This classic video of Andy Kaufman going off script is probably best known to many young people today for the recreated version with Jim Carrey playing Kaufman. This, however, is the original version. Note that Michael Richards, who would later play Kramer on Seinfeld, is acting opposite Kaufman. Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, will show up later in the clip.
What’s interesting about the clip is that it’s entirely fake. All the actors were in on the “bit,” and the only ones really fooled were the home audience as they were watching it. There’s really no modern day equivalent in comedy to Andy Kaufman or the other comics of the 1970s. There’s no willingness to lay themselves out there and not get a laugh, and take that as the joke. The world yearns for another Andy Kaufman.
It doesn’t show much, and what it does show looks obviously not from the game. Still, the mere thought of a potentially good Speed Racer (one has not been made since the days of the original PlayStation) has funs all in a flutter. The game looks like it will be heavily inspired by the movie, more so than the cartoon. That means Hot Wheels inspired tracks and less of an anime look. That’s fine, as long as you get buzz saws in the front of the car, right?
What is there to say about this final version of the Wall-E theatrical poster? Well, it’s kind of boring. Yes, it does feature the adorable main character front and center, and the spaceship certainly hints at some of the film’s plot, but it lacks the innocence the trailers capture so well. It isn’t a bad poster for the film, but neither is it iconic or classic. A slight disappointment from a film that has nothing but positive buzz. Click the above image for a larger sized version.
File it under the category of just plain weird, but while much bigger names continue to sit out the high-definition craze movie fans will get a new Blu-Ray version of Short Circuit. Yes, that classic 80s comedy starring Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy and Johnnie Five himself. Even more bizarre is that the disc will feature some nice specs and features. It will receive a 1080p transfer along with DTS-HD 5.1 sound. That’s probably more than any fan should hope for, but they’ll also get two commentary tracks to go with the film. One will feature director John Badham and screenwriters S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The other is apparently a music and effects track. Make of that what you will. Release date is May 20, which gives it a full month to help build buzz for Pixar’s Wall-e.
No, this title is not simply a play on words to point out the flat plot and acting in the Step Up series of films. Instead, it is a sly way of announcing that the Step Up series is about to go where Jaws and Jason Voorhees have before it, into 3D. Step Up 3-D will apparently be the next installment in the dance series, and yes, the 3D really means the film will be shot and presented in 3D. No word yet on an IMAX version.
Did you ever wonder about that satellite phone they have on Lost? Did you ever wonder why they were all so blown away by such technology? Even with the show set now a few years in the past, it was hardly Jetsons style technology. Regardless, at least some of your questions have now been answered. The long and short of it all is that yes, phones with such capabilities do exist, and no, it is unlikely that someone stranded on a island could easily reprogram the phone on their own. A little bit of truth mixed with a little bit of a lit? Yep, sounds like Lost.
CD sales are dying. No, really dying. In 2007 48% of teenagers bought no physical CDs at all. That’s up from 38% the year before. What does this say about the future of music? Well, it is definitely moving more and more to a singles driven economy. The concept of, well, a concept album just isn’t hip anymore. Kids want the hits and only the hits. There’s, of course, some logic to such thinking. Who wants to pay retail for a CD with only one good song when you can pay for only that one song via download? It saves you as the consumer money, plus it doesn’t weigh down your music collection with a lot of unwanted filler tracks.
Except, those filler tracks sometimes have a way of revealing themselves to be much more. Usually track 11 isn’t going to be much to write home about, but there are those times. Sometimes an artist’s biggest hit is the song they never wanted to include on an album, and it can often be discovered first by fans and not record executives deciding what to release as a single next. This new economy of music doesn’t rule out such discoveries, but it certainly makes them all the more difficult. Is that really what the music industry needs?
Game trailers used to simply be called commercials, but ignore that for the moment and focus on what is possibly the best trailer for a game in over a decade. Why is it so great? Mostly because it would so easily slide into the commercial lineups of the 8 and 16-bit generations. Recall those blast processing and Sega scream ads? This one is at least their equal. There isn’t much to say without spoiling it, but it will both make you want to play Sega Bass Fishing, and embarrassed that you do.
Yahoo! has a fairly interesting piece on the casting that almost was in beloved films. While most of it is common knowledge among film buffs these days, such as Mark Wahlberg almost being cast in Brokeback Mountain, it still makes for a light, interesting read. It does seem to miss the bigger issue that plenty of people audition and are considered for roles that they never end up with. Yes, sometimes they are actually offered, but many more are unofficially offered or simply discussed and dropped. So many things must go right in a film, it is a bit of a wonder that the casting ever managed to go right.
As for Molly Ringwald in Pretty Woman? No, it would not be the same movie. Then again, there’s a lot of Sixteen Candles fans wishing Ms. Ringwald was still a regular on the big screen.
Why do people enjoy taking modern titles and porting them to old consoles that cannot possibly handle their modern graphics and gameplay? Go figure. Still, it makes for interesting video, such as this one of Tekken 2 running on the original NES. What’s interesting about this title, unlike most such ports, is that it actually look playable, and sort of like a title that might have been released back then. That’s certainly a step up from most such ports.
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