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‘Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay’ Trailer
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By Empress Eve
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 at 11:30 am
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AOL Moviefone has posted the trailer for Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the sequel to 2004’s surprise hit comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
You can watch the teaser trailer here after the jump; also, the film’s official site has an age-restricted trailer.
John Cho and Kal Penn return as the lovable stoners, but this time around, they are chased by the Department of Homeland Security for being suspected terrorists after boarding a plane to Amsterdam. Neil Patrick Harris reprises his role as himself.
New Line Cinema’s Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay hits theaters April 25, 2008.
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The Hellraiser Project: Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld
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 It’s over! Oh, dear sweet Jesus, it’s finally over! And not surprisingly, it’s a clean sweep. I’d feel better about there not being another Hellraiser movie to watch, if I didn’t have to watch Hellraiser: Hellworld to be able to say that. This is the worst of the lot. I know I say that with all of them, but that’s only because they each have gotten progressively worse since the fifth one. This just goes to show that when you’re in prison, the burly inmates fuck you the hardest the night before you’re paroled.
The only thing I hate more than garbage is SELF-AWARE garbage. It seems that Pinhead and his Cenobite Peanut Gallery have been turned into an online role-playing game. There are references to the Lament Configuration, and at one point one of the main characters is even wearing a Pinhead t-shirt. I imagine the screenwriter making inappropriate grunting and cooing noises while he was at his computer, typing out this little masterpiece”¦
“Yeeeahhhhhh”¦You JUMP that shark”¦”
Our movie opens on a group of interchangeable teenagers at a funeral for one of their friends, who killed himself. It is after one of these kids delivers the dumbest and most infantile line of dialogue ever uttered in a Hellraiser movie (and think of the ground that covers) that I girded my loins for the ever-elusive two-footer in a franchise of pure shit. Says one of them about the deceased”¦
“I don’t even think he has a dad. I bet he was making it all up.”
Yes. He didn’t have a father. He either appeared on Earth by spontaneous combustion, or he is in fact the second coming of Jesus. Wouldn’t that suck if it were the case though? The long-awaited Savior appears and he gets bumped off at the beginning of the EIGHTH HELLRAISER MOVIE? They’d have to rewrite all the sermons. And somehow, “He cameoed in shitty movies for our sins” doesn’t have all that great a ring to it.
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‘Indiana Jones’ and the Land of the Links
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By Empress Eve
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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I have been on an Indiana Jones high ever since Christmas when Dave3 gave me The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One – The Early Years . Well, if you ask my Dad, he’ll say I’ve been on an Indy high since he took me to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, so I’ll say on a super-high since Christmas.
Just yesterday, UK Doomer Dizzy Alien and I were talking about how beyond stoked we both are for the fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Diz wanted to call dibs on the movie review, which I totally understand, her being such a great fan of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas (as am I). But as it turns out, I’ve had hypothetical, theoretical, and actual dibs on the review since the first moment of any hint of a fourth movie was rumored.
I’d better save up my personal days at work, because I plan on taking the day off on May 22, 2008, for the previous night’s midnight showing which will precede the opening-day three-in-a-row viewings (like I did for the original Star Wars special editions theatrical release; the Star Wars prequels; and the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
But before I start waiting in line, let’s take a look at some of the upcoming Indiana Jones-related movie promos and tie-ins …
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Movie Review: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren
Rated PG
Release date: Dec. 21, 2007
National Treasure was that one movie that everyone hated to admit that they liked. Anytime that I would bring it up, someone would attempt to shank me just because I liked it, but you could tell it in their eyes that they liked it too. For a movie that was about finding treasure other than the boogers in your nostrils, it was pretty good. It wasn’t an Academy Award-winning movie, but it was a fun popcorn flick. I mean, SOMEONE else had to like it, because it made $173 million in the United States alone, and I know it just wasn’t me that paid into it.
And because someone else liked it, they decided that they could make a sequel. Normally, they would call this “cashing-in,” but I disagree right now. National Treasure: Book of Secrets is anything other than cashing-in. It’s difficult to explain how I feel about this movie. It’s not the better of the two films, but at least it tries to be. Nicolas Cage sure as hell makes up for the past couple movies that he has done within the past two years (and I LIKED Ghost Rider), as does Jon Voight (who before coming onto this project just got off of Bratz: The Movie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven). But that doesn’t necessary constitute this as being a good film.
Maybe this review is a bit biased just because I really do like the first one, but if you are looking for anything short of the first one, you’re pretty much looking at the exact same movie at the end. You know the story — these characters go looking for treasure and they get into trouble with the FBI and the CIA and other treasure hunters want to kill them and yadda yadda yadda. National Treasure: Book of Secrets, cash-in or not, is still a pretty damn fine flick for the holidays.
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First Look: Edward Norton in ‘The Incredible Hulk’
Our pal Alex over at FS has posted a first look of Edward Norton as Bruce Banner in Universal’s The Incredible Hulk.
See image of Norton as Banner here at right (click for larger view); second image is here after the jump.
Directed by Louis Leterrier, the sequel to 2004’s The Hulk gets an all-new cast “” Norton along with Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, and William Hurt — with a script by Zak Penn.
Norton stars as Dr. Bruce Banner (previously portrayed by Eric Bana), a scientist desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him — The Incredible Hulk.
The Incredible Hulk hits theaters June 13, 2008.
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