JABOOTU the bad movie dimension

Amazon Deal of the Day: Complete Monty Python, Jeeves & Wooster 65% off!

Ken Begg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:36:22 +0000

I was one of the suckers who got majorly burned by A&E (more than once). They would release shows like Monty Python and The Avengers in numerous pieces, and I ended up paying hundreds of dollars for the shows. Then after the last part came out, they’d box the sets together for a heavy discount.

Today at Amazon you can buy the entire run of the Monty Python’s Flying Circus TV show for $35 (!).

Meanwhile, if you’ve only ever seen Hugh Laurie on House, you can marvel as he plays a character of completely inverse intelligence on the celebrated adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster books, with Laurie’s old partner Stephen Fry as the butler who looks out for his daffy master. All for $21!

Either of these shows would make great Christmas presents, and believe it or not, that date is not as far off as you’d think.

Monster of the Day #95

Ken Begg — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:54:55 +0000

Time to start figuring out what I’ve posted in the first 100 monsters, I guess.

SALE OVER!

Ken Begg — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:32:46 +0000

Ken Burn’s classic documentary series The Civil War can be bought at Amazon today (until supplies dry up) for only $38, 62% of the hundred dollar MRSP. I’m not sure what you could call this work other than magisterial.

Also on sale, Burn’s more recent The War, his WWII documentary.

Happy holiday, everyone!

Dubious Assertion of the Day…

Ken Begg — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:31:28 +0000

Library Journal, Sep 1, 2010 issue. From a review of The Reversal by Michael Connelly: “With a movie in the works based on [previous Connelly novel] The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, demand for this one will be higher than usual.”

Monster of the Day #94

Ken Begg — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:06:14 +0000

“Wheeeeeeee! Again! Again!”

UPDATE 2: Hmm, this really isn’t how I remembered the movie…

Ken Begg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:08:22 +0000

UPDATE: By coincidence, the original artwork by artist Gil Kane is for sale on eBay right now; the owner is asking for $1300. Anyway, look at the much more restrained art Kane provided. He must have been pissed when he saw how goofily they retouched it.

Here’s some interior art for the comic, not by Kane:

Second update: Just for grins, here’s the original magazine artwork for the story’s initial publication in 1941:

TV Movie on YouTube of the Day #2

Ken Begg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:43:24 +0000

Killdozer!

Monster of the Day #93

Ken Begg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:59:39 +0000

30 years after King Kong, Irwin Allen schools Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen in how it’s done. You’ve been served, bitches!

Yes, please….

Ken Begg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:53:01 +0000

So simple. So beautiful. How has this knowledge been lost to Man?

My natural indolance pays off!

Ken Begg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:40:26 +0000

I never actually got out to see Avatar, partly because of my fears that the film, at an overly pithy 162 minutes, was just too short to really tell it’s amazingly complicated story with the detail and nuance required.

Luckily the new “special edition” version due out in theaters soon is eight or nine minutes longer. Still a little skimpy, but getting there. Plus, it apparently has a longer beastiality love scene, by which I mean we get to see the hero (presumably via his avatar) screw the cartoon blue alien chick. Because otherwise, you know, how would we be able to perceive some sort of emotional connection between them? Remember how flat the relationship between Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca was? Or Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in It’s a Wonderful Life? No worries here!

Anyway, I’m totally hyped.