As the geek room comes together, I wanted to share a little Nakatomi and Acme love… Huge thanks to Time Doyle, Nick Derington, Mark Daniels, and Marke Steele.
Nakatomi, Inc:
It’s Always Sunny on Mars, Yo Gabba Gabba Muno, Somebody Wake Up Hicks
Acme Archives Direct:
Lair of the Rancor
More to come, including Danny Miller’s Zombies of the Walking Dead series 1
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Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!
Thursday night I finally got to see The Cabin in the Woods. I wasn’t able to see it in the theaters and I’d been avoiding as many spoilers as possible so I was pretty excited to finally watch the film. I loved it! I got a kick out of it. The cast was great, the dialogue was great, the guys in the control room were great, the monsters were great. It really is a lot of fun. But something hung with me after I watched it and I couldn’t help but feel like I’d seen it before. I slept on it and in the morning it occurred to me- Angel season 5.
The last couple of episodes before Angel ends are among my favorite in the series and Not Fade Away is probably my favorite finale episode. I really liked the idea of Angel alienating everyone and pretending to join the Circle of the Black Thorn, then throwing away the prophecy and taking on the Apocalypse. “I get to slay the dragon,” is a great piece of final dialogue and then you see the hordes of demons and monsters and dragons rush the screen. Fade to black. Great episode. And I think it shares a lot of similarities with The Cabin in the Woods.
So let me break this down and let’s see if you agree with me…
First, the organization. Though never explicitly named, you might as well call them Wolfram & Hart. They’re a subversive organization whose purpose is appeasing the “ancient ones” with human sacrifice. They have international branches equipped with underground temples and every horrifying creature you could ever imagine. See… Holfram & Hart.
Second, the underground temple. When the camera pulls away to reveal the channels where the blood flows from each character’s glyph, the symbol looks A LOT like the symbol the Circle of the Black Thorn used to identify themselves. And I mean, A LOT!
Third, the elevator bank. When Smokey and Ginger (and I know those aren’t their names) simultaneously release all of the creatures, they flood out of 6 or 8 elevator banks into an open lobby; a very similar set up to the lobby of Wolfram & Hart.
Fourth, the ancient ones. Okay, I wasn’t crazy about the ending of Cabin. I didn’t like the kids giving up. I would’ve preferred it if Dana killed Marty, and then took out the Director. But, they sat there and let the Apocalypse come and the giant hand broke through the ground, destroyed the cabin and blam-o! we’re in full fledged end of the world mode now. While Angel and the gang didn’t release all the creatures to take over the world at the end of season 5, they still got loose and started killing everything. Kinda similar.
And finally, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard. These dudes used to write on Angel together! I’m sure there are a hundred episodes that these guys wanted to make that never left the writers room and I’m sure some of them stayed with them. If you swap the college kids for Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Illyeria, Lorne and Spike you’d have a full fledged Angel movie.
Cabin has enough satirical, meta twists and turns and crazy theories attached to it, I’m sure it’s okay for one more: I think it’s an unused Angel script.
What do you think?
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Today marks the 27th anniversary of the first episode G.I. Joe and the first appearance of my favorite Joe, Shipwreck.
Bravo Zulu, shipmate.
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Batman #251, September 1973, cover by Neal Adams
I just bought a 24 x 36 print of this for the geek-room. Tumblr validates my awesome taste.
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Watch all the way through.
(Memebase)
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A grown man can cry when Jedi are involved. A father returns home from Afghanistan after being deployed for a year and surprises his son dressed as a Jedi.
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This is one seriously effective campaign to get The Walking Dead (and everything AMC) back on Dish! Network. AMC = Awesome!
(fashionablygeek.com)
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007: Skyfall
Watch it. Repeatedly.
(slashfilm.com)
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Sci-fi Movie posters in Cartoon Style
By Ïve Bastrash
So, I was a little flakey about last week’s playlist and by flakey, I mean, I didn’t do one. So this week, I’ve done a random, alphabetic playlist. 26 songs, in alphabetic order, chosen at random on my iPod.
Enjoy!
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
B.O.B. - Outkast
Chick Habit - April March
Darkness Into Light - Matisyahu
Everything is Alright - Motion City Soundtrack
F-Stop Blues - Jack Johnson
Gatheration - Lady Sovereign
Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
I Love College - Asher Roth
Jack O Lantern’s Weather - 311
The Kids Are Sick Again - Maximo Park
LDN - Lily Allen
Murder In The City - The Avett Brothers
No Sunlight - Death Cab for Cutie
O’ Sister - City and Colour
Potion Approaching - The Arctic Monkeys
Quiet Dog - Mos Def
Rain When I Die - Alice in Chains
The Seed 2.0 - Person L
Those Lungs - Alkaline Trio
Untitled - Interpol
Vultures - John Mayer Trio
We’ve Got A Big Mess on Our Hands - The Academy Is…
X & Y - Coldplay
Yeah Yeah You Would - Diddy Dirty Money
Zak and Sara - Ben Folds Five
http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Alphabet1/75843687
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