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In this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of "After.Life," "The Square," & "Date Night." Plus we give you the rundown of the Top 5 Best Night Ever movies, and because he seems to be in every new movie this spring, Brett breaks down Liam Neeson's life and career by the numbers.
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For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesIn this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead... more
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Since Liam Neeson has been all over spring releases this year, The Rotten Tomatoes Show breaks down Liam Neeson's background and career in facts and numbers.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comSince Liam Neeson has been all over spring releases this year, The Rotten Tomatoes... more
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# of total Oscar categories: 24
# of Best Picture Nominees: 10
# of Nominations The Hurt Locker got: 9
# of Nominations Avatar got: 8
# of Nominations District 9 got: 4
# of Nominations Crazy Heart got: 3
# of WTF Nominations: 1 (The Secret of Kells)
# of Nominations The Hangover got: 0
# of total Oscar categories: 24
# of Best Picture Nominees: 10
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# of press accredited, per Sundance: 1,020
# of minutes spent with Entered The Void: 156
# of World premieres, per Sundance: 105
# of minutes I sat in the Howl press conference: 50
# of minutes I sat through Casino Jack before walking out: 35
# of minutes being removed from Enter the Void: 20
# of Vitamin C packets I've consumed since Thursday: 14
# of films we've seen (as of posting:) 12.5
# of days left here: 6
# of total hours spent in Sundance HQ using their wireless: 5
# of documentaries seen: 4.5
# of truck crashes we saw in the Void: 3
# of Midnight Movies watched as of posting: 2
# of press conferences we sat through: 1
# of days I woke up feeling refreshed and not run down: 0# of press accredited, per Sundance: 1,020
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TRT: 2:27
# of seconds until you see War Machine: 137
# of seconds until we see Sam Rockwell while Mickey Rourke has a monologue: 77
# of seconds until we see Mickey Rourke: 70
# of seconds until we hear Mickey Rourke give a heavily accented metaphor: 66
# of seconds until AC/DC kicks in: 27 seconds
# of Iron Bikini babes: 16
# of whips Mickey Rourke uses CGI to swing: 2
# of seconds containing any dialog or semblance of a plot except "OH SHIT THERE'S LIKE A HUNDRED IRON MEN AT THE END:" 0
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# of nods The Hurt Locker got: 7
# of nods Up In The Air got: 6
# of nominees for Best Screenplay: 5
# of nods Inglourious Basterds/Avatar got: 4
# of nods Invictus got: 3
# of actor nods for Precious: 2
# of nods for Fantastic Mr. Fox: 1
# of nominations given to Nicholas Cage for The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans: 0.
# of nods (500) Days of Summer got: 2
# of nods The Hurt Locker got: 7
# of nods Up In The Air got: 6
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# of the model Robotard being used: 8000
# of total top ten lists together: 3,110
# of Executives Polled: 311
# of total scripts: 97
# of Scripts Until Finke Stopped Numbering and Bolding: 69.
# of sycophants added to this sycophantic list since '08: 51
# of summaries involving cops: 5
# of biopics: 5
# of years The Black List ran: 4
# of Guns in Blake Masters' script: 2
# of dead Richard Linklater projects: 1
# of things relevant in any other way save for jerking off the industry: 0
[deadline]# of the model Robotard being used: 8000
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# of Films Submitted for Initial Consideration for 2009: 20
#of Years the Oscar Has Existed: 7
# of Pixar Films That Won the Oscar: 4
# of Academy Awards between Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton: See above.
Average # of Nominees: 3 films a year
#of Japanese Anime Films Nominated Since 2001: 2
# of Dreamworks Films That Won The Oscar: 1
# of Odds that Battle for Terra will win: 0:.0000000001
[Variety]
# of Films Submitted for Initial Consideration for 2009: 20
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# of pages in of Finnegan's Wake that Rian Johnson focused on: 439
# of seconds shortest film was: 35
# of shorts shown: 24
# of beers consumed before and after at open bar: ...listen, it was like, 24 films. c'mon. drop it.
# of photos of the dude who no one knew who he was, but he just wanted to dance: 8
# of awkwardly tipped dollars to the bathroom attendant: $5
# of Sklar Brothers Shot On A Hill: 2
# of feature film directors in attendance: 2
# of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's sitting in the back row: 1
# of films at Reblog This that we previously watched: 1
# of short films that totally saw Pinchy on The Simpsons and The Slate "Toothbrush" sketch: 1
# of drinks tiddles thrown in my face based off pointless new media feuds: 0
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1. Law Abiding Citizen is the new piece of crapola starring Gerard Butler as a man who wreaks vengeance on the justice system (embodied by lawyer Jamie Foxx) for not properly punishing a thug who killed his wife and child.
2. When the movie opens with a little girl stringing together beads as her father, Butler, works nearby, I was reminded of the 1964 Daisy Girl campaign commercial – you know, the one where the kid with the flower gets nuked?
3. Sure enough: Enter thugs with baseball bats.
4. If you kick off with violence against a woman and child, you’d better damn well make the rest of the movie serious enough to have warranted it. Else I might start thinking you, um, just like violence for its own sake.
5. Well, filmmaker F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) appears to like violence for its own sake.
6. A lethal injection gone wrong juxtaposed with a girl’s music recital. A torture session with a buzz-saw and tongue-clamp. A DVD of torture session being sent to the little girl, who pops it in thinking it’s her music recital….
7. Really?
8. Yeah.
9. The stuffing in between is like the perfunctory chit-chat in a porno: actors in suits bat legalese back-and-forth unconvincingly while Butler works his one, intense facial expression on a scale from 1 to 6.
10. This isn’t a movie, it’s a worse-than-average episode of a TV crime procedural with above-average actors.
11. Even its one memorable line, uttered by increasingly besieged mayor Viola Davis, backfires: “If you have to give shotguns to the meter maids, do it.” Alas, it only made me wish I were watching that movie instead.
-Ellen Fox
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# of White Ribbons: 2
# of reserved "industry" seats: ~30-50
# of inane questions Richard Peña managed to deflect during press conferences: 4
# of press conferences: 2
# of seats reserved for "Aronofsky:" 1
# of days left: 1.
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# of Attendees at The Night of Counting the Years (aka The Mummy): ~20-25
# of tracking shots that I'll see in Ben Russell's Let Each One Go Where He May: 13
# of Days until I'm back at Current LA: 7.
# of Days Left: 5
# of Press Conferences Left: 4
# of Days of Press Screenings Left: 3
# of Films I Walked Out On: 2
# of Press Conferences via Skype Left: 1
# of Times I became Mayor of Grassroots Tavern on Foursquare: 1
# of Times Me and Armond White hung out and prank called Lisa Schwarzbaum: 0
-John Lichman# of Attendees at The Night of Counting the Years (aka The Mummy): ~20-25
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# of times Dennis Lim sipped water during the Independencia Q&A: 2
# of times Dennis Lim did not take shit during the Q&A: 2
# of thought trains detailed: 1
# of questions about Jesus asked: 1
# of sisters in Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard: 4
# of "whathefuckisup"s: 2
# of dead girls in Bluebeard's private room: 3
# of coffee cups thrown away: 3
# of cups of coffee I drank: 5
# of dollars I owe someone from Sunday night: $1
# of people in the front row for a press conference: 5
# of guys who asked me for a light, then turned out to be Raya Martin: 1.
-John Lichman
# of times Dennis Lim sipped water during the Independencia Q&A: 2
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# of films I've completely missed: 2
# of inches the pressure point on your thigh is: 3" around
# of podcasts crashed by Sylvia Miles: 1.
# of press screenings left: 9
# of press screenings that are repeats: 5
# of humps in Trash Humpers: Impossible to count.
# of walk-outs from Trash Humpers: None as far as I saw. "I saw at least 5." -Gina Telaroli, edit at 4:57 est, 10/1.
# of people asking if the Humpers were real or wearing masks: 1
# of films I refuse to see: 1.
-John Lichman# of films I've completely missed: 2
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# of films missed: 1
# of Views Around The Mountain: 36
# of Times Jonathan Demme laughed At Life During Wartime: 49
# of Times My Stomach Kept Grumbling: 14
# of Times I Dropped My iPhone: 1
-John Lichman# of films missed: 1
# of Views Around The Mountain: 36
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# of reserved seats for Antichrist: 15
# of minutes Armond White lasted during the Von Trier press conference: 12: 19
# of press walk-outs during Police, Adjective: 5
# of hats at Antichrist: 2
# of awkward erect nipples throughout a Bruno Dumont film: 2
# of Non-NYFF Films I've Watched Since I Came to New York: 1
# of Kindles Spotted prior to Screenings: 1
# of titles pronounced wrong during Police, Adjective q&a: 1--"Five Years, Two Weeks, Three Days." He meant this.
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So, I'm out here at the New York Film Festival and things are starting to get a bit more interesting. Well, as interesting as they can on the Upper East Side where my main lunch destination is the Gourmet Garage.
Some days, there are only two films! My mind wanders and then my natural OCD kicks in as I begin counting the things around me. Join me, won't you dear reader, as I explore some of the more interesting things I've counted at the Fest this year!
New York Film Festival 09 By the Numbers: 9/16
Number of people in attendance for free bagels, coffee: more than 20
Number of people who walked out of The Red Detachment of Women: 2. (30 min. in)
Number of people who walked out of The Rape of Pasolini: 6 (during 2nd segment)
Number of people visibly under the age of 35: 9
Number of people visibly over the age of 35: 20+
Number of people who talked about Obama: 4
Number of people who talked about Obama who were in their 60s: 4
Number of women wearing a school marm dress: 1
Number of people using a walker: 1
Number of people who said re: Pasolini, “He sure isn’t like Soderbergh:” 2.
New York Film Festival By The Numbers: 9/17-18
Number of People in The Front Row for Sweet Grass Q&A: 4
Number of Goat’s Milk Consumed in the U.S.: 0
Number of Goat’s Milk Consumed in SweetGrass: 6 or so teats
Number of Movies Featuring Grass: 2 Number of “Whatdafuckisup?!” : 1
Number of Wi-Fi Spots: 6
Number of Successful Attempts to use Wi-Fi: 0
Number of Beards: 6
Number of EPIC Beards: 1
Number of Nose Blows During Kanikosen: 4
Number of Nose Blows During Ghost Town: 14
Number of Clearly Sick People Who Should Not Come To An Enclosed Theater: 1
Number of Vitamins I ingest Daily: 9
New York Film Festival 09 By the Numbers: 9/21
Number of Cigarettes Lit during the “present” sequences of A Room and a Half: 12
Number of “whatdafuckisup!?“‘s: 2
Number of times reminded that being inside Michael Tully’s hall in 2010 will be wonderful:1
9/23:
# of long and super-involved questions for Lars Von Trier from a Huffington Post intern: 2
# of hats at Antichrist screening: 2
# of Crying Donkeys that represent Israel/Palestine: 1
Check back for more numbers throughout the week!
-John Lichman
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