The Blogulator Observes Fireworks' Birthday
Happy birthday, Fireworks. You're awesome. You're responsible for many great things in our lives, such as an alibi for a burned hand in Arlington Road, the perfect visual accompaniment to listening to your namesake Explosions in the Sky, or that scintillating confrontation scene in Brokeback Mountain.
So today, we observe you with a Blogulator day of semi-silence (feel free to comment away, readers, you don't owe Fireworks anything). But since it's that time of month (of course I'm wearing white pants! how embarrassing!), here's your obligatory yet oh so brief glimpse at the movies July will bless us with that are not Hancock, none of which are Fireworks-related by the way!
July 11th: Hellboy II will hopefully be as surprisingly enjoyable as its predecessor, regardless of its cornball mentality. Journey to the Center of the Earth sounds like it would be so much unfun if it weren't in 3D, especially with Brendan Fraser screaming throughout the whole deal. Eddie Murphy is rumored to be planning on retirement, but still he will leash Meet Dave on the public, in which he plays several tiny Eddie Murphys inside the head of a giant robotic Eddie Murphy, which is ironically both the plot of my favorite Muppet Babies episode and a great description of what hell might be like.
July 18th: The Dark Knight better be the best superhero movie ever, and somehow I have unshakeable faith that it just might live up to those standards. Mamma Mia! multiplies Abba songs by manipulative generic storyline with mass appeal, aka "the double threat." And Space Chimps once again proves that making adorable animals endure a serviceable plot by stuffing them full of abrasive and dated pop culture humor is never a good idea, especially in the same summer that WALL-E exists.
July 25th: Speaking of ruined adequacy, John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell yuk it up as Step Brothers, and I waste another $6 on stone cold mediocrity. The X-Files: I Want To Believe gets my 12-year-old self all riled up, especially as I've been revisiting Season 1 on DVD and reloving the brilliance that is the Duchovny-Anderson dynamic plus convoluted governmental alien cover-up conspiracy plots.
What are you looking forward to the most? Dimly lit shadows of Gotham City and FBI helicopters soundtracked by early 90s synths are what I'm dreaming of for the next couple weeks, but that may just be me. Anyone skeptical about Bale, or, dare I say it, Ledger's ability to confirm Nolan's reboot better than Burton's originals?
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gee, chris, why so serious?
Uh, why are we leaving Joel Schumacher's Batman out of the mix?????????
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NOT!
(as Brigitte said to my typing, before I said "not", "because it sucked!")
For serious, though, I'm gonna poop my pants during The Dark Knight. Not only could it be the best superhero movie ever, but the title means both a dark night AND Batman is The Dark Knight. I'd give it an Oscar for its title alone.
p.s. The more I hear about WALL-E, the less I want to see it! Anybody else feel the same? Blah blah blah it hearkens back to silent-film-era, before there were talkies, film history Marx brothers, plus the robot is really cute. Unleash the Pixar hype machine! No, I'm not sure what Qualler's talking about, either.
Wall-E was awesome. just cause it's great doesn't mean you have to not think it's great. get with the program!
happy 4th
Haha I don't know what Qualler's rambling on about. Sometimes it's annoying when movies get nothing but good hype, but it just looks SO good. NEED SEE IT NOW.
I don't think it's not great or great, I haven't seen it, all I said was I'm sick of hearing about it, and that I also didn't know what I was talking about! Blah! Michael Ian Black knows what's up!
http://michaelianblack.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/some-thoughts-o.html
p.s. Wanna see it tonight?
god qualler, read a comic b00k already!! batman has been teh dark knight 4evers! LOLZZ!!!!
for serious though, why the heck haven't you see Wall-E yet?? you guys aren't doing your jobs blogulating pop culture without seeing it
also, i'm soooo excited to be done hearing about how great those burton batman movies were, they're only marginally better than the schumacher flicks *cough*batdance*cough* -- hell, jim carrey actually was probably the best cast batman villain of all time, plus the soundtrack to batman forever featured mazzy star, sunny day real estate, and the flaming lips... i mean COME ON!!
Whoa, Paal. Ace Ventura as The Riddler? Gross. Danny DeVito as The Penguin was the best ever. It still creeps me out. I'm not gaga over the original Batman, but I loooove Batman Returns. It balanced camp and darkness more perfectly than any other comic book movie, in my humble opinion.
But you're right, that Batman Forever soundtrack was pretty killer.
i can roll with you on batman returns, it's definitely a far superior film to the original batman -- that movie just never ever hit the right notes for me, but devito was DEFINITELY a chilling penguin -- what i loved about carrey as the riddler, was that he was just so over the top -- for any other batman villain (save for the mad hatter) it's just not appropriate, but the energy and showmanship he brought to the table was awesome (and especially good at distracting me from the batnipples)
haha, no pun was intended with that whole "chilling penguin" thing... but now going back to read what i wrote, i'd like to retroactively intend that pun
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