THE STUFF
YOU
GOTTA WATCH 2008 - Hysteria Written with Lightning!
Three Years on the Internet as of August 1st, 2008
NEWS ON THE MARCH
LEAVE JENNIFER ALONE!
We love our Jennifers here at Stuff You Gotta Watch.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Garner, the early Jennifer Lopez,
Jennifer Jason Leigh... it's all good. And when somebody attacks
a Jennifer, they attack Stuff You Gotta Watch. So this message is for TV's Project Runway
fashion guru Tim Gunn - leave Jennifer Aniston alone. The webmasters of
SYGW have adored Miss Aniston for quite a while, and, we confess, we
are huge fans of the sitcom Friends.
Mr. Gunn recently said that Jennifer Aniston's fashion choices
make her look "desperate" and "high maintenence". Funny,
whenever we come across pictures of Jennifer Aniston in the papers, she
is usually clad in a simple top and a pair of jeans, an image which
doesn't really make us think desperate or high maintenence.
In fact, it often makes us think "Oooh, pretty!". So let
this be a warning, Mr. Gunn - lay off Jennifer Aniston, or we will stop
watching Project Runway. Oh, wait - we don't watch it anyway. Never mind.
FRIDAY FUN: Victor Borge
"I'm Going to Play It with Both Hands So It Ends Faster"
At Friday Fun,
our Tribute to Summer is officially over, and we don't know what
to do now. While we think about it, we offer the late, great Victor Borge-
pianist, humorist, monologist. Borge was a superb musician, but
his greatest contribution to entertainment was his unique mix of siilly
comedy and beautiful music. He skewered
classical music while at the same time making it accessible to the
masses. In his best routines, Borge might introduce a
piece for four or five minutes, throwing out little bits of
pointless information ("The first piano was made long after there
weren't any at all"), making jokes about the composer (Giuseppe Verdi
is invariably introduced as "Joe Green") and bantering, badgering and
bickering with folks in the audience, other musicians or his "page
turner". The title "comic
genius" is thrown around too often
these days, but in our opinion, Mr. Borge deserved the title.
Enjoy!
CLEANUP TIME
During our ongoing cleanup of this site, in which we are trying to add easier navigation, clean up certain sections and code and catch any and all spelling mistakes (ha!), we discovered a couple of reviews we wrote and never uploaded. First up is 1994's Mighty Joe Young, followed by 1984's Mondo Elvis, a half hour documentary about Elvis fans. And then we have Mel Gibson's 1994 surprise hit The Passion of the Christ. All three films deserve to be in any decent video collection, but, ironically, do not make for much of a cohesive triple feature.
A HATFUL OF NEWS
Some stuff not worth devoting a lot of time to:
The 1980s cult horror film Child's Play
(remember Chuckie the Killer Doll?) is being remade, rebooted,
reimagined, whatever. Cult film The
Rocky Horror Picture Show
is also being remade. Does nobody in Hollywood understand why
cult films are
cult films? We've had our suspicions that Hollywood was completely
clueless about everything ever since they remade the classic cult
comedy series Fawlty Towers
for American television and cast Bea Arthur in the John Cleese
role..... The Rehab Tramp whose name sounds like a place
to stay on a vacation in France is launching a new reality show
(because we don't have enough of those) to find her new best friend.
Wow, how repugnant do you really have to be to need a reality show to
find a friend?... August 22nd, 2008: The
Stuff You Gotta Watch gets a record 331 hits in one day!
Mostly from one visitor, but still....
QUOTE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
From the All Kinds of Stuff blog by animator John Kricfalusi, creator of the original Ren and Stimpy show and the upcoming George Liquor show: "2d [animation] developed at an incredible pace. From Steamboat Willie to Snow White in 9 years. [Conputer Graphic Animation] to me anyway, is still crawling its way towards Steamboat Willie."
DARK TWEETY WOULD BE SO PROUD
We guess the word inevitable describes it best.
With the mega-success of the Batman film The Dark
Knight this summer - the second highest grossing
movie of all time behind Titanic
- the people behind 2006 Superman
Returns have scrapped plans for a sequel and now
want - wait for it - a reboot. A dark one at that.
Never mind that Superman
Returns was the number six movie of 2006 and grossed 400
million bucks worldwide. Never mind that Superman Returns was
already technically reboot as much as it was a sequel. Never mind
that the film inspired the longest positive review ever posted of a
movie on this site. No. Now, because Batman
was "dark", everything's got to be dark. But
Superman is not
Batman, and, in our opinion, making a Dark Knight-like Superman is a
stupid idea. As webmaster John B
said in his review of the 2006 film, "We've got enough dark, jaded and
angst-filled fantasy figures these days; there is no reason to turn
Superman, the ultimate Mr. Nice Guy, into one of them." (p.s. - This is
the first time we've included an internal link in a headline.
History in the making!)
Three Years on the Internet as of August 1st, 2008
NEWS ON THE MARCH
(Or: Pure Skill,
Annoyance and Retribution)
LEAVE JENNIFER ALONE! We love our Jennifers here at Stuff You Gotta Watch.
Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Garner, the early Jennifer Lopez,
Jennifer Jason Leigh... it's all good. And when somebody attacks
a Jennifer, they attack Stuff You Gotta Watch. So this message is for TV's Project Runway
fashion guru Tim Gunn - leave Jennifer Aniston alone. The webmasters of
SYGW have adored Miss Aniston for quite a while, and, we confess, we
are huge fans of the sitcom Friends.
Mr. Gunn recently said that Jennifer Aniston's fashion choices
make her look "desperate" and "high maintenence". Funny,
whenever we come across pictures of Jennifer Aniston in the papers, she
is usually clad in a simple top and a pair of jeans, an image which
doesn't really make us think desperate or high maintenence.
In fact, it often makes us think "Oooh, pretty!". So let
this be a warning, Mr. Gunn - lay off Jennifer Aniston, or we will stop
watching Project Runway. Oh, wait - we don't watch it anyway. Never mind.
FRIDAY FUN: Victor Borge
"I'm Going to Play It with Both Hands So It Ends Faster"
At Friday Fun,
our Tribute to Summer is officially over, and we don't know what
to do now. While we think about it, we offer the late, great Victor Borge-
pianist, humorist, monologist. Borge was a superb musician, but
his greatest contribution to entertainment was his unique mix of siilly
comedy and beautiful music. He skewered
classical music while at the same time making it accessible to the
masses. In his best routines, Borge might introduce a
piece for four or five minutes, throwing out little bits of
pointless information ("The first piano was made long after there
weren't any at all"), making jokes about the composer (Giuseppe Verdi
is invariably introduced as "Joe Green") and bantering, badgering and
bickering with folks in the audience, other musicians or his "page
turner". The title "comic
genius" is thrown around too often
these days, but in our opinion, Mr. Borge deserved the title.
Enjoy!CLEANUP TIME
During our ongoing cleanup of this site, in which we are trying to add easier navigation, clean up certain sections and code and catch any and all spelling mistakes (ha!), we discovered a couple of reviews we wrote and never uploaded. First up is 1994's Mighty Joe Young, followed by 1984's Mondo Elvis, a half hour documentary about Elvis fans. And then we have Mel Gibson's 1994 surprise hit The Passion of the Christ. All three films deserve to be in any decent video collection, but, ironically, do not make for much of a cohesive triple feature.
A HATFUL OF NEWS
Some stuff not worth devoting a lot of time to:
The 1980s cult horror film Child's Play
(remember Chuckie the Killer Doll?) is being remade, rebooted,
reimagined, whatever. Cult film The
Rocky Horror Picture Show
is also being remade. Does nobody in Hollywood understand why
cult films are
cult films? We've had our suspicions that Hollywood was completely
clueless about everything ever since they remade the classic cult
comedy series Fawlty Towers
for American television and cast Bea Arthur in the John Cleese
role..... The Rehab Tramp whose name sounds like a place
to stay on a vacation in France is launching a new reality show
(because we don't have enough of those) to find her new best friend.
Wow, how repugnant do you really have to be to need a reality show to
find a friend?... August 22nd, 2008: The
Stuff You Gotta Watch gets a record 331 hits in one day!
Mostly from one visitor, but still....QUOTE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
From the All Kinds of Stuff blog by animator John Kricfalusi, creator of the original Ren and Stimpy show and the upcoming George Liquor show: "2d [animation] developed at an incredible pace. From Steamboat Willie to Snow White in 9 years. [Conputer Graphic Animation] to me anyway, is still crawling its way towards Steamboat Willie."
DARK TWEETY WOULD BE SO PROUD
We guess the word inevitable describes it best.
With the mega-success of the Batman film The Dark
Knight this summer - the second highest grossing
movie of all time behind Titanic
- the people behind 2006 Superman
Returns have scrapped plans for a sequel and now
want - wait for it - a reboot. A dark one at that.
Never mind that Superman
Returns was the number six movie of 2006 and grossed 400
million bucks worldwide. Never mind that Superman Returns was
already technically reboot as much as it was a sequel. Never mind
that the film inspired the longest positive review ever posted of a
movie on this site. No. Now, because Batman
was "dark", everything's got to be dark. But
Superman is not
Batman, and, in our opinion, making a Dark Knight-like Superman is a
stupid idea. As webmaster John B
said in his review of the 2006 film, "We've got enough dark, jaded and
angst-filled fantasy figures these days; there is no reason to turn
Superman, the ultimate Mr. Nice Guy, into one of them." (p.s. - This is
the first time we've included an internal link in a headline.
History in the making!)
Updated
August 29, 2008
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