With a depression inches away and hurricanes and terrorists and pirates in Somalia and madmen running Iran and all the assorted whatnots and goings-on of the world around us, it’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse. Certainly, how things could get any weirder.
And then a new horror movie was announced. This by itself would mean almost less than nothing–such things are announced every couple of hours without the world exploding. So what’s got me so bent out of shape on this one? SImple. It’s the star of this particular horror movie, called Against The Dark, that’s set my head all a-spinning.
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Remember what I was saying a couple months ago about Blockbuster getting just truly desperate? Yeah…that hasn’t changed. No, not at all.
They’ve allied themselves with LiveNation to start selling their concert tickets in Blockbuster outlets. For the next three years, Blockbuster will have exclusive blocks of seating to various concerts and kick back a portion to LiveNation. And the funny part is? It’s not just Blockbuster’s desperation driving this deal–it’s Hannah Montana.
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Call it schaudenfreude if you must, folks, but I’m all sorts of tickled that that miserable piece of crap of a vampire film, Twilight, is losing a whole LOT of steam at the box office.
How much is “a whole lot”, you ask?
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Apparently, they’ve got a writer for the Planet of the Apes prequel, a move that has me somewhat baffled.
They’ll be bringing in Scott Frank, formerly of Minority Report, to handle the scripting duties on that one, suggesting that if nothing else the script should turn out solidly enough. But that’s not where my concern is–my concern is in the existence of this movie in the first place.
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There are times when I’d love–LOVE!–to slap a celebrity.
There are usually several REASONS for that kind of teeth-grinding rage, of course, from their sanctimony to their holier-than-thou behavior to why they’re getting paid criminally monstrous sums of money for work they do that can be done by absolutely ANYONE ELSE for much less money. And sometimes, it’s their sheer out-and-out stupidity that makes me long to slap a bitch.
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Now, normally, Liz is all over this sucker like the feds on my wallet, but I couldn’t help but throw in my own on this one.
This year is special, you see–it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of a fantastic Christmas movie release called A Christmas Story, and every year I watch it it just keeps getting better.
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It really hurts me to have to bear this particular lump of bad news, folks…especially after two solid years of mostly excellent films making it to the After Dark Horrorfest.
But this time just might be the low water mark, and horror movies will never be the same for it.
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So I was having Thanksgiving dinner with the folks and grandma and my aunt, and it’s a staple to watch the big dog show. Naturally I was rooting for what I considered to be the underdog at the time, the bassett hound, who I believed deserved a little extra cheering by dint of the fact that he was an ugly little son of a bitch (literally!) but still roamed that floor like he couldn’t be happier to be there.
Every step that dog took was followed by a cavalcade of tail wagging. And I mean EVERYWHERE.
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In case you haven’t noticed recently, the movie industry is in a bit of a slump.
The celebrities are off stuffing themselves with carbon-neutral soy turkey and suchlike, and the rest of us are still in a shallow coma from eating Grandma’s cooking for like three straight days since Thursday. News is in a bit of a slump, so I’m gonna wax philosophical. Because it may be a holiday, but the blogging got to 
go on, baby.
So I’m looking for some background noise whilst playing flash games and trying to figure out what the hell I’m going to write about since all my news haunts are deader than disco thanks to Thanksgiving. It’s a great holiday–unlike a lot of people I don’t really have any problems with my family and a big free meal that lasts two days AND involves leftovers to which all I have to contribute is a seven-dollar pie from the local grocery is welcome any time of the year. The pie, in case you wondered, was blueberry. And it was AWESOME. But anyway.
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Hey kids, gather round–post-Thanksgiving joke time. What do you call a show that can’t even get the ratings of Knight Rider on a bad day, hosted by a militant lesbian who couldn’t keep an audience paying attention in the first place?
Give up?
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