Random thoughts.
- Resident Evil: Extinction opened with $24 million this weekend, enabling its star, Milla Jovovich, to make five more years of crappy choices. If you're not enraged by this news, dig this: Good Luck Chuck (or, if the trailers are anything to go by, Jessica Alba Falls Down a Lot) opened with $14 million. Meanwhile, the genuinely entertaining Shoot 'em Up struggles to recap its considerably low budget. Really, does anybody goddamn read scripts anymore?!
- Last year, Cartoon Network aired "Re-Animated", a live-action project about a young boy whose transplanted brain allows him to see cartoon characters. It was boring, juvenile, a waste of talent (Fred Willard, Tom Kenny, Neil Flynn) and the villain was the most irritating I've seen since The Hard Way's Party Crasher. Unfortunately, it was also a ratings winner (which I chalk up to the curiosity factor more than any real desire to want to watch it), so what does the network do? Make a series based on it and call it "Out of Jimmy's Head". I'd like you to re-read the first sentence, paying special attention to the phrases 'Cartoon Network' and 'live-action'. If you don't see any sort of problem with this, then congratulations; you may already be in the running for the channel's next CEO.
- The internet is quite addictive, but YouTube has to be one of the most addictive sites. The music videos and clips from TV shows were seductive enough, but then I discovered cartoon theme song mashups and, more recently, old time (mainly 1970s) trailers and YouTube poop. The latter can only be seen, not described. Trust me on this. The animated music videos set to original Weird Al songs are also quite enjoyable. (Just look up "Dare to Be Stupid" and "Your Horoscope for Today".)
posted by lonestarr357 @ 9:48 PM
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"Really, does anybody goddamn read scripts anymore?!"
Apparently not, because if they did, there'd be a lot more promotion for "Shoot 'Em Up" (go Giamatti!). However, from what I've read it's better than the other two combined, so you can sleep better at night, hopefully. This is usually the crappy season, anyway, since TV premieres are starting to pop up and all.
This trend of CN running non-cartoon themed programming depresses me too. I used to be a BIG CN nut when I was in my late teens, but the new stuff fails to impress me (Class of 3000 being an exception), and the only things worth watching there are *after* 10 PM (Read: Boondocks). Fuck that network... my little sister (of nine years) doesn't even watch it anymore.
YouTube has filled in some rather large voids from my childhood with 80s TV themes (when they were nearly as important as the shows) game show clips, (Press Your Luck and The Price is Right in the majority), and free animé. Unfortunately, most of that stuff may be going away since YT is doing content filtering, but hey, other smaller sites are springing up, and there's not much the corporations can do about it.
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