I don’t understand why franchise movies must put some stank in their titles and thus making them very cartoony. I find it hard to take them seriously that way, much like adding “The Wacky Adventures of…” to any given title. This blog is inspired by the announcement of the new X-Files movie…
Here are some examples:
X-Files: I Want to Believe
Though this is really to get the common household X-Phile juiced in the pants, I don’t know if I’m warm to it. It does seem more personal and perhaps that’s what they were going for. I’d be content if it was called X-Files: Believe… Hell, I’d be ecstatic if all movies were titled Piper Maru.
X-Files: Fight the Future
Lame. This movie came out when X-Files the series was at its peak. I guess Fight the Future was referring to its slow downward spiral.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Grr!
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Makes it sound like the most expensive B-movie ever.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Okay, I get the campiness of it though I never associated Indy as being super campy. I don’t know, could be my childhood talking. But, I will say Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, both as a film and film title, is a tough act to follow.
James Bond titles
Quantum of Solace
Die Another Day
The World is Not Enough
(yes, I’m aware the James Bond titles are based on books – calm down)
I also don’t care for these:
LXG
T2
X2
Honourable Mention: Don’t Play with the Math
Alien³ = only one (1) alien
Honourable Mention: Don’t Play with the Chemistry
H2O – What seems to be cunning wit is actually just stupid. What it’s trying to tell you: 20 years after the original Halloween. What it was marketed to tell you: WATER. Scared yet?
No doubt I’m missing a bunch… not really taking too much time researching these. If you think of any stupid titles, let me know!
4.16.2008
4.05.2008
3.12.2008
The miVi Top Ten Films of 2007 - an introduction
In 2006, while going through all the movies I saw that year, I was very impressed with how many actually left me pleased and yearning to discuss them further. This lead me to create blog entries dedicated to my top 10 favourite films of 2006:
#10 - An Inconvenient Truth (I later watched The Departed months after creating this list so that would've likely bumped this one.)
#9 - Brick
#8 - Curious George (that's right!)
#7 - Children of Men
#6 - Pan's Labyrinth
#5 - The Queen
#4 - Clerks 2
#3 - Superman Returns
#2 - Stranger Than Fiction
#1 - Little Miss Sunshine
Now a new year has passed for me to reflect on the films that wowed me for the last 365 days. Thing is, I hardly went to the movies or rented anything and the few I did see were mediocre at best. There are definitely enough to make up a top 10 list but in all honesty, numbers 4-10 would be fillers. So now I present to you my Top THREE (3) favourite films of 2007.
Naturally though, I must begin with my least favourite. And calling them "least favourite" is being polite. I HATED these movies (in my defence, two of them were rentals picked by someone else.)
Music & Lyrics
I Think I Love My Wife
Spiderman 3
Spiderman 3 was a movie that also inspired me to write an extensive blog entry but I never finished it. Who knows? Maybe one day I will share with you my thoughts on that movie in a thesis titled: "Why a Third Addition In a Comic Book Movie Franchise Always Sucks".
Honourable Mentions for 2007 are:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Hot Fuzz
(Don't ask me why I couldn't slot these in to round out an handsome Top Five list. I guess they were great and I will watch them again and again but they didn't seem like they belong on a Top Five list.)
Anyway, stay tuned for my entries on the films that made Top 3 for me!
#10 - An Inconvenient Truth (I later watched The Departed months after creating this list so that would've likely bumped this one.)
#9 - Brick
#8 - Curious George (that's right!)
#7 - Children of Men
#6 - Pan's Labyrinth
#5 - The Queen
#4 - Clerks 2
#3 - Superman Returns
#2 - Stranger Than Fiction
#1 - Little Miss Sunshine
Now a new year has passed for me to reflect on the films that wowed me for the last 365 days. Thing is, I hardly went to the movies or rented anything and the few I did see were mediocre at best. There are definitely enough to make up a top 10 list but in all honesty, numbers 4-10 would be fillers. So now I present to you my Top THREE (3) favourite films of 2007.
Naturally though, I must begin with my least favourite. And calling them "least favourite" is being polite. I HATED these movies (in my defence, two of them were rentals picked by someone else.)
Music & Lyrics
I Think I Love My Wife
Spiderman 3
Spiderman 3 was a movie that also inspired me to write an extensive blog entry but I never finished it. Who knows? Maybe one day I will share with you my thoughts on that movie in a thesis titled: "Why a Third Addition In a Comic Book Movie Franchise Always Sucks".
Honourable Mentions for 2007 are:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Hot Fuzz
(Don't ask me why I couldn't slot these in to round out an handsome Top Five list. I guess they were great and I will watch them again and again but they didn't seem like they belong on a Top Five list.)
Anyway, stay tuned for my entries on the films that made Top 3 for me!
3.09.2008
3.02.2008
Phone call with my mom...
Mom: Hi. I have a question... That Malibu rum you bought at New Year's... is it still good?
Me: Should be.
Mom: What do you have it with?
Me: You can try Coke. One sec... [aside] Mel? What would you put with Malibu rum?
Mom: Oh Mel's there?
Mel: HI!
[I hand over the phone]
Back and forth conversation between the two involving Mel's new cat, Mel's mom who's in the Philippines as well as the answer her Malibu rum question...
Mel: Oh just juice... hahaha... okay, did you want to talk to Michelle again?... Oh, okay... bye.
[click]
PWN3D
Me: Should be.
Mom: What do you have it with?
Me: You can try Coke. One sec... [aside] Mel? What would you put with Malibu rum?
Mom: Oh Mel's there?
Mel: HI!
[I hand over the phone]
Back and forth conversation between the two involving Mel's new cat, Mel's mom who's in the Philippines as well as the answer her Malibu rum question...
Mel: Oh just juice... hahaha... okay, did you want to talk to Michelle again?... Oh, okay... bye.
[click]
PWN3D
2.29.2008
2.26.2008
The Return of my 90s Crushes
Pre-writers strike, I started noting a couple of shows that starred some of my favourites from the 90s. It's nice to see them getting some work.
Not only did David Duchovny come out from post X-Files oblivion for Showtime's Californication, but he's jumping back into X-Files fandom with a new X-Files movie. I don't have to tell you how happy this makes me.
Oh Tim Daly! Once you were the Sense to Steven Weber's Sensibility as Joe Hackett on Wings. Nice to see you play a very attractive doctor on Private Practice. Though I was never into Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off isn't horrible.
Just recently I discovered Northern Exposure reruns on the APTN channel and they are currently in the early seasons where Dr. Joel Fleishmann played by Rob Morrow was still the hot-tempered Jewish doctor from New York. This made me very happy. I caught one episode of Numb3rs strictly by accident one evening and it pleased me to see Morrow working again. However, I will not continue to watch this show; it is afterall, still a show about solving crime... with math.
Not only did David Duchovny come out from post X-Files oblivion for Showtime's Californication, but he's jumping back into X-Files fandom with a new X-Files movie. I don't have to tell you how happy this makes me.
Also, I thought of removing Gillian Anderson from that picture of Mulder and Scully, but who am I kidding? She too was a 90s crush of mine.
1.29.2008
What's In Your Locker?
While dining with my friend Emma, we got to talking about pictures we had in our high school lockers. My locker contained the following:
Various Farside comics from a desk calendar - These pretty much tiled a good portion of the inside door of the locker. Oh Gary Larson... you think funny!
I geek; therefore, I am - Iwas AM a fan of The X-Files. I would pick up any entertainment rag that had Mulder and/or Scully on the cover. One photo in particular I had was this one, clipped from a magazine. Yup, that just happened! (Oh but make no mistake - I was equally a fan of Gillian Anderson)
Le pièce de résistance! - Moe's their leader :)
So kids... what was in your locker?
Various Farside comics from a desk calendar - These pretty much tiled a good portion of the inside door of the locker. Oh Gary Larson... you think funny!
I geek; therefore, I am - I
Le pièce de résistance! - Moe's their leader :)
So kids... what was in your locker?
1.19.2008
Things I learned from my first visit to the IHOP
- I don't think I'm a fan of grits.
- I don't think I'm a fan of having a plethora of loose-leaf cheese piled on top of my omelette.
- I am a fan of butter pecan syrup.
1.10.2008
12.19.2007
One WonderYear Ago...
I thought about putting this on the new baking blog, but thought it best (and more personal) to share it here :)
So, I bake the cakes. I make it the hobby. And I take it the pictures. Oh, how I've grown since my first [photographed] cake:
WonderXmas 2006:
WonderXmas 2007:
So, I bake the cakes. I make it the hobby. And I take it the pictures. Oh, how I've grown since my first [photographed] cake:
WonderXmas 2006:
WonderXmas 2007:
12.11.2007
Sweet Me Up!
I'm still in the process of tweeking, populating, blah blah blah, but here's my blog dedicated to baking and the like. Not much going and she's definitely not ready for her Facebook premiere but it's a start :)Let me sweet you up with Sweet Me Up!
11.16.2007
11.12.2007
My life as a teenaged model
True story.
What started as a poster art contest turned into my fleeting 15 minutes as a teenaged model. More accurately, my 5 minutes as a Thunder Bay PSA commercial voice-over followed by 10 minutes as an Intercity Mall Holiday flyer model.
The PSA was for substance abuse… or rather, AGAINST substance abuse. It is also worth noting that because the girl who was supposed to be in said PSA commercial did not show, I was asked to step in her place.
Funny little piece of trivia: I cannot smoke to, for lack of a better term, save my life. So I had a bunch of grown-ups lighting up a cigarette and teaching me how to smoke in a parking lot (I was 16-years old).
Now how’s this for a contest: If anyone can find this PSA either online or a hard copy of it, I will supply the winner with a monthly supply of cupcakes for a year. Good luck!
What started as a poster art contest turned into my fleeting 15 minutes as a teenaged model. More accurately, my 5 minutes as a Thunder Bay PSA commercial voice-over followed by 10 minutes as an Intercity Mall Holiday flyer model.
The PSA was for substance abuse… or rather, AGAINST substance abuse. It is also worth noting that because the girl who was supposed to be in said PSA commercial did not show, I was asked to step in her place.
Funny little piece of trivia: I cannot smoke to, for lack of a better term, save my life. So I had a bunch of grown-ups lighting up a cigarette and teaching me how to smoke in a parking lot (I was 16-years old).
Now how’s this for a contest: If anyone can find this PSA either online or a hard copy of it, I will supply the winner with a monthly supply of cupcakes for a year. Good luck!
11.03.2007
11.02.2007
Alaska, eh?
Email sent to building:
Sorry for the interruption, but does anyone have any scenic b-roll shots of Northern Canada i.e. Yellowknife, Alaska?
Any help would be appreciated.
Uhhh....
Sorry for the interruption, but does anyone have any scenic b-roll shots of Northern Canada i.e. Yellowknife, Alaska?
Any help would be appreciated.
Uhhh....
10.17.2007
10.16.2007
RTotD: This joke called, it's still funny
I'm pleased to say I still find these type of jokes funny no matter what their context is:
___ called, they want their ___ back.
Also, my new favourite blog (soon to be added to the rotation)
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com
(Thanks Kat!)
___ called, they want their ___ back.
Also, my new favourite blog (soon to be added to the rotation)
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com
(Thanks Kat!)
10.09.2007
Shawn
Cell phone rings <Pour Some Sugar on Me>
Hello? <silence> Hello? <silence> Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
Hey there, how are you doing?
Who is this?
Hello?
I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number.
What's your number?
You dialed me.
You gave me your number. This is Shawn.
I'm sorry I don't think so. Who are you looking for?
Lisa.
Nope, sorry. Definitely the wrong number.
Oh? So who is this?
Michelle.
And what are you doing?
I'm just about to hang up on you. <click>
Hello? <silence> Hello? <silence> Hello?
Hello?
Hi.
Hey there, how are you doing?
Who is this?
Hello?
I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong number.
What's your number?
You dialed me.
You gave me your number. This is Shawn.
I'm sorry I don't think so. Who are you looking for?
Lisa.
Nope, sorry. Definitely the wrong number.
Oh? So who is this?
Michelle.
And what are you doing?
I'm just about to hang up on you. <click>
10.08.2007
Would Rembrandt really prefer his popcorn extra buttery?
PC's microwavable popcorn boxes have rendered some artworks to sport their kernels. Here's one of famed Dutch artist Rembrandt enjoying some popcorn and hockey.
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