Movie Moan: Queen Kristina & the Moanly Hallows
Sun, November 21, 2010 
It's a mixed bag of what the Movie Moan crew (Phil, Queen Kristina, Ed, Lou & Jamie) thought of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows – Part I. Needless to say (and judging by the title of this week’s show), her Majesty was disappointed and Jamie didn't even get to see the entire film – thank you very much, faulty film-projector.
In addition to the lengthy discussion on the next-to-last Potter installment, the gang talks about Daniel Day-Lewis cast as Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's long-planned biopic on the 16th President and a new Hulk television series in development by Guillermo del Toro and Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Icke.
All of that, plus Phil does his George Reeves impression and everyone's thoughts on the big weeks' trailers: Green Lantern, Your Highness, Source Code and Cowboys & Aliens.
Reader Comments (8)
Nice discussion, as usual. To me, the Green Lantern trailer would seem to prove that Blake Lively was the worst possible choice for Carol Ferris. I think the Cowboys & Aliens trailer was meh and the audience I was with busted out into laughter when the title came up.
i will watch HP on tuesday so i dont want to listen to the review. can someone writte when the HP reviews ends and the news starts?
thanks
It would be my pleasure Dark_B.
Our Harry Potter discussion ends exactly 42 minutes and 30 seconds into the show. Phew!
thanks
Phil, you're mother is a very sensible woman...
and do the Royals really bring that much tourism to the country? That seems to be the only legit arguement for them.
Just watched the trailer for "Your Highness". Jamie, please don't compere it to the works of Monty Python! The reason the Python flicks were funny, was because even though they felt like they were made in a loose fashion, they were deliberated over by the 6 Pythons before the cameras started rolling. As a result, not only were they witty, but they often had something to say bellow the surface crude gags (Life of Brian is one of those films that seems to get more precient as time goes by). "Your Highness" is like every other comedy film these days ; lazily patched together on the fly from a threadbare idea! What happened to comedy auters like the Zucker's, Abrams, Landis? (I know he's made a comeback). I haven't seen any of Gordon Green's pre-Pineapple Express work, but wasn't he a director of sensitive character studies before that? Doesn't seem like the right guy for the job. I was gonna mention this when you guys reviewed Due Date, but have you ever questioned why so many comedies are made this way? I know this may sound like a pretentious thing to say, but comedy isn't taken seriously enough, these days? This is coming from someone who genuinely likes to laugh...
"Your Highness" will be 2011's "Year One"... You mark my words!
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My mum is pretty smart isn't she? How she gave birth to me remains a mystery.
I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and I thought well it's half a movie. How can I only talk about half a movie. I'll wait till Part 2 to say what I really think.