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Baying at the moon
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Baying at the moon The last few nights I've been marathoning through the TV show "The Last Ship" It's produced by Michael Bay ...I'm absolutely LOVING the show (which in some ways is odd, because the really patriotic themed shows don't usually tend to do much for me); season two appears to be (intentionally or not, I'm unsure) ironing out some of the science-ey discrepancies I noted in the first season, but although still a bit shallow I'm enjoying it a great deal. Sometimes it's a lot of fun just watching shit get blown up. Granted, if I start thinking "Wow, maybe Micheal Bay ain't so bad" ...somebody puh-leaze take out "The Transformers" (any of them) and throw it at me. ...at my head. HARD! My TV viewing habits have been a little bit odd of late; I've watched a couple of movies that I have to throw in a few comments about for anyone who might also be into the "bad" genre. First of all comes "Turbo " which I had a lot of reservations about ...it was kind of a send-up of the 80's to 90's action/scifi flicks, but mostly played it straight. It's one of those you gotta see and I doubt there's just a whole lot of middle ground (you'll probably either love it or absolutely hate it); it has a gimmick, and in my opinion it was a fucking hysterical one. If you like the movie "Rubber" ...then you'll like this one. If you haven't SEEN "Rubber" ...then FIND it!  The other wasn't quite as out there, but it was still pretty funny ...nobody does snark quite as well as Kat Denning, and she certainly didn't let us down in "Suburban Gothic" either. It starred Matthew Gray Gubler (whom I'm not familiar with, but he sure seems familiar from somewhere), and Ray Wise played the overbearing asshole father (Wise seems to do well in those roles), and I thought they managed to pull off the mostly comedic horror flick pretty well. Some of the humor seemed almost "Napoleon Dynamite" in nature (I'm not a huge fan), but it was overall pretty fun ...some of the jokes fell flat, but when they landed right, they were awesome! Another kinda weird anomaly is rediscovering a few cartoons. Cartoon Network has recently put out a couple of new ones that have honestly surprised the crap out of me. Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo ...every attempt to re-do those in the last 20 years (outside of the live action Scooby Doo movies, which I LOVED) I've thought were complete failures. They have two new variations now though ..."Wabbit" and "Be Cool, Scooby Doo" that have apparently breathed a little bit of fresh air onto the franchises. Scooby does a LOT of making fun of the original, but it's as close to the original as you'll get these days ...the way they reinvent some of the characters is pretty sharp, and the dialog and familiar tropes are great joke fodder! "Wabbit" does a great Bugs Bunny too, and doesn't seem to be afraid of a lot of the cartoon violence that was so big in the earlier ones (c'mon ...who REALLY gets bent out of shape out of seeing Yosemite Sam kicked down the Himalaya's?). Cartoons can STILL be fun (as Pixar and many of the others keep proving over and over). Leave it to me to talk cartoons and goofy shit ...my brother an I were laughing about how much time we spent contrasting who was the better Murdoch in the "A-Team" movie vs TV show. Sometimes the intellectual vacuum has been known to suck in entire solar systems! Happy Friday all! 
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