Oct 22 2009

The turtles coming out of their shell on… Nickelodeon? Huh‽

Category: Cinema, Current Events, TelevisionThe Bum @ 2:01 am

You ever have that feeling of being slapped in the face with a huge ass trout? I mean, really being hit hard to the point where you have to pick the scales off individually. I just had that happen when I heard Nickelodeon purchased the world-wide rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. What the hell are the guys at Nick doing? I don’t know whether to think they’ll treat the property well, or treat it like Doug and view it as an investment to offload later. Isn’t this confusion exactly what I ranted about just a few days ago?
Excuse me while I pick my scruffy-assed chin off the damn floor with a forklift. I seriously don’t know what to think about this. Paramount, Nick’s parent company, is in the movie business and wants to turn out more turtles movies. After the disaster that was TMNT, I’m hoping they…

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Oct 20 2009

I need an Independence Day from that movie

Category: CinemaThe Bum @ 1:18 am

There I was. Watching some good old television over the weekend, and there’s no football on, so I’m just flipping the channels by faster than a Filipino hooker turning tricks on the corner. I come across a movie playing on some station that I immediately remembered and started watching it. It’s a movie that I did enjoy and thought was pretty entertaining throughout, so I kept watching. That is until I remembered how fucked up the ending is and had to walk away before I got deep into the plot and couldn’t pull out in time. Independence Day my ass; try War of the Worlds but “spicier” as translated into “let’s just give up on a fucking ending”.
For those of you who aren’t informed enough on the War of the Worlds story, aliens come and attack Earth and beat the shit out of the people. The way they’re defeated is…

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