The Entertainment Guide 11.06.09: The Bi-Annual Edition

Posted by Scott Rutherford on 11.06.2009

...what if someone wrote a column and no one cared? Well, you better care about this one people or I'll throw a fit like you wouldn't believe!

To say it's a long time between drinks is an understatement. I last did a movie news fill-in in May 2007! So to re-introduce myself, I'm Scott and I used to run this here Movie Zone years ago and pumped out this here Entertainment Guide which was ground zero for the slew of foul mouthed, immature and childish movie gossip based columns that sprouted up after that. Now these days the movie news around here tends to be overtly serious and professionally done…however I still love to be crude and gosh darn it, I will be.

Why isn't Al here? His baby girls is getting surgery today and he has a better place to be for this week. Hope all goes well Al!!!!!

Alright, the ground rules…I swear like a mother fucker. Deal with it. I'm also Australia so me talking about US TV is a little redundant since we get most episodes of current shows airing at a later date. I like movie news and celebrity gossip and will make crude references to sex on a few occasions. Again, deal with it.

So fuckers, this is your…..

The Entertainment Guide

For the sake of coolness, this weeks installment is in CLEVAGE-VISION!!!!

Cool, hey!!!!!! It would also be Kim Kardashian for those who are wondering…


Movie News

The News: Ain't It Cool News is reporting that in an interview with the German GQ magazine, actor Matthias Schweighöfer told the magazine that Robert De Niro and Jude Law are lining up for roles in "Thor," though it was unclear which roles they would be taking on.Kenneth Branagh is directing "Thor" with Chris Hemsworth in the lead role and Natalie Portman, Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore in supporting roles.

My Opinion: Who let Branagh anywhere near this! Seriously, this guy is like a case of herpes that just doesn't quit. I think it's been firmly established that any comic book recreation or something vaguely cultish needs to have an awesome director that LOVES the subject matter. Branagh is an over-acting welch that ruined many a Shakespeare remake. However, De Niro and Law….fuck yeah!

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The News: Cinecon reports that Will Ferrell is taking a break from big budget pictures for a small independent film titled "Everything Must Go," a project which will be financed for less than $10 million dollars. Dan Rush will be making his directorial debut.

Based on a Raymond Carver short story, Ferrell will play a husband locked outside of his house by his wife. She throws all of his possessions on the front lawn, to which he decides to sell everything in four days.
Production will begin in March.

My Opinion: Stranger Than Fiction showed Ferrell, like all great comic actors, can make smaller stories seem large. I really like these side tracks by actors as they play notes that usually don't make it to bigger budget movies. I will anxiously await this. (see; Farrall, Colin Phonebooth and Carey, Jim Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)


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The News: Warner Bros. has tapped Mike Mitchell to direct "Monster Squad," a supernatural action comedy formerly known as "Nightcrawlers. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the script was originally written by Brian Lynch in 2000 and has undergone several rewrites by writers such as Michael Arndt and Audrey Wells. Brad Copeland penned the most recent draft. The studio has remained tight-lipped about the storyline but it's known that it will be a big budget, supernatural fantasy

My Opinion: Hard to really speak about this. The fact this has been in the studio system for nearly a decade either shows it's a good idea that can't be written worth a shit or Warners are getting super desperate for anything original. Benefit of the doubt since WB sieems to be putting big money into it. Although it still could be years before we see it on our screens.

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The News: Laura Dern has joined the cast of "Little Fockers," the third film in the "Meet the Parents" franchise, reports The Hollywood Reporter. They join the cast which reunites members from the first two films, including Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert Deniro and Blythe Danner.Dern will play the headmistress of the school where the Fockers kids attend. Paul Weitz is directing the film for Universal based on a screenplay by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey.

My Opinion: Really, did we need this film? The fact that all the original cast is back is probably a good sign because De Niro or Stiller don't really need sequels these days although this is getting dangerously into flogging a dead horse territory. Weitz as director also gives me hope as he's a solid director although his resume doesn't show the ability to capture great improve like original director Jay Roach, but he can make the simplistic workable. Hopefully the script lives up to the first two movies.

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The News: Screen Gems has acquired the script "The Black Phantom," a spec script written by Dave Lease and Megan Hinds. Doug Aarniokoski will be making his big screen debut.The Hollywood Reporter reports that the picture will be produced by Will Packer. The trade reports that the project will tell the story about "a double-crossed Caucasian mob hitman turns for help to an unlikely source: the title character, an African-American hitman who was hired to kill him."

My Opion: Really? Really? A total lack of imagination here as this is a retread of a retread. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ……that's the sound coming form audiences when they see this.

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The News: According to Variety, Anthony Hopkins has signed on to play the bearded writer Ernest Hemmingway in Andy Garcia's Hemingway and Fuentes, a film that will focus on the writer's time in Cuba with his good friend, Gregorio Fuentes. There he met and fell in love with an Italian girl who inspired him to write The Old Man and The Sea. Annette Bening has also signed on to play Hemingway's third wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway. Andy Garcia will play Fuentes as well as direct the script he co-wrote with the granddaughter of Papa. Apparently Andy Garcia has let this project gestate for quite some time, having first conceived of it in the 1970s, when he was way into fishing

My Opinion: Projects like this that have been lovingly brought along by someone usually end up totally maudlin or classic Oscar bait. You couldn't go past Hopkins as Hemmingway and is a great choice for the role. Garcia is well know for his love letters to Cuba in his movies and I think this will be better than average. Call me curious.

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The News: According to Variety, Johnny Depp's in talks to star in The Tourist, a thriller about an Interpol agent looking for a criminal who may be her ex-lover. The Interpol agent will be played by none other than Angelina Jolie. Granted, we live in a post-movie star world, but this is a pairing that will fill seats like mad.

My Opinion: Oh, the gossip hounds will love this! If this does come off (there is news of the next Pirate of the Caribbean movie or the Lone Ranger film to be starring Deep in this time frame) I will be really interested to see how these two play. Both are probably the most talented actors of their generation and can make anything work. I bet Depp would probably plump for this as the other two films are just more of what Depp has done before.

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The News: It's all about keeping up with The Joneses. Not only is The Joneses' writer/director Derrick Borte clearly aware of the saying, but so is Roadside Attractions. The social satire was dubbed one of the more commercial films in the Toronto Film Festival and now Roadside is taking advantage of that appeal by acquiring the domestic distribution rights. The film stars Demi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth as a seemingly conventional family that moves into an upscale neighborhood. What their neighbors don't know is that they're not really a family at all. They're employed by a mysterious marketing organization to make other people want what they have.

My Opinion: Despite my loathing of Demi Moore, this would almost be the perfect role for her and I gotta admit that I LOVE the films premise. Duchovny has awesomely, dry comic timing and given the right material can easily knock anything remotely satirical out of the park. I'm down with this my friends.



Movie Tralier For Films released This Week

All synopsis from MovieWeb

A Christmas Carol
"Disney's A Christmas Carol," a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.

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The Box
What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars...but simultaneously take the life of someone you don't know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur, is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son...until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep and presents Norma with a life-altering proposition: the box. With only 24 hours to make their choice, Norma and Arthur face an impossible moral dilemma. What they don't realize is that no matter what they decide, terrifying consequences will have already been set in motion. They soon discover that the ramifications of this decision are beyond their control and extend far beyond their own fortune and fate.

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The Box

The Fourth Kind
In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind. This encounter has been the most difficult to document...until now.

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The Men Who Stare At Goats
The film, based on true events described in Jon Ronson's 2004 book of the same title, "The Men Who Stare at Goats," involves a down-on-his-luck reporter (McGregor) who gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent (Clooney) who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to use paranormal powers to end war as we know it.

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Precious
Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect.

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Splinterheads
Splinterheads introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose "thing" is that he has no "thing" at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or "splinterhead," who has more "things" going for her than anyone he has ever met. While dealing with a romance between his mom (Lea Thompson) and the local cop (Christopher McDonald), Justin romances Galaxy, joining her on a geocaching adventure that is part treasure hunt and part hike, and figures out what his "thing" really is.

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Endgame

Thriller that takes place half in South Africa and half in England. "Endgame" is a true story about the secret talks that brought down the Apartheid regime, and it's a political thriller dealing with the politics of South Africa at that time, a story about hope and about two men who hate each other at the beginning of the movie, because they're enemies, who basically have to learn to trust each other or otherwise, the future of their country is in jeopardy.

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Collapse
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. A character study of the apocalyptic imagination, Collapse is a portrait of a man who believes with total conviction that industrial civilization is on the verge of collapse.

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That Evening Sun
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.

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Scott's Ways To Save Hollywood

I'm usually full of opinions and after reading about this topic for most of the past couple of years, I thought my opinion should be heard. I'm sure most will disagree and spit hate at this but thinking outside the box is what usually wins in the end, not the norm…

Stop Making Crap Movies
Sounds simple enough but have you noticed the plethora of movies that are just awful. The thing that makes them terrible is that they are predictable. When you watch a movie and know 90% of the time what is coming next then what hell use is it watching the fucking thing in the first place?

Make Movies For Less
I did a quick check on the first big blockbuster movie that popped into my head and it happened to be Terminator 3. I found this movie cost a cool $200,000,000 to make. That is just an insane amount of money to spend on a movie and in the wash up fell $50,000,000 short of making its money back. Remember, that is the production budget and doesn't take into account promotion which ran another $40,000,000 or so when you include airfares for junkets to other countries, print media, television spots, internet ads, websites and premiers. You have to sell a shitload of DVD's to make up that shortfall.

This movie was the 123rd highest grossing movie in US history and it didn't make its money back by a whopping $90,000,000! What is wrong with this picture?


Leave Computers For Internet Porn
CGI was hailed as the great hope of movie making the impossible real. You want a dinosaur in the modern day world? CGI baby. You want intergalactic civil war on an impossible scale? CGI baby, but at what cost? Has anyone noticed the sharp increase in the cost of movies that have a reliance on CGI?

Maybe the days of models, forced perspective, rear projection, optical and practical effects, are really the way to go. Do we really need totally photo-realistic CGI scenes when you can get 4/5 of the way there in other, cheaper ways. Because if movies start to become cheaper to make the flow through will make cheaper ticket prices.

A Celebrity Does Not Equal Box Office
The days of your legitimate movie star is long gone but the people that really need to realise this don't have a clue. Paris Hilton in your movie will not make you money. Paris Hilton in your movie means you have a crap actress. If anything, having her in your movie will only cause a negative backlash because 99% of the population think she is a stupid vessel of vacuity that would serve the world better if she never set foot out her door again.

No matter how many rappers, sports stars, rich children of has-been stars you put in a movie and no matter how good they are your movie will not do well.


Stop Paying $30,000,000 TO People That Aren't Worth It
I know he didn't get the amount stated in the header but it is the same thing. Regular readers of the old E.Guide will know that I have no time for the bona fides of Orlando Bloom. He is hailed as movie superstar because the movies he has starred in have made money. But has anyone really looked at this closely?

The Movies
Pirates of the Caribbean
Black Hawk Down
Lord Of the Rings
Troy

Every single one of these pics would have made money regardless of his presence. That's a fact. The same goes for about 100 other actors. Long gone are the days of the box office star. The last truly bankable Hollywood star left us at precisely the moment he started jumping on the couch during his interview with Oprah. The other stars of the past 10 years are all but gone. Jim Carrey still has the potential but he needs to start doing what he does best again and Ben Stiller, while amazingly successful doesn't do well outside of his "Mary" type comedies.

It has been proved if you make an interesting flick and make it a good interesting flick people will come. The proof, the Batman franchise. Christian bale was perfect for the role and guess what, he wasn't a superstar at that time. Thinking outside the box never looked better.


Remakes Suck
To contradict the above Batman statement (which is the exceotion not the rule), do I really need to make an in-depth point of this. The Dukes of Hazard as a not to distant example? How about the people paid to think of good, original stories actually do there job in instead of relying on 30 year-old TV shows for new movies.


Nudity Rules
Yes I'm male and this a male issue. I was watching the DVD release of the early 80's movie Stripes and in the commentary track the director was talking about a couple of scenes of gratuitous nudity and apologising for it saying it was a different age of movie making. Personally I long for the days of Porky's and the 6 minute long shower scenes with full nudity. It's what males want. If chicks can have In Her Shoes I want my titty comedies.


Happy Doesn't Always Make A Good Ending
The most famous ending to any play or film would have to be Romeo & Juliet and both those fuckers died. Sometimes the guy shouldn't get the girl, the bad guy can win, the world can end and Captain Kirk actually dies. If people don't know how a movie ends maybe they will be more interested in seeing it



Movie Quotes of the Week

"She's a grandma? Man. I wish my grandma looked like that. My grandma looks like Jack Palance. If Jack Palance looked like her I'd wanna fuck Jack Palance."
Cal - 40 Year-Old Virgin


"Deep and slow big guy"
Bud to Jammer in The Abyss…



The Top Ten

I like movie lists. To make an embarrassing admission I give you may Top Ten Chick Flicks ‘cause I'm secure in my masculinity and don't mind watching them. In a weird flip, my wife hates them and loves horror and Manga which I really don't care for. Her loss…..

To the movies!

When Harry Met Sally: This is the best chick flick of all time. Period. It earns it's strips as such for going way outside the typical formula for these films and uses a middle-aged man going through a divorce as the main building block which isn't a really chick friendly theme. Billy Crystal of all people really made this film work. The downside of which was him as Oscar host a billion times since.

Addicted to Love: Little seen and much under-loved romantic comedy staring Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick and Kelly Preston. It works because it has revenge as its central theme and watching the perennially cutesy Ryan and Broderick trying to play dirty is a wonderful thing.

While You Were Sleeping: Ah Sandra Bullock or as she is known in the chick flick trade, The Next Meg Ryan. Bullock however is a much earthier presence than Ryan and that is in full show in this movie about love and mistaken identity. It's all very sweet and light and if a man has a sensitive woman in her keeping admitting to liking this film is like Spanish fly.

Sleepless In Seattle: The funniest thing about this movie is that people talk about the screen chemistry of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks and totally ignore the fact the share only two scenes and all of three minutes screen time for the whole movie. Like the #1 pick on this list, this movie works because it has a very damaged male at the center, which adds a certain layer of drama and humanity to the whole thing. Totally cribbed off An Affair to Remember but is a pleasant little surprise in its own right.

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton: This movie totally took me by surprise and pleasantly so. Topher Grace totally carries this film and its really weak premise (a standard of this genre) but his geeky humour and screen presence rule. A pleasant little film with a pleasant ending. It's like a bon-bon for your movie soul.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding: What? So I liked this film and the reason why I liked it was it felt like a real story and not some trumped up bullshit. In fact, it is a real-life story and pretty much everything in it happened to writer/star Nia Vardalous and it really shines through in the warmth this film projects and it's easy to understand why it connected so easily with the movie going public.

Four Weddings and a Funeral: This was a really unlikely film to succeed and made a very unlikely film star out of Hugh Grant. Following a group of friends through four weddings and um...a funeral, we see their interpersonal relationships change and facing impending maturity. A great opening sequence that consists of Grant saying "fuck" about 100 times before any other dialog is spoken hints that this was something out of the norm for the genre. Low-budget and scrappy and utterly hilarious.

50 First Dates: Who knew Adam Sandler would make such a good leading man in this type of film? While his goofy persona works for his silly comedies that same affable charm certainly translates to this type of film and works perfectly off his co-start Drew Barrymore. They should try turning themselves into the next great screen couple since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks seem to avoid working together now.

Miss Congeniality: This film only works because Sandra Bullock rules. She ramps up the earthy humour and creates a winner on all levels and makes a film that should be terrible into something that isn't. Not afraid to come off less than lady-like she slides over the line to bawdy with little effort and creates a fun film in the process. The scene with her in lederhosen is pretty sexy in a weird sort of way.

Life As a House: I' cheating here this in not a romantic comedy. This sits more in the dramedy section and as far as I know, most of the guys I have recommended it to have liked it. Kevin Kline rules and his portrayal of a dying man want to get his son to love him is pretty fucking fantastic. I'm man enough to admit I shed a tear at the end.


Guilty Pleasures

As stated above I like my chick flicks and consider them a guilty pleasure. So what I'm going to do is break down one of the ones mentioned above and focus on the formula that makes them work so well.

I give you.........

Addicted To Love - Movie Breakdown

They Don't Like Each Other At The Start...Sort Of

Sam (Broderick) is a small town astronomer that loves his fiancé Linda (Preston) and has a very contented life. Linda has to go to New York for a few months and fails to return having fallen for Anton (the fantastic Tcheky Karyo), a Frenchman that has just opened a restaurant in New York. Sam doesn't handle the rejection well and takes off for NY and to win her heart back.

Sam finds Linda completely in love with Anton but afraid to confront her when he finds that Anton is wired more than a little bizarrely and is a bit of a hothead. Sam takes a residence in a condemned building across the street and using a funky old telescope, spies on Linda and Anton gathering data and waiting for the opportune moment to make his big babyface comeback.

In walks Maggie (Ryan), Anton's ex-fiancé and to say she is pissed at Anton is an understatement. She spends the next part of the movie corrupting Sam and helping him get back Linda, because it will hurt Anton even more. They live together in the run down building, living in close quarters

I must say that Sam and Maggie don't really hate each other, they clash more than anything but the two are working towards a common goal of Anton's destruction and Sam getting Linda back.


They Become Friends, Then Lovers

When Sam and Maggie start connecting, they hatch a plan to destroy Anton in such a way that Linda will come back to Sam. Ultimate being, planting enough evidence on Anton that he is having an affair. One night when Anton and Linda are not home, Sam and Maggie break in and cause havoc. When there, under the influence of alcohol, Sam and Maggie get it on, porno style.

Unlike most other chick flicks, the no sell the previous night antics and it doesn't become an issue that the rest of the movie hangs on. While you are in no doubt that they are the true lovebirds, and they feel it on some deep level, revenge is more at their hearts at this point.

To slightly complicate matters, Sam happens to get a job in Anton restaurant and Anton takes a shine to him. So bizarrely, they start to become friends.


They Suffer THE EVENT That Could Keep Them Apart.......Maybe Forever

Sam, in his utmost heinous act on Anton, releases a plague of cockroaches into Anton's restaurant when New York's most esteemed food critic is in the house. To say this spells doom for Anton professionally is an understatement. Privately Linda thinks Anton is having an affair and when she confronts him, Anton confesses that he is! He is now penniless, jobless and loveless. Sam and Maggie have won.

Sam, now free to get Linda back, shows up "out of the blue" to see Linda and she falls into his arms, happy to be back with her first love. Maggie puts the finishing touches on Anton. Alls well they say.........

Yes there is no conflicted event to keep them apart, just more that they succeed in what they set out to do.


They Get Back Together

Sam, being the pathologically decent guy he is, knows that Linda is in love with Anton and they he really wants Maggie. He confesses to Linda it was a set-up and they break up again and Sam goes to Maggie, who rejects him. Sam tries to go back home but realizes that he has to go back and get Maggie and she accepts him with open arms. Love abounds, the end.


The Wrap Up

Reading this all back I must say, it all sounds very convoluted and it is, but that's kind of the point. This is suppose to be fun from start to finish and has more of a farce element rather than the false drama that plagues chick flicks and its all the better for it. The words are witty without being sarcastic and the acting natural and not manipulative.

Sample quotes from the movie..........

When Sam hears Anton and Linda having sex and Linda letting go with the worlds biggest orgasm
Sam: Oh my God! Oh my God he's killing her!
Maggie: Yeah, he's killin' her all right, and she's loving every minute of it!
Sam: No, she's not like that! She likes to make love quiet and slow and gentle...
Maggie: Are you kidding? That girl of yours is a carnival ride!
(later)
Maggie: The only way that girl is coming back to you is if a blast of semen catapults her across the street and through the window.

Maggie gives Sam her definition of love
Maggie: When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they've started to grow, and eventually they're gonna eat the dog alive from the inside. He says it should be put to sleep, because it's an old dog anyway. But father won't do it. He takes the dog home, he puts it on the bed, he reaches up into the dog, picking out the maggots with his finger, one by one. It takes him all night, but he gets every last one. That dog outlived my father. That's love, Sam.

Maggie On Sam
Maggie: Well, that is, without a doubt, the most pathetic thing I've ever heard.
Sam: You don't understand...
Maggie: And I don't mean that in a trivial way. I'm a photographer, I've seen a lot of things. I once took pictures of a man who ate his own legs, and you would be the black sheep of that family.

Last lines
Sam: So I saw this episode of "Lassie" today. And Lassie was accused of a crime she didn't commit, and the Ranger was coming to put her to sleep.
Maggie: Uh-oh. How's Lassie going to get out of this one?
Sam: Well, the little boy told Lassie that she had to go away, far away.
Maggie: For her own good.
Sam: Yes, but you see, Lassie couldn't leave. Lassie just couldn't leave the boy.
Maggie: What did he do?
Sam: He told her he never liked her. He said, "I hate you, Lassie. I hate you. You're a bad dog."
Maggie: That must have made Lassie sad.
Sam: Yes, it did. Lassie trotted off, very sadly. But you know what happened? Lassie came home, Maggie.
Maggie: Did the little boy make it with Lassie?
Sam: Yes. Yes he did.

Like I said, this is fun not serious. A great movie to kick back and watch with no manipulative crap that other films try to pull. On the chick flick scale of one to ten I give this bad boy a good, solid seven.

The End
It's been grand. See ya' later bitches.