The Wiggity-Wackness

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I am so amazingly excited for this movie, starring Josh Peck, of old Drake and Josh fame.  That is, to say, before he lost a trillion pounds.  First of all, look at the date here, you know what July 8 means?  It means 10 days before July 18.  You know what July 18 means?  Friggin’ Batman: The Dark Knight.  Batman is the movie I am more excited for than I ever have before.  Batman is the movie that is making me not give a crap about any movie coming out now.  Hell, I was rather indifferent about Wall-E, even.

But you know what?  As said before, I am so amazingly excited for this movie.  Even with Batman coming out in a week and a half, I am unexplainably still excited for Josh Peck to grow up.  The Wackness is a ‘coming-of-age’ story based in the 1990s starring Josh Peck who’s career is now ‘coming-of-age’, co-starring the king-awesome Ben Kingsley.  I am so jealous of the weight Josh lost, and in the most heterosexual way possible, he looks awesome in this movie.  Just that look he gives in some of his profiles looks like he has a crap-load going to happen to him.

This trailer, more than anything, is what excites me about this movie.  I was not quite there in the 90s… but do I ever love the time that I missed.  The music is fantastic in this, the acting looks fantastic, the lines he spits out sound fantastic.  In an interview, Josh admitted actually spending a long time ‘training’ himself to speak 90s-ish.  This looks like the Marvel 1602 of… well, North America 1994.

Someone in the local paper asked, “how old does it have to be before its ‘old school’ (or something to that extent).  With the semi-exception of the SNL movie, Kickin It Old Skool, the 90s have not really been talked about.  The answer my paper was looking for, judging by the release date of the movie, is roughly 10 years.

I have recently gotten into Hip-Hop, and by Wikipedia’ing the Wu-Tang Clan, they are most indefinately from the 90s.  Not this crappy new stuff.  And that is how this movie is premised;

Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994–a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, The Wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.

These were great years; Kurt Cobain is dead and Tupac is not.  Music is awesome and women fall for lines like “I got mad love for you, shorty” - and that is awesome.

I don’t even have a lot to say about this movie, as I have not actually seen it.  This is about the trailer and how awesome it looks, how excited I am and how damn tall I am…

I am 6′9″

jus’ sayin’

Tags: 90s, Movies

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