[Posted by E&C on 30 Jun 2011 07:20 am]

Today's guest artist is webcomicker Gideon Frost. I'd highly recommend his strip Robots in the Walls.

Now about Rise of the Planet of The Apes. When I first heard the concept, I thought we had finally reached the bottom of the barrel. I mean, really? We're that devoid of ideas that we're doing prequels to B-movies from forty years ago? And then I heard the title and I discovered that the bottom of the barrel is even further down than I had thought. And then I saw the trailer and discovered that the bottom of the barrel has a trap door in it, and if go through that trap door we find ourselves in a place that's not half as bad as I would have thought.

Am I crazy or does this movie actually look OK? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that James Franco has a fucked up Midas touch where he can apply enough pressure to a lump of shit that it changes--if not into a diamond--at least into Cubic Zirconia, which is of course fake but pretty nonetheless. I'm thinking of Spider-Man 3 here. I'm also thinking of his ridiculous invisible art idea, which you can read about here.

So, yeah, here's to the mind fuck that is our Back to the Future/Forward to the Past culture.
C

I was [Posted by TheStranger on 30 Jun 2011 01:37 pm]

skeptical too when I saw the preview in theaters. I think Hollywood is really running out of ideas.