Not Zombies! http://www.notzombies.com General pop culture humor and snark. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:51:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 http://www.notzombies.com/movies/roger-ebert-1942-2013/ http://www.notzombies.com/movies/roger-ebert-1942-2013/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:51:48 +0000 Brian http://www.notzombies.com/?p=3513

]]> http://www.notzombies.com/movies/roger-ebert-1942-2013/feed/ 1 Manti and the Real Girl http://www.notzombies.com/humor/manti-and-the-real-girl/ http://www.notzombies.com/humor/manti-and-the-real-girl/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:19:31 +0000 Brian http://www.notzombies.com/?p=3501

Tip of the hat to Tyler.

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Haha, I don’t care where or how you vote, just vote. Multiple times, if you can, bless your cheating heart.

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Disney, who hired Muppet fanboy Jason Segel to make a Muppet movie (which was pretty great and Muppety). Disney, who allowed Marvel to hire nerd crush Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers. Disney, who bought Pixar, who still turn out really great movies (usually—Cars 2, I’m looking at you). Was John Carter perfect? No. But it was a film no other studio was willing to make (despite a devoted fan base) and they hired a really creative, unproven director (Wall-E and Nemo’s Andrew Stanton) to direct it. It was pretty good, but the marketing was AWFUL. And even Disney can’t mis-market a Star Wars movie.

Disney specializes in making giant franchise films that are well-funded, big, populace affairs. Star Wars fits in pretty perfectly.

tl;dr: it can’t be worse than Episode I. Unless this happens:

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