It’s Friday and time to look at new movies this weekend. By the looks of things Steve Carell has landed himself another hit with Despicable Me. Who would have thought that the Daily Show would spawn such a huge box office success? I mean, I love Jon Stewart, but cable tv and the big screen are two different worlds. I think it’s pretty phenomenal that someone who started out in “fake” news has made it big time in quite a different arena!
You can check out the schedule for movies at the Coral Ridge Movie Theatre in Coralville and the Sycamore Cinema in Iowa City
Now to the movie… It seems Mr Carell’s gotten so big he’s made it to the elite club of actors who lend their voices to an animated character. You know only the really good ones get to do that, don’t you? In Despicable Me he plays an evil super villain, Gru, who is planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. Of course when three little girls show up in his life it turns out he’s not quite the villain through and through after all. Sounds like good family fun to me. And in 3D too. As an added bonus it has another great character actor lending his voice with Russel Brand too. There has to be at least one Brit in it, right? It seems there’s always one in every film – Or TV series comes to that. At least that’s my observation, or am I just sensitive to it? I don’t know, it seems to me there’s always one Brit anyway…
The other new movie this week is Predators. What can I say? I’m sure just like Twilight it has a cult following. This time apparently after other sub par sequels this one goes back to its roots. Who knows? It’s another cult movie. You probably already have an opinion. You don’t need mine.
That’s it for movies. Of course it is also World Cup Final weekend. We have a European Final. Not quite the European Final I was hoping for, but it will be exciting all the same. The team that gets the Cup this time round will win it for the first time. We all know I’m a stats person, so let me blind you with my knowledge on the winners up to now:
There have been just 7 countries that have won the World Cup in its 80 year history.
Brazil – 5 times
Italy – 4 times
Germany – 3 times
Argentina – 2 times
Uruguay – 2 times
France – 1 time
England – 1 time
On Sunday either the Netherlands or Spain will be added to this list. Spain are the favorites and after their game against Germany in the semi-final I’d probably agree with that. EXCEPT, the World Cup is different. The final of the 2006 World Cup was watched by an estimated 260 million people. That’s pressure. Giants in the game crumble and surprises are the norm. We’ll see…
