So farewell to 12 Monkeys, and hello to The Lord of the Rings – The Motion Picture Trilogy.
Because sometimes you just have to take the half day and watch the whole blessed thing through, that’s why.
So farewell to 12 Monkeys, and hello to The Lord of the Rings – The Motion Picture Trilogy.
Because sometimes you just have to take the half day and watch the whole blessed thing through, that’s why.
It being Wednesday, we say good-bye – until November17th – to Star Trek, and say hello to 12 Monkeys, which is otherwise known as A Time Travel Movie That Didn’t Suck.
Well, many of them do.
Moe Lane
It being Wednesday, we say good-bye to Grosse Pointe Blank and let all of you know that they’ve finally decided that Star Trek will be coming out on DVD on November 17, 2009. Just in time for Thanksgiving. Heck, just in time for November 17th, which I’m sure is a viable holiday somewhere.
Moe Lane
PS: Homemade Bread Day, apparently.
It is Wednesday, and so we replace National Treasure with Grosse Pointe Blank.
Yes. Precisely because of the song..
Going from 1776 to National Treasure doesn’t seem all that much of a jump for me; but then again, I’m weird. Anyway, National Treasure is just one of those fun popcorn movies that demonstrates that Jerry Bruckheimer secretly plays roleplaying games.
Seriously. That was somebody’s campaign. Done right.
It’s getting up to the July Fourth weekend, so we remove the modern heroes of Apollo 13 and bring in the ancestral heroes of 1776. I saw the Broadway revival starring Brent Spiner as John Adams, and he did fine with it – still, this is the one that I grew up with.
Moe Lane
And so we say goodbye to Mars Needs Women, and hello to Apollo 13… which is both a great film, and a vague sorta-kinda shout-out to Buzz Aldrin, who has two of the Greatest Videos Ever featured over here. Only one of which is a Snoop Dogg collaboration.
Swear to God, it’s true.
Early switchout today of Movie of the Week: and would you believe, I still haven’t gotten through all of Gran Torino yet? I blame Bush… you know, I have absolutely no idea why saying that seems to satisfy a certain type of person.
But enough about peculiar religious rituals: this week’s offering is Mars Needs Women, because it was on while I was finding Sesame Street for the boy. We almost didn’t keep going; but he’s not old enough yet to really appreciate the classics.
What a marvelous idea.
Amazon is having a classic movie DVD sale. Apparently, “classic movies” + “under seven bucks” = “bad movies“, at least past the first page – but it starts getting consistently acceptable around the ten buck range, and there’s nothing wrong with Forbidden Planet. So we shall remove The Color of Magic, and go back to waiting patiently for it to come out.
And remember:
Monsters, John.
Monsters from the Id.
Sorry: YouTube has failed me on that one… FOR THE LAST TIME! MWHAHH-BAH-HAHH-AHH-HAHHH!!!!!
Moe Lane
It being Wednesday, and me just finishing up a bout of video editing (which is not particularly my primary skill), Movie of the Week is right up my alley right now in terms of being not very demanding as a post. So, we remove Taken and replace it with The Final Countdown. Why?
Because my father and I watched that film together once, when I was about 13 or so. He wasn’t into science fiction, but a movie about an aircraft carrier that could have end the Pacific War in an afternoon? Yeah, he could see the merit in that.
He thought Predator 2 was kind of stupid, though. Which is… fair.
Moe Lane