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Music is music. Who really cares if it comes from a fake band or not? Maybe it’s not the person’s real voice, fingers playing the guitar or the band is made up of a bunch of actors and haven’t even gone on tour.

Most of you are probably a little too old (or cooler than me) to remember that MTV had a fictional boy band movie called “2gether” back in ‘99 in the height of the boy band craze. Naturally, being a teeny bopper 14-year-old, I fell victim and was in love with the faux pop group. Their songs made fun of the typical, sugar coated and nearly sexually explicit songs of their real counterparts. Even if you hate this kind of pop music, you have to appreciate the humor of it all:

FYI, I still have their CD and movie. Moving along! Here are my favorite fake bands:
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It’s no secret when a movie tells you that it was based on a true story, you need to take that with a grain of salt. While, yes, some things are true, Hollywood needs to spice things up a little bit for the viewing audience. Still, it adds more realism to a piece of fiction. It makes us wonder, “This could happen to me” or “There are really people out there like this.”

An excellent example of this is “The Amityville Horror.” Knowing that there was truth behind this horrific plot made the movie even scarier. Who cares if the movie wasn’t entirely accurate? Still incredibly scary. In fact, instead of showing a clip from the movie, here’s an interview with Kathleen and George Lutz who’s story was the basis for the original movie.

Can you handle the truth? Here’s the rest of the list:\
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It’s one of those unanswerable questions like what came first, the chicken or the egg? Is the book really better than the movie it’s made into? I say, why cant’ both be equally great?

One of my favorite Chuck Palahniuk books will be released as a film next month, “Choke”. The trailer seems promising:

But what about all those other great movies that was spurned from fantastic books? They’re never exactly the same, which should always be the goal when a filmmaker tackles such a project.

Here are my favorite flicks based on novels:
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From today’s b, the paper

Tropic Thunder” traffics in stereotypes — Jack Black’s “fart movie” comic, Ben Stiller’s washed-up action hero, Tom Cruise’s bloated studio boss — but those are scarcely the ones drawing attention to Stiller’s satire of Hollywood, Vietnam films and pampered actors.
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Thanks, AP

Upcoming film “Tropic Thunder” features Robert Downey Jr. playing a white, Australian actor portraying a black actor. Is blackface ever acceptable in any form, especially entertainment?

Madden '09 is released Tuesday

From today’s b, the paper

“Madden 2009” release
Sorry ladies, but it’s that time of year when you lose all contact with your significant other for a month or so. The latest installment of the addictive Madden football video games series — EA Sports’ answer to crystal meth — debuts on Tuesday with new features such as online leagues , as well as the same in-depth and realistic game play that has made “Madden” the top-selling sports series of the past 20 years. {MATT VENSEL, B}
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Fanboy Feasting No. 12

Alright, I get it. Now that George Lucas and the folks at Lucasfilm have hit audiences worldwide with, now, two trilogies, a wealth of both good and bad video games and a seemingly endless supply of toys and collectibles, they’re looking to expand their already massive reach over fanboys, sci-fi geeks and simple fans to an even younger audience.

That’s the reason Star Wars: The Clone Wars was even made, right? I have mixed feelings…

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There have been several instances where I’ve been introduced to some great tunes thanks to a movie I was watching. Not necessarily movie theme songs a la “My Heart Will Go On”, more like a really good choice on the director’s (or whoever) part to include some rockin’ music. Read the rest of this entry »