Friday, October 18, 2013

Scooby Snacks In The End

“Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School”: A blast from the childhood tv past. I remember always wanting to see this movie on Tv, yet only, truly remember the volleyball scenes. Rewatching this movie made me wonder about this movie. Having all three of my boys with me and not really hearing the dialogue, I let my mind simply wonder some more. It turned out, no dialogue needed to be heard. The Scooby plot itself is way out there, man, like outer space out there. In this movie, there are real monsters, Shaggy has a red shirt, the van looks like a space ship and Scrappy-Doo is in it, obviously to win it. Yet, my heart and soul still loves Scooby in this strange caper, which isn’t even a caper, but rather a long drawn out weirdness-to-make-you-wonder-what-the-hell-the-writers-were-popping moment. HEARING AID ON

“This Is The End”: Realistic fantasy and fantastic ride. Funny, funny, funny and just outright crazy. The laughs have got to go, GOT TO GO (Franco’s voice in mind). Everything about it was fun and what the viewer was thinking: McBride the uberdeutschbag, Jonah the nice, and take those pants off. The movie looked like a ton of fun and although not all of it was characteristically true, the script made it seem like true, thus allowing the viewer to nod his/her head in agreement to the almighty plot of the movie. I’ll tell you what, I would have done the same thing with the drugs & booze, like Jonah said while pointing the gun around, gotta have some fun. Bang. Bang. Bang. Ever wonder why McBride is the saaaaaaaaaame character in every single movie: white trash hillbilly who is annoyingly funny; he is that fat guy on the football team that rides the pine all year, every year of his life, yet brags about his superstar days and parties really hard all year, you feel bad for the dude, but you know the dude is daaaaamn funny. HEARING AID ON


“Iron Man 3”: And my oh my is there a lot of technology going on. Way, way too many Iron Man suits, but it all worked out plot wise and movie screen wise. It was a rush to see Robert use his brand of sarcastic humor while being Tony. He is the burnt-out-looking-actor-version-of-Johnny Depp type that gets to be himself (aside from nearly all the characters from This Is The End) while making a huge, massive blockbuster hit. The #1 thing I loved about this movie is how it kept referring to the Avengers movie; now that is awesome because it allows there to be a continuity of filmage. Also, the scene following the credits is classic. Notice that the technology used in this film is more realistic than the technology in the films used in the black & white days with their large giant boxes and countless knobs that visually and practically made no sense, especially when the mad scientist would turn this and that for no other apparent reason other than to turn on a light bulb: fascinating. But, I guess that was the future of technology then. Technology will never rule us physically, but rather change our mental thought process to steer us away from the simple things in life that make us truly happy: hot wife, 3 beautiful boys, country home, booze, G.I. Joes & ability to grow awesome sideburns: whoops, I guess I was referring to me and didn’t include, you the reader. Sorry. Now it is your turn to think of the little things that make you happy:                                                             All a HEARING AID ON

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