where the wild things are

not only does this trailer rock my sox, it also features awesome music from the arcade fire.  i’m drooling with anticipation.

how to do it right

being far too tired to wear down the skeptic walls and anti-hype sentiments of forum flunkies, i’ll just say what i came to say.

‘the dark knight’ is hands down the most astonishing and meaningful comic-based movie ever; easily.  not only does nolan achieve the level of realism comic book fans have been waiting for, he goes ahead and adds his own touch of thought provoking commentary as well, making this the first comic book movie i’ve ever walked away from feeling like i was actually intellectually challenged.

the key to this success is in the movie’s attention to realism.  the acting and screenplay aim at the single focus of maintaining believability in all the characters.  it is the deeply thought out psychology and backgrounds of each character, reflected in both the script and the performances (e.g. heath ledger), that allows the audience to finally say to themselves, “i understand why (s)he’s doing that”; a detail often ignored or poorly achieved in other comic book movies.  nolan doesn’t rely on the suspension of disbelief to prop the somewhat whimsical and far-fetched characters found in the movie.  every detail about them is crafted to be completely understandable in a real world sense. their stories have been rewritten and their characters re-imagined to do away with any detail too outlandish for us to swallow.

and this all leads into the most important element of this movie.  all this realism is in place in order to support the fundamental concepts and ideas presented.  the themes found in this movie are what really drive it out of the ballpark.  using ultra-realism to support the plausible application of these themes is what nolan does best.  they aren’t lofty concepts and abstracts only pertinent to ideal situations (lol-economics) but inspections of the human condition and reflections on concepts of social relevence.  when you watch heath ledger’s performance as the joker and listen to all his dialogue, you will understand.  now, these concepts are by no means sociological breakthroughs lauded by the academic community and they are also by no means the most profound concepts in the history of film, but in the context of a comic book movie, they are well above and beyond any attempts at substance found in all prior films of the genre.

and finally, i want to say that heath ledger gave us what we all expected from kevin spacey in ’superman returns’.  he actually cared enough to do a good job and he deserves credit for everything he brought to this movie.

h&k2

because i’m also an asian minority that loves marijuana, i feel like i should post this.

what’s up with the guy with the weird eyes? he handicapped or something?

iron man

before you applaud, you should know that he is a republican

cum with me if you want to live

following my theme of robots doing human things, here’s a gallery of the terminator model robots getting freaky. this is some weird ass stuff, but weird in that awesome kinda way that makes you wish they would come out with an hd blu-ray t-800 porno. it’s probably already in development somewhere in japan.

if robots continue this pattern of emulating all the baseless faults of humanity, who will we turn to next to cleanse our filth ridden planet of human error? it’s scary to think of a world where people reign free, making mistake after mistake and laying waste to the world they inhabit. good thing we’re not at that point yet, right?

anne hathaway is awesome

anne hathaway is awesome because instead of letting the paparazzi catch her nips in candid photos, she reveals them on the silver screen where she can then at least write it off as art.  this simple act alone shows how much smarter anne is than all the other starlets in hollywood.  also, it’s obvious to me that anne hathaway is going to be the next julia roberts.  she’s got the same enormous smile and pretty much the same demographic of fans.  i don’t even like julia roberts, but you can’t argue with fame and popularity.

here are some sweet pics from the becoming jane premiere.

mmm mmm good

talk to the repuslor

as i watched zodiac today, i realized how much i like robert downey jr. he’s just such a cool guy. and because of him, i am more excited for this upcoming iron man film than any other comic based movie released to date. not even his history of drug abuse can deter my admiration. in fact, if anything, it only helps to enforce it, as i am ever marveled by his legal resilience and uncanny ability to come bouncing back from each arrest, unscathed and still unwilling to play by the rules of the man. one day, i hope to skirt narcotics regulations in the same way that robert downey jr. can. also jon favreau is cool. also gwenyth paltrow is hot. here’s an exciting picture.

boo-yah, bi-atch. paper pwns everything!

cinemawesome 2

here’s a brand new list of movies to keep an eye on

movies to watch

this is england

the wendell baker story

vantage point

gone baby gone

movies to watch under the influence

1-18-08

30 days of night

into the wild

10,000 bc

and just to give figgy a good ol’ grunt of frustration

becoming jane

isn’t that anne hathaway amazing!!!

transformers transformed (in my head)

so i saw transformers the other day, and i was stoned like a cheating afghan woman. i was really pumped because the special effects were sure to put me in a state of orgiastic visual ecstasy. when the new untitled j. j. abrams trailer came on, which i’d already seen leaked on youtube, i was buggin’ because that movie just looks really fucking crazy. there’s something about the end of the world that works really well with being stoned. fantastic four 2, transformers, nancy drew; each offers a grim possibility for an apocalyptic future and each best served with a slice of hash brownies. so then the movie starts, and once again, like fantastic four, there was crazy shit in space, and if there’s one thing i love more than watching awesome sfx while high as a kite, it’s watching awesome sfx about crazy space shit while high as a kite. so i listened to the soothing voice of peter cullen, as he explicated the epic story of the allspark and its seemingly godlike qualities. sadly, this is where the movie and i parted ways, for in my frenzied fervor to be told something fantastic, i constructed my own misinterpreted storyline for the allspark, and sat for an hour overwhelmed by the immensity of the story i was being told, but which i had really just imagined myself. now, in the movie, the allspark is an ancient relic from cybertron which imbued all machines on the planet with life. it was an artifact which megatron treacherously used to wage war on cybertron, hoping to enslave the planet. on the other hand, my interpretation had been that the allspark was a mystical relic of the universe, which imbued life on all barren planets, initiating an evolutionary process beginning with the most basic elements and components of the host planet.  i affectionately dubbed it the ‘god cube’.  i believed that the allspark had given life to the barren planet of cybertron, life which eventually evolved into the transformers. i also believed that the transformer race had unlocked the secrets of the allspark and begun to worship it.  later, megatron would use the allspark to dominate the entire planet and subjugate them into mindless drones (i.e. beast machines). also, i believed that megatron was a fanatic worshiper of the allspark, driven to tyranny by madness, and striving to ‘enslave and punish’ all life spawned from the allspark in some fanatic idealist rampage, like the dark and disturbingly morbid zeal of the catholic church during the inquisition. in the real movie, optimus prime and his rag tag rogue team of freedom fighters on cybertron manage to jettison the allspark deep into space where it drifted freely for millions of years before reaching earth 10,000 years in the past.  in my version, the ‘god cube’ drifted the cosmos for millions of years before landing on a primordial earth, where it then acted as the catalyst of a new evolutionary branch of life, leading up to the creation of the human race, thereby tying humans and transformers to the same unknown force that bonds all living entities in the universe. now, after millions of years of hunting for the allspark, the transformers finally track it to earth, coincidentally during the modern human age. megatron thus plans to enslave and punish all life on earth, which i believed to be part of his fanatic ‘to punish and enslave’ philosophy, but optimus and his team arrive to oppose the would be tyrant before another planet falls to his fanaticism. this was the plot as i perceived it in my drug induced haze. personally, i think it’s much better, and much more epic, as well as much darker in thematic content. so you can imagine my disappointment, halfway through the movie when i realized i had constructed a false plot that was actually more engrossing then the actual plot. megatron was not fanatical, nor were his decepticon followers, though i did appreciate the few ‘hail megatron’ lines which ironically came from starscream, traditionally known to be megatron’s brutus. however, in any case, i was saddened by my realization and found certain scenes hard to believe as simple human relations were hindering the transformers’ infinitely important mission to find the allspark. i would have believed that such a relic of massive importance would have overridden parental squabbles. in any case, the movie was still badass, as the special effects made my eyes pop and all the ‘wah wah wah wah wah’ transforming moments nearly drew me to my feet in a standing ovation. however, i still preferred by darker vision of the transformers universe more. the beast machines portrayal of megatron is probably my favorite incarnation of the malevolent villain as it imbues him with something much more than your run of the mill power hungry baddy; it gave him a belief that what he was doing was right, and that is what makes a truly terrifying villain (see george w. bush). maybe one day someone will make a movie or write a book or design a video game that mimics my imagined vision of the transformer universe. until then, i will just say that i cannot wait to get fucked up again and watch that movie in hd on blu-ray disc. also, i’d like to see megan fox in hd, with her clothes torn off and getting plowed on bumblebee’s hood. only time will tell if bay decides to add that to the special features.

i am batman?

haha ha ha HAhahah HAA hahAHHAhAHAHAH AHAHHAH!!!

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