Things that go bump

A New Movie Review – Carrie (1976)

I’ve written a new movie review.  Well, it wasn’t that long since the last one.  Actually, compared to how long it was before them, the last three I’ve managed to do rather quickly.  Anyway, I’ll try to get a couple more up this week but no promises.

I’m sure you’ve seen the movie Carrie.  What you haven’t seen is my unique take on the subject.  You can read what it is by clicking on the picture below.

A Twit quits Twitter

The last person in the world one should be writing about is Miley Cyrus, but somebody told me the whole twitter world had their tits in an uproar because Muley deleted her account.  I guess that means hundreds of thousands of brain dead tweeners can’t hang around all day waiting for the next air-headed tweet from the twit.  And when it happened, I am also told that they overloaded and brought down twitter with their disappointmen.   But now they can go on you-tube and broadcast their heartbreak and sorrow.

I somehow ended up on what I guess is a Miley you-tube account and as of this writing, 144,617 of the brain damaged youth around the world are either espousing their support or their disappointment, or a few stating sentiments such as mine (a very few).  This doesn’t include the hundreds of videos made in response to Ms. Cyrus, trying to ride her coattails to popularity I guess..  But now I completely understand  why our society is in such a terrible state of decline and decay.

Buzz & Woody are back

Of course, in case you haven’t heard, the movie that Pixar once said they would never make until Disney replied that they would go it alone and then Pixar became a part of Disney and is just around the corner. That would be Toy Story 3 coming at you in digital 3-D which should help to get some fannies into some theater seats.

The last 3-D movie I saw was Jaws 3 and that sucked. No, I take that back. The last 3-D movie I saw was on my own big screen television. It was Spy-Kids 3-D and it only sucked slightly less than Jaws 3 and gave me a headache. Even Jaws 3 didn’t do that.

But I have My Bloody Valentine DVD sitting here with the 3-D glasses ready to go so maybe I’ll get around to watching it soon and reviewing it for my Movie Blog. Of course, I’ll wait until nobody’s home because I don’t want to have to sit here and have people look at me wearing those dorky looking 3-D glasses.

But anyway, back to Buzz, Woody & Toy Story 3. I doubt if it will break open my long 3-D (theater wise) 3D abstinence program. I’m more inclined to go see Jim Carrey’s new Scrooge movie to do that. Heck, I still haven’t seen Toy Story 2 yet. Maybe animated toys just don’t appeal to me. But for those of you that it does appeal to, here is the brand spanking new full length trailer.

Adam Lambert sings for 2012

There is a preview available for Adam Lambert’s new single which also happens to be in the film 2012 (probably over the end credits.)  It’s hard to tell too much from this short clip but here it is in all it’s disaster film glory.

Marge Simpson in Playboy. Serena in ESPN.

The world has gone mad.   Marge appears in Playboy to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons.  Playboy says their trying to appeal to a younger audience but they didn’t say how young.   Does that mean we’ll be seeing Olive Oyl next month?

Then there’s Serena Williams on the cover of ESPN’s Body Issue.  So, who would you like to get naked with?

 

GOP Health Care in 3 minutes or less

Freddy’s Not Dead

Of the horror film reboots that I have seen, there hasn’t been one that I cared for that much. I think the idea of rebooting a horror film would be to improve on the original. If that’s the plan, so far it isn’t working out too well especially when you realize that there is a lot of room for improvement from the original.

But have no fear. Sooner or later someone in Hollywood might just get it right. Hitfix seems to think it is a possibility with Producer Michael Bay and Director Samuel Bayer’s take on Nightmare on Elm Street casting Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger in the role made famous by Robert Englund. But Michael Bay also produced the awful reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre so you can’t use his involvement as a measure of quality.

There is room for improvement however, so anything is possible. I liked the original, but it wasn’t perfect and it did have its faults. The first sign of trouble: If the film emerges with a PG-13 rating before release which would mean it’s been dumbed down and sanitized for the thirteen and fourteen year olds in the audience. That almost never works. Here’s the trailer and if you like the poster you can get a larger one for your wallpaper at the official movie site.