Friday, March 2, 2007
Reno's Finest invade Miami
By Joshua Lane
student life editor
If you are a fan of Reno
911! the Comedy Central T.V.
show, then you should not be
surprised by anything in the
movie spin-off, Reno 911!
Miami. In fact there isn't
whole lot to separate it fn
its basic cable counterpart.
is the same no-script ad-1h
bing. The characters are stii
the same as they always have
been, which is not necessarily
a bad thing. The "R" rating
means you'll hear much mor
foul language than the T.V
show as weell as much mor
nudity.
This movie follows ti
Reno Sheriffs Department
they head down to Miami
a Sheriffs Department con.
vention. Once they arrive j
seems that they have not be(
registered for the event
are forced to stay in a hotel
outside the convention center.
This proves to be a good
thing as a bio-terrorist attar
forces the entire Miai
Police Department to
quarantined in the convention
center, leaving Reno's finest :RIBUTFD PHOTO on their windshield.
to keep Miami's streets safe. One Of Reno's Finest officers, Deputy Travis Junior. The only reply is
As you can imagine the "We 're okay
Reno Sheriffs Department nobody was in it."
If you are a fan of the show it is definitely a
find themselves in one funny situation after another.
movie that you shouldn't miss. That is not to say
The Reno Sheriffs Department find themselves bat movie
have to see any of the show to know what is
Cling drug lords, dealing with dead beached whales,
going on, it is certainly not a requirement. Reno
and unraveling a huge government conspiracy.
911!:Miami gets my stamp of approval and is in the-
The movie has a few cameos, including Pee Wee aters now
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2. Akott- Don't Matter
3. Justin Timberlake - What goes
around...
4. Gwen Stefam . - Sweet Escape
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Herman himself ,Paul Rubens, and the Rock, AKA
Duane Johnson as a S.W.A.T. officer who has a hys
terical monologue. Also appearing is Paul Rudd
from The 40 Year
Old Virgin fame and
)median Patton
.walt.
The film is shot
with the "COPS"
style kinetic camera
Aements which
•tually fits its
'er-the-top style. I
lund myself laugh
.g from beginning
to end.
There are many
memorable lines
throughout the
vie. In one scene
Travis
;puty
4nior wakes up
- om a dream and
)nounces to his
tier that he "Just
td the craziest
- earn." His partner
ten realizes the sit
ktion and says
You know you're
iving, right?" At
'hich point they go
'ing into a porta
qty and it crashes
Scorsese wins big on Oscar night
By Joshua Lane
student life editor
The 79th annual Academy Awards aired Feb.
25th and there were quite a few surprises. The
highly favored Babel missed the top prize of best
picture losing out to The Departed. Babel was
expected to be the big winner as the Academy
notoriously votes for movies that have controver
sial plot lines and not the gangster shoot-em-up
films. Also, Alan Arkin was the big surprise win
ner in the Best Supporting actor category.
Dreamgirls was left by the wayside, as they only
picked up one award for achievement in sound
editing.
It seemed the biggest story of the night was
Martin Scorsese getting the Oscar for Best
Director. He was considered to be a heavy favorite
since the nominations where announced. He
received a standing ovation and said he was
extremely "touched" when he was presented his
Oscar by childhood friends George Lucas, Steven
Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola.
The other big winners were all pretty much
expected. Forest Whitaker won the best actor
Oscar for his role in The Last King of Scotland.
And Helen Mirren was the obvious choice for Best
Actress for her portrayal of Her Majesty in The
Queen. Jennifer Hudson of "American Idol" fame
took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
for her role in Dreamgirls.
Some other surprises of the night were in the
Best Foreign Language Film category and the Best
Song category. The Mexican film Pan's Labyrinth
losing to the German film The Lives of Others in
'lbis is the first movie
I've done with a plot"
Scorsese on The Departed
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Martin Scorsese took the Best Director Oscar
the Best Foreign Language Film category. It seems
the three Dreamgirls songs cancelled each other
out as Melissa Etheridge won for her song "I Need
To Wake Up" which was the theme song for An
Inconvenient Truth.
All in all, it was a good
night for the Academy
Awards. Ellen DeGeneres
was a very funny and great
host. She said that this years
Academy Awards had a
record number of foreign
actors and directors, and said
that if it weren't for
"Foreigners, gays, and Jews,
there would be no Oscars, or
anyone named Oscar for that
matter.'