Thursday, October 30, 2008

Monday, October 27, 2008

Blu Ray Releases for 10/28 Previewed Crappily by Blue

* Baraka (MPI) - Crap.

* Beat the Devil (Blu-ray Only) - Crap.

* Between The Lines: Sara Bareilles Live At The Filmore (Sony Music) - Chick's hot. But music blu ray = crap.

* The Bird People of China (Artsmagic) - Miike crap.

* Blackalicious: 4/20 Live in Seattle (MVD Group) - Fucking crap.

* Cannibal Taboo (MVD Group) - Crap. (probably)

* Cruel World (Echo Bridge) - Crap. Haven't seen it, but it has Edward Furlong.

* Dead Space: Downfall (Anchor Bay) - Probably crap.

* Elf (New Line) - Don't care. Crap.

* Essential Holiday Collection (Warner) - Yawn. Crap.

* The Final Countdown (Blue Underground) - Cool but waiting on Blue Underground's Argento discs.

* The Final Patient (Echo Bridge) - It's Echo Bridge. Easy call. Crap.

* Hell Ride (Weinstein) - Tarantino acts in this I think. Therefore crap.

* Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (MVD Group) - The title is the best part. Crap.

* Journey to the Center of the Earth (Limited Edition) (2008) (New Line Cinema) - Wretched Crap.

* Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (New Line) - Crap.

* Last Time I Saw Paris (Blu-ray Only) - Crap.

* Mysterious Island (Echo Bridge) - More Echo Bridge. Crap.

* The Polar Express Presented in 3-D (Warner) - Holiday zombies by Zemeckis. Crap.

* The Prince & Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon (First Look) - Vomit.

* The Prince & Me 2: Royal Wedding (First Look) - Vomit.

* Saving God (Echo Bridge) - Go die Echo Bridge.

* Tinker Bell (Walt Disney) - Walt Disney would probably be rolling in his grave if he himself had not been a greedy evil bastard.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Playtime is over.

Answer the question, squinty.

The rockets go up...

who cares where they come down, "that's not my department" says Wernher Von Braun.

Economy Bitches!

Friday, October 24, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Monday, October 20, 2008

Two really smart guys.

Blu Ray Releases for 10/20 Previewed Briefly by Blue

* The Breed (First Look) - The Birds with wild genetically enhanced dogs. Starring Michelle Rodriguez. Winner. Not.

* Casino Royale (2006, Collector's Edition) (Sony) - Double dip, dunno the difference, it's just a cash-in with the new movie though.

* Diary of the Dead (Weinstein) - 15 minutes of genuine creepiness towards the end doesn't imo excuse the other 80 minutes or so of bad acting and lame dialogue. If this had been made by a 25 year old as their first movie I'd give it a pass, but it's George GD Romero! Give me a break. Not his worst movie but far from his best.

* Die Another Day (MGM) - A lot of people hate this Bond film, and it is by far the most over the top of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds, but I still find a lot to like about it. Don't need it on blu ray though.

* Dr. No (MGM) - Connery pretty much sells this flick, it's somewhat goofy, but he grounds it and makes it believable. Plus Ursula Andress is hot, and it's nice to see Bond be such a bastard, before he got demasculated.

* Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Vivendi Visual) - Title is intentionally ironic I guess, because it's basically using Michael Moore's discredited propaganda techniques to try and convince people that Intelligent Design is a science and not bullshit. Of course, the only people dumb enough to fall for it already believe in it, so...

* For Your Eyes Only (MGM) - One of the better and more serious Roger Moore Bond movies, it's a fun flick.

* From Dusk 'Til Dawn (Walt Disney) - This is not actually coming out in the US, the release list I always steal from never got updated after it was initially listed.

* From Russia with Love (MGM) - My all-time favorite Bond film. Before the plots went over the top, but after the clumsiness of the initial attempt with Dr No, this is pure cinematic bliss. Top it off with imo the hottest Bond girl of all time, Daniela Bianchi.

* Halloween (2007) (Weinstein) - I sort of feel an obligation to despise this movie, but I found it so funny while watching it in the theater that I just can't. Rob Zombie is a functioning retard behind the camera, but it's an honest to god R-rated horror film so I give it a pass. Plus it's just so stupid!

* Holiday Favorites with the Wonderland Carolers (Cinevolve) - Wuh?

* The Incredible Hulk (2008) (Universal) - Okay, got this confused with the original when the original hit blu ray last month, this is the one I prefer. Norton does a really good job as Banner and the movie is exciting imo.

* James Bond Collection Three-Pack: Volume 1 (Die Another Day, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball) (MGM) - Just a bundle of the individually released discs.

* James Bond Collection Three-Pack: Volume 2 (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die) (MGM) - Just a bundle of the individually released discs.

* Live and Let Die (MGM) - Moore's first Bond and it's silly as balls. Lamest villain death alert.

* The Strangers (2008) (Universal) - A lot of people are saying this was the best horror film of the year, but I'm skeptical. It DID have an awesome trailer, but it's such a tired premise. At least it wasn't shot entirely from the perspective of a character with a video camera. Small mercies.

* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (DreamWorks) - Burton and Depp's latest collaboration is excellent, though I tend to be more forgiving of Burton than most. I only really dislike his Planet of the Apes.

* Thunderball (MGM) - People talk about Goldfinger being the touchstone of the Bond franchise, but if you look into it, this film really is. It refines the template from Goldfinger that most Bond films to follow, and is actually the most successful Bond picture, in terms of adjusted gross/ticket sales. In todays dollars Thunderball would be bigger than The Dark Knight. That said, it's really the most rote of the initial run of Connery films.

* The Woods Have Eyes (Echo Bridge) - Generic rip-offy title and no recognizable actors, no plot listed at amazon, and it's by Echo Bridge. All this fails to spell cinematic classic.

HOLY FRAK!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008

Worst Bar!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Sunday, October 12, 2008

They even Let Felons Vote!

Blu Ray Releases for 10/14 Previewed Briefly by Blue

* American Gangster (Universal) - This movie sounds great on paper and it's well made and well acted, but in the final analysis it falls short of being truly great. It expends a lot of effort to be a classic crime drama but ends up struggling to be average.

* Casino (Universal) - Worthwhile but inferior followup to Goodfellas.

* The Code (First Look) - Okay this is on the list of releases but I can't find any evidence this movie actually exists.

* Constantine (Warner) - The comic was about a blonde British magician/con man who outwits the devil for his soul. The movie was about a dark haired American freelance exorcist who lives above a bowling alley and had a gold crucifix shotgun he uses to kill cgi demons. Yeah, guess which was better. Still it's kind of entertaining.

* Eastern Promises (Universal) - Cronenberg's not-weird period continues. It turns out Cronenberg is a lot better than most at doing crime drama, as this is fairly original for the genre, as was A History of Violence.

* Gangster Giftset (American Gangster, Casino, Eastern Promises) (Universal) - See individual reviews.

* IMAX: Coral Reef Adventure (Image) - Yawn.

* IMAX: Cosmic Voyage/Destiny In Space (Warner) - Yawn.

* IMAX: Dolphins (Image) - Yawn.

* IMAX: Space Station/Mission to Mir (Warner) - Yawn.

* IMAX: The Living Sea (Image) - Wow this is an interesting disc. Just kidding. Yawn.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount Entetainment) - Nuh? Buh? An actual NEW movie release this week? Wow. I liked this, but I can't deny that it's weak sauce as far as the Indy series goes.

* The Jewel of the Nile (Fox) - Remember when Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner were sex symbols? When I was like 5? Yeah. Generally fun movies but wow, so 80s.

* Mongol (Universal) - An incredibly frustrating experience at the theater. Basically this is Genghis Khan: The Early Years. And apparantly all Genghis Khan did as a kid and young man was constantly run away from his enemies, betray his friends, and walk around the desert. Seriously, this movie sucked. We see his humiliations in great detail, basically he loses every fight for 99% of the film, then at the end there's a huge battle that's mostly off screen, that he wins. This battle is won by an army they gloss over him recruiting, btw. The whole production is a waste. Pass pass pass.

* Poltergeist (Warner) - Tobe Hooper's big try at getting into the A List was actually a huge success, but it didn't do him any good, as there have been constant rumors of producer Spielberg being the actual director. Which is probably not that far off the mark. Anyway I don't really care for this movie, it's better than stuff like The Amityville Horror, but it's still in the "ooh scary fart cloud ghosts!".

* The Rocker (Fox) - This actually was well reviewed. Sank like a rock, though. Sounds like a wait-for-cable sitch.

* Romancing the Stone (Fox) - See Jewel of the Nile preview,

* Standard Operating Procedure (Sony) - Errol Morris is one of the best documentarians around, but I'm not really big on his interview style, it feels off to me.

* The Ultimate Matrix Collection (Warner) - Honesty time: none of these movies hold up outside of the action scenes.

* The Universe: Season One (A&E) - Yawn.

* War, Inc. (First Look) - What happened to John Cusack being awesome? Come on man, you can do it again. This is surely not it.

* War: Greatest Hits - Live (Warner Music Group) - Yay, boring music blu ray of the week. What's it good for? Absolutely nothing.

NEIN!

Andy Three

You Betcha

OH NOES THE NEGROES!

Explorers.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Boats.


Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Let me run to buy this record!


Seriously though, I would buy this record >_>

3;25am FNORDcinco Update

Enchanted Rules!

Don't eat the apple!

Anyone look familar? (Hint 1:31)

They raped him ;_;

SP12e08

La Job.


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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008

Rumble in Moscow.


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Riddle Me This!

CINCO!

How come they dont play that cool part through the whole song?


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Black Black 4

Dearly Blogging Dexter

Wildcat?

Wildcat key to Succcess!
I never knew!

Blu Ray Releases for 10/07 Previewed Briefly by Blue

* The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (Sony) - Ooh Harryhausen on blu ray. It'll be interesting to see how his stop motion footage holds up in the higher resolution, as there was already an easily discernible difference in quality in the dvds. I kind of love this movie, not for any rational reason, and not even for the creature fx, I just love the whole style of the production and the sfx of the heroine shrunken down by the evil wizard. Not the best Harryhausen film(Jason and the Argonauts or Clash of the Titans is that) but a personal pleasure.

* The Amityville Horror (1979) (MGM) - Alleged classic, that launched a thousand weak haunted house ripoffs. Ghosts. Just. Aren't. Intimidating. Seriously. They're little spazzy clouds. Get over it.

* Beetlejuice (Warner) - Now, they may not be physically intimidating, but they can really be funny, as this classic proves. Tim Burton gets a lot of flack these days but imo he had an amazing run for his first ten years or so. This is his second film, and it still feels fresh and original today.

* Body Heat (Warner) - I don't like Kathleen Turner. Just don't. Don't find her especially attractive, either. She comes off sort of drag-queeny to me.

* Carrie (1976) (MGM) - A classic, and the movie that launched both Brian DePalma and Stephen King to fame. Both have suffered artistically since(after creative peaks following this film) but this stands the test of time. Fun fact, Sissy Spacek had been cast as Princess Leia in Star Wars, and Carrie Fisher as Carrie in this, but Lucas and DePalma, who were friends, were sharing their audition space and decided to swap lead actresses. I don't think anyone's ever complained. I can see Carrie Fisher playing Carrie, but not Sissy Spacek as Princess Leia.

* Faces of Death (Gorgon) - A collection of gruesome real life news video and out-right shams. None of this was ever even DVD quality footage so don't waste your money.

* The Happening (Fox) - Hahahahahahahahhahaha. Hahahahahahahahaha. Hahahahaha.

* Korn: Live on the Other Side (Image) - Korn, a nerd band pretending to be hardcore, for fans of the same type.

* The Omen (1976) (Fox) - Eh, I hated the remake but this original isn't really much better imo. Kind of junky even back then.

* The Omen: The Collection (Fox) - Despite what I said about the first film above I really do hold a place in my heart for the sequels. Guilty pleasures for sure.

* Otis: Uncut (Warner) - I should ask Blulighter about this film because although I've seen the title mentioned for seemingly ever on horror movie websites I never bothered to actually look into whether it was any good. In any case it's new horror so buyer beware.

* Ray Harryhausen Collection (20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, It Came From Beneath the Sea, 7th Voyage of Sinbad) (Sony) - If you like Harryhausen these are all must-buys, though to tell the truth I find most of them slightly boring. They're good once every five years on a rainy saturday afternoon.

* Rest Stop (Warner) - New horror. Dunno what this is, the cover art for the dvd at Walmart(horror found easily at Walmart is usually a bad sign first off) reminds me of Wrong Turn, which I sort of liked. Although really it was kind of inexplicable that I liked that, so this probably stinks. Sound logic, I say.

* Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (Warner) - A sequel for a movie I never bothered to see. Sounds like a winner.

* Sleeping Beauty (Walt Disney) - Supposedly this looks amazing on blu ray but I'm not a big Disney fan so pass. Probably guaranteed enjoyment to anyone else though.

* Stuck (Image) - Stuart Gordon is always worth a shot. Rental though.

* The Visitor (2008) (Starz) - One of the best reviewed films of the year, but it didn't look like anything that needs to be seen in blu ray quality.

* You Don't Mess with The Zohan (Sony) - Adam Sandler. Yawn.

* Young Frankenstein (Fox) - Outright classic, but suffers from poor rewatchability for me. I much prefer The Producers and Blazing Saddles.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Bill O'Reilly sputters incoherently.

But at least he guests on who disagree with him, even if it is just to yell at them. Olbermann never has guests who disagree.

Better watch it or I'll rape you so hard this blog will stink

Comedian Tells Off Rude Woman On Stage

Episode 2

Wednesday, October 1, 2008