The Wolfman's got nards!

[vovat]

As per usual, bethje and I watched the latest movie that we'd gotten from Netflix this weekend. This time, it was Monster Squad, another one of those eighties movies with a group of kids having crazy adventures. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty amusing. I didn't get why Dracula was always blowing stuff up instead of sucking blood, though.

The season premieres of both The Simpsons and Family Guy aired tonight, so I might as well say a few words about them. The former was pretty decent. I think I might be past the point where I expect there to be anything amazing in new episodes; I just hope for a story that holds together, keeps everyone in character, and has a sufficient number of successful jokes. I'd say this one meets all of those criteria, although I think it was kind of a cop-out that Homer never admitted to Marge that he didn't get the new job. I guess we've seen enough episodes where Homer has to come clean that it wouldn't really have added that much anyway, though.

I didn't have incredibly high hopes for the Family Guy episode, since even though I thought they'd done some great Star Wars jokes in the past, the show tends to be strongest when it works in a lot of different references instead of just doing an episode-length parody (or, in this case, a two-episode-length parody). I actually quite enjoyed it, though. There were some good riffs on the more ridiculous moments in the first movie. It's weird that Rush Limbaugh actually agreed to do a voice, but maybe he's a Star Wars fan. I actually remember Seth MacFarlane mentioning on Countdown that Rush was willing to do a voice on FG, but Bill O'Reilly wasn't.

Okay, that's all for now. For my next entry, I'm thinking of talking about some of the more obscure board and card games I played as a kid. Or would that be dreadfully uninteresting?

Comments

[zimbra1006.livejournal.com]

I *LOVED* the Monster Squad when I was little. I haven't seen it since I was about 10 though so it is quite possible it is not as badass as I recall.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I appreciated the Vacation reference in Family Guy. At least that was something for me to get.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

We saw the promos from those shows while we were watching the football game and thought they looked promising, but we ended up watching the Ken Burns WWII thing on PBS. We be the intellectual-type nerds.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I missed a lot of the kids' movies from the eighties when I was an actual kid, and my reactions to them now are probably a lot different from what they would have been if I'd seen them then.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

And it's not nerdy to spend Sunday night watching cartoons?

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

It is, but not as INTELLECTUALLY nerdy.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've learned a lot from The Simpsons over the years! Not from Sunday's episode in particular, though, I'll admit.