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| Friday, February 18, 2005 10:58 AM |
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 by Fëanor |
First of all, as Sarcasmo has already mentioned, this is totally horrendous and wrong. Yes, Warner Brothers is seriously reimagining Bugs Bunny as "Buzz," a tough-talking martial arts expert from the future with laser eyes. No part of that sentence doesn't make me laugh a hollow, incredulous kind of laugh. It sounds like a parody or a joke or something--the kind of thing you'd see in a movie where the director is trying to make fun of Hollywood and entertainment executives.
Another bit of entertainment news that kind of stuns me: Salon has a review of Constantine today, and it's a good review. They liked it. Admittedly, it's more of a "this is much better than we thought it was going to be, and we thought it was going to be pure shit" kind of a review, but still. Plus, they mention that the character of Constantine was created by Alan Moore, which I didn't know. So now I have to go research this dude and read some comics with him in them, because everything Moore touches is gold as far as I'm concerned.
Speaking of movies that seem like they should be bad, we saw an ad for Saw on DVD last night. I mentioned that I'd heard they were making a sequel, and poppy pointed out that that's my fault. Yes, it's my fault that movies like this get made. I make the mistake of giving movies "a chance." She's right. I'm a sucker for bad movies. It's because of my eternal optimism, in the face of all evidence to the contrary. When I see an ad for a new horror movie, or the next sequel in the Batman franchise, any belief I may have had in logic, causality, and probability just flies out the window, and I say, "Ooh, that could be good! Look at the things moving and the flashing lights!" This is why I buy tickets to all the bad horror movies at the Philadelphia film festival, and then end up all disappointed that I didn't go see the documentary everybody's talking about instead. Ah, well.
Salon today also has a wonderful review of The Silmarillion. Apparently a new edition came out recently, and it sounds like a pretty neat one. I'm tempted to replace the old beaten up copy that I stole from my parents with a copy of this one. Or wait, did I already buy a new copy at some point? Now I can't remember. Well, you can't have too many copies of The Silmarillion, that's what I always say. Actually, I've never said that before, but it seems like something I'd say.
In political news, I support this idea, and not just because I want more days off, although of course I do. It's just a good idea.
Oh, and uh, keep an eye on your Xbox, people. Apparently, it could catch fire. Which is just another in a long list of good reasons not to own one.
Also, btw, we're all going to die. Global warming seems pretty real and ugly at this point, but our president still has his fingers stuck in his ears and is singing, "la la la!" He seems to be doing that about a lot of things. Maybe he has some guys who do it for him. That's probably Karl Rove's job. |
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