Vilification Tennis Podcast #2 is LIVE
Our first podcast went so well, we decided that we wanted to go bi-weekly rather than monthly. This time, Matt Allex, Chrys Vanderkamp and Amanda Hofman-Frethem join me to make jokes about Hitler’s birthday, consuming enough Coke to cause death, penguins and our favorite show themes.
Click here to enjoy Episode 2: Noose Gengrich and the Fuckin’ Puppets or subscribe to us on iTunes!
Alphabetical Movie – How to Train Your Dragon
Here’s my problem with How to Train Your Dragon: Physics.
The movie is quite good. I’m generally underwhelmed by Dreamworks animation (especially the Shrek franchise) but this film works on just about every level. Except one.
Physics.
And I’m not talking about the physics of Dragon flight (although that is pretty dubious). My concern is the final battle sequence. I’m going to have to go into spoilers below the fold.
Shit that Pissed me off this Week – 4/20
Catholic Bishops get together to whine about how misunderstood they all are
In the wake of all the work the Catholic church has been doing against women and homosexuals lately, they decided they needed to complain about the lack of religious freedom in the United States.
As always, the Church only gets pissed off when the government tells them to do something (like provide health plans that actually benefit women). As soon as they want to tell the government what to do (like pass anti-gay marriage ammendments), the story is a little different.
Alphabetical Movie – How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
I think it would be fair to say that I don’t enjoy a single minute of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I did laugh at one or two jokes but the total enjoyment I credit to those jokes is no more than a few seconds.
The best thing I can say about it is that I’ll bet I like Kate Hudson more in this film than I would in Bride Wars but I’m not going to watch Bride Wars to find out.
Romantic comedies are almost always built on fantastic coincidences. We accept the fact that Return to Me ivolves a guy having an relationship with the woman who has his dead wife’s heart because it is sweet and funny and we like the characters.
Vaudevilification Tennis
We haveseveral great artists who have produced some terrific and funny work for Vilification Tennis over the years and I don’t do a good job acknowledging their work. I’m not going to do this every month, but when we get a particularly good looking piece of work, I’m going to start posting them.
Below the fold is the poster John Newstrom produced for our upcoming Vaudevilification Tennis show. I think it’s fantastic and you should look.
Alphabetical Movie – House of Wax
My dad wasn’t a big movie buff but I remember him telling me about House of Wax long before I ever saw the film.
In the early 80’s we were in the grips of a rebirth of 3D films and our local independant station, in an effort to capitalize on such box office hits as Friday the 13th 3D and the upcoming Jaws 3D, decided they were going to screen the classic 3D film Gorilla at Large. For reasons less clear to me now, I was excited by this idea.
To be fair, how could I not be with an intro like this one?
Right?
“Cabin the Woods” vs. Bad Taste
Really America?
I’ve been waiting for Cabin in the Woods to come out for months just so I could finally talk about the film with people who have seen it. As much as I enjoyed The Hunger Games, I figured this was the week it fell out of the number one spot, replaced by one terrifically inventive horror film.
Alphabetical Movie – House of Flying Daggers
I know that it is unusual for me to spend an entire Alphabetical Movie blog entry talking about the movie that I watched, but I’m going to do it for House of Flying Daggers. Specifically, I’m going to write about one scene because I appreciate the cinematic language of that scene. If you, for some reason, care about spoilers for a film released in 2004, don’t go below the fold.
Shit that Pissed me off This Week – 4/13
The Leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Lies to the Press about a Watch
Patriarch Krill I, the religious leader of millions of people, was photographed wearing a watch reputed to be worth over $30,000. In a country where that exceeds the annual income of most households, that’s a pretty big deal.
So then, the picture is photoshopped to make the watch go away. That doesn’t work because they forget to get rid of the watch’s reflection. How do you say “d’oh” in Russian?
D'ohsvidonia!
The church apologizes for the incident and calls it a “technical mistake.” With me so far?
So the Patriarch decides to take his asshattery just one step too far and he denies that he’s ever worn the watch, going so far as to claim that any picture showing him wearing the watch has been photoshopped.
He doesn’t say something like “yes, the watch was a gift and I liked it so much, I kept it rather than selling it” or “holy shit! It’s worth how much?? I had not idea!”
No, he says he’s never worn the damn thing and that there are a bunch of conspiracy theorists running around the internet gleefully cackling as they maliciously put watches on every picture they find. “That’ll show ‘im,” they laugh, “now the world will think he’s a materialistic scuzzbag when he’s actually not!”
The reality is the dude has been wearing the watch and rather than fess up, he lied about it. The leader of one of the most powerful churches in Russia lied.
About a fucking watch.
Side note: The dudes name is really “Krill?” I’ll bet whales scare the shit out of him.
Grail Diary 