Monday, April 20, 2009

Clearly this is new content.

I'm glad that the Order of the Stick is back together.

I'm not glad that I watched this movie. It's bad. It's beyond bad. It's filled with bad acting. It's a bad story. It's based on a true story. And it's still bad. I want to like Eliza Dushku, (She was the daughter from True Lies, and one of the main characters in Bring It On, which is a wholly underrated movie, btw) plus she's in a lot of Joss Whedan stuff, and I like Joss Whedan stuff (if you still haven't seen Firefly, or at least the 11 episodes that were made, then I don't know what to tell you, you're missing some of the best television ever made.

But with every movie she's in lately it's like a cry for help. She's sending me some kind of signal to let me know that not only does she not want me to like her, but that she doesn't want anyone to like her. Ever. For any reason. This movie is a testament to that. If my wife and I are laughing at your ludicrous movie and, literally, hoping that something bad happens to the people in it, then something's wrong. There's a scene near the end where Eliza is standing somewhere trying to look crazy (which she's bad at, which hurts this movie tremendously since it's the story of her character descending into madness, except she always looks like she's descending into the discomfort of constipation) and she's got a pistol in her hand, and I casually asked, "Is she going to shoot herself?" And Allie said, "God, I hope so." That pretty much summed up the movie for me.

You all know that the Snuggie is just a robe turned backwards right? Ok, just wanted to make sure we're all clear on that.

Seriously, because people will try to sell you anything.

Especially if they make a commercial and make it sound exciting.

I mean, they might try to sell you like, jump ropes, without the rope. I'm serious. Stop buying this stuff. Seriously.

I love 70's and 80's era television. I love Star Wars. I love these:

Dallas. Airwolf. MacGuyver.

Star Trek Dallas. Star Trek A-Team.

Star Trek Loveboat? Ok, now they're just getting silly.

Trailer #3 for Harry Potter and the (Adjective) (Noun) (I don't know. I stopped reading the books right around the time they became big enough to hollow out and plant ferns in) is long and makes the movie look epic (read: long). Please note that the green warning screen at the front of that trailer is there to warn you that this movie contains mild sensuality. Well. There you are. I'm not creeped out by that at all.

If you're not terrified by this then I don't know what to tell you. Someone spent a lot of time on this, and that person apparently has access to a lot of old technological gizmos and has the capacity to use them to do whatever he wants. I know I'm scared.

So the people who used to make Batman apparently shot a pilot for a Wonder Woman show. You have to believe me when I tell you that this is ludicrous beyond any description I could give it. Eat your roughage.

2 comments:

MrTact said...

There were 14 episodes of Firefly; only 11 of them aired. If you haven't seen the other 3, you should--at least one of them is pretty good (and, really, the shittiest episode of Firefly kicks the ass of most of the rest of the television that was ever MADE).

The "mild sensuality" of the new Harry Potter movie is teenagers making out. So if you've seen anything by John Hughes, you will be underimpressed.

Madtoad said...

Underimpressed is my new word for the day.