If you’re sitting in an airport (American, I suppose only) this morning, wondering why you’re sitting there and not on a plane that was supposed to leave on time, it seems to be a glitch in the FAA’s flight plan computer system; it’s causing delays and cancellations nationwide. If they won’t open the bars yet, I hope you bought a flask for it could be a long day. Too bad this didn’t happen sooner, I could’ve used another day or two in Maui. (Thanks, mom)

I don’t know what to say about this remake of a very good, very influential movie, other than to say you could see it coming with blinders on and it looks like utter crap.

Okay, okay. The movie itself doesn’t look bad, but that trailer. My god. I’m no rocket scientist but what is up with the Limp Bizkit score and the movie’s tagline: “Titans Will Clash”? The movie is called Clash of the Titans and the best the marketing department could come up with as a slogan/tagline is titans will clash. Jesus H. Christ someone should be fed to the guillotine.

Also? Is Sam Worthington the real deal or is he just the latest in a string of Hollywood male leads they are really trying to jam down my throat. It was hard to tell with the latest Terminator, but we’ll get a really good look with Avatar and now this. Still, if anyone has seen Somersault then you know the guy is capable of delivering a nuanced and subtle acting performance.

Amy Adams is, without reservation, poised to inherit the romantic comedy crown Julia Roberts was more than willing to walk away from.  And after sitting through the dreck of Night at the Museum 2 where Adams’s plucky Amelia Earhart was the only redeeming thing, it’s evident she could act her way out of a Chinese prison camp (do those even exist?!?) with both hands tied behind her back.

Adams is a revelation and there is nothing wrong with the plucky heroines she portrays time and time again.  It’s a rare quality that few actresses can believably pull off and do so without being annoying.  I would watch her in just about anything, even if we already can tell how the movie will end.

The Wall Street Journal sits down with author Cormac McCarthy on the eve of his novel The Road having its movie adaptation in theaters.  I know next to nothing of the man and author, save for his bleak and nihilistic view of life through his novels, but I wish to know him better after reading this.

“I have a great sympathy for the spiritual view of life, and I think that it’s meaningful. But am I a spiritual person? I would like to be. Not that I am thinking about some afterlife that I want to go to, but just in terms of being a better person,” he says.  “I have friends at the Institute. They’re just really bright guys who do really difficult work solving difficult problems, who say, “It’s really more important to be good than it is to be smart.” And I agree it is more important to be good than it is to be smart. That is all I can offer you.”

The entire interview is filled with fantastic chestnuts ready to be opened.

It’s that kind of day and trying to jump back into the swing of things so quickly after vacation is hard work.

Whilst on vacation I saw a commercial for a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii and it featured four players playing simultaneously.  Holy moly, I almost ran out and bought the game and a Wii on the spot.  The game is only $47 on Amazon.com.

Paul Nicklen, a contributing photographer for National Geographic, talks about his wild sea adventure with a giant leopard seal. His photographs tell a frightening story, but his memory of the events is quite different. Leopard Seals are amongst the animal kingdom’s most vicious predators. [via here/here]

“We were delighted, then baffled, then again delighted when the new Blu-Ray version of Fight Club arrived in the mail the other day. Popping it into the A.V. Club Blu-Ray player we watched in dismay as the menu screen appeared, and with it images and music from 1999 Drew Barrymore comedy Never Been Kissed. As much as we adore that movie—with its documentary-like depiction of the Chicago journalism scene—it was Fight Club we wanted to watch. Then the image gave way to Fight Club’s familiar living IKEA catalog and we realized we’d been duped.”

Turns out the practical joke was from director David Fincher himself.  The original two-disc DVD is one of my favorites, in fact it was the reason I bought a DVD player in the first place back in 2000.  Fight Club bombed at the box-office in 1999 (the best year in recent memory for movies), while the Drew Barrymore rom-com did not.  The gag was approved by Barrymore at the behest of pal and Fight Club-star Ed Norton.

I don’t think this will make me buy a Blu-Ray player, but it will certainly make me polish off the movie and watch it again for the umpteenth time.

Travis Pitts‘ incredibly awesome picture of a post-zombie-apocalypse Scooby Gang, well an incredibly hot Velma getting her Buffy on and ready-to-kick-ass Scooby as the only survivors of the zombie attack, is now a t-shirt from Threadless for $18.  Geeks and horny stoners rejoice!

I can promise you this one thing: during my trip to Maui this never happened.  But holy shit would I have loved to have seen a military plane crash into the ocean.  [via]

How was everyone’s week?  We’re back from Maui and still unpacking, laundering and catching up on e-mails, life, the internets, etc.  Seems like it was jam-packed week.  We’ve got photos of Maui and a brief write up coming.  We should be in the full swing of things tomorrow.

This has been making the rounds over the past few days.  It’s pretty well done.  As Clay Davis would say, “Sheeeeeit!”

Whoa, whoa whoa. Who cares about how Amy Sherman-Palladino would have ended Gilmore Girls had she not been fired from the show before its final season.  The real news here is she admits to the possibility of a GG movie: “If there’s a story to tell, then absolutely I think we’re all going to want to tell it. That’s the bottom line.”  The we in question is Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, otherwise known as Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.  Sherman-Palladino is currently working on a dramedy for HBO and Graham is jumping into NBC’s Parenthood. Still, the slim possibility of a Gilmore Girls movie is pretty a-okay in my book.