Ok, I am not the huge fan of YouTube that I could be, but I do like a lot of the silliness that can be found there. One of my blog buddies-Grumpus-had a post recently featuring a great recut movie trailer of The Shinning-which made it look like a love story/coming of age story. I had never heard of Recut Movie Trailers, but this seems to be a booming bit of the make your own video universe. Trailer Mash if full of these wonderfully twisted bits of business. Take a comedy and make a trailer for a horror movie and…
Category: the matrix
An Open Letter to The Wachowski Brothers
Dear Andy and Larry, I know that you must be basking in the warm glow of all those positive reviews for Speed Racer-they both had nice things to say. I realize that Speed Racer was just following in the footsteps of Dick Tracy-a film that pretty much ended the actor careers of Madonna and Warren Baetty, though to be honest, I haven’t missed either one of them. So I am not even going to ask why you thought making a movie out of a forty year old cartoon was a good idea, or why anyone would have given you the…