evening clickbait: universe, your sense of humor sucks
Stuff I found on the Net today.
Fast and Furious
Rush review: man + machine vs man + machine
A thoroughly magnificent film on every level, with astonishing performances by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl; one of the very best films of 2013.
Paul Walker is an idiot abroad (Vehicle 19 review)
OMG, is this supposed to be this funny?
question of the day: If Mark Wahlberg can transform Transformers, what other actors could spice up other franchises?
Should we get Judi Dench into a Fast & Furious movie? Ian McKellen into Alvin & the Chipmunks? Marion Cotillard into a Hangover flick? How about a new Rush Hour movie starring Will Smith and Doona Bae?
Tyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’; Canadians hate loud TV ads; more: leftover links
Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women…
Fast Five (review)
I’ve gotten behind most of the Fast & Furious movies because they’ve been packed with thrillingly staged action and peopled with protagonists who walk that bad-boy line cagily enough to make rooting for them a guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless. But something is off in Fast Five. There’s something deeply unpleasant about this latest flick that prevented me from enjoying all the stuff blowing up real good.
trailer break: ‘Fast Five’
True fact: Fast cars are actually fueled by women’s asses in spandex, not by petroleum-derived gasoline, as is commonly believed.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Fast Lane’
What? You say this looks an awful lot like Fast & Furious? Shame on you! Hollywood doesn’t cheat! Hollywood doesn’t rip off! My goodness, how suspicious-minded you are! A high speed chase on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings. Lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) decides to send … more…
U.K. box office: ‘Night at the Museum 2’ wins big, sort of
It didn’t have to compete with Terminator Salvation in Britain, but it still didn’t do quite as well as in North America: 1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: £4.2 million (NEW) 2. Angels & Demons: £2.5 million (2nd week; drops 59%) 3. Star Trek: £1.6 million (3rd week; drops 53%) 4. X-Men … more…
North American box office: it’s warp factor 9 to the top for ‘Star Trek’
Oh, you knew a joke about light-speed was in the offing: 1. Star Trek: $79.2 million (NEW) 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: $26.4 million (2nd week; drops 69%) 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: $10.3 million (2nd week; drops 33%) 4. Obsessed: $6.6 million (3rd week; drops 46%) 5. 17 Again: $4.2 million (4th week; drops 34%) … more…
