Posts Tagged ‘You Got Served’
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Not much going on with this comic other than how I’m still flabbergasted that such a ridiculous movie like You Got Served could claim the top of the box office this weekend. It’s like I said in Monday’s blog, it’s the Kangaroo Jack of 2004. A film that has no business being foisted upon a mass audience and here it is raking in the dough.
I think the only reason You Got Served did any business is because of the lousy winter weather across the country affecting people’s judgment. I know I’m a little loopy after shoveling my driveway 8 times in 8 days. My forearms are screaming in pain.
Hopefully Barbershop 2 can knock it off it’s perch this weekend. I never got around to seeing the original, but it looks funny as hell. I hope the sequel doesn’t disappoint.
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That’s it for now. Sorry I don’t have more amusing anecdotes, but I think all the Excedrin I’m taking for muscle pain is thinning the blood going to my brain.
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Jan12
There was a lot of dialogue in today’s comic. So if you need to get up and get a drink of water, or something, before reading the blog post, go right ahead. I’ll wait.
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Back? Good.
I’ll concede that I am probably not part of the target audience for Stomp The Yard. But I don’t think it makes it immune from the similarities in the other two movies I mentioned in today’s strip. The comparison may not be as airtight as the last “movie mash-up” I uncovered, but watch the trailer from Stomp The Yard and try to tell me it doesn’t hit the same emotional cues as Drumline and You Got Served.
Both Stomp The Yard and Drumline feature know-it-all kids from big cities “slumming” it at a southern university with an African American majority in the student body. Both have something to prove. Both learn a lesson in humility and the importance of teamwork. You can pretty much guess how it ends.
Stomp The Yard and You Got Served both have… well, dancing. And that’s pretty much where it ends. Because, as I recall, You Got Served didn’t have much of a plot to begin with except to give Omari Grandberry a launching pad to an acting career that never really went anywhere. So there you have it.
This weekend I am desperate to see either Children of Men or Pan’s Labyrinth but Cami doesn’t seem to want to have anything to do with either of them. It’s not so much an issue for Pan’s Labyrinth. It’s not showing around here yet. But I’ve heard increasingly good things about Children of Men and I was encouraged by it’s third place showing at the box office last weekend. It would be nice to see a film with a little pedigree. We’ll see what happens. I think we’re supposed to get a foot of snow out here this weekend.
Have any of you seen Children of Men or Pan’s Labyrinth? What was your take? Is there anything this weekend you’re interested in seeing? If so, what?
Talk to you soon!
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