I'm reading "Stiff" a book about dead bodies. The author will occasionally go, "Oh, no, I really don't want to hear/see any more about that, it's too disgusting." I guess I didn't need a description of how the anus is sewn up during an embalming, but at the same time, it's sometimes off-putting how she doesn't really want to know too much about the subject she's writing an entire book on. Is this something you're allowed to do half-way?

Some actor who was in the Transformers movies, on why he was disappointed with Transformers 2, "You lost a bit of the relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other."

I saw Marebito, and got kind of a cosmic horror of Lovecraft vibe, without the obvious convention of tentacle monsters. The movie kind of undermined that vibe near the end, by giving too much credence to the explanation, "He's crazy, so maybe he made it all up." In Lovecraft he might be crazy, but he would still be correct. I want Marebito to become an influential movie, like it's onto a certain aspect of horror that isn't done often enough in movies.

Here's a related post from a horror blogger:
http://and-now-the-screaming-starts.blogspot.com/2009/12/movie-showing-m...

It's all very clear, I don't understand why it confuses people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlhU8-nAw2k
This clip from an old CBC cooking show is giving me mild culture shock. I guess I take the prevalence of pizza for granted, but in Canada in the 1950s it was more of a novelty.

I love the way she pronounces "pizzeria."

http://www.gigposters.com/poster/125163_Magnificent_Brotherhood.html
http://www.gigposters.com/poster/125159_Useless_Id.html
http://www.gigposters.com/poster/125155_Consumer_Electronics.html
http://www.gigposters.com/poster/125150_Se%C3%B1or_No.html

So I have a new movie up, called Tired of All These Star Wars:

http://vimeo.com/9116570

I'll need to put up another movie soon, so I can bring down the percentage of my videos that have Star Wars references down to 0.5 again.

Here's a video trying to pitch the concept of "Animascope."
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/performance-capture-technology-circa-1966...

So, here's two posters I've seen lately held up as examples of the worst in key art. For the moment, let's ignore how obviously pasted together they are, or how many fingers they may have.

First, let's just look at the facial expressions:

Then consider those facial expressions within the context of the poster.

Both these posters have in common that they were trying to visually tell something about the dynamic of the movie. For that, I commend them.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/imax/hubble3d/
The second to last statement out of the gravelly-voiced trailer voice-over guy is, "Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio." I laughed out loud at that. Apparently Leo's good enough to narrate the movie, but he's not good enough to narrate the trailer.