Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

Spider-Man 3. I don’t care for Kirsten Dunst, so it should be interesting to see a different romantic interest in this film. I think Sandman is a decent choice for the bad guy - but I hope they get to Mysterio soon. He’s my personal favourite.Transformers. There’s always room for giant robots. I WANT THE ORIGINAL VOICES!!!

Pan’s Labyrinth is supposed to be really good! “Del Toro has said the film has strong connections in theme to The Devil’s Backbone and should be seen as an informal sequel and some of the works he drew on for inspiration include Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths, Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan and The White People, Lord Dunsany’s The Blessing of Pan, Algernon Blackwood, Pan’s Garden, and Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son ^[4].”

No Country for Old Men is the new Coen Brothers Film. I hope it’s better than the last two, Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers. But if it’s half as good as The Big Lebowski or Miller’s Crossing I’ll be pleased as punch! But where is Buscemi, Polito and Turturro? It would be nice to see them back, no?

Gedo Senki, AKA Tales from Earthsea is a recent Studio Ghibli film. It wasn’t done by Hayao Miyazaki, but by his son. It’s based on the books by Ursula K. Leguin, of which I started to read one and it seemed decent.

Rarratouille. Cars is the only Pixar film I haven’t seen. The subject matter just doesn’t interest me. And there are way too many talking animal CGI movies, but with Patton Oswalt in the lead role, I’ll be there.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. The first FF was dreadful. Terrible. Awful. So why am I looking forward to the sequel? Good question. I guess I just love Galactus a little too much.

28 Weeks Later. Follow-up to the UK quasi-zombie flick.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Why not?

My Name is Bruce. Bruce Campbell directs and plays himself in this sort of sequel to Army of Darkness. Should be fun.

Superhero! which is apparently to superhero films what Scary Movie is to the modern thriller. With Leslie Nielson, directed by David (Airplane!/Naked Gun) Zucker.

I’m not a Harry Potter fan. I have a problem with the writing (in the movies - never read the books) and only the adult actors interest me. For me the franchise is mostly about the fantasy connection. Here’s hoping that Order of the Phoenix will be better than the others.
No Wes Anderson film this year. Sniffle.

Some interesting personal numbers from 2006

1. Girlfriends Gained: 1
2. Girlfriends Lost: 1 (not in that order)
3. Thickets shows played: 4
4. Thickets shows played with NOMEANSNO: 1
5. Mandarin classes attended: 11
6. Mandarin phrases remembered: I’ll get back to you on that…
7. Roleplaying campaigns played: 5
8. Pounds lost: 40
9. Pounds gained back: 10
10. Migraines: 5
11. Slackademics Classes: 4
12. Skinless corpses viewed: scores
13. Dollars spent on getting to and from Chilliwack to practice with the band: ~1240

THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2007

1. 2007 Saturday Morning Cartoon Party
2. Another birthday auction?
3. Zombiewalk
4. Critical Mass
5. Ukelele Circle
6. CampyCon
7. Drexoll 24 Hour Game-A-Thon
8. A new Thickets Album
9. Chris Wood’s art show
10. My Comic Book
11. Children’s Book (with Dan)
12. More Slackademics Classes (But what?? You tell me)
13. Weathertop Gaming Convention
14. Cool Movies (see next post)
15. More movies at The Rio

Got anything to add?

It’s not confirmed, but mark January 20 down on your calendar for a possible show of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets with The Hanson Brothers at the ANZA Club.

Also - wow! Check out the movie schedule today on Turner Classic Movies!

11:00am		Red Planet Mars (1952) Radio broadcasts reveal Mars to be a source of religious inspiration. Cast: Peter Graves, Herbert Berghof, Andrea King. Dir: Harry Horner. BW-87 mins, TV-PG
12:30pm		Destination Moon (1950) A crusading scientist defies the government to launch an expedition to the moon. Cast: Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson. Dir: Irving Pichel. C-92 mins, TV-G
2:00pm		Quatermass Xperiment, The (1956) A space fungus transforms an astronaut into a deadly monster. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth. Dir: Val Guest. BW-78 mins, TV-PG
3:30pm		Blob, The (1958) A misunderstood teen fights to save his town from a gelatinous monster from outer space. Cast: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe. Dir: Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. C-82 mins, TV-PG