Tag: movie previews

The Bourne Identity

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:59 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

The Bourne Identity
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Julia Stiles
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 2002
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Directed By: Doug Liman

Matt Damon plays Jason Bourne. He wakes up one day nearly dead and not remembering who he is. He also wonders why people are trying to kill him and how he has these great abilities to shoot, hide, disappear, and fight. Bourne has a few clues as to his identity, but not much to go on, he hooks up with a dudette, and runs around Paris wishing he could remember who he really is.

The movie is based on a book by Robert Ludlum, and the trailer looks to be action-packed, but there is some initial word that the movie isn’t that good. I’ll see it anyway, and I’m sure guys won’t have a problem getting to see this movie because the dudettes will come along to see Matt Damon.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!
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Preview update….
I’m sick of this trailer. They seem to attach it before most any movie and I can’t wait for this movie to come out. Not because I think it will be good, my usual inkling is that if they overkill a trailer the movie is going to suck. I’m hoping for more, but right now this movie is looking bad. I just want the trailers to stop.

That’s it for this update! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Blood Work

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:50 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Blood Work
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Warner Bros.
Release Date: 2002
Directed By: Clint Eastwood

Many a time it sucks to be a detective. You get shot at a lot, you take many risks, and a lot of times those you love don’t know just how dangerous your job is, or they just try to shut it out. Then you retire and no one knows your name. So take this case, at least what I’ve read so far and from what I’ve seen in the trailer… Clint Eastwood is Detective Terry McCaleb. He’s got a bad ticker, even has a heart transplant, and is ready to live the rest of his years in retirement. But what do you do when you figure out that the heart whose is now yours once belonged to a dudette who might have been killed by a serial killer you never caught? Well, you come out of retirement. Can a detective dude with a new ticker track down, keep up with, and catch the serial killer who, in a backward sort of way, saved his life?
Clint Eastwood doesn’t do too bad as an actor nor as a Director, and the story looks to have some decent twists and turns. It probably won’t be a blockbuster, but does have potential. I hope Clint still has the things that make him great. Not high on my list, but I’ll try to catch this one.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit starring Wallace & Gromit

MPAA Rated – G
It’s 1:34 Long
A Review by:
– The Dude on the Right

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
starring Wallace & Gromit
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Voices of: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter
MPAA Rated: G
Released By: Dreamworks SKG
Release Date: 2005
Directed By: Steve Box, Nick Park

Things are amuck in the neighborhood, and it’s up to Wallace and Gromit to figure it out. From the one storyline I read, Wallace and his dog, Gromit, are running a pest control business. It’s time for a big vegetable festival, but there is some giant rabbit, or giant something, taking out the vegetable gardens. Our heroes get hired to find the culprit, but their task is not an easy one as there are other forces trying to get in their way.
Look, it’s a cartoon movie, rated “G”, and it looks cute for the kids, but right now doesn’t look to have many laughs for the adults. I might be wrong about that, but as I am kid-less, unless I have nothing better to do I probably won’t be catching this one. For those of you with kids, however, have a good time.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Cry Wolf

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:30 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Cry Wolf
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padelecki, Jon Bon Jovi
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Focus Features
Release Date: 2005
Directed By: Jeff Wadlow

You know what bugs me? Of course you don’t, but I’m gonna tell you anyway. I’m bugged by movies that look like decent, teen, horror flicks, then go ahead and make themselves PG-13. That pretty much takes away most of the “decent” in a trailer that looks like a decent, teen, horror flick.

Anyway, the movie is “Cry Wolf,” I haven’t seen a trailer in the theater and only came across it while doing some hunting around the web. Then I saw it had Jon Bon Jovi, and I knew it had to be good anyway.

The story kinda goes like this. As kids will be kids, there’s a murder. The kids decide to make up a fictional character called “The Wolf,” complete with how he does his killing, then, low and behold, people actually start ending up dead, in much the same way the kids said would happen. Now the group who came up with “The Wolf” are ending up dead themselves, they all suspect each other, and mayhem ensues.

Oh well, PG-13 takes away much of the really good stuff in a horror film, but, like I said, it does, supposedly, have Jon Bon Jovi, so really, how bad could it be?

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!

Corpse Bride

MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 1:16 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Corpse Bride
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: The voices of: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
MPAA Rated: PG
Released By: Warner Bros.
Release Date: 2005
Directed By: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

This movie has the feel of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” animated like that, and looks pretty cool. Pretty much there is this dude, Victor (Johnny Depp), who is set to get married. He seems to get sort of cold feet, ends up in a graveyard setting, and suddenly this corpse comes out of the ground thinking Victor is going to marry him.

It’s from Tim Burton and looks pretty cool. I’ll try to give an update as we get closer to the release date and another trailer or two comes out.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Corky Romano

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:26 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Corky Romano
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Chris Kattan, Peter Falk
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: 2001
Directed By: Rob Pritts

Some “Saturday Night Live” actors can make the stretch to big-screen movies, and some can’t, and this movie has Chris Kattan as Corky Romano. Corky is a brother in a mafia family recruited to save his family by posing as an FBI agent. The movie looks stupid, Kattan looks to be playing the dorky dude like he sometimes plays on SNL, and this looks like one of those “Isn’t there something better playing” movies. It will depend on the weekend if I will see this, it just looks dumb. Then again, sometimes I’m all for dumb.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

The Core

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 2:15 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

The Core
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Nicole Leroux, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 2003
Directed By: Jon Amiel

This one almost seems like an “Armageddon” except the trip isn’t to an asteroid, this one is to the center of the earth. Hmm?

The story goes that the United States developed a super-weapon that could create a mysterious earthquake anywhere on earth. This was great for taking out the enemy, but in doing so it stopped the core of the earth from spinning (who knew it spun in the first place?). So what happens when the earth’s core stops spinning? Well, it seems that now the atmosphere gets all messed up, radiation or something can now get through, and “super storms” start appearing everywhere, destroying everything in their path. So what are we to do? Well duh, we’ve got to start the earth’s core spinning again. How? We build a crazy drilling contraption that will drill down to the core, leave some nuclear explosives, and just like that the earth will be saved.

Now I know the story sounds kinda stupid, but the movie does look like it has a little bit of promise, action, suspense, and a hot-looking Hilary Swank to its credit. I can almost bet someone doesn’t make it back from the trip to the core, but they’ll always be remembered as someone who saved life on earth.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

Connie and Carla

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:38 Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

Connie and Carla
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny
MPAA Rated: PG-13
Released By: Universal Pictures
Release Date: 2004
Directed By: Michael Lembeck

Just the other day I was saying to myself, “Self, whatever happened to David Duchovny?” Then I saw the trailer for “Connie and Carla” and low and behold, there he is.

Well, Nia Vardalos did pretty well with “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” so now comes round two. She and Toni Collette play Connie and Carla. They’re lounge singers where no one appreciates them. Then they witness a mob killing so they head out of town deciding that Los Angeles would be a low-key kind of place to hide out. They end up finding work singing for a dinner theater, only they are posing as drag queens, which is where it looks like most of the jokes are coming from, women playing drag queens. Connie’s problem is that she meets Jeff (Duchovny), likes him, only she’s posing as a drag queen so she can’t make a move on him. Hilarity ensues.

Nia showed she has her finger on the pulse of the nation with the Wedding movie, which she wrote, so we’ll she if she’s still pulsing because she wrote this movie as well. This looks like another hit because I think every woman in America will drag their hubbies to this just like they did with Greek Wedding.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

College Road Trip

MPAA Rated – G
It’s ? Long
A Review by:
– The Dude on the Right

College Road Trip
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symone
MPAA Rated: G
Released By: Disney Pictures
Release Date: 2008
Directed By: Roger Kumble

This seems like kind of a weird movie for Disney to take on, especially with the story being about a high school girl checking out colleges she wants to go to, but what the hell. For the movie we get Melanie (Raven-Symone) as the high school girl. Originally the plan was to visit the colleges with her friends, but dad is a police dude (played by Martin Lawrence), and the last thing a high school girl wants is her overprotective dad around when she’s trying to impress the college dudes. And then, of course, hilarity is supposed to ensue.

The trailer shows a movie really being marketed to the tween girls, and I suppose even though the material is about the end of high school, who can’t relate to a movie about not wanting your parents around, and then, of course, realizing you really love them.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

College

MPAA Rated – R
It’s ? Long
A Preview by:
– The Dude on the Right

College
Movie Stats & Links
Starring: Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett, Nick Zano
MPAA Rated: R
Released By: Lionsgate Entertainment
Release Date: 2008
Directed By: Deb Hagan

Ahh, another movie portraying fraternities and sororities in a crappy light. It’s such an easy premise, but hard to promote as groundbreaking, so for this movie we get some high school kids looking for a diversion from the high school boredom, and they end up pledging a fraternity on a weekend trip (to get into the parties of course) where gross stuff ensues. Of course our high schoolers try to pretend they are in college so they can also hook up with some college girls, and of course they are dorks who will somehow rise to the top and show that the “cool” fraternity dudes are actually scum, or something like that.

High schoolers going to college is sometimes a funny premise, but this movie seems kind of like the same old thing. Doesn’t matter, though, for me, because the movie is rated R which hopefully means important college movie themes will be present, or at least a couple, namely boobs. This one almost looks perfect for me as King of The Land of the Easily Amused. If you are a member of my kingdom, it might be perfect for you, too.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!