That, three films in, nobody seems to have figured out the basic concept behind the Transformers franchise must really piss Michael Bay off — and it shows in every frame of the latest installment Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This isn’t a film you watch; it’s an experience that happens to you, like being in a car wreck, only instead of deploying airbags, these cars talk and are from outer space. It is an all-out assault on Mid-Western America in both literal (Chicago gets creamed) and figurative terms, but it’s also a relentless assault on the audience.
Watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon will activate your latent Cro-Magnon lizard brain and liquefy it into motor oil. It’s the kind of the thing they force detainees at Guantanamo to watch as part of their interrogation techniques. Like Moloch slouching towards Bethlehem, it’s a movie that presages the end of days, if not for human kind, then at the very least for cinema. And yes, it’s a fucking masterpiece. [click to continue…]
4 months without a post. As you may know, I’ve been working on a web series called FOODIES. Check it out.
Still no excuse to leave the blog languishing. Expect a whole new start at the beginning of May. Honestly, I’ve been thinking about how to best use this site, while still pursuing all the other writing related junk I do on a daily basis and I think I’ve come up with a plan that doesn’t require outsourcing my brain to a foreign country and/or set up a blogging sweatshop (*cough* Denton *cough*).
Until then, because why the hell not, I decided to do a tumblr. It’s called WeSayYouIs. Check it out.
UPDATED: Do you know a gay or lesbian person? Then this post is for you. And considering that 1 in 10 people are gay, that means this post is for everybody.
You might have noticed that your gay friends have been a little depressed of late. Or maybe they’re outraged. Or, if they’re one of the many people out there questioning their sexuality or afraid to disclose it, they might just be plain terrified. Maybe you know why, but if you don’t, let me explain — and tell you what you can do. [click to continue…]
1. San Francisco-based studio Soviet Montage has cracked HDR for video. What’s HDR? High Dynamic Range images are created by taking two (or more) shots at different exposures and combing them together, creating truer to life images in the process. It’s all the rage among photographers (there’s even a feature on the new iPhone), but using a beam splitter and two Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR’s, Soviet Montage was able to bring the effect to life. Why do you care? Because the results look like this:
So, if you haven’t seen this John August approved short video, called “The Pitch”, check it out– it’s hilarious. It’s also wrong-headed. Here’s why I’d jump at the chance to write ‘Slinky: The Movie”. (Hint: It’s not just the money.)
We’ve become a nation beholden to idiots and it’s about time we do something about it. America has a long and cherished history of anti-intellectualism. Sarah Palin’s exhortation to ‘Mama Grizzlies’ is not all that different from Davey Crockett’s folksy speeches made on the floor of Congress when he was a U.S. Representative. And both [...]
Once upon a time, when a show ended all of its costumes and props would wind up either being tossed or put away into storage, to one day be reused. But that was before Hollywood figured out that all of us would pay big bucks to own a piece of our favorite series. Nowadays, any [...]
While there’s still certainly a lot to say about Lady Gaga, ever since I picked up Janelle Monae’s intergalactic robot doomed love epic, The ArchAndroid earlier this year, she’s been my go-to girl for smart pop. This new video for “Cold War” seals it. Instead of overloading us with dated Madonna references, Monae gives us [...]
