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| Sunday, November 27, 2005 09:19 AM |
| Exhiliration and Retribution |
 by Fëanor |
- Happy belated Thanksgiving, everybody! Hope you had a good one. My holiday weekend has so far been spent eating vast quantities of good food that was very bad for me, and playing vast quantities of video games (mostly Baten Kaitos, which I now officially love and am addicted to, btw), so it was a very happy one for me, thank you! Anyway, what with all the excitement, I've only just gotten the chance now, in the middle of the night, to catch up with all my blogs, so expect a nice long post.
- This appears to be, more specifically, a list of reasons why you should buy the Revolution instead of the Xbox 360. It's almost convinced me. But then again, I never wanted a 360, anyway.
- I have a love/hate relationship with David Cronenberg and his films, but I was interested to hear that he has now been tapped to direct an adaptation of an Italian novel called I Kill about a murderer who announces his crime beforehand on the radio, then cuts some peoples' faces off to make masks out of them. Whoa! Yeah, that sounds like Cronenberg, all right.
- Although I think it really kind of fell apart at the end, I really did enjoy a large portion of "Twin Peaks," and I am definitely a David Lynch fan. Lynch puts stuff on the screen that you simply have never seen there before. His work is absolutely unique. All of which is just to say, I'd be pretty interested if they made another "Twin Peaks" movie.
- I don't always see eye to eye with the folks at The Move Blog, but I am totally in agreement with their assessment of the upcoming Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy. I expect it to be a completely unfunny waste of money, time, and film. Kind of like Cheaper by the Dozen 2. I'd ask, "How does this shit get made?" But I know the answer: because there's about a million idiotic chumps in America who'd pay to go see it. I'm betting they all voted for Bush, too.
- It takes forever to download, but you seriously need to watch this trailer for In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. It's the latest "video game adaptation"/"complete and utter travesty" from Uwe Boll. Throughout the whole thing, your jaw will keep dropping a little further, and you'll keep asking yourself, "Is this real? No, really, is this really real?? Holy crap, is that Burt Reynolds?! And Ray Liotta?!?" And somehow...the answer is always yes. It's as if they remade Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie, but this time with much more famous actors and a much bigger budget for stunts and effects, and it turned out just as bad, but in a more grand and incredible way. The thirteen-year-old fantasy/action geek in me loves the look of this movie, and the film-lover adult in me is horrified by it, but both parts of me want to see it. It just looks so spectacularly, unbelievably awful.
- Btw, I got to the trailer in the previous bullet point via this Cinematical post, which also mentions an upcoming movie called Ultraviolet starring Milla Jovovich. They link to a picture of her - all suited up and in action - from the movie, and explain that she's part of a group of superhuman vampires who are being killed off by regular humans. I'm sorry, did somebody say "Milla Jovovich," and then "vampires?" I'm in.
- This shortened rewrite of the script of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (via Sarcasmo's Corner) is genius. Filthy, filthy genius. "Dear Steven Kloves, Owned! Love, the Interweb."
- I've never seen All That Jazz, I was underwhelmed by Hard-Boiled, and I kind of hated MASH and Shane, but this is a list, so I had to link to it. To be more specific, it's seven memorable cinematic deaths, and it's the latest Cinematical Seven. And really, there are some great descriptions and analyses in here, even of the movies I don't like, and I do love the scenes she lists from Bonnie and Clyde and The Third Man. (I love the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, too, but I don't remember the scene she's talking about here.) So yeah, this is a fun list, and you should check it out.
- Well, I was hoping for somebody whose music I actually like, but at least I got somebody who's totally f'ing crazy. Via Cyn:
Captain Beefheart... you are one of the first
modern fucked-up geniuses. When it comes to
creating, you rank right up there with the
likes of James Mangan, John Wilmot and Edvard
Munch.
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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