From the Brow of Zeus

There's rumor over at Dead Central.

It starts off like a dream:

According to our source all four Ghostbusters -- Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson -- have agreed to return to the franchise.

But then the dream girl rips off her face, revealing the Freddy Kruger beneath:

Apparently the ‘Busters will be handing over their proton packs to Seth Rogan and the crew from 40 Year Old Virgin!

A great man once said --

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Look, humor is subjective. Everyone is entitled to their own taste in comedy, provided said comedy wasn't squeezed out by one Judd Apatow.

Judd Apatow -- I just don't like him. I'm not impressed with his movies. (Update: Okay, glancing at IMDB, he's actually produced a lot of fine comedies. Until now I had always assocaited him with Superbad and The 40 Year Old Virgin, but Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Anchorman are some of my favorites.) Steve Carell hasn't made me laugh since Jim Carrey was pulling his strings in Bruce Almighty, and Jonah Hill and Seth Rogan look like some shrewd Hollywood types tried to clone Napoleon Dynamite and kept them in the tanks too long.

Dread Central actually tried to put a positive spin on things:

Some may roll their eyes at this, but think about it; these guys are doing the same thing Murray, Ramis, Ivan Reitman, John Candy and their whole crew did back in the 80’s, churning out comedy after comedy, so it makes sense they’d take over these reins as well.

Rob Schneider churns out comedy after comedy. Let's give him the series! He can form a super team, along with Dane Cook and the Blue Collar Comedy Team and together they can prove that when it comes to comedy, staggering, inexplicable success is more important than actually being funny.

Ghostbusters is my favorite movie. Seriously. I grew up wanting to be a Ghostbuster. The Sega Master System game is one of my all-time favorites (open-world, car-based, mission objectives -- it's Ghost Theft Auto!) I own a Ghostbusters halloween costume. (Not that one.) I had a battery-powered proton pack that projected ghosts on my wall. There's nothing with the Ghostbusters logo stamped on it that I don't like.

But this?


Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. That's what a Seth Rogen Ghostbusters 3 would be like.

Labels: movies

Being able to consolidate all your email accounts with Gmail is great. But what if Google deleted your email? It's hard to remember, but when you use any online email service, you're one TOS violation away from losing everything.

MailStore Home is a free Windows program that archives email. The truly paranoid can even burn all their correspondence to a CD, put that CD in a fireproof case, and hire twenty ninjas to guard the case day and night.*


I can't recommend this program enough. Once, before moving to gmail, I was offline for a few months racked up about 6,000 emails. My email account was filled to the brim and they were bouncing all further letters. Reading through all those letters and manually deleting the junk would have taken forever, but with MailStore Home, I was able to back up everything (just in case!) and start over with a fresh inbox.

MailStore Home is a free download for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. It's simple, effective, and easy on the eyes.

Enjoy.

* Ninjas sold separately.

Labels: software

Ever notice that most big name directors start out doing horror movies?

• Stephen Speilberg [Indiana Jones], Duel (1971).
• Kathryn Bigelow [The Hurt Locker], Near Dark (1987)
• Sam Raimi [Spider-Man], The Evil Dead (1981).
• Peter Jackson [Lord of the Rings], Bad Taste (1987).
• Guillermo Del Toro [Pan's Labyrinth], Cronos (1993).
• James Cameron [Titanic], Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
• Francis Ford Coppola [Godfather], The Terror (1963).

It's like the Correct and Unalterable Path of an A+ Director is to start out doing horror movies and end up making big budget action features.

Also helps explain why everyone hates Michael Bay. After directing a Playboy video or two (heh), Michael Bay's first picture was the action buddy cop movie Bad Boys. Only after directing successful action movies like Armageddon and The Rock did he dabble in horror, producing remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th.

Other reasons no one respects Michael Bay: Pearl Harbor, his face, and that two and a half our Shia LeBouf romantic comedy with some robots in the background.

Note: Thanks to Googleshng for helping me come up with this list.

Labels: movies

I've got a new article over at Bucket Bros, justifying the purchase of another indy game:

5 Reasons I Bought Strange Adventures in Infinite Space.

Here's a sample:

Inspired by the original Star Trek, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (SAIS) is a game of turn-based galactic exploration and simple real time combat. You're not here to conquer the galaxy so much as swipe a few alien artifacts and exotic lifeforms, then make it home in time to collect some cold hard spacebucks.

Click here for the full article.

Labels: videogames