Rjoyadet

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  1. When i took film ed in high school I wrote a roughly two paragraph review of "The Phantom." I said it was bad but fun. I loved Xander Drax, and came up with something that I thought was a clever burn.

    "I was more entertained by the end credits than the movie itself."

    To this day I stand by my words. I loved the mix of orchestra and new age pan pipes while the end credits roll over a camera going through misty jungle and babbling brooks flowing into rivers.

  2. Funny review. The ferry ride of nightmares is one of my earliest memories, so this interpretation may not be too far off.

    I knew the nephew of the original Charlie Buckett, all throughout high school he had the nickname "Chuck Bucket" and everyone thought he was a great performer. When he became a first generation college student he studied game design. The last I heard about him he was working around 80 hours a week with work and graduate school. I am happy that he is working on what he loves but a part of me wonders if he let his talent as a performer go to waste.

  3. Here is a Rogers Crazy Idea:

    Look at this classic album cover

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    Short scarf and colors are all wrong, but hmmmmmm... Could Bob Dylan have been the 4th Doctor!?!?!?!

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    My dad once walked in on me when I was watching a fourth doctor story and said "I didn't know Bob Dylan was in the movies." I explaind it was not. Now whenever I am watching a fourth doctor adventure, he jokingly calls it "The Bob Dylan show."

  4. I was listening to this in the car and when you mentioned the blurb by R.A.H. my first impusle was to turn the car to the nearest Half Price books to get it.

    The adding in on how you pictured the characters was wonderful. I am now motivated to read "Snowcrash."

  5. When watching "The snowmen" I wondered why does the Great Intelligence need to be in a refrigerator and not just in a courtyard in the snow. I tried to post a cartoon of Doc Brown asking this question while standing in front of his steampunk ice machine. Oh well.

  6. I knew a guy who never saw the original series, he rented the special edition dvds and when it came to the ending where Hayden Christensen was revealed I heard him groan. At that moment he realized he was robbed of seeing its original glory.

    The few things I loved about the special edition was the panpipe and flutes at the end. It reminded me of Peruvian folk music. In fact, when I was in a marketplace in Lima, I saw a shirt with a conquistador standing in front of a Quechua shepherd, the conquistador had a Darth Vader shadow and the shepherd had a Yoda shadow. I regret not buying it.

    My favorite version of the Yub-Nub song was Simon Peggs version from "Spaced." The sound effects in ewok celebration is so exaggerated, that whenever I hear it I picture Han and Chewie tossing drunk ewoks around.

  7. My first experience with the movies came from a "American Indians in film" class where Wednesdays talk about American Indians caught everyone by surprise. Ever since then whenever we see smarmy Thanksgiving skits we wish Wednesday could come and mess things up with the truth.

    The movies took the dark humor from the comic that the 60's tv show repressed (never mind people still saw the show trashy because Morticia and Gomez shared a bed). I loved Raul Julias performance. He seemed perfect for the strange man who cares for his family and passionately loves his wife.

  8. The Addams Family

    What started as a dark humored one panel comic in the New Yorker has been adapted in several mediums shared all around the world. The 1991 movie had its flaws, but I feel that they got the most important parts correct.

    That is why whenever I hear rumors about Tim Burton working on the remake I groan. Even though his visuals would be perfect, Burton does not seem to go far from telling the same story (and using the same cast). Which I feel would miss the main point of the Addams family entirely.

  9. I think I may have stumbled upon a formula to measure bursts of Nic Cages career. You take the film divided by mugging times volume times camera close up. Multiply by the square root of the time spent of him being in a car chase. Finally you add or subtract the variable of Nic Cage being the only character in the show you're supposed to like.

    .....Its a work in progress.

  10. Here it is, the inevitable brony backlash.

    Even though I have only watched the show I kind of agree with what you said about how the Cutie Mark Crusaders being obsessed with fitting in. There was one episode where they go into a forest hoping to get their cutie marks in catching runaway chickens. I thought it was ridiculous that it had to be about cutie marks because I could see kids going into a forest after a runaway chicken not to be a grown up but for the adventure and maybe the risk of doing something they know they shouldn't.

    By all means gripe away. One episode in season two "Mare do well" generates two responses. In the episode, five of the mane six outdo their show off friend by wearing a cape and cow. While most like it because of all the references to Batman T.A.S. many were upset. They took the action of the five as a message telling young girls that revenge is okay. I feel that the writers have taken peoples critiques and fixed it in the latest episode "One bad seed" where the CMC are bullied. They try to set up a trap for her, only to find out that the bully was a victim of bullying herself. They end up putting themselves in the trap. The bully is moves by their compassion and becomes their friend. Maybe the comic may catch on.

    When you mentioned tramp stamps, were you making a reference to youtuber Blunty 3000 joking about how cutie marks urge young girls to get tatoos on their rumps? I can understand why you would be frustrated when you saw the little girl putting on makeup like an expert. In college I saw a museum curator arguing with a little girl on a field trip over what was healthy hair. The little girl argued that long sraight hair was healthy hair. The curator argued that natural hair was healthy hair. Even though the argument ended in a stalemate, I admired how the curator never raised his voice. In fact he commended the little girl for not giving up easily. I applied that in a past job as a recess supervisor. When a student was showing off her beauty pageant medal I congratulated her even though I was grinding my teeth for the rest of the day.

    I am curious how would Mike react to that situation.

  11. In response to Stavros's E-mail comparing Doctor who with James Bond, I noticed one other thing the two have in common, Julian Glover. James Bond took him on in For your eyes only, and the fourth doctor challenged him in City of Death. Not to mention he blew up the rebel base in Empire strikes back and drank from the fake cup in Last Crusade. Now if only he could play a Star Trek villain.

  12. When making a speech on my little pony I described John De Lance as the following.

    "John De Lance went from playing Star Treks Q, a menace with god-like powers in which the heroes have to solve his riddle. To playing the My little pony villain Discord where he is a menace with god-like powers in which the heroes have to solve his riddle.

  13. The marketing was bad for this movie. When I was talking with friends about the previews everyone thought it was a Avatar knockoff. A couple of them were surprised to know that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote it. It surprised me that they did not advertise a Tarzan connection. Especially since (unless I'm mistaken) Tarzan outsold Phantom Menace on the opening weekend.

    I still would like to see Kitsch do something good so that he has something else on his resume besides, John Carter and the role of Gambit from X men Origins: Wolverine.

  14. I was recently giving a technical speech and I noticed that during the 50's and the 60's there were three robots that towered above all the others. Those include Forbidden Planets Robbie the Robot, The Day the Earth Stood Stills Gort, and 2001 a Space Odysseys Hal 9000. Among those three there was a spectrum. I noticed that Robbie is the most kind to all humans. In fact Robbie refuses to fight a monster because he identifies the monster as human (a crucial part of the film). Gort is friendly to humans but goes berserk when provoked, but has a fail safe (Klaatu Barada Nikto). the Hal 9000 is willing to kill his crew to ensure his safety.

  15. I first heard about "The Spirit" in the animated movie "The Iron Giant" where Hogarth is sharing his comic books and mentions that the spirit is very cool. I hunted it down in the library and really enjoyed it. I loved that there was this superhero that was not born with powers, he did not gain powers, he did not even have money or train around the world. Sure he had a car that would fly at the push of a button, but most of the time the only thing he had was anonymity.

    When I heard Miller was making it, I only knew of the Dark Knight returns. At first I was excited when I heard not only was Miller friends with Eisner but that he was cutting and pasting the comic for the storyboard. A local comic book vendor said he was not looking forward to it because Frank Miller could not make a whimsical movie. I knew he was true when I saw the preview in Sin City style.

    I have had anime fans tell me that I can't comprehend their pain with "Dragonball Evolution." I have had Avatar fans tell me I can't comprehend their pain with "The last Airbender." Not only have those movies made me mad but the Spirit eclipses them all for me.

    In the podcast you explained how Jon Faverau succeeded where Miller failed, and I think he would be an amazing director for the Spirit. Up until now my dream director for the Spirit would have been Brad Bird 1. Because he introduced it to me through the Iron Giant 2. Anyone who can take bits of the Watchmen, James Bond, X-Men and the Fantastic Four and end up with the beloved childrens film that is Incredibles would know how to balance the movie for children and adults that Eisner would be proud of.

    While I am dreaming I may as well write the screenplay...

  16. House on the Rock is hands down, the oddest museum I've ever seen, but it's not bad at all, I'd highly recommend it.

    When I have asked professors most have answered with House on the Rock. It is one of the top aspirations on my bucket list. I think the fact that Neil Gaiman showcased it in the novel "American Gods" should be reason alone.

  17. One of my favorite bits on Shake and Blake is when Ian talks about Museums. I wanted to ask him (as well as eveyrone else who reads this) what is either the strangest Museum they visited or the museum that has made them the most angry.

    For me both questions could be answered with the Albert Einstein Museum in Princeton New Jersey. The reason why it was strange was because while most museums are galleries with a gift shop, this was a gift shop with a gallery, or depending on its size display would be more apporopriate. The reason why it made me angry was because I felt like rather than celebrating the life of a brilliant scientist it was a easy way to get people in, never mind that neighboring shopkeepers claimed to not know anything about it.

    I felt that there was a lot of missed potential. Even though the items on display could be counted with one hand there was an item that gave me a new respect for him. That was a letter from Einstein to then President Truman explaing that he was flattered at the offer to become the first president of Israel but he knew that his talent lay in physics and not politics. In other words I gained a new admiration for the man because he knew his weakness and did not think of himself as a super-genius.

  18. Most people remember Bradbury as a short story writer. While it is true that nobody can write short stories like he did, many overlook his contribution to the horror genre. From what I have heard, Bradbury was such a huge fan of Lovecraft that he wanted his first works to be published in Arkham house. A couple of his stories would encourage the reader to look for Lovecraft's back when H.P.'s work was at his most obscure. Fortunately it was Stephen King who made H.P.L. famous again but King also credited Bradbury as inspiration for his writing. In fact almost every book that encourages people to write horror or monster stories requires people to read Bradbury.

    I have seen all the newscasts have identified him as "the author of Farenheit 451" and while that is a great story. I feel that is just the tip of the iceberg to what he wrote. I do not know if I will ever understand the breadth of his literary prowess but it will be fun to try.

    R.I.P. and thank you for the fun times we had.