Film Friday: Virtual JFK, The 3D Concert Experience

In all honesty, Torontoist hasn’t had a lot of space in its brain for film this week—it’s been almost completely taken up with thoughts of Street Fighter IV, the latest (and long awaited) sequel in the premier fighting game series. With our head filled with thoughts of attempting to focus attack cancel Sakura’s super into her air juggle (don’t worry if that makes no sense) it’s entirely likely that there’s a similar group of people—lost in similar thoughts—that might accidentally wander into a movie theatre and purchase a ticket for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Actually, there’s absolutely no chance of that happening, but it’s probably the operating thought behind releasing this obvious b-movie right now. We imagine most people interested in Street Fighter IV are instead saving their money for a Watchmen movie ticket, either expecting to be given something to complain about for years to come or...or...there’s probably another possibility there but we're not sure what it is. So perhaps these sorts could fill up the time with Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived, considering that’s at least similar to the working title for the Watchmen graphic novel, Watchmen: Vietnam If A Giant Blue Man Could Use Lasers From His Eyes To Defeat The Vietcong. The Star’s Peter Howell claims the film “leaves no doubt that Kennedy would not have escalated the Vietnam War the way [Lyndon] Johnson did,” though doesn’t explain if he would if he had a giant blue man at his disposal.

Considered working in a blue man group pun there to segue into discussing Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, which we only want to mention for Kate Carraway’s review in Eye Weekly, where she states the band have “PG-pelvises.” It led us to imagine the alternative—that they’re all like a Ken doll down there—and frankly we wouldn’t be surprised.

Alternatively, in a clearly poor week of film releases we’ve got some French Canadian features, with Lost Song and It’s Not Me, I Swear—both award winning—hitting screens. And there’s always festivals, with the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival, Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and the (previously mentioned) World Of Comedy Film Festival.