Monday, March 31, 2008
"Hey, you got Police in my Snow Patrol!" "Well, you got Snow Patrol in my Police!"
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Odd Couple Mashup Trailer
Turner Classic Movies promo for classic "Odd Co... (more)
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Turner Classic Movies promo for classic "Odd Couple" movie, casting the movie as a twisted modern thriller.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Jaws 3 pt.2
Ok, let’s tackle the credits.
Since I’m watching this movie in regular old 2-D, the “red superman” style credits as I call them, seem a little odd. I do appreciate the loud “CHOMP!” sound that accompanies the Jaws 3 title card. So I expect there will be lots of chomping in this movie right?
Our illustrious cast. Dennis Quaid as Mike Brody – who has apparently grown up to be an engineer. Who has chosen to work at a theme park dedicated to fish. Despite having had traumatic experiences with sharks in the past. Methinks Mike never really thought this thing through.
Well, don’t worry Dennis, you’ll go on to better things. Hey, you got to hook up with Lea Thompson when it meant something.
Random Factoid: Hooking Up with Lea Thompson never really meant anything – it may have meant a little something during the Back to the Future movies, although it did go into negative numbers (less than anything) after Howard The Duck before evening up to not meaning anything again with Caroline In The City. I think she’s doing Lifetime movies now. Hey, we’ve covered Lea Thompson. Cool! She plays a water-skier on this movie. A professional water-skier at a theme park called Kelly Ann Bukowski who likes to hang around in bars challenging red necks to obscure “games of balance”.
Because if you’re a professional water-skier, you aim high!
Anyways, back to the cast. We have Bess Armstrong who plays Mike’s girlfriend, Kay Kathy Katherine Morgan. Seriously, at different points in the movie she gets called each of these names – pick a nickname and stick with it lady! Katherine is the senior biologist at Sea World. She likes fish.
She likes fish so much she’d rather capture a great white who has perhaps killed a Sea World employee rather than kill it. Wonder what that display will look like –
Simon McCorkindale as Philip Fitzroyce, the great white great white hunter. Simon is awesome just because he played “Manimal” (ok, his character's name was "Dr. Jonathan Chase" if you want to get specific) in the short lived TV series “Manimal”:
I fear for her hair.Manimal.
Awesome!
P.H. Moriarty and John Putch. One of them plays Sean. One of them plays the assistant to Manimal and says "guv'ner" alot. I’m too lazy too look up which is which.
Random Factoid: The one who played Sean went on to play (under heavy make-up) the alien who slightly beats Wesley on the Star Fleet entrance exam in Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And that’s one to grow on!
Louis Gossett Jr. As Calvin Bouchard…the best part of this movie!!! Has terrific, scene chewing lines – “You talking about some damn shark’s mutha!?!?”
Brilliant!
See, I knew there’d be chomping in this movie!
Random Factoid: To promote Jaws 3, Mr. Gossett hosted a syndicated television program about the making of the movie called, I kid you not, "The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die". To quote IMDB.com:
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Jaws 3 review pt.1
Battlefield Earth? Nah, too painful. Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? Hmmm…maybe when I’m feeling more ambitious.
Random Factoid: Sgt. Pepper’s is a movie so bad, so unbelievable that years after seeing if on TV I wondered if I had in fact imagined it. “A movie with the Bee-Gees, Peter Frampton, and Steve Martin singing Beatles’ songs? Surely that was a fever dream!”
No, I decided to go with a movie that, I’m embarrassed to say, I know by heart. A movie that, whenever it comes on cable, I stop and watch. A movie I have a certain childhood nostalgia for. I give you….
Jaws 3
Ok, originally it was Jaws 3-D, but that was a loooong time ago and my DVD did not come with 3-D glasses, so…bummer.
Random Factoid: Jaws 3 came out in 1983 so I would have been about 7. I remember going to Sea World Orlando at that time and seeing that the park, where some of the movie was filmed, had proudly displayed some props from the movie. I’m guessing this was before the movie came out and before any of the suits saw the movie.
I’m going to do this review in parts…small sections of the movie so that I can give each frame the amount of loving scrutiny it deserves.
So…
DVD chapter 1:
We open under the ocean (In a Jaws movie? I know!) Happy little fish swimming around – oh look, I think I see Nemo! We zoom in to what could be a grouper. Or a catfish. Nah, I think it’s a grouper…whatever, a fish, ok?
Nice little fish who maybe could be my entrée some day. But, alas, no, for we hear a loud crunch and what once was a fish is now merely a fish head (eat them up, yum!) What’s more, the fish head, though deceased, is slowly rotating in a cloud of blood…opening and closing its mouth! Undead Zombie Fish!
Undead Zombie Fish might have been a better movie, actually…
Ok, a couple of things about this scene. I understand opening the movie with “a scare” might seem like a good idea, but is a shark (a 35ft. great white we come to find out later) really going to take the time to bite off only 3/4ths of a fish? Does it just not like fish heads like I just don’t like the stem of broccoli (flowery part is acceptable, stem is gross!) And is a floating 3-D fish head really scary? Did the audience say, “Well, I don’t know. It’s on the third sequel and how many times can they FLOATING 3-D FISH HEAD! AHHHHHHHH!!!!! MY HEART!”
Plus, although some of this scene is accompanied by Jaws theme, there is a distinct music clue that sounds like…umm, how to describe it? I guess it sounded most like:
HEE HAWWWW HE HAW HEE HAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW!
Sigh
Tbc…next, our stellar cast and why you should never put Lea Thompson on the top of a pyramid.
