The Film Pigs are joined by not one, but two entire guests! One is named Shannon Hillary. The other is named Andy Barth. Everyone is very dubious about the week’s feature film releases, including Rush, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, and Don Jon. But nobody is dubious about the delicious popcorn! Also, the world premiere of Hollywood’s latest romantic comedy! It’s fun, fun, fun. But if you want it to be fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, you are going to need to pick up some popcorn of your own.
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Review – Avatar (2009)
Straight-to-DVD Corner with Todd: Too Good For DVD
When it comes to shit that gets dumped on video, most of the time you can see why. If it’s action, you’ve got your Seagal movies, Snipes movies, Van Damme movies, and those odd Jason Statham movies that come out in between his theatrical releases. All are junk. (The Seagal movies are a great source of guilty pleasure because each one is a greater trainwreck than the last one…trainwrecks beyond imagination.) And then you’ve got your thrillers with Morgan Freeman or Christian Slater or even Gene Hackman these days. It’s always clear why they are not in the theater, usually because their plot lines are indecipherable and the movies are just plain boring (even more so than the boring shit they actually do release in the theater) or, you know, it’s because they star Christian Slater. As far as I can tell, the only genre that provides little gems in the straight-to-video market is the horror genre. It’s tricky to navigate, of course, because there are also more unwatchable DIY movies in the horror genre than any other.
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