NEW BOND MOVIE HAS FIRST TRAILER

06.30.08 Written by Vince Mancini

James Bond has the coolest appendix scar

After the jump I’ve got the first teaser trailer from the cursed set of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie coming November 7th.

Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country’s water supply.

The Daniel Craig Bond is my favorite James Bond incarnation so far because he’s less a silky-smooth secret agent and more a psychopathic murderer with anger issues.  He seems to derive much of his power from his extreme fits of rage.  Don’t ask me why I find that more appealing.  I guess it’s just nice to live vicariously through someone who harnesses his anger to stab bad guys and bang hot chicks when you spend so much of your time punching things during hissy fits then jumping around the room cursing the bones in your hand for being so brittle.  Take that, wall!  That’ll teach you to just sit there while I burn my mouth on this Hot Pocket!

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NIC CAGE F’N HATES WATER BOTTLES

06.30.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Nic Cage and his big shiny forehead are back in this band new clip from Bangkok Dangerous. While it’s not quite as good as the last clip, in which Nic Cage is wearing a hat, and then all of a sudden he’s not wearing a hat but he’s chopping off some guy’s arm with a boat propeller, it is… uh… red. Actually, it most reminds me of the scene in Naked Gun where Frank Drebin and a bad guy are shooting at each other on a rooftop but they’re only a couple feet away from each other. Nic Cage is kind of like a real-life Frank Drebin, in that he’s the only one who doesn’t realize he’s in a spoof movie.  Unless he does realize it but wants people to think he doesn’t.  Maybe his forehead is so big because he’s a cartoon super villain.

[Thanks to Robo for the tip, slightly better quality clip available here

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BOX OFFICE: PIXAR STILL PRINTING MONEY

06.30.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Not surprisingly, G-Rated Wall E edged out R-Rated Wanted for the top spot at the box office this weekend.  Having seen it, I can report that it’s both a great movie and a good place to pick up elementary school chicks.

  WALL-E," the Pixar Animation tale of a robot toiling away on a long-abandoned Earth, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $62.5 million in ticket sales, with Jolie’s assassin thriller "Wanted" opening in second place with $51.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
  The two movies combined to keep Hollywood on a roll. The top 12 movies took in $179.2 million, up 22 percent from the same weekend last year, when Pixar’s "Ratouille" opened with $47 million. It was the fifth straight weekend that revenues climbed. [CNN]

Meanwhile, The Love Guru grossed $5.4 million in its second weekend (coming in at number 6).  Its $19 million dollar cumulative take is just a few dollars shy of earning back Mike Myer’s budget for silly wigs.  (full top ten after the jump)

1. "WALL-E," $62.5 million.
2. "Wanted," $51.1 million.
3. "Get Smart," $20 million.
4. "Kung Fu Panda," $11.7 million.
5. "The Incredible Hulk," $9.2 million.
6. "The Love Guru," $5.4 million.
7. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," $5 million.
8. "The Happening," $3.9 million.
9. "Sex and the City," $3.8 million.
10. "You Don’t Mess With the Zohan," $3.2 million.  

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COMMENTS OF THE WEEK (NOW WITH PRIZE)

06.30.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Here on FilmDrunk, we like to reward the commenters who make us laugh.  Nominate your favorite for next week’s Comments of the Week here (post is hidden, so bookmark it). 

This week’s winner will receive The X-Files: Revelations, "a two-disc compilation of eight critical episodes, hand-picked by series creator Chris Carter, which are the perfect grounding for the movie, X-Files: I Want to Believe."  In stores July 8th.  So who’s the lucky winner?  It was tough, but I had to go with JHC for his alternate caption on the Quentin Tarantino thread:

JHC says, "Hey Q!  Do that bad ass impression of a Labradoodle getting out of the water."
::photographer nudges dude next to him::
"You gotta see this shit man.  He fuckin’ nails it."

Meanwhile, Rotwangchung was all over the place last week:

From the George Lucas goes to Washington thread: Rotwangchung says, "Is that neck bladder Lucas’s defense mechanism?  Did someone startle him by having an idea that wasn’t retarded?"

From the Sienna Miller’s Boobs are Too Small thread: Rotwangchung says, "I stopped attending meetings of the Itty Bitty Titty Committe because "new business" was always just crying, gorging on ice cream and trading blow-job tips."

From the Rose McGowan/Red Sonja Thread: Rotwangchung says, "If McGowan were an eighty-year-old male blues harmonica player, her name would be "Fishbelly White."" 

The rest need no neither context nor introduction.

From the Tarantino thread: Donkey Hodey says, "No Mr. Tarantino, they’ve already cast Harvey Dent and shot the film."

From the Spirit Posters thread: Donkey Hodey says, "The ellipses that end each of the quotes are all borrowed from Morgan Freeman’s face."

From the Hulk Review thread: Chino Moreno says, "Banner pic: Hulk PARKOUR!!!" 

From the Eagle Eye Trailer thread (starring Shia LaBeouf): Hans Gruber says, "Never trust a man whose last name sounds like a sound effect from The old Batman series with french subtitles."

From the Fool’s Gold DVD thread: Witty Nickname says, "I refuse to contribute to the sales numbers for this movie. I’ll just pyrite it." [Grooooaaaannnn

From the New Dark Knight Pics thread, Pauly Dangerously says, "This is the ‘Good cop, Bat cop’ scene…" [Double Grooooaaannnn] 

From the More Dark Knight Pics thread, RoboPanda says, "THEN WHAT ABOUT THE BATCAVE?  Will it be full of bats?  Are those stalagmites or stalagtites?  Will Robin escape from the sex swing?  TUNE IN NEXT WEEK."

And last but not least, possibly my favorite one-off comment of all time:

From the Tale of Despereaux thread: Guy_Who_Says_Fuck_At_Shitty_Movies says, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"  [See what he did there?  Brilliant.]  

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WEEKEND PREVIEW: WALL E VS. WANTED

06.27.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Opening this weekend in wide release

Wall-E
If you think you’re cuter than this robot, you probably hate yourself deep down and are subconsciously trying to make yourself feel better by overcompensating.  Maybe you were molested as a child.  I mean, I’m just sayin’.  The robot’s pretty cute. 

Wanted
I’ve read good reviews of this from critics I respect, but from the clips I’ve seen, the fancy visuals don’t outweigh James McAvoy’s facial gymnastics, the constant whining, and the bad, annoying accent.  Fancy action scenes in a movie like this seem like putting lipstick on a pig, or a monocle on a retard. Okay, that second one might actually be pretty sweet.

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