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The “Female Empowerment Fairy?” “Mr. Happy?” I have no idea what’s wrong with me.
I guess looking forward at the movies that are coming out this weekend, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous served itself up on a silver platter to be made fun of.
I mean, first of all, you have Sandra Bullock who is all of 41 years-old playing an FBI agent trying to compete against 19 and 20 year-olds in a Miss America-type pageant. I don’t think there’s a bucket big enough for me to dump my disbelief into before accepting this concept.
Second, from all outward appearances, they decided to remove the one redeeming quality of the original movie, which was the potential romance angle with Benjamin Bratt. Instead, they’ve replaced him with… a back-talking, no-nonsense body guard in the guise of Regina King. Uh, okay. What kind of weird escapism is this?
Don’t ask me why I know this stuff, okay? I’m a married man, remember. Sometimes compromise means watching Miss Congeniality instead of taking a nap on a Saturday afternoon.
Anyway, instead of going the obvious route and apply my deeply entrenched male perspective on the “chick flick genre, I thought it was about time Tom was served a little comeuppance – even if it was in dream form. Needless to say, the result is somewhat… unique. Hopefully for the younger readers of this site, the joke will go over their heads.
Incidentally, Tom waking up startled isn’t a new concept for Theater Hopper. It’s kind of a cheap devise, but I have a lot of fun with it. Especially when I get to dust off the old trick and apply it in a new situation. It’s a little experiment to see if I can take something from funny, to not funny and back to funny again. I guess you’ll be the judge of that. At least the pajamas are changing from strip to strip!…
Not much else to report today. Stop by the THorum if you feel like saying “Hi.” We’ve been seeing lots of activity in there lately!
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Last week the producers of the James Bond franchise announced the title of the 22nd Bond adventure would be Quantum of Solace. At first, my reaction was much like that of comic Tom’s and I think most people with an average vocabulary were probably left scratching their head. Personally, I found the somewhat brainy title to be incongruent with the gritty, real-world, back-to-basics style the series had adopted with it’s relaunch with Casino Royale. I mean, it does kind of sound like a math problem, doesn’t it?
But now that I’ve had a few days to let the name roll around inside my head for a little bit (and after looking up the contextual definition of “quantum” and “solace”), I find the title to be somewhat poetic and certainly less literal about the danger-plus-sex Bond mythos as titles like Thunderball and Octopussy.
The title was actually taken from Bond creator Ian Flemming himself in a collection of short stories called For Your Eyes Only. Of course, any resemblance between Bond’s 22nd screen adventure and the original short story will be purely incidental. The movie is filming now and will be released by November.
Not a lot to tell you right now. I didn’t get a chance to see any movie this weekend, although I was hoping to have found time to see Rambo. Didn’t work out.
I’m certainly shocked to have learned that Meet The Spartans edged out Rambo for the top spot at the box office this week. I mean, Meet The Spartans? Seriously? That movie has stupid written all over it. The movie comes from the same people who made Epic Movie which was probably one of the worst spoof films I’ve ever seen. The jokes and references were horribly dated. Meet The Spartans sense the same vibe with its unimaginative title. Spoofing Meet The Parents which came out, what? – eight years ago? Even if they were aiming to reference Meet The Fockers, that was four years ago.
I’m certain that all this and more will be covered in tonight’s Triple Feature podcast LIVE at TalkShoe.com this evening at 9:00 PM CST. Be sure to join us LIVE and call in with your questions.
I should mention that TalkShoe changed their interface, so now it’s easier to call in and participate in the real time chat. You don’t have to worry about calling in with a cell phone or even a program like Skype. It can all be done through the TalkShoe application which you download when you sign up for an account. It’s never been easier, so be sure to check us out! I mean, it’s not like there’s anything on TV for you to watch. Thanks, writer’s strike!
See you then!
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