It's on Hulu, and it's an absolutely riveting train wreck. Worth watching just for the worst example of "sitcom character has a friggin' enormous apartment" I can think of. I don't care if you're playing a powerful editor, Parker Posey, you basically live in a converted gymnasium.
Depends on the casting. Because we all know who would be excellent with kids:
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Make it happen, Hollywood.
Counterpoint:
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Best movie of all time.
It was super uncomfortable taking a friend to see this movie because I remembered actually liking to the book. First rule of adaptation: some things seem less alarming in writing than they do when actually acted out by people. For example, poop stuff. Now I know!
I was going to make some pun about cleaning products using something from Rob Zombie's career, but then I was Googling his albums and none of his songs were even a little recognizable and I realized what I was spending time on and now I hate everything.
"Hey Mr. Doughnut man, who's trying to kill ya? I don't know but they better not!"
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I get what you're saying, and I didn't totally dislike the movie, but I'm not JJ Abrams' mother and therefore don't need to hang his macaroni art on the fridge.
Also, since that thing ate lots of people but also was said to have an instant psychic link with anyone it touched, are we supposed to believe that kid was the only remotely sympathetic person it ever touched? Everyone else just screamed and mentally hated, didn't think anything that might inspire mercy sooner? Or maybe the alien is like the Dread Pirate Roberts, it just needed someone to say please.
Once the action kicked in it was SO MUCH action, to the point where it was ridiculous that these kids were running around unscathed but also suddenly covered in soot like they were Newsies.
I feel like they didn't even try with the ending because then they'd have to admit that things got out of hand and their town is basically a crater now so they're still in big trouble. I'm sure the government is just going to let everyone go back to their lives in Craterville, because they certainly didn't see too much, nope. But at least they made a hideous alien friend who left forever.
I would suggest a Videogum Neil Patrick Harris Promise, because he's clearly the best, but that would take up a lot of our time since he's also clearly everywhere.
Also, I was actually kind of glad when Luke's long lost daughter April showed up because that meant I had been technically correct all along in thinking Luke was a DILF.
I love that trying to make movies or TV shows about bloggers might be a new thing. I was going to argue that watching someone type isn't very compelling, but Birdie already proved me wrong on that one.
I imagine that my experience seeing the show this morning is what it must be like for a robot who is trying but can't understand human emotions. They seemed really earnest about the whole thing and yet I felt nothing.
You know, back in 2003 when I saw the Charlize Theron joint "Monster", I actually thought that was it for "Don't Stop Believin'". I even told people, that's it, that song is done, it's forever going to be linked to Aileen Wuornos.
Yes I was incorrect but I'm not wrong.
My whole thing with "Lost in Translation" is that it came out just after I moved away for my freshman year of college, and I remember being so excited to be in a big city with an art theater showing a grown up movie for adults. So I can't be objective, that was like my "Mary Tyler Moore throws her hat into the air" moment, only sitting quietly in a theater.
If we're following the Spoonful of Sugar theory, did they think that the telephone history lesson was going to make the manners lecture more exciting, or vice versa?
An unexpected focus on indies this time around. Still looking forward to it, but remember when bad movies had explosions and former pro-wrestlers and sometimes even exploding former pro-wrestlers?
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