Well folks, I love to rag on Hollywood for being out of ideas, but credit where credit’s due, this weekend there are two big movies opening, and they’re tracking 98 and 94% recommended on rottentomatoes, respectively, which is better than any damn weekend I can remember (that’s fancy writer talk for “I don’t want to look it up”).
Up
I bow before Pixar. You haters can over-politicize it all you want, but Wall E was one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last few years. And by many accounts, Up is just as good. How do they do it? I hear they bathe in the blood of Christian babies. It’s true. I read that somewhere.
Drag Me to Hell
The trailer may not look like much, but keep in mind this is Sam Raimi we’re talking. Throw out emo Spider-Man and you’ve got movies like Spider-Man 2 (possibly my favorite comic-book movie) and Army of Darkness (GRR, CHAINSAW HAND). Plus, everyone says it’s good. And who are you to argue with everyone? You’re just some asshole on a computer.
Limited Release:
“Hell day” on FilmDrunk continues with this new poster for Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell (which actually looks like it could be decent). I like the tagline - it’s very versatile. You can tell it’s not a comedy because of all the flames, but slap that same pitch on a poster of Larry the Cable Guy and his estranged city-slicker daughter who gets stuck with him on a fishin trip? You’d be prepared for hijinks.
[via shocktillyoudrop]
Most horror movies are just a mash-up of lame clichés. Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi’s first directing effort since the Spider-Man trilogy, comes from a cliché that might just be old enough to seem fresh again. Poor old lady needs help, protagonist fails to help her, old lady turns out to be a demon and drags her to hell. Or maybe in the story I’m thinking of, the old lady turns out to be Jesus. Or was it a genie? F-ck, I can never remember keep this religious stuff straight.
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28-year-old actress Alison Lohman (Big Fish, Matchstick Men) has been cast as the lead in Sam Raimi’s upcoming "supernatural thriller" Drag Me to Hell, replacing Juno star Ellen Page, who left due to "scheduling issues."
Th film, which will mark Raimi’s first helming effort since "Spider-Man 3," centers on the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse. [Variety]
This is a contoversial decision, but I for one am behind it 100%. Alison Lohman is a fine young actress who’s shown a real propensity for almost having her nipple showing in public - and it looks like a nice puffy nipple, the kind of nipple that says "fun".
But if you forced me to pick a favorite role, I’d have to go with her spellbinding performance in whatever this movie is (NWS).
