Good god, I hate filling out job applications. Just hate it. I always feel like I'm digging my own grave. #observationdeck
I guess nature found a way? #observationdeck
I really miss the golden age of '80s children's movies, when aliens would get falling down drunk and still be able to build interstellar communications devices out of simple consumer electronics. This is clearly where the modern Internet came from.
I'm pretty sure that this is an omen of Ragnarok according to John Hodgman.
Yeah, one of my big problems with Aliens is that the colony was too clean and shiny, like a theme park version of the Nostromo from Alien. Cameron just doesn't do visual textures well if they're in RL.
Yeah, although the only reason for that movie getting made was because Walter Tevis had written the novel a couple of years earlier, and the marketing played up Cruise and Scorsese's involvement over the fact that it was a sequel to The Hustler, a film that in all likelihood, most of the target audience had never seen.
The Bond movies might be an exception, though they didn't start until 1962 (I'm not including the '55 TV movie of Casino Royale).
I think we all remember how well this worked out the last time.
Seriously, though: Do we really need a sequel to a movie that came out 28 years ago? I know the shadow of nostalgia is longer and wider thanks to home video, the Internet, "expanded universe" merchandise, etc., but seriously, this is ridiculous and reveals the emptiness and absurdity of this kind of relentless franchising. (I dunno if "moviemaking" really even counts as a word anymore, since the actual movie is basically ancillary to all the other crap used to promote it.)
Lemme put it this way: 28 years before 1984 was 1956. What movies from 1956 did anyone want to see or make a sequel to in 1984?
Game related question:
Is anybody thinking of picking up a PS Vita? Five or ten years ago, my early-adopter antennae would be positively quivering at the prospect, but today... meh. The notion of buying a dedicated gaming handheld just seems weirdly quaint to me. (And the fact that Sony doesn't appear to have learned from its mistakes marketing the PSP in the States doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.)
"Europa Report" sounds like a smooth jazz combo from the '80s.
You realize, of course, that this is Anderson's true Holy Grail of franchise adaptations.
All forty minutes of North's score is up on YouTube. It's okay, but Kubrick's decision to go with classical and avant-garde music was the right choice.
It's always fun to hear composers reuse bits of music from earlier scores. James Horner used to do this all the time before he became famous, and Leonard Rosenman recycled a lot of his score from Bakshi's LotR for Star Trek IV.
Most famously, John Barry took the "love theme" from the Italian B-movie space opera Star Crash and reused it seven years later as the main theme for Out of Africa. He won an Oscar for it. Johnny Greenwood had a right to be pissed off about his There Will Be Blood score being disqualified.
Fans of Michael Chabon's Kavalier & Clay should check out this week's New Yorker (Feb. 13-20th issue). There's a long story in it called "Citizen Conn," and while it isn't a direct sequel to that renowned book, it has a lot of themes in common. And it's fantastic. #observationdeck
Paul Chadwick's Concrete is a great example. The title character is the sole "superhero" in a world without the usual comic book menaces, so he makes a living by using his indestructible silicon body to perform dangerous jobs like deep-sea exploration or climbing mountains for geological surveys. Occasionally he does movie work, playing aliens or doing stunts.
Only Rod Serling could unite Carl Reiner and H.P. Lovecraft, who here bears an odd resemblance to Kenneth from 30 Rock.
It's Bill Murray, though he's probably no more than 20 or 21 -- supposed to be playing a teenager, after all. #observationdeck
It's not that hard.
I see your bleak and raise you a Thompson. #observationdeck
Bill Murray used to play Johnny Storm, who knew?
Excelsior! #observationdeck
This was back when gangs of itinerant robots wandered the South, beating up jazz musicians and stealing their heroin, which they needed for fuel.
Later they switched to old people's medicine, which was not only commonplace, but greatly more energy efficient.
