This cold spell is making it feel a lot like Christmas in the city.
I am also in incredible denial that 2011 is about to end.
Jimmy Fallon hosted “Saturday Night Live” last night. His appearance was (a) kind of funny, but there were a couple of pointless and not good sketches, and I didn’t watch the whole thing.
But: (b) the Weekend Update Joke-Off was great – Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon vs. Seth Myers and Amy Poehler!
Check out this post over at “Entertainment Weekly”: a photo of Jinx, in the G.I. movie sequel, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” along with an embedded video of Jinx’s appearance in the cartoon movie. I have a weird feeling about this, I must say, because that cartoon movie was hilariously ridiculous and dramatic all at once and so the idea of Jinx in the live-action one partly intrigues me (not that I ever got around to watching the original G.I. live-action movie, so watching a sequel doesn’t quite have an appeal for me).
Jinx is an Asian American serving with the Joes, but I had no idea that her comic book version is a little different from her cartoon movie version. Nonetheless:
(1) seeing GI Joe reruns from the 1980’s on the HUB on cable is strangely entertaining – 1980’s redux!;
(2) they’re really making a sequel to that live action GI Joe movie? Really?; and
(3) for the sequel, they’re really taking a character from the cartoon movie, and made her sexier than she was in the cartoon. (for box office purposes, of course; not like we really want more camp for the Joes).
Seeing the trailer for the “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” movie was odd, because it seems to be a plot taken out of the A-Team (and a plot that “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” is also doing; and yes, I do want to see the latest Mission Impossible movie): the Joes have been accused of a crime that they did not commit. Aww. The level of camp in this trailer is escalating with every moment or scene; it such such eye-rolling camp that I can’t tell if that’s supposed to be good. I’ll keep my ridiculous 1980’s stuff, thanks…
But, really: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in this movie?
Also, it’s not really Christmas until I’ve seen a “Nutcracker” somewhere on tv. Always a weird fun…
An early wish for 2012 (besides avoiding the Mayan prediction of the endtimes and continuing the perpetual wish for world peace, which ain’t happening anyway): please don’t let “The Dark Knight Rises” suck.