I don’t want to start off with that whole “man, I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are flying by this year” but you know man, the weeks seem to be really flying past this year!
Tip your waiter I’ll be here all week.
So this week I managed to watch a couple of movies, I’m thinking of ripping off… ahem I mean following in SamuraiFrog’s footsteps and starting up a this week in movies post where I talk about the movies I watched over the previous week instead of trying to focus a whole post on one. I really like his movie posts because I can get across his take on a bunch of films pretty quickly and whilst I don’t always agree I do always enjoy reading them. Now I also feel worse stealing his idea as he was very kind enough to award me the now ironically titled “Creative Blogger Award“, fine I’ll change the name of the post 
It was the Academy Awards last Sunday so Dan and I talked about the Oscars, from 20 years ago (I kept saying it was only ten… fine I’m old and my mind is going!) on the Midnight Movie Club. Dan also gave us a preview of what to expect if you call his house over on his other blog.
I managed to see a couple of the Academy films this week (technically in the last couple of weeks) with The Hurt Locker which I loved but cheapened in my mind because I wanted a video game version and I talked about last week anyway. The surprise for me was how much I really enjoyed The Blind Side. Completely sucked into the film, love Sandra Bullock and think she earned the award. I was talking to Greg today about her win and I’m reasonably sure that this is the first time that the winner of the Academy Award also won a Razzie although for different films.
I also finally watched New Moon. I hated it. Worse than the first. It’s a story that relies on the power and drama of a reveal that everyone in the world already knows. In case you have no idea what I’m talking about and don’t wish the film spoilt turn away now: Jacob is a werewolf, and creepy, and slightly stalker’ish.
MC broke the news that 24 may not be returning for another season, well okay maybe he didn’t break the news but his was the first blog that I was reading this week to address the fact. I think it’s probably not a bad idea as I mentioned in my comment I’m invested enough in the Jack Bauer character to follow him to film and to leave the ‘real-time’ format behind. MC also mentioned the potential Space Invaders movie coming up. I’m hoping for E.R. “Operation” with Noah Wyle in the potential spin-off/tie-in.
That reminds me I’m listening to segments finally this week for MC’s grand first appearance on the Midnight Movie Club.
Yesterday I tried to get a little music video sharing going and Arjan has reciprocated posting a music video for everyone to marvel at! It’s very clever, like the ultimate Mouse Trap game.
Oh I almost forgot I saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D last week too! It was a great movie but not so great 3D, I want to see it in 2D to enjoy the detail now but the 3D seemed forced upon it. It makes me want to revisit all Tim Burton’s films!
Jeff has also been talking movies and he sizes up what he must or hopefully will see for the rest of the year, I was going to just steal his post because as always I tend to agree completely with him, though I demand he get more excited over Iron Man 2.
Over at Mashing Buttons Greg has been creeping through Bioshock and preparing for God of War 3. Whilst I have been celebrating my 9000 point win over Fat Bottomed Girls (if this sounds odd you need to head on over for clarification) and discovering that not everything I ever needed to know about ice hockey was contained within The Mighty Ducks.
In TV land Tracey and I have caught up to the rest of the world in Lost, and it is fantastically great television. We also started watching this season’s Survivor which we also enjoying even if it is a little frustrating that the heroes are idiots.
Rol has been making me jealous that I’m yet to have seen Crazy Heart (something I plan on fixing this week) which is a film I’m really looking forward to because, well frankly because it has The Dude and he is just great. Rol hasn’t flogged his comic book in a couple of days so I figure I should pick up the slack! Go buy PJANG now because it’s a great indie comic and I’ve been slack and not bought the last two (something I’ll fix this week).
Finally I’ve started work on a set of artist sketch cards which I’ve been commissioned for. It features the original SG1 team so I’ve been going around doing some test sketches just getting used to the characters, mainly Teal’c because I’ve never drawn an African American character before and want to get it right.
So that’s me pretty much caught up, how you guys going?
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I'm looking forward to a week in movies post. I'm always interested in your opinions on movies. Besides, my Song of the Week was “inspired” by a blogger I used to know, so…
I've been meaning to do those posts because I have about fifty drafts on movies I've seen but don't always have the meat to flesh them out. Sometimes I just want to sum it all up in a paragraph
Thank you for being cool
Wow… that's a lot.
I was going to steal your Tron: Legacy post, so we'd be even. I did say, btw, that IM2 is a must-see… but you're not gonna get me to say it sits above Tron. You're going to have to live with that disappointment.
I hadn't heard about 24 not returning, so congratulations on breaking that news to me. I had scheduling problem early on this season and missed 24. I've got everything thus far ready to watch, just haven't gotten to it yet. This is the first time I've allowed it to go this long, so maybe that's a sign to move on to feature films.
re 24 – the same here we have episodes to watch but we got distracted by Survivor and Lost. A couple of years ago that wouldn't have happened at all so better to shuffle on and change things up rather than become completely stale.
I wish Heroes had stopped at season one
The DUDE is all levels of awesomeness! (… that rug really tied the room together)
yes he is.