If you had a marathon of Taxi, Who’s the Boss and the Tony Danza show…would you not have… (wait for it…)
AN EXTRAVADANZA?
Blinded Me With Science!
#6 in a Series of Pop Cultural Charts
Speaking of post-apocalyptic movies (and Zardoz)…
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“Moon” Seen!
I advise everyone reading this to head to Tinseltown ASAP and see Moon before it goes away. Fantastic film. Great writing, great acting, great sets. A bit of Darkstar, a bit of Outland, a bit of Alien, but not scary, just cerebral. I loved it!
Cinemark Tinseltown 88 West Pender
MOON Mon – Thu: 12:00 2:20 4:45 7:10 9:35
PS – anybody want to buy a TV cheap?
PPS – whats a good barter site or Facebook application?
I Endorse It!
I love those little guys!
Mutilator Part I
So I finally ran my Gamma World/Spaceship Zero mashup “Mutilator” tonight with Caleb, Deanna, Geiselbert, Jladell and MikeJ. The character generation system was pretty rough (mutation overkill!) but we got some pretty interesting characters including a couple cyborgs, a mutant pangolin (see below) and an obese, short, radiation-sensitive, near-blind, glowing, dual-brained (one smart one dumb), telekinetic, telepathic, rubber-boned, mutated human with spring legs, a tail, gliding membranes, pincers, and a psychic blast who’s always hungry…
…who drive a hearse that would not look out of place in The Road Warrior.
They started as part of a colony founded on a facility that converts landfill to methane, founded by a nun named Sister Killbeard. They had fought off many a roving band of scavenging punks but when a small army of mutated cobras driving solar-powered monster truck unicycles and armed with particle weapons bore down on them from the top of the hill, their defenses were torn through like tissue paper. They all piled into the hearse and made a break for the emergency exit.
It’s been a while since I sat behind the GM Screen but it was fun, and we got to use my custom made Critical Hit chart twice (once for each time a snake got hit with Geisel’s laser eye). I’m looking forward to the next session.
In this desolate wasteland you will find gory, painful death around every corner. Bands of roving mutant cyborgs patrol the lands searching for easy marks to fill their bellies and gas tanks. Radiation storms and acid rain force savage tribes to squabble with knife and gun over burned out hulks. Creatures that were harmless before the Time of Reckoning have become gigantic mutated monsters with laser eyes and acid breath. Deathbots from the Old Wars adhere to their programming of relentless organic extermination. In the Wasteland death is a way of life!
I should really pick up Fallout 3 for XBox ASAP. Oh yeah – here’s a pangolin:
Transformers…G.I.Joe…
Generation gaps can be indicated by your pop-culture references. I simply don’t understand this younger crowd. I played with “Transformers” and “GI Joe” in 3rd grade. They try to talk to me about “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and “Captain Planet”. I watched “Duck Tales”. They watched “Darkwing Duck”. I can’t relate to these people at all. We have nothing in common.
You can tell you are an adult when Hollywood is producing movies based on your childhood shows and toys. It means people your age are directing and financing blockbusters. If you are of my generation, it’s currently our golden age for nostalgia movies. It’s kind of like when they made that “Sgt. Bilko” movie with Steve Martin we were all like “what’s Sgt. Bilko?” (It was a sitcom in the 60’s)
In a few years we will be seeing trailers for the “Beanie Baby” or “Pog” movie and wonder why we don’t know anything about those. We will realize we are old and irrelevant and yell, as Shia LaBeouf yelled in “Transformers”: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
Pervasive Language
“Rated R for drug use, pervasive language, sexual content and violence.”
Now you may be thinking that ’round these parts ‘pervasive language’ might be sloppy text-message abbreviations or even just regular English. But according to the MPAA it’s F*** and S***.
So be on the lookout for that.
Next Saturday Morning Cartoon Party
We’re looking at a Saturday Morning Cartoon Party on August 8, with all the usual 70’s & 80’s cartoons + commercials and THEN an animated movie such as something along the lines of:
(SubZero) Batman and Mr. Freeze
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie 1979
Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
Muppets From Space
Muppets Take Manhattan
The Never Ending Story 1984
Pee-Wees Big Adventure 1985
Pinky and the Brain: Mice of the Jungle
Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood 1979
What do you think? Wanna come? Or what?
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