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Michael Diffenderfer
Moviegoer, shadetree mechanic,
and hungry designer with a really long name.
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- "I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them…"Jan 27, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- So if my spam filter flags something as spam, why does it still show up in my inbox?Jan 27, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Finally watching my North by Northwest blu-ray on my night to myself. Sweet crap this is a beautiful movie.
- Video: Hey Zombie hounds (not to be confused with zombie-hounds), If you don’t have an AK-47 equipped with... http://t.co/QS9oS9PU
- When I die, buy a bottle of whiskey, hang out and get drunk, then put my ashes in the bottle. Everyone's happy.Jan 26, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Well, your ad doesn't have to call the reader a mother fucker, but it can if you really want.Jan 25, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Gonna leave work so I can go home and work some more. Maybe I should get a burger for inspiration.Jan 24, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Wait, what? Horror video game Silent Hill takes place in the same school as Kindergarten Cop? Well, makes sense, I guess.
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Alternate Timeline Movie Posters at behance.net. The Fifth Element is obviously my favorite, with Ghostbusters (hosted elsewhere, but related) a very close second.
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MTotally kick-ass Drive poster by James White of Signalnoise. We need to get off our asses and see this movie.
It’s a bit early for a holiday post, but I have to ask a few questions:
When did this shit happen?!
Who is responsible for this?!
HOW DO THEY INTEND TO ATONE FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?!?!- A Few (Movie-nerd) Road Trip Highlights
Long story short, we took a 3,300 mile road trip a little while ago. Here are some of the movie-related highlights.
First stop: Cooter’s! Not really, but the flyer was cool. About as cool as the Tennessee rest stop where I found it, anyway.
Emily is standing next to the future birthplace of Timeline 1 Kirk. (I’m making the distinction between original series Kirk and JJ Abrams LensFlare Kirk). Not pictured: an extremely excited me.
We saw this sign outside of Family Video in Iowa City. Not even thinking about how the store itself is awesome (cheap movies!), this is the strongest selling point I’ve ever seen for visiting a store over a kiosk.PS - Season of the Witch kinda blows. It’s sorta fun, but only if you consider being burned at the stake fun.
Movie nerd Mecca. The Alamo Drafthouse is one of the main reasons I was so excited to go to Austin. Yes, Atlanta, to Iowa, to Austin. I said it was 3,300 miles, right?
We only had time for one movie at the Alamo, so we went to see The Action Pack’s presentation of Commando. It was incredible. There really is no better way to watch an action classic like this than to have cap guns, in-theater pyrotechnics, and a one-liner quote-along caption track. I only wish we could go back when they do The Running Man.After the movie we got some ice cream. Little did we know…
I love this image from Slashfilm’s article about remaking both The Grudge and Romancing the Stone.
1) Leighton Meester. I don’t get it.
2) Blake Lively reminds me of Ellen Barkin._
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- Night of the Ugly Posters
As a horror nut, I have to say I’m at least a little excited about the Fright Night remake, but as a graphic designer, these posters make me wish I had wooden stakes jammed in my eyes. Glowing red outlines on bad copy? Yeesh. You know red goes pink when you do that, right?
I know the original art wasn’t necessarily fantastic, but there’s really something special going on here that says 80s teen vampire flick to me. It does a good job conveying the sense of confusion and doom that might come with a vampire moving in next door or… with puberty. I kinda have a soft spot for illustrated posters like this, even though this one appears to have a bunch of demon-ghost cats hidden in it. Full size here.
Unfortunately the film’s Colin Farrell poster is the best one. Someone should tell Charlie Bartlett that he’s not scary, and I won’t even say anything about Imogen Poots.
- Cloverfield: A Love Story
I’m tardy to the party on this one for sure, but I just watched Cloverfield . I avoided it for a long time, but having finally seen it I can say that I am in love with this movie. I was absolutely glued to the screen the whole time, mesmerized by the genuine human drama that was presenting itself. The film is pretty clearly a love story wrapped in a warm fuzzy monster movie blanket. It’s a case of boy meets girl, boy and girl go separate ways, giant monster destroys New York, and boy attempts to rescue girl. And that works very well. I cared about the characters, and even started to like the idiot holding the camera towards the end.
The camera work is something to call out on its own. Admittedly this is one of the main reasons I stayed away from Cloverfield. I wasn’t prepared to sit and watch someone not be able to hold a camera still for 90 minutes, but dammit, I liked it. Instead of making me want to vomit, the camera motion actually just heightened the drama and connected me more to the feelings of the people we follow.
All these feelings just make me want to get a plush Cloverfield Monster and sleep with it every night. There’s so much potential for cuddling.
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M - Whoa Y'all. Whoa.
I had been harboring a (not-so) secret desire to watch Country Strong for a while now, so when I found it in a Blockbuster $1 box I tricked Michael into watching it by claiming that it wasn’t really going to be *that* country and there would probably only be like, three songs in the whole movie.
I was incorrect. There were a lot of songs. And it was pretty country.
Things I liked:
1) Costumes: If Gwyneth Paltrow were a country singer, she might actually wear these things. There was one bizarre outfit in the bunch (a blue mini dress in the last performance), but the rest made sense to me. The costumes weren’t so country that you would have alienated half your audience with all your sequins and your poofs – I even liked the last big-spangly number (pictured).
2) They managed to keep the little bird alive through the whole movie! I was pretty worried about that.
3) Costumes part II: This really stunning diamond double-strand necklace that Kelly Canter wears in a lot of scenes. She wears it with almost everything, and I too would like to wear it with almost everything.
Things I didn’t like much:
1) Leighton Meester’s costumes. I know we’re supposed to hate her, but man. Putting her in outfits that I have a physical aversion to was smart/rude.
2) Leighton Meester. I don’t know.
3) The name Kelly Canter. It’s like Alicia Keys. Cheesy, you know? Sounds like a name at first, and then you realize it’s a play on words. It makes her into this kind of propagandist, allegorical “singer,” where Singer=Drunk. Not that this movie was ever going to be anything brilliant, but it cheapens it where there’s not much left to cheapen.
4) The end. Seriously, y’all? It takes a serious turn for the worse, and if you ask me, it’s kind of out of nowhere. Whoa y’all. Just whoa.
So overall, the movie was just OK. Even though I disliked more than I liked, I can’t say I wouldn’t watch it again. Moral of the story?
Mama’s don’t let your daughters grow up to be country singers, okay?
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e Here’s a really real Movies We’ve Seen video review. #Truth
After doing the review and rewatching the video, I have more questions about the lightness/darkness dichotomy and feel like I need to watch the movie again to figure it all out. Possibilities: It was not intentional, it was not done thoroughly enough for me to fully formulate what it “means,” I am stupid, I am crazy. (Third and fourth options totally likely.)
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