A letter from my Inner Fanboy

Dear Blogger Readers.

Thank you for stopping by and reading this entry.  This blog is not being written by Will himself but rather me, his inner fan boy.

Did you pause? Comic con was a few weeks ago with their pop culture extravaganza announcements.  Disney’s expo is next month with a scheduled Star Wars presentation.  The question is why am I geeking out today?

The answer is the debut of the full length trailer for Spectre.  I know people who get excited for the comic book movies and to an extent I do as well.  However they interest me more as event cinema and I am excited for Star Wars.  After all though none of those hold a flame to the greatest spy Mr James Bond.

I stayed up way to late to watch the debut of the trailer.  It came online at approx 3am.  Why 3 am?  That’s because it made its debut in the UK at 8am local time.  Time traveling back the five hour time difference makes it 3 am here in North Carolina.

I must of watched it half a dozen times before turning off the computer and bonding with the inside of my eye lids.

I loved everything about the trailer.  I love that it featured appearances from the new M, Moneypenny, & Q and of course show cased the return of Daniel Craig as the super spy.  The action teases where excited me as well.  The return of Sam Mendez (Skyfall) to the directors chair tells me he knows what he is doing.

This one features plenty of homages to the 007 features of yesteryear.  Live & Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun were both represented.  They are my two favorites of the Roger Moore era.  The music was a slight remix of the music from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, my favorite film in the history of the fifty plus year franchise.  Also Daniel Craig sported the same tux style that Sean Connery did in Diamonds are Forever.  Exciting!!

Then of course there is SPECTRE itself.  The organization returns for the first time since Sean Connery was being tailored for the Bond tux.  The film looks to continue to explore the past of Bond.  It makes since that the organization bent on world domination would return. 

I conclude with Christoph Waltz.  He was featured more in this trailer.  It’s perfect casting him as a Bond villain.  Time will tell if he will be portraying the ultimate nemesis Blofeld.

Is it Nov 6 yet?

Sincerely 

Will’s inner fanboy.

Cinematic Changes of Taste

While hosting the 77th Annual Academy Awards Chris Rock stated in his opening remarks “Remember when you were young and every movie was magical, every movie was great?  Then you grow up and realize Rocky V sucked.”  I stumbled upon this quote recently while watching Oscar clips on youtube.  It got me thinking about how my tastes have changed over the years, in particular how they’ve changed since I was a smaller, but just as cute and charming, version of myself.

Let’s get the embarrassing fact that a smaller, more naive, version of the author of this piece, once enjoyed Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.  I still had high school on the horizon was somewhere around the starting line of puberty.  Ok no more excuses just know that I've since come to my senses. 

Other then coming into my own about what a bad movie that was The Phantom Menace, how else have my tastes changed?  Movies such as Back to the Future part III(not the first two just number three), EdTV, and the 1996 release of The Island of Dr Moreau no longer their flame in my eyes glaze.  Even Robin Williams, my hero of film, was in Flubber, a movie for which I have long lost my fondness.  However with that title I do have the poster autographed by the legend himself.  That point of pride will never change.  In some cases it’s probably for the best I have moved forward with my tastes.

On another side of the coin there are movies that still hold my attention and hold it well.  Somewhere around the same time as The Phantom Menace release a little comedy called Waking Ned Devine hit screens.  I pull my dvd off the shelf and giggle with anticipation of watching it.  It was also my awkward middle school days were I developed my man crush on the James Bond franchise.  The love for those films hasn’t weakened by time but rather strengthened.  Even movies from when I was a little Will still are great to rewatch.  Examples include the original War of the Worlds, Ghostbusters, The Princess Bride, and yup yup yup The Land Before Time.

I’ve also grown to appreciate such fine films as Jaws, Alien, and pretty much most of the Coen brothers resume.  

In the end changing cinematic tastes is a natural part of my life and seems to change with different phases of life.  I look forward to those tastes continuing to evolve with the untold chapters of life yet to live.