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The Film Habit #16 - August 12, 2004 Going to be keeping this thing short today. Actually, I’m doing good to write anything at all. I’ve sacrificed the usual length of The Film Habit in favor of getting you this, without a doubt the longest review I have ever written. So you’d better get off your butt and read it. With Knight Rider – Season One out of the way, I’m diving in to the greatness of Sliders. More on that once I get a bit further than the premiere episode. For now, I’m headed out of town in a few short hours, still haven’t packed, and need to fit in some sleep as well. So instead of my usual pre-what to watch rambling, take a look at the greatest DVD advertisement ever:  --> click to see something funky <-- What to Watch New movies come out each week. I don’t see all of them, but still feel qualified to tell you which movie you should watch. Feed your film habit from my picks. This week the choices are dismal, and I’m tempted to cop out and pick something that was released last week. We’ll soldier on anyway. Anne Hathaway returns to the screen this week, after falling flat on her face in Ella Enchanted. I guess being klutzy is sort of her thing. Looking really hot is also sort of her thing and like just about everyone I’m really looking forward to her casting off this tired pre-teen icon image and getting down and dirty in the upcoming movie Havok. To do that, first we have to get past The Princess Diaries 2 which opens this weekend. So lets get right on past it by not seeing it. I’m not much of an anime fan, but even I know that Yu-Gi-Oh represents everything that is wrong with anime and anime love in general. It’s soulless, evil, and disturbingly stupid. At its root, it is really just a cartoon about kids playing crazy eights. Turning that crappy kids show into a movie isn’t going to change that.  Finally, they may be releasing Alien vs. Predator this weekend. I say may be, because as of this moment the movie isn’t even finished. Last night they cancelled the premiere so Paul W.S. Anderson could work frantically on his fanboy love letter, and today rumors are still swirling that despite rampant advertisements claiming it opens Friday, the movie may end up being bumped at the absolute last minute to a later date. Also, it is probably a piece of crap. But it is a piece of crap with Aliens and Predators in it, and even at its stinkiest, that’s still better than watching the worst of Anime or mattress surfing featuring Julie Andrews. If you’re in New York or LA, a lot of limited release flicks open this weekend, go find them. If you aren’t, trundle out and see AVP out of morbid curiosity. Maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll cancel it. If they do, take your wife out to dinner, mow the lawn, play with the kids. Turn Paul W.S. Anderson’s failure into something positive and beautiful.
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