A little follow up

I found the articles relating Kick-Ass i discussed a while ago. Here is where the director dishes about self financing and studio rejection. While Here is some negative feedback from angry family groups, and a rather clever retort from one of the stars here. I love how he points out that people are more outraged at the dialogue than the gratuitous violence, a neat little observation. Also, I saw said film, it was rather amazing and one of my favorites of the year so far.

The power of facebook

Rick Roll'd, Spaghetti Cat, Pwned, Short Shorts Movement. That is the name of what might be the next big meme. The SSM made this video 4 days ago. They made the fan page next. It has 600+ fans now, it just goes to show what a camera, social networking, and a Justin Beiber song can do, God Bless The Internet.

i scream, you scream, we all SCRE4M for sequels

Back in the 90s, the film Scream reinvented the slasher-horror genre by both satirizing and embracing it. Like most other popular horror franchises, a slew of sequels followed. All of them poking fun at the supposedly "scary" franchises that never seem to end. Yet of course, in this the era of prequels, sequels, and reboots, Scream 4 ('cleverly' titled SCRE4M) is on its way, almost a subtle joke in and of itself. Scream is, once again, here to remind us of bloated franchises like last year's sequel-to-a-reboot Halloween II, or the upcoming Ring 3D, which takes the popular, absolutely terrifying franchise and aims to make it a "teen friendly" film and reinvent the series, really showing just how many gimmicks are out there, waiting for your pocketbook. For reference Ring 3D is the teen-oriented-3D-third-sequel-of-a-remake-being-rebooted, its almost funny. Almost.

We'll find out...after the break.

Learning about television and commercials in class wasn't...entirely riveting as I thought, mostly just that companies had to keep people tuned in through the commercials, which in some cases becomes glaringly obvious. Recently, I was reintroduced to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I watched religiously ages 8 through 10, and can now stream through netflix in its entirety. Without the commercials there, its easy to see the myriad of cliffhangers littered through each episode, often with a blackout, then a simple conclusion, without commercials it seems silly. Here one of the writers even explains how the cliffhangers were initially written before the rest of the plot had filled in, which is almost artful in that each act had to effectively be written backwards. Its sort of a strange, magical, one might even say outdated process in a now almost commercial free world. I for one haven't seen a commercial since the superbowl, and it certainly has contributed to me no longer watching American Idol, aside from its sheer ridiculousness, the singing is now just filler between superfluous amounts of Ford and Coke ads. I for one want to live in a world where you watch the commercials to see if that fish monster really will eat that cheerleader, not to be barraged with even more ads and 10min of filler.

Congratulations

I just downloaded MGMT's new album, 'Congratulations,' and it's the oddest thing, they have gotten less mainstream, which I don't think I've ever seen before, at least not this high profile, for a band to alienate part of their fanbase for musical integrity. good for them.

Waiting Sucks

So my absolute favorite show, and current topic of my media paper, is True Blood on HBO, and while it does not premier it's season until June 13th, the hype machine has begun a rollin. HBO is replaying season 2, one every Sunday until the premier (it's amazing!), and showing 30sec spots of raw footage focusing on one character each, just enough of a tease, leading up to the big night. I don't have HBO anymore, their site has all the spots, but i heartily intend to get the channel before the 13th. Anyhoo, back on topic, there are three new posters, out of 12, out now, that give just a taste of the humor and general cleverness of the series, and yes, i have ordered a case of the tru:blood drink.

Headed to the monster ball

on a more personal note, my sister and I bought Lady Gaga tickets for july...they were $85...each. Despite that I am overwhelmingly excited, no one's ever really put on a massive budget techno opera instead of a plain old concert, the tickets even say "The Monster Ball, starring Lady GaGa."