For anyone not keeping tabs, as part of Well, DUH.
In lieu of banging out a whole schpiel on this here (busy day), here’s what I had to say on the matter in a talkback over at Hollywood Elsewhere, which I think sums my position up handily:
“Exchanging naughty emails with random chicks is not stupid. The stupid thing he did was LIE about it for week. Coverup is ALWAYS worse than the “crime” with these things.”
“But even THEN, everyone sensible knows WHY he did it (i.e. lying) he did it because he didn’t want to piss off his wife. So, really, the stupidest thing he did was get married in the first place – if he wasn’t married, this wouldn’t be a “scandal,” this would be “makes him more fun” points. Seriously – Weiner is young, he’s got money, he’s relatively decent-looking for a politician and thanks to his “liberal firebrand” street-cred legions of fine-ass politically-inclined coeds are lined up to jump his bones… WTF is he doing in any kind of monogamous relationship, let alone MARRIED? Is he a masochist?”
“American’s have this stupid obsession with their public figures either being “happily married” or monogamous… and it makes NO fucking sense. Newsflash: The people with the superhuman-drive to succeed in a cutthroat game like politics are NOT people who are “cut out” to play Ward & June offstage. You hear people say “Oh, we need them to be married so we know they’re honest.” BULLSHIT! Married people are the most dishonest people on the planet. They HAVE to be to survive day to day. “Oh, a single man will be too easily distracted to do a good job.” BULLSHIT! Married guys are the most distracted men you’ll ever meet. You know who’s NOT distracted? Rich/famous/powerful guys who know they never have to worry where their next lay is coming from – those guys have the clearest heads in the room, bar none.”
Well, I can give them this much: “montage of people getting wedding invitations, cut like a hugely-important epic thriller” is as good a visual representation of WHY this shit is so popular with it’s audience as you’re going to get…
…I’m weirdly thrilled that it looks as though they’ve filmmed the everything-shattering sex scene (only alluded to after the fact in the books) wherein a vampire supposedly made of marble-hard undead tissue with no blood or working organs somehow impregnates his human wife with a rapidly-aging telepathic Daywalker fetus. It’ll be an utter tragedy if they try and “fix” Stephenie Meyer’s godawful “Chris-Claremont-after-a-blow-to-the-head” approach to genre fiction and thus deny us a potential trainwreck-to-end-all-trainwrecks in the making.
http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.5.swf
“Intermission” has more about “Hangover 2.”
One of those only-in-gaming (or comics) teasers that is either IMMEDIATELY identifiable or utterly meaningless from person-to-person – no middle ground can exist:
I will say this much: If this is teasing what it appears to be teasing – I had BETTER NOT hear the words “first-person,” “cover-based,” “online multiplayer-focused” or “sandbox” anywhere NEAR it.
Via THR,
If you were wondering what the next answer to Scott Pilgrim and/or Serenity style pickups – re: small-scale niche movie projects that generate PREPOSTEROUS levels of web hype right out of the gate almost-assuredly setting up unreasonable expectations from the gobsmacked studio – you now have your answer: Paramount is setting up an animated theatrical featured based on “The New Kid,” a premise (kid is newly-enrolled as the only earthling in an alien elementry school) originally launched as one of the “New Ideas” spinoffs on Penny Arcade.
So, yeah. Whether they realize it or not – and regardless of the series’ main characters not actually being part of it – Paramount has essentially greenlit what The Web will now unavoidably regard as “The Penny Arcade Movie;” instantly rendering every scrap of info about the production of what would otherwise sound like any other high-concept kiddie flick some of the most sought-after nuggets in the geekdom.
If they’re smart, someone at Paramount is ALREADY putting together something for Comic-Con, where ANY mention of this will pack a hall, easily.
Via Slashfilm, the pretty excellent trailer for the film that will unite Foriegn Film snobs and your mom’s book club in a shared gnashing of teeth against director David Fincher:
http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/40697
Despite what you may infer from the trailer, this is NOT actually a movie wherein James Bond teams up with one of the Suicide Girls to solve DaVinci’s code.
Yet another jokey, reference-packed fan-film comedy sketch mainly about 30-something film geeks “dealing with” The Prequels and the looming figure of George Lucas? Yawn.
Doing it as a high-concept “Oldboy” spoof? Genius.
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