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Welcome Back Kotter The Movie
Oh man it’s already a rough day. There’s a blizzard going on outside my window (when it was warm enough to go outside in a t-shirt yesterday) and on top of that it looks like they’re going to be making a Welcome Back Kotter movie. What’s that? That’s not bad enough for you? Ok… then how about this… it’s going to be staring Ice Cube as Kotter. Still not enough? Ok… the guy who wrote “The Hot Chick” is going to do the screenplay. I’m going back to bed. Some of you may remember Welcome Back Kotter as the TV vehicle that launched John Travolta’s career (at least those of you 40 or older). I remember watching re-runs as a kid now and then. I remember it being a pretty cute show… but a movie? Ug. When will these people learn? The only thing that would make this whole mess even worse is if they get John Travolta back to play the principle of the school or something. yikes… I should keep my mouth shut… I don’t want to give anyone any ideas. (via)
Audio Edition - March 13th 2006
Welcome to the “Podast of the Year” installment of The Audio Edition. Today, Doug, Darren and I talk about our excitment of winning the award… and then get on to some actual movie stuff. Stuff like Sin City 2 and Angelina Jolie’s reported involvement in it, Tom Cruise apparently learning to keep his big mouth shut and let people talk about his movies, some Hellboy 2 news, Final Fantasy reflections, Halo stuff and a few things more. You can download this installment of The Audio Edition here. To subscribe to the podcast of The Audio Edition on iTunes copy this link and then paste it into iTunes-Advanced-Subscribe to Podcast.
Hilarious King Kong Outtakes
Recently, King Kong won the Empire Awards for Best Picture. In one of the best pre-recorded acceptance speeches off all time, Peter Jackson talked about some of the “problems” with the production of the film… and the fact that he’d rather have another Oscar. Seriously… it wasn’t disrespectful at all… it was just really funny. Then, Jackson included a whole bunch of King Kong outtakes. MAN THERE IS A LOT of creative swearing in it! I almost spit up my water a couple of times I was laughing so damn hard. You really have to see this. You can see the King Kong outtakes and Peter Jackson’s acceptance speech here. (via)
Best Fan Lightsaber Fight I’ve Ever Seen
This little video is just amazing. It’s basically 2 KIDS (no really… KIDS) who pull off one of the best lightsaber fight videos I’ve ever seen. It’s amazingly well shot, nicely edited, the sound editing is almost flawless, the lightsaber effects are sharp and the fight choreography with fantastic (did I mention this was all done by KIDS?!?!?!). And it’s not some 30 second fight either. This things runs about 5 minutes long! Seriously, you should go check this thing out. I applaud these guys for what they pulled off. You can check it out here. And when you see it… forget for a minute about the lightsaber fighting (although that’ll be tough), the shots and editing in this thing are really impressive for a couple of young guys.
Brokeback Author is a Whinny Sniveling Pathetic Little Suck
This issue just isn’t going away. The conspiracy theorists about Crash winning the Best Picture Oscar over Brokeback Mountain just keep poking their ignorant little heads up to keep stirring the pot. This time it’s Annie Proulx, the author of the Brokeback Mountain Story. The good folks over at M&C are reporting that Proulx did an interview with Guardian where she spouted off some of the stupidest, self pitying, ignorant garbage I’ve heard. Basically she was crying over the loss of Brokeback Mountain to “Crash”. And she repeatedly referred to “Crash” as “Trash”. What a pathetic pouty little bitch. Here’s a snippet of the cry fest… ummm… I mean “interview”:’We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture,’ Proulx wrote. ‘And rumor has it that (Lionsgate) inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of `Trash` — excuse me — `Crash` a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves and the debate over free silver.’Oh that’s right you moron. You’re right on the money! Hollywood is being run by nothing but conservative heffalumps. I guess that’s why they nominated Brokeback for Best Picture (A nomination I still say they didn’t deserve). I guess that’s why they gave the Best Director award to it’s director. I guess that’s why they nominated 3 of it’s actors. I guess that’s why an actor portraying a gay character won Best Actor I guess that’s why an actress portraying a trans-gender character was nominated for Best Actress. Yup, that’s right Proulx… you really nailed it… Hollywood is sooo damn conservative. That must be why Brokeback Mountain lost to a better film. This “lady” redefines the term “poor sport”. Somebody shove an apple in the mouth of this pig and shut her up. And will someone tell this lady that it’s ok to disagree with the academy (I do all the time) but to bring it in the mud and to be so disrespectful of not only the industry you were just trying to win an award from, but also to your colleagues (the makers of Crash) is just unacceptable. Isn’t it ironic that a woman who writes a story that she says was partially intended to promote tolerance, then comes out with statements like this? What a hypocrite.
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