Release Dates Jul 24 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Theater Releases for July 25th, 2008
Introduction goes here. [To my editor: Please just pull something random out of the New Yorker and put it here, or something. I want to look intelligent, but writing an introduction to these two movies is a lot of work and a waste of my time.]
The X-files: I Want to Believe
Okay…so I never got around to watching the show, or even the first movie, but I was repeatedly told that it’s the sort of thing I “might like.” Unfortunately, in the 90’s, I was busy doing important things that would change the world, so I never found time to waste hours in front of the TV, warping my brain with crackpot conspiracy theories. At this stage of life, though, that sounds pretty good. So I might check this one out…if THEY don’t get to me first.
Recommended if this is the sort of thing you “might like”
Step Brothers
I haven’t done any research on this one, but I think it’s about a pair of brothers who live on the steppe, or something (geez, way to spell, Hollywood). And one of them is, like, Will Something, and the other is John C. Whatever. And yeah, that’s pretty much it. (Question: does anyone care about this movie? If you do, please let me know…I really want to know who you are.)
Recommended if you have a choice between watching this and committing a felony. Nah, on second thought, go with the felony.
on Jul 24 2008 @ 10:09 pm 1. Cinexcellence said …
Dude, tell Evan to get his butt in theater for TDK again.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 12:51 am 2. Luke Harrington said …
I would, but he’s a little sick of me nagging him. I don’t want to get fired or anything.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 8:08 am 3. G said …
I would care about Step Brothers if they’d let me. Talledega Nights was a contemporary masterpiece of stupidity. But this one…I think the well is running dry.
(That’s the Ferrell well, not the Apatow well. Pineapple Express, here we come!)
on Jul 25 2008 @ 8:34 am 4. Evan Derrick said …
If the Apatow well isn’t running dry, then it’s at least getting a bit dusty around the edges. The ‘Apatow Montage,’ in which our man child grows up and gets all responsible to the strains of some weepy pop song, is in full effect in Step Brothers. I have every hope that Pineapple Express will be excellent, but I’m trusting more in David Gordon Green than Judd Apatow at this moment.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 10:19 am 5. Daniel said …
Temper those expectations. Pineapple was far from excellent. I’m spreading the early word and going out on a limb, because I still expect people to love it.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 11:25 am 6. Evan Derrick said …
Wow, you guys sure are clamoring for a Dark Knight review. I have my tickets to the IMAX for tomorrow, so expect the review either on Sunday or Monday. I know I’m late to the party, but hopefully the read will be worth it.
on Jul 26 2008 @ 12:44 pm 7. Whitney said …
I hope you like The X-files. I don’t know how much X-files mythology will be in there, but at Wonder con they swore it would be accessible to non-fans as well as fans. I put myself in the rampant latter category, by the way.
on Jul 28 2008 @ 5:06 am 8. Thadd Harrington said …
Hey, hey Luke, I just thought I’d let you know, my bus driver said that he went to see Step Brothers and he loved it. He said the first hour was constant laughter. So there is at least one person who cares.