Posts Tagged ‘Viggo Mortensen’
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A lot has been made about Viggo Mortensen and his naked knife fight in Eastern Promises. I haven’t seen the movie, so I don’t know if it fits within context or not. It could be wholly gratuitous. Who knows? Typically you don’t see man-meat on screen unless it’s a sex scene so maybe that’s what all the talk is about. It seems somewhat out of place for an actor of Mortensen’s caliber to be running around nude for the sake of it.
Unless of course, you know… he’s a freak.
I talked to Cami about this movie and she wasnt interested in seeing it after we caught Mortensen and director David Cronenberg’s last collaboration A History of Violence on cable a few months ago. I consider it to be one of the more mild Cronenberg movie and it thoroughly disgusted her.
I *ahem* dangled the proposition of a naked Viggo on screen in Eastern Promisies and she didn’t take the bait. "I’m sorry," she said. "But girls don’t find that part of the male anatomy attractive." I’m glad she shared that with me. Now I know she’s only married to me for my money.
Just kidding. I’m poor.
Not much else for you at the moment. But I do want to encourage you to come to the site tomorrow. I have a DVD review for the John Cusack / Samuel L. Jackson haunted hotel room horror flim 1408 that I’m posting. Coincidentally, the 2-disc extended edition of 1408 comes out on DVD tomorrow. So it’s good timing!
I don’t know if you guys have noticed that I’ve been sneaking reviews into the archives recently. Last week I reviewed 30 Rock – Season One and that went over… okay. I’m hoping to do more and more of these as the weeks go on. Who knows? I might be able to turn out a couple of reviews a week if I’m lucky. Stay tuned!
I guess I haven’t been making a big deal out of that fact that I’ve been outputting comics three times a week just like I used to. Part of me feels like I need to go out there an promote it. But the other part recognizes that the transition has been somewhat sloppy. So it’s probably best to say "I’m back!" and leave it at that.
See you in the funny pages!
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Oct03
So you probably can see where this week of strips is headed, but I’ve decided I’m going to run the joke into the ground anyway. In a way it seems almost fair. Viggo Mortensen’s nude scene in Eastern Promises seems to be the most memorable thing about Eastern Promises. Why not play it to the hilt?
You can expect more wang-talk on Friday. It’s all part of my orchestrated campaign to take "wang" away from Penny Arcade.
I guess it’s a little unfair to say that the ONLY thing people are taking from Eastern Promises is the naked knife fight. Gordon and Joe both saw the movie and we discussed it at length on Monday’s Triple Feature talkcast. If you missed it, you should download it. No technical problems this time! Yay! We’re quasi-professional!
I don’t have much else for you today except I think I made the decision to go forward with redesigning the site in WordPress with the ComicPress template plugin. I’m a little intimidated because I don’t want the site to look like every other site that uses WordPress. I understand that their code is very flexible, but then you get into the "Will I break it?" paranoia. I’ve got someone helping me on the back end, but does anyone have experience designing WordPress templates on the front end? If so, drop me a line.
I probably won’t have the site redesigned until the first of 2008 anyway. But I guess I just wanted to share with you that I’ve picked a direction. Hopefully making the switch will provide a spam-free environment for a comments section, the links to social networking that I want and a more robust search engine for you guys to use.
The one thing I hesitate about? Losing the Top 50 polling information. Man, I love that.
Oh, well. I’m sure there’s a mod similar to that somewhere, right?
Have a great Wednesday!
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You didn’t think you were going to get away with a week of me talking about Viggo Mortensen’s wang without an appearance from Victor, did you? I mean, Mortensen’s character is Russian in Eastern Promises, after all. And, well, Victor is from the Ukraine, which is kind of like Russia and… maybe gay?
I swear, any more when I use Victor, his behavior gets more and more extreme while Tom’s reaction to it becomes more and more blind. I suppose I only have one person to thank for this – Brandon J. Carr. He’s the dude who came up with the Victor subplot in a guest strip way back in March of ’06. Guess what? Now he’s got his OWN comic to do that in!
You might have remembered Brandon wrote and drew the excellent Kenmore. His new comic is called Weird Adventures in Unemployment. Show him your support and get in on his comic early on. I know it’s already found a snuggly spot in MY bookmarks!
Tell you what – it’s the end of the week and I’m feelin’ kind of randy. This works out perfect because I’m also feeling generous.
I have three copies of The Sarah Silverman Program: Season One on DVD to giveaway. If you didn’t catch it earlier this year on Comedy Central, than you missed out. It was everything I like about Sarah Silverman packed neatly into 22 minute episodes. Because – let’s face it – sometimes a little bit of Sarah will go a long way.
But if your into off-color humor – you know, sort of like today’s comic! – you’ll get a kick out of this. The DVD just came out in stores this Tuesday. So if you win one, you might be the coolest kid on the block
I’m going to make this contest kind of hard on you. It has to do with the title of today’s comic – “PALOMINO.” If you can figure out the reference of the title within the context of today’s strip and e-mail it to me at theaterhopper@hotmail.com, then all of the correct answers will be thrown into a hat and three winners will be chosen at random.
Up to the challenge? Then get crackin’! It beats doing REAL work, that’s for sure!
Good luck and have a great weekend!
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