So, there was a more deliberate choice to not post yesterday as opposed to my general laziness. I scored a pass to see Nobody 2 and I was waiting to post so I could throw out here my review. And here it is.
Speaking of my laziness, I still haven’t watched Nobody. I know, I’m terrible piece of shit for having not watched it yet. I will. I’ve always enjoyed Bob Odenkirk in the things I’ve seen of him before but this film made me truly a fan. He portrays this character perfectly. Playing the the middle-aged, unconfident father against the hyper violence of the covert cleaner is a tricky dichotomy to balance and he pulls it off. The other big thing is the violence specifically. In the establishing fight scenes, they were just enough slapstick to keep the flow of the action interesting without relying too heavily on just escalating the violence. Honestly, I was thinking the whole time just how reminiscent of Jackie Chan’s films these fight sequences are. Dynamic and amusing, and THEN you realize that someone just got dismembered by the shrapnel of an exploding car. But then with the final conflict, the violence gets perfectly escalated. There are number of very creative kills in this sequence. Truly an homage to the now classic climaxes of the great summer smash action movies that I grew up watching in the eighties and nineties. The setting and the story of this film are by no means cliché. Setting this film in an amusement park speaks most specifically to many of my childhood fantasies of fighting ninja on flume rides and crossing blades with pirates on ferris wheels. All in all, this is a fantastic film! Fun and entertaining, technically well executed, and now it’s one of my favorites. And if this is the last thing Christopher Lloyd does before his absolutely deserved retirement, I believe he has now officially done it all. Long story short, I very much enjoyed this movie and strongly recommend it to everyone with sufficient constitution to watch this degree of violence.
I’m on another work trip and will be in San Diego for a few days. It’s looking like by Tuesday I’ll have another update on Bottle Cap’s progress. And for new readers here, Bottle Cap is my shiny charmander on my primary Pokémon GO account to whom I gave the new bottle cap item. We’ve been making good progress training him up to four stars or as some would register it, 100% IV. In short, that determines the maximum potential of a pokémon in GO. I wrote on all of this a few weeks ago when we started this endeavor. At any rate, new update on our progress next Tuesday.
Also, I’m still looking for suggestions of topics to discuss in my panel for Los Angeles Comic Con. The title for my panel is Podcasting for Beginners. I’m looking to answer to any questions anyone has about starting up their own podcasts. If any of you have any questions about podcasting, feel free to send those questions to me via e-mail, timflood@comedyshedradio.com. Any questions I get I’ll answer on mic in the panel. I’m planning to record the panel and release in the Redstone Diaries feed. The organizers haven’t released the scheduling yet but ideally we’ll be able advertise that information soon. I can’t wait! This is going to be so much fun!
