Trailer DOES feature Fred Willard and Zach Galifianakis, and is actually kind of funny, but even Cera's "dangerous" alter-ego pretty much seems exactly like George Michael Bluth. Nevertheless, I'm intrigued...
For the pedantic people out there, yes, yes, I know that Shane Dawson will still work with The Station. We shoot these early, okay? I didn't know that at the time! Geez!
Also, I seriously could not believe the blatant insertion of FULL ADS in the middle of Barely Digital videos. I'm not one of those people that's intensely bothered by online advertising. I will gladly wait through a 15-30 second clip in front of some good content, no complaints. But interrupting the middle of your 3 minute video with an extended ad for a movie is just insulting, PLUS it ruins the continuity of your video because I'm guaranteed to shut it off halfway through. Just awful.
A lot of contemporary games seem to share a similar style. Feels like there was more variety back in the NES/SNES days than there is today, where you'd get a "Castlevania" game and a "Super Mario" game and "Pilotwings" and they'd all be very different experiences. This essentially looks like "Devil May Cry" meets "Assassin's Creed" set inside the forthcoming "Dante's Inferno."
I'll still have to check it out. I love me some old-school Castlevania.
What's the deal with putting "From the director of 'Titanic'" on this trailer? I mean, yes, it's the most popular movie of all-time, but "Terminator 2" and "Aliens" are no slouches, either, and seem to have more in common with this intergalactic war film. Just saying...
This is pretty impressive stuff, in that it appears much of the film will center on the computer-generated Na'vi characters, and that they will spend much of their time emoting.
Though motion-capture has clearly come a long way, there have only been a few instances where I've really felt that it was used successfully to create a real, sympathetic, relatable character as opposed to just effects. Gollum is obviously still the gold standard for this, though I guess "Benjamin Button" last year was also impressive. Curious to see what Cameron does with it.
Anyway, clearly a must-see, and a movie we've been waiting to get a look at for a long time.
Seems like all of these guys (and of course it's all guys) are going for the same maneuver. Pull your bottom lip way up over your upper lip. I guess there are no points for originality.
The cast of season nine of the popular reality show Dancing with the Stars was announced on August 17, 2009. The season will premiere on September 21, 2009, on ABC.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/08/dancing-with-the-stars-meet-the-season-9-contenders-none-of-whom-are-named-paula-abdul.html1The 2009 cast includes Aaron Carter, Tom DeLay, Macy Gray, Melissa Joan Hart, Kathy Ireland, Michael Irvin, Chuck Liddell, Mya, Kelly Osbourne and Donny Osmond, among others.
If they're bringing DeLay on to be this season's "villain," it's sort of a master stroke. I'm also curious to see who will be more blisteringly insane - DeLay or Michael Irvin. Seriously, can we get some Vegas odds on this? Compared to the two of them, Macy Gray's behavior will likely be boring and predictable.
Was just not into the last Flaming Lips album...They're a genuinely goofy band, but the sing-songy cutesy vibe of stuff like "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (I mean, even that name) just got old fast.
But this "See The Leaves" song is old-skool Lips at their best. Trippy, weird, discordantly infectious...I'm digging it. The new album, "Embryonic," comes out October 13.
Really well-executed parody of the "Inglourious Basterds" trailer...The sound effects make it.
...using the awesome power of hilarity. Well played.
HOLY GOD there are some crazy trippy insane fantasy films coming out this year. "The Lovely Bones," "Alice in Wonderland," "Where the Wild Goddamn Things Are" and then this mind-bender from Terry Gilliam, featuring the final screen performance from the late Heath Ledger.
The trailer looks a bit like "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," but with updated special effects and a ton of movie stars. And Tom Waits as the Devil. I'm in.
This compilation of scenes of Cera doing his trademark "mumbly embarrassed guy" schtick certainly makes the case that he's been permanently and horrifically typecast. I've seen all these movies/shows save "Nick and Nora" and even I occasionally would need a minute to figure out where a given clip came from. This guy needs to do an action film or something.
Though I've sort of tired of his whole routine at this point, I AM considerably pleased that he's agreed (according to the most recent rumors I've heard) to come back for the potential "Arrested Development" movie. You need the entire Bluth Family intact for that to work, I suspect...
I think this one came out particularly well. Also, I get to insult the people of Belgium, coming right on the heels of my mocking the people of Argentina a few weeks back. Shall we just start doing this alphabetically? Look out, Cambodia!
There are only two possibilities, to my mind:
(1) The similarity is unintentional. The Obama logo combines a familiar symbol for doctors/medical care along with the classic "Obama logo" from the 2008 campaign. It's just similar shapes.
(2) The similarity is intentional, and Obama is a Shadow Nazi. He's stupidly revealing to us his actual, dark intentions, via the use of logos, and Rush Limbaugh's the only American savvy enough to put the pieces together, sort of like a paranoia-and-Oxycontin-fueled, obese version of Tom Hanks in the "Da Vinci Code."
Can't really decide, though...Both options seem so plausible.
I approve of their anti-Whoopi Goldberg platform, but I strongly disagree with their anti-Blingee platform...hmm...
This is a link to an actual blog post in which a conservative lady bitches about not liking the design of Barack Obama's birthday cake. For real. Also, I'm not sure if you guys have heard about this, but he's sort of like the Joker! zOMG!
I just really wanted an excuse to link to a blog that features the following sentence:
"Love him or hate him, George Bush had a real cake for his birthday."
OK, I will grant him that, and only that. George Bush succeeds in a way we typically only celebrate for 1-year-olds and pets - eating a delicious looking cake on his birfday.
Stung by a collapse in advertising revenue as the recession shredded Fleet Street's traditional business model, Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over.
"Quality journalism is not cheap," said Murdoch. "The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free. We intend to charge for all our news websites."
OK, fine, quality journalism isn't cheap. Agreed. But what about what Rupert Murdoch publishes?
Is it standard cop procedure to "punk" people who try to hire undercover cops as hitmen? Or did they just make a special exception in this case because it was going to be so hilarious and awesome? I'm not sure, but I likes it.
Quite possibly my all-time favorite viral video gets the royal treatment. Talk about TWIYT GOLD! It doesn't get much better than this, folks.
