Filed under: Music
I am loving this track right now. I wish the ’80s had never ended.
Filed under: Film
I expect Warner decided they didn’t want to market Lost Boys: The Tribe as a sequel pretty early in producton. Once Corey Haim stumbled onto the set, mumbling his lines and desperately trying to figure out where in the world he was, they must have realised that it was a straight to DVD endeavour.
I love the original Lost Boys movie; I often say it’s my personal favourite movie of all time. Unfortunately, Lost Boys: The Tribe feels like a cheap TV movie, complete with poor special effects (on a par with Primeval) and some very bad acting. I can’t recommend it, even to fans of the original Lost Boys.
I did like that with Lost Boys: The Tribe they were at least somewhat reverential, that there was an effort to pay homage. I certainly enjoyed seeing Corey Feldman on screen again. He is still quite charismatic and enjoyable to watch. I actually would have liked to have seen Jamison Newlander (who played Alan Frog), but they deleted his scenes. That’s a bit of a shame. They must have been truly horrific, considering what made the cut.
Given the strength of the franchise, I still feel that making another Lost Boys movie is a great idea. Sadly, not even Corey Feldman could save this particular effort. Corey Haim makes a cameo at the end of the movie and it’s so ill-conceived it’s not even funny. It’s sort of like seeing a great war hero reduced to falling over and soiling himself in his old age; sad and embarrassing.
Good times.
I wish someone had caught Dip’s pissed-up dancing on camera.
West Ham lost 3-0, by the way.
Filed under: Poker
I just played my first Sit & Go on Full Tilt (6-handed). I know it’s only small stakes, but damn, I’m good.
Who in Hollywood keeps green-lighting these insults to my intelligence? I actually quite like Will Smith, but not if he insists on ass-fucking the life out of classic science fiction on a regular basis.
Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend is one of my favourite sci-fi books of all time. Matheson’s writing can be a bit turgid at times, but the pay off is so good. It is absolutely worth adapting, and has been before (Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth), but if you’re going to do it, do it right. Please don’t spend half your budget on shitty CGI and please don’t fuck up the ending (the best thing about the book). I seriously do not understand this CGI for CGI’s sake in modern movies. The vampires are a bit pale but basically human-shaped, so why not just use actors and make-up? Spending billions of dollars on rendering them from head to toe makes absolutely no sense to me. It looks worse than using actors primarily because CGI isn’t yet at a standard where human faces can be convincingly recreated. It’s like the director put together half his scenes with a copy of The Sims.
It’s not all bad. I mean, I watched the whole damn thing. It just makes me angry that again, just as with I, Robot, another great story is stripped of its worth and turned into generic pop garbage.
Filed under: Poker
I recently signed up to Full Tilt. Ladbrokes, the site I usually use, has had a software upgrade and now often runs super slow on my machine.
So far I’ve managed to make a fairly consistent profit on Full Tilt, although I can’t say that I’m raking in the cash. If not for the welcome bonus, I might be just about even, perhaps even down. The players are really tight and seem to wait until they hit trips then bet, although there are also some crazy bluffs. I’ve yet to see much in between. Also, I have to turn the avatar feature off at times, because it’s just too hard to take some players seriously.
In case you wondered, ‘What Evil Lurks’ is the name of the Prodigy’s first release, which in turn sampled the old Shadow radio show, which opened with the line, “What evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Now you know.
I’ve been meaning to post about The Ultimates since I finished reading the first two volumes a few weeks ago.
In one of my older posts, I said everyone should go out and buy the latest Fantastic Four comic. I stand by that recommendation, but maybe it’s silly for me to think that people reading my blog might actually drop what they’re doing and go buy a comic that I recommend. Few people I know share my enthusiasm for comic books and even they are unlikely to get exactly the same things from them that I do.
Now, with all that said, read The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Brian Hitch! Even if you don’t like reading comics, you’ll should still like this. Although, let me just say it’s all about superheroes, so you’ll probably only enjoy it if you are the sort of person who can enjoy a superhero movie like Iron Man or Spider-Man. In fact, The Ultimates is like the most amazing superhero movie you’ll ever see, but in comic book form. I don’t really know how better to describe its cinematic style.
Millar and Hitch have received a good quantity of praise in my previous posts, but The Ultimates is by far their best work. Although it basically amounts to a reimagining of The Avengers, its more mature than other titles in the “Ultimate” line and has picked up accolades from the likes of J J Abrams and Joss Whedon. Someone in Hollywood must be taking notice, because the Iron Man movie was clearly set in the “Ultimates” universe and casting Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury was a fanboy’s wet dream.
The nods to the X-Men movies are genius. Hitch’s art is so good that his Professor X looks exactly like Patrick Stewart, just as his Nick Fury looks just like Jackson.
It’s really hard to express how good this series is. It may well be the most fun I’ve ever had reading a comic book, and I have read an awful lot of comic books.
Filed under: Television
I told Erin I’d upload this article from Empire for her.
Filed under: Music
It kicks off about halfway through. I don’t usually go for techno stuff, but like this track a lot.
