08.29.2008

www.kotaku.com/5043289/brett-ratners-guitar-hero-movie-idea-sounds-crappy

This can’t be allowed to happen. Someone must stand up for disaffected movie fans and gamers and for people who simply still have faith in mankind.

As an aside, has anyone noticed that, if you throw Fred Savage and a Power Glove in, this idea would pretty much just be the Wizard? Does he know about that movie? I actually hope he makes it and the owners of the copyright for the Wizard sue. What a surreal lawsuit that would be.

Actually it’d probably be very staid and boring. But in my mind, The Wizard would be owned by the most esteemed representatives of the 80s. Max Headroom, Hulk Hogan, Black Michael Jackson, Mario, and Optimus Prime would enter the courtroom dressed in business attire to defend their copyright against the forces of evil. I’m not sure what the final outcome of the case would be, but I’m pretty sure the Earth would be destroyed.

(Sorry about the short length of upcoming articles and any potential formatting problems. I have to do all this on my shitty Palm Treo until mein arbeitgeber decides to install my internet.)

05.30.2008

(Story from: Kotaku)

Uwe Boll’s latest film, Postal, is a Chicago Fire-sized disaster. I mean, yeah, the movie itself is a disaster. A child could tell you that just from the poster.

Pictured above: Every joke you stopped thinking was funny around April 2002.

What I mean, is that the movie is FINANCIALLY disastrous, on the scale of global warming. The movie opened to 4 screens, later expanded to 13. And they’re actually REFUSING to release financial information. For comparison, Zyzzyx Road, released in 2006, made $30, $10 of which was refunded to two patrons by the director. Obviously, its financial information was released.

As a side note, despite the limited release, I saw the film at a theater in Charleston, SC.

Well, I mean, I didn’t see it. I’m not a masochist. But it was playing there.