The Movie Wasteland
Apr 08Fandango just invited me to “purchase advance tickets to The Benchwarmers today!”
Um, I don’t think so.
I hate the springtime. Yeah, shit blooms and grows and gets all green. Big damn deal. I live in California. Shit here is ALWAYS blooming and green.
What I need are those big phat summer blockbusters. X3, Superman Returns, Cars, and whatever else the movie industry sees fit to hurl in my face three times a day until I have no choice–none!–but to report to my local multiplex for active vegetative duty.
It should be an okay summer. Well, for me, it will be the greatest summer of my life, because my first child will be born in June. (Say it with me now: “Awwwwww.”) But for me as a moviegoer addicted to the mainline crack of summer films, it looks average to good at this point. X3? VERY doubtful. Cars? Probably fun. Superman Returns? Better kick my ass.
Otherwise, what do I need to daydream about while I wait for cinema to cough up its pretty, popular children? The Star Wars TV series? Yeah, right.
This one’s for Matt.
Apr 07Read faster, fanboy!
[UPDATE] And this one’s for Sarah. SARAH!!!
And just because there’s etiquette to these things, hero puppets are here, and angel icons are here.
Widderwhatsis?
Apr 07I’m really nerdily excited about Charles de Lint’s new Newford novel, Widdershins, due out in May. So imagine the exponential increase in excitement and nerdiness when I found this lengthy excerpt posted on his website today.
I’m especially thrilled because this is the one that finally addresses the long-simmering loooohhve between fan favorites Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. I think I was a Jilly/Geordie ‘shipper before I even knew what being a “‘shipper” meant.
A few things that struck me about this excerpt:
1. Thank freakin’ GOD Jilly finally dumped boring old Daniel. I always pictured him looking like Daniel Cosgrove, aka NotBrandon on 90210.
2. Aw, Christiana’s back! I love her. She has one of the coolest, weirdest backstories of any de Lint character, I think.
3. Is someone in their twenties really “half” Geordie’s age? Jesus. That makes me feel old. I remember these characters when they were young, hot little things themselves (of course, I think I was in high school or junior high at the time. So it’s been, ahem, a while).
Between this and X-Men 3 and all the TV season finale shiznit, May really can’t come soon enough.
For You Blue
Apr 07I finally started to catch up on all my Infinite Crisis backreading last night, when I read Countdown to Infinite Crisis, the opening chapter in which Blue Beetle gets plugged in the brain by a batshit-crazy Maxwell Lord.
Speaking of Photorealistic Fur…
Apr 07What the hell with that movie The Wild? It looks exactly like Madagascar. Not even kind of, sort of like Madagascar — exactly!
And I never even heard about it until this week. And I probably wouldn’t care, like, at all, except I was totally fascinated by this great article from Jim Hill Media on Toys R Us passing on a chance to produce some plush toys from the movie. Not even “a single piece of plush” (one of my favorite terms from the article).
Not even a single piece of plush, people!!
