Weekly What To Do: Have A Fun Labor Day Weekend

LA County Fair

Memories of the Sword Screenings
Five days of classic film screenings. I mean classics all the way back from the 1920's.
September 2-10
CGV Cinemas
621 Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90005

Synopsis:
During the age of military when riots would never end, Poong-cheon, Seol-lang and Deok-gi used to lead the riots. The moment their cause has been realized, Deok-gi's betrayal leads to the death of Poong-cheon and Seol-lang disappears with Poong-cheon's sword and her daughter Hong-i. She leaves a message saying, "You will die in the hands of me and Hong-i."
English Subtitles



Cinecon 51 Classic Film Festival
Thursday, September 3 – Monday, September 7
Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

LA County Fair
Sept 4-27

1101 West McKinleyAve.

Pomona, CA 91768

Price Varies by date and weekend

Starts at $12 weekdays, weekends $20

Huge fairgrounds event that needs to be visit to get the feel of what a carnival or festival is like. Pig races, so-not-good for you food and a huge amount of games, vendors and events to stun you. Check their pages for everything happening. I hear of deep-fried guacamole this time around.

626 Night Market
September 4-6

285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia, California 91007

$3

626 Night Market features over 200 food, merchandise, crafts, arts, games, music, and entertainment attractions in one jam-packed weekend of festivities that appeals to all ages.

The Taste
Sept 4-7
Paramount Lot
Tickets for each of the Saturday and Sunday
events range from $100 to $125, opening event $150.

Los Angeles Times' The Taste, its annual celebration of Southern California’s vibrant, influential culinary scene, returning to Paramount Pictures Studios’ iconic backlot over Labor Day weekend.

Knott’s Labor Day Weekend Celebration

Friday, Sept 4-7

8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90620

Admission to Knott’s

Special musical performances in the park and a beautiful fireworks display at night.

Special screenings for Dude Bro Massacre Party III in September at the Cinefamily
as mentioned in the Dude Bro Interview

Friday, 9/4, 10:30pm : Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 + The Mutilator Double Feature (Hosted by Patton Oswalt!)
Saturday, 9/5, 10:30pm : Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 + Microwave Massacre Double Feature! 

Monday, 9/7, 5pm: The 5 Minutes Game: Dude Bro Edition + BBQ Kegger & Screening of Dude Bro Party Massacre III (w/ Greg Sestero from The Room in person!) 

RIFIFI-Remastered

September 4 - 10

Laemmle Royal

One of the earliest heist movies and featuring almost no words by the cast wit their extremely well-plotted out heist that will have you on pins and needles to see if it goes off without a snag. New DCP version.

Jungle Hentai Event!

Anime Jungle  

Friday, Sept 4, 8:30pm - 10:30pm

Anime Jungle 

319 E 2nd St Suite 103, Los Angeles, California 90012

18+

"For our mature 18+ customers , It's that time again! We've planned an Anime Jungle Hentai Event! Starting soon after our regular store hours! Be sure to stop by for some naughty goodness, products including manga, DvDs , figures and even posters! ID required at the door for entrance."

Creatures of Myth and Nature
September 5, 2015 - September 20, 2015
Opening Reception / Sep 5, 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Nucleus
210 East Main St, Alhambra CA 91801

"Opening September 5, artists Patrick Awa, Natalie Hall, and Teagan White will exhibit a new collection of visceral work, meticulously crafted by hand, and created in a variety of traditional media. Depicting the beasts of their imaginations alongside the creatures that dwell within nature, this trio of artists will guide us through a tour to glimpse beings of the real and fantastic."

Giant Robot Presents: Game Night 28

Saturday, September 5, 2015
6:30 – 10:00 PM

Giant Robot

2062 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90025

 In "Stop! Thief!!" you play as a thief that must carefully guid loot through labyrinthian pockets but be careful not to touch the sides! Relieve others of the encumbrance of cash. Since you'd probably put it to better use anyways and work your way up from the streets to the boardroom! Where the real action is!

Nova-111 is a quirky sci-fi turn-based adventure game with an innovative twist of real-time action! Explore alien worlds and combat fiendish alien creatures in your quest to restore the flow of time, all in the name of SCIENCE!

5th Annual Shoreline Jam Festival

September 5-6

The Queen Mary Waterfront Events Park, 1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802

1 Day Pass – GA $45, VIP $95 online (GA $55 door, VIP $105 door)

2 Day Pass – GA $85, VIP $180 online (GA $100 door, VIP $200 door)

Kids 4 years and under are FREE

PARKING:$20 per car.

The Queen Mary is pleased to present the 5th annual Shoreline Jam music festival taking place Labor Day weekend, September 5-6. Two stages will present the best in reggae, roots and rock music with food, lawn games and vendors at the beautiful waterfront events park.

Pacific Media Expo
Sept 5-7
Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green St
Pasadena, CA 91101
$65

The anime/Asian culture expo has grown out of a hotel near LAX to the Pasadena Convention Center. Enjoy a heavily themed convention leading toward fashion and anime. Go through its panels to see if something is there you'll really enjoy, if not, maybe wait for a bigger anime expo.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Opening on Saturday, September 5th from 7-10pm

runs through September 27th

Toy Art Gallery

7571 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, California 90046

“Toy Art Gallery is proud to present FAMOUS LAST WORDS, our farewell group shop. Featuring our friends Izumonster, Joseph Harmon, Kikkake Toy, Martin Ontiveros, Miscreation Toys, Restore, Pico Pico, T9G, and Uamou, this event will be one of our best yet with some incredible customs and limited editions.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS is the last show at our current location at 7571 Melrose. We’ve loved the opportunity we’ve had to share our passion for art toys in the LA area and we will continue to do so in our online store and through our continued toy production.”

OkStupid: A Burlesque Tribute To Dating 
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Doors at 6:30 pm, Showtime at 8:00 pm
Rockwell Table & Stage
1714 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, California 90027
Starts at $10

Back by popular demand, the Hollywood Jane Revue Presents: OkStupid: A Burlesque Tribute to Dating! We’re giving the burlesque treatment to the world of dating. Join us for the highs and lows, the good, the bad, and the weird world of dating!

Project Greenlight Special Event

Project Greenlight

Thursday, September 10th, 3pm

SCI 106, Interactive Media Building

3470 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90007

FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL.

RSVPs REQUIRED.

Exclusive Sneak Preview of the Season 4 Premiere and Networking/Q&A with Talent

Followed by a Q&A with Jason Mann and Marc Joubert.

Dude Bro Massacre Party III Interview: Everything You Wanted To Know About The Cult Break-Out Hit!

Dude Bro Directors

Over the course of an evening TTDILA talked to some of the writers/stars and directors of Dude Bro Massacre Party III. DBMP3 is the instant cult classic you need to see immediately for Halloween. The hot girls of horror have been replaced by privileged fraternity pals and all the T-shirt rips only show man nipple. In no way your average horror film, not surprising coming from this bonkers group. This group is all part of 5-Second Films. Get prepared for a new monster in Motherface or really ... the Dude Bros themselves, whose to say they aren't the true monsters?

TTDILA first started by talking to one of the directors/writers, Tomm Jacobsen, who was slowly joined by his colleagues over the phone.

The following is excerpts from our conversation together.



TTDILA/Jonathan: So you're in the film as is everyone I'll be talking to in some way?
Tomm: I get my face in the juicer at the start.
TTDILA: That must have been a lot of fun.
Tomm: Yeah, yeah that was a lot of fun. Actually, some people have posted that that's one of their favorite deaths in the film. They love blood spilling off my face like orange juice.

Tomm: I live in Silver Lake, I'm out in Virgina right now promoting the movie. Thursday, Chicago.
TTDILA: Why now? Why not October for Halloween?
Tomm: Well, some festival's take place before then. The Bruce Campbell Film Festival, so we don't exactly get to pick the dates. We're their midnight screening Friday! Very excited about that!

We then discussed Tomm's love of Tremors and him missing out on the special screenings in LA of the film and the work of Cop Car director Jon Watts, specifically "Clown" and Jon getting Spider-Man.

Tomm: If 5-Second Films were able to do a Marvel movie it be X-Factor. They're superheroes that are so flawed...

Soon more of the group joined us.

Alec Owen the lead, Brent / Brock and was a writer and Michael Rousselet who played Spike and was a writer and director too.

Unknown: We pushed him down some stairs, Jonathan.

Alec Owen

Michael: So we were going to film the undewater sequence, Jonathan. The final sequence. Maybe two minutes before we were going to film someone yelled out Robin Williams is dead. And we stopped working. We all took ten minutes and all of us were floored.
Alec: Yeah it was weird how much it affected us.
Michael: We were in such high spirits because it's the last shot of the movie. And then all of it came crashing ...
TTDILA: Really? It's so weird someone wanted to say Robin Williams is dead so much. Like, they were the first person to tell. "Hey guys, guess whose dead?"

The group told me it was revealed with more dignity and sadness, someone blurted it out in shock.

TTDILA: Can't wait until it's one of the favorited movies in October. How was the LA Film Festival? How was the experience. I believe you have two screenings?
Tomm: Yeah, we got an extra screening 'cause we sold out our first one. And there our second screening sold out as well. It was unexpected to say the least. LA Film Festival treated us great.
The had free indie games to play. Great filmmakers to meet.
Michael: I would say my favorite part of the LA Film Festival was getting to show the film to an unsuspecting public. It was so validating after selling out the first screening.
TTDILA: Was that the first time you showed it to the public?
Tomm: That was the first time we screened it, the first time we showed the public.

TTDILA: At any point did you guys look at the movie and go, "Guys this is way too crazy, like this is is insane." Or, "Should we push the boundaries?"
Michael: There was a musical number...we cut a whole two, three-minute sequence. There was a musical number for the car crash when they were flying through the air. And we thought it was too silly.
Alec: That was the only case in post-production we got rid of anything. There were puppets during the script phase in pre-production that were cut. We originally had Officer Sminkle as a p*ssy-hound to off-set the dude bros, but Sminkle was coming off a bit too sexist. We ended up just making it a lot sillier. That being said we didn't have to dumb it down too much because we have a whole freaken sub-plot about a bag of oranges.

Michael: It's like waiting three years to seeing if a punch-line worked.
TTDILA: That long ago?
Michael: We shot in in 2014, but we started writing in 2012. The writing process was the most intensive, meticulous... that took years. The filming took five months, three?

TTDILA: Were you filming here in LA, or?
Alec: We actually shot a good chunk of it at Cedar Lake, up in Big Bear.  And we shot at a Christian summer camp. It snowed when we went and we had to build an outside set in our cafeteria.
Michael: When people die outside, it's inside.

Michael: Tomm and me built a miniature town for two months.
Tomm: It was the best two months of my life. I wish I remembered more of it, but model glue is really powerful stuff.

TTDILA: Anything you wanted to pull off, but couldn't do?
Michael: There were some legal things, like we couldn't have more dogs on set. We wanted to have more kills involving animals for the opening montage and because of budget we couldn't.
Tomm: In the very early stage we wanted the paddle shop owner to be a gas station attendant like so many other horror films, Alec Owen or someone came up with the idea of paddle boats instead.
Alec: In an early version of the script, we had the whole thing being a dream sequence. It was going to be a dream of little orphan Brent and then we see all of the Dude Bros as young kids with him in the orphanage. He then looks up out a window and two planes crash over the orphanage and that would have been the end.

TTDILA: Who came up with the Brent getting lost within the movie bit?
Michael: Jon did that, the "Searching for Sizzler sequence." We though about planting him in background earlier in the film, so it would appear he broke the universe.
Alec: When Jon first came up with that idea, I looked at him and just gave him a hug. Like, "That is the f*cking idea, we have to do it."

TTDILA: Any times you couldn't stop laughing?
Tomm: Anything with Turbeaux. Anything with Paul Prado was really hard to film. He's a monster on camera, destroying the set, tearing down the set. Everything he did.
Michael: The way he would take direction from us was him doing the complete opposite. It was so funny and infuriating. Everything he did was gold. The hardest things was choosing what take and that goes to Brian Firenzi. Brian Firenzi cut the whole f*cking film and usually he would pick a take by looking at the sound wave file and looked at the biggest spike in laughter.

TTDILA: The actors, hard to cast or all friends of yours?
Michael: The big guest stars our fans of our work. Larry King was a wonderful guest. "Larry do you want to be in it? We'll kill you," and he lit up. G-d bless him. And he's a Dodger fan. Go Dodgers.
Alec: The members of the main cast are all 5-Second members.
Tomm: The only people we did casting for was the cops, the female cops.

Thanks to the 5-Second Films cast and crew. You can buy the film here www.dudebropartymassacre3.com and get the special edition with bonus features.

Wait, there's more!

Special screenings for Dude Bro Massacre Party III in September at the Cinefamily

Friday, 9/4, 10:30pm : Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 + The Mutilator Double Feature (Hosted by Patton Oswalt!)
Saturday, 9/5, 10:30pm : Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 + Microwave Massacre Double Feature! 

Monday, 9/7, 5pm: The 5 Minutes Game: Dude Bro Edition + BBQ Kegger & Screening of Dude Bro Party Massacre III (w/ Greg Sestero from The Room in person!)

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Review: You Would Think Robot Bear Shooting Would Be More Fun

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls released today September 1 on the PlayStation®Vita as both a physical and digital release.

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, is unpronounceable if spoken aloud at a high speed. I liked the game, but it suffers from some bad parts. The game is good looking, fully animated with CG animated parts. The long worded titled has long worded and well thought out  writing, filled with moments of big laughs, not just some stupid fart jokes. Audio and music are still on par with the previous games which have all been good so far. The girls in the game talk so much and ignore me I might as well have a wife.

In this iteration you play as Komaru Naegi, she's trying to survive as Monokuma robots are killing people. She gets equpied with a megaphone gun that shoots truth bullets. The bullets she earsn don't just destroy the can open doors or command enemies.  You also get equppied with Toko Fukawa who can switch to a homicidal maniac "Genocidal Jill." You can switch to her for certain special over the top attacks.

So what's bad?

The game is using gameplay elements so old I think it might be from before many millennials were born! Movement is like taking home my non-existent wife home after a heavy night of drinking. The in-game camera for the game looks like it went out with my non-existent wife and I for that night of drinking. The gun used in the game is very hard to take out enemies, da bears. It's easier to switch to Jill.  It's awkward to switch between the different bullets I can use and pick one that can take out "da bears." It's hard to aim the weapon and it takes a long time to line up the shot. I get balancing between the two girls, still it would just be so much simpler to have chosen one style over the other.

Me give Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls 7/10, me would give game less points for bad gameplay but tiny people make want to play more.

It's acceptable for the Vita and I really wanted to like it a lot more with the ideas and its art style.

The Good

·        Art Style

·        Animation

·        Writing/Story

·        Dark Comedy

·        Music

·        Voice Acting

The Bad

·        Gameplay Mechanics like something from a PS2 launch title or a crappier Resident Evil

·        Awful Camera

·        Save Points

·        Tons of miss-able items

·        Difficulty augmented by bad controls