Gunter glieben glauchen globen!
Catching up in the form of headlines and blurbs.
MOVIE SCIENCE!
I should write something about Prometheus, but I feel like everyone else has beaten it to death already, and I kind of don't like the religious discussions that have cropped up around it. I liked it a lot, will probably see it again, but it had issues (wtf, self-administered abdominal surgery?!). The Fassbender was definitely my favorite thing about it, especially that he was essentially a movie geek who loved Lawrence of Arabia so much that he dyed his hair blonde to look like Peter O'Toole.
HAIR BANDS: THE MOVIE
This past weekend I went to see Rock of Ages, which I loved but which is not for everyone, I dare say. It's a cracktastic 90-minute montage of 1980s MTV nostalgia, and if you're the kind of person who always tends to sing along in full voice with all the metal anthems from twenty-something years ago, you'll probably dig it as a fun piece of summer trash. Another legendary out-there performance from Tom Cruise. I'm not sure what kind of accent (Liverpool?) Russell Brand is trying to emulate - I mean, he's already British, what the heck? One thing that put me off was the constant changing-up of singers on pretty much every song. It's like one person couldn't be allowed to sing a whole song. Every song had to be split up among a bunch of characters. It was just weird. Still a lot of fun, though. I did love that the "Tipper Gores" in the movie were singing "We're Not Gonna Take It," since Twisted Sister was one of the main targets of the Parental Advisory crusade.
PIXAR DOES SCOTLAND
Very much looking forward to Brave this weekend. I'm hearing comments from people who were disappointed with it, but I like everything I've seen and heard so far.
BUYER BEWARE
In other news, apparently Fifty Shades of [Crap] is the fastest-selling paperback ever, outstripping HP. This would matter more to me if paperback (and e-reader versions) were not the only formats for that, errr, work. It's still got nothing on the opening weeks of the latter HP books.
ONCE WAS ENOUGH, THANKS!
In semi-related news, there's been talk of ... wait for it ... rebooting the Twilight films. The studio is denying it, but apparently Stephenie Meyer has been saying in interviews that she'd like to see it rebooted for the five (FIVE) year anniversary. I wonder if she misunderstood and was actually talking about a re-release instead. That makes a *little* more sense (as it's way too late to start developing a reboot for next year). I love how people believing the reboot story point to the fact that the current movies are so bad - as if a remake is going to change that when it's the source material that's so dreadful!
HP BADFIC STILL GOING STRONG
Speaking of dreadful, if you love badfic and enjoy Mark Reads, check out his dramatic reading of a fic called "Hermione and the Pizza Boy". I don't always find his readings funny, but this one is pretty golden. SIR FRANCIS DRACO! COMMAS EVERYWHERE! CLASSIC H/HR RON CHARACTERIZATION!
MARK AND BUFFY
OH! And speaking of Mark, he's getting ready to start Season 6 of Buffy (and Season 3 of Angel). I burned through the whole season this past weekend and will watch it again, interwoven with the Angel episodes, as he goes through them, and I kind of can't wait to see his reaction to Willow's S6 arc. And Xander's hero moment. And Spuffy. And the Trio ("Stop touching my magic bone!"). And just how generally messed up everything is. I know a lot of people tuned out and didn't like Season 6, but I just want to give it and all the characters a big hug.
MARK AND POTUS
ALSO, he's done his watching schedule up through mid-March, and on the (I think) 16th of March, HE WILL BE STARTING THE WEST WING. I am so excited about this, I can hardly stand it! This is pretty much the first non-"genre" series he'll have done, so it should be a nice change of pace. I'm now going through and trying to figure which character(s) he'll latch on to as favorites. I'm thinking Donna. And the beautifully pedantic Sam. And I hope his atheist sensibilities respond positively to something I've always loved about the show, which is the distinction it makes between people of faith and jackass religious agenda-pushers - which it does in the very first episode in one of the greatest scenes ever captured for television (I LOVE YOU, TOBY ZIEGLER!!!).
THEATER TALK
Seeing Harvey with Jim Parsons tomorrow night (or tonight, I guess I should say). Will post about it if I can. My drama class did this play my eighth grade year, so I imagine I'll have *something* to say about it.
MOVIE SCIENCE!
I should write something about Prometheus, but I feel like everyone else has beaten it to death already, and I kind of don't like the religious discussions that have cropped up around it. I liked it a lot, will probably see it again, but it had issues (wtf, self-administered abdominal surgery?!). The Fassbender was definitely my favorite thing about it, especially that he was essentially a movie geek who loved Lawrence of Arabia so much that he dyed his hair blonde to look like Peter O'Toole.
HAIR BANDS: THE MOVIE
This past weekend I went to see Rock of Ages, which I loved but which is not for everyone, I dare say. It's a cracktastic 90-minute montage of 1980s MTV nostalgia, and if you're the kind of person who always tends to sing along in full voice with all the metal anthems from twenty-something years ago, you'll probably dig it as a fun piece of summer trash. Another legendary out-there performance from Tom Cruise. I'm not sure what kind of accent (Liverpool?) Russell Brand is trying to emulate - I mean, he's already British, what the heck? One thing that put me off was the constant changing-up of singers on pretty much every song. It's like one person couldn't be allowed to sing a whole song. Every song had to be split up among a bunch of characters. It was just weird. Still a lot of fun, though. I did love that the "Tipper Gores" in the movie were singing "We're Not Gonna Take It," since Twisted Sister was one of the main targets of the Parental Advisory crusade.
PIXAR DOES SCOTLAND
Very much looking forward to Brave this weekend. I'm hearing comments from people who were disappointed with it, but I like everything I've seen and heard so far.
BUYER BEWARE
In other news, apparently Fifty Shades of [Crap] is the fastest-selling paperback ever, outstripping HP. This would matter more to me if paperback (and e-reader versions) were not the only formats for that, errr, work. It's still got nothing on the opening weeks of the latter HP books.
ONCE WAS ENOUGH, THANKS!
In semi-related news, there's been talk of ... wait for it ... rebooting the Twilight films. The studio is denying it, but apparently Stephenie Meyer has been saying in interviews that she'd like to see it rebooted for the five (FIVE) year anniversary. I wonder if she misunderstood and was actually talking about a re-release instead. That makes a *little* more sense (as it's way too late to start developing a reboot for next year). I love how people believing the reboot story point to the fact that the current movies are so bad - as if a remake is going to change that when it's the source material that's so dreadful!
HP BADFIC STILL GOING STRONG
Speaking of dreadful, if you love badfic and enjoy Mark Reads, check out his dramatic reading of a fic called "Hermione and the Pizza Boy". I don't always find his readings funny, but this one is pretty golden. SIR FRANCIS DRACO! COMMAS EVERYWHERE! CLASSIC H/HR RON CHARACTERIZATION!
MARK AND BUFFY
OH! And speaking of Mark, he's getting ready to start Season 6 of Buffy (and Season 3 of Angel). I burned through the whole season this past weekend and will watch it again, interwoven with the Angel episodes, as he goes through them, and I kind of can't wait to see his reaction to Willow's S6 arc. And Xander's hero moment. And Spuffy. And the Trio ("Stop touching my magic bone!"). And just how generally messed up everything is. I know a lot of people tuned out and didn't like Season 6, but I just want to give it and all the characters a big hug.
MARK AND POTUS
ALSO, he's done his watching schedule up through mid-March, and on the (I think) 16th of March, HE WILL BE STARTING THE WEST WING. I am so excited about this, I can hardly stand it! This is pretty much the first non-"genre" series he'll have done, so it should be a nice change of pace. I'm now going through and trying to figure which character(s) he'll latch on to as favorites. I'm thinking Donna. And the beautifully pedantic Sam. And I hope his atheist sensibilities respond positively to something I've always loved about the show, which is the distinction it makes between people of faith and jackass religious agenda-pushers - which it does in the very first episode in one of the greatest scenes ever captured for television (I LOVE YOU, TOBY ZIEGLER!!!).
THEATER TALK
Seeing Harvey with Jim Parsons tomorrow night (or tonight, I guess I should say). Will post about it if I can. My drama class did this play my eighth grade year, so I imagine I'll have *something* to say about it.