We've assembled representatives of some of Hollywood's key demographics. Each week, our group weighs in on the coming weekend's releases, letting us know whether all the script fixes, the re-shoots and the product tie-in campaigns have added up to a movie they are likely to see. We find our intrepid group of Hollywood outsiders full of vim in these early days of the New Year.
Our career minded city girl has landed yet another job with an even more impressive salary; our college boy has been busy with his college radio station; our rapper was still hung over from New Year's Eve partying two days later and our Pastor indulged us is in a long rant about the movie watching habits of Christians. We are growing of tired of the industry-wide accepted idea that Christians only watch movies with religious themes. Take a look at Pastor Keenan's favorite films of last year that he sprinkled through his comments.
Not a religious themed movie in sight. Keenan Roberts: Senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Northglenn, Colo., as well as director of the ministries of the Hell House Outreach.
GLC: An artist on Kanye West's label. Originally from Chicago, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is at work on his album. Justin Scharf: 18, freshman at Georgia State University.
He is 6-foot-3, listens to a lot of music, and works at Starbucks. Elena Roye: 13, a seventh-grader at a middle school in Westchester County, N.Y.
Carol Creighton: 30, lives in Manhattan. She is a solutions manager at a consulting firm and lives with her best friend Mindy. A janitor with amnesia (Cedric the Entertainer) is duped into thinking that he's a secret agent mixed up with international arms dealers.
Lucy Liu and Nicollette Sheridan star. Pastor Keenan (via email): "My initial impression of this flick can be summed up in one word: anemic. Sure, it is bearing the burden of being released right after the Christmas big dogs which makes me wonder how any January release can survive much less succeed.
(Top action movie of 2006 was 'X-Men 3,' just ahead of 'Mission:Impossible 3'. Biggest action movie disappointment: 'Superman Returns.')" GLC: "I want to see it.
Lucy Liu is sexy as hell. It looks she and I are on the same page and we would get it on. I like Cedric, he is a very funny dude, and I loved to see how the cultures collide-- a St.
Louis-ian and a woman of Asian descent. I think it will be very live." Justin: "Doesn't sound like a lot of acting in this movie.
Not with those guys. I liked Lucy Liu in "Kill Bill' but that was the only time I ever liked her. This guy produced the making of the Terminator 3 3-D ride.
I like that ride. It's awesome. This guy directed some pretty cool movies on rides, but Cedric the Entertainer?
I don't think so. This is not working for me." Carol (via email): "I am betting that I won't see this.
Heck I am betting most people are not seeing this. But what do I know about American movie tastes? I just don't love the story line.
I don't find CTE very funny, and I can't imagine there are any redeeming scenes that would make me laugh hard enough to bother sitting throughout he other 155 minutes of the film." A young teacher (Hilary Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. Pastor Keenan (via email): "Oddly enough, as much as I wanted to be prejudiced about no interest in this somewhat predictable storyline something inside me has nudged me in the other direction.
I don't know if the promoters peaked with the power of the trailer because it was certainly captivating, or if my inner Siskel knows that Hilary is at a place in her career that she can afford to wait on the scripts that are Rolls Royces in her opinion. (The Roberts Family Favorite for Best Movie of 2006 goes to: 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dean Man's Chest.
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