Preqeuls and Sequels That I Would Enjoy Seeing

1. Prequel: Ocean’s Eleven (2001): The story of how Danny met Rusty, Danny met Tess, Tess and Danny split. That would be a movie worth seeing.
2. Sequel: The Bourne Ultimatum (2007): Yeah, I know. This is the sequel of a sequel. Yet Ultimatum leaves the series wide open. What happens to Bourne? Does he meet up with Nicky? Does he discover the remainder of his past? Twilight Sone theme plays…
3. Sequel: Hitch (2004): So, Will Smith gets the girl. Then what? Oh, I forgot to say that Kevin James gets the girl(What?). I’d like to see someone, a young guy, be a new Hitch in a different setting. Show flashbacks to Smith training the kid.

Now, sequels that are coming, some I’d like to see and some I wouldn’t. Note: These are the ones you haven’t heard of yet. You’ve heard of Prince Caspian, Quantam of Solace, and The Dark Knight.

1. Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian (2009): I loved the original. Robin Williams was hi-larious. So was Owen Wilson. Anyway, if this movie is to succeed, then Shawn Levy needs to bring them back or get someone big to represent Abe Lincoln and George Washington.
2. The Pink Panther 2 (2009): Shawn Levy must love making sequels. He is also directing this movie where Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) is joined by a team of others (including Alfred Molina and Andy Garcia) to find a globe-trotting theif who steals historical artifacts.

This is a list of sequels that have been reported without a substantial amount of information:

1. Wild Hogs 2 (2010)
2. Transformers 2 (2009)
3. The Fast and the Furious 4 (2009)
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
5. Spider-Man 4 (2010)

Worst Movies I Have Ever Seen

This is a list of some of the worst movies I have ever seen.1. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) This animated Brad Pitt/Michelle Pfeiffer-lead adventure made $6.8 million the first weekend then just over $20 million the next 2 months. Shows that Brad Pitt needs either Angelina Jolie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith) or George Clooney (Ocean’s trilogy) to succeed. OPEN WEEKEND: $6.874 mil. CLOSE: $26.288 mil.2. Live Free or Die Hard (2007) I saw this movie at a friend’s house not too long ago. The action really drove the film, but that was it. There was no spectacular plot. It was just some guy trying to take over the world. It’s the typical action film that makes a lot of money because of awesome visual effects. OPEN WEEKEND:  $33.369 mil. CLOSE: $134.275 mil.3. The Longest Yard (2005) This Adam Sandler movie made an attempt to make a football comedy. What the filmmaker didn’t understand is that football movies need to be serious, sports movies in general need, to be taken seriously. Movies like Facing the Giants, Miracle, and The Rookie stay away from overwhelming  comedic outbursts and come out as spectacular. OPEN WEEKEND: $26.078 mil. CLOSE: $158.115 mil. (Note: in theatres for 4 months)4. Left Behind: Tribulation Force (2002) (Only released on video) I saw this movie because I read the books (except for the last 2). The first one was one of my favorites, but this one kind of disappointed me. The third movie did the same thing: it strayed away from what the books said. 5. Romeo + Juliet (1996) What in the world? You take Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the upcoming film stars at the time, and make him speak in Old English. Craig Pearce, the screenwriter, has only written one script since this movie, Moulin Rogue!. I’ve never seen it, but I wonder if MR! was bad. These are movies that I never want to see again. But I would tolerate it , well, numbers 5 and 4 I could stand. 

Top 10 Movies (Once Again)

I know this could get annoying after a while, but oh well.
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1. Ocean’s Eleven
2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
3. The Princess Bride
4. The Bourne Ultimatum-The best sequel I have ever seen.
5. I Am Legend-I Am Officially a Will Smith fan.
6. Left Behind
7. Hitch-Another Will Smith vehicle. A great comedy.
8. Napoleon Dynamite-Has my favorite movie line of all-time: “You’re just jealous ’cause I’ve been chatting online with babes all day.”
9. National Treasure-Everything I love: action, music, history…
10. Miracle-I forgot one thing I love in the list above: hockey. This movie has plenty of it.

HM: Catch Me If You Can, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Transformers, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

By the way, 7 through 10 and the HMs are interchangeable. It depends on how I feel.

On Screen: David Strathairn

I watched We Are Marshall and noticed an actor that appeared in two other movies I had seen. His name was David Strathairn.
I saw him in The Bourne Ultimatum, Good Night and Good Luck, and the aforementioned Marshall. In these movies he plays three different roles.
In Good Night and Good Luck, he plays Edward Murrow, a broadcaster that talks about the bad stuff about McCarthyism and the Red Scare. I need to watch the entire thing. George Clooney’s in it too, by the way.
In The Bourne Ultimatum (which I put on my Christmas list), Strathairn plays Ezra , the head of the FBI and a guy who will do anything to get Jason Bourne killed. Matt Damon kinda stars in that movie.
In We Are Marshall, he plays the president of Marshall University who is commissioned to find a new head football coach after the entire football team died in a plane crash. A minor role, but a great one.

Strathairn’s next movie will be The Spiderwick Chronicles, which IMDb’s Plot Outline reads, “Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.” Strathairn plays Arthur Spiderwick. Look for it in February of next year.

Steve Martin is Pink! (There be spoilers here for The Pink Panther!)

I was sitting in the van the other day, thinking. I decided to watch a movie. It was called The Pink Panther. Steve Martin plays the loveable Inspector Clouseau (I think that’s how you spell it). He is so goofy, it’s funny. Kevin Kline plays the scheming Cheif Inspector Dreyfuss, a monster of a character who is egotistical in every sense of the term. Beyone Knowles, the pop singer, plays the “international pop star” (talk about completely changing your identity for a movie) Xania who’s boyfriend is murdered. My two favorite performances, however, are delivered by Jean Reno and Emily Mortimer. Reno plays Ponton, Clouseau’s sidekick (”Since you are only a detective second class…”). He had a very unique way of containing his laughter. He would “bite” his fist with his fingernails. He is without a doubt my favorite character because he works for Dreyfuss at the beginning, and then turns over to Clouseau’s side. Nicole (Mortimer) is Dreyfuss’ secretary and a faithful comrade for Clouseau. She is overshadowed by Beyonce’s popularity.

This movie is among my favorite movies.

Watch it! Now! “Why aren’t you with him now?” “I’m with you.” “Get out.”