1. It has Brad Pitt in it
2. It has a really stupid name
3. It has Brad Pitt doing a stupid fake southern accent in it
4. I have to “click to download” something to watch the trailer (which i don’t want to watch)
5. The old/young version of Brad Pitt is incredibly creepy and unnerving, in a bad way
6. It appears to contain one of the stupid/boring romantic encounters that Changed Everything, that I hate so much
7. A movie with Brad Pitt in it opening on Christmas is liable to ruin Christmas
8. Tagline: “Life isn’t measured in minutes, but in moments.” I literally gagged
9. A movie with Brad Pitt in it that also contains Cate Blanchett is liable to ruin Cate Blanchett
10. It just looks stupid and ridiculous and soppy and pointless and represents everything inane about American popular culture and it makes me sad just thinking about it

You don’t want to make me sad at Christmas time, do you?

So there’s this new show called Fringe! At least I guess it’s new. Since I might as well be living under a rock, I’m not really sure. But it still seems to be in its first season, at least.
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A brand freaking new trailer. Love the use of both Philip Glass and Muse on the soundtrack.

How excited are you about this? I’ll answer that for you: very.

Via here and (of course) here.

So I watched this and for the first half I was like “yeah, this is pretty amusing.” Then the pipe wrench fight happened.

As it turns out, I didn’t remember much from the original video, which made the re-interpretation of it all the better.

Via kottke, mefi

Take a minute to watch this creative ad for the newest Wario-themed Wii title. I’m a fan.

I hate to say it but…I think one of my former favorite time-wasters, Television Without Pity is getting kind of lame.

I started to get a Bad Feeling™ about it when it was acquired by some cable network that I know nothing about. Now, it seems to be owned by NBC in some way. I find that 30 Rock can be humorous about this uncomfortable situation, but it seems TWOP can’t.

I knew the situation was dire when I was trying to watch one of their little video offerings, and my mind kept wandering back to the work I was supposed to be doing instead of watching TWOP.

Now, it’s possible that I’m just getting too old to Get It, but on the other hand, I’m about the same age as the people who do TWOP. So maybe they’re getting too old. In which case we should understand each other pretty well, something like this:

TWOP: Hey, remember Trapper Keepers?

AT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Alas, how things change. Maybe now creating class activities centered on original historic documents will become my time-waster, and reading about television will somehow become my job. And the transformation will be complete.

So I’ve always wondered what rejected scripts of popular movies were like.  Apparently here’s one from Dark Knight that was submitted by Michael Bay:

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506

Enjoy.

P.S.  In case you’re wondering, I’m not serious.

One of my regular webcomic reads, Garfield Minus Garfield, just signed a book deal. What I really find cool is that Jim Davis is entirely onboard with it, when he could have just as easily gotten all lawsuit-y.

I don’t know what the general trend is, but it seems like more than a few comic authors have a good sense of humor about their strips. Check out this entry from the Sally Forth author’s blog, along with the resulting awesomeness (scroll to the bottom of the entry). And of course, it’s a well-documented fact that Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is awesome (no specific entry in mind… just a generally excellent blog).

So I guess that’s three authors. And we’ll count Bill Watterson and Gary Larson, too, because they must be awesome. Right?

I hadn’t watched this when it was in theaters, mostly because I wanted to re-read the novella before seeing it (the last time I read it was in High School, when Skeleton Crew came out). I also rarely get to the cinema anymore unless the movie in question involves muppets or talking cartoon fish.
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Well I’m thrilled to be the first pizappa-er (pizappan?  pizappese?) to post about Dark Knight.  I won’t say much about the plot or the action as I don’t want to spoil anything.

Now I thought Batman Begins was brilliant, but I was trepidacious about Dark Knight when I first heard about it.  My main issue was “why remake the Joker, when Jack Nicholson was so good?  Why not go with one of the other multitude of Batman villains?”  And then to top it off, they apparently have Heath Ledger playing the Joker?  What?

Now this was before Brokeback Mountain came out, which (gay jokes aside) was a brilliant movie, and Heath Ledger was incredible.  After that, my mindset started to change about him, and after seeing some of his work in a new light, I was starting to feel better about him taking on one of the best villain roles ever created.  In fact, a week before his death I even confessed to a fellow pizappish that I “officially consider myself a Heath Ledger fan.”  So I was quite saddened by his death.

After seeing Dark Knight, his death has become even more tragic, as his performance is nothing less than brilliant.  He is absolutely mesmerizing, disturbing, and hilarious everytime he’s on the screen.

Though Ledger steals the show, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhal (best cast change ever), Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, seesh, the rest of the cast, are all wonderful.  And Christopher Nolan has never been better at creating a blockbuster movie that has a whole lot of depth to it.  It’s going to break every sales record there is, and it’s a movie that truly deserves it (beating out shallow summer blockbusters like Spiderman III and Episode III.  I’ve probably offended a ton of people with that comment).

The only two criticisms I could even make (and these are not spoilers, don’t worry) are:

- why is the mayor so clearly wearing eyeliner?

- I can’t quite tell if it’s the writing or the actors, but several of the one liner actors are just terrible.

That’s literally all I’ve got.  It’s hard to not say this is the best movie thus far this year, so I’ll just say it.  It’s the best movie I’ve seen thus far this year.

So this is a rare occurrence where I encourage you all to be one of the masses flooding to see this movie.  At the very least you should be massively entertained by the Caped Crusader once again.