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davechung Last Login: 12/11/09

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Last night, I did the unthinkable...

Last night, I fell asleep with the TV on after a vigorous night of cleaning the floor of my bathroom (and then, myself) that had been ravaged by a plumbing disaster that I will refer to as Homemade Beef Stew 2008. What was on said TV was my latest movie rental Trading Places (92% on the Tomatometer), which actually came out the year before I was born. The film stars Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, who...More

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Last night, I did the unthinkable...

Posted on 1/8/08 at 9:32 AM | Last edited on 1/8/08 at 9:07 AM

Mood:
Pensive
Last night, I fell asleep with the TV on after a vigorous night of cleaning the floor of my bathroom (and then, myself) that had been ravaged by a plumbing disaster that I will refer to as Homemade Beef Stew 2008. What was on said TV was my latest movie rental Trading Places (92% on the Tomatometer), which actually came out the year before I was born.

The film stars Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, who despite his long film resume' and baby-daddying of the Spice Girls' Mel B, is best known to me as Donkey from Shrek.

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[center]Hey SHREK!!![/center]


[left]I drifted off into dream land right as the story started to get good and Eddie Murphy was starting to get thrown into Dan Aykroyd's world, which upset me when I woke up an hour later. Immediately, I noticed that Eddie Murphy's character and corresponding moments as this character had to act as inspiration for Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which is one of my favorite TV shows of all time.[/left]


[left]But then, I fell asleep. Making matters worse, I dropped the movie back in the sleeve to return it this morning without finishing the whole thing.[/left]


[left]It's horrible. I never thought I would do it, but I did. I returned the movie without watching it, something I've never done before. I really enjoyed what I had seen up until that point, but I just wasn't in the mood for it. It'll find its way back up in the queue in no time, but that time is not right now.[/left]

[left]What else do I have at home? [/left]


[left]Of all things, it's [i]Empire Records[/i](13% on the Tomatometer), which is one of those movies that I've always wanted to see but never got around to seeing.[/left]


[left]Am I excited about it? Yes I am. [/left]


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[center]"This. Is. The. Re. Mix." - Diddy (then P. Diddy), from the late-girl group Dream's "This is Me (Remix)"[/center]


[left]Hopefully, I'm not the first to commit the rental injustice that is returning a movie that you haven't seen, but I might be the first to swap out a 92% movie for a 13% movie and not feel so bad about it. I'll see Places sometime, but I'm just on this huge teen movie fix right now and I can't stop myself (though I wish I could).[/left]


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[center]Knocked Up, meet Enchanted.[/center]


[left]27 Dresses, here I come![/left]

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RT-Ryan

RT-Ryan on 1/8/08 at 10:14 AM

That fool changed his name AGAIN? Puff Daddy Dad has more names than my genitalia.

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davechung

davechung on 1/9/08 at 1:03 PM

Ah Squantosaurus, I've heard the legend...

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RT-Ryan

RT-Ryan on 1/9/08 at 3:03 PM

I don't know what this means, and I'm reluctant to find out.

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zeldakitten

zeldakitten on 1/8/08 at 11:03 AM

If it makes you feel better, I returned Letter's to Iwo Jima without watching it.

I hope James Marsden gets the girl. He never gets the girl.

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davechung on 1/9/08 at 1:04 PM

Zelda, that actually does make me a feel a lot better. I can play on medium on GH3 now. It's not pretty, but I can survive!

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XSMarino on 1/11/08 at 12:54 AM

Trading Places is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I'm really upset that you returned it without seeing it...

of all movies to receive the DC Stamp of Disapproval!

I vow not to continue reading your journal until you submit yourself to an early 80's Eddie Murphy comedy.

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davechung on 1/11/08 at 8:34 AM

Haha, not disapproval, just sleepiness.

To win you back, it'll be my next rental after I watch Empire Records!

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jocorotten on 1/12/08 at 1:56 AM

Do do do do put Trading Places back on your list DC. It is 80s comedy canon fodder.

I have two coincidences to report.

Coincidence Number 1: I have just finished watching a film that I once returned without watching - Hard Candy. I wasn't in the mood for it at the time. Having watched it I am a little traumatised but very glad I did. If I was American I would also be traumatized.

Coincidence Number 2 - I watched this film directly after cleaning my flat after a plumbing disaster of my own.

Do you think we are living cross-hemisphere parallel lives? OK, maybe not quite but still...

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Jen Yamato on 2/29/08 at 3:11 PM

DC, you of all people HAVE TO watch Empire Records!! It's soooooooooooo good!

We'll have to make a movie night sometime soon. I simply cannot allow this to pass.

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Pac-Man: The Movie - Guaranteed Certified Rotten

Posted on 1/2/08 at 12:41 PM | Last edited on 1/2/08 at 12:03 PM

Mood:
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I've really been struggling to get through Blonde Ambition, because it is really as bad as the box office numbers say. You'd think (or not) that Andy Dick, Jessica Simpson, and Luke Wilson could carry a movie about a small town girl getting in over her head as an Executive Assistant at a major company (AKA: My cinematic biography), but man, this movie sucks. I have about an hour to go and I don't know if I can finish it.

I got to thinking about what could possibly be worse than this legally rotten nugget of foul smelling funion and I came up with this!

PAC-MAN: THE MOVIE (2009, because it'll take me a while to get Pac-Man Jones to do a cameo)

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[center]Picture this, but BIGGER!![/center]


[left]Premise: Pac-Man (Seth Green) is a regular, good-natured, hilarious guy with an eating problem. He works a 9 to 5 at the post office, in the sorting area behind the counter. He's a good intentioned guy, but he has a problem. HE NEVER GETS FULL. [/left]


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[center]Hey guys, want to get lunch?[/center]


[left]Living in the posh neighborhood of Beverly Hills, none of his model-esque and red meat hating post office co-workers want to keep going to Mr. Yan's Chinese Buffet (Jackie Chan) or Shakey's Pizza Parlor, despite the hot waitress with ample cleavage named Lindsay, who treats him kindly and provides him with plenty of awkward ("How do you like your pie?", "I always want seconds.", "My buffet can stay open for you after hours.") sexual references (played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, to reunite her with Chan from The Tuxedo). [/left]


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[center]Kind of like this, but in restaurants.[/center]


[left]Pac-Man is down on his luck. Sad. Depressed. Lonely at lunch and his dot matrix face is on the windows of many a restaurant saying "DO NOT LET HIM IN." Tired of the demerits he's been getting at work for eating the occasional package filled with cookies from grandma. Until.... GHOSTS INVADE BEVERLY HILLS!!! [/left]


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[center]Blinky (John Cusack), Pinky (Rachel McAdams), Inky (Billy Bob Thornton), Clyde (Carrot Top)[/center]


[left]Through a twist of fate in a weird dream filled with Levitra and Oreo product placements, Pac-Man realizes that if he eats a jar full of Pace Picante Sauce (label facing the camera, affectionately known as Power Pellets) HE CAN EAT THE GHOSTS (who hate tomato products) AND SAVE THE CITY!!!! [/left]

He dons THIS COSTUME:
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[left]In a twist between Google Earth and this:[/left]
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[center]Accompanied by music from Journey.[/center]


[left]Pac-Man chases the ghosts around Rodeo Drive (cameo by Kim Kardashian), Santa Monica Blvd. (cameo by Mischa Barton), Robertson Blvd. (cameo by Perez Hilton and Lindsay Lohan), and even Fairfax Avenue (hilarious cameo by Gary Coleman) before they can reach The Grove shopping center and holiday shoppers (this is a holiday flick).[/left]


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[center]OMG, there's like ghosts here.[/center]


[left]While all this is going on, Pac-Man must figure out if he's ok with having his estranged wife (Scarlett Johansson) join in on the crime fighting (she does, and looks hot in her costume). Ms. Pac-Man needs to figure out if she's ok with Pac-Man spending so much time at the pizza parlor with Lindsay. Pac-Man is torn between his three loves - Lindsay, Ms. Pac-Man, and Pizza in a slapstick action-comedy experience that only director Michael Bay could provide. [/left]


[center]THIS[/center]
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[center]PLUS THIS[/center]

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[center]With a burger in her mouth.[/center]


[left]They save the city!!![/left]


[left]Tagline: Saving the World. One Bite at the Time.[/left]


[left]Actually, this sounds better than Blonde Ambition. I'd watch it.[/left]

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zeldakitten on 1/3/08 at 5:35 AM

I'd watch it :) It sounds better than my screenplay about russian spies called "Tetris."

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jocorotten on 1/3/08 at 9:14 PM

I am SOOOOOO there DC. Can hardly wait for it to hit the screens.

Did you make it through Blonde Ambition?

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davechung on 1/4/08 at 10:03 AM

Joco, I just can't bring myself to finish it. It's masochism of the worst kind. I think I can find an hour somewhere to officially declare it the worst movie I've ever seen.

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Jessica Simpson's "Blonde Ambition" Grosses $1,190 in First Weekend

Posted on 12/31/07 at 11:33 PM | Last edited on 12/31/07 at 11:28 PM

So many of us have heard by now that Jessica Simpson's newest movie Blonde Ambition had a "Vanity Run" in 8 movie theaters last weekend.

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It can't be worse than Bratz, can it?

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According to Perez Hilton,
"Blonde Ambition averaged an embarrassing $48 per screen on Friday for a total box office of $384. Based on an $8 ticket price, that means that 6 people paid to see the movie at each of those theatres, and only 48 people went to see the movie!"

Lucky for us? I'm going to watch it right now. I'll let you know how it is.

Happy New Year!

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I will get to my happy weight this year thanks to Carrie!
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The King of Blogdom: Perez Hilton

Posted on 12/22/07 at 3:19 PM | Last edited on 12/22/07 at 3:12 PM

Much to the delight of my entertainment-obsessed self, I met Perez Hilton on Saturday morning in LA.

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I feel like I should draw something on the picture...

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For a bloggerific fool like myself, it was a pretty big thrill and well worth the effort to go out there just to meet him. Perez takes a lot of the free speech heat for doing things that a lot of other people are already doing and it's pretty awesome that he just takes the brunt of it for the rest of us in the Blogosphere. He was really kind and took the time to speak with everyone who was there to meet him (and there was quite the line!).

If you gave Perez some gossip that he didn't know about, you got a Kitson tote bag. I told him about Kristin Kreuk being cast as Chun Li in an upcoming Street Fighter movie, which he didn't know about. I got a man bag and gave it away to some obnoxious girl in line who didn't have any new gossip for Perez.

Off to play Guitar Hero.

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jocorotten on 12/23/07 at 2:10 PM

You gave it away? You are very sweet, DC. If she was obnoxious I probably would have hit her with it. I am not very sweet.

Great pic.

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RT Presents 12 Days of Christmas Movies - David Chung

Posted on 12/22/07 at 1:28 AM | Last edited on 12/22/07 at 1:24 AM

My first official item here on RT. I'll give it a 7 Smile.

It was a proud moment for me to see this go up on RT yesterday. Many thanks to Matt for the opportunity and Henry/Crew for the help on getting some of the tweaks fixed.

Have a wonderful Christmas, RT!

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How Bad is Bad? Bratz: The Movie is Diaper Rash Rotten at 7%

Posted on 12/12/07 at 12:22 PM | Last edited on 12/12/07 at 11:44 AM

Mood:
Excited
Bratz: The Movie. 5 Fresh reviews. 63 Rotten. 7% on the Tomatometer. $9.9 million at the box office. "Too shallow even for its target audience."

Who watches movies like this? I DO.

[center][/center]
[center]Keepin' it Gangsta Out Da BOX![/center]

"[An] excruciatingly inane high-school comedy inspired by a line of sexually suggestive dolls aimed at 9-year-old girls." - Lou Lumenick, New York Post

I got interested in this green booger trainwreck based on a line of semi-successful dolls after checking out RT resident Wildcat Jen Yam's [b]Meet a Critic with Michael Phillips[/b]. Phillips said (though I have a feeling he was joking),

JY: Who is the next breakthrough performer, director or writer on the horizon?
MP: Everyone in Bratz. Didn't you love [color=#e15417][b]Jon Voight[/b][/color] in Bratz? Not since he got horked up by the snake in [color=#e15417]Anaconda[/color] have I seen such magic.

While Phillips may or may not have been joking, I figured if a movie was that memorable to the point that it was the first thing that came to his mind, there has to be some value to it.

[center][/center]
[center]Key to life: Money. Power. Respect. Friendship. Fashion.[/center]

7% on the Tomatometer. 11% by Cream of the Crop critics. There is hope.

With that in mind, I asked my roommate and RT Community Manager Ryan to shoot Bratz onto his Netflix queue.

Here is a rundown of the conversation:
D: So no Bratz?
R: You were serious?
D: I would watch it if it came in the mail. I'm just wondering what it does for 102 minutes.
R: Okay, I'll do it, but on one condition.
D: Of course you get to watch w/me!!
R: You have to watch it all the way to the end, even if I get bored and leave the room
D: Ok that's doable. I will watch and enjoy.
R: I'm putting it on my list right now and shooting it to the top of the queue. Is Jon Voight in this movie?? Poor man.

[center][/center]
[center]OMG, it's totally not that bad![/center]

"The derivative Bratz is a great big pink marshmallow of a movie, aimed at one demographic only: tween girls into fashion and lip gloss. Anyone else, enter at your own risk." - Kit Bowen, Hollywood.com

Enter I will, Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com. Enter. I. Will. Besides, I love marshmallows.

"This is why the terrorists hate us." - Nathan Rabin, Onion AV Club

That might be taking it too far, Mr. Rabin.

"Bratz is like being raped by MySpace." Joshua Tyler, Cinemablend.com

Then add me, baby.

Be back with a full report soon, my BFF's!

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