Sumthin, Sumthin, Sumthin Stack that cheese. Or Props to summer '09

Bored at work? Perfect time to publish some gems of celluloid delight. Summer '09 was pretty fantastic for a lot of reasons. For one, I went to LA trick (more on that later) where I was blessed to intern at Double Feature Films (Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Erin Brokovich)for a couple months. Also (for markedly less selfish one), it was the biggest summer at the box office since '07. Now, it's no surprise that accounting for inflation movies seem to get bigger and bigger w/ little increasing quality, but wow 4.17 billion? Mass amounts of bucks.

Another thing that causes pause for me is when i think about the quality of said films. '07's top money earners were Shrek 3, Pirates 3, and Spiderman 3. I saw them. Wasn't too impressed (maybe a bit for Pirates). Now let's compare. '08 had The Dark Knight (would it be the same w/o the Joker), Ironman (good plain fun and charisma), and Indiana Jones (don't care). '09 Transformers 2 (groan), Harry Potter 10 (I don't care), and Up (beast). I'll let you surmise what you will.

Don't call it a comeback!!!

My boy Quentin Tarrantino showed ya'll expletives wut it is. He pulled down 37.6 mil and a not too shabby 65.1 mill worldwide. Personally, i'm happy for the news, not only because he shares my name (kinda) but he avenges his last movie Death Proof connected to Planet Terror in the experimental Grindhouse double feature. It was majorly slept on for no real reason I can think of. It kinda got panned for being talky especially after the raucuous zombie actioner that was PT. After sitting through a feature length flick and an assortment of fake trailers, i think people were spent and lost some attention. Still, Death Proof was cool as shit for being nothing more than a polished, fun, original revenge plot featuring 4 girls who do what girls normally do, beat some ass. I'm not a girl, but if i were i would think i'd be in love with this movie. And it featured Zoe Bell, who is friggin nuts and cool as hell all at the same time. I can't wait to see Basterds and highly suggest the movie if for nothing else than Brad Pitt's Aldo Raine.