What Flippy said. I must need a testosterone shot or something because the whole thing looks ridiculous.

Some years ago there was a Saturday Night Live where Kevin Spacey hosted and did a skit about previously unseen footage of people like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau auditioning for Star Wars. I think at one point the skit had Matthau saying something like, "Where's the Wookie suit? I'm supposed to put on the suit." Too many movies today look like the actors took their check and put on the suit. Or stood in front of the green screen.

Well, maybe Matthau didn't say it. Dreyfus sort of did. At any rate, that's what I took away from the skit as a comment on the business.

Funny stuff.

Seems I was right. There was another skit with Jack Lemmon, Burt Reynolds, etc. But I can't find it.

I don't put any stock in these movies, but as long as they're not an outright assault -- or they almost purposely veer far into campiness, I don't mind seeing them once. And I'll even give a visual spectacular my in-theater dollars over a much better film that could be just as well enjoyed on my TV because it doesn't require an 80-foot screen and 375-decibel, 30-speaker sound system to do justice to its guilty pleasures.


I'm DYING to see 2012. I'm hoping it will be a laugh riot, and not merely "bad." Similarly, though I know nothing of the video game, I'm going to see Prince of Persia in theaters just for the Jake.



Sorry, but I see everything he's in. He may have forgotten me, but I'll always fondly recall our time together when he was a young man just getting started in the business.

Made my morning. Thanks.

For some reason, and against all reason, so am I. (I'm hoping for some overwrought melodrama, like back in the seventies. Ah, the classic disasters.)

I wonder what would happen if someone (Lucas-berg, maybe) went back to basics and made a feature using no CGI, only matte work, sets and all the good old fashioned trickery ?