I caved! I caved!
Yes, the day finally came — I caved to the pressure and signed up on Facebook. After about half an hour of fiddling with it, adding a dozen or so people to my “friend” list, I realized there’s not really anything to Facebook other than the ability to search for people. At the very least maybe I can drive new traffic to this blog.
It seems like Steve Carrell is the new “it” guy for comedies, and it’s not without reason. He was a key cog in the funny machine that was the Daily Show (and with Steven Colbert gone, John Stewart’s show just isn’t what it was … in fact Colbert > Stewart if you ask me). Ignore the train wreck that apparently is Evan Almighty, of course, and he looks poised to take the void that Jim Carrey left when he tried to turn legit. Next year Carrell will be in the movie adaptation of Get Smart, which is a show I used to watch regularly as a kid. In the old show, you could argue that no one else could have been Agent 86. When I heard that Carrell had been cast in Adams’ role for the movie, I thought, “that might just work.” Now we have a teaser trailer, and while it’s entirely without dialogue, I think this movie is going to be good. Even seeing The Rock cast with a role makes me happy. Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 … ergh, well, I guess it’s can’t all be perfect.
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tony on July 12th, 2007
Hi Garrett. Our team at work went to see the Evan Almighty and it was a corny, sappy, family values-y mess despite Mr. Carrell’s best efforts. Get Smart could be good despite that terrible blue typeface. Good to see Borat’s friend in pictures again.
kristy on July 12th, 2007
NOTHING TO DO ON FACEBOOK?!?!?!? wow are you trying to tell me that I do nothing all day long at work?
Garrett on July 13th, 2007
Kristy: I’m not saying anything but the proof is in the pudding. The Kristy Pudding. Um, ew.
Tony: I’m sorry to hear that the team building event consisted of seeing a bad movie. When I was in QA they took us to see Hollow Man … so maybe taking staff to see bad movies is de rigeur at EA.
I reward myself 5 points for using the expression “de rigeur”.
Special Ladyfriend on July 16th, 2007
They should re-name Facebook as “Stalker Central.”
sister on July 17th, 2007
The best part of this movie? The stores will finally carry the Get Smart series on DVD…