5 posts tagged “movie”
If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).
Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .
Cliff Richard is also in the above video.
Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...
I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.
Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...
The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).
The more I think about the movie, "Speed Racer", the more I realize that I actually thought it was pretty cool. In an IMAX theater, or on a home theater with a large flat-screen and cool surround sound (which I don't have), it would be really awesome.
I hated reading all the bad reviews of it so I thought I would post a good review of that seems to get it right ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1738497,00.html
That review is from TIME magazine.
It's sad when movies are not appreciated in their time. A good example is "Blade Runner", which is one of the best movies ever to me, but it's lifetime gross is only about $32 million (and it was re-released recently).
I'm not saying "Speed Racer" is as good as "Blade Runner", but the visuals of "Speed Racer" blow most movies away.
I saw the new Speed Racer movie at Alamo Drafthouse last night. It has gotten awful reviews, but the movie has some very cool scenes. I think the film should have been edited down to an hour and 30 minutes, and I think more color should have been inserted into the slow scenes. The racing scenes are amazing, and they would look great on an IMAX screen, especially if there were an IMAX 3D version of the film (which there may be for all I know). I know they did something like that for Beowulf (which I have not seen).
I think the soundtrack should have been more electronic, electro, techno, whatever. The major DJs out there should have contributed really cool songs to the score of the film. Fast electronic music would have gone perfectly with the scenes, and I think the movie had a little bit of that, but it needed way more.
Here is a very old remix of the Speed Racer song ...
The above song is not in the movie ... it's a very, very old remix. There is a remix of the Speed Racer theme at the end of the movie that Chim Chim dances around, too, while they show the credits. I will look for it. (edit ... I found it on Amazon's MP3 downloads)
Edit ... OK, here is the song Chim Chim dances to at the end of the new Speed Racer movie ...
I think that is the song. It sounds right.
Here is a scene from the end of the movie, but the quality of this video is not that good ...
The Wachowski brothers, who did Bound, The Matrix Trilogy, and V For Vendetta; did this Speed Racer movie, and I expected a lot more from them. However, I still think their visuals during the racing scenes are amazing so just remember that when you read all the horrible reviews of this movie (which is not as bad as the reviews say it is).
You can read a better review of the movie here at Ain't It Cool News. I swear some of these reviewers are ripping into this movie out of peer pressure. However, I think the movie really is the old cartoon brought to life. For fans of the old Speed Racer cartoon, I think the movie will be fun.
In other news, here is another fun song from Madonna's new album, Hard Candy, called "Spanish Lesson". It has really goofy lines like Entiendo means "I get it", but it is still a good song.
OK, here is yet another edit to this post (I think I have edited this post more than any other in the history of this blog) ... I wanted to buy Madonna's "Give It 2 Me (Paul Oakenfold Edit)" on iTunes, but I hate the DRM that goes with an iTunes song (DRM means digital rights management, and it means that you can only play the song on approved players like iTunes and the iPod). However, I then remembered that Amazon's MP3 store is DRM-free so I bought the song there, and here is the cool remix ...
Madonna - Give It 2 Me (Paul Oakenfold Edit) ...
I am guilty of singing every song in a commercial. Mattress Firm commercials will come on, and I will sing along with "Mattress Firm ... where it's easy to get a great night sleep." Anyway, there are two commercials that have been coming on in the last couple of months or more that feature songs that are good on their own. The first one is a commercial, titled "Sweater", from Old Navy that features the catchy song, "The Way I Am", by Ingrid Michaelson.
Here is the Old Navy Commercial ("Sweater") ...
Here is the full song from the commercial ...
Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am"
Here is a woman named Chrissy Sandman singing "The Way I Am" on YouTube. I actually thought it was Ingrid Michaelson when I first saw the video because they look a lot alike, and Sandman's cover sounds really good.
Chan Marshall or Cat Power (whatever you want to call her) is actually getting some flack for letting a commercial for diamonds use one of her songs (well, her cover of a Cat Stevens song) because the diamond industry is so controversial. However, I really don't mind when artists let companies pay them to use their songs in commercials or movies or whatever. I mean, the artists need to get exposure and money so they can continue putting out albums. I remember when M.I.A.'s fans got mad at her for letting Honda use her song, "Galang", in a Honda Civic commercial. That is just stupid. I love Hondas! They are way more environment-friendly than other cars, and they are fun to drive. The commercial was kind of fun, too.
Honda Civic Si commercial with M.I.A.'s song, "Galang"
In other news, John Carpenter's "The Fog" (the 1980 version ... not the lame remake, which I refuse to watch ... unless it comes on TV) was on AMC today as part of their Monster Fest. I watched "The Fog" when I was very young, and I always liked it. It features Psycho's Janet Leigh with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis (who did the Halloween movies with John Carpenter, of course). The guy who plays Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend in the movie, Tom Atkins, was the star of Halloween III: Season of the Witch (one of the many Halloween movies Jamie Lee Curtis is not in). The woman that rides around with Janet Leigh is played by Nancy Kyes, who played "Annie" in the original Halloween. John Carpenter also did the soundtrack for "The Fog" like he did for many of his movies.
Theme from "The Fog"
The Fog - The Fog Rolls In
No, I am not talking about this cheesy 1981 movie ...
but I am talking about the day after Friday the 13th. I feel like posting some scary music in honor of Friday the 13th, even if I am a day late.
Friday the 13th - Main Theme (composed by Harry Manfredini)
A Nightmare On Elm Street - main theme - by Charles Bernstein (I had a version where Freddy would say "Tina", but I can't find that one)
Laurie's Theme from Halloween by John Carpenter (my favorite movie, my favorite soundtrack) ...
edit ... ok, it sounds like something is wrong with this version of Laurie's Theme(I can't find the good one I had before). Therefore, here are two more versions ... one is #9 from the Halloween Soundtrack called "Laurie Knows" and the other one is "Laurie's Theme" from Halloween II (where she is in the hospital the whole time).
Halloween - Laurie Knows
Halloween II - Laurie's Theme
