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NO SPOILERS but there is a very good trailer in this week’s bunch of trailers. Holy cow. Like, there is a new Mission Impossible trailer, and that movie looks good, and then there are a couple of other trailers that are fine or whatever, no big deal, but wait until you get to this one trailer at the end, it’s great! I’m serious. You’ll see.
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Guys, I’m not even going to watch this trailer because I’m already totally on board with this movie, and I watched the first trailer, so I’d rather not have any more information. I just want to enjoy myself for once in my life. Was it good? Was the trailer good? Don’t even tell me that. I said I don’t want to know. Hush now.
The Lorax
So, this movie is not for us. And that’s fine. And even if it kind of does make you a little sad because the original Lorax movie was pretty good already and this one looks a little more slapsticky (and what is the ecological message about bears eating marshmallows that fall from the sky?) but also kids these days don’t want to watch that old shit. Give them the new shit! And that is fair enough. I felt the same way, and still basically do. Also, Danny Devito actually does make for a very funny Lorax voice, and Jenny Slate does a voice in this too, so A++ hands down.
In the Land of Blood and Honey
So this is the first movie directed by Angelina Jolie, and it looks fine. Serbia! War! Love! Clean sheets! Snow! Etc! But what is up with that title card? “From writer/director Angelina Jolie”? No. How about “Written and directed by Angelina Jolie.” Let us not get ahead of ourselves, title card.
Into the Abyss
Holy cow, this movie looks very good. That’s all there is to even say about that. (On a sidenote: I don’t have an iPhone 4s, but I hope by the time I get another phone that they have upgraded this Siri thing to talk to you in Werner Herzog’s voice.)
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The best part about The Lorax is right this second someone in Marketing is giving the go-ahead to actually make Thneeds.
Also LorAXE body spray.
Oh man, I love LOVE Herzog’s docs. Can’t wait.
All of his movies should be called “Into the Abyss”
I’m super-glad Paul F. Tompkins has added Werner Herzog to his ever-growing arsenal of hilarious impersonations.
What!?!?!? Youtube links or it didn’t happen!
How about a link to the Comedy Bang Bang podcast where he debuted it?
http://www.earwolf.com/episode/shanghaied-by-irene/
He once mused to an interview that “Into the Abyss” would’ in fact, work very well as a title for everything he has ever made. Wish I could remember the interview…
Into the Abyss looks amazing and I absolutely dread seeing it.
Speaking of The Lorax, if you’ve never read “The Truax” you should check it out UNLESS YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH
Wait, someone re-wrote the Lorax to be about the ENVIRONMENT?
How dare they change the original message? (It was about vampires.)
I completely understand that children need their own cartoons and films in the style to which they and their peers are accustomed, but I wonder if they still watch classic Looney Tunes as my brother and I did. By the time I saw them (and loved them) those cartoons were 20, 30 and in some cases 40 years old. But they were my favorite. I wonder if that still happens.
I tried watching a new Looney Tunes episode and it was crap. The voices were terrible (rip Mel Blanc), the storyline ridiculous, and it had zero charm. Very disappointed.
The problem is that those cartoons have been difficult to find in recent years. The places where I (and maybe you? I don’t know who you are or where you come from… so i won’t assume) would go to find them now either don’t exist (Network Saturday Morning Cartoon Line-Ups), or have a back log of their own original programming that outperforms old cartoons in reruns (Cable).
That being said, with the new Looney Tunes show on Cartoon Network being popular (and pretty genuinely funny, poking fun at sitcom tropes while featuring the voices of Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen), I’ve been able to use that as a segue for my neice into the classic cartoons upon which those characters were based.
I hate about ninety-nine percent of kid’s movies and shows these days, and thought I’d been doing a decent job of slipping in good stuff among the onslaught of hyperactive, mindless crap to my five year old. A few months back, I noticed Cartoon Network was airing an hour of classic Looney Tunes everyday at noon, and thought how great. My kid cried. “Why are the cartoons hitting each other?” So, that was a fun talk.
I have three boys ages 4, 6 and 8, and can attest that the old cartoons hold up. Looney Tunes, Popeye and Tom and Jerry all hold up. Can’t get them into Rocky and Bullwinkle yet, but it’s coming, God willing.
Pro Tip: They’re showing Looney Toons in HD now (I think on Cartoon Network, or one of those)… It’s incredible quality. I was told they were all made in film quality to show in a theater. Good stuff.
This is the first time I’ve ever used the words “I’m excited about this Mission Impossible” but I am kind of excited by this Mission Impossible. Brad Bird directed it! You love everything he’s ever done. I’m curious to see how well he does with human faces.