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Mar. 25th, 2005 05:53 amNotes From an Insomniac:
Four music videos exist in the world of 3AM-6AM: the new, slow U2 one; the Killers' 'Mr. Darkside' one; the Eminem one with all the home movies, and (in a distant fourth place) the Gwen Stefani-(who really needs to read Edward Said's 'Orientalism', and get back with No Doubt, and really, just shut up, Gwen, you're embarrassing yourself)-as-pirate one. And I hate them all.
I don't think 'Mr. Darkside' is really a music video, though. Remember in 'What's Up, Tiger Lily', how the producers spliced in scenes of a psychedelic 60s band to make the movie be more appealing to the kiddies? I think something like that happened here. I think 'Mr. Darkside' is really an industrial film for new employees at a whorehouse/opium den, dramatizing what will happen to them if they start using the product.
And yet, I wish 'Pop-Up Video' was still around so I could get more information about the video. What's the symbolic significance of the apple? Who ARE all these bored, nearly comatose men sitting around watching the women? Did they decide to have the two Alpha Males play checkers because it was too obvious the lead singer had no idea how to play chess? Did they really intend for the women to dance in such a glassy-eyed, graceless way that they make the 'Thriller' zombies seem vibrant and sexy? And does Billy Corrigan know that someone's been stealing the clothes out of his closets?
Over on the Sci-Fi Channel...you know, I didn't think they could broadcast movies cheesier than 'Mansquito' (Half Human, Half Bug...All Killer!), but I'm so, so wrong. 'Pythons II' involves a mishap when 'the military tries to create the perfect killer: a 57-foot python'. This makes me wish they'd skipped the entire plot and gone right to the Senate Subcommittee hearings.
SENATOR BOXER: How would you have deployed the 57 foot snake into enemy territory, General?
GENERAL: On a given signal, a specially-trained Navy SEAL unit would have rolled it inside a 58-foot carpet and carried it across the border, Senator.
I'll also note that according to 'Howling IV' ('A New Beginning'!), the way to change into a werewolf is to completely melt, in a very painful ten minute process involving some of the worst FX I've seen since, well, 'Mansquito'. And then, slowly and painfully, a wolf skeleton will form from the goo and flesh will slowly start to grow.
This reminded me of a question I had in 'Terminator 2'--when villains are liquid, what's to keep a wiseass from scooping bits of him up in a tupperware container and carrying him off? What's left would reform, sure, but is a hamster-sized werewolf really that much of a threat, in the big scheme of things?
Four music videos exist in the world of 3AM-6AM: the new, slow U2 one; the Killers' 'Mr. Darkside' one; the Eminem one with all the home movies, and (in a distant fourth place) the Gwen Stefani-(who really needs to read Edward Said's 'Orientalism', and get back with No Doubt, and really, just shut up, Gwen, you're embarrassing yourself)-as-pirate one. And I hate them all.
I don't think 'Mr. Darkside' is really a music video, though. Remember in 'What's Up, Tiger Lily', how the producers spliced in scenes of a psychedelic 60s band to make the movie be more appealing to the kiddies? I think something like that happened here. I think 'Mr. Darkside' is really an industrial film for new employees at a whorehouse/opium den, dramatizing what will happen to them if they start using the product.
And yet, I wish 'Pop-Up Video' was still around so I could get more information about the video. What's the symbolic significance of the apple? Who ARE all these bored, nearly comatose men sitting around watching the women? Did they decide to have the two Alpha Males play checkers because it was too obvious the lead singer had no idea how to play chess? Did they really intend for the women to dance in such a glassy-eyed, graceless way that they make the 'Thriller' zombies seem vibrant and sexy? And does Billy Corrigan know that someone's been stealing the clothes out of his closets?
Over on the Sci-Fi Channel...you know, I didn't think they could broadcast movies cheesier than 'Mansquito' (Half Human, Half Bug...All Killer!), but I'm so, so wrong. 'Pythons II' involves a mishap when 'the military tries to create the perfect killer: a 57-foot python'. This makes me wish they'd skipped the entire plot and gone right to the Senate Subcommittee hearings.
SENATOR BOXER: How would you have deployed the 57 foot snake into enemy territory, General?
GENERAL: On a given signal, a specially-trained Navy SEAL unit would have rolled it inside a 58-foot carpet and carried it across the border, Senator.
I'll also note that according to 'Howling IV' ('A New Beginning'!), the way to change into a werewolf is to completely melt, in a very painful ten minute process involving some of the worst FX I've seen since, well, 'Mansquito'. And then, slowly and painfully, a wolf skeleton will form from the goo and flesh will slowly start to grow.
This reminded me of a question I had in 'Terminator 2'--when villains are liquid, what's to keep a wiseass from scooping bits of him up in a tupperware container and carrying him off? What's left would reform, sure, but is a hamster-sized werewolf really that much of a threat, in the big scheme of things?
