USA Weekend Box-Office Summary

Week of 28 March 2008

Rank/Title/Weekend/Gross

1  21 (2008) $23.7M $23.7M
2  Horton Hears a Who! (2008) $17.4M $117M
3  Superhero Movie (2008) $9.51M $9.51M
4  Meet the Browns (2008) $7.76M $32.8M
5  Drillbit Taylor (2008) $5.8M $20.6M
6  Shutter (2008) $5.33M $19.1M
7  10,000 B.C. (2008) $4.88M $84.9M
8  Stop-Loss (2008) $4.53M $4.53M
9  College Road Trip (2008) $3.5M $38.4M
10  The Bank Job (2008) $2.8M $24.1M

How the fuck is College Road Trip still in the top ten and how does Superhero Movie make 10 million.  All in all not that surprising I guess since almost everyone is retarded.

COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU ON APRIL 4TH.

THE RUINS:
A Mexican vacation takes a turn for the worse for a group of Americans when they head into the jungle to look for the missing brother of a fellow traveler. A foreboding encounter with a couple locals is only a hint of the evil that awaits them on a patch of secluded hillside.
Starring:   Jena Malone and Jonathan Tucker
The book was amazing and the film looks great.  I’ve heard good things and that it is a really adult and hard R rated horror flick.

LEATHERHEADS:
In 1925, an aging football legend and the hot college star he’s drafted for his pro team, fight for the heart of an intrepid up-and-coming journalist.
Starring: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, and John Krasinski
This looks like it could be a fun, screwball comedy with a great cast.

NIM’S ISLAND:
A popular author teams up with the adventure-loving Alex Rover in order to help her number-one fan, a young girl who lives on a secret island where her father has gone missing. Two problems the author faces: her crippling fear of leaving her house, and the fact that Alex is merely the main character in her best-selling novels.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler,and Abigail Breslin
Looks like total shit.

SHINE A LIGHT:
A look at the legendary rock band The Rolling Stones through the ages, as they blast through their 2006 “Big Bang Tour”.
Starring: The Rolling Stones
Another musical documentary from director Martin Scorsese.  If you like the Stones, this should be good.

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THE ROAD “a documentary on the road”
The road, the world’s most breathtaking phenomena, is explored and exploited in Danny Glover’s Super Action Adventure Force Brigade Squad’s 2007 entry to the 48 Hour Film Project.  Keep in mind this was a 48 hour film project, so they had only 2 days to write, video, and edit the whole thing without knowing the genre beforehand.
THE ROAD

WATCH THE TRAILERS FOR THESE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FLICKS!

A bizarre vampire comedy. This description alone should make you want to see this.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead

Heres hoping this finally gets released. Its been shuffled around for over a year.
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

This is more of a first look instead of a trailer. But it looks awesome, so what the hell?
Choke

A killer bear flick. I love it when nature runs amok.
Grizzly Park

TRUE DUDES REVIEWS WEEKLY WHAT THE FUCK!!!

The weekly What the Fuck is a weekly column (obviously) that has to do with whatever is pissing us off this week in the world of movies.

WEEKLY WHAT THE FUCK #9

Yesterday, I was waiting in line to purchase a ticket for a movie.  Two women were directly in front of me in line.  When they got to the counter, they asked the employee for two tickets to a movie that was no longer playing.  I heard the theater employee tell them this very politely.  However, the two women responded rudely telling the employee that the newspaper said the theater was still showing the film.  The employee asked them when they saw this in the paper and one of the women responded,  “a few days ago”.  The employee had to explain that new movies open on Friday and that old movies had to be dropped to make room for the new ones.  The two bitches, I mean women, responded “that’s ridiculous” and they stormed off.  I purchased my ticket and went in to the theater.  The previews started and after two or three of them, the couple behind me sighed loudly and began complaining that there are always too many previews before the movies.  This, coupled with the earlier incident that I witnessed, really pissed me off.  What the fuck is wrong with people.  Why can’t they shut the fuck up, stop complaining, and enjoy themselves.  For starters, what kind of moron looks at a paper from a few days ago to get the current showtimes for today.  Do they seriously not know that new shit opens on Friday?  Its been this way since I can remember (with the exception of the occasional Wednesday opening or holiday opening).  Have they never been to the movies before?  And for the people who complain about previews, shut up.  Some people enjoy them and don’t want to listen to your dumb mouth talking over them.  Also, if you don’t like all the trailers then fucking leave.  No one made you come to the theater.  What the fuck!  You fuckers all act like everything is a catastrophe.

Based on actual events, six MIT students are trained by one of their professors in the art of card counting, and subsequently take a handful of Vegas casinos for millions.

TRUE DUDES REVIEW:

A good movie makes you wish you were a part of it. For example, after watching Rocky, people want to be boxers. After watching The Karate Kid, people want to study martial arts. I don’t know how everyone else will feel, but after watching 21, I want to be a professional gambler. The movie is sexy and a hell of alot of fun. I wish I was in Vegas right fucking now!

The acting is good and the cast is great. Crisp dialogue, flashy editing, and awesome locations help make this film a winner. But, it’s not without its problems. The system of card counting the players use is never fully explained. Those with no understanding of the game may find it difficult to follow. Also, the movie runs a little long. 20 min. shorter would have kept it alot tighter. Lastly, while based on a true story, the films strays pretty far from it. Fans of the book and those familiar with the actual events may be disappointed. All in all, I thought 21 was a fun flick.

True Dudes gives 21 3 out of 5 middle fingers.

Some ten years after he left his fiancée at the altar, the rather corpulent Dennis preps for a real-life marathon with real-life romantic consequences hanging in the balance.

TRUE DUDES REVIEW:

Why Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) would waste his considerable talents on this film is beyond me.Its lightweight and generic, filled with sitcom situations.  Were it not for Pegg’s charm and contributions to the script (he co-wrote) this would have been a total loss. But, his charisma on screen and his infectious humor help the boring parts go down easier and the funnier parts that much easier to laugh with.

While the film had a great cast (Hank Azaria does a nice job at playing a total prick), some of the ridiculous situations were hard to overcome (like winning a race will win back the girl you left pregnant at the alter).  Also, I wouldn’t have called Simon Pegg’s character fat either, maybe overweight or unfit, but not fat.  Overall, I guess there are worse romantic comedies to spend your time watching.

True Dudes gives Run Fat Boy Run 2 out of 5 middle fingers.

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CARCASS:
A college students friend/roomate has gone missing and her bizarre dreams hint at a sinister evil lurking at the university. A mad scientist/creature feature made in three days for under $100.00.
CARCASS

This looks retarded and Rob Schneider makes some terrible shit, but the trailer made me laugh.
Big Stan

I love poker and I love to laugh. This movie looks fucking awesome.
The Grand

This new David Mamet fight flick looks badass.
Redbelt

Neon Maniacs - 1986
Director: Joseph Mangine

Late one night in the mid -1980s, a group of high school kids went out to party in a shitty park some where in San Francisco. Little did the kids know that they were partying on Neon Maniac turf. The Neon Maniacs are a brutal group of underground mutant punks that come out every night (weather permitting) to rip the shit out of humans in the Bay area. So, all the kids in the party are slaughtered except for Natalie. The police don’t believe Natalie’s story because the Neon Maniacs removed all the evidence from the scene of the crime. Luckily for Natalie, Paula, who’s kind of like a horror obsessed Nancy Drew, receives info about the disappearance of the teenagers and goes to investigate.
All the while, Natalie is being harassed because people think that she just came up with some bullshit story about the monsters killing her friends. Natalie is comforted by her socially inept, romantic interest Steven. Steven takes Natalie out on a date to take her mind off of things. But, the Neon Maniacs want to take care of her once and for all and almost get them after highjacking their subway car, then attacking them on a city bus. The next morning Paula informs them that water is only way to take the Maniacs down.
Steve realizes that the Maniacs will probably plan their next attack conveniently on the same night of the Battle of the Bands that he’s organizing. Armed with squirt guns and two fucking awful rock bands (one of which is fronted by Steven), they’re totally ready to wipe out the Maniacs. Before long the Maniacs try to crash the party once again. But clever little Paula puts the kibosh on their slaughtering shenanigans quicker than you can say “shittiest fuckin’ movie ever” by turning the fire hose on the Maniacs. After the the police interrogate the kids about what happened at the party, they decide to raid the Maniacs purported hideout. They find no trace of the homicidal fiends. Of course when the main detective goes back for a second look around, they get him with the old meat hook through the throat gag.
This is sorta like an extremely low-budget version of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed had it been adapted by retarded people. Really, the script makes no fucking sense, and I was kinda of pissed that they never gave any kind of back story about why there are mutant killers living under the Golden Gate bridge. And the whole thing about water killing them is such a weak, fucking copout. They shoulda taken the time to come up with a creative way to destroy the mutants. I was surpised to find that director, Joseph Mangine, was the cinematographer for such b movie classics as Alligator 1&2, Mother’s Day, Squirm and I Drink You Blood. This would be a perfect movie for when you’re about five or six beers deep and know that your friends are gonna be talking and making fun of the movie during it’s entire duration.
DVD is from Anchor Bay. Special features include one theatrical trailer.

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True Dudes gives Neon Maniacs 1 out of 5 middle fingers.