Movies! Movies!! MOVIES!!!!

I can’t begin to tell you how much I love film. My entire life I’ve been completely captivated and enthralled by the images flickering by. Maybe it’s just how easily I suspend disbelief or my love of watching and playing ‘make believe’ which I haven’t grown out of. Seriously if you find me alone in a room with a wrapping paper roll and a mirror you’re going to get at least one scene acted out. “Are you not entertained!!” or “There can be only one!” I also have the incredibly un-manly trait of tearing up or full on crying at movies. Seriously, I’m pretty sure I cried at Swing Vote and I know I’ve cried at least ten times watching Scrubs. DON’T JUDGE ME I’M A CREATIVE TYPE AND I’M MORE THAN LIKELY BIGGER THAN YOU!! So with my immaturity/exuberance firmly established I wanted to share some of my favorite rumors and pictures that I come across in my quest to know about every movie while still in the development stage so that I may blindly judge it and lord that knowledge over my equally eager friends.

So from time to time (I make no promises) I’ll share the things that bring out the kid or the fanboy in me. And lately there have been plenty of things on the radar that have done that. At one point many years back I had a website “AbbyNormal” in which I reviewed movies but I don’t think I want to do that again. I’d rather just share my excitement about things. That feeling as you shake the box and unwrap the toy is exponentially better than 2 hours later when you’ve seen all that it can do and pulled every lever. Who knows if I’ll get back to that but in the meantime if you’re looking for some reviews I have a good friend who is now getting paid to do that so go read his stuff!

First off there is the movie I’ve been on set for a few times (unfortunately NO I wasn’t there in any creative capacity, just collecting a check doing something else) here in Chicago (and elsewhere). No spoilers for you, no goodies because I don’t think that would be appropriate but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if I just said the new NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET reboot looks very cool.

So now to the things that are being worked on now that I’m excited about.

The Good

Ghostbusters III! Yes I said it! Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Ivan Reitman, Sigourney Weaver are all apparently a yes and the script is being worked on now. There are plenty of rumors (which my eagerness will be blindly turning into fact) about the casting (there will apparently be some new young ‘busters’) but nothing is real yet. It's being written by the writers of The Office and some Apatow regulars. But you can read about it in many places. To be honest unlike almost every other remake/sequel I couldn’t care less how they do this movie. No matter what happens I get to see Bill, Harold and Dan on screen again and I’m new puppy excited about this one even if it takes so long to get done they have to wheel them out.

Robin Hood! Yes Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe team up again for another BIG period film. They had a little success the last time and I don’t think there has been an incarnation of Robin of Locksley that I didn’t love be it action, comedy or cartoon. You can see some pictures of it as it’s currently in production.

The AVENGERS! Ok this is another fanboy paradise project. They have been setting this film up well with teaser scenes of Samuel L Jackson's “Nick Fury” in Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr’s “Tony Stark/Iron Man” in The Incredible Hulk. The biggest challenge that may make or break the script is that the studio wants to make sure it ties in with Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and the upcoming Captain America and Thor. There are two obvious issues with this #1: Tying movies into each other for no reason can hurt the writing and creativity (see the steaming turd that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Even the writer of Avengers Zak Penn said in an interview, “They want to see that they’re all connected… We all have the best intentions, and it still might suck.” I say to you Zak… Hey, SHUT UP. Problem #2: How exactly do you make this movie with a budget that’s not near the recent government bailout? Ya know what? Another instance of me not caring, I’ll be there at midnight when it comes out no matter what.

The PLEASE DON’T SCREW THIS UP

Alice in Wonderland! Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are getting together again for this one and the first pictures from the production were released (there was one stolen last November but these are “official”) As much as I've loved some of Tim Burton’s work I've hated the rest with a passion. Much like Willy Wonka though this is a DARK book and Burton could quite possibly be perfect for it. The stills look promising. I’m just hoping for Batman/Scissorhands/Nightmare magic and not Apes/Mars Attacks crappiness. The cast looks quirky fantastic which is great but I’m just not looking forward to hearing any more scores out of dum-DUM-dum-DUM-dum-DUM-dum-DUM-Danny Elfman… you know, ever.


True Grit! The Cohen Brothers are reinventing True Grit apparently being closer to the original book than the CLASSIC film starring John Wayne (his only Oscar). I LOVE THE COHEN BROTHERS. But c'mon guys, be careful.


Sherlock Holmes! Robert Downey Jr is Holmes. Jude Law is Watson. Rachel McAdams is i'm guessing 'the girl'. That's the good. If you want bad, watch the trailer or read about this one. I love the character and the actors so much that I'm crossing every appendage I have that this doesn't turn out to be what I'm scared it may just be... The Wild Wild West.


The Yikes!


GI Joe. Yup.

Facebook Movie written by Aaron Sorkin. Mmm hmm.

So there. I feel better.
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I'd like to thank the entire internet for the content and resources used for this blog, the opinions are mine :) (specifics? aintitcool.com; imdb.com; hsx.com; variety.com; cinemablend.com and many many many others, did you really think I was personally breaking any news here? I cried during Swing Vote, there that one was all mine.) The images are originally someone else's; the reason they look cool is my mouse and Photoshop. In short, leave me alone this is for fun.

All you need is love.

Ah yes...summer time. A time for lovers. It was this thought I had tonight as I sat in a darkened theater watching a comedy show. I came with the shallow purpose of watching a friend improvise while laughing and enjoying the company of other new and old friends. I left with a far deeper train of thought thanks to you, young lovers. It was, I admit, too dark to see you as you came into the show at least 45 minutes late for the hour long show. Oh that I could have though. Oh that i could have seen you to truly bask in your love. I knew you were lovers. Not by the sight of holding hands. Not by the sight of stolen kisses in a darkened theater. Not even by the sounds of cooing or whispered "I love you".

No the reason I knew you were lovers was the smell. That oh so effervescent smell of what I deduced to be two people who had just had sex for at least six hours in a non air-conditioned apartment or possibly a sauna. Yes that combination that makes you ask. "Is that....is that ass? Is that B.O. and ass? Wait...wait oh my god it smells like I just got hit by a sudden breeze that passed directly by an elephants vagina after she had run the Boston Marathon! Holy LORD who doesn't smell themselves? REALLY?! Are you serious? This HAS to be on purpose. If I had eaten today I would have just released those calories!"

So to all you young lovers out there I say 'Carpe Diem'! That's right, you are only young once so get out there and share ALL that with the rest of us. Remind us that we are all alive! Go! Go to the highest peaks of passion and jump, jump and soar over the waves of the un-knowing washed masses. They don't know how to love with their "soap" and their "hygiene".

Sketch Book

OK so with no intelligent thoughts coming out of my noggin I've decided to share very random art with you. Most of what I'll post is a means to an end. The point of these creations is to both teach myself Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop again (it's been awhile), and to get my creative juices flowing...umm...rocks off...ummm...hey there are about 10 phrases about creative inspiration that all have a completely non-subtle sexual overtone.

Already I shared the illustrator mixed media painting/sketch with you and now my tweaking has led to some desktop background images. Hopefully I will eventually also share the end results of the current paid graphic design job I'm working on but for now....enjoy. Oh and by the way these are created for the size of my laptop screen. If for any reason you would actually like this tweaked for yours (my ego knows no bounds huh?) let me know and I'll do it for you (shouldn't be that hard of a request with 5 followers of this blog).


SKY - Red Based Background (1366 X 768)



SKY - Yellow Based Background (1366 X 768)

Miss me?

So I've been slacking on the blog lately... why should the blog be treated better than anything else in my life? Anyway I've been playing a lot with some new mediums and it's inspired me to tinker again. Here is something that was inspired by a drunken dancer the other night. He just had no care, ya gotta respect that...

hopefully more to come soon but in the mean time why don't you try dancing with reckless abandon like t-shirt guy? Don't practice in the shower, I don't want to lose any of you.