watch it: “Portal: No Escape”
I don’t see why this is a big deal. It’s no different than, say, Skyline, my worst movie of 2010…
Skyline
Razzie nominations are in!
Oh, the glorious awfulness!
the worst movies of 2010
I’ve finally gotten through the last few films I needed to see for the year, and am now able to definitively declare that of the 208 new theatrical releases I saw during the award year (which doesn’t really end till the Oscars are handed out next month), these 10 are the very worst of the lot…
trailer break: ‘Falling Skies’
Like 80s V, only better than the terrible ABC redo that’s about to return.
NBC is sooo regretting letting Conan go; new Wolverine movie is called ‘The Wolverine’; BBC continues to employ David Tennant and John Simm; more: leftover links
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
question of the day: Has Hollywood made us so jaded that we no longer “give movies a chance,” and is that a bad thing?
It sounds like Hall is saying, however, that we should all have run out opening weekend to see Skyline — or any movie we suspect will be garbage — because we owe something to Hollywood! Which is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
female gazing at: Eric Balfour
It’s a shame Skyline is so terrible, because Eric Balfour is really pretty cute.
Skyline (review)
This isn’t a movie: it’s an FX demo reel. It’s not about anything: it doesn’t reflect any contemporary fears that afflict individual people or anxieties that grip our entire culture. It has nothing to say beyond: “Don’t alien ships in the skies over Los Angeles look sorta interesting, and perhaps you would like to hire us to create the FX for your next sci-fi action film?”
question of the day: Which fictional aliens are the nicest?
Skyline today brings us yet another invasion by aliens who hate us. I suppose nice aliens won’t invade us in dramatic ways that require millions of dollars in special FX to depict, but still: couldn’t we get overrun just once in a cinematic while by little green men who want to hug us until we are agreeably contented?
question of the day: Why are we fascinated by movies (and TV shows) about our own destruction?
AMC’s new zombie drama, The Walking Dead, enjoyed the highest-rated premiere on cable this year: more than eight million people tuned in to see the world end… again. Why?
