It’s 3am. I just finished watching Dark Knight and I’ll post a review of it later, but I have two things to say.
1) Christopher Nolan is a Genius of a Director and Writer. He understands the comic book mythos. He is able to portray his art in a way I have seen in only a very few filmmakers.
2) If Heath Ledger does not get an Posthumus Oscar for this performance, I may never watch the Oscars again. It was true, he was the Joker. He encompassed all the attributes of the Joker. The Anarchy. The intelligence. I can see where people feel like this performance is what pushed him over the edge. I can see how. I have never so believed that an actor was the real deal until tonight.
And I’ll be going to see it again. And probably again after that. That is something that I haven’t said in years.
JK Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving have been going around New York reading parts of their books. During one of the readings, Rowlings awnsered some questions. I’ve spoilered out the quotes, so if you want to see what she says, highlight the black area below. If you want to discuss this in the comments, please use the < spoiler > and < /spoiler > tages to open and close respectively what you want to discuss.
So without much ado
(Question about Aunt Petunia’s potential to love Harry): I will say this… There’s a little more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye.
And then
(Question about upcoming deaths): You shouldn’t expect Dumbledore to pull a Gandalf. I need to be more explicit: Dumbledore is definitely dead. I know there’s an entire site out there called DumbledoreIsNotDead.com, and I’m sorry they’re not going to like this answer.
Which awnsers a question I’ve had for a long time…. And it makes me sad.
I guess Stephen King was asking Rowlings to not kill off Harry..
Oh well, it may seem that I’m just posting Video as of late.
Not true.
Ok, maybe true.. But this you can blame on my co-workers. They were discussing “The Balad of Bilbo Baggins” and I was mocked for my wierd, if a bit obsessive love for the Movie Xanadu. I even reviewed it here . Well, my co-worker mockery made me go look on Youtube.
And I found Xanadu.
I am mocked for liking bad movies. People don’t understand, I only like the REALLY bad.
So I give you Xanadu.. First up. “Clap Clap” Xanadu!
Ah.. Olivia in all her ELO singing, roller discoing, scary punk band, Neon colored special effects glory. You get to even see Gene Kelly! How cool is that!?!? More than worth the viewing.
Next, the Muses coming out of the wall (Second favorite). This is where the rainbow of fruit flavors happen. And a Irish Jig.
Some Don Bluth Cartoon (which just shows up halfway through the movie) oh how I wish I could woo a woman so.
Then some *totally* awesome ELO, neoned lined Love Ballads.
Some “Making Of” Xanadu. (I’m watching all the parts right now..)
And finally the peeps version
I seriously <3 Youtube.
And if your eyes survived that storm without bleeding tears.
Thanks to Justin, I’ve now seen oh, probably only the coolest trailer ever.
The one for BATTLESTAR Galactica. Or as a former girlfriend repeatedly called it “Supermodels and Robots”.
Which, from my experience of many years being a man, is really all a Sci-Fi show needs, isn’t it? I mean, really. Look at the audience they are catering to.
So without further ado, the trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Season 3
And yes, I know, I’ll get some good regular content up here soon.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were mass sucides in the Lobby after people had to watch this.
Or slaughtering of Pigs in an attempt to get this out of ones memory.
Say what you will though, if Hasselhoff and Shatner opened up a Acting school, I’d sign up in a minute.
Anyone who can act as bad as these two, and still get oodles of women, well they know something I don’t. That’s all I’m saying. I could be the grasshapper at their feet.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Bruce Willis …. RJ (voice)
Garry Shandling …. Verne (voice)
Steve Carell …. Hammy (voice)
Wanda Sykes …. Stella (voice)
William Shatner …. Ozzie (voice)
Nick Nolte …. Vincent (voice)
Thomas Haden Church …. Dwayne (voice)
Allison Janney …. Gladys (voice)
Eugene Levy …. Lou (voice)
Catherine O’Hara …. Penny (voice)
Avril Lavigne …. Heather (voice)
Omid Djalili …. Tiger (voice)
Sami Kirkpatrick …. Bucky (voice)
Review Grade: A
I know, it’s been a while since I threw a review up here.
So here goes.
After deciding not to see The Da Vinci Code I decided to go see Over The Hedge.
“Over The Hedge” finds it’s roots in the Funny pages, where there is indeed a Racoon, Turtle and host of other creatures. Thankfully, unlike Garfield (or the Garfield II trailer I was forced to site through), this film is funny and enjoyable.
We start off meeting up with RJ, a racoon voiced by Bruce Willis, who after making a very bad decision has to go foraging for food.
By chance he happens apon a group of animals who have awakened from hibernation to find their forest replaced by suburbia. You can tell a lot of thought went into the voice talent of this film. Steve Catrell steals the show as Hammy a very overactive squirrel. Just as enjoyable is watching Ozzie the possum (William Shatner) die in many melodramatic ways. I mean really, who can die better than Captian Kirk?
The film starts off fast, with a short lag in the middle, but picks up steam and finishes with a hilarious save by Hammy. I believe the difference between this and other Dreamwork animation (Shrek, Shrek II, etc) is that the writers were having a good time, and let the comedy flow. Acompanying the writing is a rather snazzy soundtrack with a number of songs by Ben Folds. Gags, innuendo, and recurring jokes (Hint: Mushroom Clouds) made this film very enjoyable.
