{"id":1202,"date":"2008-05-18T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/18\/ken-levines-summer-movie-previews\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T04:08:00","slug":"ken-levines-summer-movie-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/18\/ken-levines-summer-movie-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Levine&#8217;s Summer Movie Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of making my own jokes about upcoming movie releases, I&#8217;ll let a professional do it this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/\">Ken Levine<\/a> &#8220;has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, BECKER, DHARMA &#038; GREG, and has co-created his own series including ALMOST PERFECT starring Nancy Travis.&#8221;  He&#8217;s also a fan of sports, especially baseball, and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">American Idol<\/span>, and none of those things appeals to me.  So maybe you&#8217;ll appreciate a different perspective.  Maybe you&#8217;ll start reading his blog instead of mine.  Whatever.  Do what you want.  LIKE I CARE.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/summer-movie-previews.html\">Part One<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/summer-movie-previews-inevitable-sequel.html\">Part Two<\/a> of Ken&#8217;s previews.  Since he is a TV comedy writer, you may want to take some of the synopses with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my favorites are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">GET SMART<\/span> \u2013 Adaptation of the 60s Don Adams\/Barbara Feldon sitcom. Now with Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s hilarious. Would you believe funny? Would you believe if you\u2019ve had four tequila shooters it has its amusing moments? I know one of the writers so I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s the first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3-D:<\/span> Or for those with bad depth perception \u2013 JOURNEY TO THE WORST HEADACHE OF YOUR LIFE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There now, wasn&#8217;t that enjoyable?  If you still want my two cents, feel free to read on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m most looking forward to Pixar&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Wall-E<\/span> (June 27), which may also be the only <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">bona fide<\/span> science fiction film of the whole year&#8211;make me a liar, Fish.*  Running a close second is <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Dark Knight<\/span> (July 18), followed by <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/span> (May 22).  And despite Mr. Levine&#8217;s indifference, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Hellboy II: The Golden Army<\/span> (July 11) just looks like a damn lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to give <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Incredible Hulk<\/span> (June 13) the benefit of a doubt (and how many times have we heard the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avengers_(comics)\">Avengers<\/a> say <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">that?<\/span>), and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Get Smart<\/span> (June 20)&#8211;to paraphrase my friend Tim&#8211;might be good if it doesn&#8217;t SUCK.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Happening<\/span> (June 13), <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Hancock<\/span> (July 2), or <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The X-Files: I Want to Believe<\/span> (July 25) are really even necessary.  And I am nowhere near being the target audience for <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Sex and the City<\/span> (May 30).<\/p>\n<p>* <small>Does anyone get that this is a quote from the movie <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Contact<\/span>?  No?  Okay, just checking.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of making my own jokes about upcoming movie releases, I&#8217;ll let a professional do it this time. Ken Levine &#8220;has worked on MASH, CHEERS, FRASIER, THE SIMPSONS, WINGS, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, BECKER, DHARMA &#038; GREG, and has co-created his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}