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I don't know if you have seen any of this Summer’s Big Blockbuster Flicks, but if you have, this will be hysterical, if you have only seen the film trailers, this will be hysterical.

There are actually a bunch of these stop-motion shorts all over Youtube, most are very entertaining. This one is one of the best.

The Perfessor

I just saw this, and well, had to post it as it is rip-roaring funny. If you don’t get all the references, you aren’t reading enough comics (or watching the right movies). Still, it is the funniest thing I’ve seen in months (watch it all the way to the end; sound required).

The Perfessor

So I’ve been going to see some films recently, and I thought that I do a quick dash-off of some that I think you should see, and others you should avoid. First I would strongly recommend avoiding like the plague that it is Knowing. To be sure, this film looked good from the trailer, and well, to be honest, also looked good til about 15 minutes from the end, when you found out what was going, and then the wind just came out of the sails, and everything turned to crap, poking huge gaping holes in the logic of the story,and adding no small amount of sill stupidity.

Another film you want to avoid is the remake of Friday the 13th, as it adds nothing, and merely retreads what we’ve already seen. To be sure, all of these films look like all the rest, so I don't understand why you’d want to remake this classic, when you could just put another nut-job in a mask and have him indiscriminately kill teens.

Push was a huge disappointment. I really wanted it to be better (Heroes without all of the confusing melodrama and timeslips), but it was just sad (even my son who actually follows Heroes said the same).

What I did enjoy (and surprisingly so) was Adventureland, which from the trailer looks like another teen sex comedy, but is actually a touching summer romance told during 1985, and staring college students working at a cheap, rundown theme bark in Pittsburgh. the film was surprisingly well-made and understated. I really did especially like that there was not only no nudity (even though it carried an “R” rating — for language and drug use), it was stared college students rather than High School teens. I realize that it is a sign of my encroaching age, but I am so tired of every movie having to feature young teens who are looking to get laid.

Another very funny flick is I Love You Man, which stars Paul Rudd,as Peter Klaven, a guy getting married to the love of his life, who — for some odd twist of fate — doesn’t seem to have any close male buddies, so he goes on a hunt to find a best bud so that he can have a best man for his wedding. The humor is genuine without being forced, and (often by nature of the type of subject matter itself) is hilariously homophobic and uncomfortable while still being endearing and wet-your-pants funny.

He’s Just Not That Into You is a fine, relationshippy date film that is cute without being clinging or screechy. I know that it is a chick flick guys, but it is really very interesting and while offering up a cute pop psychology pseudo insights to relationships, it is entertaining enough and offers up enough A-list actors to keep you watching throughout.

Finally (for this installment) there is Watchmen which would really take me too long to go into all of the reasons why I liked it but suffice it to say that just because it was a comic book film which didn't do Iron Man numbers doesn’t mean the death knell for funnybook films. I really want to get deeper into this, and perhaps I still will. But right now it is late, and Ihave to get up in a couple of hours to drive my son to the airport.

The Perfessor

Yeah, yeah, we all know about Watchmen, that over-the-top dysfunctional-superheroes-turned-psycho-protectors that has either cemented the fact that no-name, cult-status funnybook superheroes can become blockbuster movie fare, or put the final nail into the next generation of comics-to-film movie for a generation to come.

I just learned that not only has Tales of the Black Freighter (the comic-within-the-comic), but Under the Hood (the faux bio within the comic) are both slated to become not only stand-alone DVDs but part of an uber-deluxe DVD set that is slated to come out (after the film itself has milked us all dry and turned our collective wallets into dust).

Not that there is any objection with that.

I’ve currently seen the film twice, and intend to posting about it son, but this just cam up, and I wanted to get it out there today.

The Perfessor

No, there is no Saturday Morning Watchman Cartoon in the works, but you wouldn't know it from watching this bit of silliness.

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