Trailer Watch: September 3, 2010
And so ends one of the slowest weeks ever. Here's your lone new poster today.
YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, poster #2
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Plot Summary: The latest relationship comedy from Woody Allen featuring a washed-up writer, his conflicted wife, an divorcee looking to find love again, a talented musician and a host of others. Release Date: September 22, 2010 |
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Rating: B- Commentary: I've never been a fan of this style poster, but somehow it works. It's not your regular litany of film images, each actor gets his own strip and several pictures within. It's not too bad to look at and fits the ensemble style of a Woody Allen film. |
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Film Fun Friday #21
Welcome once again to Film Fun Friday where we want you to have fun. If you have further suggestions on how we can improve, ideas for other games you'd like to see or just want to tell us how much fun you're having, feel free to drop us a Comment. If you would like to submit a puzzle of your own, just send me a PM on the discussion forums.
(Please use the [.spoiler] [./spoiler] tags. Just put your answer between the two bracketed tags and remove the periods. Let everyone have some fun without getting their answers spoiled)
Game: Identify the Poster
Here are your posters for this week. Once again, we have a foreign-language poster and a negative image poster.
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This Day in Oscar History: September 3
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
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Trailer Watch: September 2, 2010
Still no new trailers. This is the kind of doldrums I'm used to seeing in the week between Christmas and New Year's. Who knows what's going on. Anyway, we have two secondary posters for a couple of existing previews: Inside Job and Monsters.
INSIDE JOB, poster #2
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Plot Summary: An examination of the financial crisis brought about by corporate greed and malfeasance. Release Date: October 8, 2010 |
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Rating: C+ Commentary: Fitting enough, this pile of money. It's not a great poster and the background is a bit too flooded with words, but it could have been worse. |
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Feed the Queue #10
The winner this week, with a one-point advantage over its nearest competitor is The Lion in Winter. Little Women came in second with The Big Lebowski coming in a distant third. I have added The Lion in Winter to my queue today and will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on September 13. NOTE: Due to the unavailability of The Wicker Man at my nearest Netflix facility, they have had to send it from a different one. While I should have it for the weekend, I give you fair warning that it may not be available for my report next Monday.
Here's the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I'll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you'll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.
To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I've seen (or at least that I have personally logged).
Full List of Films I've Seen (some titles missing)
Here's what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):
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Tentpole Season: 2010 Summer Preview Wrap-Up
The best way to characterize this Summer was that I severely over-estimated the performances of nearly every film…either that or audiences just didn’t turn out where I thought they would. Aside from a few near-on predictions, most of the films weren’t. Although not all films have left theaters yet, we can probably tell from current estimates how close I’m going to end up being on some of them. And, considering this was my first time with such an expansive seasonal preview, I really don't think I did as bad as I could have. I will definitely try to do better when I preview the upcoming Awards Season (coming soon).
Here's a week-by-week breakdown of all the films I cataloged in my first article along with my thoughts on the film's box office performance. The only week where the top new release wasn't one of the films I previewed was the week of Vampires Suck which took just about everyone by surprise. Next time, I may do a month-by-month follow-up on the preview article (coming soon) I write.
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This Day in Oscar History: September 2
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Trailer Watch: September 1, 2010
One lonely new trailer today.
THE NEXT THREE DAYS
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Plot Summary: After his wife is put in prison for murder, a desperate husband decides to break her out so he and his family can live in peace. Release Date: November 19, 2010 |
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Rating: A- Commentary: Much like one of my favorite posters of the last few years (Premonition), The Next Three Days composites a single image from several others, but it's done more creatively than it implies. It's not series of shots from the film covering the poster, it's a combination of city map and images as if this is what might be displayed in the police station in the film as they try to keep the escapee and her husband from escaping. |
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Game: Awards Season Box Office Predictions
Welcome to Cinema Sight's new, four-week competition! If you think you are a terrific box office prognosticator, here's your chance to prove it. This contest will run from the weekend of September 3-5, 2010 through the weekend of December 31-January 2, 2011.
This is an 18-week contest where each week your predictions can earn you points with the highest point total declared winner. This four-month competition will add some new elements, but not all of them are required. There will be 1 game with 3 divisions. You're welcome to participate in any or all of them. Points will be totaled separately; and for those who participate in all three, points will also be kept for all three combined.
AFTER you finish reading the rules, be sure to post your predictions for this week.
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Looking at the Weekend: September 3-5, 2010
George Clooney takes on Danny Trejo at the box office this weekend and it's bound to be a blow out match. The American stars Clooney as a hitman performing what he hopes to be his final job. Machete stars Trejo as a vengeance seeking vigilante promising to bring the pain. Trying to muscle into their competition are Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in the long-distance romantic comedy Going the Distance. Joining the three wide releases this week are limited releases for documentary The Tillman Story, high school gym comedy The Winning Season and South African wedding comedy White Wedding.
Consensus
Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the percentage of our contributors who agree with the statement.
The American: It's a full split verdict with each of us feeling wildly different about the film, but each likely to watch it at some point. We all agree that it's an Oscar contender (100%), only Tripp thinks it's a major one.
Machete: We are split on whether or not to see the film (50%), but agree it's not an Oscar contender (100%).
Going the Distance: We generally won't be seeing it (75%) and it isn't an Oscar contender (100%).
The Tillman Story: Mostly erring on the side of watching it (75%) and generally consider it to be an Oscar contender (75%)
The Winning Season: We're not sure whether to watch it or not (50%), but we're certain that there are no Oscars in the film's future (100%)
White Wedding: Another split verdict (50%) an another unified anti-Oscar sentiment (100%)
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ThoughtsThe first trailer had me thinking I wanted to see it. The second trailer assured me I didn't. Now, I'm not so sure. A lot depends on the response form fellow critics. |
ThoughtsGeorge Clooney's star power notwithstanding, this is a 60s style art house flick a la Antonioni which could be intriguing, or could prove to be a missed opportunity. |
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ThoughtsIt could be entertaining and could yield an Oscar nomination for George Clooney, although I think it's probably unlikely. |
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Top 3: August 27-29, 2010
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| 2. | The Last Exorcism | ||
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| 3. | The Expendables | ||
| $9.5M | (Total: $82.0M) | ||
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