Scott Mendelson's Blog
Scott Mendelson
- Location
- Woodland Hills, California, United States
- Birthday
- April 02
- Bio
- A ten-year Salon reader, Mendelson also has a film and politics blog/column at Mendelon's Memos: located at: http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/.
He is also a free lance voice over artist and occasionally contributes film reviews for www.ValleySceneMagazine.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Dark Knight didn't
*really* inspire grim
blockbusters.
May 21, 2012 02:39PM - Why's Rihanna in Battleship
instead of a minority
*actress*?
May 15, 2012 12:52PM - The Avengers's debut is even
more impressive than you
think.
May 07, 2012 12:10PM - Why I don't care if today's
kids know about the Titanic...
April 16, 2012 04:44PM - 9 female directors who should
direct a Hunger Games sequel.
April 11, 2012 01:14PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “10 - "the departed" -
saw it, liked it, put it on my
2006
best-of
list.…”
May 07, 2012 05:47PM - “Hate to tell you this,
but I saw The King's Speech
four
months ago, back when
it…”
March 14, 2011 10:34AM - “There is a single press
screening for The Rite
tomorrow
night, but other
responsi…”
January 24, 2011 02:42PM - “I don't watch either MTV
show, so I may be very
wrong
here.
But when
16 and Preg…”
January 11, 2011 02:06PM - “Yes, I am perhaps
unintentionally slighting
Carpenter's
creepy ghost
story, but &…”
December 14, 2010 11:26AM
Scott Mendelson's Links
Not Necessarily the News: Chris Nolan is not directing a James Bond film.
The internet is all aflutter today with various posts
asking whether or not Chris Nolan will direct a James Bond film in
the near-future. No. Heck, considering MGM's current financial
woes, it may be a long time before we see anyone direct a new James
Bond picture. All/… He is not your parent, your role model, or economic savior: It is not LeBron James's responsibility to save Cleveland, Ohio from economic collapse.
It is said that you should never make important
decisions while you're upset, and it certainly holds that you
shouldn't write rambling diatribes intended for a national audience
well, ever, but certainly not when you're upset. But Cleveland
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert did just that and/… Review: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: An IMAX Experience (2010)
The Twilight Saga:
Eclipse2010
124 minutes
rated PG-13
by Scott Mendelson
I'm probably one of six people on the planet who preferred Spider-Man 3 to Spider-Man 2. The second Spider-Man picture is arguably the better film. It's better written, better acted, and contains moments of real pathos and/…
To the surprise of no one with a pulse, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse dominated
the
July 4th holiday weekend, as the third installment of the
popular teen-lit romantic soap opera series (IE - Moody with a Chance of Vampires)
debuted with $69 million over the Fri-Sun portion and $82.5 million
over… Read full post »
Back to the Future turned 25 today. A look at the trilogy's finest moment.
Has there ever been a cooler cliffhanger in modern film history? The idea of splitting a long film into two pieces and releasing them relative closely to each other was a new idea back in 1989. But of all the split-in-two franchise pictures, Back
How to introduce your kid to Star Wars and The Muppets at the same time.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows gets a one-sheet.
"A lot of bad stuff happened here. It's as good a place
as any for it to end."
The amazingly funny and astonishingly interactive Twilight Saga: Eclipse 8-bit role-playing video game.
Scott Mendelson
Let Me In (the US-remake of Let the Right One In) gets a teaser.
Paranormal Activity 2 gets a (too scary for Twi-hards?) teaser.
The Last
Airbender
2010
102 minutes
Rated PG
by Scott
Mendelson
M. Night Shyamalan's The Last
Airbender contains a few moments of grace and visual wonder,
moments that dare to show me something I've never seen onscreen
before. It's a shame that said beats are contained within a
stunningly ine… Read full post »
Gore Verbinski's Rango gets a teaser.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows gets a dynamite trailer.
New feature: Not Necessarily the News.
Another new occasional feature, one dealing with random
speculation that inexplicably gets turned into real news due to
various bloggers who are desperate for hits and/or scoops. All of
the items below are either complete speculation or painfully
obvious developments that are being branded ab/… Spike Lee returns to genre filmmaking with Nagasaki Deadline.
I don't generally comment on stories from Deadline Hollywood, but this one seems
legit (and notably non-sensational) enough to merit commentary.
According to Mike Fleming, Spike Lee is wrapping a deal to
shoot the modern-day terrorism thriller Nagasaki Deadline. Basically the gist
is that it/… Open Salon review - Toy Story 3 (2010)
Toy Story 3: An IMAX 3D
Experience
2010
105 minutes
rated G
by Scott
Mendelson
Toy Story 3 is easily the
best film of 2010. Toy Story
3 is possibly the finest
'part 3' ever made, give or take a
The Lord of the Rings: the Return
of the King. It is thrilling, funny, and
scary,… Read full post »
Three of a Kind: A look at classic part 3s in film history.
Since I had to miss the press screening of Toy Story 3 due to minor family illness
(and my Jonah Hex review is
under embargo until Friday), I thought I'd share this essay I wrote
two years ago, written in the aftermath of The Dark Knight, dealing with whether
or not… Read full post »
Ironically,
in a weekend that banked on 1980s nostalgia, this weekend
brought back the summers of my youth in a different way. Back when
I was growing up, June was THE month of summer. Sure studios would
release a big title over Memorial Day and/or the Fourth of July
weekend,… Read full post »
Can Sex & the City 2 overcome the TV-sequels curse?
As most of you know, Sex & the City 2 opens worldwide on
Thursday, May 27th. Expectations are running high, with the
general consensus that it will perform in a similar fashion to the
first picture ($57 million opening weekend, $152 million domestic
total). But the odds are ind… Read full post »
How the Lost finale negates the series as a whole.
Open Salon weekend box office in review (05/23/10)
By any normal standards, a movie opening with $71.2
million
in three days would be a pretty big success. So, before
we get into what this means for the Shrek franchise, let's talk that number
in cold detail for a minute. First of all, it gives the
fourth Shrek picture a… Read full post »
Why do we care about, let alone hate, Megan Fox?
News broke yesterday that Megan Fox would in fact not be
a part of Transformers 3,
which is set to be released on July 3rd, 2011. Before any
real details could be articulated, the media at large jumped on the
idea that Fox had been fired by Michael Bay in relation… Read full post »
Well, it's about time!
The New York Times
reports that Warner Bros. is launching a serious effort to
reintroduce the classic Looney Tunes characters to a generation of
kids raised on Dora the
Explorer and Yo Gabba
Gabba. Not that there is anything wrong with the
educational merits… Read full post »
Law & Order
will not be getting that record-breaking 21st season after
all. The legendary crime drama will end at the end of this
season, its twentieth, with 456 episodes in the can. It will
end its run tied with Gunsmoke as the longest-running
prime-time drama in network telev… Read full post »
I've said this countless times, but it remains true.
If studios budget a film so that said film basically has to
set records in some capacity (be it personal bests for the director
or star), they are always setting themselves up for disaster.
You can't count on every Jim Carrey… Read full post »
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