What if Ellen Page had had that baby in Juno? Then, what if that baby grew to be nine before disappearing into a bleak, cold wasteland populated by rapists and other predators (ie the real world), forcing "Junebug" and the rest of her summery gang to wake up and realize that life is hell? If all that happened, it looks like you'd have Page's new movie, The Tracey Fragments. The title sounds like a melodramatic band name and the movie looks like one, too. Good luck finding that missing kid, Fertile Myrtle.
Here's the trailer for Tropic Thunder, the upcoming comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Nick Nolte and Robert Downey Jr, who, as you can see, is featured in blackface.
We've been worrying for a couple weeks that the blackface element might ruin a perfectly bad movie, but – and we're loath to admit this – we kinda, sorta don't mind it anymore. We even giggled at the line, "Man, just because it's a theme song don't make it not true."
Crisis: what to hate on now? Where's our steadfast indignation? How about we get disgusted about a war comedy during actual wartime? Yeah, that's the ticket. War isn't funny.
Robert Downey Jr as a superhero? Our doubts were major, especially with Jon Favreau helming the picture. Yeah, Swingers and Made were great, but Iron Man is a completely different, nerdier beast. One that can't fall back on Vince Vaughn's ad-libs.
But now we've watched the trailer, and it makes us feel like complete nincompoops with no vision at all.
From the looks of the trailer, if you don't like the smell of marijuana or incessant giggling about parts that aren't even funny, you should probably wait for Speed Racer to come out on DVD.
• Finally, the trailer for the greatest movie of all time. Unforch, there are no snakes on any planes involved. [Defamer]
• Jessica Simpson still acting shady when asked about John Mayer. [X17]
• Only a few more weeks until Ashlee Simpson makes her glorious stage debut in London. It should be…interesting. [DListed]
• Lionel Richie continues to convince himself that Nicole isn't sick. [Junkiness]
• Kevin Federline wouldn't stop to get Britney her final craving before the c-section. I mean, I'm sure he had places to be after dropping her off and those In-N-Out lines can take forever. [Page Six]
• Despite containing Jude Law, I'm so glad that All the Kings Men got it's first good review. [A Socialite's Life]
• Listen, Tom Cruise, Moby is, like, really disappointed in you. [BWE]
• Mena Suvari finally found a way for people to remember she attended an event: dressing like an a-hole. [Celebrity Nation]
I'm not sure who, other than nostalgic children of the 80's like myself, will go see this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. The turtles are looking a little slim and there is no sign of April O'Neil, but I have faith that it could be awesome. They'll get Shredder yet, they will.


