By
Zack Armstrong
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday marked the start of the fall movie rush, finally knocking the epic "Bring It On" out of its number one spot. If you haven't seen that little gem yet, I highly suggest it. Seriously. It's entertaining as hell. I won't spoil the end for you, but I will tell you that it offers some of the tightest cheer routines ever to be filmed - and those girls from Compton can really inspire some school pride.
"Nurse Betty" and "The Way of the Gun" both opened this weekend, but the big opener was the psychological thriller, "The Watcher," starring Keanu "Whoa" Reeves. It's a good thing that that's the title of the movie, because I don't think there are going to be many in the theaters. America's favorite simpleton in the role of a calculating, cold-blooded killer is about as believable as Jennifer Love Hewitt playing Lady Macbeth - it wouldn't be so bad if you could only mute it before you watch it.
This is just the beginning, though - plenty of movies await us in the near future. There are some sequels on the way of both "The Blair Witch Project" and "Urban Legends." Everyone knows that the sequel to a movie is never as good as the original, but I think that movie execs are banking on the fact that they couldn't possibly get any worse than their predecessors were. They're investing money in the most overrated movie of all time, and a movie that's only real purpose seems to be to provide failed TV stars with big-screen jobs. The new "Urban Legends" stars Joey "Whoa" Lawrence, clearly a student of the Keanu School of Acting.
Brendan Fraser is starring in what seems to be an autobiographical piece called "Bedazzled." It's about a guy who sells his soul to Satan to get seven wishes. I'm guessing that his first wish is to become a famous actor. If only he'd wished for talent instead.
Don't make the mistake of confusing this movie with the new Spike Lee film, "Bamboozled," because this one might actually be good. It's about television today and how similar some of it is to old minstrel shows, only without the blackface. I foresee a lesson to be learned.
One more treat this fall is another movie by Robert Altman called "Dr. T and the Women." The downside is that it stars Richard Gere. The upside is that he plays the most popular gynecologist in all of Dallas. It's supposed to have a really great and surprising ending and since Liv Tyler is in it, too, I'm hoping that it will be some kind of execution involving barbed wire, flaming arrows and no special effects whatsoever.
Fall movies are finally here and all I can say is that it's about damn time. I liked that cheerleader movie and all, but there's been nothing but slim pickins for a few weeks now. I mean, how many more Highlander movies can they make? What ever happened to, "there can be only one?"
