So this is something I’ve noticed a few times in various sources: the writer calls someone in the U.S. Senate a “Senator” and then talks about someone else as a “Congressman”, implicitly separating the two. Isn’t the Senate PART of Congress? That is, it’s a bicameral Congress, with the Senate (full of Senators), and the House of Representatives (full of Representatives). Am I wrong?

Also if anyone wants me to trace the influences of pulp heroes in modern fiction I would do that too. Pay me a $$$ and I will find a pulp influence.

In Arrested Development there’s that part with the “Graft versus Host” disease, and G.O.B. says it sounds like a tennis match between Stephanie Graf and Donny Host and then the narrator corrects him by saying “it’sMost”?

I just got that joke.

I WILL EXPLAIN IT TO YOU IF YOU DON’T GET IT. IN FACT EXPLAINING JOKES IN ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IS WHAT I LIVE FOR.

btothef:

1985.  It’s the same house Marty has always lived in—-except it’s been “streamlined.” The corners have been rounded, to decrease wind resistance, and on the roof is a large power converter. In the driveway is another Aero-mobile. 

Professor Brown’s Aero-Mobile descends and lands on the street in front of the house. In the background are other streamlined flying cars, buses and trucks.

INT. BROWN’S AERO-MOBILE – MARTY, BROWN

PROF. BROWN: Go on in. I’ll be with you as soon as I adjust this blasted flow capacitor. 

EXT. McFLY HOME – NIGHT

as Marty gets out of the Professor’s Aero-Mobile and approaches his house. Marty looks at his house, takes a deep breath, and walks up to the front door. He rings the door bell. The front door is answered by…A ROBOT! It’s the mechanical man not unlike Professor Brown’s “Mechanical Home Butler.” The robot speaks in an electronic monotone.

ROBOT: Greetings, Master Martin. Let me take your coat. 

You know I’m not going to mention the first draft and then leave you hanging!  Here it is in all its “Marty pirates movies, Coke is the invention that makes time travel possible, George McFly becomes the boxing middleweight champion of the world” insane glory, and yes, it’s even more insane than what Gipe had to work with, which was likely the 5th draft of the screenplay.

One of the reasons why I’m reluctant to blame Gipe for everything in the novelization (though he is obviously responsible for a lot of it) is that I know if you leave Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale alone in a room together it’s FULLY POSSIBLE that they’ll pop out with this.

It’s not too long a read - perfect for a Saturday!  ENJOY

THIS SCRIPT IS WEIRD AND ALSO PRETTY BAD EVERYONE READ IT NOW

my ears are ringing, my clothes are soaked with sweat, i didn’t get any of my work done, and i lost my glasses. I wouldn’t change a thing.

one hell of a concert.

I made this because I was bored and want to be good at cartoons?

Peter Pan has become emblematic of the idea of never growing up, for both good and ill. Yes, he has adventures, but he is also stuck perpetually in childhood. He never gets to enjoy the benefits of being an adult. You know who does, though? Captain Hook. Sure, he’s the bad guy. But he still gets to have the same sorts of adventures Peter Pan does. Sword-fights, battling crocodiles, general acts of piracy, whatever he wants. And he’s an adult, so no one can give him shit about that.

The take-away: You can have adventures as a grown up if you’re willing to be the villain of the story.

Yesterday I went to the Toys R Us in Times Square. It was the most incredible thing I’ve ever experienced. First thing when I walked in, Captain America and Spider-Man were hanging around to have their pictures taken. Also, there was a Ferris wheel inside, but that was just for kids. So, then the toys were incredible. So, so, so many awesome action figures. But the absolute best part was in the top floor, there was a Jurassic Park part of the store, with a full sized animatronic T-Rex. It… it was sublime.

Also, I checked out the Disney Store. Not nearly as cool, but then I found the little section for Marvel (they’re owned by Disney now). Did you know they make t-shirts that are just shirts in the style of the characters costume? Like, a Captain America tee with a star and the stripes!

Kids these days don’t know how good they have it.

Aside from a pretty interesting first act, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is some of the worst writing I’ve seen in a film in a while. Nothing in the plot happens for a reason other than that’s how the plot is supposed to go. And that plot is full of holes big enough to drive a truck through. The plot hinges on people behaving in bizarre, inhuman ways, and sometimes randomly shifting their opinions.

It’s a bad movie, is what I’m saying.