Look Out For These Two

Ok, well, it's been a while since I last posted, but, I have a strong feeling this post is going to be a little more coherent than usual. I am posting today to let you all know about two movies I am very excited about, the two I am most looking forward to for the rest of 2008, and some have probably heard little to nothing about. First is Choke. Based off of a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), it is a story about a man, Victor Mancini, who will go around to restaurants and pretend to choke on food, get saved, and then the saviors, feeling responsible for him, will send money to him on a monthly basis, which he uses to pay for his mother's hospital bills. His mother doesn't remember who he is, and she wasn't a very good mother in the first place. Oh, and I almost forgot: Victor is a sex addict, and he goes to group therapy for it, where he usually picks up a new chick to have sex with. His best friend is obsessed with masturbation, and the two work in a colonial style theme park. If you're all not sold yet, watch this:



And for some of you brave souls, here's the uncensored trailer: http://www.vimeo.com/1336990?pg=embed&sec=1336990

Don't watch it with your parents around, because there are boobs galore. The movie is written and directed by Clark Greg, an actor turned director, and it won the Special Jury Prize (whatever that means) at Sundance. It's been described as "slimy, weird, and oddly lighthearted to boot." It comes out in September, although I believe it's only a limited release, but I'll be living in the LA area, so it won't matter to me! Hah!

The other movie I want to talk about is called The Road, written and directed by people I've never heard of. It stars Viggo Mortensen (you can sign me up already, he's gooood, and not just in LOTR either!) and is about a father and son traveling through a post-apocalyptic American landscape. But, what really sells me on this movie is that it was based off a book written by Cormac McCarthy. Unfortunately, I'm sure most of you don't know this name, but he was responsible for the novel No Country for Old Men, the movie that won Best Picture. Well, I read the novel after seeing the movie, and oddly, I liked the movie more. It might have something to do with the fact that the Coen Brothers wrote and directed it, and they're simply amazing. Also, I was not the only one to think the movie was better. The teacher who told me I had to go see No Country also read the book afterwards and liked the movie more, and then we got another teacher to read the book and watch the movie, and, what do you know, the movie was better. I'll save that debate for another time, the book was still REALLY good, and definitely worth reading. So, back to The Road. This movie doesn't have a trailer yet, which is worrisome due to the fact that it's out in November (then again, the new Harry Potter movie didn't have it's first trailer come out until yesterday... still, it's LATE). Plus, I don't really remember No Country being heavily advertised before it picked up Oscar steam. I saw that movie without once seeing a single trailer, which I can honestly say has never happened before or after that. Plus, it's the Weinstein Company producing, and they're notorious for under-advertising all of their movies, not just the bad ones. So look out late November, this movie will be out, but will any advertisements be? I'm not certain.

Also, I've started reading Choke, and I'm about a third of the way through, and it's awesome. I have The Road, and hopefully I'll start in in the next couple of days. I'll let you all know what I think of the books when I'm done with them.

Finally, I just wanted to say, there are other movies I'm looking forward to, these two just jump out because they're weirdly unadvertised. I'm also looking forward to Quantum of Solace (mostly because it's coming out on my birthday, so, yeah, that's going to be AWESOME) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. That is probably my number one most anticipated movie, mostly because it's directed by my personal favorite director David Fincher, who also did Alien 3 (he hates it, I like the assembly cut), Se7en (amazing), The Game (I really liked it), Fight Club (one of the best movies EVER), Panic Room (never seen it, and probably never will) and Zodiac (my favorite of his, although not as popular because people wanted more killings... fucking idiots). So, yes, I'm sure you've all seen the trailer for it, it was with the new Indiana Jones movie, and it looks good.

Alright, I'm done, see you all some other time.