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Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

TIME TRAVEL: A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT

Bad Guys Will Always Have Time Travel, so Good Guys Should Have It Too -- 5 Movies That Prove This Argument

1. Timecrimes (NEW) -- Watch the trailer. Read the review, listen to the interview.

2. Time Bandits (1981) -- Watch the trailer. My good friend Kevin (porcupine) loves this flick. That's good, because his parents named him after one of the characters. Would it be less cool if he were named after Kevin McAlister from Home Alone? Something to ponder.

3. Time Cop (1994) -- Watch the trailer. I remember this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle was pretty violent and included some gratuitous nudity; I was only 13 when I saw it in '95, and that's all I remember. Are there fans who've seen it more recently?

4. Back to the Future Part II (1989) -- Watch the trailer. Remember how future Biff went back in time to give the gambling results book to 50's Biff, then 50's Biff became rich by never losing a bet at the horseraces? Who besides me wished they could do that?

5. And of course, there's the mo-fo'ing Terminator series. Man, I can't wait for Terminator: Salvation. Read the notes from the Comic-Con press conference.

WHOA: KEANU REEVES, ROCKIN' IT

3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (NEW) -- Read about the press conference with Keanu and Jennifer Connelly. I won't lie, I'm excited for this one! Not only am I nuts about Jennifer Connelly, I also think Keanu could be fantastic at playing a non-human. (Just like how Swarzenegger was always best at playing a robot.) Recast the original, you might win a t-shirt.

2. A Scanner Darkly (2006) --  Really good movie from Richard Linklater. It's rotoscoped like Waking Life, but it has a story! It's funny and sad and paranoid (it's about narcs and drug addiction). The trio of Keanu, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr. make it a buddy tragi-comedy.

1. Point Break (1991) -- Watch the trailer. Time to watch it again. When Hot Fuzz came out, I'm so glad they paid homage to this lovable turkey.

CHE & OUR FAVORITE BIOPICS

Che (NEW) -- Read Karina's review and the Steven Soderberg press conference. This is not one of Karina's favorite biopics. Find out why Karina's review pissed off older bloggers.

What are your favorite biopics? I asked some friends at Spout about their favorites, and one said, "Does Braveheart count?" Here are some others they listed:

6. Gandhi -- Watch the trailer. I dig that Ben Kingsley. I haven't seen this though, what do you guys think of it?

5. Into the Wild -- Watch the trailer. Haven't seen this one either.

4. Evita -- The musical with Madonna. I don't know if I could handle it.

3. A Beautiful Mind -- Watch the trailer. Haven't seen it.

2. I'm Not There -- Watch the trailer. Careful with this one, because if you don't know a lot about Bob Dylan's life, the film will just be confusing and frustrating. If you do know your Dylan, this is beautiful and a real heart-breaker.

1. Amadeus -- Watch the trailer. This one I need to watch again. I remember it as an interesting movie for anyone who feels like a Salieri when they meet a Mozart.

GOOD MOVIES THAT COME FROM PLAYS

3. Doubt (NEW) -- Watch the trailer. Great cast, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

2. My favorite Shakespeare movies: for the comedies, Love's Labour's Lost and  The Merchant of Venice. For the tragedies, I really like Titus and Roman Polanski's Macbeth. How about you guys?

1. Rope (1948) -- Jimmy Stewart is great in this thriller from Alfred Hitchcock. It all takes place in one apartment.

WEIRD-ASS LOOKIN' ANIMATED MOVIE

Delgo (NEW) -- Watch the weird-ass trailer.

OTHER NEW MOVIES

You know something juicy about these? Hit us with it!

What Doesn't Kill You -- ..."makes you ugly." That's the saying, right? Stars Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo, who play old friends trying to dodge gangs and a detective (Mark Wahlberg) in South Boston.

Nothing Like the Holidays -- Watch the trailer. Alfred Molina!

Where God Left His Shoes -- Stars John Leguizamo, who's trying to find an apartment for his family on Christmas Eve, after they've lived in a homeless shelter for a few months.

Dark Streets  -- Watch the trailer. I love that guy Elias Koteas.

While She Was Out -- Kim Basinger's a housewife fighting for her life out in the woods (looks like some young men are trying to get her).

$9.99 -- Stop-motion animation, starring Geoffrey Rush.

Superheroes and Sex in the City: new DVDs (12/9)

New DVDs on 12/9 -- Highlights

The Dark Knight -- Watch trailer. We're giving away some Dark Knight DVDs, check it out.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army -- Watch the trailer. I liked it a lot more than the first (and I liked that one!). When it comes to fun and surprises, I think the scene in the Troll Market surpasses the Mos Eisley cantina scene from Star Wars.

I Am Legend (The Ultimate Collector's Edition, 3 Discs) -- Watch the trailer.

The Resident Evil series 3-pack.

Sex and the City (4 discs)

Some Frank Capra classics are getting reissued by Sony pictures:

It Happened One Night

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 

You Can't Take it With You

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

SkyPilot:

3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (NEW) -- Read about the press conference with Keanu and Jennifer Connelly. I won't lie, I'm excited for this one! Not only am I nuts about Jennifer Connelly, I also think Keanu could be fantastic at playing a non-human. (Just like how Swarzenegger was always best at playing a robot.) Recast the original, you might win a t-shirt.

I'm really excited about this one too. I have a friend playing an army sergeant in the film so even if it sucks I'm gonna have keep my mouth shut and proclaim its brilliance. Ditto about Jennifer Connelly.

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

We all love Jennifer Conelly, but Keanu Reeves is another story.

I audibly moaned when I saw the preview for this film at the theater because I saw Keanu Reeves. It was a knee-jerk reaction.

I've decided that Barack Obama would fit the role much more nicely. :)

I think we should give the future leader of the free world a chance to prove he wants to save the world! (lol ok I'll stop now.)

I'd like to see $9.99.

As far as biopics go I found A Beautiful Mind to be... beautiful (yeah I know I'll shutup now).

Braveheart doesn't really count imo. 

I would also add To End All Wars as one of my favorite biopics even though the main characters aren't anyone famous. Definitely worth watching, a couple of times.

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

mercurial:

SkyPilot:

3. The Day the Earth Stood Still 

I'm really excited about this one too. I have a friend playing an army sergeant in the film so even if it sucks I'm gonna have keep my mouth shut and proclaim its brilliance. Ditto about Jennifer Connelly.

That's awesome merc! By any chance was he in a scene with Jennifer Connelly? Even if he wasn't, that's great. Btw, one of the Spout team (magrebi) was at the press conference I linked to, and he said Connelly was like "a Queen," diplomatic and intelligent and all-around classy.

     

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

rjsprague:

I audibly moaned when I saw the preview for this film at the theater because I saw Keanu Reeves. It was a knee-jerk reaction.

I've decided that Barack Obama would fit the role much more nicely. :)

If you've got a problem with Keanu, recast it, man!

I for one really like Keanu. Besides the good movies I listed, I thought he was exactly what the Matrix series needed. (If anyone disagrees, who would you rather see?)

And Keanu he was a charming, refreshing element of Something's Gotta Give. I wanted him to get the girl, not Jack Nicholson, and that's saying a lot because I'm a big fan of Jack.

Speaking of Obama, I had a strange experience watching Night of the Living Dead the week before the election--I felt like I was watching Obama try to survive racist slander.

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

SkyPilot:

What are your favorite biopics? I asked some friends at Spout about their favorites, and one said, "Does Braveheart count?" Here are some others they listed:

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1. Amadeus -- Watch the trailer. This one I need to watch again. I remember it as an interesting movie for anyone who feels like a Salieri when they meet a Mozart.

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GOOD MOVIES THAT COME FROM PLAYS

Amadeus if FANTASTIC!  And it ALSO comes from a play.  So it's really the all around winner of your lists this week.

I'd also mention Sleuth (haven't seen the new one yet), The Ruling Class, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (woah, Spout says there's a 2008 version of this play with Ralph Maccio too!) as some of my other favorites that are based on plays.

Re:Time Travel, Aliens, and Biopics -- New movies 12/12

Risselada:

Amadeus is FANTASTIC!  And it ALSO comes from a play.  So it's really the all around winner of your lists this week.

 

Ha, I forgot Amadeus was a play! Nice catch. I haven't seen either Sleuth, though I'm interested in it, and you're right about Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

If Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet wasn't so long, that and R&G Are Dead would make a great double feature. That would be, like, 5.5 hours in the theater.