Deleted Scenes 09.03.09: Looking Ahead - September
Posted by Robert Sullivan on 09.03.2009
After a great August, what's coming up in September? Come on in.
Hey, everybody. I'm Rob, this is Deleted Scenes, and welcome to another edition thereof. Today's topic is next month's offerings at the multiplex, but before we can get into that, let's do a little bit of business -
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The Column
Well, we saw some very solid entries this August. We saw what $30,000,000 could do in the hands of a genuinely talented director with wonderfully creative ideas...as opposed to the opening 5 seconds of the wildly overblown Avatar teaser, which probably cost the same amount. Will anything live up to what we saw this past month? Let's check it out.
September 4th
Mike Judge returns to skewering the modern American workplace with Extract, which hopefully will be as funny as the mediocre Idiocracy was sadly hyped up to be by drooling fanboys across the Internet.
Yes, it was. Posting that image of Luke Wilson staring up at the movie marquee with Ass on it won't change that fact. Quoting Idiocracy for hipper-than-thou wisdom is as ridiculous and overused as quoting "South Park" for political wisdom. "Go away, 'batin!," please meet "giant douche and shit sandwich" in the hipster douchebag refuse pile immediately.
Anyway, Ben Affleck resuming his comeback with another solid supporting role, this time getting to play one of the Dazed and Confused stoners instead of a supersenior dickwad, J.K. Simmons forgetting a temp's name in the face of Mila Kunis' hotness, noting that sex never happens after the comfy pants go on...all of this leads me to think Mike Judge has a winner here.
Well, allegedly this movie's coming out on the 4th of September, not that I've seen a single TV spot for it on any channel. The trailer seems like a solid enough entry into the horror pile, and I'm interested in seeing Chris Pine in material outside of the "Star Trek" canon.
September 11th
From Robert Sullivan Studios Robert Sullivan's Deleted Scenes Written and Directed by Robert Sullivan says yeaaaaaaaahno.
Go check out The Hurt Locker this week, in case you already haven't, ain't nothin' coming out. And if you haven't yet, what the Hell? Go stand in the corner.
September 18th
If this is Steven Soderbergh's reward for Ocean's Whatever, then fine - bring on Ocean's Eleventy. The funniest trailer of the year showcases Matt Damon in, I think, his first wholly comedic role in quite some time outside of the Kevin Smith oeuvre, and he seems to be in top form. Getting fat won't hurt him either with the awards people if The Informant! is actually as good as it could be.
Yes, I rolled my eyes along with all of you at "I go both ways." Yes, I have felt, do feel, and will feel as I enter the theater distinctly icky at supporting the careers of media creations Megan Fox and Diablo Cody. But Hell, Cody's monthly columns for "Entertainment Weekly" are amusing and as a result I'm interested in seeing if there is in fact a modicum of talent in there somewhere. Don't judge me.
September 25th
Having never read the graphic novel on which this film is based, I was very intrigued by the central concept. For the entire trailer minus the concluding 30 seconds, I was very intrigued. After finishing the trailer and getting a clear feeling of "I think I just saw the entire film?" Decidedly less intrigued. I'll still give it a shot, but c'mon, Hollywood - more mystery, not less.
"The Twilight Zone" hits the comedic world as Ricky Gervais had himself a very funny idea - what if everyone told the truth and I figured out how to lie? Hopefully this is quite a lot better than the actual attempts of "The Twilight Zone" in having comedy-based episodes, and while the trailer wasn't as funny as I might've liked, it does make feel like maybe - just once - they didn't give away every funny joke in the promo material. We shall see.
