Can’t watch it yet, of course. My kids are around and will inevitably find it fascinating, and if THE WITCHER is anything like the videogames or books, they’ll pick the most embarrassing moments to notice. I’ll wait until they’re asleep, instead.
Category: Movies
The ‘Wait, WHAT’S going on here?’ TENET trailer.
(Via @SonnyBunch) TENET is gonna… be something. Watch the whole thing.
Good. Now watch it again, because there’s some stuff in there that you missed the first time and will make you blink when you see it again.
‘When the River Meets the Sea.’
Quote of the Day, …That Poor CATS Reviewer edition.
You can tell that he’s seen what cannot be unseen. I have not vetted this particular critic, as is my usual wont, on the grounds that this review is just too damn funny not to share. I had to make a gut call, and I did. That’s why I’m here.
The film that everyone is in is largely the musical of cats singing about what kind of cat they are and this repeats until you pray for the sweet release of death. Tom Hooper’s direction to his actors for this semblance of a plot was to act it super horny. That doesn’t give Cats a raw sexual energy as much as it makes everything incredibly uncomfortable like when Rum Tum Tugger (Jason Derulo) is dumping milk into cats’ faces or Macavity just seems more nude than other cats even though technically all the cats are nude. But if it wasn’t enough to make the cats horny (why are they so horny), Hooper also feels the need to make it gross by having them dig through trash and play up their animal instincts. Cats always feels like it’s two seconds away from turning into a furry orgy in a dumpster. That’s the energy you have to sit with for almost two hours.
Neflix decides that if they could sell SHE-RA, they can sell HE-MAN.
Also animated. Apparently this HE-MAN will be computer-animated. No idea what idiom it’s going to be in, though.
COYOTE VS. ACME. …I’m sorry, but you said ACME?
I have questions.
Continue reading COYOTE VS. ACME. …I’m sorry, but you said ACME?Get ready for the falling anvils, rocket roller skates, and dynamite! Warner Bros. is moving forward with its Wile E. Coyote[*] movie, Coyote vs. Acme. They have hired Dave Green to direct the live-action animated hybrid film, and the studio is now out looking for a writer.
The animated feature follows the “infamous Looney Tunes prairie woof whose objective is obliterating his nemesis Road Runner. Acme is the fictional company that provides Coyote with his many weapons, all of which invariably fail, leaving him squashed flat or burnt to a crisp.”
The next ONWARD trailer.
There really is no chance that I will skip ONWARD. Often circumstances intervene, but only because I let them, and I don’t see myself letting circumstances intervene this time. Besides: like KUNG FU HUSTLE, when a movie studio takes the trouble and the time to go inside my head and start recording what’s it like in there I feel kind of obligated to go see the final cut, you know what I mean?
The GALAXY QUEST Honest Trailer / Never Surrender documentary link.
First things first: GALAXY QUEST. If you have not yet watched it, then you are in for a treat. Go buy it or whatever and then watch the Honest Trailer.
Now, if you want to watch NEVER SURRENDER, which is the documentary about Galaxy Quest, you can get it here. Feel free. Really: Christmas is coming up and the referral money’s always nice.
Hrm. They’re releasing the next THE MANDALORIAN episode two days early.
Interesting: “Disney+ has announced that the next episode of The Mandalorian is set to be released early on Wednesday December 18th. The episodes are usually released on Friday, but this next episode will hit Disney+ right before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is released in theaters.” I hate to admit it, but: I’m much more interested in seeing LITTLE WOMEN next week than I am to see the new Star Wars this week. And I know that I’ll like the new Star Wars, too. I am generally a sucker for them, even now. But I’m not plotting to see it early or anything. We’ll go when we go.
On the other hand: new THE MANDALORIAN episode two days early! That’s awesome. Can’t wait.
Early Reviews of LITTLE WOMEN are promising, but my chainsaw is still at hand.
I grew up on Louisa May Alcott. Not just Little Women, and not just the sequels; I read some of the other ones, too. So it’s good that the reviews are in, they’re uniformly excellent, and they’re — this is very important — not praising the movie for reasons that I’d normally associate with “actually a flaming pile of… ah, never mind.” So that’s all right. It’s fine. Everything’s fine. Nothing bad has to happen.
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