It’s too bad The Expendables isn’t billed as a comedy, because it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen all year. Imagine if Tommy Wiseau was picked to write and directThe A-Team, but at the last second, they couldn’t secure the rights, so they had to make a low-budget rip off with aging action heroes. Yep, that’s The Expendables….
I tend to spend a large portion of my day of reading really racist comments on the work facebook page from horrible people who will take any opportunity to spew their hatred when it comes to immigration. It’s not just on stories that have to do with immigration either. These people can find a way to make anything about immigration. If we have a story about puppies wearing funny hats, they’ll figure out some way to launch a tirade about Obama, people from Mexico or a blanket statement about all liberals.
You can imagine how exhausting that might be for someone like me, so when I come home, I turn on the tv and zone out until I fall asleep. When I flipped on the tv today, my Tivo was recording the “Goobacks” episode of South Park. If you haven’t seen it, the full episode is online at southparkstudios.com.
This was the part that was on right when I turned the tv on:
I wish I could line up all those people who post all that awful crap online and force them to sit down and watch this. Maybe they’d be like Stan and learn something.
I had the chance to go to my very first Comic Con this year with Trashwire and I had so much fun that I’m already dreaming of next year. I took over 400 pictures, but I put all the best ones in the photo galleries on trashwire.com.
Some of my faves:
Pics from my three days there are at:
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/22/sdcc1
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/23/sdcc2
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/24/sdcc3
Of course, my favorite part of it all was the two panels with Gerard Way. I took a zillion pictures and videos from both the Dark Horse panel and the Spotlight on Gerard Way panel, but these two are my favorites.
See the rest (and the videos) at Trashwire.com:
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/23/comic-con-dark-horse-gerard-way
and
http://trashwire.com/2010/07/24/comic-con-panel-spotlight-on-gerard-way
I’ll be tweeting away from San Diego Comic Con this weekend. Don’t miss out on a minute by following @trashwire on Twitter or checking in here for my live Twitter feed:
I’ve seen so many movies in the past couple weeks that I can barely keep track of all the plots anymore. Everything’s starting to run together and it’s all one big story involving a Predator adopting three little girls to try and break up his mother and her vampire boyfriend. Thankfully, I managed to separate all the plots before I wrote these two reviews.
Here’s my review of the highly-anticipated Predators. I love the original film and was very pleased that this film departed from the corny Alien vs Predator sequels.
The Predator franchise was slipping down the slope of ridiculousness and on it’s way to Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus territory when Robert Rodriguez was announced as the producer of a brand new enrtry to the Predator game. Thankfully, Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal brought back the suspense of the original and ditched the cheesy b-movie feel of more recent films starring everyone’s favorite dreadlocked alien.
Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/07/09/predators-elevates-the-franchise-with-suspense
Just a few days after the Predators press screening, I went to a screening for Despicable Me. Try having a 3D animated family film and a movie about people being skinned alive by aliens floating around in your head at the same time! Despicable Me was the opposite of Predators in terms of plot, but was very similar in terms of being enjoyable.
In the tradition of Shrek, Universal’s Despicable Me is a film for kids, that’s also fun for adults. The Pixar-like 3D animation wows children and the cast list alone is enough to get adults excited. When I saw the first trailer for the film, seeing Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, and Kristen Wiig all listed together made me mark my calendar for the release date.
Read the rest on Trashwire.com at http://trashwire.com/2010/07/11/despicable-me-fun-in-3d
I’m going to have reviews for Inception, Salt and Dinner for Schmucks coming soon on trashwire this month.
Also, definitely follow @trashwire on Twitter because I’m headed to the famed San Diego Comic Con next weekend and I’ll be tweeting live about everything I see.
