Matt Van Stone

With Ben Stiller movies its always a hit and miss right? Zoolander was a hit, Along Came Polly was a miss as was basically everything since Zoolander. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the best Stiller movie since Zoolander is Tropic Thunder. I can’t say I was laughing my ass off through the whole thing, but there are some seriously funny parts. Zoolander.

Sadly, the funniest part of the whole movie doesn’t even have Stiller in it. I know everyone already knows about the Tom Cruise part. If you don’t then watch the video below. It wouldn’t be as funny if it were any other actor. It’s really only funny cause you know it is Tom in there. Zoolander. It’s the best scene from the movie in my opinion.

So my girlfriend got tickets to the preview of Nacho Libre last Wednesday. I thought it was a pretty funny movie. It wasn’t quite as good as Napoleon, but Jack Black’s dialog and his facial expressions made the movie.

Anyway, asside from the point that its a good movie we had the lamest projectionist ever showing the film. I don’t know if everyone knows but the movies come on a few reels which the projectionist has to switch throughout the movie. That is their job. You know its time to switch the reel when you see that little black circle flash in the top right hand corner of the movie. So twice when the reel is switched, for about 10 minutes the screen was off center and everybody’s faces were cut off. Finally whoever was in that booth realized and fixed it. It really put a damper on the whole experience though. The lame thing was we couldnt really ask for our money back since the movie was free in the first place.

On a side note… I hate how going to the movies is really a gamble. You pay $10 at least to get in and more if you want a snack. Then depending on what movie you see and when you have to put up with dumbass teens who think its cool to talk through the movie, or you take your girlfriend to Madagascar at 10pm and there’s still little children who are clearly up 2 hours past their bedtime anyway. If there’s one thing I hate it’s when you go to an 18A movie and walk in to find the place is filled with 14 year olds who think its cool to talk through the entire movie. Then you have 14 year old A yelling at 14 year old B to shut up and then B’s boyfriend yells back at A telling her not to talk to his girlfriend, then A’s boyfriend yells at B’s boyfriend asking if he wants to start something. Basically the whole thing ends up in a bunch of other 14s yelling at the 4 of them to shut up until everybody feels like they got their last word in. If I want to talk through a movie I stay home. This is all if the projectionist is doing their job too…

This Lions Gate movie coming out sometime this year I believe takes on the topic of what happens when a teen girl meets a man on the Internet. The trailer shows the girl follows him back to his house and what happens after that is sort of unclear from the trailer. My prediction is the kid is the psycho, not the grownup. Just a guess though.

http://www.hardcandymovie.com/

Looks like there might be!
http://www.cinemafusion.com/index.php?/weblog/youll_have_a_shell_of_a_time_in_2007/

This movie looks freakin’ awesome. Seriously guys. I mean yeah… I know Keanu Reeves is kind of a spoiler, but he was pretty good in Constantine. He is good at playing one character and that character happens to be in this movie. I’m totally stoked on seeing this, the story looks interesting and it has got some pretty sweet eye-candy.

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