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22 August 2009 6:08 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

It is always good when a film knows what it is and sticks with its convictions. “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard” does just that. It is a raunchy politically incorrect movie and proud of it. The film has a similar premise as the cult classic “Used Cars”. In that movie, Kurt Russell played a hotshot car salesman trying to save a used car lot from another dealership by using any means necessary. Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”) assumes the Russell role as Don Ready. Ready is a bit of a mercenary car salesman who goes across the country to boost car sales for whoever pays him. »

27 July 2009 3:59 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I've seen a few commercials over the past two weeks or so for The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, which stars Jeremy Piven as a salesman of a different breed. His name is Don Ready and as the title suggests, he is neither easygoing or soft.

The Goods is directed by Neal Brennan, who co-wrote Half-Baked. That's either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your perception. I hearken back to the underappreciated Used Cars from 1980 (from Robert Zemeckis, incidentally), and while this looks like it could be much funnier than that, it's still a worthy goal in the pre-owned vehicle sub-genre, in my opinion.

There's a new Red Band trailer over at Funny or Die, which figures, since The Goods is produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay: »

- Colin Boyd

17 February 2009 10:27 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

The sequel to yesterday's short, this one is an equally great montage of 100 quotes from 100 films that contain the utterance of years 1901-2000. Once again, the list of films follow the video.

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1901 The Shootist

1902 The Thin Man

1903 Jumanji

1904 The Shipping News

1905 Good Will Hunting

1906 Fast Times At Ridgemont High

1907 The Shining

1908 Back to the Future 3

1909 Ghostbusters

1910 Mary Poppins

1911 What's Up Doc?

1912 Titanic

1913 Out Of Africa

1914 Avalon

1915 Cider House Rules

1916 Hellboy

1917 The Manchurian Candidate

1918 Anastasia

1919 Godfather II

1920 Grand Hotel

1921 The Parent Trap

1922 Ghost World

1923 The Maltese Falcon

1924 The Cat's Meow

1925 The Majestic

1926 Awakenings

1927 Singin' in the Rain

1928 Phenomenon

1929 Air Force

1930 Wag the Dog

1931 Road to Perdition

1932 Fried Green Tomatoes

1933 Rosemary's Baby

1934 Victor Victoria

1935 The Green Mile

1936 The Rock

1937 Marty

1938 Star Trek VI

1939 Rear Window

1940 A Bridge To Far

1941 Casablanca

1942 Smoke

1943 The Philadelphia Experiment

1944 My Own Private Idaho

1945 Jaws

1946 Dr. Strangelove

1947 Ratatouille

1948 Being There

1949 X-Men

1950 Network

1951 Close Encounters of the Third Kind »

- Arya Ponto

3 articles from 2009