Is this commercial on TV? I haven’t seen it. But then again, I do time shift the ship out of my shows.
So could this mark a renaissance for Kmart? Probably not. But if we’re in store for a slew of new comedic ads, just maybe they’ll find more of us in store.
But probably not.
In honor of You, Me, and Dupree being quite ubiquitous this weekend on some cable channel that was on whenever I woke up (yes, it happens more than twice in two days), here is Owen Wilson’s Dupree explaining (well, not really explaining) Seven Different Kinds of Smoke:
But here it is in action:
You’re welcome.
(SIDENOTE: I don’t know what this movie is about, since I’ve never seen anything but these parts. But as for these parts – they’re pure Dupree gold.)
(BONUS SIDENOTE: This is probably a good time to mention that I have my own Advice Sheet at the top of the page. It’s full of monkeyBLOGmonkeyDO gold, which despite how that phrasing sounds, may or may not equal poo.)
This was going to be Worth 1002 Words, but I forgot I had one waiting. You’ll see that tomorrow. Instead, I’m upset I can’t embed videos unless they’re of a certain kind on WordPress anymore. But like the title of the post says…
Air Robinson
(SIDENOTE: You see, because that’s Craig Robinson of Hot Tub Time Machine and The Office, and he’s dun— oh, never mind. Watch the video by clicking here. There are more stars than you can shake a stick at. What’s that, you say? You can shake a stick at seventeen stars? Well then there’s as many stars as you specifically can shake a stick at.)
My gut tells me to deplore this creature, but my heart tells me otherwise.
I hate microscopic creatures. The macroscopic creep me out. But Tardigrades might have changed my mind. And not just because they’re called waterbears or moss piglets, which make them sound cute…
For anyone who hasn’t seen The Dark Knight Rises yet, I won’t give any spoilers. But let it be known… I thought it was meh. The ending is the only thing that saved it… and the funny thing is it ripped off another movie.
So this film was made up of…
The other day, I was a little lax on my DVR commercial skipping, and this commercial came on:
What the fuck is this movie?! Branded! It’s not even on Wikipedia (all hail Wikipedia). It’s barely on IMDb…
It looks like it could be a kick-ass movie; it also looks like it could dumb as hell.
But either way, I’d know nothing about it if – *gulp* – I didn’t watch the commercials.
(P.S. I guess it’s a Russian film. Could be Night Watch; could be The Darkest Hour.)
There needs to be some type of backlash coming against all the pop acts in this world. But then again, everything is so corporate, I’d have to dig deep to find the backlash.
SIDENOTE: I should mention that I’m lazy. So I looked up some of my favorites on the ol’ YouTube. Enjoy. Or don’t. Fuck you.
Does this title scream western sci-fi space romp or what?
Joss Whedon is about to hit the proverbial big-time very soon. Fans that know him already love him and probably consider him “big-time”, but I’m talking about the next level shit here.
Much like how Jon Favreau was merely that guy who was in that cool indie Rat Pack-era inspired 90’s film (that he wrote) alongside Vince Vaughn, Favreau was not a name the masses knew until a little flick called Iron Man.
With The Avengers, the masses will now know Whedon. And if they don’t, they should.
That having been said:
What the fuck was he thinking when he named his best television show to date Firefly?
If you don’t know the show, you should be ashamed of yourself. It’s the one-season wonder that was so beloved, it got a theatrical follow-up, Serenity… which is also a sucky name. Firefly is the class of ship and Serenity is its name.
This is tantamount to calling a Star Wars TV show, Corellian Freighter, and the movie based on it, Millenium Falcon. (Okay, the movie title kind of works.)
If Firefly had a different show title, would it have lasted? All I can say is it would have stood out more. (When I originally heard of the show, I heard “from the creator of Buffy, comes Firefly“… needless to say, I didn’t watch it in its original run.)
Here are my alternate suggestions for Firefly/Serenity:
So why did Whedon go with Firefly?
Whedon wanted to give the show a name that indicated movement and power, and felt that “Firefly” had both. This powerful word’s relatively insignificant meaning, Whedon felt, added to its allure. He eventually wound up creating the ship in the image of a firefly. (via)
I’ve come to Michael Bay’s defense once before. I’m not going to do it again.
But I might have to find The Silver Lining in his decision to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as aliens.
These are not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
What good might I find in the seemingly asinine idea to change the beloved oozy origin of our pizza-loving, sewer-dwelling crime fighters? Midi-chlorians, anyone?
These are not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Sometimes such changes work. In the Sam Raimi Spider-Man series, didn’t a genetically altered spider make a lot more sense than a radioactive one? (Maybe not enough. Part 3 did suck, and the new film is abandoning that concept.)
This might be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
I think the best part is that we might finally get to see this guy: Krang.
Okay, he's technically from Dimension X, but isn't that alien enough?
Four movies in, and the best baddies we’ve seen are these two?
Tokka and Rahzar. Why not Bebop and Rocksteady?
That’s at least my hope. I can’t take any more Shredder nonsense…
The 84th Annual Academy Awards occurred last night, and as the infamous they say:
Oh boy, did the stars come out!
But I noticed one thing that I’m sure ABC the Network wasn’t too happy about… there were a lot of NBC stars there! Current ones!
Aside from someone obvious, like Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock (he was at the one of the special events… I think the one Oprah won at), you had plenty of Thursday night’s Must See TV Comedy Night Done Right:
Although they weren’t nominated for anything, Tina Fey of 30 Rock, Ellie Kemper of The Office, and Maya Rudolph of Up All Night were there as presenters, and:
Oh boy, did they represent!
Three funny ladies in three serious dresses. Did they all go to posing school together?
Then when it came to Oscar nominations, you had Kristen Wiig of Saturday Night Live who was up for Best Original Screenplay:
Her "Bridesmaids" script had pooping in sinks! Oscar nod!
And then the big winner was Jim Nash of Community. He won Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants:
He's the bald one mocking Angelina Jolie's earlier pose.
The best part is this is how he usually appears on Community as Dean Pelton:
These are just the tip of the Oscar's bald head!
So what does this mean ultimately? NBC is consistently in last place of the four major networks, but they had the best showing at the Oscars. That’s a sign of the massive amount of talent found there that dumb audiences aren’t finding!
CBS, which is in first, had only one star present… the Best Supporting Actress-nominated Melissa McCarthy of Mike & Molly:
She was hilarious on SNL, but I've never seen her show.
But she was in the movie written by SNL star, Wiig!
In closing, here’s what NBC’s owner, Comcast, might be saying:
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy!
This is what I’m saying:
Oh boy, Community should be sitting pretty for a while now!
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