Perhaps it's just me, but it seems so shocking that whenever stuff I want to get comes out, there's always more stuff surrounding it. This summer especially I went spending-crazy and I'm not even employed! Buying both cover variants of BOOM Studios' The Muppet Show Comic Book and Muppet Robin Hood take a lot of my bank account and buying the Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry Hallmark ornaments by second-hand dealers on eBay killed my PayPal account and then there was that 2-disc DVD of Coraline that I went through hell to get and then buying UHF and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters off Amazon. I spent a ton of money over the summer so far and I'm taking a break... only to put more money toward more Muppet and animation stuff.
So September 22 brings the US release of the fourth Wallace & Gromit short A Matter of Loaf and Death, very exciting stuff. I assume "hey, this would be a good time for me to upgrade to DVDs of the first three shorts." Thankfully, a four-disc box set is coming out the same day with all four of them for a pretty decent price. No complaints.
A week later, we got the DVD release of last year's A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa. Might as well get it early so I can get better stuff for my birthday and Christmas. Not the best Muppet production, but I'm a completist I'll get some use out of it. A little bit more money to spend, but it's not too much trouble.
November then will come and gets crazy as hell. November 3 brings out the final season of Fraggle Rock finally out on it's own after a 364 day wait after that horrid complete series set and then the next week a triple hitter of Pixar's Up, a special Sesame Street 40th anniversary DVD and a coffee table book also commemorating Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. WOW.
Now, I know your wondering about why I'm complaining about spending so much money when it's my choice. Well, in actuallity, my birthday is in November and I'm expecting at least Up and the Sesame Street stuff and I'll probably hold off Wallace & Gromit till Christmas. But the thing is, as I mentioned in my introduction post, I'm a puppeteer trying to make ends meet to be able to acquire puppets. I'm targeting getting a custom-built monster puppet that will be at least $200. I have the money but I just want to have a certain amount before taking the plunge to getting a puppet, which is hard considering I'm unemployed and try to live off change and my bank account. But, considering how much I've spent over the year, it's just a pain to get the funds. I've been selling stuff on eBay with little avail but, damn, being a Muppet and animation fan is expensive work!
In better news, I'm going to see Ponyo with family friends on Tuesday and will try to see World's Greatest Dad (starring world's greatest comedian Robin Williams!) if it expands. Expect reviews for both. I will also begin "The Rise and Fall of Puppetry Club" series as my fifth post on this blog. So wait two posts and my tragic tale will begin to be told, because it has to for future generations who put together clubs at their school don't make the same mistakes I made.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
My thoughts on the Marvin the Martian movie
In case you have no idea what's going on, I'll give you the skinny.
That is an article from July 2008 via Variety Magazine, at this point, I really didn't think too much of it. A few weeks ago however, Box Office Mojo confirmed a release date of October 7, 2011 for Marvin the Martian. At this point, I fell very on-the-fence about this movie.
I like to think of myself as a pretty good Looney Tunes fan. In 2003, I was one of the few souls who saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action in theaters on opening weekend. I have all the Looney Tunes Golden Collections box sets (which are fantastic DVD's no home should be without). This past New Year's Day, when Cartoon Network aired an all-day Looney Tunes marathon, which was the first time they aired on CN since 2004, I kept my TV on Cartoon Network till the second the marathon ended. As you can tell, I'm a pretty devoted fan and since Warner Brothers' efforts to care for the characters are so far and in-between, I like to support them every way I can. But if there is one thing I've dreaded, it's taking the Looney Tunes characters and making them computer-animated. I have nothing but scorn for seeing classic cartoon characters like Bugs and Daffy being done on a computer. It's just such an awkward transition and it just doesn't work for me.
Still, this is such a hard movie for me to support. After Looney Tunes: Back in Action down and out bombed six years ago, I thought the Looney Tunes characters would never come to the big screen again. In that regard, it makes me happy a movie like this coming. It's not my top movie to see in 2011 (quite honestly, I'm more excited for Cars 2, The Bear and the Bow, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and Green Lantern myself) but I can't help but feel the need to support it. So, despite it all, expect me in the theater seeing Marvin the Martian in October 2011 just out of hoping something positive will come out of it... but I won't like it.
And one more thing... if it's a Christmas movie, why release it Columbus Day weekend?! Some thing will just never make sense.
Warner Bros. is launching development of a "Marvin the Martian" feature at Alcon Entertainment, with principals Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove producing along with Steve Crystal.Project will blend live action and CGI.
Marvin was created by Chuck Jones and made his first appearance in a Looney Tunes cartoon in 1948. The character was often intent on blowing up the Earth, only to be foiled by Bugs Bunny.
Crystal, a former Warner exec with a first-look deal at Alcon through his Charlie Co. banner, developed the pitch as a Christmas story, with Marvin coming to Earth to destroy Christmas but being prevented from doing so when he’s trapped in a gift box. Alcon’s out to writers and directors.
Johnson and Kosove told Daily Variety that "Marvin" will be aimed at the family demo along the same lines as Alcon’s "Racing Stripes" and "My Dog Skip."
Alcon announced in May that it had raised $550 million in private funding and extended its deal at Warner, with the studio agreeing to distribute 15 Alcon pics domestically over the next five years, including the already-released pair "P.S. I Love You" and "One Missed Call" plus "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," which opens Aug. 6.
That is an article from July 2008 via Variety Magazine, at this point, I really didn't think too much of it. A few weeks ago however, Box Office Mojo confirmed a release date of October 7, 2011 for Marvin the Martian. At this point, I fell very on-the-fence about this movie.
I like to think of myself as a pretty good Looney Tunes fan. In 2003, I was one of the few souls who saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action in theaters on opening weekend. I have all the Looney Tunes Golden Collections box sets (which are fantastic DVD's no home should be without). This past New Year's Day, when Cartoon Network aired an all-day Looney Tunes marathon, which was the first time they aired on CN since 2004, I kept my TV on Cartoon Network till the second the marathon ended. As you can tell, I'm a pretty devoted fan and since Warner Brothers' efforts to care for the characters are so far and in-between, I like to support them every way I can. But if there is one thing I've dreaded, it's taking the Looney Tunes characters and making them computer-animated. I have nothing but scorn for seeing classic cartoon characters like Bugs and Daffy being done on a computer. It's just such an awkward transition and it just doesn't work for me.
Still, this is such a hard movie for me to support. After Looney Tunes: Back in Action down and out bombed six years ago, I thought the Looney Tunes characters would never come to the big screen again. In that regard, it makes me happy a movie like this coming. It's not my top movie to see in 2011 (quite honestly, I'm more excited for Cars 2, The Bear and the Bow, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and Green Lantern myself) but I can't help but feel the need to support it. So, despite it all, expect me in the theater seeing Marvin the Martian in October 2011 just out of hoping something positive will come out of it... but I won't like it.
And one more thing... if it's a Christmas movie, why release it Columbus Day weekend?! Some thing will just never make sense.
Welcome to my blog!
OK, boys and girls, welcome to BobThePizzaBoy's brand new blog. I'm BobThePizzaBoy, a now 17-year old high school student in the depths of Westchester County, New York. You can call me BobThePizzaBoy or John, either or is fine but I don't really want to post too much about my personal life, I will however tell you about some of the things I will do for this blog. Everyone has their niches and your about to see mine:
1. Jim Henson is my mentor. I love the Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggles, Dark Crystal, the list goes on. This lifelong love for Henson has also brought about a hobby in the puppetry arts, which I have perfected during 76% of my thirteen years of public schooling. As we progress further into 2010, I'm hoping to have funny puppetry-related stories (I have one that I'm holding off until exactly two years after the night it happened. March 6, 2010 you can expect some major lols, trust me...) and some less funny stories (I'm contemplating writing a series on the rise and fall of Puppetry Club, more on that if people really want to read it). Moreover, whenever a new Muppet product comes out, be it a special or movie or stuffed animal even, expect a critique from me on it.
2. I have always had a strong interest in the animation industry. In my youth, I went through a Nicktoon stage, a Pokemon stage, a One Saturday Morning stage and a VeggieTales stage. As I got older, I got very interested in Looney Tunes and other older classic animation and then The Simpsons. Actually, I wanted to be an animator as a youngster before going into puppetry but I've always been fasinated by the work of animation greats like Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and then more modern animators like the folks at Pixar, Aardman and Hayao Miyazaki. Expect critiques on current animated movies and random thoughts on other cartoons in the future... my next post after this will actually be on an upcoming live-action treatment of one of my favorite cartoons.
3. Random stories from my personal life will be a staple of this blog. I have plenty of humorous stories to tell that don't have anything to do with puppets or cartoons. I'm involved with high school theater and backstage it really is a jungle, random stories about friends, funny observations on life itself, my ever-changing crushes, the 3/6/10 story (mark your calendars NOW people!). To those who are involved in these stories, please note that FIRST NAMES WILL BE USED BUT LAST NAMES WILL NOT. These stories can be about anybody and everybody, nobody is safe but I do have a heart and will not directly indentify people.
Depedning on how this goes, there will be more or maybe less but I'm just here to provide my observations on the world and I don't really care who reads this. Have fun and enjoy, children!
1. Jim Henson is my mentor. I love the Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggles, Dark Crystal, the list goes on. This lifelong love for Henson has also brought about a hobby in the puppetry arts, which I have perfected during 76% of my thirteen years of public schooling. As we progress further into 2010, I'm hoping to have funny puppetry-related stories (I have one that I'm holding off until exactly two years after the night it happened. March 6, 2010 you can expect some major lols, trust me...) and some less funny stories (I'm contemplating writing a series on the rise and fall of Puppetry Club, more on that if people really want to read it). Moreover, whenever a new Muppet product comes out, be it a special or movie or stuffed animal even, expect a critique from me on it.
2. I have always had a strong interest in the animation industry. In my youth, I went through a Nicktoon stage, a Pokemon stage, a One Saturday Morning stage and a VeggieTales stage. As I got older, I got very interested in Looney Tunes and other older classic animation and then The Simpsons. Actually, I wanted to be an animator as a youngster before going into puppetry but I've always been fasinated by the work of animation greats like Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera and then more modern animators like the folks at Pixar, Aardman and Hayao Miyazaki. Expect critiques on current animated movies and random thoughts on other cartoons in the future... my next post after this will actually be on an upcoming live-action treatment of one of my favorite cartoons.
3. Random stories from my personal life will be a staple of this blog. I have plenty of humorous stories to tell that don't have anything to do with puppets or cartoons. I'm involved with high school theater and backstage it really is a jungle, random stories about friends, funny observations on life itself, my ever-changing crushes, the 3/6/10 story (mark your calendars NOW people!). To those who are involved in these stories, please note that FIRST NAMES WILL BE USED BUT LAST NAMES WILL NOT. These stories can be about anybody and everybody, nobody is safe but I do have a heart and will not directly indentify people.
Depedning on how this goes, there will be more or maybe less but I'm just here to provide my observations on the world and I don't really care who reads this. Have fun and enjoy, children!
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