Movie Buzz

The week's top movie talk. By Mike Standish

Unfunny people, time-traveling hot tubs and "BSG" heresy

Feb. 24, 2009

1

Funny People
False Advertising There was a point in the career of Cameron Crowe when he stopped making funny movies about sensitive guys and started making sensitive movies about unfunny guys. Welcome to the Elizabethtown of Judd Apatow flicks.
2

Battlestar Galactica
What the Frak? Say you were given a choice between greenlighting a big-screen adaptation of the cheesy ‘70s version that you have to be drunk or high to enjoy, or the gritty, fanatically followed, brilliantly written, award-winning reimagining of this decade. Which would you choose? I know, me too. And that’s why neither of us is running a movie studio.
3

Watchmen
Watch This You know what’s sexy? Hot chicks in prison, kicking ass.
4

Hot Tub Time Machine
Hydrotherapy John Cusack and Rob Corddry in a movie called Hot Tub Time Machine. That’s just beyond awesome. Apparently I’m not the only one who’s always wanted to travel back to 1987 in a hot tub.
5

Untitled (for now) Superman Returns Sequel
Who Let the Supe Out? Rumored title: Superman Unleashed. I bet this easily makes my all-time fave list of “unleashed” sequels, right after Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed and Ginger Snaps: Unleashed. Benji: Off the Leash! is technically not eligible.
6

Iron Man 2
Round and Round Emily Blunt was in, then she was out, then she was back in again, and now she’s … back out? Replaced by Eliza Dushku? Or not? But Mickey Rourke is definitely in. Or is he? He is. Or at least he might be. Grah!
7

Land of the Lost
Stone Cold Buggin’ Like most schoolgirls, I am afraid of bugs. As a result, this clip of Will Ferrell really creeps me out. It also annoys the hell out of me, because it contains a banjo, which, as we can surely all agree, is the world’s most annoying musical instrument.
8

Untitled Woody Allen Project
Just a Little Creepy It’s a Hollywood rule: If you’re a young, attractive actress, you are required to star in Woody Allen’s next movie. Welcome to the club, Slumdog starlet Freida Pinto!
9

Inglourious Basterds
Grammar Nazi There is not one single grammatical error I hate more than the missing hyphen. It’s really simple. If you, say, make a movie poster that contains the phrase “Nazi occupied France,” you are a super-stupid moron. Because you have forgotten to put a hyphen between “Nazi” and “occupied.”
10

S. Darko
Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion What happens when you make a hacky, straight-to-DVD sequel to a cult classic? The world ends.