White Red Panic Trailer

The trailer for Ayz Waraich's White Red Panic is up here. Why is this of any importance? Because not only does it visually look AMAZING, it's also a short film. Short films used to be calling cards, a chance for would-be director hot shots to show what they've got. Lately that's become less and less the case. So to find a short film I'm excited about seeing?

Well, at the least it gave me something to blog about.

Cool Quote #1

In my last failed attempt at keeping a blog, I had a recurring "cool quote" series that I've decided to revive with this fun little diddy from Michael Stipe.

"I'm not one to sit and spin, cause living well's the best revenge" - R.E.M.

"Automatic for the People" is one of my all time favorite albums. At the very least, it's in the top 5. In my younger, more impressionable days it spoke to me, like comfort food to the soul. To this day it manages to do the same thing, like a home cooked meal from mom, or deep dish pepperoni pizza from Subway (mmmmmmmm, Subway pizzaaaaaaa).

Anyway, it's interesting that decades later, the band can still hit me with a new and poignant quote. And yes, I know this quote is itself quoting a dead Welsh poet, but who the fuck is George Herbert to me?

Sometimes it isn't the words that matter as much as the device that delivers them.

And sometimes it's probably a combination of both...

While We're On the Topic of Awesome Trailers (Dollhouse)

Joss Whedon has new show slated for next fall, and judging from this trailer, it looks to be appropriately filled with geeky cool wonderment. It may even be able to top J.J.'s lukewarm FRINGE (although I hear they're tinkering with the pilot for that one in an attempt to eliminate the surprisingly sucky parts).

AND, it keeps to the trend of Boston awesomeness. So now you have to check it out.

Somewhere, Zina is doing a happy dance...

Is Genius defined by Nuttiness?

I managed to get my hands on a copy of the final draft of this long gestating WWII script that is finally going into production. This is a formal submission, mind you, and it arrived with a hand-scribbled title page. The script itself is broke down into chapters, outlined in the page 1 table of contents. It's obviously the product of a typewriter, and suffers from a severe lack of proofreading. The dialog is long, rambling and generally very boring. The characters are charactures. The story itself is strung together by a structure of paperclips, scotch tape and hand grenades. Hitler is a character, and he's angry because a certain band of American soldiers is scalping his army, literally. And we get to see this, in full detail.

So of course, this will be a masterpiece.

MAX PAYNE trailer

Is it just me, or does this trailer look pretty cool? Either that or I'm blinded to my loyalty to one of Boston's proudest sons...

Summer Blockbuster Smackdown, Week 12

My Blog feels neglected, so I've decided to give it a little attention and toss off some updated Smackdown standings:

1.) Iron Man

2.) Forgetting Sarah Marshall

3.) Get Smart

4.) Hancock

5.) The Incredible Hulk

6.) Kung Fu Panda

7.) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

8.) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

9.) Speed Racer

10.) The Strangers

11.) Don't Mess with the Zohan

12.) Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

13.) Wanted

Six Weeks from Tonight, I'm Gonna Kick Carl's Ass In Beerpong

It's almost wedding time, which means it's even closer to bachelor party time, which means Vegas. Three nights of crazy that for now will be summed up as this:

me: we're gonna do shots when we wake up in the morning

k?

carl: holy jesus

...
ok

That's the spirit!