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| Summer Fun... |
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| Top 3 Movies of the Summer..according to the Guru |
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1. Red Belt - David Mamet's vision of a UFC type ju jitsu tournament is the best movie of the summer and can be watched on DVD when it comes out without losing as much to the TV screen as many of the other summer movies. Tim Allen's supporting performance is a revelation. After watching and enjoying this movie, Google Mamet's filmography and watch some of his other films like House of Games, Spanish Prisoner, and Spartan. |
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2. The Love Guru - This is one of those movies like Speed Racer that everybody hated without even seeing it. Wrong. The funniest movie of the summer so far, too smart for its own good. Unlike Get Smart which pretends to be a comedy but is just as much an empty action movie, Love Guru keeps the jokes coming, culminating with a classic comedy scene which should have you crying your eyes out. But, of course, the movie was dead on arrival. After it gains a cult following with the release of the DVD, expect The Love Guru 2 in a couple of years. |
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3. The Chronicles of Narnia - The second in the series was a disappointment at the box office (who cares), but a true sequel that leaves you waiting for the third installment. A well done movie whose main interest is telling the story without the intrusion of car chases, star turns, or deus ex machina endings. |
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4. Honorable Mention - Wall-E - I liked it because it is a family film that is not just for the kids. I also enjoyed Journey to the Center of the Earth, but only in 3D, and only because it uses the 3D to terrific effect. (But make sure you sit in the center of the theater). And also a thumbs up to Hellboy 2, a comic book translation without all the hoopla. |
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| Bottom 3 Movies of the Summer..according to the Guru |
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1. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - They love it in Israel, or so I read in an article. But the only mess is the movie. Plenty of inbreeding cameos, the villain played by the master John Turturro (but so inferior to Turturro's FBI agent in Transformers), and a mix of movie styles trying to disguise the lack of a coherent movie, it took me 3 tries to sit through this movie. Yuck. |
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2. Hancock - Will Smith is so appealing that you want to say nice things about I Am Legend and Hancock. But they are like the emperor's new clothes. There is nothing to them. Watch Independence Day or Men in Black when Will Smith was part of movies with real scripts and sub-plots and co-stars with parallel story lines. Then compare them to the two latest Will Smith movies with straight line stories, and then poof they are over. Yuck. |
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3. Wanted - The movie starts out like wow, man, this is going to be something special. Then they kill the first super exciting sophisticated action character and try to replace him with the fish out of water James McAvoy. It doesn't work. Unless you are one of the millions who need your action fix so badly that you will gloss over the failures of this stylistic bore. Yuck.
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| The Dark Knight Opens Tonight at Midnight |
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| Miscellaneous Musings... |
1. I watched Lewis Milestone's silent movie The Racket on Turner Classic Movies the other night. Not only was it terrific, but it turns out that it was restored with the help of the UNLV Film Department which archives this Howard Hughes produced feature length gangster movie. |
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2. I woke up one morning and turned on CNBC, then CNN, then Turner Classic Movies. TCM was showing William Wyler's The Westerner with Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean and Gary Cooper as "Cole." It was the scene where the "Judge" is getting ready to hang Cole for horse thievery. Fifteen minutes pass as they talk it out, interrupted first by a young woman who is sent on her way, then again by the actual horse thief who is flattened by a Gary Cooper punch and shot dead by Walter Brennan. Then the two get back to talking. I had to turn the channel or I would have been stuck in front of the TV for another hour. I clicked and clicked and The Hustler was playing on AMC. George Scott was talking with Fast Eddie (Paul Newman) after the first pool match with Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). The scene goes on for ten minutes. Just talk. Mesmerizing talk. Two great movies, so much talk, yet I sat transfixed. |
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| July Senior Special |
$3 Admission with South Point Club Card
Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays Until 6PM
Club Cards are Free |
We love Seniors at the South Point. We know Seniors come to our $3 Senior Special Days, but we don't know how many of our Movie Guru readers are Seniors. If you are a Senior and have the time, please let us know what you think of our Senior Days discount, and what else makes you come to the South Point by clicking here.
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| Coming Attractions |
 Nowadays every movie starts out with 15 minutes of Coming Attactions. I love Coming Attractions. I love to yell out after each one pithy comments so the entire audience can know my opinion. I am not fooled by them. I know that nine times out of ten the coming attraction will be better than the actual movie. So what. They make you laugh, give you hope that there might be a great movie to be seen in your future, and test your prognostication skills. From the trailers I have seen recently, I am tired of Stepbrothers, looking forward to Pineapple Express, worried about the Coen Brothers Burn After Reading, and fascinated by the new James Bond with the word Quantum in the title.
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| Don't Forget! |
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Matinees everyday including weekends and holidays
are always $7.50 until 6PM
We Have Midnight Movie Openings Every Thursday Night!
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