Project Poopy

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Only two movies are opening this weekend to wide release. I'll get to The Lorax on Friday -- today we hunker down on Project X.

The people who made this movie are thinking they made a Generation Whatever grail quest. Even if you replace the word "grail" with the word "booty" (Superbad) or "WTF happened?" (The Hangover) I think it's possible to make a fine nonsense film from using the standard quest plot.

Unfortunately, from all early reports, Project X neglected to add those magical ingredients -- characters and story.

While Superbad ($33m) and The Hangover ($44m) at least winked at the character thing, Project X's failure here is actually detectable to its target demo and IT WILL FAIL TO GET HALF OF SUPERBAD'S HAUL. That's right, I'm SHOUTING and I'm saying Project X will be under $16.5m this weekend as reported by Box Office Mojo, even though it's expected to be at least in the $20m+ range. Suck it, Budnick, you got lucky last time.

The Ascendent

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Something happened at the Oscars, besides "The Leg". George Clooney's star seems to be burning brighter these days than his buddy Brad Pitt's.

Could it be that Joe Public wants their movie stars dashing, single, and large-and-in-charge? Check check and check for George. Brad, not so much. He's famously "retiring", child-rearing, and looking a little like a third wheel in Angie's love life (think: leg).

Moneyball was a good movie, but it did more for Jonah Hill that Pitt. Descendents on the other hand was a nice "balance" play for George -- makes him look a little serious while his personal life is still not so much. He's got a little of everything now -- Pitt is solid serious.

Today's bet is this: the longstanding dominance of Pitt over Clooney as measured by Google searches has come to a close. George is 2 scale pts behind and closing fast. I bet that next Monday (3/5/12) George is ahead of Brad, something that HAS NEVER HAPPENED since Google has been tracking this stuff. That's right kittykats, this is HISTORY..

Angie's Right Leg Kicks Off Showbiz Career

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If you saw the Oscars last night then you know that Angelina introduced us to the newest member of her already-large family: her skinny but irrepressible right leg.

We'll be watching closely to see if her famous body part can muscle into the industry. So far the leg is making quite a showing -- check out spreads here and here, etc., and check out the leg's twitter account.

So the bet for today is -- Can Angie's Right Leg get 50k twitter followers by next Monday at noon? You have the rest of the day to make up your mind..

This is the first of a "one-week" February finale game.

Oscars 2012 Recap

I can't believe I missed four picks! Four!!! I will be returning my Headphones of Destiny to Best Buy first thing tomorrow.

Of course, since I won 6 of 10 picks, those of you who thought you could win by just automatically gainsaying me can SUCK IT!!!! You know who you are Brad Rhodes.

THE WINNER:  
Kim Goerlitz with 22 Brags from 7 Wins

THE RUNNER UP:  
Angela Martin with 21 Brags from 6 Wins

THIRD PLACE: 
a four-way tie between Pam, Shelby, Brad, and Dwight with 17 Brags

Congratulations everyone..

Now, be sure to play my weekly HSX game that starts tomorrow..

Oscar Mania 2012!!!

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Shelby asked me to guest blog: Apparently when you want to know who will win the Oscars, you ask DeAngelo. You don't think I'm right? What do you think I just did to this basketball?

Yes, each bet in this little Oscars game is worth a different number of "brags" and most brags wins the Vickers Trophy Of Awesomeness, a prize coveted throughout the land.

Four o'clock PST on ABC. Be there!

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Best Picture

The Artist will win just because its all emotional and topically something the Academy eats up.. Blech. Moneyball should really be the winner. No, scratch that, Melancholia should really be the winner, but it didn't even get nominated.

Best Director

The only reason to give it to Malick would be to encourage him to make more movies. Scorcese and Woody have enough in the bag already. No, the Academy wants someone new.. Michel Hazanavicius!

Best Actor

Dog fight between Brad and his buddy George. I say George wins it this year. His movie was sadder. Of course, Gary Oldman *should* win it, but fat chance there.

Best Actress

The Academy is so predictable, Viola Davis. Meryl Streep has too much hardware already and the others all pretty "meh".

Best Supporting Actor

I don't care what my spidey-sense says, it must be Max. I will have no others.

Best Supporting Actress

Octavia Spencer -- The Help is killing me. But I don't really have any better ideas.

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris, of course. Such a sweet little movie. It fits nicely inside an Acadmey-person's brain.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Will probably be Moneyball, just because the Acadmy will want to even things out with the George pick from earlier and not have Brad -- who doesn't have a screenwriting credit but every knows it's HIS movie -- be grumpy. Of course all of this ignores the fact that this Oscar should go to the guys who did Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Best Foreign Film

You don't have to see any of these stupid movies to pick. On the "those poor people in Iran" and "I hope we don't bomb Iran" bandwagon what do we have? Ah! A Separation! I wish we were planning to bomb Denmark so Melancholia would have had a shot.

Best Documentary Feature

I say Undefeated. The Wiensteins need a break, why not documentary. And this one will pluck those Academy heartstrings.

OK, that's how it will unfold. I'm not even going to check back because this is exactly what will happen and there will be no need for comment.

Cat Fight: Aniston vs. Jolie

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Sadly I am not the Emporer of the Universe. If I did actually have the ability to summon celebrity cage matches or light sabre duels on command, probably near the top of my list of whims would be some kind of bloody conclusion to the Brad Pitt sweepstakes, which most people have so far scored to Angelina Jolie by TKO.

In interwebs search popularity -- a much milder form of cage fighting available to us non-Emperor types -- Angelina is getting a little action this week from her Billy Bob book intro but is danger of losing her long held overall lead to Jennifer Aniston, who is on a furious boyfriend du jour public approval campaign. What happens by Friday end-of-day? I say Angelina hangs on for the win this week..

Carly Stays Hot Another Day

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Looks Carly Rae Jepsen, a little girl from BC, is lighting up the twitterverse after signing a deal with Beiber's Schoolboy Records last week. Check out the spike on FEB 15! 

I say she stays above 0.1% tomorrow --  she's now in Bieber-country now and her current hit song is as listenable as a Taylor Swift song. She certainly brings out my inner 14yr old girl.

Of course The Beibs is floggin her his own twitter account and running interference with "The Beliebers" who apparently are a little uneasy with his Justin's transition from smary teen idol to smarmy recording mogul. How does this first flash in the pan not sustain for at least one more day? We'll see..