So, so, so... I found a few cool things that I wish to share, this may be short...
TV On The Radio did a short video for their album Nine Types of Light, that includes interviews with people about life, love, dreams and the future AND music videos for every song on the album... the video for "You" is actually quite hilarious and sad... here's the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5GP0AiQMc&feature=channel_video_title
Also, there's a documentary called We Are Wizards, that is about the music that Harry Potter fans make about the books/films (that's right, people make Harry Potter music), it's good to know that such nerdy and odd things have such a good scene too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduMAnjMXCg
A few free films on youtube (at least for right now) include Plan 9 From Outer Space (considered the worst movie ever), four Charlie Chaplin films, El Mariachi, M (a mystery film by Fritz Lang), Vampyr, and Nosferatu, all pretty cool, so jump on those while they're available!
Also, Winter Chairs has a youtube, if you are interested, here are two studio recording shorts, chronicling mishaps and what not...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwmc_ZdRM8s&feature=channel_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjiyMm9XFo&feature=channel_video_title
ANYWAY, there are a few things, now on to recommendations!
With my first comment I will say my album is Nine Types of Light by TV On The Radio, which (in my opinion) is the best TV On The Radio album next to Return To Cookie Mountain (which is a wonderful record). For a film, I recommend Project Nim, which is a documentary about an experiment to teach a chimp to communicate via sign language. It has some issues but is a good movie.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Thirty-ninth Cabbage-- Lock, Stock and Barrel
Here Harry Potter fans! This is fun!
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harry-potter-films-according-to-someone-who-never-saw-them/
Here weed fans! This is fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuHuqWauRU&feature=related
Okay, so this blog post, this blog post, this blog post!! I dunno what the fucking shitty ass cunt balls I'm going to talk about but let me say that I have become (as everyone has appeared to) quite enthralled by OFWGKTA. If you don't know what that is, it's a demented hip hop collective that stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. They include new underground rap artists like Tyler The Creator, MellowHype, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean. I'm not sure why they intrigue me so much, a lot of their lyrics are just horrible and offensive, but there's humor in it and maybe that's what I like, taking disturbed and demented things to a comedic level. Anyway, check it out, you might like it, I'll link some videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNaFeIm4bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk68dCUQjzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMOEVdXR2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8
Now on to some stuff!
Alright, next, let's talk about film, but not film as in the art form of movie making but film as in film stock or the literal series of pictures that makes up a movie (before everything went digital). Hope you're excited! Good old fashioned film stock is made of celluloid, which is a type of plastic, and this is more permanent than the thin paper film that movies started out on. Early on all film stock was also nitrate based and highly highly flammable and the fires were incredibly hard to put out. As you all know films started as black and white endeavors with no sound, eventually sound was added and then eventually color was added also. The first attempt with color film was Kinemacolor which lasted from 1908 to 1914 and was achieved by showing a black and white film behind alternating red and cyan frames. Next was Technicolor (which is much more well known) and was used from 1916 to 1952, this was a lot more complex and allowed for much more color and actually evolved four times over it's existence.
There are different formats for film stock, 8mm, this film stock is 8mm wide and there are two versions of it, standard 8mm and Super 8. Standard 8 came out during the Great Depression and was produced as a cheaper way of making home movies (Kodak stopped producing standard 8 film in the early 1990s). Super 8 was released in 1965 and became popular with amateur film makers because it was easier to use and had better picture quality than standard 8.
There was a 9.5mm film that was primarily meant to be cheap for home users and a way to recreate popular films for home viewing, however, it was damaged easily due to it's perforation and not very popular.
One of the most popular formats was 16mm. It was also was intended for home use and was also used to rent popular movies for home viewing. However, some movies were filmed on 16mm and a lot of TV shows and educational videos were shot in this format. Just like 8mm film, 16mm came in a larger form called Super 16, it only had one sided perforation in order to have a wider screen area.
For a very very short time there was a 28mm format, however, it didn't last.
35mm film stock was the most common format for motion pictures. There are many many forms of 35mm stock including a 3 perforation form and Super 35. 35mm stock is still used today as the most common format for major motion pictures.
The last common gauge for film stock is 70mm/65mm. Now, the reason there are two here is that the films are filmed on 65 and then printed on 70 to be projected. The 70mm print is for wide, high resolution films and has a very wide aspect ratio, it's usually used for grandiose and intense films that would look good in an IMAX or anything with a large aspect ratio (a lot of Spiderman 2 was shot in this format).
IMAX is another format and it's just 70mm film on it's side to create an extremely wide view.
The rest is all digital and shit and I don't wish to get into that (even though it's the way of the future), but maybe I will at a later date.
Now that you have all of that information, I'm going to switch gears.
So, as I've mentioned before, I am Winter Chairs. http://www.mediafire.com/?n9zdg99ajea4ni5
I have also finished my LP called Meet The Cactus, so if you would be interested in that let me know or give me an email and I can give it to you, it comes with a coloring book! (all pages being hand drawn).
Here's a preview from the coloring book...
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harry-potter-films-according-to-someone-who-never-saw-them/
Here weed fans! This is fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuHuqWauRU&feature=related
Okay, so this blog post, this blog post, this blog post!! I dunno what the fucking shitty ass cunt balls I'm going to talk about but let me say that I have become (as everyone has appeared to) quite enthralled by OFWGKTA. If you don't know what that is, it's a demented hip hop collective that stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. They include new underground rap artists like Tyler The Creator, MellowHype, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean. I'm not sure why they intrigue me so much, a lot of their lyrics are just horrible and offensive, but there's humor in it and maybe that's what I like, taking disturbed and demented things to a comedic level. Anyway, check it out, you might like it, I'll link some videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNaFeIm4bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk68dCUQjzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMOEVdXR2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_loMbmKJ8
Now on to some stuff!
Alright, next, let's talk about film, but not film as in the art form of movie making but film as in film stock or the literal series of pictures that makes up a movie (before everything went digital). Hope you're excited! Good old fashioned film stock is made of celluloid, which is a type of plastic, and this is more permanent than the thin paper film that movies started out on. Early on all film stock was also nitrate based and highly highly flammable and the fires were incredibly hard to put out. As you all know films started as black and white endeavors with no sound, eventually sound was added and then eventually color was added also. The first attempt with color film was Kinemacolor which lasted from 1908 to 1914 and was achieved by showing a black and white film behind alternating red and cyan frames. Next was Technicolor (which is much more well known) and was used from 1916 to 1952, this was a lot more complex and allowed for much more color and actually evolved four times over it's existence.
There are different formats for film stock, 8mm, this film stock is 8mm wide and there are two versions of it, standard 8mm and Super 8. Standard 8 came out during the Great Depression and was produced as a cheaper way of making home movies (Kodak stopped producing standard 8 film in the early 1990s). Super 8 was released in 1965 and became popular with amateur film makers because it was easier to use and had better picture quality than standard 8.
There was a 9.5mm film that was primarily meant to be cheap for home users and a way to recreate popular films for home viewing, however, it was damaged easily due to it's perforation and not very popular.
One of the most popular formats was 16mm. It was also was intended for home use and was also used to rent popular movies for home viewing. However, some movies were filmed on 16mm and a lot of TV shows and educational videos were shot in this format. Just like 8mm film, 16mm came in a larger form called Super 16, it only had one sided perforation in order to have a wider screen area.
For a very very short time there was a 28mm format, however, it didn't last.
35mm film stock was the most common format for motion pictures. There are many many forms of 35mm stock including a 3 perforation form and Super 35. 35mm stock is still used today as the most common format for major motion pictures.
The last common gauge for film stock is 70mm/65mm. Now, the reason there are two here is that the films are filmed on 65 and then printed on 70 to be projected. The 70mm print is for wide, high resolution films and has a very wide aspect ratio, it's usually used for grandiose and intense films that would look good in an IMAX or anything with a large aspect ratio (a lot of Spiderman 2 was shot in this format).
IMAX is another format and it's just 70mm film on it's side to create an extremely wide view.
The rest is all digital and shit and I don't wish to get into that (even though it's the way of the future), but maybe I will at a later date.
Now that you have all of that information, I'm going to switch gears.
So, as I've mentioned before, I am Winter Chairs. http://www.mediafire.com/?n9zdg99ajea4ni5
I have also finished my LP called Meet The Cactus, so if you would be interested in that let me know or give me an email and I can give it to you, it comes with a coloring book! (all pages being hand drawn).
Here's a preview from the coloring book...
Real quick, my recommendations for tonight are as follows... Movie, it's Repo! The Genetic Opera, it's a musical rock opera about a company that takes over the world and loans out organs to people but also repossesses them if the people can't make their payments. For my album, I'm going to go with... Mines by Menomena, it's such a great album and a great continuation of Menomena's series of albums.
Anyway, I shall bid you adieu, Tah!
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Thirty-eighth House-- So People Like This...: A Review
Hello all, it's been a very questionable time for cinema recently in my opinion. You have a new super hero movie coming out every week and the biggest redeeming piece of cinema coming out soon is the new Harry Potter flick, dismal indeed. What do we having coming out of the art scene though? What kind of groundbreaking film will save us from all of this? According to Cannes, it's The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d'Or this year. Well I saw this film and let me ask this question, the art scene likes this?
The answer to that question is, of course the art scene likes this, the art scene likes everything that isn't popular, but let me explain how I see/feel about the movie real quick.
Let me start by saying that this film was visually breathtaking, there were a ton of awesome shots, artistic camera angles and sweet ass visuals, AND I think there may have been a plot in there somewhere! (but I'm not sure). Really, this is a director/DP's wet dream, it's got incredible shots and just amazing scenes. On the other hand, it's a storyteller's nightmare. There is almost no coherent plot in this film. The first half of the film hints to a possible story line of a family dealing with the death of a child, however, it quickly falls to images from a Planet Earth documentary, an unexplained and unnecessary tangent about dinosaurs (which are very poorly animated) and a load of space photography with extremely cryptic voice overs. It then goes into the story of three young boys in the 50s or 60s and their demanding father. This COULD have been a real plot, however, instead of really developing into one, it focuses more on the abstract depiction of the eldest son's inner turmoil and many shots of him sneaking around looking devious. After all of this semi-story it skips to Sean Penn as one of the sons grown up and shows him walking around an unexplained desert surrounded by other people from his life.
The space shots were amazing and beautiful, however, I must say, if I wanted to see this I would watch a documentary. The whole film could have been decent if the plot were more coherent. It had a good idea and a good story but it focused way too much on the artistic and not enough on making the movie something watchable. By the end you're wondering how much longer before it's over.
Was the film horrible? No, is it worth watching? I my opinion no, but do what you like, if it sounds like your kind of thing, go for it. I guess I'm just not artsy enough for this film.
ANYWAY, now that I've said what I've said...
My recommendations are these... Freaks (1932) by Tod Browning is my movie recommendation. I may have mentioned this film before but I love it, it's charming, it's adorable, it's disturbing. It's the story of handicapped people being mistreated in a traveling circus and eventually exacting their revenge. It's a great film. My album recommendation is Organix by The Roots. This is the first album from the Philadelphia hip hop band and is a hidden gem. It's not the most well known album from the band, but it's really good still.
There you go!
The answer to that question is, of course the art scene likes this, the art scene likes everything that isn't popular, but let me explain how I see/feel about the movie real quick.
Let me start by saying that this film was visually breathtaking, there were a ton of awesome shots, artistic camera angles and sweet ass visuals, AND I think there may have been a plot in there somewhere! (but I'm not sure). Really, this is a director/DP's wet dream, it's got incredible shots and just amazing scenes. On the other hand, it's a storyteller's nightmare. There is almost no coherent plot in this film. The first half of the film hints to a possible story line of a family dealing with the death of a child, however, it quickly falls to images from a Planet Earth documentary, an unexplained and unnecessary tangent about dinosaurs (which are very poorly animated) and a load of space photography with extremely cryptic voice overs. It then goes into the story of three young boys in the 50s or 60s and their demanding father. This COULD have been a real plot, however, instead of really developing into one, it focuses more on the abstract depiction of the eldest son's inner turmoil and many shots of him sneaking around looking devious. After all of this semi-story it skips to Sean Penn as one of the sons grown up and shows him walking around an unexplained desert surrounded by other people from his life.
The space shots were amazing and beautiful, however, I must say, if I wanted to see this I would watch a documentary. The whole film could have been decent if the plot were more coherent. It had a good idea and a good story but it focused way too much on the artistic and not enough on making the movie something watchable. By the end you're wondering how much longer before it's over.
Was the film horrible? No, is it worth watching? I my opinion no, but do what you like, if it sounds like your kind of thing, go for it. I guess I'm just not artsy enough for this film.
ANYWAY, now that I've said what I've said...
My recommendations are these... Freaks (1932) by Tod Browning is my movie recommendation. I may have mentioned this film before but I love it, it's charming, it's adorable, it's disturbing. It's the story of handicapped people being mistreated in a traveling circus and eventually exacting their revenge. It's a great film. My album recommendation is Organix by The Roots. This is the first album from the Philadelphia hip hop band and is a hidden gem. It's not the most well known album from the band, but it's really good still.
There you go!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
The Thirty-sixth March-- Cats... The Shit!
Okay, don't hate me but this post will not be about movies, instead it will be about this... you're welcome...
SEE THIS CAT? HIS NAME IS GIZZY...
SEE THIS CAT? HIS NAME IS GIZZY...
HE'S PRETTY MUCH THE SHIT! LOOK AT HIM! HE'S A FUCKING CAT ISN'T HE? FUCK YEAH HE IS! BEING A BLACK BEAUTIFUL CAT SITTING ALL REGAL AND SHIT! HE'S FUCKING PLAYFUL AS A MOTHERFUCKER TOO! HE WOULD KICK YOUR CAT'S ASS AND THEN BAT AT IT LIKE IT WAS A FUCKING TOY MOUSE ON A STRING! HE'S THE FUCKING MAN AND HE'S ON A FUCKING CAT TREE SO SHIT YEAH!!
AND WHAT ABOUT THIS BEAUTY, SEE HER? HER FUCKING KICK ASS NAME IS TINKERBELL (THAT'S RIGHT, FUCKING TINKER-FUCKING-BELL!)
YOU THINK SHE TAKES SHIT JUST BECAUSE HER NAME IS TINKERBELL? YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG! SHE'S A FUCKING HARD ASS WHO WILL KICK ANY MOTHERFUCKER IN THE BALLS AND PURR IN JOY! SHE LIKES LOOKING OUT FUCKING WINDOWS TOO, I THINK IT'S TO FIND MOTHERFUCKERS TO EAT ALIVE BECAUSE SHE'S A FUCKING AWESOME CAT! FUCK! LOOK AT HER FUCKING ADORABLE FACE AND TREMBLE IN TERROR!
AND WHAT ABOUT THIS FLUFFY PILE OF FUCKING AWESOME? HIS NAME IS KINO!
LOOK AT HIM LURKING IN THE SHADOWS AND SHIT! HE'LL POUNCE ON A MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU'LL LOVE IT! HE'S A TOTAL BADASS, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF HE'S SICK OR WELL, HE'LL STILL KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES! ISN'T HE THE SHIT? LOOK AT HIM!! IF YOU SEE HIM COMING DOWN YOUR STREET YOU BETTER LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS AND WIVES BECAUSE HE'S MORE OR LESS WAY MORE FUCKING AWESOME THAN YOU!! SHIT!
YOU WISH YOU HAD THESE FUCKING CATS!!
ahem...
Anyway, there's a post on cats, they belong to my girlfriend (who is awesome!) and I
So, not to jip you completely, I'll still do recommendations this post (please forgive my stupidity)... for my album recommendation, it's going to be Lola Verses Powerman and The Moneygoround: Part 1 by The Kinks, it's a classic piece of British invasion and one of my favorite Kinks albums and then for my movie recommendation, I'm going to go with The Naked City, directed by Jules Dassin, it's a nice little piece of noir crime drama and it's in The Criterion Collection, so go listen/watch that stuff and have a good Fourth tomorrow! See you guys later (if this post didn't lose the, like, 5 readers I have!).
Also... I have a youtube account now as Winter Chairs so if there are any stupid video I do, I'll try to put them up (I'll only broadcast it on here if they're worthwhile), but I'll also favorite some of the old early 1900s short silent films I watch so you can see them on there too!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Thirty-first Scrimmage-- Pointless?
I'm going to be vain in this post for a second and give you some more information about myself (not personal information though, not too much at least), why am I doing this? because I'm excited right now and I wanna share some things! I'll probably also include some other random things so consider this my next random topic post, sound good?
Now, as I included in one or two of my previous posts, my friend has started an artist collective called . Now, what I don't believe I included is MY place in this group, well, I'm a bit of a musician (a very small bit) and record under the name Winter Chairs. Now, you're probably thinking, "so what, why do I give a fuck about this dumb ass's life and what he does and all that shit, I came here for some mother fucking film and I demand no less!! DAMN HIM!!!" well hold on sir, I'll have some film for you momentarily (scout's honor), I'm just getting excited about what I'm doing in this group and I want to share things with you, you mean, ungrateful bastards. ANYWAY... as an Well, not only does The Frosty Seats (yeah, I'm gonna keep changing my band name), have an EP ready, called B.Y.O.B (don't laugh at me), but a full length LP about done called Meet The Cactus. I'm also planning a concept LP based on characters, with every song tell one character's story AND an LP full of poor recordings and demos of songs that I've either forgotten or don't want to rerecord and do better for an actual LP. None of that is what I'm excited about though! What I'm truly excited about is my musical project that will include a good amount of artists (I hope) called The Darwin Project. What is this you ask? Well my good sir, it is a sample (a simple sample), that I have created that I'm sending out to the musical artists. The trick of the project is that the artist must use the sample, unaltered, at least once in a song. After that they can either change it however they would like, or not use it again (sounds fun huuh?). Well, I suppose it's my way of working with people, indirectly of course. Why did I choose the title The Darwin Project? well, let me tell you that also my young lad. I liked the idea of using Charles Darwin, the father of evolution theory, to explain this project. I wanted the artists to take my little sample (my monkey, so to say) and evolve it into something different and more complex (or make it into a man, more or less). That's why it's The Darwin Project! (lame? maybe!) Now, the most exciting thing about this project is that the first song relating to it is done, and it was done by one Evan Campbell (thank you Evan), and here's the video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81qYCc80obQ , check it out, it's awesome, I'll keep posting who has songs done as they get finished (hopefully, most, if not all will have videos). I can't wait to see what happens with it next!
Now a bit more about myself... I'm a student, I'm a new vegetarian, I'm broke, I wouldn't say I'm an artist, but I dabble in the arts, primarily audio and visual. My dabbling is why I want to be a film maker, I have many ideas for films I'd love to make someday and I have said a few of these in one of my past posts. More or less I have a lot of ambitions and very little drive. Will I ever make it as a film maker? who knows, but I want to give it a shot, I'm willing to take nearly any job I can land in the field though. I like fucked up things, monsters, drug imagery, psychological things. I like depth in my film and art, but I can also be a sucker for stupidity (I love the film Anchorman). I generally dislike action films and despise super hero movies (with the exception of the rebooted Batman series), I usually dislike horror too, but there are exceptions there, like the Hellraiser films (at least the first few). I'm fairly opinionated, but try to be open to new things and I'm generally willing to give things multiple second chances (especially if it's an interest of someone close to me). I love music and listen to too much of it, I could easily write a music blog considering that I have studied it since I was 13. Film is a bit new to me, bit it is definitely a passion and learning is my reason for doing this blog. I have a beautiful, amazing, perfect, awesome girlfriend who means more to me than anyone will ever know, I owe her so much it's crazy. I try to be deep, but I feel like I'm not too deep. I want to get started writing a short story script, but something keeps on keeping me from it (I'll probably be too busy this summer to really do anything with it anyway). I'm about to head off to University, I'll be going to Lincoln, so if you're there and somehow read this blog, let me know, we can chill. I'm very introverted and don't make friends easily but I always want to talk to intelligent people who share some of my interests. I don't know if I have a favorite director but I enjoy the works of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock and a few others a lot. I have a HUGE HUGE HUGE soft spot for old movies, I don't care what type, I just love old Hollywood, everything seemed so much better back then (I especially love the old comedies, the stars could do EVERYTHING!). I spent a lot of my time watching movies or playing music but I don't as much anymore. I have an odd love and fascination with masks, and will probably attempt to incorporate masks into any films I attempt. I love many different styles of music but I hate country. As you know, I love monsters. I think that's all you really need to know about me for now though, maybe I'll share a bit more as time goes on.
Okay, I'm going to go on to some other stuff, I think with this post I'm going to start giving you all one album recommendation and one movie recommendation per post (sound like a decent idea?). For this post, one album you should definitely check out (if you haven't heard it already) is Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens. It's one of my favorite (if not my favorite) Sufjan Stevens album and is a religiously charged, poetic folk album. It's super chill and has some of his best songs (at least in my opinion), it's wonderful from start to finish. My movie recommendation for this post will keep with the seven title thing and be The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. The joking tale of a knight who comes back from the crusades and gets into a game of chess with Death. It's a classic of international cinema (it's Swedish so be prepared for that). I looked back at my old Deviant Art account and realized I did this in my notes back then (which were like a much more pointless blog), so apparently I'm prone to this shit. There are my recommendations for today though, now on to the next subject in this hodge podge of a post!!
So, this is hilarious, but also really REALLY lame, it was a bumper at SXSW and is Mario as an indie film... It COULD be a funny and interesting idea... if it didn't include so many lame game related jokes and puns, sort of ruins it... it's still pretty funny though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4
So, this is hilarious, but also really REALLY lame, it was a bumper at SXSW and is Mario as an indie film... It COULD be a funny and interesting idea... if it didn't include so many lame game related jokes and puns, sort of ruins it... it's still pretty funny though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4
Well, it looks like I'm gonna jump onto the movie stuff now (see, I got there you impatient droogs!). I'm going to give you a brief summary of the movie studios! (I know you're so happy). First off, by the 20s, the production companies became so big that they controlled everything from the production to the distribution to even the theaters and stars themselves. This and the policies of the major studios led to the "studio system", there were 5 major studios and they were 20th Century Fox, RKO, Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM. RKO is no longer a company and MGM almost went under also. The three smaller studio companies, known as "The Little Three" are Universal, Columbia and United Artists. These were considered little because they didn't own their own theaters. These are not the only studios, there are minor studios and independent studios, however, they were always more lenient than the majors.
Anyway, I'm tired now, I'm sorry that I didn't give much information on this blog, I'll do better next time I swear! It was nice chatting with you, have a great day.
Anyway, I'm tired now, I'm sorry that I didn't give much information on this blog, I'll do better next time I swear! It was nice chatting with you, have a great day.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
The Twenty-seventh Wound-- Copies, Pirates, Graffiti, Music and Things
So... anyone look at the box office lately? Depending on when I finish this blog post, it may be old, but the top film at the box office was The Hangover Part II. Would I go see The Hangover Part II? the answer is no. Why wouldn't I go see The Hangover Part II? well, it's not just because The Hangover was so dull to me, it's not just because I have a personal distaste for modern big-budget comedies, AND it's not just because I think the only thing keeping the first film even semi-entertaining was Zach Galifianakis alone... No, it's a lot because, not only was The Hangover sub-par, but The Hangover Part II is just a copy of the first. "Oh how can that be??!?!" you're asking, "how could he be saying this about my beloved Hangover?!?!?!" Well look at the facts of the movie... It involves the night before a wedding, it invloves someone getting lost and/or kidnapped, it involves gangsters and shady characters, it involves asians, it involves a search for what happened the previous night, it involves Zach Galifianakis' character spiking things with drugs and having a small companion (in this one it's a monkey instead of a baby), it even ends with them looking through the pictures of the night before and deleting them. The film even goes as far as to include Mike Tyson once again in both a cameo AND thr fact that Ed Helms has the same face tatoo. I didn't really respect the first film, I thought it got WAY too much hype and didn't deliver, but to just repeat the same things in a sequel is disgraceful (the Austin Powers films are a great example of this). Anyway, if you're not going to be clever after already not being funny, then why bother?
Okay, enough of my bitching... Onto the next topic... Now, I mentioned how The Hangover Part II was #1 on in the box office, now I'll discuss the film that was #3, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Now I thought the first Pirates movie was decent, it wasn't too deep, but it was entertaining, it had a horror aspect and Geoffry Rush, I thought, did an excellent job playing his character. Now we're on the fourth film in the saga, however, and it's getting a bit old. The second two films were not nearly as fun as the first and after 4 shots at it, Johnny Depp's flamboyant, possibly drunk, possibly high, possibly mentally handicapped Captain Jack Sparrow is not as humorous as it used to be. The search for the Fountain of Youth is something I will probably not see, once again. These blockbuster film series' are getting warn out, and fast. The stories are hurting, the acting is suffering and the characters are just not as good the 100th time around. There's is one thing that always gets me about the Pirate movies, the one thing that I really enjoy about them, and that's the character design. I especially love it on the pirates that are either known in pirate lore (such as Davy Jones), or the pirates that were real and living people (such as Blackbeard in the newest film). That and the representations of their famous ships and the beauty of the locations are also nice. I used to be interested in pirate lore and I read pirate stories (from Treasure Island to One Piece), and I'm not the only one, they actually have a pirate magazine out, but the stories and big blockbuster-ness of the Pirate films is really off putting and makes me not really like them, but I'm always interested in seeing what the new big pirates will look like. So let's take a look shall we?
We have Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbosa, Davy Jones and Blackbeard IN THAT ORDER...
and I know I'm a lame ass for posting those picture, you don't have to tell me that...
On top of that, I also liked the design of the ships they used in the films too, like The Black Pearl, The Flying Dutchman and The Queen Anne's Revenge...
Anyway, if you put together that my title is talking about what my topics are AND the order which I'm discussing them, you may be wondering what I mean by "graffiti", well, as I mentioned in my last post, I went to Lincoln to see (and now I own) the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop, now I plan on talking a bit more about the film. The film is about street art, but more specifically about a frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who filmed his obsession with street art and eventually became a street artist himself. The film features street artists Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Monsieur André, and Thierry himself, who eventually takes the name Mr. Brainwash. I rather enjoyed the film, I thought it was very interesting and comedic. While the film the Guetta makes is questionable, Banksy ends up taking over and making a better edited films, while he sends Guetta off to create his own art show (which is depicted in the film). According to the producers of the film, it was a long and frustrating process and they only ending up with seconds of usable film from tapes and tapes of home movies. I would recommend this film to anyone, it's a great movie, it got incredibly high reviews and was even nominated for an Academy Award (however, people are skeptical whether it's an actual documentary or a mockumentary). Either way, go watch the film, it's excellent.
I will leave you with this... the Hobbit movies have now been titled... here's the news... http://www.imdb.com/news/ni11204748/
Also, I generally dislike Tim Burton, but this is pretty sick, check it out, his short film Vincent...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASHP-vgnjAw
Have a kick ass day, all of you and I hope to see you again soon, bye bye now!
Okay, enough of my bitching... Onto the next topic... Now, I mentioned how The Hangover Part II was #1 on in the box office, now I'll discuss the film that was #3, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Now I thought the first Pirates movie was decent, it wasn't too deep, but it was entertaining, it had a horror aspect and Geoffry Rush, I thought, did an excellent job playing his character. Now we're on the fourth film in the saga, however, and it's getting a bit old. The second two films were not nearly as fun as the first and after 4 shots at it, Johnny Depp's flamboyant, possibly drunk, possibly high, possibly mentally handicapped Captain Jack Sparrow is not as humorous as it used to be. The search for the Fountain of Youth is something I will probably not see, once again. These blockbuster film series' are getting warn out, and fast. The stories are hurting, the acting is suffering and the characters are just not as good the 100th time around. There's is one thing that always gets me about the Pirate movies, the one thing that I really enjoy about them, and that's the character design. I especially love it on the pirates that are either known in pirate lore (such as Davy Jones), or the pirates that were real and living people (such as Blackbeard in the newest film). That and the representations of their famous ships and the beauty of the locations are also nice. I used to be interested in pirate lore and I read pirate stories (from Treasure Island to One Piece), and I'm not the only one, they actually have a pirate magazine out, but the stories and big blockbuster-ness of the Pirate films is really off putting and makes me not really like them, but I'm always interested in seeing what the new big pirates will look like. So let's take a look shall we?
We have Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Barbosa, Davy Jones and Blackbeard IN THAT ORDER...
and I know I'm a lame ass for posting those picture, you don't have to tell me that...
On top of that, I also liked the design of the ships they used in the films too, like The Black Pearl, The Flying Dutchman and The Queen Anne's Revenge...
Anyway, if you put together that my title is talking about what my topics are AND the order which I'm discussing them, you may be wondering what I mean by "graffiti", well, as I mentioned in my last post, I went to Lincoln to see (and now I own) the movie Exit Through The Gift Shop, now I plan on talking a bit more about the film. The film is about street art, but more specifically about a frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who filmed his obsession with street art and eventually became a street artist himself. The film features street artists Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Monsieur André, and Thierry himself, who eventually takes the name Mr. Brainwash. I rather enjoyed the film, I thought it was very interesting and comedic. While the film the Guetta makes is questionable, Banksy ends up taking over and making a better edited films, while he sends Guetta off to create his own art show (which is depicted in the film). According to the producers of the film, it was a long and frustrating process and they only ending up with seconds of usable film from tapes and tapes of home movies. I would recommend this film to anyone, it's a great movie, it got incredibly high reviews and was even nominated for an Academy Award (however, people are skeptical whether it's an actual documentary or a mockumentary). Either way, go watch the film, it's excellent.
I will leave you with this... the Hobbit movies have now been titled... here's the news... http://www.imdb.com/news/ni11204748/
Also, I generally dislike Tim Burton, but this is pretty sick, check it out, his short film Vincent...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASHP-vgnjAw
Have a kick ass day, all of you and I hope to see you again soon, bye bye now!
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