Well, it’s now the time of year where they cast lame movies to the wolves and based on the previews, it looks like “Son of the Mask” is going to be an early contender for the 2005 “What were they thinking?” award. “The Mask” was a nerfed but rather well down adaptation of the comic – it used Jim Carrey’s talents as well as they’ve ever been used. It had Cameron Diaz as the love interest. It had actual pathos and lots of offbeat humor. “Son of the Mask” apparently has – a baby and a dog. Two non-verbal entities. So what’s that leave? Two hours of zany computer animation? I’m guessing that this will be first big-budget stinker of 2005.
Did you notice in the trailer that some of the shots of the mask working were in daylight? In the original film, the mask only worked at night.
I’m thinking that the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise modern day America adaption of War of the Worlds is gonna suck big time.
Two words: Racing Stripes
'Nuff said.
Only 135 more days.
Yeah. I’ve never seen a movie look as cliched, stupid and generally awful based on ads as Racing Stripes.
Carefully test-marketed levels of Zany™, thankyouverymuch.
Note to Hollywood: “From the creator of Cats and Dogs” is not a high point you want to tout in your ads.
What little interest I had in that movie was squashed at the sight of a billboard featuring a zebra’s rear end. 
What, did they get the marketing guy from Operation Dumbo Drop?
Geez, there are going to be some extremely bad movies this year.
Along with Racing Stripes, I nominate Ice Princess.
I saw the trailer for that at A Series Of Unfortunate Events and it brought me low.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a movie with a hunky Zamboni driver.
Saying things like that just makes Stripes fight harder.
His stripes made him an outcast.
His heart made him a hero.
I saw that and thought, “Who the hell would abandon a zebra on the side of the road?” I hear abandoned zebras are a huge problem for animal shelters here in America.
So, parents, after seeing this movie don’t go buying your child a zebra. Not all of them are willing to race. 
Oh, and Son of the Mask—I’ve never cringed when seeing a movie trailer but I cannot stand that trailer.
But but but SON OF THE MASK has Alan Cummings playing LOKI!!!
Oh yeah, it has Alan Cummings playing Loki.
I don’t know if RACING STRIPES will suck or not, but I liked CATS AND DOGS.
I thought the trailer to WAR OF THE WORLDS looked good!
I am genuinely worried though about CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
I wouldn’t have been worried about the movie but then I saw Johnny Depp dressed up like Marilyn Manson. For some reason, that makes me sad. 
I’ve heard rumors of an Alien 5 in the works, there’s a remake of The Longest Yard that’s due out soon and there’s at least one other crap remake (besides the Willy Wonka) that’s in the pipeline. I wonder what movie is going to turn out to be this year’s Gigli?
Other remakes scheduled for this year, according to the IMDB, include Assault on Precinct 13, The Bad News Bears, The Fly, House of Wax, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Porky’s, Seconds, Scanners, The 39 Steps and, of course, King Kong.
And there are two, count 'em, TWO remakes of The Poseidon Adventure in the pipeline. Granted, one of them is a TV miniseries but it just goes to show you that lack of imagination can be simultaneous.
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My horse-crazed daughter (age 8) is insisiting that we see “Racing Stripes” on opening day. I must love her. I’ll let y’all know how bad it is.
:rolleyes:
His stomach made him vomit repeatedly.
With Adam Sandler no less. I guess that the tag line is “The waterboy goes to prison”.
Yeah, back when she had enough meat on her bones to be worth looking at. Now she’s shaped like a toothpick, and about as appealing.