The A-Team
My dad and I saw the A-Team this week and I was generally happy with it as an action comedy. Totally absurd, of course, but pretty good fun as to that. If an action movie's going to go full-absurd, it may as well do it with a gleam in it's eye and tongue in it's cheek.
England – USA World Cup match re-enacted in a minute and a half … with legos.
via guardian.co.uk Somehow even the legoman captures the goalie’s anguish.
Get Him to the Greek
Get Him to the Greek was a largely funny comedy, but much more uneven than it should have been. It's predecessors of the Judd Apatow-genre had slow parts sometimes, but they were careful to not betray their characters. This one seemed much more willing to do so in order to make a joke. Russell Brand is pretty much always funny when he's on screen, but for the rest, it was hit and miss. When it was funny, it was funny, but when it wasn't … well, it wasn't.
Sumatran tiger cubs – 2 weeks old
via facebook.com Overwhelmingly cute.
I love this trailer
via youtube.com This trailer works almost better than the movie does. Actually, I think the 2nd half of the movie is great. But this trailer is great the whole way through. Makes me want to pull out the soundtrack again.
The NCAA, Film Festivals, and Economics
Imagine that you could run a business that relied on volunteer labor, was so popular it was worth many millions of dollars, and was largely tax free. Sounds illegal, but it's not. It's an accurate description of college football and college basketball programs. I have a bit of a hard time with the NCAA rules, and today's sanctions against USC are a good enough reason as any to post on this topic. With colleges serving as the de-facto farm teams for pro-basketball and pro-football, anyone who wants to play in the pros pretty much has to go through them to make Read more…
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