K-Lo points out that there’s a little-known third Brady Bunch movie from 2002 called The Brady Bunch in the White House in which Mike Brady becomes president of the USA and then appoints his wife as Vice President. Now…how bad must this movie be? Consider: * The IMDB page doesn’t have much of anything on …
Monthly Archive: June 2005
Jun 24
Absolute Crisis
No, it’s not a Vodka ad. Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Absolute Edition is an oversized volume reprinting Crisis plus loaded with extras such as the complete Indexes and notes about changes to DC Comics in the last 20 years as a result of the Crisis. Okay, you don’t need me telling you the promotional …
Jun 23
Yes, Virginia, there really is a Six Million Dollar Man!
World’s first bionic man! HE’S REAL and he cost SIX MILLION!!! It’s here! It’s here! Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain As if that wasn’t weird enough, get this (emphasis mine): By the time it’s perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.
Jun 23
Free Katie Holmes!
Look, I don’t care about celebrity romances. Usually, Hollywood marriage stuff just depresses me, and half of it is false anyway. But Tom Cruise is currently in the running to take the “celebrity who creeps me out” trophy away from Michael Jackson. In case you (sensibly) haven’t been following the details, Katie Holmes disappeared for …
Jun 23
Ebert makes a great point about Herbie movie
Herbie: Fully Loaded, which features a far more cartoony Herbie car, inspires this question: The car seems to be self-aware, able to make decisions on its own, and able to communicate with Maggie on an emotional level, and sometimes with pantomime or by example. Why then is everyone, including Lohan, so fixated on how fast …
Jun 23
It’s called the Aristocrats!
There’s this joke that is impossible to relate in clean company, and I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve heard it once in an unofficial (and perhaps counterfeit, although the voices and animation are spot-on) South Park clip of Cartman telling the world’s dirtiest joke. Turns out that the Aristocrats joke makes the rounds, with comedians …
Jun 21
The Onion 2056!
The Onion 2056 is the funniest Onion read in ages. Also, their design looks spectacular and I hate them.
Jun 20
Therrrrrre’s a fat moon on the rise
Be sure to go outside and check out the moon tonight so you can see the Summer Moon Illusion. Remember that monster moon in “Joe vs. The Volcano”? Of course you don’t. How about the moon from Cher’s “Moonstruck”, where there’s this gargantuan screen-filling moon? Well, that’s what this looks like. By the way, both …
Jun 19
Greg Biffle Must Love DC’s Characters
Greg Biffle notched his fifth win of the NASCAR Nextel Cup season by taking today’s Batman Begins 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Last season Biffle won the Fall race at MIS while carrying a special one race paint scheme featuring Justice League Unlimited‘s Flash. In other comic book race-related news Mark Martin, sporting a Batman …
Jun 19
What’s BATMAN think of his new movie? A Kistler interview.
Alan Kistler here again. For many years now (though admittedly, not originally) Batman has been my favorite comic book super-hero. One of the major reasons for this is that he’s so complicated you can have endless arguments with other people about whether he’s just a complete jerk or whether the occasional jerk-attitude is totally justified, …
Jun 16
Is he into comic books?
This Steve Carell movie, The 40 Year Old Virgin, looks to be amusing.
Jun 16
A superhero film played for laughs? Sweet!
The ‘Ex’ files: Wilson eyes Regency lead Luke Wilson is in negotiations to topline “Super Ex” for Regency Enterprises. Ivan Reitman is on board to direct the feature, which is being produced by Gavin Polone from a script by Don Payne, an Emmy winner as “The Simpsons” writer/co-exec producer. The story centers on a man …
Jun 16
Endorsing President Luthor
One of the joys of getting older as a writer is that my memory is going and I can re-read my old works as though someone else wrote them. I wanted to find an old comparison I’d read of “Scrooge McDuck vs Richie Rich”. And what happens if you google them together? An article I …
Jun 16
Why did “Cinderella Man” fail? I know why!
Universal Rethinks Boxing Film Plan Why did “Cinderella Man” fail? Because it’s called “CINDERELLA MAN”! That is just the worst title I’ve ever heard. If you are going to go to a movie about a tough guy doing everything he can to make it during the Depression, don’t conjure up mental images of a pretty …
Jun 16
“Cheerleaders disciplined”? Can we watch?
Cheerleaders disciplined for putting feces on pizza
Jun 15
Batman Begins in Newsweek
Earning His Wings features this terrific appraisal (emphasis mine): The rugged charm of “Batman Begins,” which stars Welsh actor Christian Bale, lies partly its refusal to join the visual-effects arms race that the summer-movie season has lately become. When Nolan does turn to digital wizardry, he uses it to amplify the action, not supply it. …
Jun 15
One more thing: Bring tissues
Batman Begins has some scenes that are so dramatically intense that I was in tears. Nothing like crying at a movie while you’re attending it with a gaggle of comic geeks in superhero shirts, so take a hankie.
Jun 15
Batman Begins
What a truly monumental movie for the genre… we saw a midnight IMAX format showing that was about 80% full… the picture and sound quality was stunning… the film comes across as paced solid… the cast is exceptional… yes, I do wish the camera had pulled back on the close action shots… but the car …
Jun 15
Spoiler-Free Review: Batman Begins
I didn’t even realize it was time for Batman Begins to debut. Aren’t all Batman films preceded by 12 weeks of omnipresent Burger King tie-in ads? The absence of such gross merchandising is just one of many signs that this Batman film is going to be good. Marketing “Batman Begins” would be like including “Requiem …
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