Was GREAT!
Anyone who knows me in real life knows I have trouble watching movies sometimes. My inner cynic just won't shut off. I get pissed off at the impossible feats for some reason. I only had ONE moment like that, when a Nokia cellphone/PDA was used to do some crazy stuff.
Aside from that I had a great time. Suprisingly the PG-13 didn't feel like much of a hinderance, though there is at least one scene that will probably be restored in an R or Un Rated DVD, as well as a few places that seemed to me like langauge edits.
So if you haven't seen it yet, please go do so. It' the best movie I've seen this summer, easily kicking the crap out of POTC3 and Spider-Man 3.
Next on the docket... Transformers! Michael Bay don't fail me now!
Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Why is Jennifer Love Hewitt in you Top 5?
I have a certain fondness for cell phone commercials. The new T Mobile commercial is brilliant.
Two friends in a restaurant, one sees JLH in the other's Top 5. "Why is Jennifer Love Hewitt in you Top 5?" "We're kind of seeing each other" "Prove it. Call her."
So the guy proceeds to call the JLH number in his phoen and asks if he left some green socks in her tub, and if she can wash them. He carries this off with aplomb, his friend is stunned. However we see where the phone rings, and it looks like a pizzaria, where a pimply faced guy answers the phoen and listens for a moment before yelling "STOP CALLING HERE!"
Oh T Mobile, your and Verizon's commercials are pretty funny. My carrier CIngular.. not so much.
Two friends in a restaurant, one sees JLH in the other's Top 5. "Why is Jennifer Love Hewitt in you Top 5?" "We're kind of seeing each other" "Prove it. Call her."
So the guy proceeds to call the JLH number in his phoen and asks if he left some green socks in her tub, and if she can wash them. He carries this off with aplomb, his friend is stunned. However we see where the phone rings, and it looks like a pizzaria, where a pimply faced guy answers the phoen and listens for a moment before yelling "STOP CALLING HERE!"
Oh T Mobile, your and Verizon's commercials are pretty funny. My carrier CIngular.. not so much.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Worst products of 2007 (so far)
I have seen 2 terrible commercials for 2 rotten products. I'm sure by now you've seen a commercial for the Kidz Bop CD's (now in their 11th iteration), which take popular music from the radio and make it "kid friendly" by having children sing them and changing some lyrics.
These discs usually sell pretty well, and it is only natural that there would be copy cats (such as last year's reggaeton disc for kids), but this year so far the franchise has spawned two evil offspring, which will likely replicate like a wet Mogwai.
First we have a country kids disc. I don't remember the exact title, as my brain mercifully blocked out parts of the commercial. but some things get burned into your memory. Like seeig a bunch of kids in bright colors line dancing to kids singing "Boot Scootin' Boogie." I'm no country fan, and seeing kids subjected to it is horrible. The birght point in the commercial is seeing this mass of little white kids, and one solitary asian boy. He sticks out like a sore thumb.
The next evil is Kidz (why the Z?!) Rap Radio. Now this one takes popular rap songs, and drastically changes the lyrics to songs and has ostensibly famous child rappers (I didn't know any existed, but they do, according to the commercial and a small article I saw in a music magazine) sing the songs. I'd like to hear this disc, just to hear the rewrites of the songs. In the commercial (which has a nicely multi-ethnic gang of kids doing retarded dances in the background) we hear smal snippets of rewritten songs, the most memorable (t0 me) being the rewrite of "Laffy Taffy." If you haveb't heard the song... I envy you actually, as it sucks. But the lyrics to the chorus go "shake that laffy taffy, that laffy taffy" (Deep and thought provoking, right?) and since we can't have kids singing about shaking bottoms, the lyrics get an obvious change "We like lafy taffy, that laffy taffy."
I looked for a torrent but didn't see one. If I can get my hands on this disc I'll give it a thorough review. I don't see it selling well. Most kids who seem to listen to rap have parents who don't care about that little PA sticker on their new E-40 cd.
These discs usually sell pretty well, and it is only natural that there would be copy cats (such as last year's reggaeton disc for kids), but this year so far the franchise has spawned two evil offspring, which will likely replicate like a wet Mogwai.
First we have a country kids disc. I don't remember the exact title, as my brain mercifully blocked out parts of the commercial. but some things get burned into your memory. Like seeig a bunch of kids in bright colors line dancing to kids singing "Boot Scootin' Boogie." I'm no country fan, and seeing kids subjected to it is horrible. The birght point in the commercial is seeing this mass of little white kids, and one solitary asian boy. He sticks out like a sore thumb.
The next evil is Kidz (why the Z?!) Rap Radio. Now this one takes popular rap songs, and drastically changes the lyrics to songs and has ostensibly famous child rappers (I didn't know any existed, but they do, according to the commercial and a small article I saw in a music magazine) sing the songs. I'd like to hear this disc, just to hear the rewrites of the songs. In the commercial (which has a nicely multi-ethnic gang of kids doing retarded dances in the background) we hear smal snippets of rewritten songs, the most memorable (t0 me) being the rewrite of "Laffy Taffy." If you haveb't heard the song... I envy you actually, as it sucks. But the lyrics to the chorus go "shake that laffy taffy, that laffy taffy" (Deep and thought provoking, right?) and since we can't have kids singing about shaking bottoms, the lyrics get an obvious change "We like lafy taffy, that laffy taffy."
I looked for a torrent but didn't see one. If I can get my hands on this disc I'll give it a thorough review. I don't see it selling well. Most kids who seem to listen to rap have parents who don't care about that little PA sticker on their new E-40 cd.
Monday, January 1, 2007
Best commericals of 2007
I'm starting early with my list of my favorite commercials. I'm gonna update it as I see good commercials, and if I get sick of a commercial it will be stricken from the list. (or added to a spearate post of commercials I am sick of prehaps)
1) Verizon's Envy commercial.
It starts with an attractive blonde staring into a mirrored window, and the word "Vanity" appears ont he screen, in gothic lettering. Dramatic music begins, as the camera focuses on a guy in car, who is staring at the girl, and the word "Lust" appears. A slight pan across to another woman, apparently the guy's girlfriend who has a furious look upon her place, and the word "Wrath" appears next to her.
Then the revolving door on the building they are next to spins open and a woman walks out texting and as all three of the former indivuduals look at the the woman, we get a shot that focuses on the phone and the three people looking at it, and the word "Envy" appears on the screen.
I like this commercial because it's just so simple. The music catches your ear, and the set-up to the reveal of the phone is clever. The theme of the commercial actually fits the product. Kudos Verizon!
1) Verizon's Envy commercial.
It starts with an attractive blonde staring into a mirrored window, and the word "Vanity" appears ont he screen, in gothic lettering. Dramatic music begins, as the camera focuses on a guy in car, who is staring at the girl, and the word "Lust" appears. A slight pan across to another woman, apparently the guy's girlfriend who has a furious look upon her place, and the word "Wrath" appears next to her.
Then the revolving door on the building they are next to spins open and a woman walks out texting and as all three of the former indivuduals look at the the woman, we get a shot that focuses on the phone and the three people looking at it, and the word "Envy" appears on the screen.
I like this commercial because it's just so simple. The music catches your ear, and the set-up to the reveal of the phone is clever. The theme of the commercial actually fits the product. Kudos Verizon!
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