Battleship is being released this weekend which means we are being inundated with promos, Making Of specials, product plugs, etc. Sadly, what sticks in my mind more than anything else about this movie is the fact that during the promos the line "From Hasbro, the company that brought you Transformers..." Yeah, probably not what they were going for. I mean, really? Hasbro? The toy company? Is this who we really want to go to for our movies? Screw MGM or Martin Scorsese, let's get our ideas from the people who created My Little Pony. Yep, that's some deep, groundbreaking, commentary on our society, shiznit.
Magic Mike trailers are starting to roll. Aw yeah. I should start a countdown for the release of this movie. I know, it's a movie about male strippers. I should feel a certain level of guilt about really looking forward to a bunch of guys ripping their clothes off to the screams of millions of women, but I don't. I saw Showgirls when it came out in the movie theater so there's little to top that on my list of least proud moviegoing experiences. (Mainly, my friends and I wanted to see what the big deal was with this movie that it was rated the dreaded NC-17. After seeing it, I wish I had the hour and a half of my life back, along with the price of admission.) Is this the male equivalent of the objectification that feminists like to talk about? I say, you should be happy. Turnabout is fair play, right? Anyway, I have been to a male strip club. I was more embarrassed than anything, except for the bridal party across the stage/runway/catwalk thing from us. The bride-to-be was more entertaining than anything on the stage that night. We were all betting how long it took for her to get kicked out, but I digress. Now if the strippers looked like the guys in this movie, I may have been a repeat customer...Many repeats. Alas, they were not. There were a few good-looking guys, but not worth the $20 cover charge and $5 bottles of water. Do I think this will be an Academy award winning movie? Of course not, but it should be fun.
Prometheus is set to open the weekend after my birthday. I so want to see this. Mainly because Ridley Scott is the bomb, and partially because it's looking more and more like an Alien prequel which I'm all about. Plus it has Noomi Rapace in a lead role (the lead role?), who I thought was great in the original Swedish version of The Girl with Dragon Tattoo and the other Millennium trilogy movies, Michael Fassbender, who is great in everything he's in, and Idris Elba, who just seems like a cool dude (love the fact that he can do an American accent well, and he's a voice in Call of Duty-MW3--hell yeah!).
They're also pimping the new Spider-Man movie which I'm torn about seeing. On one hand, I love Emma Stone. She is so great. Very funny, but can do dramatic too. Just seems like a girl-next-door type and very easy to relate to. The new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield (Stone's new bf), looks not bad in the previews, but I think it has to do with the fact that he looks like he's twelve that's kinda turning me off. I know Peter Parker is supposed to be young, but this kids looks really young. Guess I'm just not in the demographic they're targeting. Oh well.
Enough babbling for today. Peace out! Show some love at sixdegreesofkb@hotmail.com.
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