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Title: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: cutout on October 02, 2008, 12:18:15 AM
Anyone pumped to see the new Jamie Lee Curtis thingamajig?!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014775/fullcredits#cast



(You may already know, she's no fan of TV (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-lee-curtis/whats-next-broadcasting_b_54627.html) and mainly sticks to Serious Film projects)

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I need to admit that I don't watch TV...have never seen a single episode of Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, American Idol..well, you get the idea. I don't even know how to turn on my TV as there is now something called... Input 1 or 2 or 3 and I have no idea what to do.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Matt on October 02, 2008, 12:45:51 AM
I might have to see this an An American Carol back-to-back. For some reason, I am actually considering it.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Beth on October 02, 2008, 01:05:39 AM
 That cast list is insane.


Drew Barrymore?
Piper Perabo?
Andy Garcia?
George Lopez?
Cheech Marin?
PLACIDO DOMINGO?


I really don't understand how this movie got made. Someone funded this. Someone directed this. Someone wrote the music. Someone hired thousands of chihuahuas. Someone CGI'ed them.
I remember seeing the trailer before Wall-E, and I think my mouth was left hanging open for about 2 minutes after it was over. I mean, I've seen some bad kids movies, but Happy Feet looks like a candidate for Best Picture next to what I expect out of this one.

There's some kind of mad genius hidden in this movie's terribleness. I'm oddly compelled to go see it, but I don't know if I would survive. Seriously. It looks like an absolute mindfuck.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: erechoveraker on October 02, 2008, 01:35:18 AM
I agree. I'm insanely curious to see it, in a way I haven't been about a bad movie since everyone told me I had to see The Room.


Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: daveB from Oakland on October 02, 2008, 01:59:29 AM
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2: Absolute Mindfuck.

You see, I was under the impression that this movie had come and gone already. I saw the preview at Wall-E. Then, a while later,  I saw the poster for it at several Oakland bus shelters. And now I find out that the movie hasn't even been released yet. One more day ...

Jesus. Way to prolong the torture, Disney Corporation.

From the trailer, I was also under the impression that this was going to be an entirely CGI movie. But now I find out it's a mixed live-action/CGI thing. That makes it worse, somehow.

And then all these fucking weird almost-vaguely-funny catchphrases*. "Pronounced Chi-WOW-wa" ... "Hold on to your tacos" ... "Say hello to my Little Friends" (aka "get ready to meet my leetle chiWOWwa").

Mindfuck. Absolutely.

I give up. Disney wins. 

* from the more recent trailer (http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/beverlyhillschihuahua/)

Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: samir on October 02, 2008, 09:07:54 AM
Short of a love scene (they were pushing for a Hard R) between Domingo and Piper Perabo, there's no way. That said, I wonder if I could sneak a double feature after 'Blindness'?
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Richard on October 02, 2008, 09:32:14 AM
Someone needs to get a shelter started for all the abandoned Chihuahuas once Chihuahua-mania subsides and the breed is ruined by puppy mills/inbreeding ala 101 Dalmatians.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Richard on October 02, 2008, 09:45:24 AM
I'm waiting for Dreamworks' Minneapolis Chinese Crested!

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f198/eyman1968/ugly_dog_winner_chinese_meat_creste.jpg)
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Spoony on October 02, 2008, 11:19:29 AM
I haven't been able to get through a preview. I'd assumed that it ends with "Who Let The Dogs Out."

Somewhere in the Dinsney offices, is a marketer who selects the music for film trailers, and this person listens to that song on headphones all day. That person also wears a helmet in the shower.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: yesno on October 02, 2008, 11:51:31 AM
Based on his track record of seeing terrible movies, I hope Tom sees this and gives us a review.  It really saves me a lot of time.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: jbissell on October 02, 2008, 11:58:51 AM
Based on his track record of seeing terrible movies, I hope Tom sees this and gives us a review.  It really saves me a lot of time.

I doubt he'll have time with An American Carol and Religulous coming out the same day.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on October 02, 2008, 12:51:05 PM
I haven't been able to get through a preview. I'd assumed that it ends with "Who Let The Dogs Out."

Somewhere in the Dinsney offices, is a marketer who selects the music for film trailers, and this person listens to that song on headphones all day. That person also wears a helmet in the shower.

the preview is embarrassing; i feel so awkward watching it.  what a trainwreck. 

Spoony, they're also the person everyone goes to for their candy fix.  they keep candy in fifty strategically placed jars inside their office and right outside their door.  co-workers stop by to say hi, but only so they dont look like a greedy jerk who's only in the area for the sugar high. 
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Spoony on October 02, 2008, 03:11:31 PM
And for the candy (probably tainted Chinease candy!!!) they have to hear things like, "OMG Monday already!" or "Humpday! Only two more days to go!"

High price to pay for a couple of Spree out of the ol' Herpes-roulette bowl.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Wes on October 02, 2008, 03:53:35 PM
If you're eating a loose Spree, you deserve whatever communicable diseases you get. What's next, a bowl full of Milk Duds?
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on October 03, 2008, 02:43:30 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081003/film_nm/us_chihuahua

can we reign in the definition of "news"?
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: jamesp on October 03, 2008, 04:24:06 PM
Short of a love scene (they were pushing for a Hard R) between Domingo and Piper Perabo, there's no way. That said, I wonder if I could sneak a double feature after 'Blindness'?

Samir, I thought you were the resident FOT bad movie lover? Skip Blindness. We need reviews of An American Carol & Chihuahua ASAP.

I keep pulling up metacritic waiting to read a review of An American Carol.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: tenspeed on October 03, 2008, 04:58:33 PM
When I went to go see Burn After Reading a few weeks back, the order of trailers went like this:

1. An American Carol
2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
3.  W.

By the time the Coen brothers' signature tracking shot kicked in, I was convinced someone had spiked my sodey-pop with 'cid.  I'd say it was Roy Jr., but it wasn't at the Philly-centric Cinema.



Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: samir on October 04, 2008, 09:15:22 AM
Samir, I thought you were the resident FOT bad movie lover? Skip Blindness. We need reviews of An American Carol & Chihuahua ASAP.

I've been put off Blindness by the universally terrible reviews.
And, some of the streaming sites that I frequent already have cam-rips of Bev Hills Chihuahua.
But I'm not that desperate.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: masterofsparks on October 04, 2008, 09:46:27 AM
Spoony, they're also the person everyone goes to for their candy fix.  they keep candy in fifty strategically placed jars inside their office and right outside their door.  co-workers stop by to say hi, but only so they dont look like a greedy jerk who's only in the area for the sugar high. 

When you say "candy," you're talking about the candy for the nose, right?
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: jamesp on October 04, 2008, 11:52:22 AM
Samir, I thought you were the resident FOT bad movie lover? Skip Blindness. We need reviews of An American Carol & Chihuahua ASAP.

I've been put off Blindness by the universally terrible reviews.
And, some of the streaming sites that I frequent already have cam-rips of Bev Hills Chihuahua.
But I'm not that desperate.

I  have to say that September has been the worst month this year. Every movie I was remotely interested (that wasn't a small indie movie like Ballast) got mediocre/mixed reviews. Miracle at St. Anna, Blindness, Burn After Reading, etc. At least October has Rachel Getting Married, Body of Lies, Changeling, and Synecdoche, New York.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on October 06, 2008, 12:44:41 PM
I've been put off Blindness by the universally terrible reviews.

im looking forward to enjoying it visually, if anything.  Fernando Meirelles is really good with saturation and tells a good story.  i imagine it moving very slowly though, as his past films tend to do so, and that may be why the critics don't like it.

or julianne moore.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Bryan on October 06, 2008, 12:49:00 PM
I'd say you all have some crow to eat! #1 at the box office this weekend! I view this as empirical evidence that Beverly Hills Chihuahua is the best movie out right now.
Title: Re: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Post by: Amplituden on October 07, 2008, 12:17:03 PM
I have been working on Blindness for the last year and a half.
I can't believe we got shellac'd by Beverly Hills Chiahuahua.