Eric Covener’s Journal

Lost Boys: The Tribe. Two Coreys for your Corey’ing pleasure.

Wanted looks pretty cool, although it doesn’t yet carry an MPAA rating. Angelina Jole and Morgan Freeman are matrix-like assassins that take a teenager under their wings.

If this disciple, James McAvoy is badass enough to woo Jane Austen, he’s gotta make a good assassin!

Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig play a couple in the new movie “Meet Bill” with Aaron Eckhart and Timothy Olyphant — the latter looks a lot like a dapper Michael Ian Black in the trailer (He’s the drug dealer in Go and the villian in the most recent Die Hard)

The Day of the Dead “remake” is even more of a stinker then the original. This one was straight to video, not worth two trips for a free RedBox rental.

Romero doesn’t direct it — fast zombies like 28-days later but none of the characters really have anything interesting going on. Far worse then 28 weeks later of Land of the Dead.

… makes Run Ronnie Run look like Run Lola Run.

Second disappointment in a row from Simon Pegg. An okay movie with a few highlights, but not something worth seeing in the theater.

Diary of the Dead

Diary is supposed to take place contemporary with the events of Night of the Living Dead, i.e. as the shit is hitting the fan (Night, Dawn) as opposed to dripping off the walls (Day, Land)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/nightmare_relived/

Transformers director Michael Bay and his partners at the Platinum Dunes production company have been tasked by New Line Cinema to “relaunch” the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher classic gave the world the iconic Freddy Krueger, who haunted a total of nine films and two TV series. According to Variety, the new outing will represent a “complete overhaul” of the Nightmare concept.

R or PG-13? They had a pretty elaborate universe going there, hope they don’t shit all over it.

Go see Cloverfield if you dig any kind of disaster/survivalist flick. Marjorie, whose zombie-movie tastes are usually in line with mine, didn’t dig it at all. Still trying to figure that out — meanwhile rotten tomatoes reports “Not for anyone over 30″. Case closed?

(Good thing I didn’t wait a week to see it)

I enjoyed the first-person gimmick. One thing that bugged me the entire film was who the brunette was. I knew from junkets that they were all unknowns, but it bugged me alot. IMDB point out that I’m thinking of Zooey Deschanel, the love interest in Elf and the emo friend in Mean Girls. EDIT: the Mean Girls chick _is_ the cloverfield girl!

Marjorie and I saw Juno this weekend, and it was a pretty good movie — not too overly sappy due to the Juno’s disposition.

I was a little dissapointed with the performances of the two Arrested Development alumni, they weren’t really given a chance to shine comedically. Especially Michael Cerna (Paul Bleeker, George Michael) who didn’t really get a chance to be quirky enough to be Juno’s love interest.

Marjorie cried like she’d been given a 5 pound piece of veal…

“I Am Legend” was overall a pretty good movie. The genre is right up my alley, but I could have done without the over-the-top darkseekers having exaggerated speed and strength. It also would have been nice to see the protagonist at the top of his game, before his decline due to the state of the world and his isolation.

It seems that the film adapattion simplified one of the key plot/moral points in the book, where there are actually two classes of people left instead of just immune people like the hero and balls-to-the-wall runing-up-walls baddies.

The family behind is at the theater would disagree. After guffawing over the trailer for “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” (Martin Lawrence, Mo’Nique), they repeatedly disparaged the feature as being stupid.