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		<title>All of the wows and the uh-ohs of the TERMINATOR SALVATION trailer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am, and forever will be, a shameless fanboy dork when it comes to the first two TERMINATOR movies.



They signify much of what's great about movie-making, representing a confident and dynamic blend of story, character, action, special effects, drama - truly all of the stuff that makes movies so transporting. And it's easy to tolerate T3 with its handful-o-watchable scenes and solid effects, and to try and not get frustrated by its overly jokey tone, frequently silly Schwarzenegger performance, and story revelations that essentially take what's come before and rather distressingly upchuck all over it.

So I haven't been looking forward to TERMINATOR SALVATION under the unassured hand of a third-rate crapteur like McG. The franchise has been slowly whittled away from greatness, first with the departures of James Cameron and Linda Hamilton, and now without the defining Austrian face of Cyberdyne Systems' finest product, so one has to wonder just how true of a TERMINATOR movie we can expect to get.

But now that I've seen the full trailer, I can honestly say I'm excited to find out. It's a great looking clip that makes the movie look pretty terrific and - most importantly - displays little of the stylistic awfulness ...]]></description>
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		<title>BURBANKED: My humiliation lasted longer than SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a movie that you would simply delete from history if you could? Just travel back in time, knock off the screenwriter and then watch the movie's IMDB page fade away into the space-time continuum?

We've all got these, right? Historically speaking, we'd all have been better off if some movies just didn't exist. If we hadn't wasted our time watching them; if we hadn't spent the money buying them; if our favorite actor or director hadn't sullied their otherwise fine reputation by taking on a doomed project.

If I could, I would readily go back in time and blink SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS out of existence.



That may seem like an obscure choice, but it's for the simple reason that SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS represents one of my most embarrassing experiences as a rising Hollywood mover-and-shaker. It taught me important lessons about showbiz and my place in it. In fact, it may have signified the beginning of the end for me in terms of staying in Hollywood and deciding what I really wanted out of life.

Or maybe it was just a crappy script that I rejected.

Every producing company in Hollywood has development executives, and they run the gamut from whip-smart to ...]]></description>
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		<title>James Bond movies and the shaky-cam action aesthetic &#8211; is this progress?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You'll find plenty of stories this week about who is the best Bond, the favorite Bond girl, villain, car or gadget. But I'd suggest that the films' directors - and their specific talents in staging action scenes - are what will truly sustain Bond films into the future, now that Daniel Craig has made the role his own.



Action movies of the last handful of years have increasingly embraced the shaky-cam, hyper-edited aesthetic, and I find this to be a truly unpleasant development. I haven't seen Marc Forster's QUANTUM OF SOLACE yet, but some most reviews are already finding a common theme:

	"Forster tries to make up for his lack of action-film experience with jittery fight scenes that are ultimately more confusing than exciting." (NY Daily News)
	"...the haphazard direction of Marc Forster, who demonstrates by negative example why Bond movies are best served by journeymen with something to prove rather than would-be A-listers slumming it." (Village Voice)
	"You do not make an action sequence more interesting by intercutting it with some unrelated event; you make an action sequence interesting by making it interesting...Forster doesn't have the skill - or the capacity - to recognize that activity is not action." (Cinematical)
	"Forster...shoots and edits his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Movie press release deconstruction: the REAL message of the new TRANSFORMERS theme park ride.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a whole lot of breathless squabbling going on this week about the announcement from Universal that they're planning to add a TRANSFORMERS ride attraction to their theme parks in Singapore and Hollywood. And while some may view this as good news, to fans of overpriced amusements worldwide, I think you deserve to know the real story behind the new ride - especially because, in order to build it, Universal will scuttle its classic 1992-ish BACKDRAFT attraction, a decision which impacts me personally and inconsolably.

And before you ask the obvious question: yes, I am the most qualified person to bring you this penetrating exposŽ. You may not realize this, but I am the one-blog army who launched a campaign against Michael Bay's 2007 TRANSFORMERS crapfest and personally - personally! - managed to hold that film's worldwide grosses to just outside the $700 million mark.

I've illustrated the press release, and my clarifications into the PR flack's lingo appear below.



	Rather than following the storytelling or goal-oriented nature of "usual" theme park rides, Universal's TRANSFORMERS attraction will instead follow Michael Bay's narrative inventions and will choose a random, chaotic course on each visit that leads nowhere and accomplishes nothing.
	Theme park visitors will experience ...]]></description>
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		<title>The seth-rogenization of Adam Sandler.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly I don't pay enough attention to the career of Adam Sandler, because I didn't realize until just recently that Sandler's next movie in production is a collaboration with producer/director/writer Judd Apatow. Maybe this doesn't seem like such a big deal; after all, the pair have already worked together on YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN earlier this year, which Sandler starred in and cowrote with Apatow.

But still, I think the pair's new project - FUNNY PEOPLE, slated for release in 2009 - suggests a fairly big shift in terms of Sandler's career, and could lead to what I'll call a Seth Rogen-type effect for the actor.



To be honest, I'm not a big Sandler fan. His earlier movies HAPPY GILMORE and BILLY MADISON are fine enough, easy diversions. I think of them as excellent movies to run in the background while I'm loading the dishwasher - and if you couldn't tell, that's not really a compliment. I apply that same low standard to ARMAGEDDON. But Sandler has a talent for creating at least one truly memorable comic setpiece per movie, as well as the ability to make some decent money at the box office. His schtick - although it's one ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Hollywood sequel machine takes a handful of turns for the worse.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today's hotshot agent can't get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive's weekend read list; in Hollywood the concept of something being a "certainty" is almost unheard of.

Except, of course, when it comes to movie sequels. When your movie performs - it opens big, lasts in the top ten, scores big overseas and sells more DVDs than barbecue chip crumbs on the floorboards of Kirstie Alley's car - the question of whether or not to develop a sequel to your blockbuster is rarely a question at all. But so often anymore sequels have ceased to be made simply because the story and characters of the first movie still had compelling stories to tell, adventures to experience, and cinematic stories to unfold.

How else to explain so many franchises that have come back from among the long-dead? Rambo, Star Trek, Die Hard: these were film dynasties that had seemingly run their course, sometimes right into the ground. But still: does every possible ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood&#8217;s promising you more superheroes, more crossovers, bigger films &#8211; but will they be any good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn't so long ago when Hollywood was collectively freaking out, on a daily basis, about the "shrinking theatrical window" and the doomsday-like predictions of "day-and-date" movie distribution. Now that 2008 has seen the revitalizing effects of a few theatrical blockbusters - specifically in Iron Man and The Dark Knight - it looks like Hollywood will instead focus on dragging us back into the multiplexes after all.

But I'd argue that the success of both films owe as much to a stronger dedication to story and character as they do for their purely visual and aesthetic treats. And I wonder, as I read about recent trends designed to Make! The Movies! Into Events! Again!!, whether future efforts will simply throw story, character and true narrative movie-making back under the bus again.



The surge in recent years of filmmakers utilizing the IMAX format is pretty clear proof of Hollywood's effort to leverage cinematic content in a way that consumers can't replicate on their puny 50" plasma TVs at home. But as we prepare for the sensory bludgeoning that will result from giving Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen the IMAX treatment, we have to wonder how much of a good thing we ...]]></description>
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		<title>Some of our favorite actors fade away&#8230;and with others we&#8217;re not so lucky.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Lopuszynski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obsessed With Film welcomes former Hollywood insider Alan Lopuszynski to the writing team as a new regular columnist, you are probably already familiar with his work on his excellent Burbanked blog.

Hollywood's celebrity actors enjoy fame, piles of money, truckloads of scripts for underlings to read, and regular infusions of narcotics legal, psychological or otherwise that feed particular narcissistic addictions. They keep the showbiz hype machine greased up and moving along with flack-placed stories about personal exploits, wacky political opinions, daftly-named offspring and more.

But what happens when a celebrity actor fades from the public view? And as movie fans, how much do we feel their absence?

I miss seeing Sean Connery in the movies. Gene Hackman. Holly Hunter can be found pretty much around the clock on TNT, but you'd have to travel back eight years to see her last notable film on the big screen. Schwarzenegger's done. Gina Davis. Danny Glover's barely seen. Anthony Hopkins. Redford &#38; Newman. Where's Kurt Russell these days? Ray Liotta? Tim Robbins? And despite all of the personal issues of the last handful of years, don't you miss seeing Mel Gibson on the big screen?

And because I miss the quality work of those above, it really ...]]></description>
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