My friends, all is bleak on the movie front. I had a fun exchange this morning with Wade in which I realized that I can quote “Life Of Brian” and “Afro Samurai” all day but I get the classics all kind of screwed up. I am nowhere near as well versed as I thought (hoped) I was… But I started looking at movie sites and came across the actual trailer for “Hamlet 2″. Jesus Christ and Hamlet in a time machine. No, that’s not some fun way to swear like a lot of people adlib, ie; “Jesus Christ on a pony!” Or “Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick!” No, Jesus Christ and Hamlet in a time machine is actually the plot for this play within the movie. I’m not fucking joking. Light sabers, Satan kissing the President and a musical number entitled, “Rock Me Sexy Jesus”. Seeing that they went out of the way to make this thing ridiculous, it may turn out to be good. Imagine “Sister Act” and “Porky’s” mixed with a bit of “The Producers”. The whole 1st Amendment v. shutting down of the play thing has been done to death but this looks like it might be funny enough to see…
“So saith the shepherd, so saith the flock!”
I also heard about some new releases coming our way. All of them are remakes and all of them are weak in the “did they need to be remade?” question. I mean, remaking “Pygmalion/My Fair Lady” again is abrasive to every nerve I have but it might be time to tell that story again. I just wish it was with a better actress.
But do we really need “Red Dawn” to be told EVER again? How about “Robocop”? “The Day the Earth Stood Still” might be a valid candidate for remaking but Keanu freaking Reeves!? “Death Race” was fun but I don’t think it really needed to be made in the first place. And for big “huh?” moments, they are rebooting “Superman” and “Friday the 13th”. Why? Try to avoid them but like it or not, these movies are heading our way folks, Hollywood is all out of ideas.
And since I’ve started putting silly little one liners at the end of the rant I’ve gotten more feedback on them in the last two days than I have on the audio content I put up two weeks ago. If you listened to it, let me know what you thought, good or bad I’d like to hear what you thought. The lack of feedback kind of tells me what I feared. I guess I’m just not that funny. I WILL find an outlet. I will do something creative. I just don’t know what yet. Hey, at least I tried.
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