After being completely underwhelmed by the Walking Dead this week I've had a revelation ... how awesome would a Cloverfield-style zombie movie be?!
What I really want out of my zombie/post-apocalyptic entertainment is the innate fear that any character can die at any time ... something that the Walking Dead is completely missing.
Because of how TV contracts work... it is really rare for a show to actually kill someone not on a season finale.
Typically, HBO shows seem to be the only ones willing to kill off major characters WHENEVER they want.
Which makes me think that this show would have been better as a set of mini-series rather than a continual show.
If they choose to, shows like this CAN break the serial TV Series mold and get away with it.
Heroes was the epitomy of a fantastic mini-series like first season ...that read to much of its own good press.
We have gone how many episodes this season and we've lost one character and he was new. For season 1 they ballsed up and killed some character. But, for now season 2 is just playing out like typical serial TV.
What is the point in watching a show where lives are supposed to be threatened if no one is actually killed? You may not like the premise randychico but that doesn't give you authority over other people's opinions.
Favorite Movie of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Worst Movie of the Year: Cop Out
Best Director of the Year: David Fincher - The Social Network
Best Screenplay of the Year: Inception
Most Overrated Movie of the Year: Twilight: Eclipse
Most Underrated Movie of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Trippiest Movie of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Best Comedy of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Best Horror Movie of the Year: Black Swan
Best Animated Movie of the Year: Despicable Me
Best Sci-Fi Movie of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Best Special Effects of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Biggest Disappointment of the Year: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Biggest Surprise of the Year: The Social Network
Best Actor of the Year: Colin Firth - The King's Speech
Best Actress of the Year: Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
Best Supporting Actor of the Year: Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Best Supporting Actress of the Year: Amy Adams - The Fighter
Breakthrough Performance of the Year: Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Favorite Celebrity of the Year: Conan O'Brien
Coolest Character(s) of the Year: Rooster Cogburn - True Grit
Best Music in a Movie: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Favorite Movie Poster of the Year: Buried
Best Trailer of the Year: Tron: Legacy
Best DVD of the Year: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Best Action Sequence of the Year: Tron: Legacy - Lightcycle race
Most Memorable Scene in a Movie : Inception - Zero gravity scene
Best T&A of the Year: Olivia Wilde - Tron: Legacy
Best Line of the Year: Nominee #5
When I first heard (saw) Radiohead's Creep I was amazed like everyone else. "What an amazing little one-hit wonder," I thought. Like most everyone else, I figured that I would never hear from this band again and it would be a bullet point on a retro-movie soundtrack 20 years later.
Fast forward a couple years and I loathed the song. Creep, then, reminded me of the cliche'd grunge movement, MTV's obsession with all things flannel, and the corruption of alternative (bleh) music. I had heard other Radiohead tunes in my periphery, but I had still marked the band as those dudes who wrote Creep.
Right before the release of OK Computer I had borrowed a friends copy of the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack just to hear Talk Show Host. Although I had never seen the movie, the trailer and TV Spots were epic. This was the set-up for my love of the future.
OK Computer comes out. I fell in love with Paranoid Android. But I was stingy and refused to buy the full CD until I liked a second song. Fortunately for me, I found that song and bought into the club. Radiohead would control my CD player for at least the next decade.
After adopting OK Computer as the greatest CD I had ever listened to, Creep began to fester as my most hated song. It represented all that was wrong with the perception of the band. Creep was their one-hit wonder. It was the albatross around their neck. It was the song that every dopey muscle-head hyped them up to tackle quarterbacks with. It was a knuckle-brained car anthem for dudes looking to beat up your boyfriend.
I wasn't the only one. The band loathed the song. It was a nightmare of a situtation where Radiohead didn't really like the song or how it identified them - but (dopey) fans wanted them to play it. It inspired My Iron Lung, a song deriding it's success. As you can see in this video from 1997, the band refused to play it and wanted to move on. So, did I.
But then, over a couple of years, something happened with Creep. Sure, it was still the only song that "Alternative" radio would play from Radiohead. But, as the song aged, and as the fantastic library of tracks grew (from just Creep to High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Let Down, Airbag, Talk Show Host, Lucky, Everything in its Right Place, Ideoteque, I Might Be Wrong, True Love Waits, A Punch Up At a Wedding... etc.), Creep began to take on a new meaning. Radiohead slowly started playing it again... and without regret. It had been retired long enough and over-shadowed by enough great music, that it earned a new place in the world.
And then, the Social Network trailer hits. A choral version of the song gives a whole new vibe to the song - giving it a value that it never had before. Providing it with a whole new identity. And, I can just see the band watching their computer screens with a wicked smile, realizing that their song has seen a rebirth - without the albatross holding them back. They're no longer stuck being that band that wrote Creep.
Agreed^ awesome post! I always help Pablo Honey pretty affectionately and felt like so many good tracks off that album were sort of overshadowed by "Creep". They've had an impressive career - look forward to the doc.
If you do watch it, Bond, watch it after you've had twenty (or however many it takes to get you hammered) beers. Prior to seeing the film, I had three beers at a restaurant, but that certainly wasn't enough. I didn't even have a buzz.
I probably will give it a download at some point out of curiosity, when everyone says a film is THAT bad it kinda demands a watch, I'll get a crate of Bud in before i watch it tho ;)
I'm still really surprised with this summer's box office game. I can't wait to see where Pilgrim and Expendables end up on this list, because I'm pretty sure they'll both land a spot.
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We have gone how many episodes this season and we've lost one character and he was new. For season 1 they ballsed up and killed some character. But, for now season 2 is just playing out like typical serial TV.