Bedtime ... Movie?

We all know that Hollywood has run out of ideas. Case and point, Wargames 2, Mummy 3, and Lion King 1.5. But inadvertently in their desperate search for ideas, they happen to stumble upon some good ones. Go figure. Two of my favorite childhood bedtime stories are being made into movies and both look pretty freaking good. Of courese when you start with something that good, the end result is bound to be pretty ballin. And while there is a purist part of me that says these storys cannot be done justice on the big screen, I cannot wait to see them.

The fist was always a favorite. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Looks like they have added a bit more front story to it and kicked it to 3D. The story looks good, not sure yet how I feel about the 3D. But seeing a pancake flatten a school on the big screen is going to be amazing.



The second is probably the best piece of childrens literature ever written and had captured the hearts of like a bazillion people. (sorry that sentence was getting too cheesy) So excited not only to see Wild Things up on the big screen but to see them in live-action. That is awesome.

Best Movie Ever ... No Really

There was once a man who could take down an enemy chopper with nothing more than a shoelace and a couple coconuts, defuse a nuclear bomb using only items found in the janitors closet, and could do literally anything as long as he had his trusty Swiss Army Knife. He was a legend, he was MacGyver. Now I realize I am one of a select few in my generation who know of this makeshift hero, and I owe all my knowledge to Spike TV's summer morning schedule. So why are we talking about this? Well it appears that the creator of the original show has plans for a big budget movie. I can honestly say that I am more excited about this one than any other movie in the making right now. It would be like a Walker Texas Ranger movie. There is some question as to whether they bring back the original actor who played MacGyver or get some new guy. All Ive got to say is that if he doesnt have a mullet, we are going to have problems ... big problems.

[Gizmodo]

Hancock

So I saw a poster for this movie in the theater here in Romania and it had absolutely no description as to what it was. Course I had just seen Hitch so I was pretty much up for anything with Will Smith in it ... especially a little Fresh Prince. But I finally saw the preview for it last night and I am very excited. It makes you wonder if there is something about having super powers that makes you either want to become a monk and fill yourself with wisdom to share with small children eating ice cream or fills you with the insatiable urge to dominate the world and everything in it. I mean Heroes has kinda taken this stereotype down a notch because there are so many of them but you still see it. I mean where are the ones who use their powers to bring them the remote or just fly around because they can. Anyway I will be seeing this one.



[Awesomeology]

X Marks the Spot

You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates you are well on your way to becoming one: sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga, and you're completely obsessed with treasure. -Jack Sparrow

Why is it that we are so obsessed with treasure ... are we really all pirates at heart? (Although I do say traditional piracy has gotten far less glamorous ... more on that later) I watched all of the original Indiana Jones movies the other day in preparation for the fourth coming out. Very excited about the fourth. And it dawned on me that it is exactly the same story as National Treasure. Granted National Treasure figured that if they had a history professor who was able to handle a whip with uncanny precision and be a crack shot, the snobbish critics would cry "that could never happen!" My response (and why I'm so excited about Indiana Jones) is "of course it could never happen ... thats why we put it IN A MOVIE." I swear people, have some suspended disbelief sometimes. So I am glad we get both sides of the coin. But I am digressing from the point at hand. Why is it that we love people who find treasure. I honestly dont know ... maybe their struggles are just a simplified version of our own. Possibly we would rather someone handed us a map and told us where to look for happiness. And we wish there could be spinning blades of death standing in our way instead of a deceptive relationship or a distracting hobby. And I suppose as Mr. Loman found out in "Death of a Salesman," in life, sometimes we confuse seeking with finding ... and is their anything that says that we will ever find anything. I fear this line of thinking will send us down a rabbit hole so I will stop there for today.

Just remember:
Will Turner: That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure.
Jack Sparrow: Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.