Ebert & Roeper Ain’t Got Nothing On Me!
I have to be honest, I was torn between using Statler & Waldorf (the balcony Muppets) and Mr. Stanley Roper (Jack Tripper’s nemesis) for the post image. As you can see, the Muppets won out. Waka waka!
I don’t really have any news to pass on, but I have been busy with bdubracing.com and so I haven’t posted in a couple of days. With Cindy’s friend, Stacey, arriving tomorrow afternoon for a visit I have a feeling that I may not post anything until after the weekend, and I didn’t want to have everyone missing me for that long.
So, if I don’t have any news to share then how am I going to fill this post? Well, I thought that I would share some movies that I am looking forward to that are coming out soon. Now, I am not a big blockbuster lover and so you may not heard of some of these, but I think I am honest when I say that I have good taste in movies and I think these will be good ones. There are a lot of movies I am anticipating, but here are a few that I took the time to bookmark to share with you…
First is The Brothers Bloom from the director of Brick, which I just recently discovered, but Bloom appears to be a completely different film. The trailer reminds me of Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) a bit and it certainly doesn’t hurt that Rachel Weisz is in it – not sure if I have seen a bad movie by her. Oh, and I recognize a lot of the landmarks from our Prague trip, which is kind of cool.
Keeping with the comedic tone, the next one on the viewing schedule is Extract by Mike Judge, the writer and director of Office Space (a classic) and Idiocracy (a dud). Unlike Idiocracy, where he tried to create a science-fiction-like alternate world, Judge is going back to what made Office Space so good – finding comedy with normal people in a familiar environment. Plus, how can you go wrong with Jason Bateman, one of the current kings of sarcasm and dry humor? Keep your eyes peeled for the return of Ben Affleck as well!
And last, but certainly not least, is Moon by Duncan Jones, an independent movie, which is quite surprising. All I have to say is “Wow!” and “this is an independent film?” When I first saw the trailer I thought 2001: A Space Odyssey (another classic) meets Solaris, and then I read other people’s comments and they had the same thought. Of all these movies, I think Moon is the one I am looking forward to the most.
