Upcoming Movie Reviews
Posted by Dirty Harry on Friday, June 20th, 2008
Tonight it’s an Academy screening of Once Upon A Time in the West, which I’m as excited about as a kid over Christmas. It’s also the first evening The Hot Little Number I Call Mrs. Harry and I will have together in days, and frankly, I miss her.
By the middle of next week I’ll be all caught up with the rest.
Don’t even ask about The Love Guru. My buddies Kyle Smith and Christian Toto took that hit for all of us.
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JimmyCon 20 Jun 2008 at 2:18 pm 1Hey Harry, just by way of a heads-up: apparently Get Smart does suffer from a small case of BDS- The President (James Caan) mispronounces nuclear.
Real cutting edge stuff, I know. That joke only got old about eight years ago.
LRon 20 Jun 2008 at 2:18 pm 2I can’t wait to read the reviews for Hulk and Get Smart. I’ve got a niece and nephew who are intested in these movies.
Harry, I want to thank you for all of your reviews. You always are reliable and I read you before I even consider taking the kids to a movie.
Love the site, and I will be here a lot.
E Porvaznikon 20 Jun 2008 at 2:26 pm 3Regardless of the BDS slip, I’ll still probably check out Get Smart in the theatre. Trailer looks like it captures enough of the flavor of the series and with two of our own in it (Johnson and the guy from Borat whose name’s escaping), gotta be worth at least a matinee.
Carolynon 20 Jun 2008 at 2:39 pm 4I’m among friends, so I can reminisce on the first time I saw “Once Upon a Time in the West”. It was in Anchorage, Alaska in 1969 and I saw it at a drive-in in my battered old beige VW (nicknamed ‘the bomb’). I was so glad I was alone in that car because I cranked up that volume till my hair tingled. I mean, that was the most awesome soundtrack in the world - I went out afterwards and bought it and wore it down to a nub playing it so I had to get a new one a year later. Anyway, the whole experience of watching that movie was incredible because I was out in the open just like Bronson and Jason Robards were, so I could share the sensation of that frontier they were in. And that screen was so big, so intense that it was like I could feel the honey drop on my head like it did on Woody Strode’s hat.
I weep that drive-ins are gone. IMAX’s just can’t give that sense of grandeur that drive-ins could.
JohnLockeon 20 Jun 2008 at 2:41 pm 5Apparently it’s not just a slip, E. According to a reviewer at the Village Voice, the film has “…a mild but persistent hostility toward the Bush administration,” including a scene where the president is reading a children’s book to a group of schoolchildren during a time of crisis. But if this scene and the “nucular” scene are any indication of the “mild” nature of the BDS, I’ll be able to put up with it. They just seem to be little cheap shots that aren’t overdone and are just meant to be tiny satirical gags. In other words, nothing worse than your average episode of “The Simpsons.” But I guess I’ll find out when I take my Hot Little Number to go see it tonight.
Oh, and seeing as how the Rock was also in the dreadfully left-wing “Southland Tales,” his presence in the film can’t exactly been seen as a redeeming quality in terms of politics.
Splashon 20 Jun 2008 at 6:11 pm 6I’ve got a friend who just got out of ‘Get Smart’ and called to say it’s the best comedy he’s seen in a long time and the “most right-wing” thing he’s seen forever. Now I’m really interested to hear what Harry has to say.
Keetson 20 Jun 2008 at 6:57 pm 7Harry takes the hit for the Happening. You the man. Looking forward to it.
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patrickon 20 Jun 2008 at 8:31 pm 8this new Hulk is a lot more fun than the first one with Eric Bana; plus Ed Norton is in his element, doing the “split personality” role