Well hi everybody, welcome to another Wednesday update. Ready guys? THEN LET’S GET BLOGGING!
WHAT IS BEST: Confession time: I love the Conan the Barbarian movies. Like Roadhouse and Enter the Dragon, there is nothing bad about the Conan movies, and I will watch them every single time they come on TV. I don’t know, they’re like watching an awesome DnD game with fantastic dialogue and Arnold being delightfully incredulous to pretty much everything.
Also, Achewood has been a little crappy for a while, but it’s still one of the best things in the world, no joke. If you’ve never read it before, I would start right here, then never look back. This is where the cats are introduced. They are the best characters, but you still have a lot of reading to do before things get awesome. Achewood is like love or making cupcakes: You’ve got to put the work in and deal with stuff that doesn’t make sense before you can savor the fineness of of food-colored sprinkles and frosting that is basically butter combined with sugar.
SCOTT PILGRIM: I was nervous about Cera playing Scott at first, but after watching the clip my fears have been slashed away with a fire sword, disapating into so many gold coins.
Also, check out Dana’s Jesus. That’s a pretty good Jesus if you ask me.
REPO MEN IN 17 SYLLABLES: Hooray for a kind of dated joke!
Anyway, not that I don’t love dystopian futures AND violence, but any movie where you can piece together the whole film from the trailer is pretty much yawn-city. A future where consumerism and corporations have created a kind of nightmare state, and someone within the very nightmare engine has change of heart? A change of heart inspired by female love interest no less? You don’t say! That sounds really interesting! And by interesting, I mean I’ve seen this movie 1,000 times before.
I do not want to see it 1,001 times, if I wasn’t being clear enough above.
<3 Mike
SONGS FOR WEDNESDAY:
Yeah, we’re doin’ this, Grooveshark style!
I saw it the thousand-first time scrolling down this webcomic, sir.
Repo Men is actually based off of Repo: The Genetic Opera, which is significantly awesomer than this Jude Law monstrocity. It is ridiculous and take pride in that ridiculousness. It’s pretty, dark and gruesome, and Paris Hilton provides her own costumes, which somehow makes her character seem that much cooler. Anthony Stewart (Rupert Giles) sings really well, Alexis Vega plays a physically sick but rebellious girl, and the character known as Graverobber is AWESOME. He’s the narrator.
If I’m assuming from what I heard about Repo Men, Jude Law is supposed to play a young Anthony Stewart, in which case that character wasn’t even a Repo man until the death of his wife, Marni. laaaaame.
I was going to mention Repo: The Genetic Opera, but Melody beat me to it.
Check out this website: http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58903.
It goes into detail.
And the trailer for Repo Men? Completely agree, ungodly predictable trailer.
Not based on, Melody. Completely stole. It’s not as if they asked permission to swipe the entire premise of the movie. “Gee, do you mind if we take your under the radar, entirely awesome, gothic camp fest film and turn it into a cheap hollywood sci-fi cash cow? What’s that? LALALALALALALALALA, I CAAAAAAAN’T HEEEEEEEEEEEAR YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOI! 8D”.
Seething. Hatred.