Tuesday, March 31, 2009
While surfing the Web to find out if any former "Saved By The Bell" cast members other than Dennis Haskins have said anything in the press about reuniting on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," I found a somewhat related blog post in The Envelope section of The Los Angeles Times.
The blog post, which is about NBC starting a campaign to buy patrons in certain bars throughout America beer on behalf of Fallon, features Dan Aykroyd's name spelled as "Dan Ackroyd." Aykroyd's name is also misspelled in the caption for the accompanying photo of him. Is an IMDb Web search really that time-consuming?
Who ya' gonna call? How about a better copy editor?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
- SkyNet Research sent out an e-mail yesterday asking its newsletter subscribers to ignore strange audio on its Web site that sounds like an old-fashioned cassette tape being fast-forwarded.
A Web site known as Resist Or Be Terminated conveniently mentioned twice in the e-mail as having no affiliation whatsoever with SkyNet Research today posted a YouTube video featuring a slowed-down version of the audio. Barely audible from the audio is a group known as "Recon Unit Strider Three," seemingly a reconnaissance team, asking to be extracted because of something involving a "SkyNet attack."
Also featured on the Resist or be Terminated Web site is an image from a Skynet Security feed that shows what looks like humans being hoarded like cattle into cages.
Not to kill the fantasy of this fun viral marketing campaign, but how does this connect to the "Terminator Salvation" storyline if Judgment Day is shown as occurring on July 24, 2004 in "Terminator: Rise of The Machines"? In what time period are participants supposed to pretend to be living?
Saturday, March 21, 2009
- I was watching "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" on the cable channel DisneyXD while at the same time aimlessly surfing the Web. While watching David Letterman interview Saturday Night Live comedic genius Kristen Wiig on a YouTube video to see what she is like when not in a sketch, I heard Disney's Hercules suddenly speaking Spanish on TV.That was weird given that DisneyXD runs its animated shows primarily in English. Does "XD" stand for "just kidding"?
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
- Missing TV is usually not that big of a deal nowadays because of Hulu, DVR, the on-demand function some cable services such as Time Warner cable provide. After watching a show such as "Flight of The Conchords," an announcer usually says something akin to, "This program will be available starting tomorrow on HBO on Demand."
- One cool and one awesomely creepy e-mail was in my blog's inbox today. Actor Jason Segel, or someone who is promoting his new film "I Love You, Man," and SkyNet Research signed on to follow SuperSciFan on Twitter.
Though both are welcome as Twitter buddies, is the latter is "following" me possibly for the purpose of termination or recruitment?
Everyone used to always laugh when I yelled cyborg-oriented obscenities at my Mac. Who is the paranoid nut job now? Given the lackluster job market, I would not mind writing press releases justifying the need to wipe out humanity:)
Continuing on with the subject of cyborgs, the official blog for "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" inadvertently provided probable insight as to why several titles of the science fiction series' episodes are similar to those of "Battlestar Galactica."
Episodes of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" titled "Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep" and "Today is the Day" use similar wording as the episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" titled "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "Daybreak," and those episodes that have similar names aired on the same exact nights.
This is likely no coincidence. Co-Executive Producer/Writer Toni Graphia and Director Michael Nankin have worked on both productions, so it only stands to reason that some creativity found itself being used on one set and rehashed on another.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
- Missing TV is usually not that big of a deal nowadays because of Hulu, DVR, the on-demand function some cable services such as Time Warner cable provide. After watching a show such as "Flight of The Conchords," an announcer usually says something akin to, "This program will be available starting tomorrow on HBO on Demand." But when I checked on Monday to watch the latest episode of "Flight of The Conchords" and "Eastbound & Down" I missed on Sunday, nothing was there until Thursday. To be fair, Time Warner's multimedia staff is probably not as timely as the people who work in the cable provider's billing department.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
- Not judging the novel on which "Twilight" is based, the film struck me as Hollywood's way to water down the vampire genre on the silver screen as something that primarily appeals to overprotective parents and their teen kids. Driving this theory home was the shock of how the parents of Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) were surprisingly tame and Disney-friendly in the film.
Years earlier, the quintessential teeny bopper vampire genre was Anne Rice's vampire chronicle novels. Since that time, smoking has become primarily taboo maybe because of the Truth campaign that almost made people want to smoke just to rub it in the faces of the self-righteous, fact-spewing Gap kids in those anti-smoking commercials.
All this came to mind while uploading photos from the set of "New Moon" onto Picasa Web Albums in which several members of the acting cast were smoking. Adding to this train of thought was the ludicrous prospect of concerned parents coming out against the film because its stars set a bad example for their kids. But it immediately became clear that anyone who would make this argument would be trying to justify that blood-sucking humanoids can be suitable role models.
Though smoking is not being advocated, would vampires not enjoy smoking because of how it simulates oxygen moving through their lungs? Do the vampires of "Twilight" breathe? What would their parents have to say about the matter?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
- A well-known, albeit exaggerated saying is that nothing good is ever on TV despite a plethora of channels available to watch. This seemed very true tonight when I decided to watch "Demolition Man" for the umpteenth time. FYI: It is currently available to watch on MAX On Demand.
"Demolition Man," for anyone who is unfamiliar with its premise, is about a cop named John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) who is frozen as punishment for allowing a lot of hostages to get blown to smithereens by a super criminal named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). Spartan is awoken more than 30 years in the future to bring an escaped Phoenix to justice because the world has become populated by people who have become too politically correct and sensitive to deal with the outlaw. Yes, it is a fair examination of what contemporary people would be like.
Because the film is easily dismissed as bearable noise to have playing in the background, a Wikipedia search of "Demolition Man" is the last thing that ever comes up when mindlessly surfing the Web, that is, until tonight. Anyone who checks out the Wikipedia page in question will read that Jack Black is in the film as one of the myrmidons of the subterranean rabble-rouser Edgar Friendly (Denis Leary). A close examination of one scene in the film right before Spartan says, "And Cocteau's an asshole!" quickly shows Jack Black pointing a gun at his head.
Like Ben Stiller, who developed the concept for "Tropic Thunder" while acting in 1987's "Empire of The Sun," Black apparently also contributed past professional experience to the comedy.
In Black's case, he learned how to portray a gun-toting nut job 16 years before the comedic actor's ability to do so would be motivated by a fictional comedic actor's drug addiction.
"What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of a decayed era gratefully forgotten?" - Taco Bell patron from "Demolition Man." I would say thanks for "Tropic Thunder."
Friday, March 13, 2009
- Tonight's episode of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" featured via The Jimmy Cam the new host making the cue card guy decrease and increase the point size of lettering on one particular poster board introducing Malin Akerman.
Per chance Fallon kept doing this so that the cue card guy in question would eventually check IMDb and note that he misspelled Malin Akerman's last name as "Ackerman" three times.
No one can blame Fallon for ultimately knocking the guy on his ass.
One has to wonder if the segment was meant to show Fallon humorously being a jerk or pointing out his cue card guy's negligent spelling.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
- Three times during the five-day TV broadcasting week that began on March 9, Jay Leno mispronounced "John Krasinski" as "John Kraniski" on "The Tonight Show."
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
