Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
February 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 47
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- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (1)
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- Leo (10)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
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- Munich (0)
- Elephant (0)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (0)
- The Wicker Man (1)
- New York Doll (0)
- Winter Passing (3)
- The New World (4)
- Date Movie (2)
- The Lost World (0)
- Transamerica (0)
- Paths Of Glory (0)
- Dark City (0)
- What Time is it There? (0)
- Crime Wave (2)
- Syriana (0)
- Batman Begins (6)
- How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (0)
- Four Brothers (0)
- Munich (0)
- Little Fish (0)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (0)
- Out of the Past (0)
- Wind Across the Everglades (6)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Lusty Men (0)
- Ghostbusters (0)
- Manderlay (0)
- The Rite (1)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (0)
- Breaking Away (1)
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- Secret Defense (0)
- Over The Edge (0)
- Darkman (2)
- Ryan (0)
- Rubber Johnny (0)
- The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (0)
- Little Otik (0)
- Elizabethtown (0)
- Peeping Tom (1)
- Hellboy (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Monterey Pop (0)
- Badlands (6)
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Date Movie / USA / 2006
I consider “stupid comedy“ movies an indulgence rather than a serious form of art. Anything by Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft, and the Zucker Brothers is simple, clever, crass, sometimes politically incorrect, and always pleasingly absurd; their sense of parody is respectable and legendary.
Date Movie is, unfortunately, not by any of the aforementioned four. Rather, it’s written and directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg of Scary Movie fame. The few scenes that manage to evoke laughter are enjoyable—a cat with violent diarrhea, satirizing Meet the Parents, is gross-out humor at its best—but ultimately the film falls flat…and hard. Even the usual celebrity cameos are terrible, and the expectedly funny Fred Willard isn’t given a single funny line. I would gladly exchange this film for an old tape of Airplane! or The Naked Gun anyday.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35mm print
24 Feb 2006 12:55 PM | Comments (2)
leo / 24 February 2006 / 11:42 AM / URL
Indeed, the ads even boldly proclaim that this film comes “from two of the six writers of Scary Movie!” High praise indeed, but I’m sure it’s no Airplane!. And certainly no Top Secret!
Tom / 28 February 2006 / 4:45 PM / URL
Whoever said art had to be serious? Airplane is probably the funniest movie ever made, and that consitutes as high a form of art as any serious classic you’d care to mention. But, yeah, Date Movie looks like a real piece of crap.