Saturday, October 03, 2009

Zombieland Movie Should Be Incredibly Funny

When I was looking at some of Billy Murray's credits on IMDb.com a couple months back I noticed that he had a role in a movie called "Zombieland" and the name of his character was "a zombie". I was immediately intrigued. Not jsut because it was a comedy about Zzombies, but because I love Bill Murray, and if anyone could make "a zombie" absolutely hilarious it would be him. It has changed to "himself" now, which is still fine I guess. Himself as a zombie I must guess. Of course this is more of a cameo role, and from what I gather it is an amazing appearance that wasn't supposed to be spoiled. Obviously being listed as a cast member on IMDb.com makes it a moot point for spoilers. I'm guessign that he is a salesman selling the best weight loss pill to zombies...lol

Anyways, Zombieland has a pretty well known cast as it is outside of Murray's cameo. It stars Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin. Woody Harrelson is probably brilliant in this movie too as he is just a very entertaining guy in roles like this I think.

If you happened upon another movie with a few stars (Bruce Willis) that was a horror/comedy in Grindhouse: Planet Terror I think we are in for the same treat here. Grindhouse wasn't nearly this big when it came out though as I never even heard of tit until it hit DVD and was on the torrent sites.

It opened yesterday and almost every review I have seen says it is HILARIOUS. I wouldn't expect anything less from this concept, or this crew. It is going to be amazing. Hopefully a true comedy classic.

David Letterman: Is Making it a Joke Better Than Apology in America?

I know we all know that America is VERY forgiving of celebrities. They will let any one off no matter how ridiculous and unconvincing their apology is. It is to the point that people are expected to apologize for the most ridiculous things. While watching these apologies you KNOW they don't mean it, but it is part of the game. You make the apology, you are forgiven for the most part. Even if people doubt your sincerity, they will still let you off the hook eventually just because you apologized like someone just needs to run a barcode scanner over your arm and say "Yup...he made an apology, back to normal.". It's a fascinating cultural thing that I always find completely ludicrous.

Has David Letterman upped the bar on getting caught doing something that most would expect him to apologize for? While the women he has sex with is none of my business, and more power to the guy, I find his way of joking about it to be far superior to the canned apologies we hear daily from celebs that could care less about what they di, or why people think it is wrong.

Letterman was apparently being blackmailed for $2 Million by a colleague for having sex with some women that he works with. The blackmailer sent him a letter saying that he "knows he did very bad things." and that he was going t tell the world if he didn't get paid off. Instead of cowering to the public and bending over to give them an apology, what did Letterman do? He read the letter on air and then JOKED about the situation. Making light of it by saying:

"I have had sex with women who worked on this show," Letterman told the audience matter-of-factly. "And would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would. Especially for the women."

Winner. Better than an apology, or anything else people want from these people. You don't know them. They don't have any responsibility to you in accordance to their sex lives. It's complete lunacy to expect someone to be sorry for enjoying a bit of sex. That is if you aren't religious...