Did Sacha Baron Cohen’s screenwriter for “Bruno” recycle his own joke?
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So, let’s summarize: this is a boring movie, a polar opposite of its prequel. It feels haphazard, scattered, wandering — like the script was still being written during production, and they just decided to hang out in Egypt for the second half until they could figure out a way to wrap it up. When Shia dies and goes to Transformer heaven and meets the Transformer gods, I called bullshit. What a stupid movie.
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I love Mickey Rourke. I liked Iron Man. Yet I couldn’t be less excited for the sequel — why? It feels rushed, frankly, and I’m not too impressed by some of the stuff we’ve seen/heard so far. Chalk up another disappointment today in the grand unveiling of Rourke’s villain, Whiplash, a Russian baddie with a [...]
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Most great comedies are based on fundamental truths — we find a deal of humour in the illumination of our own human tragedy. Office Space is funny, for example, because we’ve all worked that type of job, put up with that type of boss, and suffered that type of monotonous everyday boredom. Todd Phillips’ new [...]
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A balding studio executive sits comfortably in the office of a Warner Brothers building, sipping from a Grande Nonfat Caramel Macchiato, listening to the younger man in front of him, who is pulling his hands apart to outline an imaginary rectangular movie screen. “Two words: Big, Teen Wolf, Freaky Friday, Back to the Future, Vice [...]
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