Holy crap.

- Yes, we’ll be reviewing the movie.

No, not tonight- Pylorns still hasn’t seen it because he wussed out on seeing it this weekend.

The short version of the review is- believe the hype. It is that good.

- So, Myspace is getting hit by spammers/spyware douchebags.

See, it seems that people are creating myspace profiles then adding these pictures to them that would make the average unsuspecting IE user think they have to install a Windows update.

This would be great… if I weren’t using Firefox in Leopard. Naturally, I picked up on the ruse.

Fucking spammer douchebags. See, I know- I KNOW- I’ll have to fix this on my dad’s computer at some point since his family can’t figure out not to click on every damn popup that comes along. That’s going to be fun to fix- AGAIN.

Out.

The Dark Knight

While Alamo is completely sold out for the Dark knight, Fandango shows a couple theatres with seats still for tonight.  Don’t miss your chance to see what is being touted as one of the top action/drama movies of this year.   I can almost garantee that this movie will be awesome and that you’ll want to see it again.

So yeah, I have my ticket for The Dark Knight. I picked it up online earlier in the week, and I’m going to go see it before work tomorrow.

Here’s the thing, though- for once, I have very little knowledge beforehand. I’ve actively avoided learning too much about the movie. Even today, I’m still very much in the dark about any key plot points.

It’s kinda nice, actually. I’m looking forward to seeing it tomorrow.

Oh, and we’re instigating a rule. Any fucknut that posts any major spoilers for this movie on our site between now and next Friday and ruins it for anyone else gets banned indefinitely. I’m not having a repeat of The Sixth Sense on our site. (The short version- I went to Kevin Smith’s View Askew site within the first two weeks of that movie opening, only to find some asshole had posted the big reveal rather nonchalantly in the middle of a post that had nothing to do with the movie.

I’ll post a review tomorrow and let you know how the movie is.

Out.

Neil Patrick Harris (NPH), Mr. “snort coke of a strippers titty,” himself has a new online show. Dr. Horrible.  Its pretty damn funny.  Dr. Horrible is created by Joss Whedon, you know the guy that brought us Buffy and Firefly. 

During the WGA strike Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. Each of the three episodes will be approximately ten minutes each.

Co-writers for the internet feature are Joss’ brothers Zack and Jed and Jed’s Fiancé Maurissa Tancharoen . The writing and shooting have been completed and the series is now in post-production.

“It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.” says Whedon.

“Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” will star Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer, Felicia Day as Penny and a cast of dozens.”

From http://doctorhorrible.net a message from Joss Wheden:

At last the time has come to reveal to you our Master Plan. BEWARE! Those with weak hearts should log off lest they be terrified by the twisted genius of our schemes! Also pregnant women and the elderly should consider reading only certain sentences. Do not mix with other blogs. Do not operate heavy machinery while reading this blog. You must be this tall to read. ‘Kay?

It is time for us to change the face of Show Business as we know it. You know the old adage, “It’s Show Business – not Show Friends”? Well now it’s Show Friends. We did that. To Show Business. To show Show Business we mean business. (Also, there are now other businesses like it.)

ONE WEEK ONLY! AN INTERNET MINISERIES EVENT!

“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” will be streamed, LIVE (that part’s not true), FREE (sadly, that part is) right on Drhorrible.com, in mid-July. Specifically:

ACT ONE (Wheee!) will go up Tuesday July 15th.

ACT TWO (OMG!) will go up Thursday July 17th.

ACT THREE (Denouement!) will go up Saturday July 19th.

All acts will stay up until midnight Sunday July 20th. Then they will vanish into the night, like a phantom (but not THE Phantom – that’s still playing. Like, everywhere.)

Update: The Dr Horrible Servers Crashed because of the amount of people checking this out.

Well because of my vacation, I’ve had a short work week which has been nice.  I also just got paid… what’s that song?” “Friday night.. just got paid.. money in my pocket..and I’m going to master pancake…”  Yeah, I made it rhyme.. I know. 

So tonight we’re heading out to the Alamo Ritz to see one of my favorite movies (although not my most favorite out of the Sean Connery Bonds) Gold Finger. Presented by Master Pancake.

There are also lots of new movies out that I haven’t had a chance to see and two I believe that came out today The Hulk and The Happening.  Also flics I’m very interested to see.  The Hulk is being released a 2nd time as an origins type movie because the first one blew donkey chunks.  Hopefully this one will fare better.  I’m very interested to see The Happening because aside from the Village I’ve enjoyed everything that M. Night Shamalamadingdong has done so far. Seriously, Unbreakable was awesome - better than the 6th sense.  Signs was not bad, and Lady in the Water was really good!  All of his latest flics have done so-so in the theaters but they have done well enough to allow him to continue making big budgeted flics.  I’m crossing my fingers that this one does really well. 

Anywho, hopefully Finley and I will have a chance to discuss the summer movies on our next podcast. 

Val Kilmer: Then

and now:

Mitch Taylor:
 

Remeber Kent from Real Genius?

He most recently was in Michael Clayton and this is what he looks like now:
 

Whoa!

Last night Jenn, Blake, and I drove downtown amidst the craziness that was the last of SXSW, found a decent place to park and trekked to the new Alamo Draft House.  This was our first time at the new one which is now located in the old Ritz.  It is slightly larger than the original downtown location in that it has 2 screens instead of just one.  Mondo Tees is also tightly integrated in the corner of the theatre as well for all your 80’s style t-shirts.

We got to the sold out showing about 45 minutes early and had to wait around for a bit prior to seating but once we were down, we enjoyed our perfect seats as others struggled to find a good spot.  For me it was my first time seeing this type of event, and I can tell you I’ll be back again for the next one.  For those of you familiar with Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Master Pancake is the same thing cept imagine watching it on crack.  The Austinist did a great interview with them this past February.

This February, Master Pancake plays host to the reunion of two original cast members from the Sinus Show: John Erler (the tall bald one) and Owen Egerton (the compact ginger nut), who, along with pal Joe Parsons, lampoon Back to the Future (1985), a film so iconic that for a brief period in the mid-80’s it convinced people that DeLoreans, Burger King, and Huey Lewis and the News were hip. Michael J. Fox (FAMILY TIES, TEEN WOLF) plays, well, Michael J. Fox — or Marty Mc Fly as he’s called here — who travels back in time in order to save his professorial pal ‘Doc’, played by Christopher Lloyd (CLUE, STAR TREK III). Along the way, Mc Fox ends up inventing Rock ‘n Roll, changing the future, and almost dating his own mom. Oedipally complex, this movie features a brilliant performance from indie-icon Crispin Glover as Marty’s exquisitely milquetoast dad, who eventually learns how to sock it to Biff. Time Mc Flys when you’re having fun, and you’ll be having 1.21 jigowatts of it this February, with film-embellishers John, Owen and Joe, weekends at the Alamo Ritz, Village, and So. Lamar. (John)

Seeing one of my old favorites of Back to the Future was a great way to be introduced, aside from the many Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s jokes.  The comedians stopped the movie in the middle to act out in full costune a little skit in which, Marty has the shakes.  I actually felt sorry for the guy doing it as he was getting pretty damn tired jumping around.  All in all very cool, catch the next Master Pancake Theatre the rest of this month doing ET.  Unfortunatly for you, this was the last Back to the Future they will be doing.

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