WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE TRAILER!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/
so pumped! fist pumped!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
This is WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!
I have become, over the past couple of weeks, very excited about Spike Jonze's big screen version of "Where the Wild Things Are". Why? Because of two reasons. Growing up this storybook was among my favorites that wasn't a Dr. Seuss or Robert Munch story. I still have a copy of it sitting on my coffee table and I am almost 25. It speaks to the kid inside everybody. Second, Spike Jonze is a remarkably talented director who doesn't get enough of the credit he deserves. Sure he turned heads with "Adaptation", but before then he was making music videos scream to life and directed a really cool Skateboarding flick for Girl Skateboards called "Yeah Right" in which Owen Wilson hops on a skateboard and grinds a rail down a set of stairs (ok, it might have been Eric Koston in a blond wig, but still). He also had a couple of memorable cameos in the first Jack Ass movie. Anyways, the man who got Christopher Walken to dance is helming this much anticipated project, and all I can say is, I can't fucking wait! Here are some pics I recently found.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/l090319_wildthings/flash.htm?gid=920&aid=4368
Some more news. Hollywood is pushing hard on remakes. I have recently heard rumors of "The Birds", the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece, being remade. If anyone one on top of mount "don't give a damn" can here me, please don't do this! Especially when you have names like Michael Bay attached to produce. Ugh. Don't! You should have learnt your lesson with the "Psycho" remake, or do you think it'll be different this time around. One, "The Birds" is a loose and if not handled correctly, cheese ball premise about a wave of killer fowl striking the human population which won't be accepted by the crowd of 2010. Two, like movies such as "Gone with the Wind", "Citizen Kane", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" etc. it came from the golden age of Hollywood and should be left untouched, period.
But keeping with remake theme, work has already started on a "Poltergiest" reboot, which might be interesting, but still, un-needed. However, here is some remake news I'm actually excited about. The Coen Brothers have agreed to put their spin on "True Grit" the classic western that won John Wayne is only Oscar statue. This might be interesting since the Coen Brothers' thrillers are widely viewed as "neo-westerns" (No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple). So their take might actually have something fresh to offer. But who will play John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn, the tough sonofabitch with the eye patch? Only time will tell, and I trust the Coen's with whoever they pick...as long as it's not George Clooney.
Anyways, some news for ya. Here are some picks from me to you.
DVD
Appaloosa
TV
Mad Men Season 1
MUSIC
Witch - Paralyzed
peace!
http://www.usatoday.com/life/l090319_wildthings/flash.htm?gid=920&aid=4368
Some more news. Hollywood is pushing hard on remakes. I have recently heard rumors of "The Birds", the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece, being remade. If anyone one on top of mount "don't give a damn" can here me, please don't do this! Especially when you have names like Michael Bay attached to produce. Ugh. Don't! You should have learnt your lesson with the "Psycho" remake, or do you think it'll be different this time around. One, "The Birds" is a loose and if not handled correctly, cheese ball premise about a wave of killer fowl striking the human population which won't be accepted by the crowd of 2010. Two, like movies such as "Gone with the Wind", "Citizen Kane", "Breakfast at Tiffany's" etc. it came from the golden age of Hollywood and should be left untouched, period.
But keeping with remake theme, work has already started on a "Poltergiest" reboot, which might be interesting, but still, un-needed. However, here is some remake news I'm actually excited about. The Coen Brothers have agreed to put their spin on "True Grit" the classic western that won John Wayne is only Oscar statue. This might be interesting since the Coen Brothers' thrillers are widely viewed as "neo-westerns" (No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple). So their take might actually have something fresh to offer. But who will play John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn, the tough sonofabitch with the eye patch? Only time will tell, and I trust the Coen's with whoever they pick...as long as it's not George Clooney.
Anyways, some news for ya. Here are some picks from me to you.
DVD
Appaloosa
TV
Mad Men Season 1
MUSIC
Witch - Paralyzed
peace!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Who Watches the Watchmen? Well after this weekend, most of North America.
You can see our review of "Watchmen" this Friday on our 14th aired episode (!!!), but in the ten minutes we spend talking about the film I only scratch the surface to what I have to say. This movie, is one I've been anticipating for the past five years, ever since the rumors started to surface. Now that I have seen the movie, I wish they would have just left it alone.
I never got the reason the book was labeled "unmakable" by so many Hollywood studios. After all, it is a comic book, which is a storyboard, which is essentially half the battle. You have the panels and therefore you have the shots. But, and this is a big but, there is more to the story then what you see. The most adult themed superhero story takes the untouchable image of the superhero and makes him human, gives him real personalities, motivs, relationships and most importantly faults. Alan Moore's "Watchmen" did it's best to answer the question, "what if superheros really existed?" What spawned from the book, was a new wave on how comic writers created their characters and stories. It had an impact on the medium so great, it can be compared to Reality based television shows and what they have now done for their medium. People grew tired of the Greek mythology, they demanded real, they got characters with problems as personal as our everyday lives. Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" realizes that, but has not enough time to dwell too far into the concept, unlike Alan Moore's original that thrived on the possibility of the inevitable being unavoidable, even to superheros, and in the end, we get a film that looks perfect, but is far from it.
I wanted to see more, I wanted to see the story I knew and loved come to life before my eyes, but instead I felt ripped off, cheated, and disappointed. So many reasons pop into my head on how they could have made it work. Make the story into a couple movies, a mini-series, give more of a fruitful adaptation to it like they did to another Alan Moore book "V for Vendetta". But when I come to a conclusion, the only one I could decide on was, they should have just let it be. Warnings are expressed for a reason, and although they shouldn't make a "Spider-Man 4", they shouldn't do a "Fantastic Four" reboot and they shouldn't divide the X-Men Origins into seperate films, in the end, the fanboys, the people who appretiate the literature more than anyone else, will be ignored. Money drives this industry, not credibility.
I urge you all to see the film and judge it for yourself. Totally Rad Show liked it a lot, and I trust the opinon of those dudes, but not over my own.
please check out the show at www.weeklyrebrew.com and stay tuned for other future reviews.
also, check out www.twitter.com/weeklyrebrew for all things gravy. You can also email any comments to weeklyrebrew@hotmail.com
As for a closer, here are some things I recomend.
DVD
Let the Right One In
Synecdoche, New York
TV
South Park Season 12
BOOKS
The Road - Cormac Mcarthy
MUSIC
Crack the Skye - Mastodon
Peace!
I never got the reason the book was labeled "unmakable" by so many Hollywood studios. After all, it is a comic book, which is a storyboard, which is essentially half the battle. You have the panels and therefore you have the shots. But, and this is a big but, there is more to the story then what you see. The most adult themed superhero story takes the untouchable image of the superhero and makes him human, gives him real personalities, motivs, relationships and most importantly faults. Alan Moore's "Watchmen" did it's best to answer the question, "what if superheros really existed?" What spawned from the book, was a new wave on how comic writers created their characters and stories. It had an impact on the medium so great, it can be compared to Reality based television shows and what they have now done for their medium. People grew tired of the Greek mythology, they demanded real, they got characters with problems as personal as our everyday lives. Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" realizes that, but has not enough time to dwell too far into the concept, unlike Alan Moore's original that thrived on the possibility of the inevitable being unavoidable, even to superheros, and in the end, we get a film that looks perfect, but is far from it.
I wanted to see more, I wanted to see the story I knew and loved come to life before my eyes, but instead I felt ripped off, cheated, and disappointed. So many reasons pop into my head on how they could have made it work. Make the story into a couple movies, a mini-series, give more of a fruitful adaptation to it like they did to another Alan Moore book "V for Vendetta". But when I come to a conclusion, the only one I could decide on was, they should have just let it be. Warnings are expressed for a reason, and although they shouldn't make a "Spider-Man 4", they shouldn't do a "Fantastic Four" reboot and they shouldn't divide the X-Men Origins into seperate films, in the end, the fanboys, the people who appretiate the literature more than anyone else, will be ignored. Money drives this industry, not credibility.
I urge you all to see the film and judge it for yourself. Totally Rad Show liked it a lot, and I trust the opinon of those dudes, but not over my own.
please check out the show at www.weeklyrebrew.com and stay tuned for other future reviews.
also, check out www.twitter.com/weeklyrebrew for all things gravy. You can also email any comments to weeklyrebrew@hotmail.com
As for a closer, here are some things I recomend.
DVD
Let the Right One In
Synecdoche, New York
TV
South Park Season 12
BOOKS
The Road - Cormac Mcarthy
MUSIC
Crack the Skye - Mastodon
Peace!
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