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Ponderings For 2010-08-23

Submitted by GuyGG on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 11:59pm
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  • A handful of longer write-ups for this Ponderings post. I will quickly mention that I've been messing with some nifty little things throughout the site, such as the cool hover things on pages like the movie viewing log or the music album master list (which is a page I haven't really included in the menus or generally drawn attention to yet, as it's still a work in progress behind the scenes). Some more posts coming soon.
  • I just watched the pilot for ABC's upcoming series No Ordinary Family a bit ago. It's available to screen on ABC's site (with the code word "Extraordinary" which I think is case sensative) - or can be found online in most of the usual third party methods of tracking down TV stuff. I quite liked it. It's not spectacular or anything, but it's got a nice tone to it and a great cast, and features pretty solid production. I'm hoping to finally have a series that I really like a lot that stars Michael Chiklis. He's an actor I've always liked, but most TV shows and movies he's in I can only moderately like at best. The Shield was a show where I really liked about half the materials, but disliked the other half (and much of that was the stuff involving Chiklis' character). And The Commish was OK, but nothing great. And of course, there's the Fantastic Four films, which is naturally an easy connection to make to this superhero story in No Ordinary Family. The first of the Fantastic Four films was an absolute failure, while the second halfway decent. Though Chiklis did have a small role in Soldier - a movie for which I'm an unapologetic fan. I'm hoping that No Ordinary Family can finally be that thing that I really end up liking with Chiklis in it. Doesn't hurt that it co-stars Julie Benz and a nice array of supporting cast. While it may essentially be a live action variation on The Incredibles, it's definitely got a light enough touch to keep things fun. I'll look forward to how well it'll play out beyond the pilot. It's usually hard to judge a series based on the pilot, but this one's good enough to warrant hope for the series.
  • I've been watching some favorite Friends episodes this evening while I've been messing with stuff on the computer. One of the episodes holds a high place on my list primarily for one scene, which is at the end of this video. The moment I love is when Lisa Kudrow fearlessly begins to "sing along" to David Schwimmer's awful bagpipe playing. Phoebe and Chandler were always my favorite characters on the series, probably cause they are the two most like me (Phoebe's "whatever" approach to everything and Chandler's non-stop, sarcastic sense of humor). But this moment made me a permanent fan of Kudrow (as if I hadn't already been). The icing on the scene is the fact that Jennifer Aniston is clearly losing it on camera sitting there next to Kudrow, and they actually left it in there. It works, cause a real person sitting there would probably be laughing anyway (which is something more shows need to allow to happen on camera, imo). But Aniston is clearly trying to hide her reaction from blowing the take of the scene, and clearly failing at it. But when it comes to Friends cast members being unable to control their laughter, Kudrow is also the clear winner at that as well, as witnessed in many gag reel moments such as this and this.
  • Most anyone who knows me knows how much of a film score obsessive I am. Much of the time, if I'm not watching a movie or TV episode, I'll have film scores playing, be it at the house, in the car or otherwise on the go. I'll listen through most any of them at least once or twice. My favorites at any given time will get a fair amount of play on rotation, but every once in a while one will stick to the point that I listen through it at least once or twice a day, for quite some time. Well, the most recent example of that is Hans Zimmer's score to Inception. I was highly impressed by it upon first impression, but it's got this quality that just kinda gets under your skin - or more appropriately under your subconscious. The more play time I give it, the more I begin to consider that this may be one of the crowning achievements of his career to date (THE crowning achievement, perhaps?). Well, now another online fan has assembled it into a rather well laid out, non-stop mega-suite, which only further enables my constant play. I'm really hoping that this score gets a nice, deluxe edition release like Zimmer's score for Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight did. Oh, incidentally, if you're a fellow fan, there are two online exclusive score tracks available for free from the score's official site (that aren't on the commercial score CD/download release).
  • As somebody who goes to the movie theater on average a few times a week, it's occasionally interesting to observe things about other movie goers, or how advertising campaigns are playing out. Case in point: the trailer for Universal's upcoming thriller, "Devil." It's a moderately well assembled trailer that I've seen at least a dozen times now theatrically. What I find most interesting is that the audience is going along with the trailer right up until the text on the screen that reads, "From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan." At that point at least a good majority of the audience begins to snicker to themselves or simply laugh out loud. The first time I saw the trailer, it was in a packed midnight screening (I forget which film - Inception, perhaps?). At the moment where that text came up, darn near the entire audience simultaneously broke out in derisive laughter. If Shyamalan had been standing on stage, he would have been laughed right off of it. Now, I like most of Shyamalan's movies more than most other folks (I particularly loved The Village - and yes, I know I'm in a vast minority on that opinion). I haven't seen The Last Airbender, nor do I intend to, though I've had hours and hours of entertainment reading the superlative-laced, acidic reviews of the film. But at this point, I think Shyamalan's career has been completely decimated in the public eye. And you wanna know what the real kicker is to this whole thing? Shyamalan didn't direct Devil. He doesn't even have a screenplay credit on it. Just a producer and story credit. So it's essentially the kind of relationship that Steven Spielberg would have had to something like The Goonies. Then again, thanks to Warner having done much the same with that one, there's probably a good number of people over the years who figure that Spielberg did direct it, or at least write it. Well, Universal, you really need to disassociate Devil from Shyamalan and pull that "from the mind of" phrase from the advertising. You really aren't doing the movie any marketing favors at this point. With its lack of big name cast members, if Universal keeps up the Shyamalan advertising push with it, that movie is gonna completely flame out at the box office.
  • I've got my ticket for Sunday's upcoming Weird Al Yankovic concert at College Of DuPage ready and waiting. I posted a review of my previous outing to see his concert over in Indiana last month, and look forward to catching it live again this weekend. If you've never seen Al perform on tour, you really owe it to yourself to do so at least once.
  • Sniff sniff...

Ponderings For 2010-08-05

Submitted by GuyGG on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 11:59pm
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  • I've had this post half written and unpublished for darn near a month. I'm finally getting around to swinging back to it. So, some of this a bit varied in when I was actually writing it.
  • "Diane, I'm holding in my hands a small box of chocolate bunnies." If you're a fellow Twin Peaks fan, you would instantly recognize that line of dialog. Simply put, it's surely the greatest line of dialog that anyone has gotten with which to exit a scene. I've just finished watching an HD release of the Twin Peaks pilot, as the full series has recently gone up on iTunes in 720p quality. It's so great to see this series in such nice quality. Not that the previous DVD release was bad, cause it wasn't. But I personally love seeing older TV shows get lovely high def transfers. It's unfortunate that Kyle MacLachlan would drift through typically lukewarm films for so many years after Twin Peaks, cause his performance of Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks is one of the best that TV has ever had. At least MacLachlan has gotten some good material recently on Desperate Housewives. At any rate, I look forward to seeing Twin Peaks on Blu-Ray in full, high bitrate 1080p quality. At least there are rumors floating that it'll get one, and seeing as it's shown up on iTunes in 720 HD resolution, I can only assume those transfers were floated onto iTunes for a reason.
  • NOOOOOOO! Starz canceled Party Down! This sucks. If a hilarious, ultra-low-budget series featuring a spectacular cast can't survive on a cable network as generally lame and low rent as Starz, then there's little chance of anything being guaranteed to survive on any network. Season 2 of the series was pure comedic genius. Grrrrrrrrrr. Well, given the acidic, pessimistic style of humor the show had, it appropriately figures. Now, to look forward to what Rob Thomas and his stable of other writers come up with next. No matter what the series, I'll be watching. After Veronica Mars and Party Down, I'm a guaranteed viewer of whatever's next in the pipeline.
  • I sit here at the moment watching the just-released Max Headroom DVD set from Shout Factory. No really, this bit isn't an old piece of this post. At any rate, I'd like to thank Shout Factory not just for finally getting this landmark series out on disc, but doing a great job with it. It's got very respectable transfer quality, and has quite a lot of interview material with cast and crew. After years of having only horrible quality copies to watch, or incredibly butchered syndicated versions (which were also of marginal quality), having a complete collection of the series in great quality is very nice.
  • "I think when you read this on the script, you think this is edgy, gritty film-making. Let's shoot it edgy and gritty. I thought no, let's shoot it like a Spider-Man, glossy Hollywood film. Let the grit and the edge come from what's on screen and that would be far more impactful. I'm also a big believer in 'if you can see what's happening on screen, you can enjoy it more.' DP's sometimes don't understand that." THANK YOU, DIRECTOR MATTHEW VAUGHN, for stating that (on the Kick-Ass commentary). I'm beyond tired of the obnoxiously hand-held, verity style that is all-the-rage in recent years.
  • You know, it was kinda inevitable that once the networks began streaming content from their own sites, they would begin inserting ads into the content. I don't mind it too much since it's typically just one 30 second or less bit at a time. But one problem is that many of them play the exact same commercial in every inserted break. Not just the same product or company, but the EXACT SAME COMMERCIAL. Oh, and the other thing - volume. Sometimes the inserted commercial streams via an entirely different platform and doesn't respect whatever playback volume you had set, and you get blown through the back wall.
  • YES! John Oliver is not only returning for the next season of Community (he'd been in a handful of the earlier season 1 episodes, but didn't show up much in the later ones), but he's getting to be more of a main character as the primary teacher role. Woo hoo! I love the series, and all the characters, but John Oliver is able to effortlessly steal every scene he is in. And the limited moments between him and Ken Jeong's character in earlier episodes were spot-on perfect, so I look forward to seeing him as the teacher and Jeong as the student. I'm counting the days until Community returns.
  • Huzzah! The excellent Shaun The Sheep will finally hit DVD in its full 40 episode glory in October. Thank you, Lionsgate.
  • Bummer. I missed Lisa Simpson's wedding...
  • An array of some great Daily Show fun.
  • One last little tid-bit: a great pre-flight safety briefing on a SouthWest flight.

Ponderings For 2010-07-09

Submitted by GuyGG on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 11:59pm
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Ponderings For 2010-06-13

Submitted by GuyGG on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 11:59pm
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  • I have bunches of stuff to catch up on here. I have been, shall we say, a bit behind on the updates. We'll see how well I do getting posts online over the next week or two. There'll be some stuff from a little while back that I wrote but never got around to finishing off and publishing.
  • Wanna see a cool, impressive new form of art/advertising? Check out what a company called NuFormer is doing. Take a look at a number of their videos.
  • Speaking of creative, artistic types, here's one of the more impressive approaches I've seen.
  • There are lame "photoshopped" photos, then there's this gem.
  • You know, I really do think that Hollywood is going WAY too crazy with the horror movie remakes (though there actually have been some good ones, like Last House On The Left, Dawn Of The Dead or the sadly overlooked Willard). However, I can't help but love the cast they are assembling for the Fright Night remake.
  • Speaking of remakes, the recent teaser reel for Mortal Kombat: Rebirth has been getting fanboys hearts all atwitter. I gotta admit, it does absolutely nothing for me. Well, they did at least cast Jeri Ryan as Sonya Blade, so that's a good thing. To be honest, I really couldn't care less about most physical fight scenes in movies and TV. Unless they are particularly inventive (for example, Jackie Chan), I pretty much tune them out. It was always my least favorite part of Buffy (but they did do the occasional fun job with them). This new Rebirth teaser is essentially nothing but a complete bore for me. I rather enjoyed the silly first film. Though I utterly hated the second film (the ONLY good thing about having seen that theatrically was the studio attached trailer for Dark City). I really don't care if the new Mortal Kombat sucks or not. I'll need to see more preview material to even decide to give it a chance.
  • And on the subject of reboots, there's this destined-to-fail abomination: the remake of The Crow, directed by talentless hack Stephen Norrington.
  • Then again, many fanboys complain about the Resident Evil film franchise, and the upcoming, gleefully 3D fourth installment, Resident Evil: Afterlife. Frankly, I'm looking forward to it. For whatever reason, those films have continued to work for me. I'm also amused that this fourth film will feature yet another composer for the music (well, composers in this case). This will, however, be the first time the franchise returns to a previous director (though Anderson did at least script/produce 'em all).
  • For all you fellow fans of the fantastic series Chuck, here's the full video for Jeffster's music video from the (excellent) season finale.
  • Riddle me this: why is it everyone complains about popular music stars getting movie roles, but when one of them does it and manages to do a phenomenal job, not only does nobody see the film but that person doesn't show up in any more films? I'm referring to Jewel in Ang Lee's Ride With The Devil. I was recently watching the newly released Criterion Collection Blu-Ray edition of the film. Huge thanks go out to Criterion for giving this film the care it so greatly deserves. This new edition is a longer director's cut of the film, which takes an already phenomenal movie and manages to make it better. If you haven't seen the 1999 film (and given box office results, few others joined me in the trip to the theater), you really should. I still consider it Ang Lee's best film. I also consider it one of the best war films made, despite the fact that it doesn't quite fit the mold of the typical war film - even as a Civil War film. I do have a request for Criterion, though. In 2008, they released The Ice Storm on DVD, and did an excellent job with it. It's my second favorite Ang Lee film, and I'd like to see them also get it released on Blu-Ray.
  • Congratulations to Castle for some of the best "fourth wall" interaction I've seen. On an episode a month or two ago, the character of Richard Castle appears on a fictional talk show promoting the paperback release of his novel Heat Wave. Not only is Heat Wave a real book that was released under the fictional pseudonym (and it's actually a rather good book), but during this episode he promotes the July 27th paperback release of the book. And sure enough, the real Heat Wave book does, in fact, have an upcoming July 27th paperback release. It's a great attention to detail, and an amusing sense of meta humor. Heck, they've even referred to stuff on specific pages during episodes.
  • I'm way behind on Glee, which just finished up its first season. There are certainly aspects of the show that aren't perfect (too many of the music numbers, in particular), but I do overall like the series. But if there's one character that always works, it's Sue Sylvester, played by the always-great Jane Lynch. The Dangling Kitten, a great piece of writing from the show pointed out by Jane Espenson on her blog makes me finally wanna get around to catching up on the series.
  • That's it for now. A non-Ponderings post is due to show up tomorrow. It's another long one. Oh, and a couple more backfilled movie reviews should be showing up as well.

Ponderings For 2010-03-21

Submitted by GuyGG on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 11:48pm
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  • Best comedy couple of the year goes to Alec Baldwin & Elizabeth Banks on 30 Rock. Banks' guest spots on a couple of the most recent 30 Rock episodes were pitch perfect. And she plays against Baldwin brilliantly, right from their opening scene together. This follows Banks' recent great guest spot on Modern Family. More series need to start brining her in for as many episodes as they can. Particularly insane comedies like 30 Rock & Modern Family.
  • I'd like to take a moment to rant about video packaging design. Why is it that home video departments seem to go out of their way to make lame package designs for mega-million dollar endeavors such as big studio movies? Let's take the Blu-Ray release of Up In The Air that sits next to me on the desk at the moment for example. After the film already has a nice poster design as seen here, the home video department follows through with, well... this.
  • While a musical episode of Fringe may sound odd at first, it only takes a second to realize that odd is what Fringe does best. And having a character as eccentric as Walter Bishop makes it rather easy to lock in the idea they had for how to do it. I definitely look forward to it.
  • This CNet opinion piece is quite interesting. I think the author is on to something in the way things do and don't work for/at Google. Those who know me know how big a fan in general I am of Google. But it's definitely true that their brains work in a more logical and analytical way. And it's VERY true that Apple's works almost entirely in an emotional way. Apple has always been far more interested into tapping into users' emotions and sense of things like style. I mean, Apple may turn out nice products from time to time (the iPhone, for example), but they're also more than happy to ignore limitations, or even cause them, in the name of protecting users from themselves, or even worse, protecting themselves from competition via the typically condescending snobbery of Steve Jobs. Giving it a little thought, I'm not sure I want Google to think the way Apple does. Personally, I'd prefer that Google stays logical and analytical, and doesn't pander down to emotionally based marketing voodoo. Like there aren't a million Dilbert strips applicable to the foibles of going down that particular road.
  • And speaking of the stupidities of emotionally based advertising, it's about time somebody in the press points out the utter lack of logic in how companies treat the term "chemical" these days.
  • How cool would it have been to have captured two moons slamming into each other on video? The fact that the number of Jupiter's moons is still a debated topic is impressive as well.
  • The YouTube vs Viacom fight has certainly been getting interesting. There's absolutely no doubt in the fact that I'm siding with YouTube/Google on this one, and it ain't just a result of my allegiance to Google. Viacom has got more than a few screws loose.
  • And speaking of YouTube, they recently passed something of a mind-blowing/mind-numbing mark recently, which if you extrapolate over a large amount of time is just plain crazy.
  • And incidentally, one of the pages they link to in the above blog post has some fascinating astronomy trivia, some of which I didn't previously know.
  • Gotta love the progression of technology. I still marvel at what the little flash devices like MicroSD cards can hold.
  • Here's a handy taskbar tweak for you fellow Windows 7 users.
  • This person definitely knows how to make an entrance.
  • One of those rare instances of a classy, amusing and cool commercial
  • Awesome Google Street View shot
  • Gotta love subliminal Pac-Men
  • They didn't call the Large Hadron Collider "large" for nothing.
  • INCOMING!
  • That's just not right...
  • Oh, you may have noticed that I've started posting some more top films by genre lists over the last couple days. Last summer, I got the first half dozen genres or so posted, but never finished that effort. Over the next couple days I'll be posting the last couple lists, as well as making another pass over the previously posted ones from last year to augment them and pretty them up a bit.

Ponderings For 2010-03-13

Submitted by GuyGG on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:59am
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  • Just finished watching what is sure to be the final episode of Numb3rs, should CBS ever decide to finally make the unofficial cancellation finally official. The episode worked well as a series finale, with some nice finishing touches. It's sad to see an intelligent, wall made series like Numb3rs leave the line-up, but after 6 years and 118 episodes, it can hold its head high and go out with dignity. I'm happy the producers chose to play it safe and make the season finale so that it would work nicely as a series finale (particularly on the short notice of finding out their season order was cut from 22 to 16). Oh, and the barely-one-scene appearance by Lou Diamond Phillips was a nice touch, to get one of the longest running and best recurring character in one last time. One more touch that would have been very nice would have been to have Diane Farr's character of Megan Reeves put in an appearance (and a mind-blowing one would have been Sabrina Lloyd's character of Terry, which hasn't been seen since before the end of season 1). And oh yeah, one other great touch was opening the episode with Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime" (Which was the theme for the series in season 1, before they replaced it the next season, then stopped having an opening title sequence all together). At any rate, so long Numb3rs. It was a great run.
  • And on the subject of cancellations, I'll say so long to The Forgotten which has been officially cancelled. It's too bad, cause the show has been getting progressively better, and got a nice shot in the arm after recently adding Elisha Cuthbert to the cast. Sadly, it looks as though ABC is gonna leave the last couple episodes unaired. Ah well, something for the video release to boast about or worst case can be tracked down online. One bit from the series I won't miss is the brief voice-over narrations from the victims, a style device the series used that never worked.
  • And as far as renewals go, congrats to Community and 30 Rock for official pickups. Here's a fun video of series creator Dan Harmon breaking the news to the cast of Community. Also, big congrats to the great Fringe for a season 3 pickup from FOX. The show continues to fight the odds. It's an awesome show that is getting wildly fun and complex (ABC can say what they want about other shows, but this is the new Lost - and why not, it's from many of the same people as Lost).
  • I'm getting very psyched about the remade Rockford Files series, as the cast continues to grow and impress, now adding the likes of Alan Tudyk. I do think that Dermot Mulroney should work very well as Jim Rockford. He's got big shoes to fill.
  • Speaking of Firefly cast members, we're gonna get a little mini-reunion on Warehouse 13. Neato.
  • Check out this awesome music video homage of Battlestar Galactica inserted very carefully into the music video format for Beastie Boys' Sabotage.
  • Speaking of music videos, if you haven't seen the final This Too Shall Pass music video from OK Go, do so. It's spectacular. The first "performance video" of it is great as well. If you haven't seen that one, do check it out.
  • Sherman, set the WABAC machine for 1967!
  • Certainly the best photo from this year's Academy Awards.
  • It's official, the Nobel Peace Prize is just plain dumb.
  • Here's an interesting bit of news in how new hard drive upgrades could start slowing down Windows XP.
  • Hopefully will get another post put together for tomorrow. I did add in a few movie reviews earlier today.

Ponderings For 2010-03-10

Submitted by GuyGG on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:59am
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  • Man, it's so cool lately for those of us who have been Tron fanatics for decades. The first trailer for Tron Legacy (the one from a year and a half ago was just a proof-of-concept test reel) has just gone live, and it's awesome. And then check out the cool new "Tronorail" launch.
  • For those wondering how crazy looking a "sea mouse" would be.
  • Minority Report is becoming more science than fiction, fast than most of us probably would have liked.
  • Now THIS connection is one that I might not be able to completely saturate.
  • Here's an awesome pool table.
  • Short post today. More to come tomorrow, as well as a quick review of Alice In Wonderland. Will likely be catching the midnight screening of Green Zone tomorrow night, too.

Ponderings For 2010-03-02

Submitted by GuyGG on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:59am
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  • I'm watching the Rifftrax of Transformers 2 as I type this. You know, I was wondering if this movie was truly as awful as I remembered, or if I was thinking of it through 110% black glasses. I'm halfway through it at the moment and can confirm that not only is it as bad as I remember, but it's actually worse, as hard to believe as that may be. However, the Rifftrax boys are making it a whole lot of fun. This is the only way this movie should be viewed. Seriously, this is one incredibly horrendous movie. Michael Bay should be taken out into town square, tortured, drawn, quartered then forced to watch this movie on constant loop with the volume cranked to 11.
  • Woo hoo! Hurray! One of my most wanted series for DVD has been announced - Max Headroom! And it's being licensed to Shout Factory, so it's gonna get nice treatment, too. Woo hoo!
  • One word: AWESOME
  • And if that wasn't awesome enough, then this is.
  • Holy cow, this movie sucks.
  • Wait, Apple hasn't been including HDMI ports on computers? Hasn't every other computer manufacturer on the face of the Earth been doing so for some time now? OK, never mind that, there's a number of other stupidities involved in this situation (Seriously? Phasing out Blu-Ray due to licensing fees? REALLY, APPLE? They who run iTunes?)
  • Great stuff
  • Geez, this movie sucks.
  • Long live The Pirate Bay...
  • Some Tron Legacy details (including a Blu-Ray of the original film - though it also debuts in HD on HDNet tomorrow night). Can't wait to check out the first trailer this weekend.
  • Nice imaging work by the boys at NASA
  • For the love of all that is sane, this movie sucks.
  • Forget the cute kitten pics. How about guinea pigs?
  • no, No, NO, *NO*! Where's the delete button for those memory cells in my brain!?!?!?!
  • Humanity is finished. (those toys are almost as bad as this movie)
  • Jar-Jar Binks has *NOTHING* on Skids and Mudflap.
  • Probably a good thing I don't speak whatever language they're chattering.
  • Easter eggs for Hitler, indeed.
  • Did I mention how much this movie sucks?
  • Dude, this movie sucks.
  • No, really, THIS MOVIE SUCKS!  (thankfully Mike, Bill & Kevin at Rifftrax don't)
  • You know what? Never mind Crank. Never mind Space Jam. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm making that official.

Ponderings For 2010-02-21

Submitted by GuyGG on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:59am
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  • You know how some music artists intentionally try to recapture their original magic while staging a return, and fail miserably? Well, Harold Faltermeyer is not one of those people. Over the last couple days I've been constantly listening to an online leaked copy of his new score to Kevin Smith's retro buddy-cop comedy, Cop Out (don't worry, my purchased, physical copy of the score is due to arrive from Amazon on Tuesday). This score is instantly one of my favorites of the year. Faltermeyer flawlessly slips right back into the groove of his action/comedy scores of the 80's and early 90's. I forgot just how much I missed his scores. They have a sense of bounce and style, not to mention truly catchy melodic work, that nearly all composers since have failed to match. John Powell is one of the few I can think of that comes close to being able to tap into the same vein with any repeatable consistency. For Cop Out, Faltermeyer intentionally brings back some of that retro electronic instrumentation, and he makes it work in a way that has a fun retro feel without sounding awkwardly dated. It must have been quite the fine line to walk.
  • Ladies and gents, here is the very definition of the word, AWESOME
  • Holy *!%#: "Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!"
  • For all of you fellow King Of Kong fans: Way to go, Steve!
  • Eeeeek, the first promo for the new season of Doctor Who. Can't wait to see what the new cast and crew get up to. I do like the gleeful energy of the goofball promo.
  • More great Colbert goodness. The ending is particularly great.
  • Sure the only VW Beetle to ever be intimidating.
  • While certainly not somebody I would have thought of for the role of Nikita, I approve.
  • The Oscars have just improved the ceremony by axing the worst part of the show: the best song nominee performances.
  • CubeStormer. Too cool.
  • Talk about a clever security system...
  • Gotta love the work of a true artist
  • A great infographic
  • The rare example of a great commercial
  • A classic photo, indeed.
  • No kidding
  • Spent the last day or two nuking my main machine at the house. It had the soon-to-expire Windows 7 Release Candidate still running on it. So my machine got to have a nice, fresh install of the final Windows 7. Thankfully, things went pretty smoothly. I'm actually gonna be posting a write-up soon (along with 4 others that are partially complete) detailing a number of my favorite applications (I took some notes during the rebuild to be able to use it as a list for people to use as recommended apps).

Ponderings For 2010-02-14

Submitted by GuyGG on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 12:59am
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