The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Films

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Sorry for the late post, but I totally forgot to edit everything. Listen in to John, Ross and myself as we discuss Saturday Night Live, MacGruber, and its attempts to break into the movie market.

We also give our Good, Bad and Ugly SNL movies. Do you agree with us? Think we’re way off? Send us an email to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com or a voice mail via Skype to let us know what your favorite SNL movie is and why.

Mark

GOOD: Blues Brothers BAD: Blues Brothers 2000 UGLY: It’s Pat

John

GOOD: Wayne’s World BAD: Superstar UGLY: The Ladies Man

Ross

GOOD: Wayne’s World BAD: Night at the Roxbury UGLY: Stuart Saves His Family

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The Summer Movie Season is upon us, and while some upcoming films look great, others… well, not so much! Ross gives us a recap of the 2009 Summer Movie Season before we list off the 2010 fare that looks Bad or Ugly.

Make sure to come back next week when we list the movies we are looking forward to this summer as well as list our all time favourite Summer Blockbusters!

John was not able to join us this week, but will be back on the Tuesday Podcast!

Ross

Ugly

Survival of the Dead

The Karate Kid

Step Up 3D

Knight & Day

Bad

Piranha 3D

The Expendables

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Prince of Persia

The A-Team

Expendables Trailer-2

Allen

Ugly

Step Up 3D

Twilight: Eclipse

Prince of Persia

The Last Airbender

Bad

Predators

Piranha 3D

Centurion

Robin Hood

The Expendables

The A-Team

Piranha 3D [Teaser Trailer]

Mark

Ugly

Piranha 3D

Jonah Hex

Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Chain Letter

Beastly

Bad

MacGruber

Takers

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The Karate Kid

The A-Team

Jonah Hex [Trailer]

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Good

Someone actually found an unintended use for Twitter. Beyond the micro-blogging, the ranting, and the messages about the Shit My Dad Says, it turns out to be a fairly accurate predictor of a movie’s box office revenue.

Researchers, Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman from HP Labs in Palo Alto, counted over 3 million “tweets” over 3 months, then compared them to box office revenues. The frequency of tweets correlated directly to the money coming in. More accurate than any other method to date.

However, when it comes to the accuracy of forecasts, counting the rate of tweeting trounces the Hollywood Stock Exchange, say Asur and Huberman: “Our predictions are consistently better than those produced by an information market such as the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the gold standard in the industry.”

-Technology Review

Of course, now that this has been found out, watch studios try to game the system by flooding the twitter feeds with movie tweets.

Bad

As much as I dislike Saturday Night Live and find the majority of their segments overly long and most of their movie adaptations a torturous 90 version of the same bits, there have been a few exceptions. MacGruber is shaping up to be one of them.

What started off as a slightly funny bit that was a rip off of MacGuyver (which was funny in its own way), has turned into a feature length movie, with Val Kilmer as the main villain no less.

Being a fan of Richard Dean Anderson and the original MacGuyver, I watched the clips online from his appearance on SNL and all of the MacGruber stuff. I found the concept weak and mildly funny. When I heard that they were making a movie out of it, I figured that it was going to be more of the same and not worth my time. Then the second Red Band trailer came out for it…

Now that I’ve seen this, I kind of want to see it. It kind of feels like it’s going to be a bit of a rip-off of Get Smart, with the bumbling agent and the very capable sidekicks, but I had some laugh out loud moments watching the trailer. I don’t think it’s going to be a good movie, by any stretch of the imagination, but one I’ll still watch, nonetheless, for the mindless comedy.

Ugly

I found this article on Cinematical about a theatre in Dallas, Texas warning patrons that a movie was going to have subtitles. I share the same befuddlement as the author. Has the American audience become that short of attention that they need to be warned away from something that might make them read? Have we all become too used to quick edits and flashy explosions that to have to read the dialogue too, would just be too much?

The movie in question was Mother, a Korean language film by the director of The Host, Bong Joon-ho.

This reminded me of the dumbing down of the subtitles for the North American release of Let The Right One In. You can read all about that here.

I just don’t understand people that won’t give a movie a chance because it has subtitles. I would have missed out on so many great foreign films if I didn’t like to read. Too many to list here.

It’s out 25th episode, and we go epic with it! we have plenty to talk about, and talk plenty we do… here’s the spin – 50% more podcast than usual!! ¦¬) We introduce a new segment this week with our Themed Good, Bad & Ugly Lists reflecting the theme of a newly released film – This week list is Party Movies to commemorate “The Hangover.” Next week we will list Hostage Movies in conjunction with “The Taking Pelham 123.” If you would like to share your examples of a Good, Bad and Ugly Hostage film, submit them to podcast@goodbaduglyfilms.com Feel free to submit news/story ideas as well! Enjoy the podcast.

Box Office

• Weekend Grosses (Up, Hangover, Land of the Lost)
• Opening this Week (Taking of Pelham 123, Imagine That)

GBUF

• Party Movies

Recycling

• James Cameron Might Be Directing a Heavy Metal Segment?!
• Producer Hints at Spider-Man 4 Villains, Says Dunst Will Return
• Tony Scott Explains Why He’s Moving The Warriors to LA
• Blade Runner Getting a Prequel Web Series Sometime Soon
• Rodriguez Says He’s Hoping to Shoot The Jetsons Next Year?!
• ‘Short Circuit’ gets ‘Robot’ touch
• Wimmer to write ‘Total Recall’ remake
• Will We See Another Scream Trilogy with the Original Cast?
• ‘Barbarella’: ‘Legally Blonde’ director Robert Luketic to helm remake?
• Heathers Sequel

“Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God,” she told the magazine. “But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don’t want to talk about it. I’ve been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character.”

-Winona Ryder

• ‘Valley Girl’ redux set
• Universal and Hasbro to Produce ‘Stretch Amstrong’
• Must Watch: First Insane Teaser Trailer for [Rec] 2!
• Disney to leverage licensed characters
• A ‘MacGruber’ movie: Worst idea ever?
• Tobin Bell Confirms ‘Saw 8′ Rumors, Doesn’t Dismiss 9th Film!
• First Look: Josh Brolin as the Disfigured Bounty Hunter Jonah Hex

Stories

• Carradine’s death may be accidental
• Cameron’s Avatar Gets Revealed in Video Game Screenshots
• More Avatar
• Harry Potter’s IMAX Opening Delayed Two Weeks by Transformers
• Judge sends ‘Rings’ case to jury
• BitTorrent users spend money, too

-They buy 34% more movie tickets, purchase 34% more DVDs and rent 24% more movies than the average Internet user.

-They tend to have more and better equipment for consuming media, including home theaters and expensive computers with large screens.

-They spend less time watching TV, more online, and far more watching downloaded or streaming video.

-They’re not only early adopters, they’re more likely to share their opinions online, and with more people.

- Jon Healey

• ‘Bruno’ suit no laughing matter
• ‘Watchmen’ Blu-ray Bulked Up in UK
• Sigourney Weaver To Join Paul?
• Luc Besson probes third dimension
• Mike Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat Finally Coming to Theaters!

• Google the Movie
• ‘Angel of Death’ Summoned By Spike TV, DVD To Follow
• Will Ferrell talks THE B-TEAM – His Next Film With Director Adam McKay
• Francis Ford Coppola to Movieline: ‘Godfather Never Should Have Had More Than One Movie’
• Animation Upstarts Are Joining the Fray
• Fox Searchlight preps ‘Kidnap’

The Ugly

• Audience Comfort with the Familiar
• Warner Bros TV advertising of Gran Torino to Home Video

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