Category: Movies

What’s New? Movie Reviews of “Michael Clayton” and “We Own the Night.”

The Dude on the Right saw two movies over the weekend, “Michael Clayton” and “We Own the Night.” He really liked “Michael Clayton,” but understands if you think it sucks, and didn’t like “We Own the Night” that much, but understands if you think it’s great. His suggestion is this: For a lot of violence see “We Own the Night,” for thought-provoking suspense you should see “Michael Clayton.” Maybe if you could meld the two movies together you would have something for everyone!

What’s New? Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up Podcast! The Cubs are Gone, The Bears are Back, “Balls of Fury” is Done, and Stu is “Sim”ed.

For this podcast of “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!“, Stu Gotz got to see the Chicago Cubs final game of the season, The Dude on the Right finished the “Stu & The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You!” episode of “Balls of Fury.” The Dude was happy the Chicago Bears beat Green Bay, neither of them had any delusions of entering The Chicago Marathon, and Stu might be getting addicted to MySims for his Nintendo Wii.

I Can’t Believe I Overslept.

By:

The Dude on the Right
Well, if you are a reader of my
Entertainment Ave! blog, as well as my MySpace blog, you will probably notice that this blog post is the same in both locations.  I figured since I usually keep my MySpace blog to my many exercising and eating healthy dilemmas, while the Entertainment Ave! blog is usually about everything else, and since this blog post sort of encompasses both, I would be lazy and just post it in both places.  Sorry for my laziness.

Anyway, maybe it was because I was so beaten down by the trouncing the Chicago Cubs took yesterday, or maybe it was because I shouldn’t have gotten sucked into watching “Independence Day” on cable last night, but this morning I overslept and missed The Chicago Marathon.  Yup, I had every intention of going to The Chicago Marathon, but of everything to forget I actually forgot to set my alarm.  Oh well, I suppose with the heat today it might have been for the best, but not going did allow me to finally finish our animated review of the movie “Balls of Fury” for Entertainment Ave!  Sure, the movie’s been out for over a month now, and sure, not many people saw it anyway, but me and my buddy Stu Gotz put forth the effort to write and record the audio, so I figured I might as well get the damn thing finished.

But it did feel good to get that off of my plate, so until the next animated review I can get back to some new music from Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stanley, and matchbox twenty to review, get my movie previews back up-to-date, and catch some concerts.  I can also get back to some more consistent exercising (I admit I missed a couple of morning workouts this last week – I could use the animating as an excuse, but that’s just lame), and even shift from all cardio to some actual strength training.

The good thing with the Chicago Cubs out of the baseball playoffs is that at least now I only have one team to cheer on, namely my hometown Cleveland Indians, and if the Chicago Bears lose to Green Bay and Brett Favre tonight, my football season is pretty much complete, and I’ll have plenty of time to get ready for next year’s Chicago Marathon.

I was sort of looking forward to going to the marathon this morning, to cheer on the runners.  Please tell me you didn’t actually think I was planning on running in the marathon?  First off I’ve only been exercising for a month and that has been on my exercise bike at home and walking outside.  By my calculations, even if I could make the 26.2 miles, at my walking speed it would take me around nine hours to finish the thing.  Second, I don’t know if my “bowler’s knee” could even survive that pounding.  And lastly,
I would probably die.  But if the Chicago Cubs had won yesterday it would have been fun to cheer on some of the runners near Wrigley Field and then catch today’s Cubs game in Wrigleyville, with my plan for the Cubs loss to be to head to Chinatown where it is supposedly party central to cheer the runners on, and then get a great Chinese lunch.  Oh well, at least I got “Balls of Fury” done!

After last night and this morning, I guess the appropriate phrase for both The Chicago Marathon and The Chicago Cubs is “Wait until next year!”

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

What’s New? Stu & The Dude Reviewin’ the Movies for You! Balls of Fury

For this animated movie review of “Balls of Fury,” both Stu Gotz and The Dude on the Right thought Maggie Q was great in the film. The rest of the movie, though, pretty much shows that it isn’t that easy to make a good comedy about ping pong. The boys do play a little table tennis themselves during their reviewing, and they’ve both got some skills. It probably won’t help either of them impress Ms. Q, however.

What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! “The Big Bang Theory” and More TV, The Cubs and More Sports, and eBay Dummies.

For this podcast of Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!, The Dude on the Right and Stu Gotz get into the fall TV season, both liking the new show “The Big Bang Theory” yet wondering if most of America will get it. Stu tells of his weeping at the passing of Flower on “Meerkat Manor,” and The Dude lets Stu know if he should go to the theater and see “The Kingdom.” They both have more TV talk, chat a bit about the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cubs, and The Dude tells Stu about a “not so happy” birthday for a Mom.

What’s New? A Podcast of: Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up! A Family Outing, Watching Movies, Chicago Sports, and Breaking in Shoes.

For this podcast of “Stu & The Dude’s Weekend Wrap-Up!”, Stu Gotz is back from traveling with the family in his tenement on wheels, we catch up on the Chicago Bears loss and the Chicago Cubs wins, and he saw some DVD’s, namely “Shooter” and “Invincible,” while I saw “Good Luck Chuck.” I bought new shoes which Stu tells me his method for breaking in, and we are both excited about the return of “Heroes” but were disappointed in the Christian dudette on “Survivor.” If we only had more time we could have talked about O.J. Simpson and Stu’s coffee palate.

What’s New? A Movie Review of “Good Luck Chuck.”

For this movie review of “Good Luck Chuck,” The Dude on the Right saw so much potential for this movie wasted by the movie folks who just made it crude and rude. Jessica Alba was cute as Cam, and Dane Cook did okay as Chuck, and when they were just trying to be in love The Dude thought the movie was cute. Then came Dan Fogler as Stu, Chuck’s buddy, who brought a grapefruit into the mix, and suddenly the movie veered into crude territory it didn’t need to find. Too bad.

What’s New? A DVD Review of “The Darwin Awards.”

For this DVD review of “The Darwin Awards” The Dude on the Right finds there aren’t many things making the DVD special, but he did find some scenes in the movie kind of funny. The problem is that he also found a lot of the DVD predictable since it’s about The Darwin Awards, so when you have a scenario of stoner dudes climbing a fence at a Metallica concert, well, it can’t be good. He also thought the film folks shouldn’t have given away the fate of Harvey (David Arquette) early in the movie because, well, not knowing his fate would have at least given way to some suspense as to how he was a Darwin Award Winner. The Dude also would have liked to have seen Winona Ryder in the shower scene rather than Jospeh Fiennes. The Dude on the Right can be a stalker sometimes.

What’s New? A Podcast of: O.J. Simpson, The Bears, The Browns, Mr. Woodcock, Once, The Emmy’s, and No Stu.

For this podcast The Dude on the Right is left alone for the weekend wrap-up, normally done with his buddy Stu, but Stu Gotz is leading the family through an adventure in their RV. The worst part is there is a whole bunch of stuff that happened this weekend, like O.J. Simpson getting arrested, the Cleveland Browns scoring a billion points, the Chicago Bears winning, The Dude seeing “Mr. Woodcock” and “Once,” and Fox bleeping Frog, a.k.a. Sally Field, and others, during the Emmy Awards’ broadcast. “We don’t know what we can really show on TV” TV has truly hit the airwaves. I guess “God damn” and “screwing” are bad words now.