Film Flam (Matt's Insecure)
Jul 06Am I excited for Snakes on a Plane? Sure. Do I find the hipster embracing of the film as a metaparody of Hollywood filmmaking and marketing to be fascinating? Absolutely. Does it still make me feel a little slimy to participate, like a late bandwagon jumper of the ugliest variety who needs to prove his ability to “get the joke” in order to validate his own nagging, endless sense of self-worthlessness?
OH yeah.
Anyway, this Snakes on a Plane theme song is about as good as it gets. Reminds one of the vintage Duran Duran tune for The Living Daylights.
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There may be, allegedly, funky business in Spider-Man 3 regarding young Peter Parker’s origin tale. Potential SPOILERS at the link.
My reaction? Meh. Do you care what my reaction is? Meh. Is it yet more insecure posturing that inspires me to actually use the term “meh” in a blog post? Meh.
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Pirates of the Carribean, the movies, have now changed Pirates of the Carribean, the ride.
Definitely not very “meh” about that shit. Cause if they’ve fucked up Pirates, I will never forgive them. My humble opinion is that the classic Disneyland Pirates is the greatest theme park entertainment experience ever devised, and one of the crowning achievements on Walt Disney’s career. (Unless my memory fails and he was actually dead when it was created, in which case, scratch that last part. Chalk it up to my self-hate.)
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My favorite Superman Returns review so far (other than my own, of course; how’s THAT for insecurity?) has to be Peter David’s, which I think is positive, but is definitely nitpicky in a fun and righteous way. And of course, spoiler-loaded.
Laugh it up, furball puppet
Jul 05This is possibly one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Now I want to make puppets. I’m going to make puppets and you can’t stop me. Ghostbuster puppets. YEAH!
A Dusty Assemblage of Links.
Jul 05Imagine the shop where Hoyt Axton buys Gizmo at the beginning of Gremlins, and you have an idea of how old these links are. They belong in glass cases covered in cobwebs.
But hey! They’re still damned interesting. And sorta themed: Star Trek, with a dash of Tinkerbell. Sounds like my most sticky sexual fantasy.
Tom Bondurant posits his Grand Unified Theory of Star Trek.
J. Michael Straczynski (did I spell that right? Cut me a break. I’m only HALF Polish) posits his Trek Needs a Reboot Theory, an actual proposal submitted to Paramount in 2004.
And Tinkerbell has the voice of a slightly coke-addled slut.
WikiWikiWhack: Jet setting sucks
Jul 03It looks as if Alert Nerd was mostly abandoned this past week, as Sarah was away for part of it, Matt was away for part of it, and I was away for all of it. I half expected I would be able to posting SOMETHING while I was in Germany, but not so much.
I wish I had lots of German nerdiness to report, but with the World Cup on, it’s all German jockiness right now.
I did however buy not one, not two, but THREE German hip hop CDs, which make me very happy.
I’ll share more when my brain isn’t convinced it’s dinner time at breakfast time.
Superman Returns; I Suggest, "Go Back."
Jul 03I was in Orlando, FL for a job interview on Friday and staying with my in-laws. After the interview, my mother-in-law says, “Why don’t you go see a movie?”
Instantly, I want to see Superman Returns, because I am freaking hyped, and because I very lamely ditched seeing the flick on Tuesday night with Sarah and hubby Jeff due to a crying baby and the aforementioned impending trip to Orlando.
Only when I say I’m going to see Superman, my mother-in-law is like, “Great! Let’s go!”
And so I saw Superman Returns with my mother-in-law, who is about as far from geeky as can be imagined. Which was useful, because after seeing it, I realize she is probably more of an appropriate target audience for Superman Returns than I am. Overall, and I must be wrong here cause the intarweb says so, I don’t necessarily think this movie will appeal to geeks so much as it will the great unwashed nongeeky masses, looking for a thrilling plane crash and an unrequited romance and some reheated John Williams from nearly twenty years ago.
They just want summer superheroics, and we want much, much more.
