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| Thursday, October 20, 2005 04:04 PM |
| Longish Notes on the Coming Apocalypse |
 by Fëanor |
- A warning, via sarcasmoscorner:
| NOTE: z | | No smoking around feanor. Thank you for your co-operation. |
From Go-Quiz.com
- Some interesting things popped up in Cinematical's regular run-down of Variety. A gritty science fiction film that will supposedly do for sci-fi movies what Bourne Identity did for action movies, and from a former writer for "Firefly," no less, sounds pretty exciting, but we'll see what happens with this. So far it's just a pitch that Universal has bought, and doesn't even have a title yet, as far as I can tell.
A movie that's a little further along in development is Balls of Fury, and it sounds pretty killer: "a comedy about a pro Ping Pong player who, fallen from grace, languishes in a Vegas act until the CIA recruits him for a job." Dude, I'd see that.
Also, if you want to catch a Star Wars movie on TV at some point in the next six years, you're going to have to tune into Spike TV; they've got an exclusive broadcast deal on the whole series. Crazy!
Of course, another way to see all six movies would be to come to my Star Wars saga ho-down that I still have to set a date for, as soon as I get my grubby hands on a copy of the Revenge of the Sith DVD. We will be watching the original VHS versions of the first three movies, by popular request, and because my brother's father-in-law agreed to lend them to me and I never gave them back.
- I posted a story a while ago about how the government was trying to take our porn away from us; turns out that's not what the good Congressman Mike Pence meant to do at all with his Children's Safety Act! Him and the entertainment people are getting together to make sure there won't be any unintended consequences of his bill - like legitimate, non-kiddie porn disappearing. Whew.
- I saw Nicolas Roeg's super-weird alien movie starring David Bowie (The Man Who Fell to Earth) a long time ago, and found it generally confusing, strange, and pointless, but otherwise kind of okay. I hear the new Criterion re-release is a different and better version of the movie, so maybe I'll give it another chance. I mention all this because Roeg is currently at work on a new project (his first feature film in ten years) called Adina, and it sounds pretty cool. It's a horror movie that "explores the idea that there is no linear time - no yesterday, today or tomorrow. Everything that ever has happened or ever will happen is happening right now - simultaneously." Even better, our two main characters are members of "a new race of immortals who depend on sex to maintain their youth." Nice.
- It might be straight-to-video, but apparently there's going to be a feature-length animated Conan movie called Red Nails starring the voice talents of the mighty Ron Perlman (as the man himself), the great Mark Hamill, and the sexy (according to some...I ran out of adjectives, okay!) James Marsden. Speaking as a fan of all those performers, of animation, and of the film Conan: The Barbarian (seriously, it's not just an empty-headed Arnold action flick; it's really good!), I say this is exciting stuff, people!
- Another Cinematical run-down of Variety brings us more interesting news: Netflix is doing very well (yay!), and somebody's thinking about remaking The Seven Samurai again (boo!). Admittedly, The Magnificent Seven is pretty good, and I love A Bug's Life (not technically a remake, but the story is mighty similar), but...come on! It's Kurosawa! Lay off the master's work, you cheap hacks!
- Hey, in that one relatively recent U2 song, either Bono is actually trying to subtly insult the person he's talking to, or he didn't really think through his lyrics very carefully. He says, "You look so beautiful tonight/in the city of blinding lights." So, you're saying we look beautiful...when you're being blinded?! That's like saying somebody has a good face for radio! F you, Bono!
P.S. Also, Bono can't count. "Uno, dos, tres, catorce"? That's "One, two, three, fourteen"!
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