Worth watching: Civil rights, blizzards, Supermen
I came across three great Web videos yesterday. All of them deserve a post. I don't have that kind of time. So, you get one post, three videos.
1. Via former colleague John, The Roots cover Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around. It's an early Rolling Stone listen. Powerful mix of clips, including footage I hadn't seen before or hadn't seen in a long time. I liked the stretch away from the familiar, behind the iconic moments.
2. Via colleague Steve, the opening of a 1978 Boston TV special about that winter's massive New England blizzard. He says it's some of the best local broadcast writing he's ever heard, and I wouldn't disagree.
3. Via a random Tumblr I follow — and, yes, moving from more to less serious now, set your watches accordingly — this: "Psych yourself up for Chronicle (in theaters now!) by watching Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis’s Drunk History-esque, semi-sweded, sNSFW [this is true, kids], not-all-that-accurate retelling of The Death and Return of Superman starring Elden Henson (Fulton!), Elijah Wood, and Mandy Moore."
I know I shouldn't want to watch Chronicle, that I'm too old or mature. But I want to watch. Landis is the son of great director John Landis.
Beyond that interest, the only time I ever bought comic books as a kid was when Superman died. So, yes, this video is profane and dumb. But so good. And in full, it's not even really that dumb. Stay for the ending.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:02 PM
I'm sure John Landis is really surprised you killed him off in this blog post.
Then again, the Death of Superman killed death, soooo maybe you meant to kill John Landis?
February 6th, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Yikes. Corrected now, thank you. Director John Hughes, dead. Director John Landis, still alive. How could I do that to the man who gave me Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos, and Coming to America?
February 7th, 2012 at 7:26 PM
As well as a number of terrible "horror" movies…