I’m almost afraid to admit that the new Rocky movie actually looks good. The most frightening thing is according to Rotten Tomatoes I’m not the only one that thinks so. Amazingly I’ve never seen a single Rocky movie in my entire life. This is a point that most of the people I knew in high school found incredibly amusing. What can I say. My parents weren’t fond enough to buy the movie at any point in the VHS revolution and my friends obviously found it so much more amusing to make fun of me for not having seen it than actually loaning me a copy or sitting down to watch it on one of the various weekend outings. Yes most of my friends were assholes. (Note: They still are assholes, but the friends in questions are no longer friends, so the were is in reference to their friends status and not their asshole status.) Is it any wonder I don’t remember my teenage years fondly.
Point is Rocky Balboa looks damn good. Good enough that when I saw the trailer on the big screen this weekend I literally got goosebumps. I’ll be there to see it sometime next week after it opens because I’m quite certain I’ll have more than a little free time.
Another blast from the past there’s going to be a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and it also look pretty damn good. I want to see it if only to see the Turtles move in a way that is significantly more fluid than they ever have in any medium previously. The trailer looks like they’ve managed to capture everything I loved about the cartoon when I was a child and meld it to the slightly more violent and mature themes present in the comics the whole shebang was based off of. For the record that entire paragraph was not just a fabrication so I could use the word shebang. (That sentence was an illicit fabrication so that I could use shebang a second time, just as this was a way for me to use it a third. What can I say it’s a fun word.)
And then there’s the new trailer for The 300. Looks as good as before and again benefits from the use of a Nine Inch Nails song. (“Just Like You Imagined” off the Fragile disc 1.) While the action is interesting it would not be nearly as compelling without that song. honestly think that they need to get a similar sort of industrial sound to it. Ironically the other day I was listening to the blue man group on PBS when I realized they could write some really good movie music. So without further adieu, The 300 meet the Blue Man Group, Blue Man Group meet The 300. Someone should get one that and then write me a big check. I’m curious to see if this movie can pull a Sin City or if it is going to fail to entertain. For the moment I’m content to watch the trailer at 720p on my computer as often as I can.
As a thing to make note of, next Monday is Christmas. While it’s entirely possible I will be able to find something to write about (especially considering Friday Brown Bear and I are going to be jamming out in his town of residence while hopping bars like man.) it’s unlikely I’ll want to write anything, or more accurately I will be unable to find a computer with the right setup toe compose a post with the same level of competence of which I’m accustom. You’ll know next week I suppose. I’m just warning you that you should not be surprised if I don’t make an entry. Please hold back the tears. I will return.
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