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[King Kamala 0]

Outside a couple of movies, Jason Lee really has a pathetic film career. I mean he's in Underdog too.

[luke-o 0]

I just saw a bootleg copy of "Knocked Up", that film is fucking great.

[Ripper 0]

Starship Troopers is the greatest film with bad actors in the history of the world.

[2GOLD 0]

Starship Troopers is the greatest film with bad actors in the history of the world.

 

And a good portion of them look to be returning in STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: PRETENDING PART 2 DIDN'T HAPPEN!

At the very least, it has the return of Casper Van Dien and it'll hit Sci-Fi channel. And it can't POSSIBLY be worse than Stan Lee's Harpies.

 

Speaking of which, what the HELL happened to Stan Lee? This guy's name is getting tacked onto crap left and right now. Does Stan have a bad gambling habit or something? That Harpies movie was so incredibly bad that you could clearly, and I mean CLEARLY, see guys holding sticks against their sides and then gently placing themselves on the ground as they died. It's bad enough the movie had Stephen Baldwin but combine that with the "special effects" and you have what might have been the WORST movie in Sci-Fi channel history.

 

And that's saying a ton for that network.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Found this at http://goldderby.latimes.com

 

Report: Top 10 Emmy finalists for drama & comedy series

 

Here's a report we've just received on the Top 10 Emmy finalists for best comedy and drama series being evaluated today at the TV academy headquarters in North Hollywood as well as the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Please note: this list is not official and not yet been verified.

 

TOP 10 DRAMA SERIES FINALISTS

Boston Legal

Dexter

Friday Night Lights

Grey's Anatomy

Heroes

House

Lost

Rome

The Sopranos

24

 

Not Nominated:

Deadwood

Rescue Me

The Tudors

The Shield

Brothers & Sisters

 

 

TOP 10 COMEDY SERIES FINALISTS

Desperate Housewives

Entourage

Extras

My Name is Earl

The Office

Scrubs

Thirty Rock

Two and a Half Men

Ugly Betty

Weeds

 

Not Nominated:

The New Adventures of Old Christine

How I Met Your Mother

Everybody Hates Chris

 

The official nominations are announced July 19th. Also, according to another article on the website, the Emmys will be 50/50 judges and popular opinion, for some reason. Meaning ratings may be a factor. YOUR Emmy winners, Grey's Anatomy and Two and a Half Men!

[At Home 0]

don't let ugly betty win again.

[King Kamala 0]

I saw Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter do stand up last night. Surprisingly good. I actually thought Michael Showalter (who was hyped in the ads as the opener) was a bit better than Michael Ian Black and he was actually on for 20-30 minutes longer than Michael Ian Black (Showalter was on for 80 minutes and Michael Ian Black was on for 50-60 minutes). Way more people than I expected to be there too (About 250-300). Guess there's nothing better to do on a Friday night. Either that or there are a surprising number of fans of Stella, The State and/or The I Love The...series in the Southern Maine area. Either way it was worth the $15.

[godthedog 0]

i'd like for 'earl' to win this year. 'the office' has been getting heaps and heaps of attention while 'earl' has just kept quietly putting out solid show after solid show. i'd say they put together a better overall package this year, and the finale was tons better.

[KingPK 0]

I caught the occasional Earl this season and I wouldn't complain too loudly if it wins.

 

All I care about is Jack Coleman winning something. Well, either him, Masi Oka or Zachary Quinto. SOMEBODY from that show needs to take an award home.

Edited July 1, 2007 by KingPK

[Hank Kingsley 0]

More Emmy stuff from the same site:

 

Actors on Emmy's Top 10 finalist lists

 

Here are some of the actors who we know made the cut so far.

BEST COMEDY ACTOR

Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"

Steve Carell, "The Office"

Charlie Sheen, "Two and a Half Men"

 

BEST COMEDY ACTRESS

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "New Adventures of Old Christine"

America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty"

Teri Hatcher, "Desperate Housewives"

Felicity Huffman, "Desperate Housewives"

Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"

 

BEST DRAMA ACTOR

James Gandolfini, "Sopranos"

Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"

Eddie Izzard, "The Riches"

Hugh Laurie, "House"

Denis Leary, "Rescue Me"

Kiefer Sutherland, "24"

 

BEST DRAMA ACTRESS

Minni Driver, "The Riches"

Edie Falco, "Sopranos"

 

BEST SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTOR

Masi Oka, "Heroes"

 

BEST SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTRESS

CCH Pounder, "The Shield"

 

BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR

John Krasinski, "The Office"

 

BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTRESS

Vanessa Williams, "Ugly Betty"

 

"'Two and a Half Men' and '30 Rock' really nailed their submissions — the place went nuts," an Emmy judge reports on a panel weighing comedy episodes. (One sample is submitted by all Top 10 finalists.) "Can't say the same about 'Weeds,' 'The Office,' 'My Name is Earl' and most of all 'Scrubs.' I don't understand what the hell 'The Office' and 'Earl' were thinking."

 

This whole process is ridiculous. And what makes it more hilarious is that even leaking any of this news goes against the affidavits they signed.

 

FYI, the submissions:

The Office - "The Coup"

Scrubs - "My Musical"

30 Rock - "Hard Ball"

Earl - "Robbed a Stoner Blind"

 

I believe the process is, they submit one episode for consideration, then the finalists get to submit a reel of like 6 episodes for the final judging. Something like that.

[Mik 0]

Don't waste your time with HBO Voyeur on HBO on Demand. It's total fucking garbage.

 

Waste of 20 minutes of my time.

 

I figured if I watched them all it would all come together and I would feel fulfilled at the end.

 

Wrong.

[King Kamala 0]

Don't waste your time with HBO Voyeur on HBO on Demand. It's total fucking garbage.

 

Waste of 20 minutes of my time.

 

I figured if I watched them all it would all come together and I would feel fulfilled at the end.

 

Wrong.

 

 

I almost watched it, sort of thinking it would be some kind of soft porn but then saw the TV 14 rating and decided against it.

 

 

What exactly is it?

[Mik 0]

An apartment building view sort of with the wall cut off. There are 8 individual stories cut up into 4 individual 5 minute shorts and one 5 minute short that shows all at the same time. The stories are interconnected and there is no dialogue. It's only actions that cause you to figure out what's going on.

 

Yeah - it's as bad as it sounds.

 

But the commercial on HBO actually made it look interesting.

[strummer 0]

I saw Meatballs on cable this morning for the first time in probably 20 years and man is that movie FUCKING AWESOME. Bill Murray just kills it and is just gleefully wacky for 90 minutes. It might be my favorite performance of his career. It was probably the only time in his career where he was allowed free reign to be himself and improvise on screen. He would obviously gain more fame in later years, but this might be representative of the "real" Bill Murray.

 

The movie should have made Chris Makepeace a star as his chemistry with Murray is off the charts. So much so that Ivan Reitman had them shoot extra scenes together after production had ceased to get them more screen time in the finished product.

 

I can't get the damn movie off my mind so I'm getting the new DVD of it that came out last month.

 

I think this movie just entered by top 10 comedies of all time simply for the fact that it's so damn fun.

[Obi Chris Kenobi 0]

Maybes its a generational thing but, I've just watched 'The Deer Hunter', had it on DVD for ages but never got around to watching it and....

 

 

What an over hyped piece of shit that was. I was bored, and by the end I felt like I had wasted my time watching it. I personally wanted to shoot all of them in the head for wasting my time.

 

Like I said, maybes its a Generational thing... I'm 22.

[Black Lushus 0]

I'm 32...the movie sucks.

 

If I was 52, I might like it.

[2GOLD 0]

 

Deer Hunter always feels like one of those movies where if you haven't been in war and lost your mind, you probably won't like it that much. That said, Walken is excellent and really deserved the Oscar.

[Black Lushus 0]

I'm not a fan of slow pacing. Maybe it's ADD, I dunno...but when it comes to Vietnam flicks, I'll take Full Metal Jacket and Platoon over anything else any day.

[NYU 0]

Why would The Office submit "The Coup"...? That was one of their weakest episodes of the season.

[luke-o 0]

After looking at that list of nominate actors/actresses, I'd just give every award to Masi Oka. He turned Heroes from an awesome show into a fucking awesome show.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

I don't know why Zachary Quinto isn't nominated. He made the show as good as it is with how wonderfully he has portrayed Sylar.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

License to Wed: yes it is THAT BAD. Brian Baumgartner saying a (bleeped) "motherfucker" during the outtakes in the credits was the funniest part of the movie.

[King Kamala 0]

I just got Homicide: Life on The Street Season Four on DVD and man, what a good show. There isn't a weak spot in the cast. Why do I have to discover these shows almost a decade after they've been cancelled?

[luke-o 0]

I don't know why Zachary Quinto isn't nominated. He made the show as good as it is with how wonderfully he has portrayed Sylar.

 

Good point.

[bob_barron 0]

License to Wed: yes it is THAT BAD. Brian Baumgartner saying a (bleeped) "motherfucker" during the outtakes in the credits was the funniest part of the movie.

 

I wanted to see it b/c of Jim and Ken Kwapis, but everyone I know is telling me to stay far far away

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Yeah, I really wanted to like it, but it was just painfully unfunny.

[UZI Suicide 0]

I watched The Woodsman last night on one of the movie channels. Really good movie and REALLY uncomfortable in some scenes (mostly the scene with Kevin Bacon and the girl in the park)

 

Great performance by Bacon though, he should have gotten an Oscar nom for this.

[cabbageboy 0]

The Deer Hunter is one of those 1970s classics that really doesn't hold up at all with time. When I watched it for the first time I wasn't necessarily surprised it won Best Picture, but it is a very flawed film. The first hour is a crashing bore with a wedding that lasts entirely too long. Then it does a bizarre transition to Nam and never touches base on their basic training or how these guys all conveniently wound up in the same unit overseas. I will admit the Nam scenes with them being captured and POWs were intense, and Walken was great in it. There was probably a really great 2 hour movie in this somewhere, but the pacing and editing were just shit. Story of Michael Cimino's career really.

 

Lushus, I agree with you on Platoon but not quite so much with Full Metal Jacket. FMJ has one of the best opening hours in history, but the end of basic training is so shocking that it takes it out of me and I always lose interest in the 2nd half. It didn't really help that the movie itself kinda loses steam, and the whole 2nd half never really FELT like Vietnam to me.

 

Platoon is the right running time (120m), focuses entirely on events in Nam itself, and doesn't suffer from choppy editing or lulls.

[At Home 0]

Dog the Bounty Hunter is a pussy. They do a fucking SWAT team crack down to capture one little girl who did meth while pointing mace at her face and screaming at her. Do something productive.

[Red Baron 0]

Julia Roberts looks amazing in Erin Brokovich.

 

She should play more roles as a skank.