Here's a young friend's take on summer movie trailers:
I saw Star Wars with Stephie [age 9] on Sunday. Many good previews at this flick; I was quite pleased with that. The last one was for the new Fantastic 4 movie. I was observing Stephie when this one came on, to see what she was making of it. I don't think she's ever seen a Fantaastic 4 comic, so I asked her, "What do you think? Should we see Fantastic 4 in the theater when it comes out?"
She deliberates for a couple seconds, then asks me, "Well, could we rent Fantastic 1 first, to see if I like it?"
I'm objecting to
Madagascar
on the grounds that penguins (and most of the other animals pictured in the ads)
are not native
to Madagascar. The island is sometimes referred to as the 8th continent because, despite its proximity to the African coast, it has not had a land connection in a real real long time. So aside from flying things, it has two large animals in common with Africa: big crocodiles and pygmy hippos.
Le sigh. I had this trouble with a singing deaf-mute, too.
But that's the point of the movie -- they are zoo animals who end up in Madagascar as a result of wacky hijinks.
Also, the penguins are psychotic.
Ismail Merchant, as in "a Merchant-Ivory film", has died. [link]
The final Star Wars movie Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith has been slated by outraged fans, because it's riddled with continuity errors. Viewers have inundated website Moviemistakes.Com complaining director George Lucas's blockbuster contains 14 glaring mistakes. One film fan says of the latest film, "When he is telling Anakin how proud he is of him, Obi-wan's eye color shifts from Ewan McGregor's natural blue-green eyes to a dark brown." Another fumes, "When Samuel L. Jackson says, 'I don't think the boy can handle it, I don't trust him,' his lips don't match his dialogue." But the mistakes in the current release are nothing compared to the original 1977 film Episode IV - A New Hope which contained 214 mistakes, and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back, which contained 144 errors.
In the words of Mission of Burma, that's when I reach for my revolver. Pistol whippings for the lot of 'em. The one thing a fanboy cannot stand is a worse fanboy, and there's always a worse fanboy.
Some people are really, really, really unclear on the care and feeding of geeks.
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
At 9:00 A.M.
My employer is sponsoring a free showing of the new Star Wars movie for its employees... June 2 and 3.
Talk about closing the barn door after the geeks have escaped.
Sounds like that showing's for the tragically unhip who wish they could be geeks, now that geeks are cool.
Any cred to the rumor that Tom Stoppard helped write the screenplay for ROTS?
