The Dark Night....

So I've seen it, you've seen it, and according to the returns a whole lot of people have seen it. 155 million dollars made this week. Is it thanks to the writing of the movie? Meh it was a great story but 155 million? Was it Christian Bale's ability to growl really loud? No in fact that got really irritating. The answer is simple Heath Ledger. It's easy to say this now because he's dead but the man was a talented genius. I've been saying that since I saw him in Monsters Ball. Heath Ledger takes an iconic role and ruins it for anyone in the future. The same thing was said about Jack Nicolson, but this time it's true.

Anyone else attempts to do this role would be ridiculous. Not to mention tacky. I'm gonna leave it at that. I know I should go into detail and right spoiler this and spoiler that, but screw you go see it. Go see it twice

Sarah Silver man and Jimmy Kimmel break up

My only guess is she was actually fucking Matt Damon. Sarah Silverman and Jimmy screw the writers Kimmel have called it quits. Yeah I know...who cares. Maybe she can date someone talented.

What's up with Paramount??

Paramount studios are not participating in this years Comic-Con in San Diego. It's not like they have an movies coming out relating to that industry......Wait? No they don't......Schmeh???? Oh yeah they got that pesky film called Star Trek coming out directed by JJ Abrams. Nahhhhh I couldn't see anyone that would go to Comic-Con being remotely interested in that particular picture. JJ was quoted as saying this on Sci-fi Wire. I love the use of the word strategic in this quote. It's seems strategy is what they are lacking

"I would have been psyched just to show some of the stuff that's about the people. Because it's not really about the visual effects. But with so little done ... . And this was a big kind of strategic decision on [Paramount's] part. so I was disappointed.

School of Rock 2

Well it's coming back School of Rock 2 is in development. Paramount announced that it would re team Scott Rudin, Jack Black, and director Richard Linklater . For those who don't remember Jack Black played Dewey Finn a loser guitar player with dreams of putting together a rock band. He stumbles upon an opportunity to make some extra money posing as a substitute teacher at a snooty prep school. After he finds out the kids can play he forms his band. I only hope that they go with either a continuation or something different. As of the end of the last film he established The School of Rock so a continuation would make more sense. However when do most Hollywood sequels ever really make sense. The script for School of Rock 2 is currently in the writing stages but I'll keep you posted.

Burn Notice: A Show everyone should be watching

So there you are a CIA agent in the middle of a buy. You pick up your cell to get some money transfered and the voice on the other end says "sorry you've been burned". Not good! Now you've got pissed of gun runners or whatever you need to think quick. That's essentially the first two minutes of the pilot for Burn Notice. Since it's debut last year it has easily become one if not the best show on TV. I know what you are thinking, when is it gonna be canceled. Here's the trip, it's not!
The show follows Michael Weston a burned CIA (not sure what that means? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_notice) agent is forced to live in Miami to fend for himself. When you get burned they freeze your assets and basically make it so you never existed. Worst part he's close to his pain in the ass Mom and good for nothing brother. His only help comes in the form of Sam (played by Evil Deads Bruce Campbell) former FBI agent, and former IRA explosives expert Fiona played by Gabrielle Anwar (girl who danced with Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman and really really really hot!). They help the helpless all along trying to find out why Micheal was burned.
Its season finale was Michael being loaded Cadillac and all into a semi truck, and began it's new season with him getting out of it. His strings are now being pulled by the very people who burned him. Seriously USA Network Thursday 9pm. Watch this show you won't be sorry

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The Bad

I start this blog by posing to you a question. Is whoever is responsible for the Of Love series of programs on VH1 a harbinger of doom? I mean seriously! Is this the end of days? I Love Money is VH1's newest reason for planned parenthood. It brings us all of our favorite scumbags from such shows as Flavor of, Rock of and I Love New York. It's VH1's answer to the Real World Road Rules competition. They are almost identical except I'm fairly certain that I Love Money has a paramedic who deals solely in STD's.

I almost firmly believe that it might be a government conspiracy to rid us of the morons of the world. Multiple shows with the bottom rung of society. We gather them together and then when they aren't looking we gas the place and improve test score nation wide. The latest debacle pitted the two teams against one another on an elevated bed so they could hit each other with flower like jousting sticks. This moronic game plays as a homage to Flavor of Love 2 when some skank slapped some ho and there were flowers present. Well the Green Team prevailed leaving Destiny( Rock of Love S2) to pick Pumkin,( the one who spit on New York FOL s1) Toastee (FOL s2) everyone's favorite drunken porn acting sprite, and Nibblz ( FOL s2) the one who got Toastee kicked off the last show. Now let me say Destiny looks better without all that make up, and of course not straddling Bret Michaels. I'm just saying she looks good, I don't even drink tap water.

It all came to a head when the girls were asked to plead for their survival. Pumkin lied and said she had an eating disorder, and Toastee faked a ankle injury securing the top two spots.You hear that? Destiny was outsmarted by those two women, only in America.All this leaving creepy Nibblz to take that long walk of shame home to her very lucrative dominatrix career, and her boyfriend who she refers to as Daddy.(Eww) That's it!!! I feel dumber writing about it as you feel i'm sure reading it. Tune in next week when some one disrespects someone else and fighting ensues. I got an idea for a show VH1 I Love Euthanasia.

The Good

This week marks a new frontier in entertainment. From the mind that brought you Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and coming soon to a canceled list near you The Doll house; Joss Whedon has created Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Doogie Howser's Neil Patrick Harris ( or most affectionately NPH) plays Dr. Horrible a sort of super villan tired of being beat up by Nathan Fillion's super character Captain Hammer. He also longs to be with or at least talk to laundromat girl Penny played by Felica Day of BTVS season 6 and the award winning The Guild. (more about that later)

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog shows you what a motivated artist, his famous actor friends, and a computer can do. It also by-passes those jerk bags at the networks who wouldn't know a good show if it was sitting on their faces. ( AHEM! Fox I'm looking at you) Dr. Horrible premiers this week July 15th on doctorhorrible.com The remaining two acts will go up the 17th and then end on the 19th. Now here's where it gets kind of cool. It's totally free. It'll be up till the 20th and the just as quickly as it showed up, it vanishes. ( cue OOOOOOOOO sound) You may ask yourself a couple of questions: Why free? And Free why?. Well to answer that I'll let Joss himself tell how the Doc came to be.

*Segment provided by doctorhorrible.net

Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were very polite about it, though.) During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King system.

Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic. A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too few.

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

So make sure you check it out. I know I will

Stationary Rock the Blog

We here at Stationary Rock are here to bring you what's important. Pop Culture is the backbone of our society. It brings us together in dialog. Hey did you see LOST last night? Two people who usually have nothing to say to one another now have something in common. We strongly admit that there are some outlets of Pop Culture slowly but surely numbing our brains. We however fully intend on calling that crap out. (AHEM! I Love Money) So please enjoy as we waste our time watching the crap on TV, listening to music you will most likely download, and see the movies you shouldn't. We are Stationary Rock