yesterday’s blog, which he has since edited, but doesn’t apologize for liking the new “Rambo” movie. But mostly TV is on the mind of The Dude and he thinks it’s time for MTV to change its name because seriously, what do constant “America’s Next Top Model” marathons have to do with music?

Missing the Award Shows, Movies and Movie Previews, and an iPhone WebClip.

By:

The Dude on the Right
With this weekend coming to a close, and my having "The Screen Actors Guild
Awards" on my TV, I realize that as much as I have been hating not getting new
TV shows, other than the reality ones, I do miss the award shows that propagate
the airwaves at the beginning of the year.  Why?  It’s not the crap in
between the awards because who really wants to hear bad jokes that can’t offend
anyone, but I do miss the speeches from those that win the awards, especially
from those who are surprised they actually won the award.  We missed the
drunken ones that might have happened during "The Golden Globe Awards," but
damn, I hope the writers and the TV and whomever folks need to do it come to an
agreement so that "The Academy Awards" can be the exploited award show we have
grown to know and love, and maybe just give us that one speech, from one
surprise winner, to make us dream (I’m cheering on Ellen Page).

On another
note, this weekend saw me getting to see a couple of movies, namely

"Rambo," which I really liked, and

"Meet the Spartans," not so much.  I also got all of
my movie
previews up to date, thanks mostly to Tiger Woods making The Buick
Invitational one of the most boring golf tournaments ever by beating the crap
out of the competition, and the CBS announcers sounding like little schoolboys
trying to call a golf outing, with one already pronouncing that this will be the
year Tiger Woods wins the Grand Slam of golf and another (or maybe it was the
same dude, I get them confused) upset because no one was able to get a birdie
on the hole he was covering.  I know Tiger was so far ahead that it was
nearly impossible for him to lose the tournament, but for goodness sake, can’t
you golf announcers control yourself?  He skipped Hawaii; it’s only
January; 2008 is the same length as any other year; with 320 days left, on any
given day in 2008, Tiger might lose a tournament; but where is the dignity that
is golf?  CBS folks, please go back and listen to your broadcast and boot
the crap out of the broadcast of those who have already lost their minds in January.

And finally, on a last geek note, I have said before that I have an iPhone. 
Fine, I’m a geek.  With the Macsomethingorotherconference, the world of
Apple gave me another iPhone update, still leaving me without the ability to cut
and paste, but that’s another blog for another time.  What they did do, for
the firmware update of 1.1.3, was give the iPhone the ability to add a WebClip
to your iPhone.  Pretty much it means that on your iPhone homepage you can
have a cute little graphic that when you touch it, well, it will open the web
page associated with that WebClip.  Hell, that’s too complicated
to explain.  Look, if you have an iPhone, and you like our web site,
Entertainment Ave!, go to our home
page on your iPhone, click the "+" at the bottom of your iPhone screen and
add us to your homepage.  We, unlike other non-cool sites, will have a cool
icon on your iPhone that looks like our favicon, that when you touch it on your
iPhone (and it also works for your iTouch, I think), instantly logs you onto
Entertainment Ave!, keeping you informed of what’s new.

Be smart, be safe, and
if you like TV pray that the TV folks give in to the will of the writer folks,
otherwise 2008 will be the year of reality, and who wants that, unless, of
course, the dudettes on "Survivor: Where Ever They Are." are hot and
get hotter with losing weight.

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

What’s New? A Movie Review of “Meet the Spartans.”

The Dude on the Right went to see “Meet the Spartans,” and he even wrote a review about it. Although the movie did make him chuckle at times, there were only three things he used to give his final rating. Actually there were four things, but since two of them belonged to Carmen Electra, he left it at three. He also has grown very tired of Paris Hilton being the go-to fodder for spoof movies because there just isn’t any more originality there.

What’s New? A Movie Review of “Rambo.”

Darn
do-gooders. There John Rambo is, relaxing and getting on with his life in the
jungles of Thailand, and they want to help people in Burma. Now Rambo has to
kill people again.

Anyway, The Dude on the Right thought Sylvester Stallone did some nice
closure with the Rocky character when he put out "Rocky Balboa" last year, and
now, for this movie review of "Rambo," The Dude thinks the same has been done
for one John Rambo. The movie gives you exactly what you probably expect from a
"Rambo" movie, but he does say they up the violence quotient a lot, maybe to
make some of you realize just how brutal some of the violence is in places like
Burma. The only Sylvester Stallone character that now needs some closure is John Spartan.

What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Lots of Movies, Mama Gotz’s Issues, A New Ringtone, and Peeing on a Stick.

Being away from each other for a week sure doesn’t put a kink in the conversation Stu Gotz and The Dude on the Right can put together for a “Weekend Wrap-Up” podcast, and they get right back into things for this episode. The weekends usually include a lot of movie stuff so they talk about that, Stu got a picture from Mama Gotz so they talk about that, Stu saw a pregnancy test commercial so they talk about that, The Dude has a new favorite ringtone so they listen and talk about that, and even though The Dude on the Right doesn’t give a damn about the upcoming Super Bow, they talk about that anyway. And if that isn’t enough they have other things to talk about, and they talk about that, too.

What’s New? A Movie Review of “27 Dresses.”

The Dude on the Right is still trying to figure out why the three hot women who came to see the movie didn’t just jump him in the movie theater, but a dream unfulfilled didn’t stop him from reviewing “27 Dresses.” This movie appears to be one that is totally for the ladies, because even though The Dude can dig a romantic comedy, “27 Dresses” seemed to lack anything at all testosterone, even with Katherine Heigl looking fantastic and Malin Akerman wearing skimpy outfits.

What’s New? A Movie Review of “Cloverfield”

In his getting back to some normalcy The Dude on the Right went to the movies. He saw “Cloverfield” and for this review he didn’t like it that much. He did, though, appreciate the originality of the movie, but for most of it he found himself laughing at the stupidity of the crew of people, and damn, that dude’s video camera has one hell of a battery. It’s popcorn-fun at the movies if you are looking for a little bit of an escape, just don’t take the thing seriously.

What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! Movies & TV, Britney & Lindsay, Weather & Delilah.

Stu Gotz and The Dude on the Right finally get back together after weeks of being apart to do another “Weekend Wrap-Up!” podcast. If they didn’t trim things down this podcast would probably last a few hours, but they cut things to some recent movies in the theaters as well as movies on Stu’s Netflix cue. The weekend brought huge entertainment news about the latest BUI (Britney Under the Influence) and Dr. Phil (Stu & The Dude disagree on the Dr. Phil factor), and why not talk about Lindsay Lohan’s New Year’s Eve while they’re at it. Chicago had a warm spell, and The Dude watched “American Gladiator.” And Stu still likes tormenting The Dude about the song “Hey There Delilah.” Stu can be a mean, mean, man.

What’s New? A Movie Review of “One Missed Call.”

Dare he say it. Dare, dare. But yes, he did, The Dude on the Right dares to say it that “One Missed Call” is the best thriller of 2008. Sure, it’s only January 5th, but The Dude probably throws all of his credibility as a movie reviewer out the window with this 3 star rating (and he so wanted to give it 4 stars), but he’s got his reasons and in the end it’s because of the children, or at least the teens, who won’t have to see “The Water Horse” the weekend before they go back to school.