New ‘Snide Remarks’; new movie reviews; new everything!
Whichever one of you jokers ordered a Monday, here it is. The rest of us were enjoying Sunday just fine, thank you.
The new “Snide Remarks” is posted here. It will not be brief, and you will not enjoy it. The podcast version is forthcoming; I’m hoping the scratchy throat I have will clear up.
Meanwhile, as promised, I have reviews of the five movies that opened Friday that I didn’t already have reviews of. They are:
“The Last Mimzy” (YAY!)
“The Hills Have Eyes II” (BOO!)
“TMNT” (MEH!)
Pride” (DOUBLE MEH!)
“Shooter” (YAY, SORT OF!)
I spent a lot of time at the Century 16 Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton on Friday and Saturday. It’s certainly not the closest theater to my house, but it was the only place showing all five movies I needed to see, and showing them at intervals that would make it convenient to pay for one film and sneak into one or two additional ones afterward.
(I don’t feel too guilty about doing that, by the way. I could have seen them all for free at the press screenings anyway, if I hadn’t been out of town.)
It was fun to estimate where the films would end up in the weekend box office list based on how full the theaters were when I saw them. Turns out I got their relative order exactly right, which means Beaverton, Ore., is fairly representative of American movie-going habits.
There was a family watching “The Hills Have Eyes II,” a mom and dad and their four kids, ages 8-16 (I’m guessing). Two boys and two girls. What kind of parents would let kids that young watch something as ghastly as “The Hills Have Eyes II”? The bad kind, that’s what. I’m 32, and if it were up to her, my mom STILL wouldn’t let me watch it.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:18 am
People that bring thier kids to movies like that are morons. When I watched “300″, there was a family with thier 7 year old son, and 8 year old daughter there, and a couple with a baby that couldn’t have been more than 2.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:48 am
I’m a fairly outspoken person and I’ll tell parents they shouldn’t have their kids in a rated R movie (for this reason, my wife doesn’t like to take me to the movies anymore…). It just makes me so mad! It makes absolutely NO sense for them to do that to their children! It should really be considered child abuse.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Umm… I think the link for “The Hills Have Eyes II” is broken.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Wait! That’s not what I meant! I meant the LINK works, but when you get to the page, it’s one of those empty, unwritten-in ones.
March 26th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
… And the page says that the movie was released Wednesday, December 31, 1969. Maybe that’s it…?
March 26th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
The link seems to be fixed now.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:06 am
My wife is from Beaverton. Just thought you’d all like to know.