You're the best around/nothing's gonna ever keep you down!

[seriousfic]

The theatre I worked for saved a lot of money by saying they were showing Never Back Down, and then just playing an old reel of Karate Kid. No one noticed the difference.

Whenever I've seen the trailer for the new Clive Barker movie coming out, the audience will generally sit in its usual silence for all the stuff about the serial killer, then the title comes up... Midnight Meat Train... and laughter breaks out. I mean, seriously, they couldn't think of a better name for their movie? Midnight Meat Train sounds like a song from the soundtrack to a seventies porn movie.

"Girl... tell the conductor... the midnight meat train is pulling into the station... awww yeah... it's g'wan in the tunnel, baby, yeah!... I got my ticket in my pants, let me reach in and... take it out, yeah!... midnight meat train... baby, yeah... let's go for a ride... yeah... my midnight meat train... yeah, girl... midnight meat train..."

And that whole white male power structure should be brought down for no other reason than Jet Li and Jackie Chan are finally starring in a movie together, and... it's as mystical negros for some kid from Boston so he can learn kung-fu and fulfill his destiny and get the girl and yaaaaaawn. I don't care about that! How can Hollywood see Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker together and go "buddy movie!", then look at Jackie Chan and Jet Li and say "sidekicks to that guy from Sky High!" Bullshit. I call bullshit.

Comments

[galamb-borong.livejournal.com]

I want to see what Midnight Meat Train isn't so badly. I'm picturing it as a cross between The Party and Murder On The Orient Express, with all important plot points replaced with sex. ( I'm also hearing its theme-song as a dirty version of "Heard it through the Grape Vine", for some inexplicable reason. )

[rann.livejournal.com]

How can Hollywood see Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker together and go "buddy movie!", then look at Jackie Chan and Jet Li and say "sidekicks to that guy from Sky High!" Bullshit. I call bullshit.

Seconded. What the FUCK, people?

If you were gonna do some shit like that, at least make it a Green Hornet movie, but it's done partly tongue-in-cheek where Green Hornet thinks he's the big hero, but he's a Clouseau-like bumbler, and his sidekicks Kato and... Keto?... are the only ones that actually get anything done.

[rocaw.livejournal.com]

You're the best around/nothing's gonna ever keep you down!

*curses you for getting that song stuck in my head* Really. =P

Was the repeat paragraphs in the post above intentional? The song's already on loop in my head and now the post, too. This is a plot to drive us all mad, isn't it?