I almost stopped watching the trailer for MONKEY MAN when they start going off on rich people, blah blah, yadda yadda, I’m sorry but Hollywood is not really well-suited for making me believe that they give a flying rip for the underdog. But… there’s a lot of violence in this trailer. A lot of violence, and a lot of blood. This looks more like a monster movie from the point of view of the monster. It might make up for having to sit through a bunch of nonsense about applied economic theory.
Category: Movies
Movie of the Week: KUNG FU PANDA.
KUNG FU PANDA has no business being this good a movie. Seriously, everybody thought it was going to suck: it had all the warning signs. I think I watched this on my flight back from Hawaii, and I was mesmerized at how easily it all worked. Just goes to show, huh?
#commissionearned
The “Beetleju… Ha! You almost got me, there” BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE teaser trailer.
I didn’t ask for BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, but it doesn’t look too bad. Unfortunately, what it does look like is like everybody from the original cast has had a full life since then. Which is likely why Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis’s characters are nowhere to be seen*: their characters can’t get old, since they’re, well, dead.
Interesting FALLOUT TV clip.
There’s a lot of angry complaints out on this FALLOUT clip:
The “I dunno, maybe it won’t be bad’ second THE FALL GUY trailer.
THE FALL GUY’s got heart, maybe. Certainly a lot of stuff keeps blowing up. That’s a plus, in this context. Also: I don’t think it has anything to do with the original show except the name, which might be okay. Guess we’ll see…
Self-Tweet of the Day, My Instinctive Reaction To The ALIEN: ROMULUS trailer.
Point.
Counterpoint.
The HOWARD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON trailer.
The ‘Tentatively Promising’ KAOS trailer.
I say KAOS is ‘tentatively promising’ because it looks like Jeff Goldblum is portraying a modern-day Zeus to be just like the Classical Era Zeus: to wit, as a Grade-A jackass. There’s a reason why the Olympian pantheon was dropped like a hot potato, starting about, oh, nineteen hundred years ago. I have no objections to seeing Netflix remind us of them.
Why the premise of BREATHE is getting under my skin.
Short version: BREATHE is a post-apocalyptic movie where the world is out of oxygen, or something, but there’s a MacGuffin that can turn the air back on, only everybody left alive is apparently suffering from hypoxia and can’t think straight for ten minutes straight about, you know, starting out by getting the MacGuffin to work. But that’s not the thing that’s bugging me, really. That’s just lazy writing.
You know what’s really bothering me? You say all the oxygen’s gone, friend? Well, unless there’s been a giant scoop or something, all of that oxygen must have reacted with something. Like, say, carbon dioxide. Is that a safe assumption? You think it is?
Great. Then where are all the [expletive deleted] trees? Trees, plants, grass, moss, [expletive deleted] pond scum? They’re not breathing oxygen! Shoot, even if the trees died, bacteria are tough! They’ll be having a field day! The entire outside should be covered in green, and slimy to the touch!
:sigh: I’m getting old. This sort of thing never used to bother me.
A remake of Little Shop of Horrors?
I am worried about this: “Iconic genre filmmakers Joe Dante and Roger Corman are teaming with producer Brad Krevoy, on a new film project titled Little Shop of Halloween Horrors, which is a reboot of Cormanās classic 1960 horror comedy, Little Shop of Horrors.” The only reason I am not more alarmed is because ‘Joe Dante’ and ‘Roger Corman.’ I mean, Corman made the original. The ORIGINAL-original.
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