It’s Thursday, which means that it’s time to check in with Community. While we weren’t huge fans of the last episode (I think Ryan pegged it when he described it as seeming somewhat like fan fic), the rest of the web has already moved on and is already abuzz with news of the mid-May season 2 finale.Â
The cast and crew are promoting it as a “sequel” to the infamous paintball episode, which I find somewhat yawn inducing. Doing more paintball at this point seems too easy. Wake me when it’s over. Oh, what’s that? Lost‘s Josh Holloway is going to be in it as a sexy cowboy? Okay, Community! Ya got me!Â
This week, we saw the one where Nicolas Cage escapes from hell wearing a leather jacket and kills a bunch of dudes. No, the OTHER one. REVIEWED: Drive Angry 3D. PLUS: Post-Oscar talk.
I didn’t use to think much about James Franco. I liked him in Freaks and Geeks and when he popped up in other stuff (almost always unannounced), I didn’t mind.Â
But now? Not so much.
I really blame Sunday night’s Oscars for this. I’m really starting to feel like I would rather stop watching him and start punching him in the face. MTV just reminded me that he’s next playing “a San Francisco scientist who makes a breakthrough during his research into ape intelligence” in the upcoming Rise of the Apes. Let’s allow this newly released picture to say the rest:
First, a big ol’ thanks from Logan and me for making this year’s Oscar Live Blog our best yet. The snark was flying fast and funny, from us as well as from a record number of commenters. If you spent the night with us, we certainly appreciate it and hope to see you again next year (or perhaps sooner, we’ve always talked about doing more live blog events). If you missed it, check out the full replay here.
Now let’s see how the rest of the net’s feeling this morning:
Well, not so much free…and the sex part is mostly a lie too. Come to think of it, what that should probably read is “Reminder: Oscar Live Blog with Logan and Ryan Sunday Night”, but you wouldn’t read about that now, would you?
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Despite the fact that rumors of it’s cancellation are looming, GQ got the Community guys (along with a few other male cast members from shows like Skins that will most likely be on for years to come) together for a quick photo.
And let me just say that this may be the greatest thing I’ve seen all year. I’d like to order thirty prints please, GQ.
Does anybody know if the upcoming Rise of the Apes is going to be a prequel to the awesome Planet of the Apes or to the lame Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes? And while we’re at it, just why did Gorilla General Aldo want to cause an ape civil war in Battle for the Planet of the Apes?
Lucky for us, the ever awesome John Landis is on the case this week as he does commentary on the first, second, and final Ape films over at Joe Dante’s Trailers from Hell. I’ve always said that I would listen to John Landis read a Denny’s menu, so to hear him talk about a series that Ryan and I killed an entire weekend watching in college is going to be beyond amazing. Schedule and link below!
Oh yes. It’s back. This Sunday (5PT/8ET on ABC) James Franco and Anne Hathaway will awkwardly tag-team the Oscars, and–for the third year in a row–so will Logan and I.
How does it work you ask? Don’t worry, stupid. It’s easy. When you sit down to watch the awards, make sure you’ve got your laptop (or mobile device!) tuned to this site where you’ll find running commentary by me and Logan for the entirety of the broadcast. Check out the snazzy replays of our 2010 or 2009 events to get the idea.
Don’t have someone to enjoy the show with? Join us and post your comments! Do have someone to enjoy the show with? Ignore them and hang out with us instead.
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There’s been talk/threats of a reboot of my absolute favorite childhood cartoon, Thundercats, for quite some time. If you’re not familiar, this is what the original badass Thundercats were all about:
Recently, there’s been some buzz around a new animated series that’ll look like this:
So anime it hurts!
Ugh right? They took that neat hand-drawn style and replaced it with boring ol’ anime. What a disappointment.
But then there’s this little relic. Test footage from a scrapped Thundercats CG movie:
Wow. Suddenly I’m psyched for the new cartoon. It couldn’t possibly be worse than that.
Did you catch the first round of Jeopardy nerds vs. Watson last night? Boy howdy, what a showdown! They were all like, “What is The Grapes of Wrath?” and Watson was all like “Beep boop?”
And let me just say, isn’t that Watson a cutie? If you dig the smooth vocal stylings of that Ken Jennings and the lovable brain of that other guy, Watson is the way to go! He’s like the two of them put together, but in extra sexy robot form!
All kidding aside, this competition may be the death of us all. I mean, did the producers of Jeopardy not learn anything from the Terminator films? This is how it starts, people! Just look at those cold, unfeeling robot eyes:
Alex, Ken, and Brad posing with IBM's futuristic death machine.
Anyway, the competition continues tonight. Be there!
