Rising Hegemon
...this may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that.
...laid a gigantic turd at the box office.
Now on to making sure that abysmal looking Adam Sandler movie (redundant?) also tanks.
(Sandler by the way has a screen writing credit for Bucky Larson).
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That AO Scott review is just awesome. Mostly because he gets through the summary of the film and then just gives up.
I've been seeing the promos for this movie for a couple of weeks now and had no clue what it was about - and now I know why the ad campaign was working so hard to not reveal anything about the actual plot of the movie
not straight to video? he obviously has not seen manos, hands of fate. hell, it's just another bad movie. i even sorta enjoyed the whoopie boys.
Is Will Farrel in it?
I'm sorry to report that I'm presently at the Toronto International Film Festival, and yesterday I saw a film that makes Bucky Larson look like Citizen Kane.
It was an Argentinian film called "The Stones".
Let's just say that if your idea of drama is watching some potbellied guy shaving, or some woman purchasing a new refrigerator, then, hey! This is just the movie for you!
Remember the Argentinian thriller "The Secret in Their Eyes", the one that won the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Film?
Well, somehow I laboured under the illusion that other Argentinian films might be one tenth as great as that.
But "The Stones" (which has nothing to do Mick, Keef et al, by the way)... well, it simply boggles the mind that anyone would make such a movie.... never mind pay to watch it, as I can't believe that I actually did...!
Caveat emptor, everyone!
Anyway, I'm off tonight to see the Bernie Madoff movie, will report back later...
Has the time come when people realize that Adam Sandler is not funny?
How does one even decide what is the worst Pauly shore or Adam Sandler movie? They are all so horrific as to be in the running for the worst movie ever made.
"Chasing Madoff" was really good, I recommend it highly. Sadly, there were only about five of us in the little mini-theatre.
A guy named Harry Marcopoulos, a forensic accountant, figured out that Madoff was a fraud in 2000, and spent the next eight years trying to get somebody to do something about it.
He and several fellow investigators provided detailed evidence of what was going on to the SEC, the WSJ, and several other financial journals--- and were totally ignored.
One thing that you realize with this movie is that Madoff must have been in cahoots with a lot of other crooks to run a mega-billion dollar operation like he did, and everybody else must be really happy that Madoff is taking the heat instead of them.
I figure the reason he was happy to plead guilty and head straight to prison is that a lot of his investors were international money launderers who'd be just as happy to have him dead as alive... so prison's probably the safest place he can be.
It's amazing how when major figures in major institutions have a spectacular fuckup--- sort of like the USAF on 9/11 which we were talking about in another thread, or the Bushies being explicitly warned about 9/11--- how they never have to answer for it, and the media never call 'em on it...
Ya think you or me would keep our jobs if we fucked up big time like the guys who were in charge of the SEC or the USAF or the Bush administration?
... forgot to say that Madoff only went down when the crash of 20089 caused all his investors to want their money out at the same time... sadly, it had nothing at all to do with the heroic but ultimately futile efforts made by Harry Markopoulos et al.
Adam Sandler and Bucky Larson are in the awful movies for the same reasons Sarah Palin, Rick Parry, et all are in the awful gnews.
Poor little rich players, who strut and fret their whorish hours on movies and tv until no one can stand them...
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