Trailer Trash
Nov 14Two interesting bits of movie trailer-related news trickling outward from the supple teat of Hollywood:
–A longer trailer for The Simpsons movie has premiered. I laughed to beat the band. Which surprises me, as I rarely laugh that hard at the actual television show anymore.
–Unless you live under a rock (or if you live WITH The Rock, and he’s actually some kind of abusive internet-phobic tyrant, in which case you need to get OUT of that relationship, girlfriend!), you have no doubt seen what the fabulous Heidi Macdonald calls the “secret Venom appearance” in that incomplete leaked Spider-Man 3 trailer.
Sony, you are morons for letting this leak, but you are even bigger morons for slapping around cease-and-desist orders on sites that host the video. Unless this is all one big underground viral scam to hypnotize us fanboys, in which case, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I SERVE YOU AND YOU ALONE O JAPANESE CORPORATE MASTER.
I'll Get Anybody Who Tries It! (Thanks, Orko)
Nov 10Gael over at Pop Culture Junk Mail always finds the best stuff. Be sure to read her commentary, too.
Big Damn Heroes
Nov 09Here’s a very good article by Entertainment Weekly‘s Jeff Jensen about Heroes and the comic book industry. Many knotty issues and questions raised, but one thing that stands out to me — because I love to think about things as they relate to me and only me, of course — is a quote from Brian K. Vaughan (who is a fan of the series) that sort of sums up why I can’t seem to fully warm up to Heroes in the crazy, googly-eyed way that I usually get over television.
”A show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a closer approximation of a comic book than Heroes,” says Vaughan. ”Buffy is like a guy who loves comic books doing a TV show, and Heroes feels like a guy who loves television doing a comic book.”
I’ve been having a hard time putting into words why I’m not all obsessed over this show, but I think he just did it for me. I mean, I like Heroes. The cliffhangers are swell, Masi Oka is great, the powers are conveyed onscreen in an interesting and cool way, Save the Cheerleader!, etc etc etc. And yet…there’s just something about the show that feels sort of condescending. Like, “Look, I’m treating this pop superhero stuff oh-so-seriously. We are serious around here!” You’re not the first to do so, Tim.
Or you know…maybe I’m just irritated that it’s cool to say you like Heroes, but still decidedly NOT COOL to say you like Battlestar Galactica.
Mission Accomplished!
Nov 03I work in an office with a couple of major Legoheads – as in, buckets and buckets of bricks, and a lot of designing new ships from scratch. So, I see a lot of Lego links. This one dude, being linked around the Lego community (and by proxy, me) was building an aircraft carrier to the scale of the little minifig dudes (see, I even know what the littler fuckers are called – help me.)
And as it happens, he’s finished it. Holy shit.
Boom Goes the Veronica
Nov 02OK, usually I feel like I am pretty up on the viral video tip, if only because I have at least a couple of friends who seem to exist purely to pass along YouTube links accompanied by bare bones commentary (“LOL!”). But somehow…some way…“Boom Goes the Dynamite” completely passed me by. COMPLETELY, people!
Until now, because Veronica Mars clued me in. Or actually, Television Without Pity clued me in. See, I knew Vero was referencing something with her sassy “Boom goes the dynamite!” But I didn’t know what. Now I do! Watching Veronica Mars totally makes me learn things.
