Various items for your amusement

Happy April 20 to you! For some of you, 4/20 means celebrating marijuana. For others, it means celebrating Hitler’s birthday. For still others, it means celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Whatever your celebration of choice, I hope you are able to spend it with friends and loved ones, stoned.

Speaking of Columbine, one of the movies that got blamed for it was “The Basketball Diaries” — which, coincidentally was released April 21, 1995, and is the subject of this week’s edition of Eric’s Time Capsule at Film.com.

Last week’s Time Capsule was “James and the Giant Peach.” You may recall that this film was blamed when a disturbed youth hijacked a giant peach and rolled over his aunts with it.

Filling in for the ailing Mike Russell, I appeared on KUFO’s Cort & Fatboy program Friday to discuss “State of Play” and “Crank: High Voltage.” You can hear it in the C&F podcast, available here. I show up about two-thirds of the way in. (If you download it, I’m at 38:45.)

My late reviews of “Crank: High Voltage” and “17 Again” are also online, for your approval.

Elsewhere, Eugene Novikov summarizes the weekend box office in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.

Here’s FX’s safe-for-TV edit of Samuel L. Jackson’s famous line from “Snakes on a Plane.”

At Post Modern Barney, there is a list of uncomfortable plot summaries (some of them involving adult language). For example, “The Empire Strikes Back”: Boy is abused by midget, kisses sister, attempts patricide.

Finally, my 2-year-old nephew Logan says: “Wait, what?”

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9 Responses to “Various items for your amusement”

1. Mary Says:
   April 20th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

   This is actually my birthday. Ha ha. Woe is me, except the marijuana part.

2. Rob D. Says:
   April 20th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

   That “Snakes on a Plane” edit is awesome! That’s why there were snakes on that plane. It makes so much sense now. On the weekends, that plane is just sitting on the ground abandoned. Any ole reptile has easy access to it.

3. Jenn Says:
   April 20th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

   I loved “James & the Giant Peach”!! I have it on authority (okay my sister), that it is a movie to best be enjoyed while under the influence of marijuana, as is “Alice in Wonderland”. In fact, most Disney movies apparently are best enjoyed under the influence, especially if you are taking four six year olds to the theater to watch any of them. Have to remember that when “Up” comes out & have to take my nephews & neice………

4. happyman Says:
   April 21st, 2009 at 1:43 pm

   While most of those movie descriptions are clearly distorted (at least the ones I actually know anything about) how is Fight Club’s actually wrong?

5. happyman Says:
   April 21st, 2009 at 1:43 pm

   The uncomfortable movie descriptions, I mean.

6. Jacob Says:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 am

   I think your nephew is channeling Calvin.

7. Momma Snider Says:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   What a cute boy that Logan is!

8. Clumpy Says:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 pm

   Great opening paragraph.

9. happyman Says:
   April 24th, 2009 at 8:42 am

   Eric, you may be glad to know that this page is the top google result for the search

   You may recall that this film was blamed when a disturbed youth hijacked a giant peach and rolled over his aunts with it.

   The fact that the next link is also about James and the Giant Peach is actually something of a miracle. They quickly fade into irrelevance.