DINO DOO-DOO??

My understanding is that this was supposed to be a holiday release in 2007, but was pushed back to March 2008 for one of the usual lame reasons provided when one of the major studios decides to bury a projected blockbuster that turns into a stinker. I'll probably see it just because the mammoths look cool in the previews, but the guess is that this one will be as extinct as saber-tooted tigers before the Easter Bunny makes his rounds.

ADDENDUM: Three quick points--first, this one wasn't previewed for critcs. As we all know, that is a major red flag.

Second, Omar Shariff is actually making an appearance in this film. Evidently, he can't make it on social security checks these days.

Finally, this film is brought to you by the same people who turned Art Bell and Whit Strieber's book The Day After Tomorrow into a movie. For those not familiar with those two gentlemen, Art Bell used to be the host of the popular overnight Coast to Coast radio show that allowed the credulous a forum to discuss Martians and Bigfoot and other urban legend nonsense. Whitley Strieber was making a modest living selling fictional tales about werewolves until he found he could make a barrel of money selling books about his alleged personal experiences as an alien abductee. On the whole, his werewolf books were more credible.

Mea Culpa: I am reminded that Bell and Strieber's book was entitled The Coming Global Superstorm. The movie The Day After Tomorrow was inspired by the book. Personally, I don't draw much distinction between the fictional movie and the supposedly non-fiction book. Neither of the authors has any particular scientific training, let alone specific expertise in climatology, atmospheric sciences or planetary sciences.

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to this because of it's pre-historic style. I'm usually biased towards these films.

I hope this will do good, but then again the leading man (Steven Strait) was in "The Covenant" (one of the most terrible movies ever) and the leading girl (Camille Bell, I believe her name is) was in the remake of "When A Stranger Calls" (dreadful remake). I hope that this movie won't be like "Pathfinder" just with good special effects, but I can't shake the feeling. Well I will find out soon enough on this weekend just how good or bad this movie is and then I will give my verdict.

...we know Moviewizguy -- just like John Wilson was being too harsh on Mommie Dearest for it's "Dramatic Unappeal" and "Unintentionally funny dialogue and over the top acting" by our favorite wire-hanger-wielding star, Faye Dunaway!!

 

....I'm sorry Mommie, It will never happen again

...at least for now!

Well, this looks bad.

I usually enjoy Emmerich movies, but 10.000 B.C. was not great. I'm not sure if it was as bad as "Battlefield Earth", but it's not far off.

This is Razzie material, I guess. 8% at Rottentomatoes, and a disappointing Box Office so far... However, the year is still young, and I'd guess there will be more movies to come out that will make 10.000 B.C. look like "The Matrix."

A few random thoughts on the above list:

Stargate: The with possible exception of The Matrix, it could be the most overrated sci-fi movie ever made.

Independence Day: For a million years, mankind looked to the stars and wondered...then the aliens finally came; intent on raping the planet and wasting our resources. We don't have enough damned Republicans, so we had to import more.

Godzilla: Proof positive that the only good Godziller movies come from Japan

The Patriot: Mel Gibson and a couple ten year-old boys kick England's ass. Give him the Vienna Boys choir and he'll take over the planet. Bad movie.

Fantastic Voyage: Isaac Asimov hated the original. So did most of the rest of us. As a well established axiom I have previously noted, a remake of a bad film will probably be worse. Let's keep this one in our sites.