I just saw Muriel's Wedding for the first time, over the weekend, and I've come to one realization: Every movie cat fight is made 10 times better when it's set to an ABBA soundtrack.
Monday, August 22, 2011
"Apollo 18" the movie, AKA "The Writers Couldn't Come Up With a Better Plot, So You Get The Blair Witch Goes Into Space"
Have you ever seen a trailer for a new, unreleased movie and thought "Haven't I seen this before?" We see it all the time. Saw XLVIII (exactly how many horror movies can one make with the exact same plot?), Friday The 13th Part MM, Almost every movie starring Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell or Steve Carrell.
Well, now there is a new movie out there to make you realize Hollywood has run out of fresh ideas (Of course, if you didn't already know that, you're either deaf and blind, or been living under Stone Mountain. In either case, you probably aren't going to the movies anyway).
But, now we have "The Blair Witch Goes to the Moon," errr I mean "Apollo 18." It's all the drama you loved of Apollo 13 (great movie BTW), mixed with the "never see the enemy, but it's out there and killing people" suspense of "The Blair Witch Project."
And, I am not kidding about that. It comes out next week.
Essentially, the plot is there was a secret mission to the moon in the 1970's, dubbed "Apollo 18." Apparently, we never heard of this secret flight to the moon because, well, the astronauts were attacked by invisible aliens (who act a lot like the the Blair Witch) and the government doesn't want us to know about it.
Shhhhh, it's a secret. What's truly sad is that some idiots out there will probably think this is a sequel to Apollo 13, which was about an actual Apollo mission.
That sound you're hearing is Stephen King vomiting, while Isaac Asimov roles over in his grave.
Well, now there is a new movie out there to make you realize Hollywood has run out of fresh ideas (Of course, if you didn't already know that, you're either deaf and blind, or been living under Stone Mountain. In either case, you probably aren't going to the movies anyway).
But, now we have "The Blair Witch Goes to the Moon," errr I mean "Apollo 18." It's all the drama you loved of Apollo 13 (great movie BTW), mixed with the "never see the enemy, but it's out there and killing people" suspense of "The Blair Witch Project."
And, I am not kidding about that. It comes out next week.
Essentially, the plot is there was a secret mission to the moon in the 1970's, dubbed "Apollo 18." Apparently, we never heard of this secret flight to the moon because, well, the astronauts were attacked by invisible aliens (who act a lot like the the Blair Witch) and the government doesn't want us to know about it.
Shhhhh, it's a secret. What's truly sad is that some idiots out there will probably think this is a sequel to Apollo 13, which was about an actual Apollo mission.
That sound you're hearing is Stephen King vomiting, while Isaac Asimov roles over in his grave.
Why a second blog?
OK, in case you're wondering about the title of this post, it is a reference ot the fact that is one of two blogs that I write. The other blog, called Life Outside the Perimeter, is an occasional thing I write about travel. I've had it for nearly a year. However, I have little tolerance (calling it utter, and sheer contempt would not be too much of a stretch) for much of the junk that we call pop culture. To me it's just trash. Hence, "Pop 'n Trash" as the name of this blog, because it is my attempt to mock pop culture.
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