AKA: Part 2: My thoughts on Home Away’s Hotel Hell Vacation Super Bowl XLIV spot
After last week’s ‘news’ that Home Away was going to be reuniting Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as the famed heads of the National Lampoon Vacation series for a Super Bowl ad campaign, I took a look at the Home Away website and deemed it necessary to announce that the campaign was going to fail.
According to Collider.com (via Variety) South Korea is prepping the launch of Avatar in 4-D. Yup. 3-D just took off over here and they have already one upped us.
My question is, does Home Away really need to spend the ad money on such an expensive endeavor when they could easily build the viral campaign on the web for cheap?
***FAIR WARNING*** This write-up contains spoilers of last night’s LOST season six premiere as well as random plot points that are found in many of the preceding seasons. Read on only if you have seen all of the previous seasons as well as last night’s episode in its entirety.
We wish to express our gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example.
To them, and to lovers of adventure, lovers of escapism, lovers of unadulterated entertinment, lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre -
To funlovers everywhere – this picture is respectfully dedicated.
A spotlight catches two lovers in a dark doorway making out
If we have overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize.
-The Producers
And with this acknowledgement begins the awesome credits to Batman: The Movie. A film written and produced so succinctly as a spin-off to the famous camp television series on ABC that it contains some of the most ridiculous lines and events ever caught on film.
Batman: The Movie in which Batman punches a shark in the face… repeatedly and in which the dynamic duo answer the following riddle:
The awards season will be in full swing this Sunday when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association distributes their Golden Globes to this year’s winners. While I never really get a chance to see ALL of the nominees in both the TV or Film categories, it never does dissuade me from making my predictions and hosting my annual Golden Globes viewing party.
In times gone by, awards shows, including the Globes and the Oscars, have been downright boring. Either way, no matter how bad things get, I always find the Globes to be a vastly more entertaining event to watch on television. With last year’s improvement as Neil Patrick Harris took the stage and this year’s announcement that Ricky Gervais will be hosting the gala, there is no way I’ll be missing it. Gervais is always the best part of whatever show or event he participates in and I’m eager to see how he does as MC and who he skewers this year in his role as the grand poobah.
Ink is easily the coolest and most creative film released in 2009. If it weren’t for my friends over at Sans Broccoli, I would probably never have heard of it let alone given it a fair shake.
“Ink” was written and directed by Jamin Winans and cast, shot, produced, distributed – everything by his Double Edge Films production company with a budget of $250,000. After shopping the script around Hollywood to the many major and indie studios and getting nowhere, Double Edge decided to finance and produce the films completely on their own… I would highly recommend checking out the company’s blog.
Right before the holidays, after all of the buzz I’d heard about the film, I went to the Double Edge Films website and bought an autographed copy of the film. I didn’t get a chance to watch it before two nights ago but I can say this: It was well worth the wait. Ink is the coolest movie I’ve seen in a long time. Not only that but it’s so fucking well made and awesome to watch that everyone needs to see this movie. Buy the DVD or contact me and I’ll lend you the disc. Click here to continue reading…
This entry into my Coen Brothers Film Experience was supposed to be posted on December 9th. Seeing as it is now January 2nd, you can tell I’m a little late… The tardiness however is not for lack of trying. I’m going to disappoint a ton of Coen fans when I say that after ‘O Brother’ ended, I had no idea what I would write about.
After almost 30 days of thought, I think I’m about ready to discuss the film. It’s going to take a lot for me to do so because in order for me to continue, I’m going to have to admit to some pretty serious personal deficiencies surrounding my knowledge of Homer, film and the themes that the Coen Brothers built this movie around.
As comedy goes, I pretty much love anything workplace related: “Dilbert”, TV’s “Newsradio”, “The Office” (both UK and American versions) etc… and I certainly love Mike Judge’s “Office Space”. The work environment is a strange place. More often than not, you’ve got a bunch of very different people working together for the sole purpose of making a living. Nobody wants to be there but everybody wants to get paid so they put up with everyone else. Sometimes this works, and other times it doesn’t. When it doesn’t it’s funny as hell.
Even work culture is something to laugh at. The way people interact, the things people do, the things people try to get away with including senior management all the way down to the lowly office drones. To give you an example, I walked into my office bathroom earlier today only to see multiple two inch round dried wads of paper stuck to the wall. This is the kind of thing that by default can be found in every elementary school across the globe…and yet I’m sure this kind of stuff can be found in half the offices in North America.
This is what Mike Judge tapped into so perfectly with “Office Space”. “Extract” has its moments of workplace glory but it also veers off track a bit. While it is a very amusing movie, I feel it has a ton more potential. Click here to continue reading…
The only reason that I sat down to watch the film adaptation of “Needful Things” is because I had just finished the novel (written by Stephen King) and felt compelled to see it brought to screen. As with many transfers to film, a lot of books that get the cinematic treatment are not only vastly different from their original source but also are far inferior in almost every way. “Needful Things” is no different. On a purely comparative basis, the movie lacks much of what made the book so much fun. Taken purely as an early 90’s horror/thriller film, parts of it actually work. Click here to continue reading…
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