Jul24

Twitter in Focus: David Koechner

by tonyd on July 24, 2013 at 12:01 am

Hey Bros!

Welcome to Twitter in Focus, where media comes to die.  Today’s contestant is Champ from Anchorman, David Koechner.  He’s funny in the movies and TV, let’s see how he tweets.

@DavidKoechner

July 19th:  “Are you on the Facebooks? Me too. ”

9K followers already?  Nice.

July 21st:  “The Koechner family RV road trip continues – scenic views edition. ”

Corn:  What most the U.S. is made up of.

July 21st:  “Road Corn ”

See?  It required two posts.

July 21st:  “Found me a baby ”

It’s like the lost scene from Raising Arizona.

July 22nd:  “Sometimes I will see a smudge on one of my kids clothes, Approach it slowly wipe, check…oh thank God it’s chocolate.”

How do you check is the question?

July 22nd:  “On the road again. Final leg. ”

Naps on the road.  Convenient.

1 hour ago:  “Thanks for the article Samantha! The actor and comedian David Koechner via ”

Nice.  I didn’t realize that was you on American Dad.

Okay, let’s rate David’s tweets.  I give him a 7 for Mustness, an 8 for Insanity and a 9 for Style.  That’s an overall score of 8.  Follow David and check out his new movie with Harlan Williams…on Instagram!

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Jul22

Movies You Missed: The Dictator

by tonyd on July 22, 2013 at 12:02 am

Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedy genius and I don’t say that lightly.  The commitment he has when he plays a character is pretty incredible and with The Dictator, he aimed for a very ambitious target.  Unlike his previous movies, Borat and Bruno, it hangs on a plot.

Unfortunately, the plot is the weakest part of the movie.  Writers Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer, try to make Cohen’s General Aladeen a nice guy.  That’s hard to do when you see his behavior and how bad he is in the opening of the movie.  Ultimately what plays out is a shift in tone that goes back and forth.  There are efforts to justify Aladeen’s meanness, but they don’t really work.  He’s an asshole and he’s much funnier when he’s an asshole.

Jason Mantzoukas, who plays Aladeen’s nuclear scientist, does a great turn as his willing accomplice.  But Aladeen’s love story is just dumb.  Either Anna Faris’s character is stupid or the world in which Aladeen exists is.  But Aladeen’s speech at the end of the movie is a great moment of political satire.  It’s a shame the uneven movie just couldn’t rise to this.  Still, for a Netflix movie, it’s not bad.  It’s not going to be as good or as risky as Borat and Bruno, but you could do a whole lot worse.

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Jul22

Movies You Missed: Ip Man 2

by tonyd on July 22, 2013 at 12:01 am

Ip Man 2 is made by the same team that made Ip Man, the movie about Bruce Lee’s trainer.  Like the first one, it’s pretty awesome.

The set up this time is that it’s post-war China.  Ip Man is living in Hong Kong, struggling with his martial arts studio.  China in the 1950’s is rife with corruption, even amongst the martial arts studios.  The English still run Hong Kong and one official in particular is squeezing the martial arts schools.  When an English boxer comes to town, the cartoonishly evil boxer picks a fight with one of Ip Man’s friends.  Again, Ip Man has to avenge his buddy.

The movie kind of turns into a Chinese version of Rocky, but it’s good.  Maybe it’s not as great as the first one, but totally worth seeing.  And I’m psyched to see the third and final installment.

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Jul21

Your Fratoscope: July 21, 2013

by tonyd on July 21, 2013 at 2:10 am

If your birthday is this week:  You may have had too much caffeine.  You’re actually supposed to be celebrating your birthday from 2015.

Aries:  Turns out, you do have fans of your blog, they just all happen to sales reps for penis enlargement medicine.

Taurus:  You will receive a letter from 1995.  They’ll demand that you put on your fax machine one last time.

Gemini:  This week, you’ll punch a marmoset.  The zookeepers will agree that the animal was being a dick.

Lemini:  The NSA is not tracking you with a drone, they installed cameras in your house two years ago.

Cancer:  The stars say, the problem isn’t that you’re bad at your job.  It’s that your job only exists after you’ve had a couple of shrooms.

Leo:  The mice in your apartment will renew your Netflix account while you’re asleep.  They can’t stop watching Stuart Little.

Virgo:  You will discover that action figures should not be “prizes” inside of your dinner guests strombolis.

Libra:  You are far too high to read your horoscope now.  Eat a bag of pita chips and chill.

Scorpio:  Turns out, you can’t have sex with enough toll takers to counterbalance your EZ pass charges.  Better just pay.

Sagittarius:  You will discover your roommate is a werewolf.  He doesn’t kill people, but he does hump the couch a lot.

Capricorn:  You will be totally paranoid about your airbag deploying this week since you read it here.

Aquarius:  The fish in your coy pond will whistle the theme of Duck Tales at all hours.

Pisces:  Your cosplay at Comic Con goes awry, as it turns out the Human Torch does use actual fire for his costume.

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