fx is a fine, fine channel. they are showing "armageddon," which is silly but useful to watch whilst drinking a bit of the sauce. and it's being shown with "limited commercial interruption," thanks in part to jack daniels. and then there was a commercial (albeit a limited commercial) for the fx movie called "smallpox." because we need a more afraid public.
billy bob thorton plays the head of nasa in "armageddon," i think. that's second only to him playing the u.s. president in "love actually."
gee, i'm torn as to what my favorite part of this movie is....when ben affleck begins to sing "leavin' on a jet plane" to liv tyler, or when ben afflect is using animal crackers in an unclean manner.
i think a common mistake to make in space flight is excessive screaming; it just makes you look like an amateur. or maybe the common mistake is really having a soundtrack that sounds like the one in this effing movie... maybe if they had a less menacing soundtrack you could MAYBE take the scenario seriously.
but according to some sources (and when i say "some sources," i mean "i heard once somewhere but i don't recall where") that the government is not spending enough to monitor the potential dangers from space (asteroids, etc.) -- that it's really only enough to monitor about 1/3 of space. if that's so, maybe then this movie IS realistic. but i choose not to think about it that way. i choose to think of it as a crappy jerry bruckheimer production. (i will now check imdb.com to see if i was right on that bruckheimer guesstimate.)
yep, i was right on that....director michael bay and producer jerry bruckheimer, the same uber-genuii that brought us "pearl harbor."
and in other movie news, there is production work announced from michael bay in the lines of a prequel to the "texas chainsaw massacre" AND a remake of "the amityville horror."
i'm still waiting for verification of the "jason and freddy vs. ash" rumor i've heard -- i think i could really only endorse that if sam raimi had a hand in the mix of it. of course, he had a hand in sarah michelle geller's "the grudge," so who knows what is going on in sam's noggin.
does anyone know if sam raimi's classic car appears in that movie? maybe it's only movies he directs...
time for pizza.
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Ok, first thing, screaming in space is a rookie move because everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that in space, no one can hear you scream. (Although fornicating with desserts isn't illegal there, so it has that going for it...)
Second, Michael Bay likes to make old kitschy things suck in whole new decades. "The Amityville Horror"? Why doesn't he just do a new version of "The Omen" and call it "W" (that joke was for you and Dust. Appreciate, laugh and share with friends at your leisure... It gets funnier when you think of it actually following the original films storyline, trust me...)
Third, there will be no "Freddy v Jason v Ash" Raimi didn't think that Freddy or Jason needed Ash in a sequel, although the report I read indicated that after Spiderman 3, Sam would kinda like to do a film that the pig latin folk would call vilelay eadday ourfay.
And no, the Classic wasn't in the grudge, although Sam's kid brother Ted is. Who'd a thunk it?
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