First rule of Horrorthon is: watch horror movies. Second rule of Horrorthon is: write about it. Warn us. Tempt us. The one who watches the most movies in 31 days wins. There is no prize.
Deflowering poetry You never forget your first AC takes the prize
(Sorry for the abridged wrap-up. Despite hilariousness on everyone's part, and a stellar run-through of topics by JSP, AC takes it with her first haiku out of the gate, which captured everything I was talking about. Congrats, girl!)
Yep, that's what the new Spider-Man film is going to be called, which I like. I'm also digging the new-ish look. I was watching Spider-Man 2 the other day and it just confirmed for me how much I dislike Rami's trilogy. The FX don’t work and I think the cast is just all wrong. Rami actually admitted that he tried to keep characters out of their masks as much as possible because he wanted us to see the “human” side of things. Bleech. I’ve never been a huge Spider-Man fan, but I’m optimistic about the new one, which comes out on July 3, 2012. It's being shot in 3D, which is a big "meh" for me, but I'll reserve (some) judgment.
This is really funny. Oddly enough I recently read The Great Gatsby and this Super Mario-like game seems to follow the book exactly, with all the little details. Level 1, for example, is entitled "Gatsby's Party", which includes the man in the library.
From geekology, This is a Castle Grayskull igloo built in Brooklyn, NY by artist Kilroy III and some of his friends. As you can see, it's pretty f***ing awesome. Well, provided you can get past how it looks like it was designed to fit 400 of Frosty's wieners in its mouth. Other than that though, totally sweet.
I was perusing the Grammy nominees yesterday, while pretending to work, and came across this video for Arcade Fire's Suburbia. (Although I wasn't thrilled with their performance of Month of May on the Grammys; I think that had more to do with the crappy sound issues the telecast had going all night long.)
Anyway. I really love the following video and the song. Apparently this was directed by Spike Jonze. The feeling of the kids in the beginning as they hang out made me long for those kind of do nothing days of early adolescence. Before things got all crappy. Hope you guys enjoy!
Oh my GOD, that was incredible. It's an Indian action movie about a renegade robot or cyborg played by a chunky Indian dude with a white skunk-streak in his hair. He has magnetic powers, or something, and this enables him to pull ridiculous stunts. Eventually there's an army of that guy and they mesh together to do crazy stuff, like a giant snake made out of guys with a guy tongue that sticks out and the guy on the end fires machine guns.
But they're GREAT. They're cheesy, cheaply done and too over the top, but the narrative of these action sequences in this make the Transformers movies look like the pile of poo they are. This is exactly what I'm talking about when I rant about good vs. bad action scenes; this is some real imagination and skillful execution at work here.
The reason they keep basing movies on comic books is that the best action comics pack a punch that action movies should aspire to any chance they get. Filmmakers get crazy about the costume, the origin story, the romantic B-roll, but what they really need to do is find the quicksilver charge at the core of your favorite moments of action -- that perfect blend of adrenalin and fun that keeps you coming back to your favorites.
I have a million examples, but for now I'll just mention the battle in the foyer from Matrix: Reloaded. I remember taking DCD to see this when she was 8 months pregnant. I wanted to make sure she saw it because new babies make it hard to see movies.
Right here I remember her saying "Oh, that's beautiful." It loses something as a still but it was fun for me in that moment because I knew she was grooving on the exact same action bass beat that I was.
That I do, all the time, like when I watched that scene just now (the dvd chapter title is "Blade Leapers"), or when I throw in the dvd to watch the dogfight from The Cowboy Bebop Movie or the Racer X intro scene in Speed Racer.
You can do it this weekend. I know it took me almost two weeks to get to it, but please: set aside ten minutes and watch this crazy clip. If you're not convinced, chew on this: it's an Indian language clip with a voiceover translating it... in Russian.
