Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

Rewriting DVD Marketing Blurbs #2: Syriana

December 2nd, 2009 by Todd

What the back of the DVD says:

Big oil means big money.  Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast – and ensnares industrialists, princes, spies, politicos, oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly, deceptive web of move and countermove.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

August 26th, 2009 by Film Pigs

The Film Pigs trudge to the cineplex with a vain hope that they will be treated to the Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino but get Death Proof Quentin instead. Nazi-nazi-nazi. Talk-talk-talk. Bore-bore-bore. Explosion. Scalping. Sigh… (IMDb)

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DVD COMMENTARY: Twilight (2008)

July 31st, 2009 by Film Pigs

dvdcover100w_twilightYou missed it. You demanded it. And now you have it: the first Film Pigs commentary in almost a year! Who would have thought it was possible to procrastinate so long on a money-losing hobby?

If you love dull, corporate movie adaptations of dull, corporate novels for teen girls then have we got a treat for you! Twilight, the blockbuster adaptation of the bestselling novel series, brings us the story of Bella, a pale girl who is not even slightly interesting and Edward, her vampire boyfriend who glows like David Bowie in the sunlight and has a severe allergic reaction to Bella’s pungent vagina. Additionally, they both have ludicrously manicured and highly distracting eyebrows.

Dull, inoffensive teen angst is the best you can hope for these days. It’s almost like movies are being made by marketing committees that are only concerned about how much money they can make. It’s weird. At the risk of sounding old (which isn’t a risk at all, the Film Pigs ARE old), when you put Twilight next to the teen angst vampire movie of our generation, The Lost Boys (1987), there really is no comparison. Jason Patric would kick Robert Pattinson’s ass any day of the week. And his eyebrows are dreamier.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Hurt Locker (2008)

July 6th, 2009 by Film Pigs

Like a sunny day in Seattle or a Today Show with a lucid Willard Scott, the rare event has happened again, the Film Pigs enjoy a movie! If you like your Iraq bomb diffusing movies staring former reality show subjects, The Hurt Locker is the flick for you.

Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

April 9th, 2009 by Skelton

Awesome:

  • Keanu Reeves arrives on earth in a slimy spacesuit that is described as “like a placenta.”
  • New York City is nearly completely destroyed by a giant cloud of robot nanobugs.

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