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11:01:39 AM Will Edmondson: Tara, last night was a night of firsts: It was our first (and only, presumably) time seeing "Tooth Fairy," of course, but it was also your first foray into live tweeting. How would you say it went?
11:02:12 AM Tara Ariano: Actually, I also live-tweeted "Twilight" when we watched that on Pay Per View, so...yes, this was a much more pleasant experience.
11:02:40 AM Will Edmondson: Wow, I thought I'd suppressed any memories I had about "Twilight," but here come the post-traumatic stress flashbacks! Thanks a lot, Tara! But I thought "Fairy" was pretty good! Or, let me qualify that: As good as we could possibly have expected "Tooth Fairy" to have been.
Last week, we asked you which movie you wanted to see recapped, and you responded in overwhelming fashion. Your winner, "Daybreakers," just got recapped, so we're on to the next one. This week, the choice is yours again, and the options may surprise you.
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Conan continued to swing for the fences at NBC's expense last night by selling "The Tonight Show" on Craigslist (see above). That's right, he actually posted it, which means we should get a report on the most creative responses in the near future. In other news, Conan is also considering a career in porn, because that's what everyone thinks about when their job is in jeopardy. (See it, after the jump. And yes, it's SFW -- sorry?)
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It's a new year, but it's still the same season of "Family Guy." In last night's episode, the Griffins played "Family Feud"; Peter was overcome by amnesia, and then picked up Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. Now that's an eventful day! But you don't care about that. You want to know about the episode's non sequiturs! Let's talk about them, after the jump.
continue readingDwayne "The Rock" Johnson told us last year on "Saturday Night Live" that he's still a tough guy, and is banking on his tough reputation to carry his new film, "The Tooth Fairy." If you'll recall, a couple weeks ago I wrote about the poster for this film (yes: film), and had some trouble suspending disbelief over some of the plot points. Well, its trailer came out today...and you know what? The movie looks bad. Really bad. But I think it's so far down the "bad" continuum that it might actually be pretty fun.
As I Watch Stuff explained, there are even more ridiculous leaps of faith in the trailer that we're expected to believe. I won't ruin most of them for you, but there are two awesome parts that you need to know about: First, apparently the hockey-playing Rock is in the penalty box so much that he's given his own recliner. That's hilarious. Second, The Rock is issued a summons for "killing dreams." And I think the movie's being unironic. See what I mean? This movie might be the best. Hit "continue reading" to see the trailer after the jump, and see if you agree with me.
continue readingWhat do you get when you combine Tinkerbell from "Peter Pan," Ogie Ogilthorpe from "Slap Shot," and The Rock annihilating Stone Cold Steve Austin from WrestleMania XIX (above)? Why, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's next movie role in "The Tooth Fairy," naturally; a performance that surely will be one of the most important of our time. Johnson plays a tough minor league hockey player who does a bad thing, and as punishment, is forced to be the tooth fairy for a week. Like, the actual tooth fairy.
Normally a movie asks you to suspend disbelief about one, or maybe two details about its plot. So far, "The Tooth Fairy" has asked me to believe that The Rock can ice-skate, that someone can be sentenced into committing more breaking-and-entering misdemeanors, and that The Rock would tolerate being called a fairy...and I haven't even seen the trailer. But the best part of this movie without question is its poster, which you can see after the jump. The tooth hurts, indeed.
continue readingWell, so much for the Aloha Spirit. Via Mark Graham at "New York" magazine's Vulture blog comes a report that Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor, James "Duke" Aiona, is so outraged about one sketch from the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live" that he's fixing to send executive producer Lorne Michaels a letter in protest. In the sketch (above), host Dwayne Johnson (who comes by satire at Hawaii's expense honestly, having lived there when he was younger) and Fred Armisen play hotel entertainers who let the guests in on what it's really like to exploit your native heritage and give up your rights to your homeland's best real estate, all to attract ignorant honkies. For example:
"My brother and I here live fifteen miles inland. Yeah. There's a rusty pickup truck with weeds growing out of it. That's our house."
"You want to come visit? It's real easy to get to. You just drive through the shantytown, make a right at the meth lab...."
Aiona insists that the sketch was not an accurate depiction of employees in Hawaii's tourism sector -- and having visited the state many times, I can attest that he's right. Should you visit, representatives of the service industry will keep their resentment of you not on a boil, but merely at a respectful simmer.
A lot of people have linked to this Saturday's "The Rock Obama" sketch, which was fine, but in my opinion wasn't nearly as hilarious as Jon Bovi, the Bon Jovi "opposite band." I admit, I'm a sucker for any Update piece where Will Forte sings. After the jump, we have more "SNL" highlights.
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