A teleporter.
Some more dancing.
Another alternate world.
A father talks relationships with his kid.
Lets see what these topics can bring on this edition of the Friday Theater Releases.

Get these motherf*ckin teleporters off this motherf*ckin planet.

Jumper – Hayden Christensen discovers he has the power to teleport. So he uses his power to travel all over the world looking for the man who is responsible for the death of his mother. Samuel L. Jackson is part of a secret organization to rid the world of teleporters. Directed by Doug Liman and also starring hottie Rachel Bilson.

Oh snap! Rain Dance!

I’m sure everyone out there on the internets already knows about the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer, but I simply can’t let today go by without me posting about it. All I can say is I’m totally pumped to the point where I can’t take it. Indy may be my all time favorite character. I used to carry my book bag over my shoulder like Indy when I was in grade school and God damn it, I might have to start doing it again.

My initial thoughts after seeing it is that I hope it doesn’t go too far with the slap stick. There’s a few shots in there where it looks like we have quite a whack pack running from danger which has my Movie Cheese Meter going off. Sure, there’s alwasy been an element of comedy in the Indy series with The Last Crusade being the worst offender where they made Marcus Brody into a complete idiot. I love jokes and all, but I want Indy being a bad ass like he was in Raiders.

Nevertheless, I practically crapped my pants when you see Indiana’s silhouette against the car as he puts on his hat, and I almost passed out when he was running along a bunch of crates in what looks like the room they stored the Ark of the Covenant, he wipped that light, and swung across the room.

I’ve been using Flash professionally for maybe the past 5 years. Certainly, it has had its share of ridiculous bugs. It has earned its reputation for making entire objects disappear when a single point is deleted, you couldn’t use the brush tool (thus not being able to draw) in a flipped symbol, and a line is going to go wonky on you if you push and pull it more than once. In my experience I’ve seen an entire piece of artwork go away if you drew on it in a manner that displeased Flash. You never knew when any of these and many, many more instances would happen while you worked. They would just happen.

Well, as most people already know, Macromedia was bought by Adobe a few years back, and Flash has fallen under their “Creative Suite” banner. Many of these bugs have been worked out in Flash CS3. You can thankfully draw in a flipped symbol now which I can tell you is huge. However, the touted video support is leaving much to be desired. I think I’m still going to do a PNG export and bring that into After Effects as Flash’s Quicktime support still has its quirks. But this is not what’s prompting me to type this Whore Daddy up.

While Adobe has successfully fixed a number of bugs that have been plaguing Flash for a number of years, they have managed to some how put one in there that is absolutely mind blowing. As I have stated before, Flash doesn’t like it if you push and pull a line too much. It suddenly adds points that were not there before, and the line gets all wonky and unmanageable. So, I have gotten used to using the Sub-Selection tool to select a single point (or a group of points if I need to) and tweak a line using Bezier handles. I get the curve I want, and I can use the arrow keys on my keyboard to nudge a point to exactly where I want it. I’ve been doing this for years.

Gone Baby Gone – Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan are private investigators who have street connections. The most recent case they are working on is one of a missing child from a crackhead mother. Morgan Freeman and his police force don’t want Affleck anywhere near his case. Directed by Ben Affleck.

We Own The Night – Jaoquin Phoenix is the owner of a hot night club that has connections to the mob and drug dealing. Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duvall are his brother and father who are on the police force trying to stop the drug ring. It’s all about family choices. Eva Mendes is hot in it.

Becoming Jane – an oldie time movie about author Jane Austen getting involved in her own love story. Her parents want her to marry into wealth but she falls in love with a lowly man with no money.

I think John Pomeroy animated this really nice bit with the lead character, Milo, from Disney’s “Atlantis”. The movie itself was a bit of a mis-mash for me, but it certainly had its moments and I think this is one of them. Of course, its even better knowing that its Michael J Fox (MARTY!!!) doing the voice acting for it as well. Below is the rough animation followed up by the clean-up version for the shot. It’s really nice work. Thanks to “cookedart” on Youtube. He has a ton of really nice stuff in his gallery there. Enjoy!

A celebrity returns home.
A romantic comedy treasure hunt.
With a few limited thangs to go along.
It’s Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday!

Never forget: Daaaaaaaaaaaamn Gina!

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins – Martin Lawrence is a successful talk show host living out in Los Angeles. When he decides to reunite with his family in the Deep South, he bring his girlfriend along with him. Shenanigans ensue and he learns a lesson about family.

An excuse to show off their bods.

Hey all. Hope everyone is enjoying “Rated ‘M’ For Molestor”. If you haven’t seen it yet, please head over to the Episodes section and check it out. Also, make sure you give Shamoozal Radio Podcast #12 a listen while you’re at it.

In the meantime, I’d like to just drop a note and say that the storyboards and animatic are done for the next short currently set to be released on the Shamoozal hopefully within the month. As of right now, this episode will have a run time of one minute and 40 seconds (titles not included). Things with the new episodes are moving along pretty smoothly, and hopfully Phil’s move to his new house won’t effect production too much. Keep your peepers peeled!

There is this big discussion during the podcast about the dude in Italian Spiderman with the “Whoaaa Face” at the start of this podcast. We were all wondering where it was originally from, and I just caught now that Joe knew all along that it was from Italian Spiderman. Yeah… OH! So the podcast is ready for your downloading pleasure, and we sure hope it was worth the wait. Those of you who caught it two weeks ago live, well, give it another shot. Joe’s editing always makes it flow so much better, and you’d never know there was a half hour break when Sithlord put the finishing touches on his game. Get ready for our longest Shamoozal news segment, join in as we guess the viral video in the game “What’s Happenin’ Now?” and get our thoughts on Cloverfield, Rambo, No More Heroes, Endless Ocean, and our huge Whore Daddy segment. It’s 93 minutes you don’t want to miss.

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Back in the day when the Shamoozal was a tiny personal site of mine, I would pretty much post up whatever it was that I was working on. One thing I used to create were the cleverly titled “Shamovies.” Usually my brother, a few friends and I, would get together and tape some pretty ridiculous short films. Over on the Smorg, we had a few requests to post an oldie called “Freestyle Living.”

The premise of “Freestyle Living” was born when I discovered that “Freestyle Walking” was actually a serious thing. All I knew is that I needed to make fun of it, and make fun of it I did. Do people even freestyle walk anymore? I have no idea. I just know that at one point in time kids were walking around with shoes that had shit built into the bottom of them so they could grind down railings. Anyway, I actually began to shoot Living sometime in the Fall of ‘99. For whatever reason, I stopped and it kind of sat in the back burner for a while. The footage you see in the begining of the short with the two Freestyle Walkers was what was originally shot. Sometime in the Summer of ‘00, I decided to pick up where I left off and Frank and I finished the rest of it. I was probably just really bored because I graduated high school that year and had nothing else to do.

Anyway, Frank searched through a bunch of back up CDs and found the original movie. I found myself still finding it kind of funny, I’m not as embarrased about it as I thought I’d be. Watching this kind of stuff makes me wish I still tinkering around with the ‘ol video camera still. Especially these days when it’s so easy to capture and edit as well. We actually had to buy some kind of device, called a Buzz card (if I remember correctly) to capture the video to the computer. What a hassle that was. Yes sir.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Casey Affleck plays Robert Ford, a man obsessed with the famous outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt). He eventually joins his gang and through jealousy ends up planning an assassination of James.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age – the follow up to 1998’s Elizabeth. Cate Blanchett plays the Queen who must face two problems in her life. Her cousin is set to betray her and the Spanish Armada in invading.

The Brave One – Jodie Foster and her fiancé are brutally attacked and left for dead. Foster actually survives but her fiancé doesn’t. So she dedicates her life to seeking on revenge on the people that did this to her.