Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

So, in the movie world, Captain Lou Albano may have been known for a few B-movies and the occasional wrestling VHS from the 80's you'll pass by in the video store, but he did have somewhat of a starring role in Brian De Palma's Wise Guys, so I feel it is relevant to my blog to mourn the loss of the man that is more famously known as the guy with the bitchin' beard in most Cyndi Lauper's videos, the iconic wrestler and wrestling manager (he's in the WWE Hall of Fame) from when the World Wrestling Federation was worth watching, and for playing Mario in TV's The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. So in honor of Albano, and since the Internet is evil, the video for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" will not embed, so here is a link. Also, check out Geekologie's article on the captain to see a few clips and a link to another article with full episodes of the Super Show on Kotaku.

MTV has an article up in which Jon Favreau confirms that he will not be sitting in the director's chair for The Avengers. Kind of a bummer, as clearly Iron Man was the best cinematic adaptation to come out of Marvel Comics yet. The title of the article would lead the reader to believe that some information on possible tie-ins Iron Man 2 with the rest of the Marvel universe would be confirmed, but Favreau really just tells us what will not happen. Still, a decent a read.

I think I may have been the only person to think that I Love You, Man wasn't the funniest movie of all time, at least if I am to believe some of the message boards I frequent. Anyhow, the cause for my disappointment in the movie may be that I just expect more from Paul Rudd and Jason Segel. Not to say that the movie wasn't funny, just in comparison to Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Role Models, films that came out in the same year as I Love You, Man, it just didn't have the same level of laughs. The high points of the movie though? Lou Ferrigno and Rashida Jones. I don't know much of Jones, other than her stint on The Office; however, after reading an article on Variety today, her nerd points just went up. Not only does Jones have a comic book created by her, starring her likeness, Frenemy of the State, but she is also currently writing a screenplay treatment for an Universal Pictures adaptation. Time to look up Frenemy of the State.

Finally, IWatchStuff has an interesting video up, supposedly done by Jordon Mechner, a writer for the Prince of Persia video game series, as a pitch trailer to movie studios. Actually makes me anxious to see Mike Newell's upcoming cinematic version. Enjoy.

Prince of Persia movie pitch trailer (2003) from jordan mechner on Vimeo.