Yes you have read correctly: the
cult-classic scifi/comedy show is
back (more or less)!
It has been confirmed this week that four all new specials will be produced and prepared for a premiere sometime next year.
The best news of all is that the regular cast will be reprising their role!
This news coincides with the 20/21th B-day of the show (has it been that long already?).
Now unfortunately, as far as I’m aware, the specials won’t be original footage so to speak of new Red Dwarf episodes (except maybe for one or two).
The first special will take us behind the scenes of Red Dwarf.
The second and third special will be a 2-parter where the cast get “back into character, and costume” a decade after the end of the show.
The fourth and (hopefully not) final special will be an “original” clipshow so to speak where “the cast do it their way”. A Red Dwarf that we “have never, ever seen before”.
The specials will be shown next year on Dave in the UK and on Sci-Fi in the US.
Burn After Reading was funny.
It was so funny that the guy at my right almost had as asthma attack.
True story.
Sure, it isn’t oscar-worthy but it’s at least saturday-night–popcorn-movie-of-the-week worthy.
[Kinda-Spoiler Alert]
Anyway, what is interesting I thought about the movie is that it violated one of the basic rule of screenwriting: Show, don’t tell.
‘Guess the C.I.A. Superior didn’t hear about that one.
I agree with certain critics that described the characters as being here for nothing more than a couple of jokes and the ensemble is basically a mess. You don’t really get what’s going on half of the time, nor why the frak it is happening.
But what if that was the point of the movie? Life is just messy, stuff happens. Get over it.
Or maybe everything we see is what is told to the Simmons’ character, litteraly. Maybe he imagines the whole movie while reading the crappy rapport report, hence the crazy cartoonish characters.
You jump through one scene to another, trying to grasp its meaning before we jump back to Cox’s story or the C.I.A. HQ.
Hell, the actual ending is told to us!
Or maybe I’m taking all this a bit too far but isn’t that what movies (and TV) are all about?
Yes Dark Knight in IMAX is awesome. One might even describe it as orgasm-inducing.
My only complaint would be the sound.
Putting your ear next to the subwoofer over at a nightclub will probably be less harmful to you than sitting at the center of an IMAX theatre during a Dark Knight showing.
But it was worth it! I do not regret shedding 16 dollars to see it, again.
Prior to DK was, among other trailers, the Watchmen trailer.
I’m not a big fan of movie adaptations of Moore’s work. After all, LXG was crap, From Hell was pretty average, and so was V For Vendetta.
As for the Watchmen movie, I also strongly dislike Zack Snyder’s “work”, let alone 300.
Alan Moore will also “spit venom all over” the Watchmen movie.
Now, it is probable that he is just bitter about all the failed movie adaptations but I agree with him vis à vis the Watchmen adaptation.
To be honest, I’ll probably watch the Watchmen movie, hopefully even in IMAX to get the full “experience”.
Yes, the trailer kicked ass in IMAX, but it looks like it will be a Watchmen à la 300-Snyder; that is, a movie with lots of pseudo-cool slowmo to enhance the “cool factor” of the scene where there is no need for it.
Just take a look back at the “THIS IS SPARTAAAAA” moment (around 2:50), and then watch the Comedian getting thrown out (around 00:45). See any similarities?
You can bet that Snyder is going to “enhance” every scene with tons of slow motion just because it’s cool.
And I hate that.
Not because slow motion sucks, but because Watchmen doesn’t need it. The tour de force of Watchmen is not neceserally the visuals but the story itsel, the characters, and the dialogues.
So frak you Snyder!
And what is this I hear about a 300 sequel?
Well I’m back again.
Sorry for not posting earlier, tons of stuff to do.
The priority was to first get my new phone.
Awesome.
Destroying the iPhone anytime baby!
I also recently came across this page (although currently down, it wasn’t a couple of weeks ago). Yes, that seems to be an actual TV Writing/Producing program at UCLA. I unfortunately wasn’t able to contact Student Services whilst I was over there last week but I am currently trying to get more information about it, so if anyone of you readers know what the hell this is, feel free to comment.
Anyway, loads of other stuff to talk about also.
Dark Knight in Imax (orgasm-alert), Burn After Reading, Pinneaple Express, the Paley Fall Preview Party (Chuck ftw), etc.
Lots and lots of stuff indeed.
More to come very soon so stay tuned!
