Writer/director Kevin Smith must be just as fed up with modern romantic comedies as the rest of us.
So he implodes the formula with his latest raunch-fest, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.”
The results aren’t pretty.
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The beguiling Elizabeth Banks chatted with Entertainment Weekly this week and offered up this tasty tidbit:
“That was my conscious decision to be known for my work and not my teeny-tiny boobs,” Banks said, telling EW why she turned down the chance to appear on the cover of a lads magazine.
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(Photo: Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks star in the upcoming “Zack and Miri Make a Porno.”)
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W.” is precisely the film advertised in the trailers. Silly. Superficial. Clearly beneath Oliver Stone’s best work.
It’s also a foolish attempt to rewrite history on the fly. If “W.” looks small now, it’s likely to shrink even more as time marches on.
Stone’s latest tracks the curious rise of frat-boy George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) to the highest office in the land. It’s not mean enough to curry favor with the rabid left, and it’s too disrespectful to engage the right.
Undecided voters may be briefly swayed, but the laborious final scenes will capsize “W.’s” approval ratings.
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Is there a movie genre more in need of an overhaul than the romantic comedy, or rom-com to faux hipsters like me?
The formula is just so darn … formulaic. Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy and girl fight. Boy and girl kiss at altar.
Even the recent chick flick “The Women” followed this boilerplate, even if the boy in question was actually Meg Ryan (easy now, it’s not what you think).
It’s why anticipation is, ahem, rising for “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” Kevin Smith’s latest anti-rom-com.
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I’ll admit it - I fell hard for Elizabeth Banks the first time I saw her. Caught her fiendishly funny cameo in “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and that was that. That gorgeous face, that pinpoint timing. She had a sense of adventure about her that I wanted to see more of.
So why don’t they give her juicier roles, I asked myself at the time.
Now, she’s appearing in more films than Morgan Freeman. But her proverbial ’striking while the iron is hot’ ground assault may backfire. [click to continue...]
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The best that can be said about Eddie Murphy’s “Meet Dave” is that it’s neither as catastrophically bad as “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” or as crass as “Norbit.”
That doesn’t mean Murphy has any right to crow. “Meet Dave” is a high concept farce aimed at the lowest common denominator. Namely, tykes who don’t mind when movies talk down to them.
Murphy plays a tiny alien who visits Earth in order to find a lost device meant to suck the salt out of the planet’s oceans. His own planet needs that salt to survive, although we’re told the salt-sucking gadget will kill all life remaining on Earth. Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, right?
The alien’s spaceship, which carries a team of similarly small humanoids, is a human-sized representation of Murphy’s character, the ship’s captain. That means the ship looks like … Eddie Murphy in a white suit stolen from “Saturday Night Fever’s” wardrobe dept. [click to continue...]
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