Duck Goes Moo!

Hehe, just kidding. No, the messiah of Scientology is not going to be the messiah of the Fremen (at least as far as we know so far), but Peter Berg, who is going to be directing a movie with Tom Cruise, is indeed going to be directing a new “Dune” movie.

The screenplay has not been written yet and no one has been officially named to play a role yet, but I am just worried that Peter Berg might become enamored with Tom Cruise enough to place him in the leading role, though, yes, I can see some similarities between some of the ideas of Herbert and Hubbert (the sleeper must clear thetans, engrams are the mind-killer, etc…).

As long as Keanu Reeves is not Paul Muadib I think we will probably be alright, though I could see the following playing the role somewhat properly:

Christian Bale, better known as the new Batman, though he may be busy with the new Terminator movie trilogy that he is rumored to be in.

James McAvoy who played the role of Leto II in the Sci-fi Series “Children of Dune” and did an incredible job in “The Last King of Scotland”. Also James should have been Anakin Skywalker instead of that twit Hayden Christensen.

Orlando Bloom who played the role of Legolas in the Lord of the Rings series.

To play the role of the hovering, scheming fat man, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, I think Robbie Coltrane would be a perfect choice. He played the role of Rubeus Hagrid the the Harry Potter series.

The buttered popcorn must flow!

Tim Conway was notorious for going off script to get his cast mates to break out of character laughing. The above example is one of the better ones, below is another where he suddenly breaks out a Hitler puppet (which I suspect was not in the script at all) and doesn’t let up until everyone completely looses their composure. It looks like Lyle Waggoner is looking at Harvey Korman for some kind of hint as to what is going on, so I suspect this truly was unexpected and unscripted.

Anyone remember “The Maxx”? It was a comic book that had a brief stint as an animated series on MTV back when MTV was actually watchable. I found all of the episodes on YouTube and have been watching them all over again.

This series was another one of those key bits of media that deeply affected me as a young adult. I am not sure if my short story “Kill” was written before seeing this or after.

I wonder if I should get back into writing.

Oh wait, that’s right, I’ve already got about a million hobbies already.

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Yes, new Tron movie is in the works, plus a remake of Logan’s Run. Yay!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/819/819271p1.html

There are many theories out there about where exactly the survivors in the TV show “Lost” exactly are, but one of the most interesting ones is that they are on the inside of the Earth.

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Pretty interesting idea, and it would be absolutely astounding if that was indeed JJ Abrams’ hidden shock ending to the series. It would make sense to some degree: Magnus Hanso accidentally sails through a hidden path to the inside of the world, founds the Hanso Foundation to exploit the hidden technologies of the inhabitants of Inner Earth, etc…

I guess we’ll all know in 2012 or so if this is what is indeed in store for viewers of Lost when the series is scheduled to end… that is unless JJ and crew are just “winging it” and making the story up as they go along.

The new Kosher computer by DELL-SHALOM!

1) The “Start” button has been replaced with the “Let’s go!! I’m not getting any younger!” button.
2) You hear “Hava Nagila” during startup.
3) The cursor moves from right to left.
4) When Spellchecker finds an error it prompts, “Is this the best you can do?”
5) When you look at porn, the computer says, “If your mother knew you did this, she would die.”
6) It comes with a “monitor cleaning solution” from Manischewitz that advertises it gets rid of all the “schmutz und drek.”
7) When running “Scan Disk” it prompts with you with a “You want I should fix this” message?
After 20 minutes of no activity, your PC goes “Schloffen”.
9) The PC shuts down automatically at sundown on Friday evenings.
10) It comes with two hard drives – one for fleyshedik (business software) and one for milchedik (games).
11) Instead of getting a “General Protection Fault” error, your PC now gets “Ferklempt”
12) The multimedia player has been renamed to “Nu, so play my music already!”
13) When the PC is working too hard, you will occasionally hear a loud “Oy Gevalt!”
14) Computer viruses can now be cured with matzo ball soup.
16) When disconnecting external devices from the back of my PC, you are instructed to “Remove the cable from the PC’s tuchus.”
17) After my computer dies, you have to dispose of it within 24 hours.
18) But best of all, if you have a kosher computer, you can’t get Spam.

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I’m mildly excited about “The Simpsons Movie”, which I will probably wait for to come out on DVD, but I am far more excited about the upcoming Futurama Movie, which will come out on DVD come November.

Well, it’s not so much a movie, but four episodes turned into one… much like the Simpsons Movie from what I hear (though it’s only three episodes). There will be three other Futurama “movies”, making up a total of 16 new episodes.

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There is a big contest going on to prove which Springfield in America is the Springfield that the Simpsons live in. One would think that this is a contest one would not want to win, being that the Springfield of the Simpsons is a culture of petty, inconsiderate, insane people who live in the shadow of a horrible, greedy miser and have a crooked, shifty mayor. The town is funny to watch but I doubt anyone would actually want to live with Homer Simpson as their neighbor.

Still, the contest goes on, and many of the potential Springfields have put together videos detailing why they are the Simpson state.

Springfield Videos

It never fails, I am watching an enjoyable bit of humor on Comedy Central but then the next thing I know I am ambushed by some annoying, trite, poorly produced, repetitive piece of crap called “Girls Gone Wild”.

Don’t get me wrong. I do utilize porn and would find the “Girls Gone Wild” commercials alluring… if I hadn’t seen them at least a hundred fracking times over and over.

It comes on every single commercial break on Comedy Central after 11PM. It’s the exact same stupid steel drum music, the same annoying announcer harping away with the same lame puns and pointless exuberance, and the same girls with the same GGW logos covering their exposed privates.

It’s like a bad pop-up that I can’t block or close. I can change the channel but then I might miss some of the show I was previously enjoying.

Of course, I do not think this sort of thing should be blocked because of decency laws. I actually do not view it as pornography, I view it as a repetitive annoying bit of crap that is not enticing in the slightest and ruins my good time I was having watching the intelligent and entertaining satire that Comedy Central shows on a regular basis.

There actually is a site dedicated to petitioning Comedy Central to stop showing the damn commercials, but it is strangely unavailable. Google “Comedy Central Girls Gone Wild” to find the links to the site. I can see from other sites I am not the only other person absolutely exhausted from watching the ads.

Comedy Central, tear down that wall… of GGW commercials. Feh!!!

I used to think Reno 911 was a unfunny an uninspired show, but I just recently read that it is an improv show. I had no idea that it was an unscripted show where they pretty much just make it up as they go along. That changes my whole view of the series. For just pure improv it’s pretty good and follows a steady plot.

On a side note, I am a bit disappointed with L’il Bush. The shorts they had on the web were pretty funny, but the premier episodes on Comedy Central just seemed slow and uninspired, seeming to borrow from a rejected South Park script.

Maybe I should make the venture into animated comedy… or maybe I have enough side projects and hobbies taking up all my time.

What if a superhero decided the president of the United States was a super-villain and had to be taken out? That is what Warren Ellis’ “Black Summer”, a new comic series from Avatar Comics, tries to answer. Horus, an original superhero created by Ellis, decides George Bush and his administration are a force of evil in the world and must be destroyed. He leaves the white house drenched with blood and then addresses a horrified nation in the deceased president’s place.

This isn’t the first time a superhero in a comic killed a president. Superman killed President Lex Luthor in an alternate universe (this was “pre-infinite-earths-crisis” for all you comic buffs) for putting The Flash to death, but this is not a fictional president being killed.

What does it mean to write a comic where a superhero takes out current person in the white house? One obvious answer is that the author does not like the current president, but even more so it raises questions about how far superheros in comics, sworn protectors of good and right, can go in defeating evil. Are elected officials fair game?

http://www.blacksummer.net/

Believe it or not, there are going to be three new Terminator movies. They are going to take place after the machine apocalypse, where John Connor leads his rebellion against the machine empire.

Oh yeah, and the Governator will not be present in these movies. Since the movies are going to be produced by a new company, it might be considered in some ways a reboot of the series, like Batman Begins.

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Is this the solution to end the mindless celebrity “raunch” culture and to bring the Millennials out of their “It’s all about me!” posing? Just throw them in jail for a few days away from all of their iPods, interwebs, and rap videos?

Maybe we all could benefit from a brief time on enforced meditation and stimulus deprivation.

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Adding to the already existing milieu of superhero movies, here comes the Teen Titans Movie.

Here is the first official picture of what the Joker will look like in the upcoming “The Dark Knight” film, which is the sequel to “Batman Begins”. There have been images published before but they all turned out to be hoaxes, the best being this one.

We’ll have to see how this all will turn out, but I am excited to see the next installment of the rebooted Batman film franchise. There is still much speculation about whether or not Harley Quinn will be in this movie, but no actors have been named for the role as of yet. Most likely Harley would appear in the third movie, after the Joker is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, unless the Joker is killed in the end of “The Dark Knight”. Christopher Nolan might choose not to have Harley Quinn in his movies as she was a more recent addition to the Batman continuity, but she has been officially accepted as canon as far as I know.

I also wonder if the Scarecrow, played wonderfully by Cillian Murphy, will return. It didn’t seem like he was killed in the end of “Batman Begins”.

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal has a new art exhibit called “The Paintball Project” He has a paintball gun hooked up to the internet and lets people from across the globe shoot at him for fun… well, actually they do not have to shoot him, but they can if they want. Visitors to the site can interact with him in other ways beside pegging him with paintballs.

It’s all meant to be a statement of what it is like to live in Iraq during the war, about what it is like to try to have conservations with people while under the potential risk of being shot or blown up.

Very provocative stuff.

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