God Bless the Internet - Boba Fett Flashdance
It just doesn’t get any better than this…
Thanks to Chris for sharing this beautiful work with me. LOL!
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
I recently stumbled across this Dr. Horrible website, after getting a Jinx.com newsletter and hearing about them being #1 on iTunes last week as well as crashing their own website due to the influx of traffic. My curiosity got the better of me, so I watched the first episode (which is currently available on their website) and I really enjoyed it!
It’s actually a musical (which I usually hate BTW), about a heart-sick supervillian who finds that his arch-Nemesis Captain Hammer is dating the girl of his dreams. Despite the musical style, it’s really funny and and very entertaining.
It stars Neil Patrick Harris (remember Doogie Howser?) as Dr. Horrible, as well as Nathan Fillion (from Firefly and Serenity) as Captain Hammer. It’s off-beat humor and quirky style reminded me a bit of Mystery Men, which is one of my favorite movies.
There are a couple of things that have really struck me about this show. The first is the intense fan base that it has already developed. It appears that the producers have done a great job of using Social Media and social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Digg to create a viral campaign that has apparently paid off big time for them. Also, the way in which the show was produced is very interesting. According to Wikipedia, the producers apparently wrote the script during the WGA Writer’s Strike in an attempt to “create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike”. With the rapid shift that has been taking place from mainstream television and movie viewing to the web, this could be another big sign that the entertainment world is changing right before our eyes.
I would highly recommend checking out the show. It’s short, and better yet, it’s free. For more info on Dr. Horrible, here are some helpful links:
Super-Duper Movie Review Catch Up
So, for the 3 of you out there that might actually read my blog, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been slacking big time on my movie reviews these past few weeks… So to make it up to you, I’m going to do a quick set of micro-reviews of all the cool (and not so cool) flicks I’ve seen lately. I’m going to do them in chronological order, with the most recent on top… woohoo!
Hancock (3.5 of 5 stars)
I went into this movie with very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. The story is quite different than they insinuate in the preview, and has a pretty interesting twist in the end. Despite it’s corny beginning, It’s actually a pretty decent story with a rather redeeming conclusion.
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (3 of 5 stars)
This movie was pretty disappointing. I really liked the first Hellboy movie, and I probably made the classic error of getting my hopes up too high on this one. There were a LOT of things that I didn’t like:
1. First off, they open the movie with a flashback of Hellboy as a child begging his dad to read him a bed time story… He basically looks like a red Eddie Munster, and is a total whiner. C’mon! Hellboy is supposed to be a huge indestructible demon… It’s like picturing Wolverine getting his diaper changed as a baby… This is not how I want to picture Hellboy.
2. They took the campy humor from the first movie, and pushed it way too far. It felt more like a Men in Black movie than the first Hellboy. It was almost like they were making fun of the idea, rather than balancing the story with some well placed humor. As stupid as this may sound, the first movie had such a good balance with the dark and sinister feel to it, that it felt more “believable” somehow.
3. The bad guys were not nearly as cool as those from the first movie. The Prince in this movie was pretty cool, but he basically looked like an elf from LOTR or WoW, or maybe a Wraith from SG:Atlantis. Whereas, Rasputin, Sammael and especially Kroenen from the first movie were totally cool!
4. They casted a new voice actor for Abe Sapien, instead of David Hyde Pierce. I hate it when they do that!
There’s probably more, but those are the main things. It did have a couple of redeeming qualities. The special effects were pretty cool, and as expected there is a lot of action. It still left me wanting more of the first movie though. I may have to see this one again, so I can try to appreciate it for what it is, and not what it isn’t… QQ
Wanted (3 of 5 stars)
This movie could have been really, really cool… but wasn’t. Instead, it was just OK. The story was all over the place. Their gratuitous use of slow-motion blood splatter and the F-bomb seemed to cheapen the story, and made it harder to take serious. The special effects were pretty darn good overall, and there is lots and lots of action and fighting. Angelina Jolie is always a bonus too! Definitely worth seeing, but don’t expect more than a good action flick.
WALL-E (4 of 5 stars)
This movie was great! Very fun and cute. Excellent animation. The fact that the vast majority of the movie has no dialog in it, yet you hardly notice, is amazing. They do such a good job of communicating emotion and feelings through these robots, without ever saying a single word in many scenes. That’s hard to do with humans, let alone with animated robots… My whole family loved it, and I’m sure we’ll be adding this one to our home collection.
Get Smart (3.5 of 5 stars)
This movie was hilarious. It’s basically just a 2 hour version of the preview though. There are a few more scenes that are particularly funny, but most of the best scenes were blown in the trailers. However, there is definitely something to say for the fact that Steve Carell is funny even when he’s just standing there… So if you feel that way about him, you’ll surely enjoy this movie.
Capris for men!?!? What is this world coming to?
So I’ve been noticing over the past couple of weeks a lot of dudes wearing capri pants… I won’t pretend to be an authority on fashion, but I would just like to officially go on record that this is NOT OK!!! Come on guys, we embarrassed ourselves enough in the 80’s with the whole glamrock look. We really don’t need to do this to ourselves again.
So I did a little research and found several other blog posts going back to last summer and fall sharing my sentiments. One site even referred to them as “manpris“… Maybe this has been going on longer than I realized, and I’ve just been in denial… This is not meant as any sort of homophobic or anti-metrosexual statement. It just looks stupid!
End rant here. I feel better now…
