The Monday Corner 10/18/2010

Halloween is coming up soon, as any calendar will inform you, and with that comes some very exciting things. Things like people, who normally look for stupid, dressing up in stupid costumes as a way of openly displaying it. I have to be honest, every time this year I find myself asking the same 3 questions:

1. At what age should someone stop wearing the sexy nurse outfit? Even the devil horns are sagging, please people, let it go.
2. Why is this the only time of the year you can go up to someone's house and demand them give you stuff? It would be hilarious if you just did that every week on Thursday. "Hey, you, give me some damn candy!"
3. Is that court order baring me from being withing 50 feet of any children still in effect? You know, maybe a day off for good behavior *wink wink*. I kid I kid (ironically so).

Off we go!


For your Consideration:
Every once in a while one post will inspire another, and another, and so on. Allow me to show you how that works:

First, Mike from the always intellectually profound (i.e. thinks things through) You Talking to Me? posted this rather intelligent bit on "Justified Elitism." Elitism is always justified, much like when I say my imaginary caught fish was "THIS BIG!" (of course the common distance of full spread hand gesture is in order).

That post prodded itself into filmgeek's analysis on What is a film critic? over at Final Cut. For my money, the answer is: anyone who watches movies while licking lolipops.

Of course leading to the end result in The Dark of the Matinee's self-analysis on why Mad doesn't consider himself to be a film critic. He's just a blogger with a star fetish.

Now, if that doesn't completely satisfy your blogging needs, I've got a couple other great links for you check out:

Despite my desire to avoid double dipping, Film Intel and The m0vie Blog both tackle the possibility of Zack Snyder doing Superman.

Movie Mobsters presents the 10 scariest movie scenes in cinema! The lack of Eddie Murphy in lingerie fat suit in Norbit not being on the list brings serious validity questions.

Last, but most definitely not least, we go all the way back to last Monday with Rachel's Reel Reviews and her wonderfully designed review on The Social Network (an absolute eye treat).

Poll Update:
You do go old school! Alright!!!!

Results:
1. (tie) 6 votes: 1900 - 1920's & 1921 - 1940's (no reason to have no seen A Trip to the Moon, it's 10 minutes and even on my blog!!!!!!)
3. 2 votes: 1941 - 1960's (go on, give the pre-code era a chance, Chaplin, Keaton, King Kong, go go go!)
4. 0 votes: 1961 - Today (thank god, or I would have felt horrid if you all voted here)

New Poll: Jackass did rather well this weekend, and while I'm not a fan, I do enjoy a bit of old school slapstick humor. So I want to know - how much does slapstick humor do for you?

Delectably Awesome Poster of the Week: 

Here is one of the brand new International posters for Black Swan:

I may not be a poster collector, but if the film is even 1/50th the quality I hope it is, that poster is going on the wall, tomorrow. That's just awesome artwork. I'm sold 10 fold.


Alright, that's all I got for now. Be sure to check back later for a special announcement + link!