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Spiderman 3, the new movie, opened yesterday and has broken all North American records for previous movie releases with a tidy $59m, even beating last summers “Pirates” flick that opened with $58.5m. Will this be the best of the bunch? Not according to the reviews. It has been panned by many critics, including the Washington Post and the NY Post. Newsweek gave it a thumbs up, being one of the more favorable reviews.

The running time is an extra, extra long 2 hours 40 min and we all know what a pain in the arse it can be to sit still for that long. With a massive shooting budget of a cool $350m I guess you try to jam as much content in as you possibly can. That doesn’t necessarily mean a great movie though.

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Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale star in this low-budget thriller that will have you biting your nails during parts of the flick and going “ho-hum” at others. The movie’s premise has tons of potential for an engaging horror/snuff flick but the somewhat predictable plot will leave you wondering why they didn’t take it any further.

The story finds the two main characters stuck on a lonely back road with a broken down car and they end up staying at a flea-bag called the Pinewood Motel. Everything seems just a bit suspicious and off kilter as they check in and try to relax for the remainder of the night. Almost immediately they begin to realize that they’ve checked in to something like the Bates Motel from Psycho after popping a video in the room’s VCR and seeing strange people being brutally murdered, right in the very room they’re staying in. It’s not long before they realize that their every move is being filmed.

Too bad it didn’t really go anywhere, because I’m a big fan of Kate Beckinsale and fell in love with her in her two ultra-vampy Underworld movie appearances. I really wanted to love this one but I was a bit disappointed in the end. Not that the acting was bad, in fact the main characters were very well done and acted with just enough background information to make you care about what happens to them. The writing and story just makes you wonder what the hell happened to the rest of the movie?

Would I recommend going out to see this movie? No, not really, do yourself a favor and wait till it comes out on DVD.

Starring: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry
Directed By: Nimród Antal
Released By: Sony
Theatrical Release Date: 04/20/2007
Run Time: 85 min.
Rated R

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“Curse the Children, Make Them Cry” is the title of Alec Baldwins new horror flick. It’s a one man show starring Alec Baldwin making a total ass of himself. The cast features thousands of young girls running and screaming and crying to their mothers as Alec unleashes volcanic tirades of verbal abuse and threats, crushing the feelings of the innocent.

Although the film was made on a relatively low budget, the director, Alec Baldwin himself, insisted that “only real tears” be used for the sake of realism and accuracy. Over 5,000 gallons were used in the production which took several months to collect.

Nearly 2 tons of onions were peeled by 125 extras in preparation for the shoot and the real tears were kept in a specially cleaned and prepared 18 wheeler tanker truck. This reportedly sent the movie slightly over budget, with the real costs only beginning to be felt in his pocketbook.

So far the movie has gotten very mixed reviews, with emotions ranging from “hating it” to “it totally sucks ass” to “what an evil bastard” although it has garnered lots of attention in the press. Only time will tell!

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Stephen Tramontana, an independent film maker is claiming that Quentin Tarantino has ripped him off on the idea for Grindhouse with a feature he made in 2002, also named “Grindhouse”. He has put up a website called www.therealgrindhouse.com with an explanation of why he thinks Quentin ripped his idea. Here’s the original movie trailer from the film that Stephen made on a tiny budget of $4,000. Check it out and judge for yourself, in my opinion it doesn’t appear that the movies are anything alike. And as far as I’m aware it’s not possible to copyright the name of a movie, Hollywood has a well documented history of creating entirely different movies that use the exact same title.

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Haven’t seen the movie yet? The reviews seem to be mixed and so far the box office take has been low but I’m looking forward to seeing it. At 3 hours and 11 minutes for the double feature you have to set aside quite a bit of time to take it all in. In the meantime you might want to check out the official Grindhouse website to get your fix, with downloadable movie wallpapers, super evil movie trailers and a Flash poster maker. That’s right, you can design, customize and then download your own posters or wallpapers. The website alone is pretty damn evil and worth seeing even if you don’t see the movie.

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