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[cleolinda]

All right, a bit of catch-up on the linkspam:

ROCK BAND 2 ANNOUNCED ZOMG. (Again: I never played it in my life before Saturday night, and now I'm itching to play drums again.)

Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday. NOOOOOOO VISTA SUCKS YOU CAN'T MAKE ME UUUUUUUSE IIIIIIIIT.

Did Anne Hathaway Hand Her Slippery Ex To The Feds Like A Freshly Fileted Halibut? And good for her if she did!

Vanity Fair Curses A New Generation of Demi-Stars.

Sound of Aztec 'Whistles of Death' recreated.

David Griner explains social media for you. I know him! He saw Iron Man with The Vet and me! I FEEL VICARIOUSLY FAMOUS NOW.

Just wait until the tomcat who is probably your father gets home!

AMC Brings 'The Prisoner' Back To The Village. With Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen, no less.

Re: Wanted : Mark Millar Teases Next 'Wanted'?

[H]ere's the deal... had this movie's opening weekend hit 30 million then we would have a sequel. Had it hit 35 I'm told that's a franchise. Advance tracking [a few days ago] suggested we could be looking at 40. But after Friday night it looks like opening weekend could be upwards of 50 MILLION DOLLARS, with the movie scoring as high with women as men (unusual for an action movie, oddly, as all the girls I know love action movies). I thought we'd be in trouble up against that wee robot guy, but everything's going great.

So... Hollywood logic demands sequels. (The thing you have to remember is that there was never any way for Wanted to beat WALL-E, for one simple reason: the MPAA ratings. The former was R, automatically restricting its potential viewer pool; the latter was--what, G? PG? Kid-friendly, parent-approved. It's not bad that Wanted came in second; it's good--as opposed to, say, third or fourth--and even better that it came in so strongly.) The thing is--I won't specify, but there's a plot development late in the movie that pretty much left me not really wanting any sequels. I mean, I liked the movie and the plot development was logical, even a little satisfying. It's just... why would I want to see another one now? (Okay, if you must have a hint: see the last paragraph under "One of the Great Moments in Modern Cinema.")

Images: More Pics from Scorsese's 'Ashecliffe'; Johnny Depp as John Dillinger on the set of 'Public Enemies'; Rosario Dawson on the set of 'Eagle Eye'; Scully-centric X-Files stills; Adrien Brody in Dario Argento's 'Giallo'; Tyler Perry's 'The Family That Preys' Poster Premiere; 'Blindness' Poster Premiere (Why would you hire Julianne Moore and then make her go blonde?); A Couple of 'Pineapple Express' Posters; 'In Search of a Midnight Kiss' Poster Premiere; 'Elegy' Poster Premiere; Is This The First Poster From The New Transformers Movie?

Trailers and clips: New 'Dark Knight' Trailer! (I'm just going into No Spoilers, No Trailers, No Clips lockdown at this point, so I have no idea what's in it); 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' TV Spot Online; Third 'Quantum of Solace' Clip Available Online; New Hellboy II Commercial and Photos; 7 Clips From 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'; Exclusive 'Garden Party' Clip; Exclusive 'Bangkok Dangerous' Clip; 'Fly Me to the Moon' Trailer: WALL-E's Poisoned Apéritif.

trailer_spot: Quantum of Solace, Bolt, Hellboy II, Repo! The Genetic Opera.

9 Ways 'Hancock' Could Have Been A Pretty Good Movie [Hancock Review] (big spoilers).

Rumor Alert: More HBP Casting and Teaser Trailer Talk. "Hero Tiffin" may be one of the best names I've ever heard. Also: It's looking more and more likely that the HBP trailer will, in fact, run in front of The Dark Knight.

Dark Knight [Advance] Ticket Sales Eight Times as Much as Spider-Man 3; Had enough 'Dark Knight' marketing yet?; Dominos Delivers Up ‘The Dark Knight’: See The Pizza Boxes Here; The Dark Knight: An Extraordinary Cinematic Revolution; Nolan Mulls Third Bat-Movie; Discuss: Should Robin Show Up in Nolan's Batman Movies?; Adam West Wants To Play Batman Snr. In New Movie; Image of the Day: New 'Dark Knight' Poster. And it's fantastic.

One 'Hobbit' Movie to (Maybe) Rule Them All; Doug Jones Eyes Elven King Role For ‘The Hobbit.’

MTV's Twilight Tuesday: Mike Welch Is Dazzled By One Of Our Favorite Twilighters. Of course, these days, I hear the word "Lexicon" in any context and run screaming.

The '300' Prequel / Sequel That Won't Just Go Away.

Bonham Carter Joins 'Terminator: Salvation' in a "small but pivotal role."

Gillian Anderson to Play Martha Gellhorn.

Gary Oldman Will Play Three Roles in Zemeckis' 'A Christmas Carol' ...including Tiny Tim? Oh God, this is another one of Zemeckis's rotoscoped numbers, isn't it?

Phillip Noyce Attached to Direct CIA Drama 'Edwin A. Salt.'

Mark Wahlberg Updates Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fighter.'

Matthew Fox is Billy Smoke.

Megan Fox asks for brunettes to be banned from 'Transformers 2.'

No More Butterfly Effects Please [Why Is This Movie Being Made].

True or False: 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' is an actual movie, or, Entertainment Weekly only now discovers the horror.

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

True or False: 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' is an actual movie, or, Entertainment Weekly only now discovers the horror.
Oh my God, Cleo, I saw the trailer before WALL-E and...OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK BARBEQUE. It appears to be an entire movie hanging on the idea that the word "chihuahua" is funny.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

That trailer played when my boy and I went to see WALL-E, and I turned to him about halfway through and said, "...this is the most terrifying horror movie I have ever seen." and he just nodded with his face frozen in O_O mode.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I am both ZOMG HAPPY about Rock Band 2 and slightly flaily. I'd been planning on going out and buying the Rock Band guitar controller, since I have small hands and the Guitar Hero guitar I currently have is a little too big for me to venture beyond Easy - butbutbut now a SEXY NEW GUITAR is coming in THREE MONTHS and I could maybe save up enough money to get the whole RB2 set!

...but I won't be able to venture beyond Easy until I get a RB guitar.

...but I don't want TWO extra guitars, since the RB2 guitar will have functionality the RB1 guitars don't.

...but AAAAAAUGH HARMONIX I LOVEHATE YOU SO MUCH

[jcipa.livejournal.com]

How on earth did EW miss it? I saw the trailer before Prince Caspian.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOO VISTA SUCKS YOU CAN'T MAKE ME UUUUUUUSE IIIIIIIIT.

I must be the only person in the world who hasn't had problems with Vista.

Gary Oldman Will Play Three Roles in Zemeckis' 'A Christmas Carol' ...including Tiny Tim? Oh God, this is another one of Zemeckis's rotoscoped numbers, isn't it?

Zemeckis really, really needs to stop scaring the children with that. Did Polar Express really do well enough to warrant this?

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

That trailer was horrifying in ways I did not think possible. Also, a smack in the head to whoever put the shot of Machu Picchu in the trailer.

[bunnymonkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean about Wanted sequels. And yet, my shallow side (which is all of me except for maybe one tiny sliver on the left) knows that as long as there's another bit of James McAvoy walking around without his shirt on, I'll be there.

[stargategirl82.livejournal.com]

So I saw WALL-E with three of my friends and almost all adults were with us in the theatre. At the end of the Beverly Hills Chihuahua preview she says, "Why does Disney hate America?" The theatre roared!

[azuresquirrel.livejournal.com]

I know, so did I! Putting that thing in front of Prince Caspian is surely an abomination or something.

(all this Rock Band praise has me itching to try it. It was bad enough when I got hooked on Guitar Hero despite the fact that I have no consoles of my own and have to bum off of my friends, but there's nothing like playing "Beast and the Harlot" to blow off some steam)

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend and I both PHYSICALLY RECOILED from the screen when this trailer started. It's the closest I've ever come to bolting from a theater just to make it stop.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Win!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what it was at first. At first, it looked kind of interesting. And then it revealed itself to be the monstrosity it was. And I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Honest to God, I just could not understand why anyone would make this movie. It takes LOTS OF TIME AND ENERGY to make a movie. Why would anyone waste precious moments of their lives on this?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I saw it in front of Prince Caspian with a O_o stare of gaping horror the whole time. I tried to explain to my family why it was so awful, but I couldn't, because "a movie about dancing chihuahuas" just doesn't get it across. So when my mother, aunt and uncle wanted to see PC, I went again with them. And... that was when they understood.

[neveth.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm quite happy with Vista myself. *Vista-fives*

[msilverstar]

My kidlet loooooves the name "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and giggled about it for an hour straight. This data point is SCARY.

Hero Tiffin is an amazing name.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It's a really great feeling to be playing the drums and finally get into the zone and be able to hit a fairly complex pattern (not just, you know, red-yellow-red-yellow for three minutes), because you start to actually feel like you're a drummer. It starts to feel spontaneous, like you're actually playing an instrument instead of, basically, Simon Says.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

This is wrong of me, but. I want a Nolan Batman movie with Catwoman in it. Because that would be SMOKING HOT.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to make some sort of mash-up called Beverly Hills Ninja Chihuahua. That might make it all worth it. Might.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know... really, this is true. I will still pay to see it in a theater, I'm sure. They just need to find someone or something to fill the hole that is now in my heart, and I don't know if they can. *emo tear*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I know, right? It's almost as good as whoever it was (an explorer?) with the last name Pine-Coffin.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

With Angelina Jolie as Catwoman?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, it would. I love Michelle Pfeiffer's, though. I don't know if they'd try to use a character the Burton or Schumacher movies had already used, though--the Joker is obviously an exception because he's, like, THE big villain. Well, and they also used Two-Face, so maybe they would. It seems like they'd be more likely to use a Schumacher character if only because those movies were so awful and they have room to reinvent them. Whereas I don't know that I'd want them to mess with the Penguin again.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I kind of see her as Poison Ivy, for some reason.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

Hope you have 360, otherwise you're waiting longer for it to come out.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

I would be completely okay with either one, although I have to admit she was my first thought for Catwoman.