CGI Clover

If you've read this blog at all, you're well aware at this point that I'm a man of opinions. Many opinions, to be exact. They typically spring forth unbidden from my head like frenzied demon children, looking for someone (anyone, really) to overpower and consume their soul. One opinion: I unapologetically love the old show ReBoot. The original episodes were 12 different kinds of campy, but it always had heart. The later episodes were actually toned way back on the campy and turned a bit more up on the action. By no means is ReBoot my favorite show or anything, but I definitely always enjoyed it. So it's actually pretty amazing to me that I can't figure out where I stand on the news that this show is coming back. Should I be elated? Possibly. But I find myself hoping that they'll continue the trend towards the heavy action that they managed to pull off late in the show before its demise. It's kind of hard to say, though. Will they try to return to form from the original shows? Or will they move for a rock-em-sock-em romp starring poorly named avatars for a computer's inner workings? Either way, I'll almost assuredly buy it, because I understand that making ill-informed purchasing decisions is the world's surest way to Zen-like bliss. If not, at least you've got a lot of shit to preoccupy you from your hollow shell of a life, so I figure it's kind of win-win.

J. J. Abrams (the Lost guy) is working on some sort of ninja-secret, low budget, movie code-named Cloverfield. You can read about Cloverfield here, here, here, or here. If you saw the Transformers movie (and maybe even if you didn't), you've seen the trailer for this movie. It was the trailer with no name, just a release date. While I'm a bit intrigued by what this could be, I honestly can't spend all of my time and energy trying to figure out just exactly what the fuck it is that Abrams is driving at with this random menagerie of teaser footage and breadcrumb games to determine what the movie is about. So I've officially decided that I've put this movie on the back burner of my mind, only to be poked or prodded by the occasional tidbit of news. You say the name might possibly be Monstrous? Fantastic. Let me know if you actually know that's what the damn title is. You speculate that it might be a Voltron movie? Well, please allow me a moment to suppress a snicker. Ah, yes. Of course that's what it'll be. Let me know when you have confirmation on that tidbit. Seriously, why are we jumping through hoops to have someone tell us what their movie will be about? Where does that get fun? Don't mistake this attitude as hatred of ARGs in general. I'm perfectly fine with an ARG, when it is tangential to the purpose of the marketing. As an example, I didn't need to play the Halo 2 ARG, the now famous ilovebees to know what Halo 2 was going to be about. It was going to be the sequel to Halo, it would star a dude dressed in dapper green absolutely fucking up the nefarious evil alien culture, the Covenant. I didn't need to go be a beekeeper to find out that codename Spartanfield was actually Halo 2. That distinguishes these two situations: Abrams should just pitch his damn movie to us already. Faceless hype seldom precedes quality entertainment.

--Ak out