An OK Lieutenant dvd review...

Dear Weiner... I mean Werner

Well your film wasn't brilliant, clever or great, it was as the title suggests OK... The Bad Lieutenant your latest flop was alright... I was definitely missing Keitel and his amazing performance. Why choose Nick Cage?. Nick Cages' veins and lack of sideburns although might look good for his character, it made me feel sick. I don't know what has happened to Cage, maybe its age...? I'm pretty sure he was good and not bad in Leaving Las Vegas which was bloody brilliant... But then it did have a great director... You suck.

A new adaptation of an old story... Boring... Where has your originality gone, did you ever have any? Did Hollywood's safe betting on re-makes and sequels appeal to you?... Did it make you feel like you might be closer to not making another flop..? Werner if I were Eddie Murphy in the Raw era and not his Daddy Day Care years, I'd be asking "What have you done for me lately"... Actually why are you deemed so great...? You are mad and your Iguanas are really annoying... Apart from Grizzly Man where you had a great story that you couldn't f**k up your curriculum vitae isn't so hot is it?... Rescue Dawn yeah whatever... I need to be rescued from your films. You probably get on really well with Bale maybe he could teach you how to shout at your D.O.P...

On the Plus side Xzibit was an inspired choice for you, you actually realised that 8 mile was a decent film... Could you make a film that good..?

Anyhow I must go now, I've got another film to watch and dislike.

Peace Out
Geeagle x

P.S. Herzog When you're using cameras and not too busy putting the clapper board on yourself... get your Curry Wurst munching meat head of a D.O.P. or one of his team to clean and dust off the lenses... I hate seeing dust on the lens whilst looking into the light... It gets on my moobs.

Holy Rusty Metal...

Last June Mookomatic posted about the strange Eddie Murphy and the Chunky Red Type Conspiracy.... There have been a few second rate comedy's with similar layout since, (The Proposal, Bunch of Amateurs, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Rebound, The Boat That Rocked, Son of Rambo, Step Brothers, Drillbit Taylor and Bride Wars) but recently I've noticed a couple of other copy cats. Aside from studios mirroring each others releases (Bedtime Stories and Inkheart) they seem to be mirroring each others poster campaigns, again. I have recently seen trailers for up and coming Hollywood comedies: Fried Up, Sex Drive and Role Models. All seem to be favouring an orange and white colour way. Interestingly, between noting these links and posting I have had trouble finding examples online. Maybe they have noticed the similarities and started to change their looks.

I'm sure it's not too important in the whole scheme of things, I just thought if studios are spending out on poster design they'd have a look at what their neighbours are doing. Or perhaps that's the reason why they all look similar?

Bark bark...

Eddie Murphy and the Chunky Red Type Conspiracy....

So, there's another film coming out with Eddie Murphy as the lead... Great.

But there's been something troubling me about our ex-favourite 80's golden boy from purely a design point of view... since The Nutty Professor was released in 1996, nearly all films with Murphy as the lead seem to also have posters and art with alarmingly similar chunky sans red typefaces. No, seriously - let's take a look shall we?


Wierd. I'm sure I'm not the only person sad enough to notice this..... Maybe it's a demand written into his contract that all film titles must be presented in CHUNKY RED TYPE. It must be the key to his success...... ;)