Dec
11
2009

Free Idea Friday – The Late Late Late Show with Bigfoot

In light of the recent Bigfoot / guy in a hoodie sighting here in Minnesota, I’d like to see a late night talk show where the host is Bigfoot.  It would be just like a normal late, late night talk show – monologue, short skits from the desk, interviews with washed up second rate actors – except that it would be hosted by a hairy, seven foot tall woods creature that never seems to be well lit and in front of the camera at the same time, and who is rather skittish.  And he would talk like this for the entire show – that part’s important.  If nothing else, it would at least make for some entertaining interviews.  A sort of Borat from the North woods, but, you know, funny.  You could always start it as a series of videos on youtube and go from there.

And while we’re at it, here’s a Bigfoot vs Paul Bunyan t-shirt – especially fitting since the recent sighting was in Bemidji, which is also where Paul Bunyan is currently residing.

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Aug
29
2008

Movie Review – Cloverfield

In the theme of my earlier post on a review of The Happening, here is another good panning of a terrible movie I hope never to see.  This one is particularly good for its thoughts on what a good version of this movie could have been.  My favorite bits:

For a brief, hopeful moment, I thought the filmmakers might be making a point about how the contemporary compulsion to record the world has dulled us to actual lived experience, including the suffering of others — you know, something about the simulacrum syndrome in the post-Godzilla age at the intersection of the camera eye with the narcissistic “I.” Certainly this straw-grasping seemed the most charitable way to explain characters whose lack of personality (“This is crazy, dude!”) is matched only by their incomprehensible stupidity. Smart as Tater Tots and just as differentiated, Rob and his ragtag crew behave like people who have never watched a monster movie…

and

Rarely have I rooted for a monster with such enthusiasm.

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