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That’s it. Hollywood is officially a depleted sow. The field has been plowed and planted so many times that nothing fresh is growing in it. It’s dead, Jim.

Find out about it here, in a story primarily about another remake (of Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill).

Incidentally, I watched last year’s remake of The Omen a few days ago on HBO. That was another classic movie that never warranted a remake, at all. The same is true for Conan the Barbarian (can you believe a few weeks ago was the 25th anniversary of it’s premiere?).

In my opinion, Conan the Barbarian is about as perfect a movie as you can find. So many great elements all working together in that film… The soundtrack by Basil Poledouris is easily one of the most listened-to things on my MP3 player whenever I’m driving (I love all the tracks but ...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the first movie of the 2007 summer season that I can honestly say I left the theater completely satisfied after seeing it. This, despite the dizzying Byzantine labyrinth of sub-stories and political schemes and double-crossing backstabs you have to navigate through in watching this movie.

The first advice I can give about going to see At World’s End is to go to the restroom before the movie starts… and buy a small or medium drink at the concession stand, not large. Clocking in at very nearly three hours, this movie is a bladder-buster. But if you go away for even a few minutes during any part of the movie, you are assured to miss some critical bit of story or plot device. This isn’t like any of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings where you could go “answer the call of ...

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… Star Wars was born.

You’ve come a long way, baby.

Happy birthday to the greatest movie saga ever.

(Don’t forget that today is the day that the Star Wars postage stamps go on sale at U.S. Post Offices across America. I’ll be going to get mine in the next little while 🙂...

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I doubt it.

The Internets have been buzzing all day – spurred on by a story from the Daily Telegraph – about a supposed “major announcement” tomorrow at Star Wars Celebration IV: that George Lucas is going to make another Star Wars movie.

I’m not going to be at this year’s Celebration, but I was at the second in 2002 and the third in 2005 (both in Indianapolis) and trust me: this thing seems to breed wild rumors like you can’t imagine. Over the course of two Celebrations I’ve heard that: Hugh Jackman was confirmed to be in Episode III, that we would find out the name of Yoda’s race, that George Lucas was “definitely” coming to Celebration II (he didn’t, but we did see him at Celebration III), that the adjacent stadium would be used to host the first public showing of Revenge of the Sith for convention ...

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In an exclusive report that is sure to drop jaws all over the place, Ain’t It Cool News is claiming to be the first outlet with news about casting for the upcoming Watchmen movie adaptation (I keep tellin’ yas, it’s not gonna work as a 2-3 hour movie). According to the story, Jude Law is probably gonna be playing Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias… which isn’t something I was expecting to hear, but I could see that working.

Oh yeah, and Keanu Reeves as Dr. Manhattan.

Ummmmm… saywhu…??

If you’ve never read Watchmen, the image on the right is what Dr. Manhattan looks like. So if you can imagine Keanu Reeves as a bald, blue, naked, God-like being…

…which I can’t…

On the other hand, I think Reeves did an outstanding job handling the material of the Matrix movies, and Watchmen is on that same level of “thinking man’s” ...

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Shrek the Third made me so drowsy with boredom that I had to take a long nap when I got home. And it still dulls my mind to think about it.

This movie is so lousy that I’m not even going to waste the time to give it a full review, like I usually do whenever writing about a movie here. I don’t want to spend another moment of my life meditating upon it. But, I feel like there’s a moral obligation to warn you, Constant Reader, about it… so for sake of that alone I’m going to give you my bare minimum thoughts about it.

The first third of the movie isn’t pretty bad. There were some rather funny bits to it, even. But it’s not long into Shrek’s search for Arthur that this movie becomes tedious and lame and completely inert of the wit that made Shrek and ...

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About 36 hours ago on Friday night I posted about some of the developments that came out this past week about The Dark Knight: next year’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins. One of the things I posted was that great “Harvey Dent for District Attorney” graphic. And I closed out the post by saying “Now if only a really good picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker could turn up somewhere…”

I had no idea this was coming. Honest, folks. It was a crazy coincidence…

…’cuz this past day or so the publicity gang for The Dark Knight has been doing something very, very crafty. Yesterday another website turned up at ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com. When that page loaded, this is what you got:

And after a few seconds, that graphic started “peeling away” pixel by pixel, like so:

The page has fill-in forms where you enter your e-mail address ...

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