Rogen channels SNL-alum Ferrell in 'Observe and Report'
By their own admission, "Superbad" (2007) co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg based the film's characters Seth and Evan on their loserish but horny high school selves.
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By their own admission, "Superbad" (2007) co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg based the film's characters Seth and Evan on their loserish but horny high school selves.
We are living in a time of change, when history is being made right before our eyes: America is led by a president who is not a white male, a financial crisis looms over most of the world, and one of the worst Holocaust movies in the history of cinema has won a slew of awards and an Oscar. Yes, I am talking about "The Reader" (2008).
Many Dartmouth students are tragically unaware that our beloved Winter Carnival has been made the subject of a movie. Granted, the film is decades old, unrealistic and only marginally watchable, but the point still stands.
A company of Buffalo soldiers advance on German lines across a river. The Germans' first line of defense is not formed by bunkers, bullets or explosives, but rather something far more dangerous -- words. A megaphone blares propaganda spoken by a woman in a sultry, German croon.
The Greek himself is largely the focus of this exhibit of Spanish art, currently on view. Fortunately for those who know little about painters of late- and post-Renaissance art in Spain, this exhibit offers plenty, even for the most casual art lover: I watched what must have been a 10-year-old kid who, after ambling with disinterest through a gallery of portraits, found himself in front of El Greco's wild "Annunciation" and mumbled a startled, "Wow."
"People are going to be arrested," my cab driver said.
The setup is nothing particularly novel: Brilliant forensic doctors have a secret club for committing the perfect murder as an intellectual "game." (Sounds a bit like Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 "Rope" doesn't it?)
Four friends travel to Mexico for "fun in the sun," but when they go exploring an old Mayan ruin they get much more than they bargained for: "Carnivorous vines try to ensnare the friends in their deadly tendrils, forcing the group into a brutal battle for survival," reads one synopsis of "The Ruins" (2008). No, I'm not kidding. "The Ruins" is indeed about man-eating vines and words like "parody" and "spoof" are conspicuously absent from every description of this film. This is a serious movie -- as serious as a movie about killer vines can be.
Let's get one thing straight: Cliches and stereotypes abound in this film. The two writers, Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb, should be ashamed of themselves. They have created a vapid, mediocre script, though they did not have to create any novel ideas of their own -- the film is adapted from a non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich. "Bringing Down the House" (2003), chronicled a group of MIT students-turned"card-counters and their turbulent "weekend lives" in Las Vegas.
"Funny Games" is a remake, but it's not a remake in the traditional sense. It's the exact same movie with a different cast of characters filmed in a different location. Everything else is exactly as it was filmed in the original -- shot-for-shot, line-for-line. Haneke even went through the trouble of having the exact same blueprints for the vacation house where most of the film takes place. Because his original "Funny Games" (1997) was in German and subtitled, he believes it didn't reach American audiences.
The director then went on to elaborate on how he ate his own coagulated blood, in response to the vampirism rumors spread by Sergio Klainer, the star of Jodorowsky's first full-length film, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Editor's Note: This is the second part in a weekly series examining films of the past.
But even though "The Kite Runner" is trite and unremarkable in almost every, it somehow manages to be an enjoyable movie.
Editor's Note: This is the first part in a weekly series examining forgotten films.