Escape to the Movies: Knight and Day ... also Smurfs

[Chris Peeters]

I'm from belgium and HELL YEAH YOURE RIGHT, WTF why bloody new york??? and it is placed in a middevil setting with witchcraft and stuff like that so DOUBLE WTF.

and congratz on knowing that Brussels is in Belgium, Its sommething I have learned not to expect from non-Europeans.

love the show btw

ow and knight and day.... meh

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Dear Movie Bob,

Thanks for continuing to see some of these so we don't have to. Or better yet, letting us know when something is unexpectedly good!

I rather thought Knight and Day looked formulaic, and if it was 20 years ago I probably would have seen it. But today? They have to have a plot at least as good as the new Bond films. And I do pity you having to review such mush given you have also been doing the Twilight series. You have my sympathies. But I, and I know many others, appreciate it.

As for Smurfs: I didn't know they were Belgian. Thank you for that bit of trivia! And I am waiting for a huge surfeit of GOOD fantasy movies to come out. My husband's dream of GOOD comic book movies has come true in spades. And I was vaguely hoping to lose myself in Smurfdome as a way to say "yes, some of us will sit through crud to get you to see there IS an audience for fantasy". But New York? AGAIN? Didn't we just have some movie like..."Enchanted" or some such where Prince Charming and a Fairy Tale Princess wound up there?

Is there a way to make them stop? Please? I would like my high fantasy separated from my reality. Except for urban fantasy. Yes, I'm whining, but we have lovely movies like Spiderman set there. Why do they need to shove ALL the fantasy movies there? Gah! Give me a Dresden Files movie set in Chicago please. Best wishes to you, Movie Bob!

 

[Mysticgamer]

Now I really think we need to see a Gummi Bears and Danger Mouse movie made sometime soon.

Just as long as they don't drop them in NY or God help us LA.

 

[elderrion]

I'm belgian, and i gotta say,
i'm not pissed about the smurfs being in NY, but totally happy that Belgium completely negleted by the makers even though "we" invented the smurfs does kinda feel like we're being looked down upon

 

[elderrion]

I'm belgian, and i gotta say,
i'm not pissed about the smurfs being in NY, but totally happy that Belgium completely negleted by the makers even though "we" invented the smurfs does kinda feel like we're being looked down upon

bad grammer, let me rephrase.
-not mad about them being in new york
-not happy about it either

 

[Mr_Jellyfish]

I remember romancing the stone! And I'm... Lets see... 22, I didn't realise it was unknown, I did a quick check and my housemates remember it fondly too. Also: awesome episode, also disgusted about Smurfs, also no desire to watch Knight and Day. Although strong desire to see Tom Cruise be awesome again. Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, Legend, Collateral- hell even Minority Report, the film had flaws but Cruise was great in it, he's just good at playing slightly sinister, I don't know why he won't accept that. Nice Cage is good at being crazy, Johnny Depp is good at being oddball and Tom Cruise is good at being slightly sinister...

 

[Trillovinum]

Belgians are being neglected by the rest of the world. *cry cry sob sob* but hey at least they accept it.

 

[DevilWolf47]

Speaking as someone who lives in Manhattan, all i have to say to the smurfs is FUCK OFF YOU HIDEOUS BLUE MIDGETS!!
Why is everything set in Manhattan? I appreciate the town because of it's diversity, not because some stupid fucking celebrities who are nothing more than a waste of oxygen, money, and film live here. Keep the smurfs in their perverted mushroom world, would you kindly? Manhattan is still hurting from [PROTOTYPE] and Spider Man.

 

[Andre Nilsson]

I DID actely know that the Smurfs was not American. I did not know thay where Belgian, I thaought thay where French (aldoe thay do speake French in Belgian so...). as I understand it the one that cume up with the Smurfs (the name at least) did so when a fred of him who did not speack French (or did not know all of it)asked someone that did not speak english (or what language his frend spoke) to pase the salt. not knowing the French for Salt he made one up and apperently that is how the "Schtroumpfs" (at least the name) come to be. I was a fan when I was a kid but now not so mutch. I will not se this film.

 

[Avistew]

As I understand it the one that came up with the Smurfs (the name at least) did so when a friend of him who did not speak French (or did not know all of it)asked someone that did not speak English (or what language his friend spoke) to pass the salt. Not knowing the French for Salt he made one up and apparently that is how the "Schtroumpfs" (at least the name) came to be.

Kind of. Peyo (the author of the Smurfs, Schtroumpfs in French) had Franquin over (author of Spirou & Fantasio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_et_Fantasio], Gaston Lagaffe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Lagaffe]...) and they were sharing a meal. They both spoke French. Peyo couldn't think of the word for salt for some reason, probably distraction, so he just gestured to the salt and said "hand me the... smurf". From there, the rest of their discussion was all in Smurf language and Peyo decided to create the Smurfs, who he introduced in his series Johan & Pirlouit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_and_Peewit]. They later got their own spinoff series of albums.

 

[Skulltaker101]

Stay the hell away from Asterix and Obelix, movie producers.

I'm actually getting scared to see my own nostalgia being weaponised against me by people who just want to make money. It's really worrying.