Way Hot Clips: Sex and the City: The Movie Premiere
The whole cast returned to the scene of the crime this week for the New York premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie, and they all stopped to catch up with E!and your favorite movie critic.
Check the above clip to see how Jennifer Hudson puts it all out there, and then hit the jump to see what happened when I took Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall back to Melrose Place and Porky’s. Not enough for ya? Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest dish in even more clips with the Sex and the City cast.
Catch the Special Live From the Red Carpet: Sex and the City, Thursday, May 29 @ 8 p.m.
J.D. Salinger Reviews/Pans Indiana Jones
Yes, legendary Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger is still alive, and no, he hasn’t seen a super exclsuive screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…
Our friends at FilmDrunk have discovered something interesting in a letter written in 1981 by Salinger, which is now up for sale on eBay. Salinger might be one of the great writers of all time, but in this letter, he proves he would have been a horrible movie critic:
“Have seen no good movies, except The Last Metro, which wasn’t exactly indelibly fine, but Deneuve herself maybe was, or came close. [Boosh? –Ed.] I got hooked into seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark, which might be excused for its unwitty, unfunny awful socko-ness if it had been put together by Harvard Lampoon seniors.”
Wait, did J.D. Salinger actually call Raiders of the Lost Ark “unwitty, unfunny awful”? Salinger received and rejected numerous offers to adapt The Catcher in the Rye for the screen, one of which came directly from Raiders director Steven Spielberg.
Final National Treasure: Book of Secrets Movie Trailer
I get crap fro all my movie critic and intellectual friends for saying this, but I really enjoyed the first National Treasure. I’m sure I’ll even get some flack in the comments for saying so. It was a fun, sit back, relax, much on some popcorn, sip on some soda, no need to think, type of movie. And sure, the concept was completely stolen from Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code novels, but who really cares? To be honest, National Treasure was a far more entertaining movie than Ron Howard’s adaptation of the Code. I also must admit that the first trailer for Disney’s sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets worried me. It looked bad, but not in a good way. Thankfully, the second full length trailer which hit the interwebs tonight is a much better cut. My only complaint right now is that, much like a lot of trailers, it probably shows too much. You can check out this new trailer below.
Watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo! Movies. National Treasure: Book of Secrets hits theaters on December 21st 2007.
The Blurbiest of Blurbs
Those of you who thought Miramax’s movie critic mp3 reeked of high snobiety are going to fill up a paper bag with this one. Vulture, the venerable New York blog, has taken The New Yorker to task for one of the most stomach-churning movie poster blurbs ever. The lucky movie dunked in 10 gallons of blurb? Step right up, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; and the blurb itself?
“It feels like nothing less than the rebirth of the cinema.”
The offending critic is David Denby, whose musings usually do not warrant a Naked Gun body condom when checking out the mag’s Film File. Granted, as is industry standard, the original blurb was snipped in the name of marketing/red states: “Imperially free and generous as Schnabel’s work is, the imagery — medical, erotic, religious — hangs together with enormous power. The birth of Bauby’s soul feels like nothing less than the rebirth of the cinema.”
Wow. To me, the original blurb’s even worse. It’s like the edited blurb found itself strung up in an umbilical cord of awful. Is this “blurbiest of blurbs” a mere anomaly or are euphoric birth similes the newer drug of choice amongst New York’s creative underclass?