Funnier than I thought it'd be...
There's something entirely pointless about reviewing movies after opening night in the Summer of 2009.
Even as showbusiness falls apart, the summer schedule is glutted with a little bit of everything from Sandra Bullock vehicles to trainwreck movies inspired mostly a lust for nostalgia (I'm looking at youGI Joe). To last more than that first weekend it takes something special, or something with enough marketing inertia to carry it past poor word of mouth.
In that environment it doesn't look good forYear One. The Jack Black and Michael Cera caveman buddy comedy manages to deliver exactly what it promises, the two actors stuck in their usual places inside of world of dick jokes and hastily assembled biblical references (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The Trouble with Papers
The Terribly Awful, No Good, Very Bad Browser
Since losing my job I've come to tend the Internet like other people comb a Zen garden, carefully reading over links and shuffling around my bookmarks. Fed up with Firefox, the geeks go-to engine for getting around online I decided to try out Google Chrome.
I know, it's a few months late and in truth I started with Chrome as soon as it was available to the public to see if Google could do with browsers what it did with search.
The short answer is no.
Let's put on a show...
If I've learned anything from 80's movies, it's that when something goes awry you can just put on a show and everything will turn out all right. Is an evil developer threatening to put a strip mall over your rec center? Then break dance your way out of debt and into our hearts. Is the orphanage closing? Then let's drive on a cross country trip to put on a big rythm and blues review.
What do you do when it's not just one place that's failing, but a whole institution?