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Pancake City Snow News
Feb 5th
Movieless Family Forced To Talk To Each Other
My roommate said the line at Blockbuster was to the end of the store.
Avatar: Movie Comments
Jan 3rd
Here’s the non-spoiler part. I’ll put the (kind of) spoilers under the fold, and add some extra space for those using an RSS reader.
1. If you see Avatar, you have to see it in a movie theater, the best one in your area. (I saw it in an IMAX-3D theater.)
2. I’d strongly consider seeing Avatar.
I don’t want to hype the movie too much. It have several flaws, arguably sizable flaws. But it’s the most immersive movie I’ve seen in a long time, one with a lot of “wow” moments. Also, I understand now why James Cameron had to wait for special effects technology to advance to this point before he could make the movie. More on that under the fold.
District 9
Jan 3rd
Saw District 9 last night. Very good movie. A mostly spoiler-free note about it after the jump: More >
Fake Green Lantern Movie Trailer
May 26th
This fake Green Lantern trailer is amazing. It’s all footage from other movies with special effects added, but it’s so well made it’s better than most real movie trailers. Plus, it’s noce to see Nathan Fillon getting some fake work.
Movie Scripts
Mar 25th
I’m working on a few ideas for movie scripts. One of them is an action movie, “President Punch Face.” It’s about a President who punches people in the face. Some aliens, some members of Congress. Some both. His catch-line:
PREZ: “Knock-Knock.”
ALIEN-CONGRESSMAN HYBRID: ”Who is there?”
PREZ: “Punch in the face.” [BAM]
Idea #2: Oops, I Killed You Again. It’s a horror movie. That’s all I got so far.
Idea #3: Cave Flamingos. Documentary. Note to self: do flamingos live in caves? Must investigate.
“A Face in the Crowd”
Dec 11th
I watched a great movie today, “Face in the Crowd.” It was made in 1957, but almost all of what it says about celebrity, politics, power, and television is not only still relevant, but prophetic in some cases.
The more I think about it, the more I like the movie. I highly recommend it. A few quotes from one scene:
GEN. HAYNESWORTH: “Politics have entered a new stage, a television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans. ‘Time for a change.’ ‘The mess in Washington.’ More bang for a buck. Punch lines and glamour.”
[...]
MR. PERVIS: “General, my papers have supported Worthington Fuller from the first day he ran for office. He’s not a grandstander, a backslapper or a baby-kisser.”
GEN. HAYNESWORTH: “That’s exactly what he’s got to become. A majority in this country don’t see eye-to-eye with him. We’ve got to find 35 million buyers for the product we call Worthington Fuller.”
$5 Fandango coupon for taking a survey
Jul 6th
It’s a 10-15 minute survey. You have to say that you’ve watched Hancock to get pass the first few pages. At the end, you get a $5 off coupon for Fandango. Survey link. The link will probably die soon–you can take the survey more than once and the coupon codes are stackable on Fandango, pretty good motivation for people who don’t have much money and like the movies.
The “Buy n Large” web site
Jul 6th
Wow. I can’t believe this came from a movie marketing department. It’s the “Buy n Large” web site, the fictional corporate comglomerate in WALL-E. It’s funny, hilarious in parts, but if you didn’t know the site’s connection to WALL-E, you would think it was a creation of a group like “Billionaires for Bush” or the Green Party.
Make sure to check out their privacy policy.
WALL-E
Jul 6th
I saw WALL-E yesterday. It’s a good movie that is well worth watching in the theater. I wish I hadn’t heard anything about it before I watched it, so I’m putting my thoughts below the fold.
“Between grief and nothing, I’ll take grief.”
Jun 19th
This is brilliant. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, recut.
Quote: “The pen is mighter than the sword.”
Jun 17th
1. That’s what people with swords tell people with pens so they don’t go out and buy a sword.
2a. Action-hero movie line:
REVOLUTIONARY: “You can’t suppress our ideas. The pen is mightier than the sword.”
SCHWARZENEGGER: “Gun beats both.” [BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM]
2b. Who is the next name in the action hero business? The next big, dumb guy that blows stuff up first and ask questions later. All of the big ones–Segal, Van Damme, Schwarzenegger–haven’t made anything notable in the genre since the 90s. Did Bush kill the action hero? “This blowing stuff up for no good reason isn’t as cool in real life.”
Quick Thought
Jun 16th
First impressions mean everything. M. Night Shyamalan has been riding on the success of “The Sixth Sense” for almost ten years now.
Damme Good
Jun 8th
From Van Damme’s “Nowhere To Run” (subtitle: “Except Through Your Face!”):
Prison bus flips over after braking to avoid hitting a car. Van Damme, a prisoner, is handcuffed to a rail.
VAN DAMME: “Help! My arm! My leg!”
Prison guard comes over.
GUARD: “Which is it, your arm or your leg?”
VAN DAMME: “Your face!”[WHACK]
I watched the first 15 minutes, but the FPPMs (Face Punches Per Minute) was dissapointingly low.
“Superhero Movie:” The horror its ad foretells
Apr 4th
I don’t think it’s possible to know whether a movie will be good by an ad in a newspaper. But I do think it’s possible to know whether it will be bad by that ad.
Case study: Superhero Movie, a spoof on superhero movies starring Leslie Nielsen.
Sounds promising, yes? The superhero genre is a rich vein to mine, and Leslie Nielsen is a funny guy. But I fear the movie is absolutely horrible, based solely on an ad for it that I saw in The Washington Post. More >
Watch The Tick Online for Free
Mar 18th
The post title is my cheesy way of getting Google hits. Although it would help if I wrote “Lost” or “NCAA Tournament” instead of “The Tick.”
“The Tick” is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. It only ran for one season, but it was well-done and often hilarious. Hulu, a wonderful, free online TV and movie streaming service, has all nine episodes up. The series has so many good lines in it that if it were a little more popular when it first aired, people would still be repeating them today.
On another note, we have an early nomination for Crappiest Movie of the Year. I’ll bet someone $5 it doesn’t break 20% on RottenTomatoes.com
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The Tick: Owwwww! My head feels like it’s… like it’s gunna have a baby.
Arthur: It’s called a headache.
The Tick: It has a name?
Arthur: Toilets don’t talk!
The Tick: Well that’s a maybe in my book, chum.
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