Posted by: Mike on Jun 8th, 2010

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Are you still out there reading this?  It’s evident that we’re not still in here writing it, that’s for sure.

Thanks for keeping coming back, even though we haven’t written anything in almost a year. We’re terrible people, we know.

I’ve got some renewed inspiration here, and feel like getting back into the swing of things.  I’ll be updating the site more frequently in the upcoming weeks, and hope to get some of you involved in things at MovieSnobs.  It’ll take a while to get back into the swing of things, but hopefully we can get back to where we used to be.

Thanks again for visiting.  If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up for the RSS feed, so you’ll know when we update things. If you don’t use an RSS reader, you can use the E-mail signup box on the right of any page to get daily e-mail updates, powered by FeedBurner.

Posted by: Mike on Jan 2nd, 2009

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It’s been a long week, but the MovieSnobs are back at their computers, and ready to bring you the news. Rather than regurgitate everything you’re probably read over the last week while we were gone, I’ll just say “Happy New Year” to everyone. Hope you’re all safe, and ready for a great year full of great movies.

Posted by: Christine on Aug 6th, 2008

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Kevin Smith Wins R Rating

Shortly after Seth Rogen spoke out about the MPAA being hypocritical by giving Zack and Miri Make a Porno an NC-17 rating, news has arrived that Kevin Smith was able to cut only 12 seconds and get his R rating.

The Associated Press reports that Smith won the appeal after presenting his case to the MPAA’s Appeals Board. I think Smith hit the nail on the head in this quote:

They felt it was rather sexually graphic. My point is, it was comically graphic. All the sex in the movie with the exception of one scene is very cartoonish, very campy. It wasn’t designed to titillate.

Whether the MPAA takes into consideration the intentions of certain objectionable scenes is unclear. In fact, most of what the MPAA does is unclear to the general public. However, Smith’s point is that the scene wasn’t meant to be pornographic (despite the title), but rather was designed to be laughed at.

This is a victory for Kevin Smith since everyone knows making an NC-17 film is “commercial suicide,” as he put it.

Check out Zack and Miri Make A Porno starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks in theaters October 31st.

Posted by: Christine on Jun 9th, 2008

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I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news for Burger King.

Robert Downey, Jr. claims in a new story that he stopped at Burger King with a carful of drugs and his burger was so horrible that he thought something terrible was going to happen to him. He left the restaurant and dumped all his drugs in the ocean.

The Burger King reference in Iron Man is in reference to his life-changing event.

Posted by: Christine on Jun 6th, 2008

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It appears that you can’t post a teaser for your own movie on your own site without attaching a rating to it. The Zack and Miri Make a Porno teaser that we posted last week was pulled from Kevin Smith’s Quick Stop Entertainment site because the MPAA told them to. Smith explains:

As with features, all trailers get rated get rated by the MPAA. The majority of them are for general audiences (Green Band trailers), but trailers packed with adult content (like our teaser) earns you what’s called a Red Band trailer. Well, we didn’t go through this process – simply because, we felt, that since the teaser didn’t contain any footage from the actual flick, it wasn’t technically a trailer. Boy, was I wrong. Turns out all promotional material for any film financed/distributed by a signatory of the MPAA has to be signed-off on by the MPAA – including internet-only materials.

Hopefully the boys will slap a red band before that baby and have it back up soon.

Posted by: Christine on Jun 1st, 2008

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As unbelievable as they were, the giant ants in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are semi-real. They’re called “dorylus” ants.

While they’re not the enormous size they were in the movie, and they certainly can’t devour a healthy human being in a matter of seconds, they are pretty scary. From the Dorylus page at Wikipedia (the proper name of the ants):

Seasonally, when food supplies become short, they leave the hill and form marching columns of up to 50,000,000 ants which are considered a menace to people, though they can be easily avoided; a column can only travel about 20 meters in an hour. It is for those unable to move, or when the columns pass through homes, that there is the greatest risk. There have been reported cases of people – usually the young, infirm, or otherwise debilitated who could not escape – being killed and eventually consumed by them, often dying of asphyxiation.

This last sentence should be taken with a grain of salt, as it lacks a proper citation on Wikipedia. They are, however, pretty impressive. While they’re not nearly as large or fast-moving as they are in the movie, the picture on the left is a swarm of them eating a grasshopper, and they’re pretty big as far as ants go.

Posted by: Christine on May 14th, 2008

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From Bloody Disgusting comes the final official synopsis for Saw V, the fourth sequel in the twisted horror franchise. It says,

In the fifth installment of the popular Saw franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.

Since I wasn’t all that invested in Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) to begin with, an entire movie about him killing people isn’t nearly as interesting as Jigsaw putting people in deadly traps so that in the event they escape, they appreciate their life more.

For the first time, I’m not really all that interested in a Saw sequel. I mean, seriously…”carry on the Jigsaw legacy”? He’s not carrying on Jigsaw’s legacy. He’s murdering people to keep them quiet. Jigsaw had a reason, however twisted, for the things he did. And that was what made him, and the original few films, so compelling.

Posted by: Christine on May 5th, 2008

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As I predicted earlier this week, Iron Man‘s opening weekend wasn’t affected by the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV, despite what some “experts” said.

The superhero film starring Robert Downey, Jr. grossed $104 million and was the second-biggest opening ever by a non-sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Clearly, boys like superhero movies more than, or just as much as, they like violent video games. God bless America.