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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Okay, what is up with the DARK KNIGHT RISES embargo? Did critics have to present naked pictures of themselves or sign off on sharing their spouse with studio execs in order to attend screenings?
For the Dark Knight…
Travers broke the embargo 23 days before release
Manny Levy and geek sites broke 11 days before
The Trades had their reviews 10 days before
Hell, even David Ansen broke by now
We are 7 days before TDKR opens and no reviews. This is the most insane embargo ever, especially considering the last movie sold itself on Heath Ledger’s animated corpse dressed as a depraved clown, and this one could use a little help. But even Jimmy Kimmel was afraid to talk about it…WB is screwing this up methinks.
Reviews just aren’t this necessary to hide. Buzz helps, Warner Bros.
By the same token, etguild, reviews aren’t this important to the sell, either. Who is taking a “wait and see what the reviews say” attitude about this movie? You have a $500 million starting point. A whole hell of a lot of those people loved Dark Knight and want to see Dark Knight Rises. Tons of ads are letting them know it’s coming out. How much “help” does this movie need? It’s going to open to $175 million plus and gross $400 million plus pretty much automatically.
It is interesting that they care that much about blocking reviews, but I imagine it has to do with this being the last one, and WB not wanting anyone to find out how it ends and say, eh, OK, don’t really need to see it. That might not affect many people, but I can understand how they’d think there’s less upside to allowing reviews than blocking ’em.
I just don’t agree with the general consensus that reviews make little difference. Reviews, in my opinion, led to the orgasmic buildup that resulted in record-shattering openings for the Avengers and The Dark Knight. Record shattering openings tend to draw more people, word of mouth builds, etc. If this movie opens short, it will likely finish short of what it could. Movies at this level DO BENEFIT from great reviews because they build buzz.
Consider that the few snippets from anonymous, terrified people tweeting say that TDKR is the best comic book movie ever, and should win Best Picture.
A full review along those lines, even if less enthusiastic, would help inflate buzz.
A good point on hiding reviews for spoilers sake jesse. But a week before a major release begins to hurt a film more than help it. People begin to wonder if it’s “Madea Goes to Golden Corral.” And you are underestimating how much Ledger sold the last film.
You know I think it’s kind of cool to not have any reviews out there….the last two Nolan epics had spectacular early reviews that lead to backlashes which occurred before they were even released.
I would usually call bullshit on the Best Picture talk, but Inception did get nominated.
But wow, have they been getting a ton of clips out there….and they are REALLY pushing the humor in this thing. Am I the only one who was a little weirded out/tickled to see freaking Thomas Lennon as a doctor in one of those clips?? It actually looks like a funny scene but a bit jarring against those grim shots of Bane leading prisoners and bridges blowing up.
This embargo is a REALLY good opportunity to see how this idiotic idea works. I predict that Monday a “major” journo will run his piece then some sites will follow and there will be much bitching among the bloggeratti who have evidently been hired to police themselves in this issue.
I expect the trades to review on Monday and for the reviews – some will be backlashy, from what I hear – to start flowing then.
I’ve told WB that I expect to be able to write whenever the trades do run. Seeing the film today. Will probably go to the IMAX on Tuesday as well and if so, will surely wait until after that to write about the film.
I do hope that people keep the spoilers to themselves, as WB really is holding back on story detail.
I heard trades won’t drop until Wednesday — although I’m sure that’s constantly changing. Count me among those who are delighted WB has somehow clamped down (especially given how many people have seen it). I think the mystery is cool, and lord knows there’s enough buzz without embargo-jumping.
Geoff, the other movies do have some laughs in them, though. I’ve always rankled a little at the idea that serious comic book movies are “humorless” (I remember this being a complaint even when the first X-Men actually took its characters seriously: some critics were still saying, where’s the FUN??!? Why is this so self-serious?!?). Nolan’s Batman movies have a rep as being super-serious and sober, but Begins has its share of funny bits. Dark Knight has Joker stuff, which is often mordantly funny because of Ledger’s performance and mannerisms… but also funny asides from Alfred. They’re not laugh riots, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see simialr moments in this one. Well, OK, yeah, maybe Lennon is a little surprising! But still, Nolan clearly has a sense of humor.
eguild, I review movies semi-professionally and love it, but I don’t imagine that they make a huge difference in this case. Maybe they can get a few extra dollars to take your opening weekend from massive to super-massive, but on this level, I can’t imagine a lot of people are holding out to see what the Times thinks of the newest Batman movie.
I wouldn’t say Ledger sold the last movie (how do you even know? How can one quantify these things?). I would say it was a perfect combination of: Batman Begins, a movie a lot of people liked but caught up with post-theatrically, building a strong base of fans; the Joker, the most iconic and recognizable villain in the Batman franchise; and, yes, Ledger’s last performance. But if Ledger’s last performance hadn’t featured that iconic Joker imagery, I’m not sure we’d be attributing so much to simply his presence.
And I think you’re underestimating how much hurt Dark Knight Rises will be in for without him. And I fully admit that I assume this movie will make less than the one with Ledger. I just don’t think millions of dollars are going to swirl down the drain as people think “eh, this doesn’t have a moderately well-known actor’s last performance it it, and I only saw glowing reviews a few days ahead of time, so screw it.”
@jesse, I can say anecdotaly, that the dozens of people in line at my IMAX museum screening in 2008 were sold on Ledger. A movie franchise doesn’t explode from 205 million to 533 million domestic based on magic. The DVD figures on “Batman Begins” are not exceptionally strong. People liked the movie but didn’t love it. In fact, the IMDB score surged only after TDK was released. Everyone I have spoken to about TDK say Ledger in the trailer was the top selling point. The fact he was dead certainly helped. Nearly all of the people I spoke to had read the reviews (full disclosure: I work part-time for a box office site) and that’s what induced them to plop down 20 bucks on opening weekend.
Yes, that’s a tiny sliver of the population. But it counts on the margins. A few million bucks could drive the media narrative because it’s comparing it to TDK and Avengers, and the media narrative will dictate many more tickets. Perhaps, like Avatar, it will overcome it if that happens.
When you have sell-out after sell-out for 5 straight days at the national air and space museum, it contributes far more than the average theatre, and I suspect this was the case with specialty theatres around the country as it obliterated IMAX records.
Yes, yes it’s nice to hide the secrets of the film. But the media machine has already kicked into AVENGERS VS DARK KNIGHT RISES OPENING weekend overdrive. The lack of reviews hurt, and they helped, with Avengers.
And for spoilers, they’ve released half the goddamn movie online already.
DP…I hope you are allowed to post at least one word.
I assume that the embargo is more about not spoiling plot points than it is to drive people into the theatre. The opening weekend will do fine. The word of mouth should be good and everyone is already planning on seeing it.
And yes, seeing Tom Lennon in there is weird as hell.
If Letterman did give the ending away last night, then it makes sense the reviews are being held back for TDK-R. Seriously, once that’s out there, people are either going to want to see how it happens, or keep the kids away to prevent them from being traumatized. Horribly dumb idea for an ending, even if it plays well in the film.
as i said in the other byob – i can’t deal with sitting through a film for nearly 3 hours in a theatre. i’ll wait 6 months for the dvd/bluray …
movie critics have one big opportunity to tell people
about some indie movies like moonrise kingdom – beasts of the southern wild if dkr is sold out – hey check these movies out – or check the movie trailer ..
DP – its been 2 weeks without a dp/30 – what is going on ? do you care about the nerdist getting bought out ?
seems like a good business / media story you should cover .
@Etguild: “But the media machine has already kicked into AVENGERS VS DARK KNIGHT RISES OPENING weekend overdrive”
Did see this a great deal prior to Avengers opening but now I’m seeing most are saying that TDKR will most likely have to settle for 2nd place, with $175m being the mark.
I know there’s no way to quantify it but I believe that Ledger’s performance, and death, did at some to box office, so I think that the balance this time would be the ‘Is this the end of Batman?’ mystery and also him meeting what appears to be a physically superior villian. If Bane comes off as being intelligent too, then it is possible that the WB could strike lightening in a bottle twice. Will it be more than $620M in lightening? Avengers has showed us that anything is possible.
TDKR is one of those movies where I’m looking forward to HAVING SEEN IT more than I am the experience of ACTUALLY SEEING IT.
And that’s not even because of the usual Nolan vibe where great as the movie is, it’s kind of homework where you have to pay extra super special attention and worry the whole time you’re missing some plot point then you get to a point you fixate on that one thing so much you’re all agitated stretches of the movie (though this has been the case with all CN movies, since I HAAAAAATE following plot points, and he’s ALL plot points…)
But Sanj is kinda on to something, in that this is one of those PIRATES III/AVATAR deals where it’s a 170-minute MASS AUDIENCE MOVIE. So unlike a THE AVIATOR where you’re sitting in a room with 6 old guys spread around the room, this is some ELBOW-TO-ELBOW shit and you’re worried out of your fucking mind that the Arclight is gonna ASSIGN-SEAT YOU next to the twitchy leg man or the lady who plays with her hair when she’s uncomfortable or the idiot who taps their flip-flop on the floor rhythmically in quiet parts without knowing it or the middle aged man who says “Hmm…. huh” at every line, or the family of fat Mexicans who sneak in at the 115 minute mark with bags of food and plop down right behind you…
I am a NERVOUS FUCKING WRECK about seeing this.
@bulldog, fair points.
LexG, that is an LA problem if I ever heard one. In Northern Virginia there are theatres where you pay extra money to reserve a specific seat. They even provide you with a towlette, for some bizarre reason.
etguild2: “I can say anecdotaly, that the dozens of people in line at my IMAX museum screening in 2008 were sold on Ledger.”
You interviewed them individually? And of course, not a one of them would have seen the movie had Ledger not died. Even as an anecdote – that doesn’t hold water.
And lets remember the massive box-office boost his death, and posthumous Oscar, gave to his actual final film, Dr. Parnassus…
I bought my ticket to see it on IMAX. Like the middle of the night. No, that would be midnight. I’m going at like 3:30 AM! Guh! I did see Dark Knight the day it opened at 6 AM. The people around me were well behaved. That was a decent filter. Here, while it seems promising that I won’t be seated next to someone who’ll be preoccupied w/checking their phone, I don’t know how drunk/borderline hungover these mofos will be. I certainly don’t need my movie ruined by some fanboy passing out next to me and keep spilling over the armrest on me. I also don’t want all the knowitalls blabbing the whole way through w/running commentary. So many variables to possibly ruin the film going experience to where the film itself barely cracks the top 10.
I’m more than a little miffed I’m paying full price and not the normal before 5 PM discount. I’d rather argue w/insurance over covered tests than explain the meaning of AM and before to these people. I’m surprised they didn’t tack on an extra “burning the midnight oil” fee.
At least it’s not 3D. I hope it’s worth the special event attention I’m giving it.
Reserving a specific seat is a worthless issue in LA or Virgina, because you can’t RESERVE who’s sitting next to you. I don’t understand people who put SITTING DEAD CENTER IN THAT OH SO PERFECT SEAT above the luxury, the glory, of NOT SITTING NEXT TO STRANGERS, 100% of whom are bound to distract you.
On Yelp, review after review gushes about Arclight Hollywood because “I don’t have to wait in line, I can pick my seat and show up at the last minute, I always get my favorite seat in the middle!” But fuck ALL that, the way to roll is to get in there last minute and PROFILE the audience and pick the spot where you’re furthest away from any foreigners or women in packs.
I just don’t see how reserving a seat is some kind of benefit when you show up to your seat and like a big fat fuck with a barrel of nachos has “reserved” the seat next to you and you don’t have the freedom to move. And if you do shove over a couple seats, you feel like you’ve committed a hate crime.
Buy three tickets. The one you are sitting in and the ones next to you. Pricey? Perhaps. But it should help a little if sitting next to someone bothers you that much. However, it tends to be people sitting behind me that bother me the most, so I try to see the before noon shows where this tends to not be an issue at all. People want to save money and are more respectful, usually.
I’m with Lex….I’ve literally got vomitty butterflies I’m so excited for Dark Knight. I’m going to the single screen theater juuuust south of San Francisco this Thursday at midnight. Or, Friday, at 12:01 a.m. The theater is an old school single screen that seats about 800 people and it’s sure to be a sell-out crowd of hungry fans. Should be a blast!
Speaking of midnight screenings…
I like to screw with the clueless employees at midnight screenings. At all screenings really but 99% of the time they don’t get my lame jokes. (My personal favorite was when I filed a video of me asking the clerk if “The Ghost Writer” had Nicolas Cage as the skull on a motorcycle). But in all seriousness….shouldn’t a midnight screening *technically* be a bargain matinee because it’s a screenings BEFORE 3pm. It’s at 12 AM.
Not only is Mitt Romney the single worst Presidential candidate since Dole or Dukakis, he has the bad karma (BANE!) to open against THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.
Yeah, I’d much prefer to pick my seat by the looks of the company around me. The only upside to having the reserved seat is I can wait until the last possible second to go in and not get drained by the wall to wall ads at AC/DC concert volume level. How can you talk about a superior movie going experience when you are doing the same, exact thing defense dept officials do to break enemy combatants at Gitmo?
Years ago, if I went to an AMC theater for a Midnight showing, and I think it happened at Mann, too, they’d default to the full price but if you mentioned that it’s before noon, they’d change and give you the discount rate. Then they said midnight would count at night BUT if the movie started at 12:05 or like 12:15 that would be considered an AM show. Weird, huh? Last time couple of times I went to a midnight showing I had discount passes so I’m not sure if they were day or evening prices.
It’s impossible to buy enough seats around you to not have some jackass do something to screw the experience for everybody. I went to a late night showing and the place was virtually empty. It was stadium seating. And you know how there’s that center lane with some chair and spots for wheelchairs and then people walk up the stairs to look for a seat. Then, there are three rows really close to the screen that people only sit in when they have to. Well, there’s 8 of us in the upper part of the theater but some jackhole had to sit below and stretch out across three chairs and let his leg swing back and forth over his knew like he was watching 90210 on his own couch. Of course he’d light his phone up to check the screen. Comparatively quick to other people who check but it was so quick and so frequent, I wasn’t sure if he was sending Morse code to person in the projection room. “Help –stop- My foot’s asleep. –stop- I’ll rock it until the feeling comes back. –stop- Anyone else here? –stop- I could go for some mackerel and gouda nachos.
One person per 100,000 will suffer from Asperger’s and my luck that f^ker’s in my theater.
People overthink this stuff. My experience is usually 95% good (then I had that lady put her foot up on the chair next to me at MOONRISE KINGDOM – an arthouse crowd.) I sometimes think a person’s own vibe attracts likewise. And a movie audience in the 1930’s would have been like a pack of ravenous dogs munching on everything. I saw it in SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS.
And RIP to Sage Stallone. Tragic. The man was a genre film lifeguard.
The funniest thing to do at midnight shows is to reveal fake, horrible spoilers to an employee just after the screening. Usually a couple guys will be outside the doors after it’s over, and it’s the perfect time to exclaim something like “I can’t believe they killed Batman!” for a nice scowl of anger/disbelief.
Batman is dead. He fell on his head.
the only time that ever worked for me was when walking out of Star Trek: First Contact. There was a line of people for the next show and i said “Holy shit, i can’t believe the Borg Queen was Picard’s Mother”.
There was a collective groan, like something out of a sitcom.
In regards to seating, in the south you either end up next to the ridiculously loud black theater patrons or rednecks talking/making what they think are funny comments to the screen.
both are torture. even at the midnight Amazing Spiderman, i had this middle aged redneck who would not stop making observations about what he was seeing on screen. Eventually people were shhhhh-ing him. Then he fell asleep and snored.
The south sucks
Sage Stallone’s passing is just sad, but he at least lives on in a Rocky movie.
Here’s to Richard Zanuck as well.
Hey Lex, quit protecting your twitter. I don’t want to register to read it.
some dude watched 10 hours of the same video – crazy.
Nyan Cat 10 HOURS REACTION VIDEO!
Didn’t someone try to convince me here that the WWZ shoot wasn’t THAT bad because Pitt and his hand-picked director were still the bestest of buds?
http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/brad-pitt-not-talking-to-world-war-z-director.html
Fuck reserved seating.
I’m paying $9.50 (several dollars less than a fucking MATINEE at the Arclight) to see the midnight show at the Vista, the best theatre in Los Angeles. I don’t have to worry about sitting next to some freak because the crowd is cooler than anywhere else.
Don’t know why the rest of you Angelenos bother going to these other shitholes/douchebag magnets.
To complain when it’s not PERFECT.
something weird happened – i actually learned something new from the history channel .. on cajun pawn stars – some dude got a painting of blue dog .. it was worth like 3000 bucks.
right after the show was over i went and checked it out
and George Rodrigue does this art
he’s been doing the same dog image for years and he’s still alive. dude is a normal guy who sells his paintings for charity…raised millions of dollars … his family also helps..
something that took 2 minutes on history tv made me check out 30 minutes worth of video on this artist.
i’m guessing there are thousands of these prints / art and there must be a lot of fakes ..
” i actually learned something new from the history channel .. on cajun pawn stars – some dude got a painting of blue dog .. it was worth like 3000 bucks.”
CAJUN PAWN STARS. On The History Channel. The history of a dumb nation? No offense, sanj. You know I love you.
>CAJUN PAWN STARS. On The History Channel. The history of a >dumb nation? No offense, sanj. You know I love you.
well yeah i see your point – but this version focus on Louisiana history or what little they know of it or want to tell …the state has had lots of wars from 200 years ago or something and people keep bringing in guns and weapons to sell ..plus there’s a lot of music history in the region so people bring in guitars from famous old muscians … not sure if thats enough history on the history chennel …. learning one new thing from the pawn star shows might just be worth it .
the show airs in like 25 different countries. so people
around the world might be learning stuff. mostly about guns. they seem to buy a lot of old guns.
anybody else watch pawn stars ? there’s a lot of knockoff shows that also quite popular like storage hunters and pickers…
DP should try getting a dp/30 with the pawn star guys – inside the actual store – where they could show off hollywood movie stuff they have.
i give it a few more years till pawn stars goes away
but i’m guessing the real store will still be there and
they’ll still be trying to sell old stuff to people and
lots of guns.
3 minute tour of the real store –
“The history of a dumb nation?”
I remember when Mythbusters ran on Discovery as much as Spongebob on Nick, but these days it’s being marginalized by reality shows that could run on any network.
And now: “This Sunday on Discovery Channel, Mermaids: The Body Found — a two-hour special starting at 9PM e/p — examines the question of whether or not mermaids are real.”
Hard to believe that blowing stuff up may still have been too highbrow.
Discovery had a 24 hour bigfoot marathon a couple months ago.
And History Channel had a 10 or so hour marathon on the history of ancient aliens…because, why not?
“so people
around the world might be learning stuff. mostly about guns. they seem to buy a lot of old guns.”
Just the message to send around the world. America is filled with gun loons.
Apparently Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively got married? RyRy called the police to his house to file a paparazzi complaint, and the police report continually references Reynolds and “his wife.”
Late to this, but Lazarus:
I love the Vista but it plays one movie at a time, usually for 2 or 3 weeks. That’s great if you see 20 movies a year and ONLY what plays at the Vista, but I see everything.
And honestly, The Vista has sound issues for me: The SFX sound incredible and booming and all, but a LOT of dialogue gets lost in the mix there, because the place is so cavernous and has wooden floors. I used to have this issue at the Rialto, too. And sometimes have it at the NuArt. There’ve been whole movies I’ve seen there (the Vista) where I couldn’t make out 60% of the dialogue. That Joaquin Phoenix doc being the absolute worst… It’s all echoey and muffled.
Also the crowd at Vista is a LOT of smelly hipsters in Jetrag clothes, and I don’t like their smartassery during the trailers. And the parking is a nightmare. And it’s not much of a theater for ROLLING SOLO, since it’s usually pretty packed, and doesn’t have any barrier between you and the idiot next to you.
Megan Heyn – comic -singer – web series – tv –
she looks like Kristen Bell … pretty good character actress. she should be a bit more famous for some reason
she isn’t on snl or glee … she could do both and
get famous that way super quick . she’s done a lot of guest stars in many tv series…
I’m not a stupid slut (Hollywood Taffy) – web series
2 minutes …
things i notice with some movie directors – Darren Aronofsky – Wes Anderson – Sofia Coppola – they only do
dp/30’s when they have a movie out – they just don’t show up at random for a dp/30 ….they get movie awards everytime …but can DP be friends with these directors – or is it easier being friends with indie film directors – those 3 directors seem more professional types than friendly types. its hard to tell.
do you movie critics hope to be friends with any movie directors ? you’ll just give them more postive reviews that way ?
Enjoying everyone’s seating nightmares. I recently had a movie going revelation, and it’s fucking amazing. BACK ROW. I sat in the back row for a matinee on Tintin, because A. lot of kids in there and I didn’t want to be surrounded by 6 year olds, and B. I’d brought in a Subway and didn’t want to get dirty looks, and the experience was great. It sounds incredibly simple and obvious, but, back row – NOBODY SITS BEHIND YOU. And we all know its the ones sitting behind you who are the worst. Every fucking whisper goes straight into your eardrum, and there’s the obligatory kicking the chair every time they have to adjust.
And now I can’t and won’t go back to sitting anywhere else, certainly not for an evening show. I’ll still aim for the middle in an empty matinee, but for anything that’s going to be crowded – BACK ROW POWER. Try it if you haven’t already.
Triple Option – “One person per 100,000 will suffer from Asperger’s and my luck that f^ker’s in my theater.”
-Actually I got that guy last week at Savages. I booked my (back row!) tickets on a Wednesday. I checked on Friday afternoon and it was mostly full, but the seat next to me hadn’t been taken! Awesome, I thought. No-one’s going to be sad enough to show up solo at 8.30 on a Friday night. WRONG. He had either Aspergers or flat out autism. He read all the subtitles out loud. He twitched, randomly applauded(?) at shit, and laughed at nothing in particular. I was wondering how this guy had gotten himself to the theater without supervision. So no, you can’t always win.
When it comes to seeing SKYFALL on Imax, I’m going to seriously consider purchasing the seat next to me, with my wife on the other side. I’ll be, what, $65 in the hole for a night out, but…that extra $20 could well be worth the peace of mind. (Then I’ll just have to worry about a 7 foot escaped mental patient sitting in front of me).
the bigfoot and ufo shows on tv shows that cable tv channels don’t care about quality of programming…
Dan Harmon who made Coummunity said this –
He also said his next foray into television won’t have as many ideas as Community.
“My idea is to have less ideas, because I want to be successful in television,” he said.
With all the reboots taking off nowadays, maybe it’s time for someone to reboot The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and FOLLOW THE FRICKIN’ COMIC BOOK.
(Or maybe I just want to see the sequel where Mister Hyde assrapes the Invisible Man to death. Oops–spoiler.)
ew pictures from comic con – some nice photos..
if you keep clicking forward there are 50 + pictures
3 minutes to check out –
http://tinyurl.com/c29559n
The executives in charge of reality programming should have their own show. Just to see the faces of well-educated folks pimping the worst soul slop in cultural history.
the smart people who post the fastest movie reviews will get more people on twitter following them ..
possible first review out there – may contain spoilers.
The Dark Knight Rises review – filmism
watch the first episode of Black Dynamite – animated series – the first episode is the origin story of Michael Jackson .. fun stuff. animation takes awhile to getting used too …
Nathan Fillion is too popular for a dp/30 – DP could have
gotten him 2 years ago ….
Nathan Fillion Came Fully Prepared To Comic-Con
check the quick note he gives people …
dp/30 request time
Cynthia Preston – 20 years of acting doing
tv series and tv movies . didn’t really jump
to regular movies
she isn’t lucky enough to get on a major tv series
so she could have emmy awards …
just a regular working actor who probably gets left alone
from the media …not in tabloids either.
at 44 years old – not sure if she gets a LOOK AT HER!!! from LexG .
DP – this music guy needs a dp/30 ,,, get on that. he does a lot of animated films.
out of this 3 minute song i only like 1 minute of it ..but i really like it .
How to Train Your Dragon – Flying Suite – John Powell
watched Whiskey Business 2012 – tv movie –
After Nicky, the son of a New Jersey mob boss, is framed for a murder he didn’t commit, he goes on the run and ends up in a small town in Tennessee where he’s taken in by Trina. At first, Nicky is as suspicious of their moonshine as they are of his fake tan, but he soon bonds with the residents to take down Gilley, the town’s corrupt sheriff.
Pauly Shore is in it – he’s only 15% annoying – tv movie is alright – there is a pretty good cast of 8 major people –
none of you oscar bloggers are ever going to watch this
movie .