Bad Milo looks unbelievably good!!!
It’s looking good on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe it’ll be as good as itlooks in the trailer!!!
The Baby (1973)
Is a freaky movie. It’s the kind of movie that leaves you saying WTF at every turn. Who’s the good guy? Who’s the bad guy? What type of Horror film is this? (it’s the creepy kind) I can’t count how many times I said out loud, as I was watching The Baby, “What is HAPPENING?!"
In today’s day and age of predictable movies, that’s saying something!
Vevo is like Spotify or andy other music channel except that they play videos. So I’m cleaning the house, useing Vevo as some mood music, set it to 80’s music, and I look up and see….Leonard Nimoy in a Bangles video!? 
So Nimoy just drives the Bangles to a tunnel with special lighting so they can perform a silhouette concert.
Turns out it’s not so random that Nimoy was in the video. He directed it. He does a pretty good job especially for an 80’s video. SPOCK!!!!!!
Despite the anaylisis, Did Another Day is still silly. It wasn’t Pierce Bronson’s fault. The writing and dboth poor.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/11/10/james-bond-die-another-day/
I don’t think they do need to remake it. Aside from the ED-209 looking fake in the stop motion sequences, Robocop could be released today and it would hold up. I’ll admit that the new Robo designs look kind of cool, but I’m glad they stayed strictly old school when it came to the Robocop statue!
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/04/robocop-statue-detroit/
http://jalopnik.com/5764491/this-is-detroits-new-robocop-statue
They settled. I hope Stalin made bank on the deal. Creators typically and historically get screwed. I’m not sure if they get paid when their storylines are used for billion dollar movies.
So this is the logo I grew up with. It’s classic but old fashioned.
Apparently DC used the above logo since the late 70’s so it was overdue for a revamp! Below is what they came up with…
Pretty snazzy, right? This just looks good. The disc looks cool. The letters are easy to read. They even kept one of the stars from the classic logo. All in all a huge success. unfortunately, for some reason, DC felt unsatisfied and even though the old logo was in use from 1978 to 2005, DC replaced the cool disc logo with this page turny thingy..
I just don’t like it. It’s a nasty corporate logo for some un fun company. This isn’t like the disc logo which promises interstellar fun. This could be a logo for a ceral company. I guess, the idea is that the tear away D can revel a character and give the reader a flavor of what is to come.
These are cool, I guess. The D is hard to make out. The logo itself isn’t that good despite the Joker and Superman. Also, I get my comics in trade paperbacks and digitally, the times I’ve browsed DC comics they don’t do this. At least as far as I’ve seen. They just look like the logo without the characters. But if the character revel is so important why not keep disc logo. See all the white space in the D and the C? You can put characters in there. Heck, you can even put something in the star.
Great idea, right? I like the classic logo best of all, but it’s had it’s day. They should go back to the 2005 disc version it’s barely begun it’s life. One reason something becomes classic is because it is given the time to become great.
You don’t pop open a a wine bottle before it has a chance to ferment. You wait a few years. DC needs to give the disc logo some fermentation time.
I’m watching a really interesting documentary. It’s called Homo Sapiens 1900. It’s about the history of the eugenics movement from the late 1800’s to a little after World War II.
(I like the way new ideas feel in my brain. I like to turn them over in my head the way a wine connoisseur swirls wine in a glass before gulping it down into my insides. Not that I’m super smart or anything. I’m not. I’m a full grown man, but I still get my dad to tie my ties on those rare occasions that I need to wear one.)
I also finished Hobo With A Shotgun. A completely irredeemable movie that I really enjoyed. If I had to describe Hobo With A Shotgun, I’d describe it as an early 80’s John Carpenter movie on crack.
Homo Sapiens 1900 and Hobo With A Shotgun couldn’t be more different in what they are and what they offer to the world. One movie is really important. The other shouldn’t have been made at all.
I think I’ve talked about how my divergent tastes can be confusing at times. Not that I have a problem with it. When I like a movie that is embarrassingly bad and others that are strikingly good it makes me wonder why. Well, when I least expected it the answer came to me.
I was channel surfing the other day and I stopped on a free movie channel called This TV. A 90’s movie, Music From Another Room, was on. It’s a quirky 90’s romantic comedy. It kind of wants to have the flavor of Benny & Joon. Except that no one remembers Music From Another Room. It’s an irrelevant and forgotten movie. Except at one point it wasn’t. At a certain point in time someone had high hopes that they were making a great movie.
Maybe Steel Justice is a better example to illustrate my point. Steel Justice is a cheesy 80’s, cheep Rambo knock off. It starred Martin Kove who also played the evil sen sei of the Cobra Kai karate studio in the Karate Kid movies.
If I had seen Steel Justice as a boy, I might have loved it. I might have bought everything about it. I guess I can see movies in two ways. I see them as the makers intended and i see them as they really are. I mean, look at the original Star Trek television series, Cheesy special effects, Shatner and important ideas like race relations and the Vietnam war all in the same package.
Gosh, I’m rambling as usual. Here’s my point: as I was watching Music From Another Room a simple truth struck me. You have to risk being embarrassingly bad to be strikingly good. To be strikingly good you have to have the courage to follow up on your dream even though there’s no guarantee that your dream is ever going to be fulfilled. In fact, you might be a laughing stock. There’s something about a dream unfulfilled, there’s something about an attempt that doesn’t work. There’s a vulnerability that is seen in failure. You are who you are when you fail. What I mean by that is that we aren’t who we are when we succeed. It’s easy to be a nice guy then.
Yes, That’s my point. There is such beauty in dreams that even unrealized ones sing of the humanity behind them.
As funny as this trailer is…The movie looks funnier! I caught the exciting climax where in Judd Nelson is shot in the head TWICE and does not die! (He dies a few seconds later in an explosion.)
I wish I’d knew this was on earlier because I wanna know why Judd Nelson is dressed like a cross between a pirate and Maude. I’m sure the reasons are explained in detail.
Christopher McDonald’s ride to stardom quickly ended. In three short years he went from starring in great movies like Conflict of Interest to B movies like Happy Gilmore.
Like I said in my last blog, it takes something out of me to review bad or mediocre movies. I forced to think about them as I review them. I mean, who wants to dissect Super Mario Brothers: The Motion Picture? And it seems like all Hollywood turns out is a bunch of dreck. It feels like they don’t know what they are doing. They seem hopeless. It’s like, a movie is made up of elements, right? Well, it feels like they don’t know how to put those elements together.
Conan The Barbarian
Conan avoids some of the traps that fantasy movies fall into while stepping right into others. The main thing they did right is not to strap a heavy metal soundtrack onto the movie. Unfortunately the filmmakers had the characters scream for no reason. I can’t relate to that. Also, the film looks like it was shot in a computer which…I don’t like that. Finally, they cast Jason Momoa, who seems like a nice guy. He isn’t very good at playing tough guys. In Stargate Atlantis he glared and talked all gravelly and that didn’t do it for me. Lastly the director Marcus Nispel is one of those guys like Martin Campbell who can turn out the odd good movie but mostly turn out dreck. I really liked Marcus Nispel’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake. It was one of those movies where you want to yell strategy tips at the screen. You know, “Run! Run while Leaterface is looking over there!! Now’s your chance!! GO!! What are you waiting for?!?!? GO!!!!” It probably didn’t hurt that Jessica Biel was the star either. So I thought he’d do an amazing job with the Friday the 13th remake which he also directed. Unfortunately that movie was boring and added nothing new to the genre. There was none of the character identification I felt with Jessica Beil with any of the Characters in Friday the 13th. Which seems to be a recurring theme in movies I don’t like, I can’t connect with the characters. There’s no locking/transference scene. Anyway, Conan, unlike the original, is a completely forgettable movie.
Fright Night
In Macbeth, Shakespeare, has a line that goes something like this, “Life is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.” And I have a saying about remakes, “This movie is a bunch of CGI and explosions signifying I wasted 12 dollars and two hours of my time on this movie.” That’s how I feel about the Fright Night remake. Chris Sarandon has a cameo, in the movie. I wanted him to take over. Sadly, that didn’t happen. These movies forget to be about something. And that something isn’t explosions or action scenes. That something should be growth or going through a change of life that we can all relate to. Have your action scenes be an outgrowth of an inner journey. That way people won’t forget your movie five minutes after they walk out of the theatre. For example in the Fright Night remake the main character has finally, “made it” at his high school. He’s dating a cute girl and he’s become popular. He’s a little embarrassed by his childhood friend, Mclovin from Superbad. EVERYBODY in the audience can relate to this experience, one way or the other. We’ve all been, “left behind” by a friend or been the ones doing the leaving. People grow and change. Sometimes they grow at a different rate and grow a part. This is where the filmmakers should have dug around for a theme they wanted to explore. Sadly, they didn’t want to do that or were incapable of doing it. The result being, unlike the original, that Fright Night is unremarkable and succeeds only in being forgettable.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/03/29/colin-farrell-fright-night-cinemacon/
Cowboys & Aliens
Had high hopes for this movie as well. Jon Favrou can make a decent flick. But he’s starting to remind me of those journeyman directors that are unaware of what makes a good movie. Sometimes, when luck and all the elements are there, they have their name on a good movie but it’s as much luck as it is talent.
I had a dream about Jon Favrou. In the dream we are walking through a movie theatre. I tell him WHY Cowboys and Aliens failed. Then we are sitting on opposite ends of a giant empty theatre getting ready to watch a movie. I’m sitting in one of the lower seats and he’s up top. It’s not hard to interpret this dream. I think it means that he couldn’t handle being told the truth about his movie and that people in his position have the power to keep making whatever they want.
There’s so many reasons why Cowboys & Aliens failed so I’ll just tackle the most glaring one. You can have somebody other than your hero make the final sacrifice to defeat the villain, but it’s VERY risky. It works in Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan because it is supported by the weight of a developed theme. Meaning the theme is not something tacked on, but a developed idea throughout the entirety of the movie. Therefore it isn’t weird and jarring when Spock makes the Final sacrifice. It makes sense emotionally, because it is an outgrowth of the theme. And Spock’s final heroic action makes sense because it allows the main hero (Kirk) to grow. Which is what is needed if we are going to be haunted by the ideas in a movie.
Cowboys & Aliens haunts me in a different way. And that is: how come I’m not getting paid to make the right decisions while these guys are getting big money to make the wrong ones?!
Cowboys & Aliens: go ahead and skip it.
Fer me, it takes a lot of effort to write a review for a bad movie. It’s not like I don’t get something out of it. As I write I figure out where exactly the filmmakers screwed up. I mean, at first, after seeing a bad movie I get some of why I don’t like it. Basically the big stuff. But writing a review forces me to think about all the details. Or as Sherlock Holmes put it I follow the Scarlet thread of terribleness all the way to it’s origin. But it’s no fun. So it’s nice to just read someone else’s review of a terrible movie. Now in the interest of fairness I haven’t even seen the 3 Musketeers 3D, but lets be honest we all knew it was gonna be terrible.
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/review-the-three-musketeers-3d
