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		<title>Movie Review: The Crazies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ogden Marsh is Hollywood’s typical snapshot of small-town, Podunk, Midwest America. Located in Iowa, it’s the kind of place where hunting, pickups, farming, the gentle smell of manure and voting Republican are generally the norm. It’s the type of town without strangers, where kids ride bicycles gleefully and without fear down Main Street, and where the entire town shows up to cheer on the high school baseball team. It’s idyllic, old-fashioned and charming. And when The Crazies opens you already know how this film is going to turn out; this Normal Rockwell-esque hamlet is about to get it’s ass kicked. The Crazies is a remake of a 1973 movie with the same name, written and directed by George Romero, the brains behind Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and most recently, Diary of the Dead (2008). Romero is credited as a writer for the remake and both stories are basically the same: The inhabitants of a small town start going murderously cuckoo, the government barricades the area, and a man and his pregnant wife have to escape both their nutjob neighbors and the conspiring government handymen, dead set on leaving no trace of the mysterious toxin infecting the town’s citizens. Timothy Olyphant (Live Free or Die Hard) and Radha Mitchell (Surrogates) portray David and Judy Dutton, the town sheriff and town doctor, respectively. We know from the beginning they will make it to the end credits alive because they are both good looking, smart, young and, more importantly, soon-to-be parents. After Sheriff Dutton is forced to shoot a shotgun-wielding citizen during a high school baseball game, everything begins to unravel, and Dutton, along with his trusty deputy, Russell Clank (Joe Anderson), soon discover a crashed military plane has infected the area’s water supply and is turning people into raving, zombie-like lunatics. You might think that’s spoileriffic, but you’d be wrong – The Crazies isn’t a whodunit, it’s a thrill ride, nothing more and nothing less, and the only questions are who will make it out and what horrors will they go through to survive. That, supposedly, is the fun of the movie. Breck Eisner (Sahara) is the man behind the lens this time around and he does an adequate job of constructing a predictably tense modern horror movie, but the keyword in that sentence is predictable. I knew in the first 10 minutes of the movie who would live and who would die. There are no plot twists, no shocking revelations and that’s a-ok by me. I wasn’t looking for a cinematic masterpiece. However, after the first two or three stops on the scare train, the movie grows a little tiresome and the obviousness of the story feels more like weight than lighthearted fluff. In a nutshell, The Crazies is just ok. It’s vanilla. It’s Cheerios. It’ll be a nice blip on the box office radar and a fantastic date movie, but soon enough it’ll be one of the movies you skip over at the...]]></description>
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		<title>Rating the 2010 Super Bowl Trailers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on winning Super Bowl XLIV in what may have been the most boring NFL championship since, well, the last time the Indianapolis Colts went to the Super Bowl in 2007. And while I love football as much as the next dude, I won’t lie – I anticipate the commercial breaks in the hope I’ll see some genius advertising or some phenomenal movie preview. This year’s commercials and trailers were ho-hum, except for the Google “Search On” ad (who thought you could tell a love story using a search engine in less than a minute?), the Doritos “House Rules” commercial and the Careerbuilder.com “Casual Friday” spot, the rest were either bizarre, unfunny or beyond stale (Bud Light, I’m talking to you).  Even more glaring was the absence of trailers for Iron Man 2, The A-Team, Clash of the Titans, Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After, Despicable Me and Tron: Legacy. Here’s a rundown of the movie trailers shown during Super Bowl XLIV. Click the movie name to watch the preview. The Last Airbender I really hope there is more to this movie than a gut full of lame CGI and crazy karate, because that’s all I got from this spot. Plus, happily pasting M. Night Shyamalan’s name in the 33 second spot three times doesn’t give me any confidence in the project. Did you see The Happening? I did. This movie will suck. Robin Hood I love Ridley Scott, but there’s nothing new here to whet my appetite for this May 14, 2010 release. It was recycled footage and actually seemed dated, as the 30 second clip didn’t even have the movie’s release date at the end, instead simply saying “summer.” I’ll see Robin Hood based on my sheer adoration of Scott’s films, but I’m just about done with the close up of the arrow leaving the bow. Lame. The Wolfman Nothing new to see here – just more replays of Benicio Del Toro not needing make-up to play the hairy wolfman &#8211; but I suppose with it hitting theaters on February 12, this wasn’t a bad placement. I am so happy they rated this movie R, because anything else would have been akin to dry-humping the Twilight fanbase, and heaven knows they don’t need any more candy. Shutter Island Once again, like The Wolfman, nothing spectacular, just a nicely timed trailer for Martin Scorsese’s new film that hits theaters on February 19th. I’ve read the book, and if the movie is in the same ballpark as what Dennis Lehane put on paper, this ought to be a nice treat. Still, will anyone remember this when awards season arrives next year? Alice in Wonderland Ugh, if the rest of America is like me, then watching this short preview probably cemented the monumental bomb this Tim Burton movie will assuredly prove to be. Sure, Alice in Wonderland is lathered in Burton’s quirkiness, but is that a good thing? I’m not so sure. Bright colors and craziness...]]></description>
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		<title>Trailer Tuesday: The Crazies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crazies, a remake of George A. Romero&#8217;s (Night of The Living Dead) 1973  cult classic of the same name, hits theaters on February 26, 2010 and is directed by Breck Eisner, whose last film was 2005&#8242;s dreadful Sahara. Romero&#8217;s original pooped out at the box-office and something tells me Eisner&#8217;s version, starring Timothy Olyphant (A Perfect Getaway) and Radha Mitchell (Surrogates), won&#8217;t turn heads or produce cartwheels either. But that&#8217;s okay, because for now we can enjoy this succulent trailer and laugh at both Mitchell and Olyphant, as they have both starred in craptastic video game moves, namely Silent Hill and Hitman. As you can see from the trailer, the plot seems pretty simple: Some Midwest town is infected with a virus that turns people from good, peaceful, God-fearing churchgoers, to homicidal maniacs hell-bent on killing. Basically, the whole idea of zombies, just without the undead part. Somehow the government is involved and they show up unannounced and start shooting infected townspeople. Despite my loathing of the horror remake and my loathing of Sahara, this movie, based on the trailer, looks like it could be pretty creepy. What are your thoughts?]]></description>
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