I love this. So well done and funny.
Camelot Is Silly
We’re Knights of the Round Table,
We dance when ere we’re able,
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot,
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
Netflix Doodles
Doodle of a robot mailbox on a Netflix envelope.
A collection of doodles on Netflix envelopes. Would love to know how many of these Netflix receives over the course of a typical year and if they hold on to them? That would be quite a collection to display in their offices sometime down the road!
What’s In A Movie Name?
Not much creativity, it seems to me.
A couple of years ago, the breakout movie of the summer was The Hangover. Fast forward to this year and Hollywood’s summer of sequels and regurgitated ideas, and what does Warner Brothers deliver but the amazingly drab named “The Hangover: Part II“.
I mean, really? That’s the best name for the sequel to the “largest grossing R Rated movie ever” that they could come up with? For the audience they are trying to target – young men in college through their late 20′s/early 30′s (and maybe men in their late 30′s through mid 40′s who WISH they were back in their 20′s :) – they couldn’t figure out a catchy phrase to represent the sequel? Really?
Without much thought, here are a few exceedingly average, but better than “Part II” names, that I thought of.
The Hangover: Another Round?
The Hangover: Come on, one more.
The Hanover: Back For More
The Hangover: Relapse
The Hangover: Full As A Monkey (Since a monkey is part of the story line)
The Hangover: Double Fisting
The Hangover: Another Bender
The Hangover: Overserved
The Hangover: Served Again
The Hangover: Thai One On (Since this one is based in Thailand)
Another Hangover
Its no wonder Hollywood can’t make a decent movie to save their lives and don’t know when to leave a classic alone. Here’s a stretch – The Hangover: Part II is probably going to be terrible; it will probably try to play off of the same unpredictability that made the original so, well, original. And when the movie is done, we’ll probably walk out of it saying “I liked the first one more.” And maybe then, we will appreciate how funny, original, and unpredictable “The Hangover” was.
Godfather
“Mr. Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately.”
Make him an offer he can’t refuse
LOTR Minimal Movie Poster
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Kittitath Tanyavanish
Love the neg effect of the arm reaching for the ring!!
Inception Scenes Using Lego
It would be really cool to recreate the street bending scene from Paris using Lego.
Via Amusing Planet
A Star Is Born Premiere Party
A photo set from Alan Light on Flickr from a a private party thrown for Barbara Streisand after the premier of A Star is Born in December 1976. All the photos are taken with a Polaroid.
Tron Legacy
Tron. Now this is a movie remake that I am looking forward to seeing. For its time, the original was a pretty ground breaking flick with a decent cult/geek following. The modern technology of today will bring it to a new level.
Ferris The Geek And Bender
Those are a few of the characters that John Hughes created through the numerous films that he wrote and/or directed during the 1980′s and 1990′s. Sadly, John Hughes died today at age 59. So I thought I would take a second to acknowledge him. The movies that he was responsible for, and the influence his movies had on those who grew up in the 1980′s and 1990′s, is beyond compare. Dare I say that Hughes was the most prolific and influential director of this era? Its not that far fetched. Lets take a look. They may not have been Oscar winners, but their influence and cult like status is unmatched. Between 1984 and 1986 here are just a few of the movies he directed, produced, or wrote: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty In Pink, Mr. Mom, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Some Kind of Wonderful, and National Lampoon’s Vacation/European Vacation. To this day, these movies sill make me laugh. The characters he created were funny, quirky, unique, and more than anything, real. We lost a little bit of our youth today.
Go The Distance
On this day, June 29, 1905, Moonlight Graham played in the only game of his major league career. Archibald “Moonlight” Graham’s short career is significant because its a central storyline in W.P. Kinsella’s book Shoeless Joe, which was the basis for ( in my opinion) the greatest baseball movie ever made, Field of Dreams. Here is his MLB career line:
The story of Moonlight Graham was depicted semi-accurately in the movie:
On June 29, the Giants were the visiting team against the Brooklyn Superbas. For the bottom of the eighth inning, Graham was sent in to play right field, replacing George Browne. In the top of the ninth inning, Graham was on deck (scheduled to be the next batter) when his teammate Claude Elliott flied out resulting in the third and final out. Graham played the bottom of the ninth in right field but never came to bat, and that game turned out to be his only appearance in the major leagues.
After his short visit to the majors, Moonlight completed his medical degree and moved to Chisholm, MN where he served that town as “Doc” Graham for close to 50 years. In the movie Field of Dreams, Burt Lancaster brilliantly plays “Doc” Graham in one of the great sequences in movie history. One of my favorite lines from “Doc” Graham:
Well, you know I… I never got to bat in the major leagues. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league pitcher. To stare him down, and just as he goes into his windup, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn’t. That’s what I wish for. Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases – stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That’s my wish, Ray Kinsella. That’s my wish. And is there enough magic out there in the moonlight to make this dream come true?
The way Lancaster delivers this line is amazing. You can see the twinkle in his eye and you get the feeling that he is just dying to jump into the batters box. So on this June 29th, pay an ode to “Moonlight” Graham, and to the idea that you can achieve what you want, even if it is for only half an inning in the field.