BOP Gives Thanks
By BOP Staff
November 25, 2004
This Thanksgiving, we here at BOP are happy to take a few moments to share some of those things for which we are most thankful.
BOP is thankful that...
We won't have to see Jude Law any for the body of 2005.
Shrek films take three years to complete, so we are safe until late 2006.
Stifler, Willow and Eugene Levy are the most successful cast members of the American Pie franchise.
Warner Home Video finally stepped up to the plate with a fitting Iron Giant DVD set.
Clay Aiken's 15 minutes are already up.
Heath Ledger dumped Naomi Watts for Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Episode III trailer looks more like Empire Strikes Back than Muppets in Space.
Shopgirl is just around the corner.
Hero made a mint despite Miramax's butchering of its release.
Howl's Moving Castle has buzz at least equal to what Spirited Away had.
Kevin Smith can't walk away from the Clerks franchise.
Clerks is now popular enough to be described as a franchise.
A ton of summer blockbusters lived up to the hype for a change.
Brad Bird makes movies.
We got onboard The Polar Express.
Team America: World Police has a soundtrack.
Harold and Kumar got the munchies.
Open Water and Saw reminded us it's terrifying the brain rather than boosting the budget that makes horror work.
Elektra got a 2005 movie instead of Daredevil.
Birth was stillborn.
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy kept in touch.
Johnny Depp can play a pirate, a playwright or a schizo scribe with equal aplomb.
Zach Braff felt driven to prove that he was more than just a dorky intern.
Metallica didn't wait for VH-1 to do a Behind the Music.
British zombie movies are fantastic.
Spider-Man is even better the second time.
Alfonso Cuarón sold out.
There won't be a Starsky and Hutch sequel. Right? RIGHT?
Morgan Spurlock gained weight.
James L. Brooks met Adam Sandler.
Alexander Payne became an oenophile.
Wes Anderson took a boat ride.
Horror remains as always one of the staple genres of the cinema the whole world over.
There are still occasionally movies that come out once in a while that aren't remakes or sequels.
That Maggie Cheung is still somehow more alluring and talented today then she has ever been.
Fleshbot found and uncovered a lost Ed Wood porno film. Though not really *that* thankful.
That the Red Sox finally won that damn championship. And we know it wasn't a movie, but we don't care.
That the cash cow that is DVD has resulted in such a torrent of great releases from the past that it's impossible to keep up. Drowning has never been so much fun.
2004 has been (virtually....Damn you, Noel!) Paul Walker free.
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