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So, most of you could recall that I was taking a course in website development. That was all fine and dandy except, I could never pass the qualifying test. So, I took it three times and didn't succeed. Luckily the school that I was taking the course from said that I, for free, could repeat the course and then try again on those tests.
That was awfully nice of them, don't you think?
However, as of this past Wednesday, I get a simple email that details the demise of the school and how it will be closed indefinitely.
(I could have went with a Toht or a Scanners head explosion, but this Vader one does it for me.)
*sigh* So, that's been my week. Thinking about what to do next in my life. Weighing future options and soul searching about what avenue to go down next.
So, if anyone has any career advice, let me know. I'm attempting to get a full refund (15 g's), but we'll see how that works out.
For you all, I'll pull a movie out of my list and reflect about that for a while. No need to get all wishy washy.
#30 (of 51) Mystery Men
Let me list off a few people in this movie: Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Jeannine Garafalo, Greg Kinnear, Eddie Izzard, Geoffry Rush, Tom Waits, Kel Mitchell, and Paul Reubens.
Yes, that Paul Reubens. Pee Wee Fucking Herman.
This was during that time where his incident at the porno theater had been a distant memory and he was slowly creeping back into the mainstream. He did the movie Blow (with Johnny Depp) and then he followed it up with this one.
It also had cameos by Artie Lange, Ricky Rachtman, and a pre-anything Dane Cook. He is the superhero known as The Waffler, and is probably the only thing people remember about this movie.
With that cast, how could this movie have bombed? Its superheroes! How could that have gone wrong.
Well, it has wannabee heroes in it. Not a name brand in there. Even though the film itself was based off a comic book that was a branch off of the Flaming Carrot indy comics. (Flaming Carrot was a superhero with a head that was in the shape of a Carrot...that...was...on fire.) The comic featured a group of heroes with the highest mortality rating of all time and they were called the Mystery Men because no one knew their names, due to the fact they kept dying off. Its pretty funny.
So, to make a movie based on that was kind of laughable. The only thing they had going for it was the great ensemble cast mentioned above and a plot about wannabee superheroes. As Macy said about it in the supplement materials on the dvd, "When I tell people I'm in a superhero movie they kind of groan, but when I say its about wannabee superheroes people get excited." It has a lot of spirit and the characters are great. Tom Waits (yes, the musician) is a weapons designer who makes non-lethal weapons, Hank Azaria's character throws forks around, and Kel Mitchell's Invisible Boy can only turn invisible when absoultely no one is watching (including himself.)
The film bombed spectacularly. However, me being a superhero freak the movie looked awesome to only me. The Smash Mouth song "All-Star" had just hit the air waves, and was a tie-in to the movie. I had watched a lot of TRL in those days, therefore I really wanted to see this movie because it was featured prominently in the music video. I had to wait until Pay-Per-View to see it for the first time and from then on I was hooked. I recall now, that this film was one of the last VHS tapes I ever bought. It was a sad day when I spilled mountain dew on it and thus ruined the VCR. Way to go, 11 year old me.
I like this mainly because of the cast, the characterizations, and the way it was filmed. The sets are all well designed have a lot of details. This is mainly done because the director, Kinka Usher (his first and only feature length that he directed) was a popular commercial director at the time and his trademark was to fill the screen with as much stuff as possible. Also, this guy invented the Taco Bell talking dog campaign. He was also friends with Michael Bay, who shows up in a small cameo.
Check out the trailer:
So, if anyone has any career advice, let me know. I'm attempting to get a full refund (15 g's), but we'll see how that works out.
For you all, I'll pull a movie out of my list and reflect about that for a while. No need to get all wishy washy.
#30 (of 51) Mystery Men
Let me list off a few people in this movie: Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Jeannine Garafalo, Greg Kinnear, Eddie Izzard, Geoffry Rush, Tom Waits, Kel Mitchell, and Paul Reubens.Yes, that Paul Reubens. Pee Wee Fucking Herman.
This was during that time where his incident at the porno theater had been a distant memory and he was slowly creeping back into the mainstream. He did the movie Blow (with Johnny Depp) and then he followed it up with this one.
It also had cameos by Artie Lange, Ricky Rachtman, and a pre-anything Dane Cook. He is the superhero known as The Waffler, and is probably the only thing people remember about this movie.
With that cast, how could this movie have bombed? Its superheroes! How could that have gone wrong.
Well, it has wannabee heroes in it. Not a name brand in there. Even though the film itself was based off a comic book that was a branch off of the Flaming Carrot indy comics. (Flaming Carrot was a superhero with a head that was in the shape of a Carrot...that...was...on fire.) The comic featured a group of heroes with the highest mortality rating of all time and they were called the Mystery Men because no one knew their names, due to the fact they kept dying off. Its pretty funny.
So, to make a movie based on that was kind of laughable. The only thing they had going for it was the great ensemble cast mentioned above and a plot about wannabee superheroes. As Macy said about it in the supplement materials on the dvd, "When I tell people I'm in a superhero movie they kind of groan, but when I say its about wannabee superheroes people get excited." It has a lot of spirit and the characters are great. Tom Waits (yes, the musician) is a weapons designer who makes non-lethal weapons, Hank Azaria's character throws forks around, and Kel Mitchell's Invisible Boy can only turn invisible when absoultely no one is watching (including himself.)
The film bombed spectacularly. However, me being a superhero freak the movie looked awesome to only me. The Smash Mouth song "All-Star" had just hit the air waves, and was a tie-in to the movie. I had watched a lot of TRL in those days, therefore I really wanted to see this movie because it was featured prominently in the music video. I had to wait until Pay-Per-View to see it for the first time and from then on I was hooked. I recall now, that this film was one of the last VHS tapes I ever bought. It was a sad day when I spilled mountain dew on it and thus ruined the VCR. Way to go, 11 year old me.
I like this mainly because of the cast, the characterizations, and the way it was filmed. The sets are all well designed have a lot of details. This is mainly done because the director, Kinka Usher (his first and only feature length that he directed) was a popular commercial director at the time and his trademark was to fill the screen with as much stuff as possible. Also, this guy invented the Taco Bell talking dog campaign. He was also friends with Michael Bay, who shows up in a small cameo.
Check out the trailer:
