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This makes us pretty excited for this project. Infernal Affairs, despite the stupid title, was one of the best Hong Kong films of the past decade. And judging from this trailer, this might be Martin Scorcese's best film in a decade, too. The cast is top-notch, and it just looks amazing.
Click here to watch the trailer for The Departed.
Britney Spears has posted a short note about how much she likes tigers in the "Love B" section of her official website. I don't want to suggest that she has a future as a poet laureate, but take a peek at what she's written:
"In some ways, people are a lot like animals. I'm mesmerized by tigers. Their eyes, their stripes, their constant quest for survival. They almost have a sense of mysteriousness about them. They pull you in and make it difficult to look away. They make you wonder what is behind their gaze. A sense of eerie awe comes over you in their presence. The fear they give you when you pass them is stunning. Behold the beauty of the tiger."
I think the Superficial put it best: "This is something a fourth grader would write if they were told to do a report on tigers and were too lazy to do any research. It's like Britney received her latest issue of Zoobooks and felt inspired to share her new discovery. Only the issue was on elephants. And she was typing on the piano."
It's fun watching celebrities go bat-shit insane right in front of our very eyes!
WE'VE been on vacation!!!
That's right, folks, Planetarium staffers have been relaxing in the Floridian sun, getting nicely tanned, eating some fantastic fish, and playing some serious mini-golf. Hot times, summer in the city. But now we're back, and it's time to get down to business:
The Devil Wears Prada: Fun fun fun. Utterly predictable, wildly trite, and probably as shallow as they come, but MAN was it pretty to look at. And Meryl Streep may be dumb as shit in real life, but she can act circles around almost anyone. For a great Streep double feature we recommend watching this back-to-back with A Prairie Home Companion. She is fantastic.
Pirates 2: Electric Boogaloo: For the first half-hour, we sat there thinking, "Man. This blows." Seriously, one of the worst intros to a film we can think of in recent memory. Once it finally gets going, it's fairly entertaining, but what a letdown after the majesty of the first one. It's at its best when it's light-hearted and cartoony, and the action set pieces approach the giddy goodness of the Indiana Jones movies. Less pompous "dark" storyline, more swordfighting while on a giant spinning wheel.
Lady In the Water: Okay, we admittedly are predisposed to like a movie when everyone in the universe seems to be going out of their way to take a shit on it, but we actually enjoyed this film. It's a fucking children's fairy tale, so stop whining about how unreal it is and wake up to the fact that stupid critics are demanding a more realistic and coherent story from a FUCKING FAIRY TALE. Paul Giamatti is good, Bryce Dallas Howard is cute, and it's a fun little movie. It's weird to be playing defense for M. Night Shyamalan, and yet here we are.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you.....Eva Longoria:
So someone needs to go see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie and tell us if its any god. We've been hearing mixed things about it, and while we're dying to see it, we have a required delay on the screening until the week after next. So pease feel free to chime in on the subject, let us know if that whole pirate thing has gotten, like, so TOTALLY old.
In other news, someone told us the other day that they're convinced that Kenneth Lay faked his own death and is now living on an island somewhere in luxury. That would be more compelling if it wasn't for the fact that HE'S DEAD. We like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next cat, but seriously.
Some church in Tennessee just spent $250,000 to build this:
It's like our birthday came early this year.
here that last entry was all serious and thought-provoking, and now we discover that another contributor, Neil Cumpston, has spelled things out even better:
CON AIRAgain, let’s say you put a bunch of French criminals or British criminals on a plane. Would they even take it over? No, ‘cuz they’re probably only in jail for drinking box wine (the French) or for not putting cream a teacup before the tea ‘cuz it’d stain the porcelain (the British).
We have the best history, the best Grim Reaper, the best high school jock dicks and the BADDEST ASSED BAD GUYS! CON AIR is also the one movie that if you’re a guy and you masturbate to it, you’re DOUBLE not gay. It’s cooler than a shotgun that shoots miniature Jessica Albas that blowjob you to death.
Over at Ain't It Cool News, they asked every single contributor, in honor of the 4th of July, to come up with a list of the top ten films that best desribe America. Now, a lot of the list is pretty silly, but we think this description of King Kong sums things up pretty great. There's a moving speech somewhere in the following paragraph:
KING KONG (1933)
Exploitation. The entire country was built upon it.
Exploitation of the land, the resources, the indigenous peoples, the animals and the people you claimed to be exploiting it all for. To me – this film is a metaphor for the very thing that so often dooms us. Best intentions gone wrong. The dream of capturing something that nobody had ever dared to dream of, and unleashing the nightmare on the world. It’s the A-bomb, Capitalism, Showbiz and the poeticizing of it all. They trap the noble, the truly unique, the magic and the foreign with the promise of the All-American Woman. And then there’s the pomposity to believe that our military engineering and technological advantage will save our “All-American Women” – because we believe we’ll always endure, no matter the size of what we face. In the end, the All-American Woman is meant to be with the All-American Man… And no matter the weight of what we as a country have killed, exploited and destroyed the spirit of… We’ll always have our women and the manufactured heights that we believe we sit upon.