I have to admit, I’ve always wondered if I would ever walk into a theater thinking I was seeing one movie and then see another. I get particularly suspicious when the trailers before the movie don’t seem to match in tone with the movie I’m about to see. What I could only imagine became a reality for some audiences this week. According to Cinematical, here’s what went down:
“Families at Showcase Cinemas in Revere, Massachusetts were expecting to see ‘Megamind,’ a colorful, animated superhero adventure presented in eye-popping 3D. Instead, they got the first few minutes of ‘Saw 3D,’ a bloody, gruesome horror movie presented in 3D so that you can literally see eyes popping. It remains uncertain whether or not the traumatized children and their shocked parents began to flee after the footless man cauterized his leg stump with a burning steam pipe or after the woman got lowered into the buzz saw.”
Now these kids are scarred for life, all thanks to the negligence of a projectionist. I didn’t think this actually happened, but now one person’s mistake could lead to a whole lot of therapy.
Did anybody else think this didn’t actually happen?
In less than two weeks, we are headed into October. More quality fall entertainment, more Oscar contenders. But really, “The Social Network” leads off the month and it’s all downhill from there. Sorry, every other movie coming out in my month of birth. AND PLEASE TAKE THE POLL AT THE END … I blanked and left it off for a few days, but please vote!
October 1
I’ve stated twice that I’m dying to see “The Social Network,” and I’ve predicted it twice now to win Best Picture. I’m counting on a great movie, and I’m planning on catching the first showing after school on Friday.
“Let Me In” reminds us of a time when vampires were still scary, not sexy. Chloe Moretz (best known as Hit Girl) plays the blood-sucking child in question in this remake of the 2008 foreign horror flick “Let the Right One In.” I think subtitles make anything creepier, but Hollywood sees English-language versions as a way to make things more accessible.
I love the book “Freakonomics,” and I think the documentary montage without any particular focus is a perfect complement to the bestseller. If it’s anything like the book, it will be fascinating and incredibly thought-provoking. It’s an interesting tactic to put it on iTunes before releasing it in theaters, and I’ve been asking myself whether or not I should wait for the big screen.
And on another note, poor Renee Zellweger has dropped so low as to start doing low-brow horror like “Case 39.” To think she won an Oscar just 7 years ago…
October 8
Ugh, “Secretariat.” Inspirational sports movies now give me an averse reaction. And there’s also more gross horror in 3D with “My Soul to Take.” Way to sell your soul, Wes Craven. With the only other wide release being a corny Josh Duhamel-Katherine Heigl romantic comedy, “Life as We Know It,” it looks like I may be seeing “The Social Network” for a second time.
On the indie side of things, I’ll be happy to see some of the offerings. For example, I’m sure “Inside Job” will be an illuminating (and probably slanted) view of what really went down with the economic meltdown in 2008.
“Stone” looks intense, much like “Brothers” appealed to me this time last year. With an impressive cast of Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton (Milla Jovovich to a lesser degree as well), it could be a pretty good under-the-radar movie.
“Tamara Drewe” has been playing at a lot of film festivals this year to mixed/positive reviews, most of the praise going not to director Stephen Frears but to leading lady Gemma Arterton. “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” has also been playing film festivals recently albeit to much less success. Despite the widespread acclaim the filmmakers’ past two movies, “Half Nelson” and “Sugar,” have received, this just hasn’t caught on. “Nowhere Boy,” the story of John Lennon, premiered at Toronto this week, but I didn’t hear anything about it. No news is NOT good news at a festival.
I have to admit, I’ve always wondered if I would ever walk into a theater thinking I was seeing one movie and then see another. I get particularly suspicious when the trailers before the movie don’t seem to match in tone with the movie I’m about to see. What I could only imagine became a reality for some audiences this week. According to Cinematical, here’s what went down:
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