Spider-Man visits Barack Obama...
Sure Clinton was featured a great deal in both the Marvel and DC comics during the 90s. Heck, Clinton was still president when they merged the DC/Marvel universes.
But, I have to agree with the writer, this is really lame and cheesy. It feels like something they would have written in the 80's.
Now, we have all the news outlets talking about it. But, I still don't forgive Joe Quesada for resetting portions of the Spider-Man continuity.
Y2K9: The day the Zunes froze up...
Y2K9: The simultaneous worldwide crash of every 30GB Zune worldwide during the early hours of the morning on Dec 31, 2008.
I knew nothing about this.
If the Red Ring of Death wasn't enough, MS had all to have its loyal Zune people feel the same way the Xbox folks felt. I just found it funny that all the old 30 GB Zunes crashed at the same time.
((Microsoft's 30GB Zune digital music player experienced a "leap year bug" that caused the device to freeze and become unusable, prompting the company to post a fix on the Zune website that suggests users let the battery drain completely before rebooting the device. ))
Maybe this was a punish for buying a damn Zune in the first place.
I personally think this is SkyNet booting up and taking over our planet through the Zune
Red Band Trailer for The Slammin’ Salmon
Wiki says that they filmed this movie in 25 days and it shows.
As it was stated on the Movie Blog, there is already a restaurant comedy movie out there called Waiting… and the coming soon Still Waiting...
I've had my fill of the Broken Lizard movies of late. Beerfest was bad, with a few minor laughs and Club Dread was well...dreadful. (sorry)
I did really enjoy Super Troopers. And, would like to see them finally finish Super Troopers 2.
Btw, would you really want to go to an restaurant named The Slammin' Salmon?
Actually, Paris looks very strange in this picture.
The 2008 Razzies Nominees are out
As you already know, the Golden Raspberry award is given out to the worst movies of the year. It's like the Academy Awards for shit movies.
Here are a few in the running
Worst Picture:
Speed Racer: Still haven’t seen this one yet, I plan on reviewing it.
Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans: Both of these were made by the same people and Disaster Movie was filmed with a span of a few months last year and thrown out to theaters only a few months later.
The Hottie & The Nottie: Who told Paris she could beyond her Night-vision filmed porn tape. You’ll find better acting in her stupid sex tape, but not by much.
The Love Guru: Man, this has to be one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. I love that someone actually left me a negative comment in my review about this film.
Meet Dave: Well, it made someone’s list.
Comment: Why wasn’t Frank Miller’s The Spirit not on the list?
Worst Actor:
Dane Cook: I don't want him to win, because he'll actually show up to the award show just to give himself some comedy credibility, and to boost his sales.
Mike Myers: The Love Guru hurt badly, and I think he needs to win this award.
Larry the Cable Guy: He must be stopped.
Worst Actress:
Paris Hilton: She deserves to win. Knowing her, she'll actually show up to receive her award.
Vanessa Hudgens: Come on, she's cute as heck. Don't be mean to her.
The cast of “The Women”: I've never had the misfortune of seeing this movie.
Worst Director:
Uwe Boll: He deserves it, but I think they'll overlook him. Plus, he'll make a stupid video response to the reward, calling everyone D-bags or something.
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer: These guys are really the ones that will probably receive the award. This year they've proven that they can crap out a terrible movie in number of months.
M Night Shyamalan: He is the wild card in the whole thing. I'd love to see his reaction to winning this award. he'd probably get into a funk and disappear.
Random Thoughts
~Sherri Shepherd is annoying: I have to agree with Jeremy Piven on this one. If I saw Sherri and her loud self, I'd roll my eyes too. Remember this is the same woman that doesn't know that the Romans and Greeks came before Jesus. Does she really think the Earth is flat? (I'm not a Piven fan either)
~Children's Guide to Censorship: This is brilliant. I don't agree with everything in here, but it is funny. Make sure to check out some of their other videos.
~If there is one movie I flatly refuse to ever watch, it's Bride Wars and the trailer looks horrible. Then again I'm not the one the movie is aimed toward. You better believe this movie will be a huge hit though. I hate weddings and I hate movies about weddings.
~There is talk of a shop opening up in Vassalboro Maine...a Topless coffee shop. Look, I hate coffee shops and I don't drink coffee. But the first thing I've always said about Coffee Shops is this, “You know what would improve this place? Boobs, bare boobs. Hell, even pictures of boobs.” I'd visit and take a uh, sip.
I'm guessing only two groups will be frequenting this shop, lesbians and straight guys. But they're trying this in Maine? How about Louisville, KY?
Eagle Eye
This high tech thriller is both fun and frustrating at the same time. There are truly some amazing action scenes. Yet, the movie goes to great lengths to make the entire assassinate plot as convoluted as possible.
To explain the movie would give away one of the big plot twists, and there are a few minor twists here and there. Some of these twists don’t make sense, but the action scenes carried us along so some of us will not think about the plot holes. And, once the big reveal comes in the middle of the story, you’ll be asking yourself many questions that movie never answers itself.
The idea comes from the mind of Steven Spielberg, but he wasn’t able to direct the movie. (He was a producer.) However, you can see certain aspects of the modern Spielberg tone is all over the script and somewhere there is a message in the movie. That message is lost in the complexity of the action and plot.
Shia LaBeouf, a Spielberg favorite it seems, does an evenhanded job playing the lead character. Shia is very restrained in his role, when you compare him to his role in Transformers. Michelle Monaghan does a reasonable job in her role as well. And I was surprised to see Michael Chiklis play something other than The Thing or a corrupt cop in this movie.
The movie works for about the first hour and then starts to come apart as the movie goes on. And the scriptwriters continue to make the more and more crazy. By the end, you’ll say, “What the hell just happened?”
The movie is far from being a terrible movie. With nice-looking action scenes, you can somewhat forgive the oversight in the writing department, but not by much.
Grade: C
Who wrote this %@#^?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1895627
Worst Acting and writing ever...Words, not even gestures can describe this sheer badness of this clip. I'm not even sure what direct to video movie this comes from.
No one in this video can act, and I'm sure I could do a better job.
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
Holy crap, that was bad...
Back when I still watched ST: Voyager, I remembered seeing promotions for this show on the UPN network. My first thought was, wow, do we really need a sitcom based on the Civil War and slavery?
UPN thought we did. Way to keep it timely, UPN. How about an hour-long drama dealing with issues in the Civil War era? Nope, they’d rather do this mess.
I still remember the controversy over this show.
Many people saw this show as being racist and unnecessary. Keep in mind, this was UPN and they needed something to keep people watching the Network. They knew the protesting and calls for the show to be pulled would generate heat (free promotion).
And, people fell for it. If people ignored it, the show would have been another shitty sitcom that only lasted one episode.
And you can tell with this promo below that UPN was patting themselves on the back with the gamble. (What kills me is the pilot episode was re-edited, cutting out some even more offensive stuff.)
When you hype Lincoln in a dress, you don’t have much of a show.
Kevin Smith Returns to the living
(Make sure to check out his Podcast post and listen)
I had no idea that Kevin Smith took the Box Office returns to his latest movie so hard. While listening to the Film Junk Podcast, someone mentioned that they heard Smith on his own podcast and he had revealed that he went into a depression after the release of Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
I have to always give Smith credit for being honest, and his story about his wife telling him the Friday returns was an entertaining story. He says that everyone kept telling him that this movie could very well make a lot of money (It closely resembled a Judd Apatow movie). However, it didn’t come to be.
Well, the movie ended up making more than most of Smith’s other movies, but it still hovered around the 30 million mark. I personally think Smith should be happy with the returns, because the movie even made more Internationally than the rest of his films.
But I understand why he took it so hard. Let’s use Box Office Mojo and compare an R-Rated movie similar to his movie.
Zack and Miri: 36,515,091
Role Models: 66,371,649
I know he was aiming big with this movie, but this isn’t even close to the disappointment of Jersey Girl.
Anyway, listen to the podcast he has up, you’ll like it.
The Ghost of Future Acting Gigs: “Listen Orson Wells, I've seen the future. You will go from doing great movies like this one to doing wine ads and Portraying a transforming planet/robot that eats other planets in a movie to a popular 80's cartoon.”
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Random Bunch
~Rumor are around that J-Lo and Marc Anthony are breaking up. Did anyone think it would last anyway?
~Forklift vs. SUV video: Place your bets, folks. I guess you can imagine who won this fight. I sort of feel bad for the guy in the SUV because he tried to get out of the way. I still won't cut him any slack for driving a damn SUV.
~Bromance: Why is this even on air? I know people locally from school are talking about of the guys in the show is a student here at U of L. Anyone that even uses the term Bromance should be hit over the head with big stick. And, I thought the Paris Hilton BFF show was bad.
~About Citizen Kane in the classroom, I have say yes. These kids need to see what a good film looks like and stop paying for crap like Meet the Spartans. If you haven't seen this movie, make you to rent or buy it. It is that good.
~I generally try to keep up with all the Internet fads, but this one passed me by. Loituma girl? What the heck is this mess? What does the damn scallion have to do with the damn song. Well, I went and looked it up and it seems the band that made the song found themselves building in popularity.
Taken from Wiki: ((This is basically a joke for someone who spends all of their time staring at a computer, made by people who spend all of their time staring at a computer. It's possible to read deeper meanings into it, but it sort of defeats the purpose because in the end it's just this hypnotic clip of animation.))
Isn't that pretty much everything on the net?
And you knew there was going to be a remixed Techno version for the night clubs. You some stupid hipster DJ is bumping this at their club right now.
Hamlet 2
What happens when you mix Jesus with a sequel to Hamlet? You get an okay movie with some funny scenes, but it never takes anything too far. You can always do far worst.
When a washed up actor (Steve Coogan) starts teaching drama in high school, he envisions a stage play that is a sequel to Hamlet. The school and a few town folk don’t want him to make the film.
After watching the trailer, I was really looking forward to this movie. I thought the trailer was funny as hell. Well, the movie doesn’t really come that close to pissing off anyone and some of the story progressions are a little aimless. Some of the scenes involving Coogan going crazy run a little too long. And, some scenes are tedious.
What the film does right is some of the random things that happen in scenes, such as Coogan showing his balls to the entire class while doing karate. Most of the scenes with Coogan interacting with his dysfunctional class are fun to watch. I just wish there was more of that and less dealing with him and his wife.
The whole Elisabeth Shue subplot is hilarious with her playing a washed-up version of herself. See if you can catch all the Shue movie references. I remember having the biggest crush on her in The Karate Kid, and she still looks cute today. I’ll give her props for making fun of herself.
Steve Coogan is in most of the scenes and he handles himself fairly well. There were a few parts where he goes too loony, but I have no huge problems with his lead performance. His character is very similar to the hotheaded director in Tropic Thunder. This is the unsuccessful version of the character in Thunder.
In the end, the movie could have better if it didn’t pull any punches and actually tried to be offensive. It’s a middle of the road kind of comedy.
Grade: C
Coogan: “I loved you in Howard the Duck, Elisabeth Shue.”
Elisabeth Shue: “That was Lea Thompson. People tend to get us mixed up.”
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His next production: Rent 2: The Rise of the Silver Surfer
What does the Silver Surfer have to do with Rent? You just have to see the play.
Matt Harding: An interesting hoax? maybe not...
I wasn't even aware who this guy was, I just heard about these videos in passing. (here's one of his videos in HD)
This video had me going for a few minutes and I bought into the Hoax story. But it looks like the admission of a hoax is actually the hoax. Hold on, this isn't making any sense. But, it appears the dancing videos are real and he got all those people to dance. You can hear him explain that here.
Harding was a videogame designer and gave up his job to do these videos. Maybe he's onto something...
Way to disrespect the flag.
Top Seven ‘Famous’ people that annoyed me in 2008
This year has been notoriously horrific for me. Ranging from average ‘Joes’ to Governors, and a few in between. I’m so glad this year is over and we can screw up this New Year.
7. Paula Abdul: This has-been singer has been especially annoying this year. As she keeps hinting that she’ll leave America Idol. Go ahead and do it already. We’ll quickly see you disappear from the public view after that.
6. Casey Anthony: Yeah, she’s that crazy Milf that killed her child and keeps denying it. What is wrong with this woman? One thing that should be guaranteed in this world is that mothers will take care of their children. She broke that trust and should be punished. Not only does she lie, but also she has a criminal record. She’s in total denial and it will come back to haunt her.
5. Lindsay Lohan: When the big news about Lindsay is that she’s dating a DJ that wears Carmen Santiago hats and getting kicked off Ugly Betty, something is wrong. She has this attitude that she’s a big time actress, yet she hasn’t had a hit in ages.
4. John Edwards: This guy cheated on his wife while she was recovering. How can someone do something that down low? The fact some say the affair is still going on you amazes me how evil this guy is.
3. Eddie Murphy: This guy made a movie so bad that he didn’t even show up for the premiere. He knows he’s making crap, but I guess he has to pay child support. Where the hell did this Batman 3 rumor come from? He’ll never be in Nolan’s Batman franchise.
2. Sarah Palin: Never has a running mate harmed an election like this lady has. Her interviews were a joke, and people were calling for her to step down. Of course, she didn’t listen to them. Plus, she thought she could shoehorn in her own ambitions for the next Presidency while pushing McCain aside. Instead of finding the most qualified person, they simply wanted to win over conservatives and former Clinton supporters. We know it didn’t work.
1. Joe the Plumber: Somehow, this guy has become the spokesman for the average Joe, when it appears he’s below average. This guy has a watchdog site and a book deal. Are you kidding me? He’s the Paris Hilton of politics.
Happy New Year!
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