Another Day
► Not a lot going on today. I finished my chocolate cake from yesterday, so there's that. Dean missed today and is missing tomorrow, so I'm still not convinced she's finally going back to work this week after almost two months. She really needs to get her feet back under herself and push through this. I keep worrying that she might end up developing agoraphobia and turn out like me.
My brother never called me back after yesterday's birthday wish-abrupt hangup call, so I suppose that's that. My sister-in-law's sister is having a 2 days 25th birthday bash in Ottawa this coming weekend. I joked to Dean that I'm expecting to get a phone call this week to house sit for my brother and sister-in-law while they go, but Dean pointed out that the party is most likely "girls only".
I freely admit to some jealous after my 30th and now 35th birthdays were so mundane and lonely, and the stuff with my brother over the past week just further hits home that he's really not my friend anymore, and I'm just "favour guy" to him. Mind you I do feel guilty about these rather self-pitying thoughts since it's such a pathetically pointless thing to be bothered about in the grand scheme of life. But "it is what it is".
► 10 Incredible Star Wars Collections - I just can not see myself ever having a geek collection that obsessively specific to one franchise. As much as I love Superman and want more Superman stuff, I can't see myself not also celebrating my love for other comic book characters, movies, and pop culture stuff.
► 52 Reasons Why JURASSIC PARK Might Just Be the Greatest Film of all Time - ...and there's 1 reason why Jurassic Park isn't the greatest film of all time: It's not Jaws.
► 11 Cheesiest Movie Product Placements Of All Time - Mac and Me has to be one of if not the most cynical movies ever made. Take a sentimental megahit (E.T.) copy the premise, but make the hero disabled to up the saccharine, then dump endless product placement, a 5 minute long commercial for McDonald's with a 100 dancing kids who just hang out at the restaurant. There is not one moment in the film that does not feel manufactured or natural. It's a movie made by bean-counters, and watching it one feels like they're witnessing evil (albeit a benign evil).
The product placement was really bad in Chuck: Season 3, all the blatant Subway references and commercial pitch lines. It was pretty distracting at times, but I suppose it was a necessary evil since the Subway sponsorship is what helped keep the show on the air.
► Some 1980s and 1990s Movies That Actually Should Be Remade - Most of these don't need remakes, and anyone who thinks Innerspace needs to be remade should be slapped. Repeatedly. That said, I think instead of a direct remake of the Goonies, I think they could expand to a semi-remake-spin off. Maybe the Goonies from the original have kids that go off on an adventure?
The Flash Gordon movie was itself just an adaption and remake of the comic strip and 1940s movie serials, so it is due for a new movie version. Just don't make it as spoofy and campy as the 1980 film, or as bland and dumb down as the recent TV series. That show was awful. They split off Flash's ingenuity and brains to Dale Arden and his physical prowess to an invented alien female bodyguard, making Flash Gordon himself redundant and useless in his own self-titled show. What was the point of even calling it Flash Gordon after that? Aside from name recognition.
► Big Trouble in Little China: Coup De Villes music video - I finally hung up my framed Bride of Frankenstein and Big Trouble In Little China movie posters! Only visible when you walk into my bedroom or stand in the doorway...
Quote of the Moment
Elliot: I'll believe in you all my life.
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Drinking: water
Eating: leftover chocolate cake
Watching: handjob porn
My brother never called me back after yesterday's birthday wish-abrupt hangup call, so I suppose that's that. My sister-in-law's sister is having a 2 days 25th birthday bash in Ottawa this coming weekend. I joked to Dean that I'm expecting to get a phone call this week to house sit for my brother and sister-in-law while they go, but Dean pointed out that the party is most likely "girls only".
I freely admit to some jealous after my 30th and now 35th birthdays were so mundane and lonely, and the stuff with my brother over the past week just further hits home that he's really not my friend anymore, and I'm just "favour guy" to him. Mind you I do feel guilty about these rather self-pitying thoughts since it's such a pathetically pointless thing to be bothered about in the grand scheme of life. But "it is what it is".
► 10 Incredible Star Wars Collections - I just can not see myself ever having a geek collection that obsessively specific to one franchise. As much as I love Superman and want more Superman stuff, I can't see myself not also celebrating my love for other comic book characters, movies, and pop culture stuff.
► 52 Reasons Why JURASSIC PARK Might Just Be the Greatest Film of all Time - ...and there's 1 reason why Jurassic Park isn't the greatest film of all time: It's not Jaws.
► 11 Cheesiest Movie Product Placements Of All Time - Mac and Me has to be one of if not the most cynical movies ever made. Take a sentimental megahit (E.T.) copy the premise, but make the hero disabled to up the saccharine, then dump endless product placement, a 5 minute long commercial for McDonald's with a 100 dancing kids who just hang out at the restaurant. There is not one moment in the film that does not feel manufactured or natural. It's a movie made by bean-counters, and watching it one feels like they're witnessing evil (albeit a benign evil).
The product placement was really bad in Chuck: Season 3, all the blatant Subway references and commercial pitch lines. It was pretty distracting at times, but I suppose it was a necessary evil since the Subway sponsorship is what helped keep the show on the air.
► Some 1980s and 1990s Movies That Actually Should Be Remade - Most of these don't need remakes, and anyone who thinks Innerspace needs to be remade should be slapped. Repeatedly. That said, I think instead of a direct remake of the Goonies, I think they could expand to a semi-remake-spin off. Maybe the Goonies from the original have kids that go off on an adventure?
The Flash Gordon movie was itself just an adaption and remake of the comic strip and 1940s movie serials, so it is due for a new movie version. Just don't make it as spoofy and campy as the 1980 film, or as bland and dumb down as the recent TV series. That show was awful. They split off Flash's ingenuity and brains to Dale Arden and his physical prowess to an invented alien female bodyguard, making Flash Gordon himself redundant and useless in his own self-titled show. What was the point of even calling it Flash Gordon after that? Aside from name recognition.
► Big Trouble in Little China: Coup De Villes music video - I finally hung up my framed Bride of Frankenstein and Big Trouble In Little China movie posters! Only visible when you walk into my bedroom or stand in the doorway...
Click to viewQuote of the Moment
Elliot: I'll believe in you all my life.
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Drinking: water
Eating: leftover chocolate cake
Watching: handjob porn