From Penny Arcade, a site not for folks afraid of "fancy" language:
300 is a movie about guys who look cool doing things that are awesome, and as such it's hard not to like it. It leverages swank technology in the service of its cinematic mission. Also, there is a portion of the film given over to a creature, equal parts goat and man, who plays a flute inside of a golden tent. So it's the sort of movie that really has something for everyone.
For those of you who missed it when we went a couple weeks ago, Broadway is apparently showing An Inconvenient Truth again.
It is well worth seeing and will, hopefully, change the way you look at the earth you live in and on. It's a positive documentary that leaves you with hope that things can change and gives you resources as to how you can help, as opposed to a Michael Moore type film that just leaves you angry.
Four thumbs up from this household!
Trailer here. From the genius (?) behind Ali G, I'm sure this will be offensive and yet very funny.
To celebrate (aka 'Make More Money') the 20th Anniversary Edition of the original Transformers animated movie, Hasbro is releasing updated versions of the first generation of Transformers. The first wave of the DELUXE CLASS figures will include Bumblebee, Rodimus, Astrotrain, STARSCREAM and will be available in November at the approximate retail price of $9.99) Optimus Prime, and Megatron VOYAGER CLASS figures will be also be available in November at the approximate retail price of $19.99.
I know what Mark and I will be getting each other for Christmas this year. :)
10mph is a documentary about two guys who travel across Amercia on a segway.
In the grand scheme of things, a very useless and unimportant movie. But America definitely likes to look at itself and see itself on the big screen so I'm sure it'll do well and probably is an entertaining look at 'real' Americana at it's best and worst.
Fun, cheesy way to promote the new Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson movie, Wedding Crashers. Crash the trailer. Little screw up in the credits as I punched in Carlos's name but couldn't find a suitable picture so I had to use Terry's. I guess Terry is Carlos's face double in the movies.
An amazingly well done computer animated Batman short done in the style of LEGO. Featuring the voice of the original Batman, Adam West. Something to get you excited for the new Batman movie coming.
Here's a video I did for FGCC that was shown a couple of weeks ago.
It was a lot harder, emotionally, to edit than I thought it would be when we first talked about what the video might end up looking like. At first I was upset with myself for not being impacted by the scenes I was watching. I really despised the thought that I had become so desensitized to images such as these. But as I continued working, it really began to hit home. Most of these clips are taken from a ABC report on Darfur and the ethnic cleansing/tribal warfare that has gone on there.
It just boggles my mind how that can be taking place on this same planet and have little to no effect on what we do here in Saskatoon. We often look back in history and think 'How could people have let Hitler kill as many people as he did' but what's gone on and is continuing to go on all around the world are similair events that we do nothing about.
The song that's in the video is asking the question "Where Are You?" to God, but it could (and should) more likely be asked of us.
Brought to you by The Office.
On hearing that it's Tim's 30th birthday:
David Brent (the boss): Things do change. It could be worse. There's a neighbour of mine, Calvin, he's 32 and he still lives with his parents.
Tim Canterbury: I live with my parents.
David: Cherish them... really. Because you'll miss them when they're not around. Both of mine are dead.
Tim: Oh
David Well, dad isn't... dead. He's in a home. So, as good as.
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David: Anyway... he is a vegetable now.. and that's something we all got to look forward to. Happy birthday.
Anyone out there tried/using zip.ca? It doesn't seem like that bad a deal. Basically commiting to paying $25/month for movie rentals - which I know most of us do that anyway with it being almost $6 each time at the local Blockbuster or whatever. Just curious if there's anyone with any actual experience with how well it works.
My buddy Mark did up a video to intro his leadership team this fall - check it out if you dig '70s music and campy acting.
Go here to check out the trailer/teaser thingy.
Here's one of the videos we had done last week up in Pierceland.
We did a bit of filming tonight on Travis' masterpiece. Check out the pics yo.
Saving this for myself later: using square pixels in round(ed) holes.
Clickity clickity. Sure to be an interesting flick and good for discussion no matter which side of Michael Moore you fall on.
Here's the video we showed on Sunday:
Got to have a bit more fun with the video editing this time than I usually do. I think we're going to really have to do a 5to9 reunion video to give me a chance to flex my brain in FCX.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.
And one more clip to get ya going.
Standard Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn flick - but I'll still love it.
This is one of the funniest trailers (Quicktime req'd) I've seen for a movie in a long time. I had no idea Jerry Seinfeld was making a movie and it may not even be any good, but we laughed pretty hard here at the office.
For more Seinfeld stuff, check out 'I've Never Watched Seinfeld' for tips on how to talk like you're a Seinfeld expert without even having to watch the show.
We watched 'Amelie' last night and enjoyed it a lot. (M&H you'll love the french - Heidi could probably even watch it without subtitles by now I bet!) A very cute, funny movie. I was really impressed with the whole look of the film - the camera angles, the over-saturated colors - very well done. Some of the extras on the DVD were interesting, some were boring and some we didn't watch.
Two thumbs up from this household.
We're off to the lake so don't expect much in the way of updates. Watch Mark's site for possibly more updates - or possibly not.
l8r.
It's certainly been a creative couple of weeks with Travis and I. Not that these tunes are necessarily great songs or anything, we're just having a lot of fun doing it. We've done up another song - well a cover song this time. For whatever reason Rocket Man by Elton John has been floating around in my head as a cool tune and so, the other night when Travis and I got together and nothing was coming musically we thought we'd try our hands at covering a little Elton. Maybe it was the fact that he's coming here (Saskatoon and Kelowna are his only stops in Canada... I don't understand it) but mostly it was just a cool tune that works well accoustically.
Grab yourself a sample if you dare.
In movie news, The Lord of the Rings DVD comes out in a few days. I'm a bit torn as they are apparently releasing another version in November with 30 minutes of extra footage that the version coming out now doesn't have. They're obviously doing it to help hype the next movie that's coming out in December (for which there was a trailer in the Austin Powers movie - nearly worth the price of admission just for the trailer... well, the trailer and the opening 10 minutes of Austin Powers for sure). Hmmm... well, we'll just have to see what my birthday (Aug 19th hint! hint!) brings me. :)
Some of you may have noticed the little graph-like icon at the very bottom of this page. If you click on it it takes you to the stats for my blog and near the bottom of that page it gives me a breakdown of where people are from who visit this site. I realize it's not entirely accurate since people could be telneting to other computers and then connecting to the web, but:
I pretty much know who's visiting this site from Canada and from the U.K. and even Australia. But what I'm not sure about is who's visiting from the US, Japan and Indonesia (as well as the unknown 4.1%). Chances are they just happened across this site by accident and won't be coming back, but if there is someone who's a regular visitor who's name isn't Lindsay, Christine, Kenton,Matt or Mark (well, you guys are welcome to send me an email as well!) please drop me an email.
Don't read the next section if you don't want to hear about Austin Powers.
We saw 'Austin Powers in Goldmember' yesterday. While it was quite funny at points and made us laugh it's also starting to really feel like we've done this all before. But they did manage to throw enough surprises and new material in to make it entertaining. What was kind of disturbing was the fact that they've rated the movie PG-13 for crude humour, sexual innuendo and language it should've been rated higher for the violence. If you've seen the movie then you'll know what I'm talking about. Mini-Me gets his butt handed to him on more than a few occasions in very violent ways. Sue and I couldn't believe parents would bring their kids to a movie like this - especially kids that were obviously 10 and under.
Such is our culture I guess.
In the "This Humour Is Not For Everyone" category, the Mr. Show DVD comes out this week. Here's a bit of a lowdown on what's coming:
"Watch Bob and David push the envelope until you want to scream, "Leave that poor envelope alone!" The 2-disc set includes 288 Minutes of "Mr. Show" episodes plus bonus features (in glorious full color and Dolby Surround sound)."
It includes the full first two seasons of Mr. Show. I know of at least 1 of my many, many friends that I have that will be buying this. And I have many friends, let me tell you.
So Sue and I saw Changing Lanes last night (after a very tasty meal at Earl's). I don't really recommend it. Ben Affleck isn't that great of an actor and the movie just leaves you feeling (blech). There isn't really an antagonist or a protagonist and so when the movie ends, you just feel like nothing's happened.
On a lighter note, check out this auction for a haunted walkman and be sure to scroll down and take in the photo of the walkman in use. (I'm pretty sure it's all a joke.... at least I hope so)
the guy who played Darth Vader apparently doesn't really like the new sw:ep2 movie... but he's more than willing to take a job in ep3. (No kidding... those sc-fi conventions probably don't pay the bills!)
Saw I Am Sam on the weekend. Good show. Again with Kevin & Luanne. More and more couples around us.
But really all this post was for was to check out how additional text looks.
... been awhile since i updated - i managed to win the battle to see sw: ep2 and i think everyone enjoyed it as a result. it was pretty sweet to see it on the big silvercity screen with the nice seats after shopping all afternoon ...
