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<title><![CDATA[R5 Release Dates (November 3rd – May 2010) [UPDATE]]]></title>
<link>http://sbraidley.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/r5-release-dates-november-3rd-%e2%80%93-may-2010-update/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sbraidley</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sbraidley.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/r5-release-dates-november-3rd-%e2%80%93-may-2010-update/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010) Update:]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Check the <a href="../r5-release-dates/" target="_blank">R5 Release Dates</a> page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010)</p>
<p>Update: Avatar – January 14<sup>th</sup> 2010</p>
<p><strong>November 2009</strong><br />
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish &#8211; November 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
Zombieland &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
The Prince &#38; Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Hardwired – November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Banlieue 13 Ultimatum &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
Julie &#38; Julia &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Little Hercules in 3-D &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Driven to Kill – November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Hachiko: A Dog&#8217;s Story &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Saw VI &#8211; November 26<sup>th</sup><br />
Playmobil: The Secret of Pirate Island &#8211; November 26<sup>th</sup></p>
<p><strong>December</strong><br />
My Sister&#8217;s Keeper &#8211; December 1<sup>st</sup><br />
Astro Boy &#8211; December 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
Jennifer&#8217;s Body &#8211; December 3<sup>rd</sup> (2nd Date)<br />
Law Abiding Citizen – December 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
American Pie: Book of Love &#8211; December 8<sup>th</sup><br />
Inglourious Basterds &#8211; December 8<sup>th</sup><br />
2012 &#8211; December 10<sup>th</sup><br />
The Box – December 10<sup>th</sup><br />
Love Happens &#8211; December 11<sup>th</sup><br />
Funny People &#8211; December 15<sup>th</sup><br />
Zombieland &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup> (2nd Date)<br />
This Is It &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
The Stepfather  - December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
Planet 51 &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee &#8211; December 24<sup>th</sup><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>January 2010</strong><br />
The Soloist &#8211; January 12<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Avatar – January 14<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Shrink &#8211; January 21<sup>st</sup> 2010<br />
The Final Destination &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Smokin&#8217; Aces 2: Assassins&#8217; Ball &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
City Island &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel &#8211; January 28<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
This Is It &#8211; January 2010 (2nd Date)</p>
<p><strong>February 2010</strong><br />
The Informant!  - February 2<sup>nd</sup> 2010<br />
500 Days of Summer &#8211; February 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Whiteout &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Couples Retreat &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Invention of Lying &#8211; February 16<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Amelia &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Into the Blue 2: The Reef &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&#8217;s Assistant &#8211; February 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
The Blind Side &#8211; February 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
Tooth Fairy &#8211; February 25<sup>th</sup> 2010</p>
<p><strong>March 2010</strong><br />
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate&#8217;s Cove &#8211; March 2<sup>nd</sup> 2010<br />
Fantastic Mr. Fox &#8211; March 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Marine 2 &#8211; March 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Ninja Assassin &#8211; March 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Percy Jackson &#38; the Olympians: The Lightning Thief &#8211; March 11<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Where the Wild Things Are &#8211; March 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
Surviving Evil &#8211; March 25<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Cabin in the Woods  - March 25<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Sherlock Holmes &#8211; March 30<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Wolfman &#8211; March 2010<br />
A Christmas Carol &#8211; March 2010</p>
<p><strong>April 2010<br />
</strong>Paranormal Activity &#8211; April 6<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
It&#8217;s Complicated &#8211; April 20<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel &#8211; April 25<sup>th</sup> 2010 (2nd Date)</p>
<p><strong>May 2010<br />
</strong>Preacher&#8217;s Kid &#8211; May 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; May 18<sup>th</sup> 2010</p>
<p>For the rest of the dates go to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/r5dates" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/r5dates</a></p>
<p><strong>Updated</strong>: 28<sup>th</sup> November 2009</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Porter Novelli, the BBC and The Box]]></title>
<link>http://pniq.co.uk/2009/11/27/porter-novelli-the-bbc-and-the-box/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kerry Gaffney</dc:creator>
<guid>http://pniq.co.uk/2009/11/27/porter-novelli-the-bbc-and-the-box/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jean Wyllie, MD, Porter Novelli UK We are a company that prides ourselves on honesty and transparenc]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em>Jean Wyllie, MD, Porter Novelli UK</em></p>
<p>We are a company that prides ourselves on honesty and transparency, therefore when we make a mistake we want to put our hands up to it, do our best to make amends as quickly as possible and then to learn from it.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Porter Novelli won the 2009 CorpComms Magazine award for Best Broadcast Campaign for our work with the Container Shipping Industry Service (CSIS), namely the BBC’s <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2008/the_box/default.stm">‘The Box’</a> project. Unfortunately in the programme for the evening it was stated that Porter Novelli had pitched the idea of The Box to the BBC, this was not the case. It was the BBC that approached Porter Novelli with the idea following our initial outreach around the launch of CSIS, which had concentrated on humanising the container industry. We then worked closely with both parties to help make The Box happen.</p>
<p>It is understandable to assume that we must have made this claim in our award submission, this again was not the case. Over the course of today we have been in discussion with the BBC and CorpComms Magazine to both clarify and rectify the situation. Which we believed we had done, until we were alerted that in a <a href="http://porternovelliuk.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-box-is-back/">previous post</a> about the return of The Box to the UK we had stated that we had pitched the BBC with this idea. The writer of the post in question had not worked on the project and it was not previewed by any member of the team prior to posting. This is entirely the fault of our current approval process and is a massive oversight on our part. The post in question has since been updated with a correction and an apology to all concerned.</p>
<p>I would like to apologise again to the BBC  and in particular to everybody there, and at CSIS, who worked extremely hard for well over a year on the project. I would also like to add my assurance that we will be reviewing our approval process immediately, with a particular eye on our blog output and awards submissions, to ensure that this situation does not happen again.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Out of "The Box"...]]></title>
<link>http://alternativechronicle.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-box/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Andrew Bowcock</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alternativechronicle.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/the-box/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[by Andrew Bowcock Richard Kelly is partially responsible for my obsession with film, as his 2001 cul]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/04/07/the-box-poster-diaz.jpg" alt="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/04/07/the-box-poster-diaz.jpg" width="317" height="470" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446819/">Richard Kelly</a> is partially responsible for my obsession with film, as his 2001 cult phenomenon, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/"><em>Donnie Darko</em></a>, altered my expectations of what films can do.  Ever since I first saw Darko in 2002 I&#8217;ve had a difficult time watching films the same way, as I&#8217;ve almost always been under the impression that there&#8217;s more going on than we simply see on the screen or have told by the characters.  It seemed like a long dry spell before Kelly came out with his follow up film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405336/"><em>Southland Tales</em></a><em>,</em> an ambitious film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and was met with almost universally poor reception.  Since I was such a big Darko fan, I had a hard time believing the same guy could release something else that wasn&#8217;t anything less than brilliant and crafted with incredible precision&#8230;but even I initially didn&#8217;t know what to make of <em>Southland Tales.</em> After now seeing it several times and having read the preceding graphic novel that Kelly created to accompany the film&#8217;s plot, I&#8217;ve grown in fondness for the whacked-out, absurd, colorful and entertaining satirical version of the Book of Revelation (though it still has nothing on his first effort).</p>
<p>When I heard that Richard Kelly was going to adapt a short story by the mighty <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson">Richard Matheson</a>, I was very intrigued.  When I heard that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000139/">Cameron Diaz</a> was one of the stars, I was a bit less excited&#8230;but figured it still might be not be a disaster when considering that somehow Kelly made the ridiculously bizarre, spotty cast of <em>Southland Tales</em> work to fit its own eccentric mood.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://alexhluch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/the_box_movie_image_cameron_diaz_and_james_marsden_day_3.jpg?w=470&#038;h=314" alt="http://alexhluch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/the_box_movie_image_cameron_diaz_and_james_marsden_day_3.jpg?w=470&#038;h=314" width="470" height="314" /></p>
<p>The tale of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/"><em>The Box</em></a><em> </em>(based on Matheson&#8217;s <em>Button, Button</em>) is about a young married couple in the 1970&#8217;s struggling to make ends meet during some personal and financial struggles.  The husband, Arthur Lewis (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005188/">James Marsden</a>) is a scientist that works for NASA, one who has aspirations to be an astronaut but somehow fails the psychological exam, while his wife, Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz) is a schoolteacher who has been informed that she&#8217;ll soon be laid off.  One fateful day a mysterious box arrives on their porch &#8211; its contents are simply a small black box with a big red button.  The next day a well-dressed man with formidable and prominent facial scars, Mr. Steward (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001449/">Frank Langella</a>) appears at their front door explaining the box&#8217;s purpose &#8211; if the red button is pressed, the couple will receive one million dollars&#8230;but the catch is a killer (literally): the pressing of the button will also result in the death of some person somewhere in the world whom they do not know.  They have one day to decide before the box will be picked up by this &#8220;Mr. Steward,&#8221; reprogrammed, and sent to somebody else who they do not know.</p>
<p>After squabbling over whether or not this whole thing could be real and thinning the list of options, the couple decides to push the button&#8230;if anything, out of curiosity.  Mr. Steward returns as he promised, reinforcing what he said before and giving them the money.  However from this point forward Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are met with some bizarre challenges as they try to uncover the truth about Mr. Steward and the purpose of his provisions.  Also, each decision they make seems to be accompanied with counterproductive results, making the pushing of the red button easily one of the worst decisions they&#8217;ve ever made.</p>
<p>Just like Kelly&#8217;s <em>Southland Tales</em>, <em>The Box</em> has been receiving mixed to poor reviews from critics and it&#8217;s understandable why.  Though this film has a somewhat intriguing premise, it feels a bit undercooked by the end.  The mood is a bit reminiscent of <em>Donnie Darko</em> as it has elements of atmospheric horror threaded in with the film&#8217;s philosophical quips and sci-fi flavored suspense, but unfortunately the true struggle in <em>The Box</em> doesn&#8217;t lie in the choice of whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will push the button, but whether or not Richard Kelly is actually making a generic film.  The first 20 minutes or so of this film feel pretty lazy&#8230;just like they were directed to appeal to as general of a public as you can get.  However, once the film&#8217;s plot starts to move, it feels a bit messy&#8230;kind of like the rest of the film wanted to stay put whereas the director is trying to pull it in a direction it doesn&#8217;t want to go.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://justpressplay.today.com/files/2009/06/the-box-movie-stills.jpg" alt="http://justpressplay.today.com/files/2009/06/the-box-movie-stills.jpg" width="470" height="201" /></p>
<p>There are some minor twists as the film progresses and there are a couple of sequences that I might even deem as &#8220;great,&#8221; but by the end it almost feels like a good deal of fuss for very little.  However, before I try to beat this film with a criticism stick like most reviewers seem to be doing, I&#8217;m actually going to go out on a limb and say that I actually enjoyed this movie&#8230;flaws and all.  Maybe it&#8217;s partially because I&#8217;m a Richard Kelly enthusiast, but I prefer to weigh it in context, so let&#8217;s do that:</p>
<p>For me, <em>Donnie Darko</em> was pretty close to being a perfectly constructed film.  It truly just works in just about every aspect whether or not you have a full grasp of what&#8217;s going on, so I would call Kelly a great director based just on that one film.  When doing <em>Southland Tales</em> he took on the ambitious feat of creating a film that tried to do everything Darko did but on a much larger scale&#8230;and thus (many would argue) he got into trouble trying to make broad strokes while retaining a multi-faceted plot.  With <em>The Box</em> it feels like Kelly&#8217;s trying to pull back the reigns a bit, but unfortunately his ambitions for constructing a complex mystery seem a bit misplaced when plugged into this little story.  Though I like some of the things he did with this film visually and conceptually (a key scene set in a library near the last third of the film, in my opinion, was especially amazing, and one sequence near the end stabbed my emotions rather effectively). I feel like his style and imagination are just more fitting when they work by themselves and not in accordance with another story.  When watching <em>The Box</em> it kind of felt like two films &#8211; one was Matheson&#8217;s story bleeding through while the other was Richard Kelly trying to tell his version of what was going on.  If you appreciate Kelly enough as an artist and philosopher, you might find it enjoyable&#8230;if not, it will most likely prod or annoy you.</p>
<p>Is it one of the best films of the year?  Is it Kelly&#8217;s best work?  A big no on both accounts, but there is enough for a viewer to enjoy if they&#8217;re looking for a simple science-fiction-mystery that&#8217;s attempting to be something more, whether or not it succeeds on all cylinders.  I&#8217;ll tell you one thing, it&#8217;s much more enjoyable than <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6mUElrvpB0">the horribly conceived version <em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Twilight Zone</span></em> did</a> of Matheson&#8217;s story in the 1980&#8217;s.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://alternativechronicle.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/star-ratings-for-my-film-reviews/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs154.snc1/5735_110637371085_655296085_2781381_1819601_n.jpg" alt="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs154.snc1/5735_110637371085_655296085_2781381_1819601_n.jpg" width="238" height="56" /></a></p>
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<p>photo sources:</p>
<p>http://www.iwatchstuff.com/<br />
http://alexhluch.files.wordpress.com/<br />
http://justpressplay.today.com/</p>
<p>other resources:</p>
<p>http://www.imdb.com/<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/<br />
http://metacritic.com/</p>
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<link>http://lavcmasc.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/top-10-u-s-box-office-grosses/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lavcmasc</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lavcmasc.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/top-10-u-s-box-office-grosses/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Jude Law and Sienna Miller, back together?]]></title>
<link>http://celebgossipandrumors.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/jude-law-and-sienna-miller-back-together/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>celebgossipandrumors</dc:creator>
<guid>http://celebgossipandrumors.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/jude-law-and-sienna-miller-back-together/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jude Law and Sienna Miller were seen having fun the other day together in New York. The two formed a]]></description>
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<p>Jude Law and Sienna Miller were seen having fun the other day together in New York. The two formed a couple before, until November 2006, when Jude had an affair with his children&#8217;s nanny.</p>
<p>Jude and Sienna were seen in the club &#8220;The Box&#8221;, very intimate with each other and left the impression they were having a lot of fun.</p>
<p>&#8220;They came together and seat at a table with several friends. At a given moment Jude ordered shots for everyone and provoked Sienna to drink hers. They laughed and whispered to each other. Certainly seemed more than friends &#8230; Jude comes often in &#8220;The Box&#8221; and many people know him here, so that night many women came by to say hy, but he had eyes only for Sienna&#8221;, said one person who attended the whole scene for New York Daily.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[3-2-1:  The Worst of '09]]></title>
<link>http://damrb.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/3-2-1-the-worst-of-09/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mike Pampinella</dc:creator>
<guid>http://damrb.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/3-2-1-the-worst-of-09/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Who isn&#8217;t looking forward to turkey this Thanksgiving?  We all are, especially the Tryptophan ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Who isn&#8217;t looking forward to turkey this Thanksgiving?  We all are, especially the Tryptophan induced coma that comes from eating too much of it.  Here at <strong>The Devil&#8217;s Advocates Movie Reviews</strong>, we don&#8217;t always have a choice when turkey might be forced upon us. In fact, we&#8217;ve consumed our collective weight in turkey at the theaters this year.  So, we decided to bring you <strong>The Worst of &#8216;09</strong>, with a Thanksgiving theme.   3 Turkeys (bad films), 2 Jive Turkeys (bad performances), and 1 Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks (the worst of the worst).  See what we thought, and chime in with your own list. <!--more-->   </p>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Rene Alvarado</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen</em></li>
<li><em>Paranormal Activity</em></li>
<li><em>2012</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Michael Cera in <em>Year One</em>.</li>
<li>Flavor Flav Robot Impersonators in <em>Transformers 2:  Revenge of The Fallen</em>.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>2012</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Veer Naveen Toor</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Saw VI</em></li>
<li><em>GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra</em></li>
<li><em>Gamer</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li> Megan Fox in <em>Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen</em></li>
<li> Gerard Butler in <em>Gamer</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><em> </em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Spencer Diedrick</span></h2>
<h4> Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>My Life in Ruins</em></li>
<li><em>The Unborn</em></li>
<li><em>Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Channing Tatum in <em>G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra</em></li>
<li>Kate Hudson in <em>Bride Wars</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>My Life in Ruins</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Dave Bartik</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Where the Wild Things Are</em></li>
<li><em>Monsters vs. Aliens</em></li>
<li><em>Taken</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Kristen Stewart, <em>Adventureland</em></li>
<li>Eric Bana, <em>Funny People</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>Funny People</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Joe Wilhelm</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>The Box</em></li>
<li><em>Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li</em></li>
<li><em>The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Cameron Diaz, <em>The Box</em></li>
<li>Chris Klein, <em>Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
<ol>
<li><em>The Box</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Patrick Newson</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
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<li><em>Gi Joe:  Rise of Cobra</em></li>
<li><em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine</em></li>
<li><em>Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li</em></li>
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<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Channing Tatum,<em> G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra</em></li>
<li>Chris Klein, <em>Street Fighter:  The Legend of Chun-Li</em></li>
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<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
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<li><em>X-men Origins: Wolverine</em></li>
</ol>
<h2><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Mike Pampinella</span></h2>
<h4>Turkeys:</h4>
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<li><em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine</em></li>
<li><em>G-Force</em></li>
<li><em>All About Steve</em></li>
</ol>
<h4>Jive Turkeys:</h4>
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<li>Megan Fox, <em>Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen</em></li>
<li>Ali Larter<em>, Obsessed</em></li>
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<h4>Turkey Stuffed With Gym Socks:</h4>
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<li><em>2012</em></li>
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<link>http://explosiveblogarrhea.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/boyboy-kissing/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bmmill05</dc:creator>
<guid>http://explosiveblogarrhea.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/boyboy-kissing/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Wow! Here&#8217;s a flicker of light in my otherwise darkened life: my blog is now at the point wher]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Wow! Here&#8217;s a flicker of light in my otherwise darkened life: my blog is now at the point where it gets hits even on days where I don&#8217;t post. And even when I don&#8217;t have the link plastered all over my facebook. Exciting!</p>
<p>So, what isn&#8217;t exciting? How about my entire life. It&#8217;s the same old crap &#8211; don&#8217;t use my brain at work, don&#8217;t have any money, my social life sucks, etc etc. The new girl is leaving in two weeks and that&#8217;s mixed development in that it will mean both more (training someone new) and less (someone who is competent, hopefully) stress in the coming month. All I want to do is go home to Ottawa right now and chill in my mom and dad&#8217;s bed watching movies with my family.</p>
<p>Nothing huge to note about this past weekend, except for the fact that I went on a &#8220;first date&#8221; with the Italian from NJ (He works in Waterloo). It was technically a first date, but we had talked so much online/through e-mail that it didn&#8217;t feel like one. We saw <em>The Box, </em>starring Cameron Diaz and half of Frank Langella&#8217;s face. That shit was gross, people. His face was all burned and you could see the teeth through the side. I know it&#8217;s special effects, but it was creepy. And the movie was terrible. But that&#8217;s Cammie Diaz for you. Picture a Southern accent and a limp and everyone else with bloody noses. Fun, huh? Not so much.</p>
<p>The boy himself was cute. Well, he<em> <strong>is</strong></em><strong> </strong>cute. I didn&#8217;t kill him. We&#8217;ll see if we see each other again or if it goes anywhere, but I would get together with him again for sure. I also got about 8 messages on the DS yesterday, but it&#8217;s likely because I hadn&#8217;t visited in a week. Sadly, none of the guys were my &#8220;type,&#8221; meaning I wanted to vomit on the pictures of at least six of them.</p>
<p>I slept through the American Music Awards on Sunday night, but I&#8217;ve googled all of the performances. All of them except Adam Lambert&#8217;s, that is, since Dick Clark Productions has apparently banned it from YouTube. I get that he kissed a dude and that&#8217;s not cool in The United States of Homophobia, but ladies have been kissing ladies for years on these types of award shows. Katy Perry even kissed a girl and liked it. Britney and Madonna and Christina had a lesbian threesome kiss. So why can&#8217;t Adam Lambert kiss a guy? And why can&#8217;t I YouTube it? I was able to YouTube Lady GaGa&#8217;s face and that face should be banned from viewing more than a kiss and some simulated oral sex. I love her music, but man, she is a but-her-face if I&#8217;ve ever seen one.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>BM</p>
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<title><![CDATA[[Libro] "Button, button" de Richard Matheson]]></title>
<link>http://thelector.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/libro-button-button-de-richard-matheson/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Reven</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thelector.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/libro-button-button-de-richard-matheson/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Acabo de ver la película &#8220;The Box&#8221; una adaptación del libro &#8220;Button, button&#8221;]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.mundodescargas.com/2k9/especiales/the_box/imagenes/portada_the_box.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="280" />Acabo de ver la película &#8220;The Box&#8221; una adaptación del libro &#8220;Button, button&#8221;. Me estaba gustando, pero el final la reventó. De todas maneras me he quedado con mal gusto y voy a leer el libro. Lo he encontrado <a href="http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero41/botonmat.html">aquí.</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Creo que merece la pena leerlo. Creo que el hecho de que no me gustase la película es porque no es una buena adaptación. Veremos a ver con el libro. Si lo leen me dicen.</p>
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<link>http://stellastory.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/reedest-puhapaevani/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://stellastory.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/reedest-puhapaevani/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sõitsin reedel juba Tallinna , põhimõtteliselt nagu iga nädalavahetus ikka Meeletult tahaks , et fot]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MINICRÍTICAS de CINE Part II - Dark Country – Siempre a tu lado, Hachiko – The Box – DOGHOUSE]]></title>
<link>http://invernalia.com/2009/11/22/miniciriticas-de-cine-part-ii-dark-country-%e2%80%93-siempre-a-tu-lado-hachiko-%e2%80%93-the-box-%e2%80%93-doghouse/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>invernalia</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Dark Country Y empezamos esta segunda entrega de mini críticas con una buena película de terror, par]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.milpeliculas.com/portada/hd/milpeliculas-hd-5383035.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="300" />Y empezamos esta segunda entrega de mini críticas con una buena película de terror, para nada terrorífica pero  bastante misteriosa y entretenida. Lo primero que se me vino a la mente tras ver esta película (aunque antes que terminara ya lo pensaba prácticamente) es que si se hubiera rodado en los años ochenta, hoy día sería un clásico. <strong>Dark Country</strong> es la primera película dirigida por Thomas Jane (protagonista también de la película) y cuenta la historia de una pareja de recién casados cuya luna de miel se convertirá en un auténtico infierno. Dick (Thomas Jane) viaja en coche de madrugada por el arduo desierto de México con una joven que conoció la noche anterior en Las Vegas y con la que se acabó casando. En muchas películas hemos visto historias parecidas, personas que se conocen una noche en dicha ciudad e inmediatamente  acaban casándose. ¿Suele suceder esto en la realidad? ¡Tendré que irme allí de vacaciones!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En pleno viaje, y tras una escena de lo más erótica, acaban atropellando a un extraño viajero al que casi matan. A partir de ahí, el viaje se les transformará en un autentico infierno. Toda la historia recae en estos dos personajes, en Thomas Jane y en su reciente y preciosa esposa cuyo pasado e intenciones se verán algo turbios.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dark Country está rodada en pleno desierto de México y con muchas escenas digitalizadas al estilo <strong>300</strong> o <strong>Sin City</strong>. Estos efectos, en plena noche y con una trama de lo más misteriosa, hacen que la película sea un continuo misterio y te veas envuelto en una gran intriga.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La película nos recuerda a uno de aquellos míticos episodios de Cuentos Asombrosos. Esa exitosa serie de televisión dirigida por Steven Spielberg en los años ochenta ¿la recuerdan?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Recomendada queda, Dark Country. Espero que sea de vuestro agrado.</p>
<h3>Siempre a tu lado, Hachiko</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignright" src="http://peliculas.cine.hispavista.com/fotos/peliculas/2002/66/pel-029020.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="315" />Conmovedora esta última película de Richard Gere. Este tipo de películas me pueden e irremediablemente acabo soltando un puñado de lágrimas. Se la recomiendo a todos, sea cuales sean sus gustos cinematográficos, es igual, esta película debe ser visionada por todos. Una historia que enseña la fidelidad, nobleza y sobre todo la lealtad. Remake de la película japonesa <em>Hachiko Monogatari</em>, dirigida en 1987 por Seijirô Kôyama y basada en una historia real, narra la historia de un profesor de universidad que acoge a un perro vagabundo que se encuentra en una estación de trenes.  El profesor (Richard Gere) se documenta sobre la raza del perro, que resulta ser un can japonés conocido como <em>Hachiko</em>, cuyo mismo nombre le otorga al ya acogido perro. Es tal el cariño que se tienen mutuamente, y tan fuerte los lazos que los unen que Hachiko nunca se separa del profesor. Todos los días Hachiko, acompaña y recoge al profesor de la estación dónde coge el tren para dirigirse al trabajo. Un día, algo trágico sucede y la vida da un vuelco rotundo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Para los que ya hayan visto la película, o mejor dicho, para todos aquellos gaditanos que hayan visto esta película, les será inevitable recordar la emotiva historia de Canelo. ¿Os acordáis? Aquel perro que estuvo durante una década en las escaleras del hospital de Cádiz esperando la salida de su dueño que murió años atrás.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Vean esta película por favor. Es una autentica maravilla.</p>
<h3>The Box</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft" src="http://jordim.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the-box-poster.jpg?w=200&#038;h=295" alt="" width="200" height="295" />Que  poco me gusta Cameron Díaz, es más, me parece una actriz mediocre y extremadamente sobrevalorada. Pero esto es una opinión personal  y centrémonos en la película en sí, que tampoco es que sea de mi agrado. Del director de Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, nos situamos en los años setenta. Vemos la tranquila y feliz vida de Norma Lewis (C.Díaz) una preciosa profesora de colegio privado que vive felizmente casada con su marido Arthur (James Marsden), ingeniero de la NASA con el cual tiene un hijo, Walter, de nueve años.  La tranquilidad se perturba con la llegada a la casa de un extraño personaje, con la cara desfigurada y que cambiara la vida del matrimonio por completo.  Este extraño personaje, le entrega a Norma una  misteriosa caja y le hace una propuesta de lo más difícil. Tienen veinticuatro horas para decidir si pulsar el botón de la caja o no. Si lo pulsan, ganan un millón de dólares y…una persona muere. Decidan lo que decidan, desencadenarán una serie de terribles desgracias.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La película es difícil de entender ya que de por sí el argumento es complicado y engorroso y además, le meten momentos completamente inexplicables e innecesarios. El espectador se sumerge en un autentico dilema moral envuelto en una esfera de ciencia ficción en un ambiente de lo más enrevesado que roza lo ridículo, absurdo y aburrido. No la recomiendo en absoluto.</p>
<h3>DOGHOUSE</h3>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.thegeekcouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/doghouse-poster1.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="287" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Si con Death Snow, película de la que ya hablé en Invernalia y podréis leer en <a href="http://invernalia.com/2009/11/03/minicriticas-de-cine-part-i-el-secreto-de-sus-ojos-%E2%80%93-la-huerfana-%E2%80%93-ben-x-%E2%80%93-infectados-dead-snow/">este enlace</a>, tuve que ponerme en pie y aplaudir, con Doghouse, hice lo mismo. ¿Quién dijo que el género  zombi estaba acabado? Doghouse es una alocada comedia ambientada en un lejano y desierto pueblo llamado Moodley donde la presencia femenina es mayoritaria. Así que es allí donde unos amigos quieren celebrar una fiesta para Vince (Stephen Graham), que acaba de divorciarse. Contratan un microbús conducido por una atractiva chica que los lleva hacia el pueblo. Una vez allí, las pueblerinas, no son lo que ellos esperaban, adorables mujeres dispuestas a tener sexo, no, todo lo contrario, se topan con una legión de féminas sedientas de sangre. Bien hecha, con momentos increíblemente divertidos, diálogos muy trabajados y unos personajes carismáticos, muy distintos unos de otros y que aportan momentos gloriosos.  Recomendada a todos aquellos seguidores de este género cinematográfico.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Un abrazo.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>Álvaro R.</strong></p>
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<link>http://teampit.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/cate-chestii-intra-intr-o-cutie/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Iulia Bertea</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teampit.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/cate-chestii-intra-intr-o-cutie/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Traim in niste cutii mai mari, mergem la serviciu in cutii mai mici, cand ne intoarcem stam s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;">&#8220;Traim in niste cutii mai mari, mergem la serviciu in cutii mai mici, cand ne intoarcem stam si ne petrecem timpul uitandu-ne la o cutie, iar corpurile noastre sunt tot niste cutii care la final vor parasi aceasta lume in ultima cutie&#8230;&#8221;. Aceasta este filosofia optimista din <strong>The Box</strong>, un film care mi-a demonstrat din nou ca americanii au talentul nemaipomenit sa ia niste concepte si idei profunde si sa ni le serveasca sub forma de sufleu prabusit in el insusi.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Norma (Cameron Diaz) si Arthur (James Marsden) sunt un cuplu middle class din America anilor &#8216;70. Ea e profesoara de literatura franceza, el e inginer la NASA si au o viata relativ linistita si fericita, umbrita doar de micul handicap la picior al Normei. Exact in perioada cand ea este concediata iar lui i se refuza un post important, in viata lor apare un barbat ciudat, cu jumatate de fata arsa (Frank Langella), care le aduce o cutie cu un buton si le face o oferta: pot primi un milion de dolari neimpozabili daca apasa butonul in 24 de ore, moment in care cineva, o persoana complet necunoscuta lor, va muri. Cum era de asteptat, datorita problemelor financiare si egoismului intrinsec al fiintei umane (&#8220;daca moare cineva din alta tara, pe care nu-l cunosc, asta nu ma afecteaza&#8221;), ei apasa butonul si primesc banii, insa consecintele gestului lor sunt tragice. De-acum inainte vor fi terorizati de tot felul de intamplari dubioase, oameni ciudati si telefoanele domnului Arlington Steward (omul fara juma&#8217; de fata), culminand cu obligatia de a face o alegere oribila.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><a href="http://teampit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-box.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1676" title="the box" src="http://teampit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/the-box.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Tot din acest punct al filmului, spectatorului i se serveste, dupa cum am zis, un fel de sufleu in care sunt amestecate la gramada: filosofia liberului arbitru, chestiuni de etica si morala (triumful dorintelor personale asupra binelui colectiv), religia (poate fi dl.Steward un fel de sarpe al Edenului care o tenteaza pe Eva/Norma?), tehnologia si SF-ul, condimentate cu citate din teatrul lui Jean-Paul Sartre luate din Reader&#8217;s Digest (&#8220;Infernul sunt ceilalti&#8221;). Evenimentele care se petrec sunt atat de suprarealiste si incalcite ca la un moment dat nu stii daca sa te plictisesti sau sa te resemnezi ca n-o sa intelegi nimic, iar unele scene sunt de-a dreptul penibile, cum ar fi faza de la biblioteca, care concureaza la absurditate cu scena din <strong><a href="http://teampit.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/fatal-fatal-da-sa-stim-si-noi/">Knowing</a></strong> cand vin extraterestrii sa-i ia pe copii in nava. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Pe deasupra, filmul mai e si misogin, deoarece in toate cuplurile din film carora li se face oferta, numai femeia e aceea care apasa intotdeauna butonul. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;">Ce mai, <strong>The Box</strong> este ca un fel de episod mai lung si mai prost din serialul <strong>The Twilight Zone</strong>. Mi-a trebuit o ora sa ies din starea de spirit tampita pe care mi-a provocat-o. Am luat insa de la omul cu juma&#8217; de fata si o idee buna, pe care o s-o prezint maine departamentului HR: &#8220;Manualul de exploatare a resurselor umane&#8221;&#8230; :&#124;</span></p>
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<link>http://hollywoodroom.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/28/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dailydemilovatosource</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[While their castmates partied at crowded Manhattan club The Box with the likes of Fergie, Ed Westwic]]></description>
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<p>Instead, the couple ventured elsewhere.<br />First, they reunited with castmembers (including Taylor Lautner) at a more intimate, no-press gathering at members-only club Soho House. Pattinson (wearing a baseball cap) and Stewart (in tight jeans and a leather jacket) took &#8220;turns in the smoking room,&#8221; an eyewitness says.<br />Next, Stewart and Pattinson made a break for it, leaving their colleagues behind. They arrived at another club, Avenue, around 1:30 a.m. and took a table on the mezzanine &#8212; keeping a security guard close by for &#8220;more private time&#8221; a source says.<br />Among the small group joining the couple at Avenue was rocker Joan Jett (who Stewart portrays in the film The Runaways). Pattinson &#8212; who is also a musician &#8212; was particularly fond of Avenue&#8217;s rock-heavy playlist spun by DJ Mike Nouveau. &#8220;Robert kind of sang along to the words in the songs he knew,&#8221; including &#8220;Common People&#8221; by Pulp, an observer tells us.</p>
<p>Adds another eyewitness of Pattinson and Stewart: &#8220;They sat very close to each other and looked very happy together. They chatted together the entire time.&#8221; When the pair left around 3am, &#8220;they were holding hands,&#8221; an eyewitness says.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s their second night in a row savoring the Big Apple together.<br />On Wednesday, following talk show appearances, the pair joined a large group at downtown eatery Gemma. &#8220;They were giggling a lot, and sitting very close,&#8221; an eyewitness tells Us, adding that Pattinson switched places &#8220;so he could sit next to Kristen.&#8221;</p>
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<link>http://infopasseport.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/voir-recommande-le-horla-de-the-box/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[La critique dans le VOIR du 19 novembre 2009 &nbsp; CRITIQUE DE VOIR par Réjean Beaucage On pourrait]]></description>
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<p>&#160;</p>
<div>CRITIQUE DE VOIR par Réjean Beaucage</div>
<div>On pourrait reprocher au groupe montréalais <strong>The Box</strong> d&#8217;avoir vendu son âme au palmarès dans une première vie, tellement d&#8217;ailleurs qu&#8217;on écoutait plutôt autre chose à l&#8217;époque. Mais on doit bien constater qu&#8217;une nouvelle vie vient avec une nouvelle âme. Après une tentative intéressante en 2005 (<em>Black Dog There</em>), voici un disque directement inspiré par le texte de Maupassant du même titre. <strong>Jean-Marc Pisapia</strong>, leader et chanteur du groupe, livre ici une oeuvre résolument anticommerciale (presque toutes les pièces sont trop longues pour nos radios frileuses) et, contre toute attente, l&#8217;un des meilleurs disques de rock progressif en français paru depuis longtemps. Étonnant!</div>
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<strong>25 %</strong> d&#8217;inspiration et de respect<br />
<strong>30 %</strong> de grooves progressifs<br />
<strong>20 %</strong> de mystère poétique<br />
<strong>15 %</strong> d&#8217;anticonformisme<br />
<strong>10 %</strong> d&#8217;effet de surprise</div>
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<link>http://bcitstudentnewspaper.ca/2009/11/19/movie-review-the-box/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://bcitstudentnewspaper.ca/2009/11/19/movie-review-the-box/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Box is a movie based on the 1970’s short story button button by Richard Matheson adapted for fil]]></description>
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<p><em>The Box</em> is a movie based on the 1970’s short story button button by <strong>Richard Matheson</strong> adapted for film by Writer – Director <strong>Richard Kelly</strong>. Richard Kelly is known for complex, multi-faceted and cryptic movies, example: <strong>Donnie Darko</strong>. <em>The Box</em> is definitely no exception, there are so many twists and turns throughout, as well as small details that, if missed, could affect how someone interprets the film.</p>
<p><em>The Box</em> stars <strong>Cameron Diaz</strong> and <strong>James Marsden</strong> as Arthur and Norma Lewis, a married couple living in Virginia. They are living a little beyond their means as illustrated by the big house they live in and their fancy car. Just as their fi nancial life begins to crumble they are approached by Arlington Steward, a disfi gured, yet oddly charming man with an interesting and fateful proposition.</p>
<p>He presents them with a box, which has a button. If the button is pushed they will received one million dollars, but someone in the world whom they don’t know will die. They are given 24 hours to make their decision. Obviously they push the button, and consequences follow. Like I said earlier, Richard Kelly is known for complex movies, so if you’re looking for a morality love story quickie, then this movie isn’t for you. It’s a complicated storyline with morality, love story, science-fi ction and a murder mystery all woven together held together in a non linear storyline surrounding this box.</p>
<p>The movie really raises more questions than it answers, even after it’s all over. I’d call it a rental, not because it isn’t good enough to see in theatres, but because you might want to watch it again the next day to try and make better sense of it.</p>
<p><em>-Dylan Leard (Broadcast Journalism)</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[R5 Release Dates (November 3rd – May 2010)]]></title>
<link>http://sbraidley.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/r5-release-dates-november-3rd-%e2%80%93-may-2010/</link>
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<p><strong>November 2009</strong><br />
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish &#8211; November 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
Zombieland &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
The Prince &#38; Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Hardwired – November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure &#8211; November 5<sup>th</sup><br />
Banlieue 13 Ultimatum &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
Julie &#38; Julia &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee &#8211; November 12<sup>th</sup><br />
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Little Hercules in 3-D &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Driven to Kill – November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Hachiko: A Dog&#8217;s Story &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations &#8211; November 19<sup>th</sup><br />
Saw VI &#8211; November 26<sup>th</sup><br />
Playmobil: The Secret of Pirate Island &#8211; November 26<sup>th</sup></p>
<p><strong>December</strong><br />
My Sister&#8217;s Keeper &#8211; December 1<sup>st</sup><br />
Astro Boy &#8211; December 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
Jennifer&#8217;s Body &#8211; December 3<sup>rd</sup> (2nd Date)<br />
Law Abiding Citizen – December 3<sup>rd</sup><br />
American Pie: Book of Love &#8211; December 8<sup>th</sup><br />
Inglourious Basterds &#8211; December 8<sup>th</sup><br />
2012 &#8211; December 10<sup>th</sup><br />
The Box – December 10<sup>th</sup><br />
Love Happens &#8211; December 11<sup>th</sup><br />
Funny People &#8211; December 15<sup>th</sup><br />
Zombieland &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup> (2nd Date)<br />
This Is It &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
The Stepfather  - December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
Planet 51 &#8211; December 17<sup>th</sup><br />
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee &#8211; December 24<sup>th</sup><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>January 2010</strong><br />
The Soloist &#8211; January 12<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Shrink &#8211; January 21<sup>st</sup> 2010<br />
The Final Destination &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Smokin&#8217; Aces 2: Assassins&#8217; Ball &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
City Island &#8211; January 26<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel &#8211; January 28<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
This Is It &#8211; January 2010 (2nd Date)</p>
<p><strong>February 2010</strong><br />
The Informant!  - February 2<sup>nd</sup> 2010<br />
500 Days of Summer &#8211; February 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Whiteout &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Couples Retreat &#8211; February 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Invention of Lying &#8211; February 16<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Amelia &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Into the Blue 2: The Reef &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead &#8211; February 18<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&#8217;s Assistant &#8211; February 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
The Blind Side &#8211; February 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
Tooth Fairy &#8211; February 25<sup>th</sup> 2010</p>
<p><strong>March 2010</strong><br />
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate&#8217;s Cove &#8211; March 2<sup>nd</sup> 2010<br />
Fantastic Mr. Fox &#8211; March 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Marine 2 &#8211; March 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Ninja Assassin &#8211; March 9<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Percy Jackson &#38; the Olympians: The Lightning Thief &#8211; March 11<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Where the Wild Things Are &#8211; March 23<sup>rd</sup> 2010<br />
Surviving Evil &#8211; March 25<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Cabin in the Woods  - March 25<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Sherlock Holmes &#8211; March 30<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
The Wolfman &#8211; March 2010<br />
A Christmas Carol &#8211; March 2010</p>
<p><strong>April 2010<br />
</strong>Paranormal Activity &#8211; April 6<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
It&#8217;s Complicated &#8211; April 20<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel &#8211; April 25<sup>th</sup> 2010 (2nd Date)</p>
<p><strong>May 2010<br />
</strong>Preacher&#8217;s Kid &#8211; May 4<sup>th</sup> 2010<br />
Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8211; May 18<sup>th</sup> 2010</p>
<p>For the rest of the dates go to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/r5dates" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/r5dates</a></p>
<p><strong>Updated</strong>: 18<sup>th</sup> November 2009</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[TVtracker.com Weekly Feature Film Roundup Email Alert - November 13, 2009]]></title>
<link>http://lavcmasc.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/tvtracker-com-weekly-feature-film-roundup-email-alert-november-13-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[[B]ox Office 13-15 พ.ย.09 :: 2012 วันสิ้นโลก เจ๋งคว้าแชมป์ขาดลอยตามคาด!!]]></title>
<link>http://sabusfilm.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/box-office-13-15-nov-09/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ใกล้งวดเข้ามาทุกทีครับ สำหรับการเคลื่อนเข้าสู่ช่วงท้ายปีที่เหลืออีกเดือนกว่า ๆ ที่ทั่วโลกอยู่ในภาวะเ]]></description>
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<p><strong>ใกล้งวดเข้ามาทุกทีครับ สำหรับการเคลื่อนเข้าสู่ช่วงท้ายปีที่เหลืออีกเดือนกว่า ๆ ที่ทั่วโลกอยู่ในภาวะเศรษฐกิจตกสะเก็ดการเงินฝืนเคือง ส่งผลให้นักดูหนังต้องคิดคำนวนให้ดีกับการใช้สอย แม้กระทั่งการเลือกดูภาพยนตร์ ว่าดูเรื่องไหนมันถึงจะคุ้มค่า จึงทำให้ภาพยนตร์แต่ละเรื่องทำรายได้กันน้อยตามไปด้วย..ยังงัยก็ช่วยกันอุดหนุนอุตสาหกรรมเยอะ ๆ นะครับ!! มาเริ่มกันเลยครับสำหรับอันดับรายได้ภาพยนตร์สุดสัปดาห์ประจำ <span style="color:#0000ff;">13-15 พ.ย.09</span> นี้ขอรับ!!<!--more--></strong></p>
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<p><strong>คงไม่ต้องลุ้นอะไรกันมากมายสำหรับ<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 1</span> ที่ต้องยกตำแหน่งแชมป์ให้กับ <span style="color:#0000ff;">2012</span> แบบเทใจ ภาพยนตร์ที่ทั่วโลกต่างตั้งตารอคอยการขึ้นจอหรือแม้กระทั่งบ้านเรา ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Roland Emmerich</span> ที่ถนัดการพังตึกรามบ้านช่องและความหายนะเหมือนเป็นของเล่น โดยแต่ละเรื่องต่างทำรายได้แบบถล่มทลายทั้งสิ้น อย่าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Day After Tomorrow,Godzilla,ID4</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Sony/Columbia</span> ผู้กำกับของเรากลับมาทำลายล้างกันอีกแล้วแต่คราวนี้หนักกว่าเดิมถึงขั้นล้างโลกเลยทีเดียว โดยหยิบจับความเป็นจริงถึงอันตรายของโลกที่เกี่ยวกับภาวะโลกร้อน อันเป็นเหตุให้เกิดภาวะเรือนกระจกจนทำให้โลกร้อนมากขึ้น กระทบกับน้ำแข็งที่ขั้วโลกละลายเร็วลงทุกที ทำให้การเคลื่อนที่ของฤดูกาลที่เปลี่ยนแปลงส่งผลในหลาย ๆ ด้าน และอ้างอิงถึงคำทำนายของปฏิทินของเผ่ามายันต์ว่าโลกจะถึงวันสิ้นสุดในปี <span style="color:#3366ff;">2012</span> หนังใช้ทุนสร้างไป 200 ล้านเหรียสหรัฐรวมค่าโปรโมทต่าง ๆ ก็ราว ๆ <span style="color:#3366ff;">260 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เก็บรายได้ทั่วโลกได้อย่างตามคาด ถึงแม้จะเปิดตัววันแรกไปไม่มากนัก แค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">23.6 ล้ายเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> (ที่เท่ากับการเปิดตัววันแรกของ <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Day After Tormorrow 23.5 ล้านเหรียญ</span> ของผู้กำกับเดียวกัน) แต่ก็ไม่ถือว่าเสียหายไรมากนัก หลังจากการฉาย 3 วันในสุดสัปดาห์แรก ก็คว้าแชมป์มาครองด้วยรายได้ในอเมริกา <span style="color:#3366ff;">65 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากโรงฉาย <span style="color:#3366ff;">3,404</span> แห่ง เฉลี่ยต่อโรง <span style="color:#3366ff;">19,095 เหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และทั่วโลกนอกอเมริกาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">160 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งสิ้นแบบถล่มทลายทั่วโลกในขณะนี้ <span style="color:#3366ff;">225 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>กันเลยทีเดียว นี่ขนาดเพิ่งเริ่มต้นนะนี้ ต้องรอดูกันต่อไปครับว่าหนังจะเก็บรายได้ไปไกลแค่ไหน ที่จะต้องเจอคู่แข่งที่น่ากลัวกำลังดักรอยู่ข้างหน้าที่ใกล้จะลงจอเข้ามาทุกขณะของหนังแวมไพร์ขวัญใจสาว ๆ อย่าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">New Moon</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">AVATAR</span> หนังอภิมหาโปรเจคของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Titanic</span> อีก!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong>หลีกแชมป์ให้กับหนังฟอร์มยักษ์ โดยคว้า<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 2</span> มาแทน ภาพยนตร์เรื่องล่าสุดของ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Jim Carry</span> ใน <span style="color:#0000ff;">A Christmas Carol</span> หนังแอนิเมชั่นแนวแคปเจอร์โมชั่นแบบเดียวกับ The <span style="color:#3366ff;">Polar Express</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Robert Zemeckis</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Buena Vista</span> ที่มาพร้อมความสนุกของคืนคริสมาสต์กับภารกิจของผีสามตัวที่จะต้องเปลี่ยนนิสัยชายแก่จอมงกนิสัยเสียให้กลายเป็นคนดีให้ได้ ด้วยทุนสร้างสูงถึง <span style="color:#3366ff;">200 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เข้าสู่สัปดาห์ที่ 2 ด้วยการเก็บรายได้มาอีกถึง <span style="color:#3366ff;">22.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ตกจากสัปดาห์ก่อนแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">25.7 %</span> เท่านั้น สรุปรายรับในอเมริกาทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">63.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ต้องเดินทางกันอีกไกลที่หนังเรื่องนี้จะเก็บรายได้คืนทุนเพื่อผ่านจุดอันตรายไปได้ แต่ทั้งนี้ทั้งนั้น ก็ต้องรอการเปิดตัวในทั่วโลกกันซะก่อนถึงจะสรุปผลที่แน่ชัดได้!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 3</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์แนวตลกที่รวบรวมดารารุ่นใหญ่ทั้งหลาย มารับบทเหล่าชายชาติทหารรุ่นเดอะที่มีพลังจิตพิเศษในกองทัพสหรัฐเพื่อมารับภาระกิจจ้องแพะ?!! ใน <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Men Who Stare at Goats</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Grant Heslov</span> ยังคงตรึงอันดับเดิมอยู่ไม่เปลี่ยนแปลง โดยเก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">6.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากการฉายในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">23.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">25 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และคาดว่าถ้าหนังเปิดตัวพร้อมกันทั่วโลกแล้วน่าจะเก็บกำไรได้ไม่ยากเพราะนี่ก็เขยิบ ๆ เข้าใกล้จุดคุ้มทุนเข้าไปแล้ว เพราะเป็นหนังตลกเบาสมองที่น่าติดตามดีทีเดียวครับ!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 4</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์อินดี้ทุนต่ำฉายจำกัดโรงเพียง <span style="color:#3366ff;">174</span> แห่ง เรื่อง <span style="color:#0000ff;">Precious</span> จากผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Lee Daniels</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์แนวสะท้อนชีวิตเข้มข้นของเด็กหญิงอ้วนผิวดำที่มีชีวิตที่แสนเจ็บปวด ที่คาดการณ์ว่าจะเป็นตัวเต็งในเวทีออสการ์อย่างแน่นอน หลังจากที่กวาดรางวัลจากเทศกาลภาพยนตร์ต่าง ๆ ทั่วโลกมาแล้ว โดยเฉพาะเด็กหญิงอ้วนดำ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Precious</span> ซึ่งรับบทโดย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Gabourey &#8216;Gabby&#8217; Sidibe</span> แสดงบทบาทได้เกินตัวจริง ๆ จนเธอน่าจะเป็นตัวเต็งออสการ์เช่นกันในฐานะนักแสดงหญิงยอดเยี่ยมเช่นกัน โดยหนังใช้ทุนสร้างแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">10 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เก็บรายได้จากการฉายในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 ในสหรัฐ <span style="color:#3366ff;">6 ล้านเหรียญ</span> รวมรายได้จากการฉายทั้งหมดไปแล้ว <span style="color:#3366ff;">8.9 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ถือว่าทำได้ดีทีเดียวสำหรับหนังประเภทนี้ที่จำกัดคนดู!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 5</span> ภาพยนตร์แห่งประวัติศาสตร์ของเบื้องหลังคอนเสิร์ตสุดท้ายของราชาเพลงป๊อบ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Michael Jackson&#8217;s This is it</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Sony/Columbia</span> ที่สร้างความประทับใจให้กับแฟน ๆ แบบไม่มีวันลืมเลือน โดยตอนแรกมีหมายกำหนดการว่าจะฉายแค่ 14 วัน และถูกแฟน ๆ ทั้งพันธ์แท้และไม่แท้ให้เพิ่มรอบ จนทางค่ายใจดีเพิ่มรอบให้อีก 1 สัปดาห์ เก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">5 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ในอเมริกา ในขณะนี้ทั่วโลกฟันรายได้ไปทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">197 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ประสบความสำเร็จแบบถล่มทลายเป็นยิ่งนัก &#8230;ของราชาเพลงป๊อบขาแดนด์ผู้ไม่มีวันตาย!!</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16940.jpeg" alt="" width="437" height="201" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 6</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์เรื่องใหม่ของนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Milla Jovovich</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">Resident Evil</span> เรื่อง <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Fourth Kind</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Olatunde Osunsanmi</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Universal Studio</span> มาคราวนี้รับบทบาทในแนวลึกลับสยองขวัญเช่นเคย เรต <span style="color:#3366ff;">PG-13</span> กับเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับเหตุการณ์จริงเมื่อหลายปีก่อนกับการเผชิญหน้ากับมนุษย์ต่างดาวอย่างลึกลับ เก็บรายได้ในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 ในอเมริกามาได้แค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.7 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">20.5 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ที่ถือว่าน้อยทีเดียว หนังที่ทำรายได้ให้กับนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Milla Jovovich</span> เป็นกอบเป็นกำก็คงหนีไม่พ้นหนังในตระกูล <span style="color:#3366ff;">Resident Evil</span> จากภาคต่าง ๆ แต่สำหรับเรื่องอื่น ๆ ของเธอน้อยนักที่จะทำเงินจะแป่กซะเป็นส่วนใหญ่ แบบนี้ต้องรอหนังผีชีวะภาคใหม่ที่กำลังถ่ายทำอยู่ในขณะนี้แล้วว่าเธอจะกลับมาผงาดได้อีกหรือไม่ต้องรอดู!!</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16941.jpeg" alt="" width="404" height="204" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 7</span> ยังคงเกาะยึดติดหนืบอันดับเดิมอย่างเหนียวแน่นและอยู่ในอันดับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Top 10</span> เป็นเวลากว่า 6 สัปดาห์แล้วกับภาพยนตร์เกาะสวาทหาดสวรรค์ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Couples Retreat </span>ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Peter Billingsley</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Universal</span> ที่ไม่ยอมไปไหนง่าย ๆ ยังคงเก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมรายได้ทั่วโลกทำกำไรแบบถล่มทลายไปเต็ม ๆ <span style="color:#3366ff;">124 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">70 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และ<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 8</span> ภาพยนตร์แนวสยองขวัญทุนต่ำแต่ต่อยหนักเรื่องนี้ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Paranormal Activity</span> ที่ใช้ทุนสสร้างแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">15,000 เหรียญสหรัฐ</span>เท่านั้น แต่ฟันกำไรเข้ากระเป๋าไปแล้ว <span style="color:#3366ff;">103.8 ล้านเหรียญ</span>แบบดับเบิ้ลถล่มทลายเลยทีเดียว โดยในสัปดาห์ที่ 8 ของการฉายเก็บเงินคนอเมริกามาได้อีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ด้วยกัน!!</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16943.jpeg" alt="" width="404" height="204" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 9</span> ภาพยนตร์อีกเรื่องที่ยังคงเดินหน้าทำกำไรกันต่อไป <span style="color:#0000ff;">Law Abiding Citizen</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">F. Gary Gray</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Italian Job,Be Cool</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Overture Films</span> โดยนักแสดง <span style="color:#3366ff;">Jamie Foxx</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Gerard Butler</span> จับมือช่วยกันเฉือนบทบาทอย่างถึงกึ๋น ทำกำไรเก็บเงินจากคนสหรัฐมาได้อีกในสัปดาห์นี้ <span style="color:#3366ff;">3.9 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">67.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>กันไปแล้ว จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">50 ล้านเหรียญ</span> <span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 10 </span>สุดท้ายกับ <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Box</span> ภาพยนตร์แนวลุ้นระทึกเกี่ยวกับเงินรางวัล 1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐสำหรับการกดปุ่มบนกล่องแต่ต้องแลกด้วยการตายของ 1 ชีวิต กับคนที่ไม่รู้จักในโลก ของการแสดงแนวลู้นระทึกครั้งแรกนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Cameron Diaz</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">James Marsden</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">X-men</span> โดยผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Richard Kelly</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Warner Bros.</span> ที่กำลังหนีตายด้วยการเก็บรายได้จากสัปดาห์ที่ 2 มาได้อีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">3.1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> โดยยอดรวมรายได้ในอเมริกาทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">13.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">30 ล้าน</span> ต้องรอลุ้นกันสุด ๆ สำหรับการผ่านจุดคุ้มทุนเพื่อผ่านไปให้ได้!!</strong></p>
<p><strong>ตารางรายได้ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Box Office</span> สุดสัปดาห์ประจำวันที่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">13-15 พ.ย.09</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16945.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16944.jpeg" alt="คลิ๊กเพื่อชมตารางอันดับรายได้แบบเต็ม ๆ " width="455" height="265" /></a></p>
<p><strong>ที่มา : <span style="color:#000080;">BoxOfficeMojo</span></strong></p>
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<link>http://noominak.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/box-office-13-15-nov-09/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>ใกล้งวดเข้ามาทุกทีครับ สำหรับการเคลื่อนเข้าสู่ช่วงท้ายปีที่เหลืออีกเดือนกว่า ๆ ที่ทั่วโลกอยู่ในภาวะเศรษฐกิจตกสะเก็ดการเงินฝืนเคือง ส่งผลให้นักดูหนังต้องคิดคำนวนให้ดีกับการใช้สอย แม้กระทั่งการเลือกดูภาพยนตร์ ว่าดูเรื่องไหนมันถึงจะคุ้มค่า จึงทำให้ภาพยนตร์แต่ละเรื่องทำรายได้กันน้อยตามไปด้วย..ยังงัยก็ช่วยกันอุดหนุนอุตสาหกรรมเยอะ ๆ นะครับ!! มาเริ่มกันเลยครับสำหรับอันดับรายได้ภาพยนตร์สุดสัปดาห์ประจำ <span style="color:#0000ff;">13-15 พ.ย.09</span> นี้ขอรับ!!<!--more--></strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16935.jpeg" alt="" width="312" height="155" /></p>
<p><strong>คงไม่ต้องลุ้นอะไรกันมากมายสำหรับ<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 1</span> ที่ต้องยกตำแหน่งแชมป์ให้กับ <span style="color:#0000ff;">2012</span> แบบเทใจ ภาพยนตร์ที่ทั่วโลกต่างตั้งตารอคอยการขึ้นจอหรือแม้กระทั่งบ้านเรา ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Roland Emmerich</span> ที่ถนัดการพังตึกรามบ้านช่องและความหายนะเหมือนเป็นของเล่น โดยแต่ละเรื่องต่างทำรายได้แบบถล่มทลายทั้งสิ้น อย่าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Day After Tomorrow,Godzilla,ID4</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Sony/Columbia</span> ผู้กำกับของเรากลับมาทำลายล้างกันอีกแล้วแต่คราวนี้หนักกว่าเดิมถึงขั้นล้างโลกเลยทีเดียว โดยหยิบจับความเป็นจริงถึงอันตรายของโลกที่เกี่ยวกับภาวะโลกร้อน อันเป็นเหตุให้เกิดภาวะเรือนกระจกจนทำให้โลกร้อนมากขึ้น กระทบกับน้ำแข็งที่ขั้วโลกละลายเร็วลงทุกที ทำให้การเคลื่อนที่ของฤดูกาลที่เปลี่ยนแปลงส่งผลในหลาย ๆ ด้าน และอ้างอิงถึงคำทำนายของปฏิทินของเผ่ามายันต์ว่าโลกจะถึงวันสิ้นสุดในปี <span style="color:#3366ff;">2012</span> หนังใช้ทุนสร้างไป 200 ล้านเหรียสหรัฐรวมค่าโปรโมทต่าง ๆ ก็ราว ๆ <span style="color:#3366ff;">260 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เก็บรายได้ทั่วโลกได้อย่างตามคาด ถึงแม้จะเปิดตัววันแรกไปไม่มากนัก แค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">23.6 ล้ายเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> (ที่เท่ากับการเปิดตัววันแรกของ <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Day After Tormorrow 23.5 ล้านเหรียญ</span> ของผู้กำกับเดียวกัน) แต่ก็ไม่ถือว่าเสียหายไรมากนัก หลังจากการฉาย 3 วันในสุดสัปดาห์แรก ก็คว้าแชมป์มาครองด้วยรายได้ในอเมริกา <span style="color:#3366ff;">65 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากโรงฉาย <span style="color:#3366ff;">3,404</span> แห่ง เฉลี่ยต่อโรง <span style="color:#3366ff;">19,095 เหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และทั่วโลกนอกอเมริกาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">160 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งสิ้นแบบถล่มทลายทั่วโลกในขณะนี้ <span style="color:#3366ff;">225 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>กันเลยทีเดียว นี่ขนาดเพิ่งเริ่มต้นนะนี้ ต้องรอดูกันต่อไปครับว่าหนังจะเก็บรายได้ไปไกลแค่ไหน ที่จะต้องเจอคู่แข่งที่น่ากลัวกำลังดักรอยู่ข้างหน้าที่ใกล้จะลงจอเข้ามาทุกขณะของหนังแวมไพร์ขวัญใจสาว ๆ อย่าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">New Moon</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">AVATAR</span> หนังอภิมหาโปรเจคของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Titanic</span> อีก!!</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16936.jpeg" alt="" width="310" height="138" /></p>
<p><strong>หลีกแชมป์ให้กับหนังฟอร์มยักษ์ โดยคว้า<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 2</span> มาแทน ภาพยนตร์เรื่องล่าสุดของ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Jim Carry</span> ใน <span style="color:#0000ff;">A Christmas Carol</span> หนังแอนิเมชั่นแนวแคปเจอร์โมชั่นแบบเดียวกับ The <span style="color:#3366ff;">Polar Express</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Robert Zemeckis</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Buena Vista</span> ที่มาพร้อมความสนุกของคืนคริสมาสต์กับภารกิจของผีสามตัวที่จะต้องเปลี่ยนนิสัยชายแก่จอมงกนิสัยเสียให้กลายเป็นคนดีให้ได้ ด้วยทุนสร้างสูงถึง <span style="color:#3366ff;">200 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เข้าสู่สัปดาห์ที่ 2 ด้วยการเก็บรายได้มาอีกถึง <span style="color:#3366ff;">22.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ตกจากสัปดาห์ก่อนแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">25.7 %</span> เท่านั้น สรุปรายรับในอเมริกาทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">63.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ต้องเดินทางกันอีกไกลที่หนังเรื่องนี้จะเก็บรายได้คืนทุนเพื่อผ่านจุดอันตรายไปได้ แต่ทั้งนี้ทั้งนั้น ก็ต้องรอการเปิดตัวในทั่วโลกกันซะก่อนถึงจะสรุปผลที่แน่ชัดได้!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 3</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์แนวตลกที่รวบรวมดารารุ่นใหญ่ทั้งหลาย มารับบทเหล่าชายชาติทหารรุ่นเดอะที่มีพลังจิตพิเศษในกองทัพสหรัฐเพื่อมารับภาระกิจจ้องแพะ?!! ใน <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Men Who Stare at Goats</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Grant Heslov</span> ยังคงตรึงอันดับเดิมอยู่ไม่เปลี่ยนแปลง โดยเก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">6.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากการฉายในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">23.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">25 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และคาดว่าถ้าหนังเปิดตัวพร้อมกันทั่วโลกแล้วน่าจะเก็บกำไรได้ไม่ยากเพราะนี่ก็เขยิบ ๆ เข้าใกล้จุดคุ้มทุนเข้าไปแล้ว เพราะเป็นหนังตลกเบาสมองที่น่าติดตามดีทีเดียวครับ!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 4</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์อินดี้ทุนต่ำฉายจำกัดโรงเพียง <span style="color:#3366ff;">174</span> แห่ง เรื่อง <span style="color:#0000ff;">Precious</span> จากผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Lee Daniels</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์แนวสะท้อนชีวิตเข้มข้นของเด็กหญิงอ้วนผิวดำที่มีชีวิตที่แสนเจ็บปวด ที่คาดการณ์ว่าจะเป็นตัวเต็งในเวทีออสการ์อย่างแน่นอน หลังจากที่กวาดรางวัลจากเทศกาลภาพยนตร์ต่าง ๆ ทั่วโลกมาแล้ว โดยเฉพาะเด็กหญิงอ้วนดำ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Precious</span> ซึ่งรับบทโดย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Gabourey &#8216;Gabby&#8217; Sidibe</span> แสดงบทบาทได้เกินตัวจริง ๆ จนเธอน่าจะเป็นตัวเต็งออสการ์เช่นกันในฐานะนักแสดงหญิงยอดเยี่ยมเช่นกัน โดยหนังใช้ทุนสร้างแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">10 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> เก็บรายได้จากการฉายในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 ในสหรัฐ <span style="color:#3366ff;">6 ล้านเหรียญ</span> รวมรายได้จากการฉายทั้งหมดไปแล้ว <span style="color:#3366ff;">8.9 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ถือว่าทำได้ดีทีเดียวสำหรับหนังประเภทนี้ที่จำกัดคนดู!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 5</span> ภาพยนตร์แห่งประวัติศาสตร์ของเบื้องหลังคอนเสิร์ตสุดท้ายของราชาเพลงป๊อบ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Michael Jackson&#8217;s This is it</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Sony/Columbia</span> ที่สร้างความประทับใจให้กับแฟน ๆ แบบไม่มีวันลืมเลือน โดยตอนแรกมีหมายกำหนดการว่าจะฉายแค่ 14 วัน และถูกแฟน ๆ ทั้งพันธ์แท้และไม่แท้ให้เพิ่มรอบ จนทางค่ายใจดีเพิ่มรอบให้อีก 1 สัปดาห์ เก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">5 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ในอเมริกา ในขณะนี้ทั่วโลกฟันรายได้ไปทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">197 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> ประสบความสำเร็จแบบถล่มทลายเป็นยิ่งนัก &#8230;ของราชาเพลงป๊อบขาแดนด์ผู้ไม่มีวันตาย!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 6</span> เป็นภาพยนตร์เรื่องใหม่ของนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Milla Jovovich</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">Resident Evil</span> เรื่อง <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Fourth Kind</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Olatunde Osunsanmi</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Universal Studio</span> มาคราวนี้รับบทบาทในแนวลึกลับสยองขวัญเช่นเคย เรต <span style="color:#3366ff;">PG-13</span> กับเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับเหตุการณ์จริงเมื่อหลายปีก่อนกับการเผชิญหน้ากับมนุษย์ต่างดาวอย่างลึกลับ เก็บรายได้ในสัปดาห์ที่ 2 ในอเมริกามาได้แค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.7 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">20.5 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ที่ถือว่าน้อยทีเดียว หนังที่ทำรายได้ให้กับนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Milla Jovovich</span> เป็นกอบเป็นกำก็คงหนีไม่พ้นหนังในตระกูล <span style="color:#3366ff;">Resident Evil</span> จากภาคต่าง ๆ แต่สำหรับเรื่องอื่น ๆ ของเธอน้อยนักที่จะทำเงินจะแป่กซะเป็นส่วนใหญ่ แบบนี้ต้องรอหนังผีชีวะภาคใหม่ที่กำลังถ่ายทำอยู่ในขณะนี้แล้วว่าเธอจะกลับมาผงาดได้อีกหรือไม่ต้องรอดู!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 7</span> ยังคงเกาะยึดติดหนืบอันดับเดิมอย่างเหนียวแน่นและอยู่ในอันดับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Top 10</span> เป็นเวลากว่า 6 สัปดาห์แล้วกับภาพยนตร์เกาะสวาทหาดสวรรค์ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Couples Retreat </span>ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Peter Billingsley</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Universal</span> ที่ไม่ยอมไปไหนง่าย ๆ ยังคงเก็บรายได้มาอีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมรายได้ทั่วโลกทำกำไรแบบถล่มทลายไปเต็ม ๆ <span style="color:#3366ff;">124 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">70 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> และ<span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 8</span> ภาพยนตร์แนวสยองขวัญทุนต่ำแต่ต่อยหนักเรื่องนี้ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Paranormal Activity</span> ที่ใช้ทุนสสร้างแค่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">15,000 เหรียญสหรัฐ</span>เท่านั้น แต่ฟันกำไรเข้ากระเป๋าไปแล้ว <span style="color:#3366ff;">103.8 ล้านเหรียญ</span>แบบดับเบิ้ลถล่มทลายเลยทีเดียว โดยในสัปดาห์ที่ 8 ของการฉายเก็บเงินคนอเมริกามาได้อีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">4.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>ด้วยกัน!!</strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 9</span> ภาพยนตร์อีกเรื่องที่ยังคงเดินหน้าทำกำไรกันต่อไป <span style="color:#0000ff;">Law Abiding Citizen</span> ของผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">F. Gary Gray</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">The Italian Job,Be Cool</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Overture Films</span> โดยนักแสดง <span style="color:#3366ff;">Jamie Foxx</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Gerard Butler</span> จับมือช่วยกันเฉือนบทบาทอย่างถึงกึ๋น ทำกำไรเก็บเงินจากคนสหรัฐมาได้อีกในสัปดาห์นี้ <span style="color:#3366ff;">3.9 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> รวมยอดรายได้ทั้งหมด <span style="color:#3366ff;">67.3 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span>กันไปแล้ว จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">50 ล้านเหรียญ</span> <span style="color:#0000ff;">อันดับ 10 </span>สุดท้ายกับ <span style="color:#0000ff;">The Box</span> ภาพยนตร์แนวลุ้นระทึกเกี่ยวกับเงินรางวัล 1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐสำหรับการกดปุ่มบนกล่องแต่ต้องแลกด้วยการตายของ 1 ชีวิต กับคนที่ไม่รู้จักในโลก ของการแสดงแนวลู้นระทึกครั้งแรกนางเอกสาว <span style="color:#3366ff;">Cameron Diaz</span> และ <span style="color:#3366ff;">James Marsden</span> จาก <span style="color:#3366ff;">X-men</span> โดยผู้กำกับ <span style="color:#3366ff;">Richard Kelly</span> จากค่าย <span style="color:#3366ff;">Warner Bros.</span> ที่กำลังหนีตายด้วยการเก็บรายได้จากสัปดาห์ที่ 2 มาได้อีก <span style="color:#3366ff;">3.1 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> โดยยอดรวมรายได้ในอเมริกาทั้งสิ้น <span style="color:#3366ff;">13.2 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ</span> จากทุนสร้าง <span style="color:#3366ff;">30 ล้าน</span> ต้องรอลุ้นกันสุด ๆ สำหรับการผ่านจุดคุ้มทุนเพื่อผ่านไปให้ได้!!</strong></p>
<p><strong>ตารางรายได้ <span style="color:#0000ff;">Box Office</span> สุดสัปดาห์ประจำวันที่ <span style="color:#3366ff;">13-15 พ.ย.09</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16945.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.allkeeper.com/images/image/16944.jpeg" alt="คลิ๊กเพื่อชมตารางอันดับรายได้แบบเต็ม ๆ " width="364" height="212" /></a></p>
<p><strong>ที่มา : <span style="color:#000080;">BoxOfficeMojo</span></strong></p>
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<link>http://planetofthenerds.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/im-a-guest-on-the-popcorn-mafia-this-week/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>planetofthenerds</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Your very own PLANET OF THE NERDS (a.k.a. Michael Monterastelli) is the guest reviewer on the hilari]]></description>
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<p>Your very own PLANET OF THE NERDS (a.k.a. Michael Monterastelli) is the guest reviewer on the hilarious movie-review podcast, <a href="http://popcornmafia.com" target="_blank">THE POPCORN MAFIA</a> this week! I join co-hosts GRAE DRAKE and GARIANA ABEYTA to discuss the new films, THE FOURTH KIND and THE BOX. This is the second time I&#8217;ve been on the show and we all really cut loose on this episode, which is called DOUBLE KNOT NAMEPOCALYPSE. You can listen to me talk about why aliens don&#8217;t like giving oral at <a href="http://popcornmafia.com" target="_blank">www.popcornmafia.com</a> and you can also download the show on iTunes. If you&#8217;ve never heard the ladies before, they&#8217;ve got themselves one helluva funny program and it just got nominated for best movie podcast of the year! Good luck girls!</p>
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<link>http://pickflick.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/monk-murphy-the-box-review/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>prophecy288</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Monk has his head (thankfully not his frontal lobe) done in by the latest Richard Kelly film &#8220;]]></description>
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<p>Monk has his head (thankfully not his frontal lobe) done in by the latest Richard Kelly film &#8220;The Box&#8221;. Luckily, his friend La Petite Sirah is there to keep him company.</p>
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<link>http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/dont-get-stuck-in-the-box/</link>
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<p>Oh, my. I wanted to like &#8220;The Box&#8221; so much. I am, you see, a huge Richard Kelly fan. Notice I didn&#8217;t say a &#8220;Donnie Darko&#8221; fan, even though I absolutely love that flick and feel it&#8217;s one of the few &#8220;cult sensations&#8221; truly worthy of its devoted fan base. No, I&#8217;m a Richard Kelly fan, because not only do I seriously dig Donnie D., but I think his much-maligned follow-up feature, &#8220;Southland Tales,&#8221; is even better.  Yes, it&#8217;s messy, unfocused, scattershot, overly ambitious, self-indulgent and, in many ways,  even juvenile.  But to my mind it&#8217;s also ambitious to a fault, multi-layered, challenging, funny, thought-provoking, ambitious, and even downright groundbreaking. Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;sins&#8221; with &#8220;Southland&#8221; can all be categorized under the &#8220;trying to do too much&#8221; category, as opposed to, say, Lars von Trier (I really should learn to leave him alone, I suppose),  whose chief failing with &#8220;Antichrist&#8221; is doing very little while employing obvious and insulting sleight-of-hand in broad daylight for the purpose of trying to hoodwink the audience into thinking he&#8217;s doing a lot.</p>
<p>After &#8220;Southland&#8221; tanked at the box office in spectacular fashion, Kelly apparently decided &#8212; or was forced &#8212; to pare down his ambitions considerably, and to concentrate his efforts on a tight little story that would play to his strengths while refusing to indulge his purported weaknesses. Would the result be an effectively creatively neutered Kelly or a sharpened, focused one?</p>
<p>Actually, neither. &#8220;The Box&#8221; is just a bland, lifeless time-waster.</p>
<p>Based on Richard Matheson&#8217;s short story &#8220;Button, Button,&#8221; the first third or so of &#8220;The Box&#8221; plays out well enough, and definitely has a &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221; feel to it, with two efficiently-established and well-played characters,  schoolteacher Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz), and her NASA scientist-husband, Arthur (James Marsden) staring into a financial black hole largely of their own making in the mid-1970s. Then, a mysterious stranger with a fucked-up, partially decimated face named (and you gotta love this handle for a Rod Serling-type mystery man) Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) shows up at their door with a box and an offer : push the button on top of the said box within 24 hours and you&#8217;ll get a million dollars in cash. There&#8217;s just one catch : somebody, somewhere in the world (who, he assures Norma, neither she or her husband knows) will die.</p>
<p>It seems like a horrible joke, in a way &#8212; the box is empty, therefore it can&#8217;t possibly do anything, so pushing the button must be meaningless, right? Hell, the money is probably even counterfeit.</p>
<p>Except Arthur tests the hundred-dollar bill that Steward left with his wife in the lab at work and guess what? It&#8217;s real. But the box itself &#8212; it can&#8217;t have any actual power, can it?</p>
<p>The trepidation  builds as Norma and Arthur weigh the decision to push or not to push in their minds, and this dramatic tension is really the highlight of the film. Unfortunately, once they do, in fact, make up their minds, the whole movie goes to pot.</p>
<p>Without giving away the choice they make, let&#8217;s just say it has consequences and leads to a completely uninvolving mystery that eventually comes full circle. We learn everything there is to know about Steward and his freaky little contraption, every question we have is answered (and even some we don&#8217;t), and the ending completes our little 360-degree loop in much the same way that Lynch&#8217;s superb ending for &#8220;Lost Highway&#8221; did. Unfortunately, there is none of the expertly-crafted ambiguity nor any of the multiple levels of meaning and interpretation along the way that make &#8220;Lost Highway&#8221; an effective and absorbing surrealistic mini-masterpiece. Kelly&#8217;s film ends up feeling more like a map of the unknown than a journey within it. All is linear, defined, and hopelessly constricting. Our guy Richard doesn&#8217;t trust the audience enough to make up our own minds as individuals as &#8220;Donnie Darko&#8221; and, to an even greater extent, &#8220;Southland Tales&#8221; did. In fact, the lesson Kelly seems to have learned from &#8220;Southland&#8221; is that we just aren&#8217;t smart enough to draw our own conclusions.</p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean I think that he has emasculated himself creatively, for the ideas at play here are, in fact, suitably offbeat and unexpected. But they&#8217;re all laid out so directly and succinctly that they fail to capitalize on their potential to keep us guessing. It&#8217;s as if Kelly feels he has to answer each new question that arises in the order that they appear, preferably  within a ten minute (or so) time frame,  before moving on to the next one because our attention spans can&#8217;t handle leaving more than one thread unresolved  at a time.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re smarter than Kelly gives us credit for with &#8220;The Box.&#8221; And so is he.</p>
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<link>http://allseriestrekvar.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/box-office-usa-13-15-nov/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>La última novedad del género apocalíptico, <a href="http://www.elseptimoarte.net/peliculas/2012-1530.html"><strong>&#8216;2012&#8242;</strong></a>, tuvo un arranque explosivo en la taquilla norteamericana llevándose nada más y nada menos que <strong>$65</strong> millones durante su primer fin de semana en cartel, convirtiéndose así en el octavo mejor arranque de lo que llevamos de año. Además, por todo el mundo ya lleva recaudados la friolera de $225 millones en apenas tres días. Roland Emmerich, realizador de los largometrajes del mismo pelo como <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>&#8216;Independence Day&#8217;</em></span> o <span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>&#8216;El día de mañana&#8217;</em></span>, describe aquí el fin del mundo gracias a un despliegue de efectos especiales sin precedentes basándose en la premisa de que los mayas aventuraron hace mil años que el mundo llegaría a su fin en ese mismo año, en el 2012.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong> En un lejano segundo lugar se encuentra con $22,32 millones la película navideña<span style="color:#0000ff;"> <em>&#8216;Cuento de Navidad&#8217;</em></span>, protagonizada por Jim Carrey e inspirada en un famoso cuento del escritor inglés Charles Dickens. La cinta, que también se puede ver en formato 3D, lleva dos semanas en cartel con una recaudación muy lejos de sus estimaciones de $63,28 millones. <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;Los hombres que miraban fijamente a las cabras&#8217;</em></span> se mantiene en la misma posición de la semana pasada, es decir, en tercer lugar. La cinta protagonizada por George Clooney suma $6,20 a sus $23,37 millones conseguidos en sus dos semanas en cartel.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong> El filme independiente <a href="http://www.elseptimoarte.net/peliculas/precious-3433.html"><strong>&#8216;Precious&#8217;</strong></a>, la historia de una adolescente negra y obesa víctima de violencias sexuales, galardonada en el Festival de Sundance, se ubica en el cuarto lugar con $6,09 millones.<span style="color:#0000ff;"> <em>&#8216;This is it&#8217;</em></span>, el documental sobre los ensayos del último concierto de Michael Jackson, desciende del segndo al quinto lugar con $5,10 millones, atravesando la barrera de los 200 millones de dólares mundiales desde su lanzamiento el 28 de Octubre.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong> El thriller <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;The Fourth kind&#8217;</em></span> con Milla Jovovich, quedó en sexto lugar con $4,7 millones, seguido por la comedia <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;Todo incluido&#8217;</em></span> con $4,25 en su sexta semana. El octavo lugar es ocupado por la película de terror <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;Paranormal Activity&#8217;</em> </span>con $4,2 millones. El thriller con Jamie Foxx y Gerard Butler, <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;Un ciudadano ejemplar&#8217;</em></span> se ubicó noveno con $3,93.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong> El décimo y último lugar es para <span style="color:#0000ff;"><em>&#8216;The Box&#8217;</em></span>, thriller protagonizado por Cameron Díaz, que recaudó $3,2 millones en su semana semana. </strong></p>
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<link>http://cinematronica.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-night-out-the-box/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If you can be sure of anything in life, it&#8217;s that opinions vary. Most people will say that there is definitely a God, and that he has a plan for all of this crazy mess, while other people, namely me, will tell you that it&#8217;s a beautifully designed universe, but a universe designed by chance. Most people will say that celebrities are divinely gorgeous and genetically superior, while I find them to be dull and lusterless in the face of real women. I also think that Bjork is bad ass, but I&#8217;m pretty much alone on that in the US. Today, I think I stand alone again, specifically in the movie critiquing arena, as I just saw <em>The Box</em>, and while I thought it was pretty good, and feel like it&#8217;s a return to form for Richard &#8220;I&#8217;m Going To Blow My Career&#8217;s Brains Out&#8221; Kelly, I think most people will consider this strike 2 for him, effectively putting him on thin ice. What gets him is that he&#8217;s a broadly commercial director now who has a very peculiar way of progressing the story, and this agitates the sensibilities of most, giving most people the impression of artistic desperation. I don&#8217;t feel that this is a movie is a movie made by a desperate man; perhaps an unbalanced man, but certainly not at the level he was while making <em>Southland Tales</em>&#8230;</p>
<p>So, this is based off of a Richard Matheson short story, and it asks a simple moral question that has far-reaching ramifications. A middle-class family in Virginia around the mid 70s is given a choice by a strange man with a horribly disfigured face. He stops by early one morning and drops a box off at their doorstep with a note that says he&#8217;ll return at 5 o&#8217;clock that day. Inside the box is another box, a black one with a big red button on it, concealed by a locked glass dome. When the man does return at 5, the wife, named Norma, answers the door to find the disfigured man, who offers her what he calls a &#8220;financial opportunity&#8221;; he hands her the key to the box, and tells her that two things will happen if she presses it; one, she will get $1 million in cash, and two, that someone, whom she doesn&#8217;t know, will die. He leaves, telling her that she has 24 hours, and that he will return tomorrow to pick it up whether she has pressed it or not. She tells her husband when he gets home, and the two deliberate all night as to whether or not they should do it. After a long night and day deciding on it, and factoring in their dire financial situation and the fact that upon examining the box they find no wires or electronics inside, they press it. At 5, the man comes to retrieve the box, and that&#8217;s where the film really begins, because the ramifications for pressing that button are more drastic and far-reaching than either of them could ever imagine. As soon as they receive the money they&#8217;re embroiled in a web that stretches into the farthest reaches of the imagination.</p>
<p>This is a little more complex than you&#8217;re led to believe in any of the trailers. I was honestly underwhelmed when I first heard about the idea, but after hearing more about it, it started growing on me. I wanted to know what the deal was with this button, and what I got was beyond my wildest imaginings. It&#8217;s unusually dense for a Richard Kelly movie, filled with haunting music, esoteric imagery, and a lot of references to Jean-Paul Sartre that is a bit literate for most, but I found it refreshing. In a way, it&#8217;s really his most obscure work yet, even more obscure than the dumb, loud <em>Southland Tales</em>. For something he&#8217;s touted as his commercial movie, I have the feeling that he might never have actually seen a commercial movie before, because this movie is quite weird, and more than a little off-putting for the old lady who was looking for <em>The Transporter 4</em> starring a disfigured Frank Langella.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t say that it&#8217;s all good. There are a few things I could have done without. Firstly, Norma, played by Cameron Diaz, has a ridiculous-looking disfigured foot, a handicap that neither looks real nor plays any huge factor in the film. It&#8217;s simply an oddity for the sake of being an oddity, and while one scene uses it for leverage (HA!), and other scenes make the slightest attempt at referencing it, it seems like a big thing for no payoff. Also, there are a few characters that deserved a little more screen time while others are given a full fucking set of scenes! I could have done without knowing too much about Arthur&#8217;s NASA boss who never really contributed much, but good luck trying to get an elusive character like Lucas Carnes on screen for more than a minute. I suppose it&#8217;s a preference thing, but I would have preferred to become immersed in the intricate story rather than see Norma&#8217;s sister&#8217;s wedding rehearsal dinner and reception. And every now and then you get this weird feeling that Richard Kelly, who also wrote this, doesn&#8217;t really interact with people, and doesn&#8217;t have an idea of how things sound. Some of his dialog is quite unwieldy, and it&#8217;s only amplified by the hushed tone of his conspiracy-theorizing style of conclusion-jumping.</p>
<p>The cast is where things get kind of hazy. James Marsden is good as Arthur, the devoted dad who works at NASA but could use a few extra bucks to help out with the bills and his child&#8217;s college education. He has a lot of nuances that help the character breathe; even though Marsden is chiseled from limestone, it appears, I still buy that he could have worked at NASA in the 70s. Cameron Diaz, however, is a problem here as Norma. The main problem being I can&#8217;t stand it when people use unnatural accents, and her being Southern is kind of a stretch for her Cali girl pallet. I think she could have lost it and not appeared to be a total outcast; not everyone in the South sounds like Sookie Stackhouse, you know. Frank Langella shines as the mysterious man known only as Arlington Steward, who delivers the box to them for unknown and perhaps unknowable purposes. He is a terrifying presence that exerts a particular will in the film that really shows his growth as an actor from an inferior incarnation of Dracula in the beginning of his career to a real power player. All of my favorite scenes feature him in them.</p>
<p>I like<em> The Box</em>. I might be the only one, but if you can put on your Senior Critic Helmets for a second when you watch it, ask yourself this simple question; why not? Why not let yourself get taken in by the massive web of story that has a philosophical weight behind it? Why not get behind the poor Lewis&#8217;s, who only wanted some money for their son&#8217;s college tuition? And why not enjoy a movie that has a fair cast, a good director, an excellent score, and an exceedingly good, if not slightly confusing story? If you have some answers to those questions that are valid enough to write down and don&#8217;t involve the words &#8220;Balls&#8221; and &#8220;Sucked&#8221;, let me know, because I have no reasons why not. So I&#8217;ll be the one with the oddball opinion and give<em> The Box</em> 8 noticeably bad Southern accents out of 10!</p>
<p>Tomorrow we get a little <em>Amadeus</em> action going on! Until then!</p>
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<link>http://iwentthere.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/capsule-review-%e2%80%9cthe-box%e2%80%9d/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em>This review revels in vague descriptions and nondescript info allowing it to be 80-90 percent free of spoilers. However, since this </em>is<em> a review, there are spoilers regarding the tone and general direction of the plotline. </em><em>At the most you&#8217;ll find a small reference to the tone/set-up up the final scenes but nothing that gives away the ultimate conclusion or explanations behind events.</em></p>
<p><em>Suffice it to say, this review is less spoilery than <a href="http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=14399" target="_blank">Cameron Diaz at a Comic Con panel</a>.<br />
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<blockquote><p><strong>“It&#8217;s essentially the original [short story and "Twilight Zone"] episode extended with WTFuckery.”</strong></p>
<p><strong> &#8211; My original review on Twitter.</strong></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong>The Problem With Turning a Button into a Box</strong></p>
<p>Like various adaptations of short works before it, “The Box” suffers from the filmmaker&#8217;s wish to extend a plotline in a dramatic fashion while still maintaining the core message/theme. Had Richard Matheson&#8217;s original short story “Button, Button” been used just as a jumping off point, I&#8217;m fairly certain that director Richard Kelly (“Donnie Darko”) might have created a film that was both enjoyable and had staying power. Instead Kelly is literally working within the box provided by the story, and all efforts to create something that moves beyond it are eventually squashed within their own reductive framing.</p>
<p>The premise is the same: a couple is presented with a button and told that by pressing it they will receive a large sum of money. However, the man who gives them the button intones that “someone, whom [they] don&#8217;t know, will die” as a consequence if they do. While the short story, as well as the “Twilight Zone” episode based upon it, focused on the couple&#8217;s debate over what to do, “The Box” treats their decision as a mere excuse for the rest of the film&#8230; and yet, the main characters are never far from the original moral dilemma.</p>
<p>What follows is an entertaining, though ultimately unfulfilling, two hours. Kelly attempts to bring a lore to “The Box” on par with what he did with “Donnie Darko” – there&#8217;s even a book detailing the origin of the button, and other strange activity surrounding the couple, that surfaces partway through the film – but instead of doing something with it, or giving a definitive answer to the questions he creates, Kelly ultimately leaves the audience and his main characters with only conjecture as their reward.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll almost certainly appreciate and even buy into the suspense that Kelly creates right away – the original score by Arcade Fire even creates an ambiance that harkens back to suspense films and thrillers made in the late 60s/70s – until you realize that characters are randomly popping into and out of scenes, information is being imparted unto characters as demanded by the plot alone*, and the hints that Kelly has planted along the way aren&#8217;t pointing to a definitive reason behind the events and are only there to distract you from the rather obvious ending.</p>
<p>For example, without giving too much away, I can say that mind control plays a heavy hand in “The Box,” and yet the visual cues that Kelly has devised fail to make it clear when these mind-wiped humans are acting of their own accord or when they&#8217;re doing things of their own free will &#8212; especially when one witnesses the results of these supposed moments of free-will. It can be frustrating at first until you realize that none of it matters.</p>
<p>Argue the self-awareness of the mind-controlled drones all you want, they&#8217;re nothing but window-dressing and convenient plot devices that push the couple in the direction they need to go for the next scene to take place. While their appearances are eerie and effective (and exceedingly well-choreographed), their role in the story boils down to creating the illusion that the couple is achieving anything.</p>
<p>Even when the husband does encounter a man acting of his own accord, his role is simply to give the husband a book (quickly lost) and confirm to him everything that the audience has already guessed. When the couple finally does understand the truth of the situation, or as much truth as Kelly will let you have, it means nothing to them or the audience. The moral dilemma from the first 20 minutes is back again, and the only thing that has changed is (perhaps) the gift of peace of mind for the characters.</p>
<p>With a tip of the hat, the movie ends and you&#8217;re left to start wondering, “Wait, what about <em>that</em> scene where&#8230; ? And why did that guy do that if&#8230; ? And why did they bother showing that when in the end&#8230; ?” Instead of focusing on the moral quandary faced by the couple, a message that made a strong story focus in shorter media, you&#8217;re left marveling at the lengths to which the filmmaker went to lead you into believing you were watching a different film.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a matter of an ambiguous conclusion – “The Box” is decidedly not ambiguous where the main characters&#8217; lives are concerned – but about loose ends that distract from the whole. During the course of the film, the audience is led to believe that the lore, the mystery, the cat-and-mouse games, are leading up to something big – a game-changing event – but all of the little touches are just a distraction. In one particular scene, two minor characters have a conversation about a lead character that is easy to excuse  as expository dialogue for the audience. But rather than leaving it at that, Kelly has the lead character in question overhear the conversation. Why? The eavesdropping has no effect on his actions or motivations, so he could have easily just not have been there. Yet, by placing him there, Kelly creates suspense and the expectation that something will come of it. Take that same basic scenario, mix up the fine details, and repeat it a few dozen times; now you have about an hour of “The Box.” (The other hour is the original short story scenario at the beginning and the reimagined version of it at the end.)</p>
<p>Despite my criticisms, I did enjoy “The Box.” But if you&#8217;re the type who needs a movie with a firm resolution at the end, and doesn&#8217;t like to be led on, then you likely won&#8217;t appreciate it – and if you do, it will all be dashed in the final moments when you realize you&#8217;re never getting the answers the film promised you.</p>
<p>See it, but see it when it&#8217;s on cable or when you update your NetFlix queue, otherwise you&#8217;re likely to walk out of the theater wholly unsatisfied.</p>
<p><strong>Performances</strong><br />
I&#8217;m typically not one for reviewing performances, but suffice it to say that James Marsden as the husband showed a greater acting range than being Cyclops allows, Frank Langella was haunting and intriguing as the man with the box, and Cameron Diaz alternated between making me cringe and wince with her turn as the simple, southern wife with a limp.</p>
<p><strong>Footnotes</strong><em> </em><br />
<em> &#8220;&#8230;information is being imparted unto characters as demanded by the plot alone*&#8230;&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Arguably all films are guilty of this, but “The Box” does it in such an obvious manner that you can&#8217;t help but roll your eyes as minor characters literally push the couple into whatever position the plot requires of them. Need a reason for the wife to go to the library? Have a character run up and tell her to go to the library! And so on&#8230;<em><br />
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<link>http://movieman90.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/review-of-the-box/</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;The Box,&#8221; starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella, was a quasi-effective look at morality in modern society.  This film does try to explore some ethical issues and succeeds, but to a limited extent.  Diaz&#8217;s character is one the audience can sympathize with, but also one the audience questions the judgement of.  Marsden&#8217;s character is a little more interesting and dynamic, but still suffers much of the same characterization pitfalls as Diaz&#8217;s character (both question pressing the button instead of flat-out rejecting to press it). This then brings us to Langella&#8217;s character, a mysterious deformed salesman who seems a little too unattached to the people he &#8220;sells&#8221; the box to.</p>
<p>The movie starts out with a view of typical suburban life for the Lewis family, particularly during Christmas time.  Then Norma Lewis (Diaz) recieves a strange package on her doorstep.  Soon after the exposition, the film takes off and morphs into a drama/thriller/sci-fi movie, complete with slightly confusing storyline and surprising plot twists.  The audience soon learns that Langella&#8217;s character is working for &#8220;those who control the lightening&#8221; and thus is taking part in conducting an experiment in ethics involving the human race.  If the humans are selfish and press the button that grant them one million dollars AND kill someone whom they don&#8217;t know, then the human race is to be exterminated.  Fortunately, the movie is left at a sort of &#8220;cliff-hanger&#8221; which allows viewers to decide for themselves whether or not mankind can redeem itself.  The promise of redemption is a thought that plague&#8217;s Norma in the film after she presses the button and finds out the consequences of doing so, and both her and her husband wish for everything to go back to normal, which in turn inspires Langella&#8217;s character to have respect and admiration for them.</p>
<p>The moral &#8220;lessons&#8221; of the story seems to be that a human life has no price.  This &#8220;lesson&#8221; is taken well above and beyond during the film until it is a tiresome necessity of the story&#8217;s plot line.  Interestingly enough, it&#8217;s always the wife who presses the button, so there are subtle hints of the story of Adam and Eve, where Eve doomed mankind by eating the forbidden fruit.  Thankfully, Diaz&#8217;s character learns that she made a huge mistake and is willing to end her life to save her son (the only selfless thing she has done the whole movie).  Unfortunately, this leaves Marsden&#8217;s character in a bind, considering he has to shoot his wife in order to restore his son&#8217;s hearing and vision, and in so doing, has to go to jail.</p>
<p>The strange parts of this movie occur when Diaz&#8217;s character is teaching and is humiliated by a student, and when both Diaz and Marsden are in a records building/library and Marsden is transported back home in a tall column of liquid.  The obvious science fiction elements don&#8217;t lend much to the story besides heightening the superfluity of having them in there in the first place.  If all the sci-fi elements were taken out, as well as the action sequences, then this movie could lend itself well to a stage play.  The most compelling parts of the storyline are the family issues and the question of ethics, which could be taken more in-depth and converted to a dramatic adaptation for stage.</p>
<p>Overall, I would give this movie 3/5 stars since the plot line was a bit confusing to follow, what with all the random details added in (seemingly on a whim), and because the acting is so-so.  I would still encourage you all to see this film because of the general message it tries to convey.  But don&#8217;t take my word for it!  Go see it for yourself!</p>
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