June 01, 2006

Nostalgia

I've been looking up old tv shows that I used to watch...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
X Men (comic and cartoon)
Smurfs
The Wonder Years

(just surfing on whatever I feel like...).

Anyway, it was actually interesting to see who used to be on The Wonder Years...

Well of course there's Fred Savage, and then Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper).

Danica went on to get a BA in Mathematics (cool!), and had a re-occurring guest role on West Wing.

And then there are others like Juliette Lewis, Lindsay Sloane, Dustin Diamond (Screech!), David Schwimmer, Giovanni Ribisi, and Daniel Stern - all who had re-occurring roles at some point during it's 5 year run. That's pretty cool that some well-knowns began with Wonder Years.


Anyway, looking back is nice, but looking forward can be exciting too. I heard there might be a Hack! movie?? It's currently listed as comedy/horror - so does that mean it will be based on the anime/rpg game?? Or is this something different? I can't seem to find any info on it! And again, Beowulf (2007) will now be animated instead of live-action?? I don't know if that will be any better...


Movies I recently watched:
  • The DaVinci Code - the book is better - and if you really want to read a good Dan Brown book, skip The Da Vinci Code, and read Angels and Demons.
  • Thank You for Smoking - dry comedy - worth watching
  • United 93 - good if you can stomach it
  • V for Vendetta (my kind of movie!) - I love the costumes, the set designs, the whole comicy feel of it, and the socio-political themes. That was fantabulous!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

As usual I pretty much agree. V for Vendetta was probably the most surprisingly good picture I saw this year... as I really wasnt expecting much. Xmen 3 Review: Good Action, Good Characters, but too many of them and some are underused. This makes the story a little choppy. Decent though.

P.S. I was pretty sure that Daniel Stern did the voice over of Fred Savage's thoughts on the show for all the episodes. Did he actually guest appear as well?
As for Danica McKellar's character name... well I always hated it. haha kidding l8r stu

Monkey said...

I doubt Hack will be based on the game. Besides, people pronounce the game as dot Hack, and there is already an anime for dot Hack.

Hack sounds like an axe-wielding or chain-saw massacring kind of show with blood, guts, and stupid comedy...kind of like those horror spoofs.

frodowm. said...

Stu: Yea, Daniel Stern was the voice-over/narrator for Wonder Years. I think he might've appeared in the last episode?? They were grown-up...

Winnie Cooper's full name is Gwendolyne Cooper, but everyone called her Winnie.

Monkey: Yea, I assume Hack will be anything but anime/rpg game based. Oh well.