Aug 20 2009 'Extract' Still Being Marketed as a Straight-to-Video National Lampoon's Movie
A new Extract one-sheet has been released and, just as with the previous poster, for some reason the poster-makers have decided to visually assert that the seemingly funny Mike Judge comedy is, in actuality, a straight-to-video National Lampoon's movie. It's like they intentionally left Ben Affleck's photo off the poster so that we wouldn't think the cast was too impressive for a film whose biggest draw is apparently that Mila Kunis looks generally attractive.
IMPA notes that this is Extract's final poster, so I guess we'll never get the obvious next step: Jason Bateman grinning at us between the legs of a bikini-clad woman, just above the tagline, "She'll suck it ALL out."
Apr 9 2009 'Extract' is the 'Office Space' for Flower Extract Plant Owners
Office Space's Mike Judge has a new comedy coming out, and unlikely his largely-overlooked last film, Idiocracy, this one's getting a theatrical release! The Juno duo of Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons have re-teamed, and they're now joined by a scraggly-haired Ben Affleck, SNL's Kristen Wiig, and Mila Kunis as "babe Jason Bateman's sexually frustrated protagonist really wants to sleep with." With a team like that, how could it not be pretty good? Have a teaser trailer:
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Aug 29 2008 You Can't Say 'Max Payne' Doesn't Look Enough Like a Video Game
Well, there's a new trailer for Max Payne, and with it comes more clues to exactly what's going on in this thing besides slow-motion shooting things. Things that happen: Max Payne fights the bald guy mummy from The Mummy; Max Payne fights creatures he comes to know as valkyries, after a freak tells him they're valkyries; Max Payne recreates his favorite scenes from Die Hard; Ludacris is someone dressed as "a detective" for Halloween; That '70s Show takes her top off. Together, these elements form what almost amounts to a movie:
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