Category: Eye Noise
I’m stealing from youtube.com now, but some stuff is just too fun not to. Being a child of the 80′s who liked TV shows with explosions and weak plots, this makes me laugh.
For you goody goody types, here’s the Rebel version:
OK, so it’s been a while since I posted anything and there’s no good reason for it. I’ve got 4 drafts sitting here and none seem worthy of publishing so I’m starting a new one from scratch.
I don’t even know what that means… “from scratch”. Does it mean I’m starting by relieving an itch? Does it mean the devil’s involved? I don’t know. English is a stupid language.
So today marks the release of Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”. I really, really want to like this movie. I do, I do, I do. The Alice mythology is very interesting to me and I’d love for it to reach the screen in a format sans Disneyfication. Big fail there. Disney is producing this film too. But it’s Tim Burton and if there’s a director out there that can do insane absurdity, it’s him. I’d still like to have seen Terry Gilliam’s version, but the Disney execs probably don’t want the occupants of Wonderland killed off by a plague, Alice lobotomized, or the Queen of Hearts being chased through time by midgets. When word came out months ago about the project, I was giddy.
The casting sounds great on paper.
I like the show 24. I do. I like Kiefer Sutherland. I’ve enjoyed the past seven years of watching him run around shouting things like “There isn’t time!” and “How come all you guys gots machine guns and I’ve just gots this pistol!”. It’s a fun show. But I think it’s time to kill off Jack Bauer.
For six of the past eight years, Los Angeles has had a major terrorist attack in the show. Assassination, nuclear bombs, bio weapons. I think after 5 years of that, LA would have just moved. For last season, they moved the target to Washington DC… which strangely looks just like LA with a digitally superimposed Washington Monument in each scene. Apparently the producers think the Washington Monument is like the Mona Lisa’s eyes and it follows you like a puppy or something. But it doesn’t matter where the bad guys are, Jack Bauer will go kill them and save the day… for most people. Sometimes he’s late. If you’re cast as an extra during the first 18 hours of the show… chances are you’re going to be a fatality. You’re Jack’s motivation. That’s why he’s so snarly.
