Monday, September 28, 2009

How to Fix the TV Show Dollhouse.

Easy.

Tyler Perry's
Joss Whedon's
Dollhouse.

Elisha Dushku still gets to be mostly naked on all the promo posters but Tyler Perry takes over the main character who plays a different person each week.

Poll Results: Which Lantern Color Are You?


Green, blue, and red have tied with 25% of the vote each. Black, indigo, and sapphire each received 8%. And it looks like no Republicans voted because orange was a no-show. Next time, you need to participate, too, you greedy bastards.

If you'll look to your right, this week's poll has already begun.  Was the Disney purchase of Marvel a good idea?  Weigh in with your opinion, and let's fill up that comments area.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Surrogates- How I knew it would suck without seeing it.

The basic premise is that people use idealized robotic versions of themselves to act out in the world.

So the human Bruce Willis character looks like Bruce Willis, old, haggard, bald. His ideal robot version of himself is younger, shaves more often and has a $7 toupe?

Come on people, details matter! The idealized robot version of William is not going to be slightly thinner with a smaller bald spot.

Bad toupe, bad movie. Just saved you $10, $40 with concessions.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Couples Retreat-Snap Revue

Couples Retreat is kind of a romantic comedy, but, it's actually funny. Unlike most romantic comedies the couples actually have some real world problems. I guess people eat them up, but, these romantic comedies where the people have problems like two extremely handsome, wealthy, dashing men with nothing but time want to marry the starlet and she just can't make up her mind are so boring.

Vince Vaughn and his wife have a lack of time together issue, like lots of people do. Another couple got married really young and never got to have a wild and free youth. The couple who arrange the retreat are both type A maniacs who over analyze their life, and the last couple is a newly divorced guy and his much younger rebound girlfriend, who insists on calling him Daddy, 'like she does all her boyfriends'.

As a bonus all the wives are pretty hot and spend much of the movie in bikinis.

One down side is, I think there were some missed chances at some funny but adult humor that they by passed to keep a PG -13 rating. Because you know how much kids love a good marriage therapy movie. You remember when you were 12 and you could so relate to the 40 year old couple who were so busy with kids and work they didn't make time for each other.

Over all I thought the movie was pretty funny and worth the price of admission, though, I saw it at a sneak preview for free, so it didn't have to blow my socks off.

Monday, September 21, 2009

What is up with the Chiefs?

How do you lose a football game to a team who's quarterback completed seven passes? SEVEN! I nearly climbed out of my skin when Haley went to the Marty prevent defense during the last 2 minutes of the game. The thing that kept Russell off his meager game was the blitz, and you stop doing that during the last 2 minutes? Come on Todd, you're a bossy, a-hole jerk, don't add pussy to the list!

I think Cassell showed some promise. Sure he threw a couple of interceptions, Brett Favre throws 2-5 per game. I blame some of his problems on the fact that he is always on the run because the line is pretty darn iffy. There can be no down field threat when the QB has 2 seconds to get rid of the ball, no one is that fast.

I think the team was in much worse shape then we were led to believe by the past regime. When you cut 31 of last years 53 man roster and 3 of them get NFL jobs things are bad, really bad. It takes more than a new QB to fix that kind of bad. It also takes much more than a tough guy attitude from the head coach. For one, you have to manage the clock better than he did in the last few seconds of the first half of the Raiders game. Secondly, his proving he is the king dick of the school yard by keeping some of the best players on the bench (Derrick Johnson), during what turned out to be the winning drive by the Raiders, is just a silly.

Here's to 15 more weeks of very painful growing pains with the Kansas City Chiefs. Thank goodness for fantasy football.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

My Step Dad's a Freakin' Vampire Screening!

Local movie maker David Matheney is having a screening of his latest movie "My Step Dad's A Freakin Vampire" on the opening night of the Kansas International Film Festival this Thursday September 17th. Dave and a bunch of the cast will be there, and so will a bunch of us from Elite Comics. I have a few tickets at the shop and they are available at the Glenwood Arts Theater, in Metcalf South Shopping Center, for a mere $5! Show your love to a local boy-done-good and come check out the movie. See you there!

Fantasy Football-Week One/One Win!

The Elite Comics Fantasy Football Fandango started off with a bang. My team scored over 137 points! Jones-Drew proved to be worth the first pick and all my wide receivers had good games. Even Moss, in that abomination of a game against the Bills, got some good points. Moss won the league for me two years ago with 25 TD's, so I have a little soft spot for him.

Adrian Peterson needs to be in a category by himself, he and Drew Brees are fantasy point machines. 180 yards and three touch downs for Peterson and SIX passing touch downs for Brees, incredible.

These head coaches need to get out their injury list earlier. They think they are psyching out the other team but really they are just making the fantasy nation crazy! Every guy in our league was online a couple of minutes before kick-off trying to switch their line-ups with the last second injury reports.

If only I would have started Flacco over Palmer, but who knew the Ravens were gong to throw this year? Maybe it was a versus-the-Chiefs thing only.

By the way, I LOVE the Monday night double header. Monday Night Football at bowling and three more hours after bowling!

Saturday, September 5, 2009

I Love You, Man-snap revue

Just finished I Love You, Man starring my old hommie Paul Rudd.  I don't think Rudd is getting the juice he deserves.  The dude is funny and he has acting chops.  Plus I damn near swallowed my tongue when he projectile barfed on the Fav. 

It is really cool to see Paul making it big.  I knew him back in the old days (the first time the ridiculous 80's fashion happened) and he seems like the same regular, funny guy he was back then.  I remember when he did an entire Gary Shandling stand-up act for a Forensics class, but his version was funny. 

If you get a chance, give the movie a shot.  It has a bunch of funny bits, a decent script and the second best Canadian export ever, RUSH!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Disney to buy Marvel Comics-Wolverine to Frighten Mouseketeers!

That's right.  The House of Ideas, The House That Jack Built, Marvel Your Universe is going to be part of the Disney Empire.  The nerdiverse is all a twitter (that was a word before you began to twat your followers) with the possibilities.  Will Disney kiddify the Marvel stories?  Will Marvel lose all editorial control?  Will Punisher destroy the Disney Universe?  I think not.

Why would Disney buy Marvel and then try to change everything Marvel is?  Disney has all the money in the world, if they wanted to be heavily involved in comics they could be, and for a lot less than four billion dollars.  I think they see an incredible universe of characters, more than 5000, if you believe the press release, that is not being marketed to it's full potential.  Has ESPN changed since Disney bought them? No, but they did have the money to get Monday Night Football, probably the most valuable property in sports broadcasting.  Has ABC television turned into the Disney Channel? No, they already have a Disney Channel, that is a cash machine.

I think it could be very good for comics.  If Disney uses their powers for good, they could expose a whole new generation to super heroes and comics.  Comics, and comic shops, need a new feeder system to get younger kids interested in comics.  I would love to see dramatically more use of the Marvel Universe.  More animated movies, more theme park attractions, more clothes, toys, school supplies anything the Disney marketers can dream up.  Eventually the smartest and most curious of those exposed to the Marvel characters will wan to read the stories about those characters. 

For all those people on the net who are predicting this is the end of comics as we know them, no, it's not.  Radio, TV, movies, video games, the internet, Seduction of the Innocent, short attention spans, Manga and on and on were all going to be "the end of comic books".  Comics will be around for a good long while, and this Disney purchase might actually help the cause.

  I will remind Disney that with great power comes great responsibility.  We love our Marvel characters.  You better not mess this up.  We the members of E Pluribus Nerdum will come at you, inhalers in hand, Spidey 129 Mylared and acid free boarded,  Wolverine berserker style.  It won't be pretty.

So sing along" who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?  M-A-R-V-E-L  M-O-U-S-E! Why? because of the money, of course.