Silly Things (Video-palooza)

From about 4th grade till freshman year I was a moderate Anime nerd. It never got to Cosplay levels but it was pretty intense. In addition to classics like Akira and Fist of the North Star I also found myself watching Sailor Moon for a fix.

Though I don't really follow that scene any more I still have an intense respect for the medium. The energy and imagination that goes into even a half-hour episode of a cartoon series is awe inspiring. The following trailer has absolutely NO respect for the art of Japanese anime:



I seriously thought they stopped making movies like this with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. This is getting a theatrical release? I could have rounded up a bunch of Cosplay kids from Comic Con and made a better movie. And poor Chow Yun Fat. Apparently he passed on re-teaming with John Woo to be in this film. WHAT THE FUCK?!?

In other news...

While the rest of the world is starting to take comic book films seriously, Fox continues to excrete condescending shit like this:



It was very shrewd marketing to put this before The Day the Earth Stood Still. They probably figured that since the film looks like shit they should market it to people who like to go and see shit. If you're there to see Keanu "act" then you'll be totally fine with that bit at the end of the trailer with the helicopter.

It's so weird. The big daddy company (20th Century Fox) produces such shit, while their boutique branch (Fox Searchlight) has churned out a fairly steady stream of quality like Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, The Darjeeling Limited and this year's magic film Slumdog Millionaire.

Hopefully Hugh Jackman's next production will be of a little higher quality considering that it's -

THE MOTHER FUCKING OSCARS!?!?

OK kids. Not all hope is lost. At least Asian cell phone commercials still have a high standard of quality.

Here's a Japanese cell phone commercial directed by Wes Anderson and starring Brad Pitt:



and a pretty sweet Chinese one where they do their infinitely more awesome version of Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil:



To serve as a sort of French bookend to Wes Anderson's clip, we have this lovely Dior spot directed by Ms. Sofia Coppola:



OK. Let's end this with a lame duck who can apparently duck like the best of them:



Now let's see if he can duck a war crimes tribunal.

Mahalo