Posts Tagged ‘Nostalgia’

  • 25 Jun

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    Sneek Peak: Tim Burton’s Remake of Alice in Wonderland

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    Another one of my ‘most awaited’ remakes of all time. I remember growing up with Alice in Wonderland as a story and no doubt later recalling how that particular story had shaped my perception and shaped my life. I felt the same way when I first saw the Matrix. It had the effect of a crow-bar prying open my mind to new possibilities and opportunities. I loved it.

    And here it is again… so far only a few pics of the movie have been released and the cast looks brilliant, with a few staples from the Tim Burton toolbox. Namely, Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts. The nice touch is Anne Hathaway as the White Queen.

    The movie is set to release on 5 March 2010.
    Here’s an idea of what it’s going to look like…


    Alice in the Caterpillar’s Garden


    Johnny Depp – The Mad Hatter

    Helena Bonham Carter – The Queen of Hearts

    Anne Hathaway – The White Queen

    I remember posting before on Sarah Michelle Gellar working on creating the movie version of that AWESOME game, American McGee’s Alice. I don’t
    know when that will be released, but one at a time… right now I’m looking forward to Tim Burton’s recreation. I wonder who’s playing Alice???

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  • 06 Aug

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    What was your favourite Limmerick as a kid?

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    I can still remember English Class… getting an entire lesson in the poetry section devoted to Limmericks. I also remember my favourite becuaause it was so ingenious…

    There was an old man from Nantucket,
    Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
    He had a daughter named Nan,
    but she ran away with a man.
    And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

    I loved that one and remember repeating it to everyone I met after that… as most kids do, some things never change :)

    So what was your favourite Limmerick? or Haiku even… pick your poetic structure, just tell me. I love language and ingenuity.

    And here’s a modern one you might not get, but its pretty cool.


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  • 25 Jun

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    George Carlin (1937-2008)

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    This guy was a legend. Reading a recent interview by Democracy Now!, here’s what someone who knew him very well had to say…


    “…in the late ’60s, when this country really went through a cultural revolution, you know, he was the guy, I think, who brought stand-up comedy into that cultural revolution. I mean, he was short-haired comic, sort of skinny-tie guy, who did sort of straight-laced material on the Ed Sullivan Show. He looked around in the late ’60s, and, you know, he was hanging out with musicians, he was singing with the protest movement, and he was seeing what was happening. And he decided he was doing material for the enemy. He wanted to talk to a different audience, the college audience. He wanted to go back into the coffee houses. And this was a radical thing for a guy to do with a successful career. So he started all over again, and he started doing material that really reflected the attitudes of that counterculture generation.” – Richard Zoglin

    … and just one of my favourite Carlin stand-up routines…

    It’s the old American double standard, you know, say one thing, do something different. And, of course, the country is founded on the double standard. That’s our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard. This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. Am I right? A group of a slave owners who wanted to be free, so they killed a lot of white English people in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out the rest of the red Indian people and move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto of this country ought to be? You give up a color, we’ll wipe it out. You got it.

    So, anyway, about eighty years after the Constitution is ratified, eighty years later, the slaves are freed. Not so you’d really notice it, of course. Just sort of on paper. And that was, of course, during the Civil War. Now, there’s another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one: civil war. Do you think any country could really have a civil war? “Say, pardon me” [gun shots]—“I’m awfully sorry. I’m awfully sorry.” Now, of course, the Civil War has been over for about 120 years, but not so you’d really notice it, because we still have these people called Civil War buffs, people who thought it was a really keen war, and they study the battles carefully, and they try to improve on the strategies and the tactics to increase the body count, in case we have to go through it again sometime. In fact, some of these people actually get dressed up in uniform once a year and go out and refight these battles. You know what I say? Use live ammunition, [bleep], would you please? You might just raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool.

    But what do you expect? Hey, come on, this is a warlike country. We come from that northern European, basically the northern European genes, the blue eyes. Those blue eyes. Boy everybody in the world learned real quick, didn’t they? When those blue eyes sail out of the north, you better nail everything down [bleep]. Nail it down, strap it down, or they’ll grab it. If they can’t take it home, they’ll burn it. If they can’t burn it, they’ll [bleep]. That’s what happened to us. And it’s a warlike country. C’mon, I mean, forget foreign policy. Even the domestic rhetoric is warlike. Everything about our domestic policy invokes the thought of war. We don’t like something in this country, we declare war on it. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on AIDS, the war on cancer. We’ve got the only national anthem that mentions [bleep] rockets and bombs in the [bleep] thing. You know what I mean?

    RIP… he said it like it was and is.
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  • 30 May

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    Review: Rocky Balboa

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    I finally watched it and I’d like to tell all the people that told me that it was a waste of time that they were wrong. Dead wrong.

    I really enjoyed the movie simply because it seemed, well… real. The story, the characters, the setting, etc. All of it really jumped off the screen and hit you like it was some adaptation of a true life story. Apart from the brand heritage which Rocky Balboa has for anyone who grew up during the 70′s and 80′s. Rocky is a Legend, and Stallone really did a good job of bringing the franchise back for one last go… the same as the protagonist.

    Normally, what you’ll find with the last-shot-at-it type movies is that they fall flat and don’t ring true to the originals… This one really does, paying homage to it’s glorious past and still being true to modern cinema.

    I grew up with Rocky… I remember shouting at the TV every single time he was in the ring, no matter how many re-runs of it I saw. I have written something similar about Why I Like Rambo before, and I think the same goes here. The movie does not seem strewn together in order to make a little money off the side off of a dying franchise, but it has heart… real heart. The emotions which the movie invokes on so many different occasions is incredible. The only reason I can think that so many people don’t get it and hate it (and this goes for most movies) is because they sit “outside” the movie and try and judge it critically instead of sitting there, getting involved in the movie and seeing if you really enjoy it or it irritates you.

    So that’s it from me. What do you think about Stallone’s foray into making the last sequels in the Rocky and Rambo franchises? And did you enjoy them?

    This was posted on Screenhead

  • 21 May

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    Prince of Persia, The Movie!

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    Disney is about to create the first installment in a Prince of Persia Trilogy. The first movie is Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Jake Gyllenhaal was just set as the male lead taking the character of Prince Daston.

    Work for Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time begins on June 19 at U.K.-based Pinewood Studios, with location work in Morocco.

    I’ve personally been a fan of Prince of Persia since the game was initially launched. This is a very exciting development in terms of game adaptations especially when you look at all the 1980’s cult series, cartoons and movies being re-made. Even the A-team is being re-done with a look at Bruce Willis taking the role of Hannibal “I love it when a plan comes together” Smith. I just love this stuff.

    When I first played Prince of Persia it was on an IBM AT 286 Home PC with a 10MB hard drive, an astonishing 256k RAM, a CGA monitor and no soundcard (just the motherboards beeper).

    This is how the game looked back then…

    And the trailer for the re-launch of Prince of Persia Classic for Xbox in 2007…

  • 29 Apr

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    Mr. Potatohead does Clockwork Orange

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    Alex : There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

    I wonder if this little toy will give kids nightmares? Awesome movie, Awesome story, Classic Book, Really Weird Looking Potato.

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  • 16 Apr

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    Why I Like Rambo

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    Rambo was the quintessential hero back in the day (that’s the 80’s). Of course now when you look back at the story line and you begin to analyse the propaganda behind the entire franchise. US Imperialist agenda all over the screen. But back when I was 3-4 years old and I was begging my Dad to get me cartoons from the video store… he came back with Rambo. So in effect, my first exposure to the world of action movies was this muscle bound Sylvester Stallone with the trademark red band around his head and a rocket launcher swinging from his back.

    I can’t remember the movie now, but I remember the feeling after the movie… it was something like… “OMG, that was so AWESOME!” Maybe it was just a typical excited reaction of a hyper-active male child. Still, for me, Rambo was the shit.

    Now some 20 years later we’re seeing Stallone still at it, being a hard-core action hero, the red band and the testosterone. It brought back some memories. And the movie wasn’t bad at all. Burma is one of the world’s most under-reported conflict zones, and seeing someone kick the shit out of those genocidal maniacs was greatly satisfying.

    From a marketing perspective, Stallone has kept Rambo true to the Brand. The only change was that he made the story entirely relevant to today’s context, and not hinging on the over-used war in Iraq, not that the war in Iraq is irrelevant. It’s just that the media is so oversaturated with Iraq that we have become immune to the war and its consequences.

    Burma also plays well into the Rambo story of him being involved in Vietnam in his previous movies. The story does have the feel of an action hero, getting old, but not giving up. As he said in the movie “You know what you are… and when you’re pushed, killing is as easy as breathing.” Okay, it IS very clichéd and very old-school action movie type dialogue… but I enjoyed it. Sometimes, I feel it just ruins things to over-analyse.

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  • 15 Aug

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    Presenting… The Kurt Cobain Action Figure!

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    Thought this review of the soon-to-be-launched Kurt Cobain Action figure pretty funny. Apart from this being yet another way some celebrity or even corporation wants to make more money off sucking the life out of popular culture (or is it feeding it?)… Anyway… here’s the review…

    Boy, I hope that Courtney Love is making a lot of money off this one. The Kurt Cobain action figure immortalizes the poster boy of grunge rock in 18 inches of dyed plastic (was the dyed part distasteful?) Sorry.

    Apparently the figure is electronic, but we’re not exactly sure if that alludes to potential karate chop action or maybe a sung verse of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Look for MiniKurt sometime this month for $45. And remember, not only are you buying a timeless collectible; you’re giving hope to a starving woman with no career, talent or shame.

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  • 18 Jul

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    Apple Phone from 1983!

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    Looks like he’s writing a cheque on it :P
    and of course, compared to the latest…

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  • 04 Jul

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    Transformers are back!

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    Is this nostalgic or what… The Transformers were the shit back in the 80′s.

    Anyway, Lore from Wired ‘s got a humourous take on the whole thing.  Basically if the new Transformers movie takes off, we can all expect Hollywood to dig in to the whole toy chest of Generation X 80′s kid pop culture and bring out other movies.

    Like say… Bionic Six, Sabre Rider and the Star Sherrifs, Brave Star (That American Indian Guy with the Horse that packs a shotgun -a lso Eye of the eagle, ear of the wolf, etc. etc.), Thundercats…

    My mind is reeling, I so miss being a kid in the 80′s :)

    At last, the Transformers have a movie. Well, they had a movie before, but they finally have a live-action movie.

    The Transformers themselves won’t be live-action of course. No
    amount of nostalgia justifies an action movie with guys in plastic
    robot outfits. But these days “live action” means “less than 85 percent
    CGI,” so our transforming friends will be animated characters
    interacting with human beings, just like that one video where Paula
    Abdul dances with MC Skat Kat. Exactly like that.

    Assuming the Transformers movie makes a ton of money, we’re going to
    see a scramble in Hollywood as producers snap up the rights to any and
    all toys from the ’80s to turn them into action-packed, PG-13 special
    effects retro-ganzas. I’m going to outline a few possibilities, so that
    once the movies get made I can file a nuisance suit and get paid off.

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