SoderberOMgWTFh?!

Sometimes I think that the manatees who write for FAMILY GUY have a side-gig during that show's hiatus picking projects for Hollywood.  It's really the same job and requires no transition for them: instead of picking colored balls with random nouns, verbs and 80s pop culture icons, they pick colored balls with random actors, directors, topics, stock plots and exhausted genres, pop 'em in the hopper and a standard format screenplay pops out.  It's cheap, it's easy and it guarantees more of the same cliche drivel that movie-going audiences love to shovel down their gullets.  For example, this weekend's PRIDE AND GLORY was a manatee-developed amalgamation of:

CAST: Edward Norton and Collin Farrell

GENRE: Cop drama

PLOT ELEMENTS: Police family, opposing brothers, dirty cops.

SETTING: New York

Mix ingredients well, release in October, hope no one notices.

We all saw the same trailer, right?  I feel like I've already seen this movie three or four times, and it was only good the first time (maybe).  This is typical of the manatee-system at work in Hollywood script factories - familiar, trite, comfortable.  But once in a while, the manatees stumble upon something so unique, so special, so fantastically, outlandishly, unfathomably retarded in it's glory that we must concede to their brilliance.  Here's their most recent achievement:

DIRECTOR: Steven Soderbergh

CAST: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Hugh Jackman

GENRE: Musical; 3-D

PLOT: Cleopatra and Marc Antony

I swear to gods, I did not make that up.  In my wildest imagination could I not have conjured something so absurd as a Soderbergh-directed 3-D musical about Cleopatra entitled (wait for it) CLEO.  I'm beyond excited for this movie.  It can't possibly be good, but it sure as shit will be interesting.  Bless you, manatees of Hollywood!  

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