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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:58:47 -0400

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The Golden Compass

Let me preface this by saying I have not read the book. So to go from there I went out and saw The Golden Compass with Bear today and I feel like telling you about it so listen up. The movie started out at a rather fast pace with a "chase" scene almost right off the bat. As the movie progressed there was a couple of scenes where the background of the world was explained, which I found very helpful, and then the main antagonist was introduced. Playing a facade she took away young Lyra. After she escaped she somehow managed to travel up north to save a bunch of children who got kidnapped by the organization, I cant remember the name right now. Along the way she joins of with a group of Gyptians which to me would be really fucking weird just going with a group not knowing anything about them. Thankfully we find out later that one of Lyra's friends is the son of one of the Gyptians she goes with. Anyways she makes a bear friend, who was played by none other than Ian McKellen, and he helps her out in the movie. Oh and as a side note Christopher Lee makes an appearance as one of the higher up bad guys. When ever these two are together in a movie they are always on opposite sides of each other, weird. So the bear fights another bear and rips his jaw off, holy crap that scene was violent for a PG-13 movie, damn. So we go through some happy stuff, yay!!!!!! and some sad stuff, boo!!!!!! and some suspenseful stuff, ahh!!!!!! and some fighting, rargh!!!!! and the end, uhh..... What a shitty ending to a movie. It just kind of ends. F that. After talking to Bear he told me that the book actually continues on after that to a sad ending, but the director wanted to end on a happy note, what the fuck? If your planning on making books into movies, especially a trilogy of books where the ending of one affects the beginning of another dont pussy out and end it how you want to do the damn thing correctly. Apparently he deviates from the book a lot. Ive heard that there are very anti-christian undertones that affect the book, but Pullman didnt want to put them in because he didnt want to offend his audience. Oh boo hoo, if your offended by anti-christian topics then dont watch the fucking movie and let us who know how to have a good time do so. Plus he wrote the fucking book for that reason and then he doesnt want them in the movie. F that. At the end of the movie when the credits rolled it said based of the book The Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman. Uhh What??? Last time I checked it was based of the book The Golden Compass which is why the movie was named The Golden Compass. Maybe it was just an error but thats a pretty big error. Anywho it left me with a bunch of questions, for example what happens to deamons when they die? Hmmm. Maybe Im not supposed to know but it would help. Now for the actually critiquing. The animation was done superbly and the movie really flowed from one point to another. The one big fault that I found with the movie is the supreme under use of Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman. With all the commercials I would have thought they would have had a bigger role but combined they were in maybe 3-4 scenes. Disappointing to say the least. I thought that the cast was put together excellently and that they couldnt have done any better if they tried. But of course they tried you say, well fuck you, its a saying, ass-hat. The ending was left open, obviously, and I would hope that they make the rest of the trilogy but with the way the movie turned out they are gonna have to pull something magical out of their ass to pull it off. Overall Id give a meager 7/10 for a shitty shitty ending and leaving major parts of out the movie that were in the book. Other than that I like how it turned out, I wasnt too disappointed and am looking for the rest of the series. On tomorrow agenda look for a review of the new film I Am Legend, looks to be, but of course I havent read that book either, oh you didnt know it was based off a book did you, well it was, you learn something new everyday dont you. Goodnight to you all and dont let the door hit you when your stupid.

-Soup

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:52:15 -0400

Added: 2008-09-30 00:52:15

I Am Legend

This afternoon I got the chance to go see I Am Legend with Bear. WOW! What a movie. As you can expect there was not that much dialog seeing as Will Smith was alone, save his dog. But this worked out very well. The movie really didnt need that much dialog to further it. Will Smith plays doctor Robert Neville the last human on earth. He is living in NYC and trying to find a way to cure the mutated humans around him. Neville has free reign during the day but when night comes he must barracade himself in his house in order to keep from being eaten. The dark seekers, as they are called can only come out during the night as UV rays harm them. As the movie progresses we feel that the dark seekers are unintelligent zombies only searching for flesh, a la dawn of the dead, but they are actually able to learn from there surroundings. At one point Will sets up a trap so that he might experiment on one of the dark seekers and another dark seekers sees how this trap works. Later in the movie Will is tripped up by the same trap set up by the leader of the dark seekers. The movie is filled with suspense and also very gripping emotions, I almost cried at one point because I could feel what he was going through. The movie never loses its touch and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. It uses flash backs very appropriately to explain exactly how the virus got released and what happened to NYC. The ending was very touching and makes me appreciate Will Smith more for his acting abilities. Definitely go see tis movie as it is not like other zombie movies. We actually get to see an emotional character and sympathize with what he is going through, other than those shoot em up zombie flicks that have become popular lately. Overall score 10/10. I will be picking this movie up on DVD the day it comes out.

-K-K...

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:47:10 -0400

Added: 2008-09-30 00:47:10

Tons to review today

So we have a shitload of stuff to review today due to the fact that i gots lots of shit from christmas. So on the agenda today is Blood Diamond, Pan's Labyrinth, The Simpsons Movie, and Super Mario Galaxy.

Blood Diamond:
I have always liked Leo, except for the disaster that was Titanic, and I had high hopes going into this movie. What i got exceded my expectations. the plot line of the movie, for those who dont know, we are in Seira Leone in 1999 during the diamond mining led my the rebel group R.U.F. they drive into villages murder the women and children and take some of them men to work in the diamond fields. Our main character gets caught up in one of these raids and finds himself separted from his family who manage to escape, working in the diamond fields. He ends up finding a huge pink diamond and hides it in the bush and escapes with his life when the mining camp is broken up. Leo comes in as a diamond smuggler who hears about the pink and makes a deal with Solomon. He will help his family get out if Solomon shows him where the pink is. There is some fighting and explosions and a whole bunch of stuff. During this time Solomons son get recruited, forcefully, by the R.U.F. who give him heroin and alcohol and force him to kill. More and more people find about the pink and there ends up being a "race" to get to it first. This movie was absolutley amazing showing the depth of human emotion and the struggle to survive in a poverty ridden Africa. We can feel Solomons sorrow as he searches and mourns for his family and we see Leos cunning and deception in trying to get to the diamond first. Overall score 10/10 definatly see this movie ASAP.

Pan's Labyrinth:
Another great movie that i was really looking forward to seeing. This is the story of a girl who is forced to live with her mother and step-father in wartime Spain. Her step-father is the general of a branch of the Spanish army. She finds a Labyrinth behind the place where she is staying and going into the middle she finds a faun who tells her that she is really the daughter of the king of the underworld, not the hell underworld but literally the world under our world. She must complete three tasks in order to be let back into the underworld. It is a fantasy movie that also takes place in a real world which made it very interesting for me to watch. it is also a very violent movie, example the general getting his cheek sliced open from mouth the ear and then sewing it back together. at the end of the movie i was left a little confused as to whether or not what the girl was seeing was in fact reality. for example at the end she is talking to the faun when her father comes in and sees her talking to herself. but also she is in a locked room but ends up escaping by drawing a door on the wall. confusing. overall id rate this a 10/10 for total awesomness.

The simpsons movie:
I in fact didnt really want to see this movie but ending up watching it because my brother got it for me for christmas. i was not to thrilled with at all. there were some funny parts but overall i was extreamly disappointed. also i find it funny the double standards we have in our society today that were reflected through this movie. for example bart is skateboarding naked through town and we end up seeing a 3 second shot of his penis. how tru it is only a cartoon but is lisa had been doing the same thing and we ended up seeing her va-j-j i feel the most people would consider that child porn, now dont get me wrong im not asking to see it but just pointing out the differences that occur in movies. overall a 6/10 for not living up to expectations.

Super Mario Galaxy:
Holy shit. Im not even done with the game but i thought it would appropriate to review it now. I LOVE THIS GAME. I cant stop playing it. it is the best mario game of all time. the story has you flying through space and exploring different galaxys for stars. now each galaxy is made up of different shaped planets that are often very close to each other. so close sometimes that you can jump between them. the gravity cna be a little screwy as can be the controls when going from right side up to upside down of vice versa, but overall what a great game. 10/10

-So your telling me that if i put these guys in hot water they scream, turn red and die? Yes sir that is correct. ........ That is the most brutal thing I've ever heard.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:41:14 -0400

Added: 2008-09-30 00:41:14

Ocean's 13

So i know I'm reviewing this late but I just saw it for the first time so shut the fuck up. Alright anyways, I like the Ocean's series, even though 12 wasnt that good I still liked it a little. So know ere back to the basics robbing a casino instead of stealing a fabrige egg. Of course this time they are not just stealing they are letting the public steal as well. Its a revenge job. Some parts in the movie were a bit confusing, specifically the thief talk as I have no fucking idea what any of that shit means. Anywho the movie flows very well and different parts although separate at times finally come together for one grand heist. For the most part this is highly improbable seeing as they managed to rig everything in a casino without anybody knowing, and then to top it off they stole unstealable diamonds. I guess thats what makes these movies interesting. I really enjoyed the fact that they broke the fourth wall more than once in a movie like this it really fits. For example they kept talking about shaking Sinatra's hand, for those of you who dont know Sinatra was in the original Ocean's 11. Oh yes its a remake. I know way to much about movies, i need a life. Also at the end George and Brad fooled with each other by making fun of Georges weight gain/loss and plastic surgery and Brads seemingly hundreds of kids. They also hinted at an Ocean's 14 but I think they need to come up with a better idea switch to something othere than robbing casinos its kinda old now. I felt that the Asian actor, I have no idea what his name is, was drastically underused for his gymnastic abilities, in fact they only used that part once and the other part he was a gambler. The disguises were incredibly obvious, especially since it seems that Al Pacino already knew Danny before hand. Um lets see what else. i like this move its fun, its daring and it really makes we want to go steal something valuable. Overall 9/10 for some cheesy parts.
-This is CAKE TIME!!!

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:35:43 -0400

Added: 2008-09-30 00:35:43

Cloverfield

Warning this post has spoilers in it. Sooooooo, went out to see Cloverfield on the Thursday midnight premiere. I had so fucking excited to see this movie since I saw the viral trailer, and I'm not entirely sure whether or not it was worth it yet. But we'll see at the end of this. So I'm sure as most of you know the movie centers around a monster attack as shown from the point of view of survivors who have a hand held camera. They are at a going away party when the lights go out and a roar is heard across the city. The end up going outside and the Statue of Liberty's head falls into the street and a couple minutes later the Empire State Building takes a dive into the ground. We see glimpses of the monster as they are running through the street and finally they take to the tunnels and walk the lines to find a way out. They turn on the night vision camera and we see the small symbiotic type creatures chasing them through the tunnel. One of them gets bitten by them. The end up getting out of the tunnel and into a shopping mall there they are greeted, not so friendly like, by the military. They find out she has a bite and they take her to a containment tent where we see a shadow of her exploding, kinda, it almost looks like all the blood vessels in her body explode but its hard to tell since its just a shadow. Eventually they get back topside where the last three go to find Rob, the main character, lover who is trapped in a building with a piece of rebar through her shoulder. they find her and pull her off the rebar and run out of the building as New York is about to be hammered down. In other words there about the blow the fuck out of New York with out any regard to remaining life, human or otherwise. So they make it the choppa and video tape as the monster gets the fuck blown out of it by a stealth bomber carrying 2000 pound bomb payload. There is whole bunch of dust and smoke and suddenly the monster jumps out and grabs their choppa and throws it to the ground. They somehow survive and pick up the tape where we see a perfectly clear shot of the monster as it peers into the camera. So to the review. In the end this was more of a love story than a monster story. Honestly if I was in New York and this happened and the girl I loved was trapped in a building I'm not sure what I would do. So kudos to Rob for having the balls to go through a ravaged city to find her. I really would have preferred to see more of the monster than was shown but it also adds to the mystique of the movie. A short movie it was clocking in at an hour and a half. Overall a 5/10 for a huge letdown and love story instead of a monster story.
-Stomp just in time for me.......what?

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:27:04 -0400

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Juno

Ah, teen pregnancy. Is there any topic more amusing? Juno, the hilarious original (and Oscar-nominated!) screenplay from Diablo Cody, former stripper and current Entertainment Weekly columnist, would have us believe not. And with a masterful mix of biting wit and touching tenderness, I'm buying into it.
Ellen Page plays Juno MacGuff, a high school senior who discovers that she's been knocked up by her best friend (and true love?) Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). After carefully weighing her options, she decides to give the baby up for adoption to a couple (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) who put an ad in the Pennysaver. Along the way, she learns life lessons both meaningful (about the nature of true love and what it really means to become an adult) and somewhat more inane (did you know that fetuses can have fingernails as early as twelve weeks old? Actually, I looked it up--they don't develop fingernails until week thirty-six. But who's counting, right?).
I had been looking forward to seeing Juno ever since, well, I learned that Michael Cera was in it. Then, when I actually found out what the movie was about, I became even more excited. Like crossing-off-calendar-days-with-red-marker excited. So I was pretty pissed when Juno's opening weekend rolled around and I discovered that it was only given a limited release. I made my sister scour the Internet for at least ten minutes, hoping for some sign that I would in fact be able to fill my flicks fix that weekend. Fortunately, after I spent a few days fuming-slash-moping around the house, I found out that Juno would be coming to theatres near me, though two weeks later than advertised. Better late then never, right? I even managed to score a free ticket (and a too-small t-shirt), so I suppose things worked out OK. My point with this paragraph? Oh, there is none. I just felt like sharing a story.
Alright, I suppose there is one point I can make (though the validity of me needing the previous paragraph to make is undoubtedly questionable), and it is this--Juno absolutely lived up to all the hype I had given it.
Michael Cera was awkwardly hilarious (or is it hilariously awkward?) as always, and it was good to see he and Jason Bateman working together again, even if they never had a chance to deliver some of their wonderful, Arrested Development-honed chemistry (Cera and Bateman, sadly, did not have any scenes together). Still, it made me happy to see their names in close proximity, credits-wise, once more. Ellen Page's Juno managed to be outrageous and believable at the same time, though that may be more due to an excellent screenplay than good acting (though Page's performance was far above average). J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney were both fantastic in their supporting roles as Juno's father and stepmother, and every supporting character, from Juno's female friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) to Su-Chin (Valerie Tain), abortion protester (and provider of fetus-facts) and school acquaintance of Juno's, added something meaningful to the film--truly an ensemble cast.
If I have one quibble with Juno (and I always seem to have at least one, don't I?), it is that the first half of the film was a little too cute. Rather than trying for funny-yet-realistic dialogue, Cody seemed to delight in making almost every conversation as over-the-top as possible. The absurdity is certainly part of the charm (and all of the humor), and the contrast it provided to the second half of the film allowed it to send its message without seeming preachy, but it too often felt manufactured. Funnily manufactured, but manufactured nonetheless. The alternative, though, would have been worse--had Juno tried to be realistic as possible, it would not only have failed to stand out, but would have been just a plain old mediocre movie (and far less quotable). I'll gladly take the lesser, far lesser, of those two evils, thank you very much.

Grade: A

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:21:39 -0400

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The Bank Job

The Bank Job is based on a true bank robbery occurring in England in the 1970's that was covered up by the British government, due to the involvement of some sensitive information regarding the Royal Family. (How the filmmakers got their hands on the information behind the cover-up is anyone's guess.) Starring Jason Statham as the heist's ringleader, Terry Leather, The Bank Job is a decidedly different type of heist movie than the usual light-hearted crime capers such as The Italian Job and the Ocean's series, a difference that is one of the films best assets but one of its biggest drawbacks as well.
Unlike the aforementioned "capers", no one in The Bank Job is a professional thief. There is no demolitions expert, no tech wizard, no "grease man", none of the criminal "stereotypes" one has almost come to expect in heist movies. There are no exotic locales, and no one talks about pulling a "Baker's Dozen" or a "Crazy Larry". There's just a vault and six crooks who want to get inside it. Alright, there's a bit more to it, but I'll get to all that later.
What The Bank Job has going for it the most is that it all feels very real (which isn't surprising considering it's based on a true story). What I mean by that is if my friends and I wanted to break into a bank vault (and believe me, since seeing this movie, I've been looking into it), it would feel a lot like this. No fancy gadgets or bait-and-switch-type distractions, just a bunch of average Joes tunneling into a bank and depending on a lot of luck. All the characters felt very real, like someone I could meet walking to class or at a bar, and unlike Danny Ocean, who you end up cheering for because he's just that charming, I was cheering for Terry Leather because I could see myself in his shoes: trying to provide for his family while a couple of loan sharks are breathing down his neck. Okay, I can't really identify with the loan sharks thing, but you get my point. I cared about these characters because I wanted to, not because I had to.
But The Bank Job's adherence to realism helped me realize something about movies. Prior to this film, I would always decry any film based on a book or a true story that would stray from the path of "how it actually happened"; I would label any liberties taken with the story as bastardization and denounce the filmmaker as an unconscionable asshole who had sacrificed the original author's vision or the experiences of those involved for the sake of what would make a more commercially successful movie. But the truth rarely translates well to a movie--after all, isn't that why we go to the movies in the first place: to escape what's real and immerse ourselves in the fiction on the screen? Yes, The Bank Job was very real and tugged at my heartstrings a bit, but the plot felt rather ragged at times and occasionally left me quite confused. Ocean's Eleven might be a bit too slick, but The Bank Job wasn't slick enough. I wanted to leave the theatre going "Oh my God! That was so cool!", but instead I was still trying to figure out what exactly had just happened. True, I did that coming out of Ocean's Eleven, but at least there the filmmakers were trying to keep us fooled until the end. The Bank Job fooled me by accident, with subplots involving porn kings, corrupt cops and militant Black radicals.
Despite everything, however, I have to give The Bank Job an overall positive review. It tried to do something different with the heist genre, and though the result was a bit of a clunker, I was emotionally invested in the movie from start to finish, something I can't say about Ocean's Eleven.

Grade: B

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:16:15 -0400

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Super Smash Brothers

So its been a while but the amazing trio is finally back. This time I'll be reviewing Super Smash Brothers Brawl. This newish game for the Wii is the third installment of the Smash Bros franchise. This newest one contains 35 characters instead of the 25 from the last game. It also contains a new feature which is called the Subspace Emissary Mode, which is a new adventure mode. You actually follow a story line were for once Master Hand is not the final enemy. I wont ruin the ending for you but its completely different and the final boss is a BITCH!!! There is the new addition of the challenge wall where when certain activities are completed a piece of glass on the wall is broken and you get a reward. There are now 544 trophies and the new addition of 600 stickers which can be added to your character in adventure mode to boost attack strength. The replay value for this game is endless because of the brawl mode where you can battle with up to three of your friends. Some of the characters blow ass such as fan service Sonic and Snake, as well as Wario, and then there are amazing characters such as Link and Toon Link. The new addition of the Final Smash ball which lets the chracters do a Super Smash which usually damages everyone on the screen, the character is invulnerable at this time but sometimes you can fall off the screen while doing this which ends up having the player get dissed by his friends for sucking. Its also hilarious to see four characters fight over this sometimes killing themselves. Some fun party games to play are 99 Smashed Brothers where you set the stock to 99 and every time you die you take a drink of your beer. Ends up being about 8 beers so its just a one time thing but it makes for some fun times.
Overall Rating A+ I haven't found anything wrong with this game and I've played for about 100 hours. Go get it.
-I dare you to make less sense.

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:06:18 -0400

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Iron Man

Holy Shit! This movie blew my mind. They couldnt have cast this movie any better. The CGI was incredible. I dont even really know what else to say about this movie. For those of you who know the Iron Man story line this is the beginning story of Iron Man versus War Monger. I've always loved Iron Man and this movie lived up to all the hype it was given. Gwenyth Paltrow was looking fucking hot in this movie. I cant wait for the next movie where War Machine is probably gonna be introduced. Oh and Samuel L. mother-fuckin Jackson will play Nick Fury in the next one.
Grade A+
-Through the fire and the flames we carry on

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:59:37 -0400

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Eli Stone

When I first heard of this show I thought that it was going to be really stupid but I tuned in anyways to see what it was about. The show is about a lawyer, Eli Stone, who finds out he has a brain anurism. This anurism gives him visions about what cases he should take. As the show progresses and he realizes these visions are not real he still for some reason acts out in the middle of meetings when he has a vision. A good example of this is when he is meeting his boss and a dragon flies towards the window so Eli dives under a desk. This was overused a lot and become kind of annoying over time. All in all though this show was really good and was something that I wasnt expecting from it. Theres just something about the show that makes it very fun to watch.
Grade: B+ for over dramatic vision sequences.
-Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:53:14 -0400

Added: 2008-09-29 23:53:14

Not a movie

So today im not reviewing a movie but ranting about something that really pisses me off and I cant take it anymore. Why is that when people unlock their cars using the remote unlock they find it necessary to push the unlock button like 500 times? Usually it takes two pushes, once to unlock the front door and another ot unlock the rest of the doors. When you keep pushing the thing the car sits there and fuckin beeps for a fuckin reason. Its tellin you that its already fuckin unlocked so you dont need to push the button anymore. Today I got off work and sat outside enjoying me beverage when a fat family came out of the restaurant, the guy unlocked the car the daughter got in the car and then the guy pushed the button like 50 more times. YOUR DAUGHTER WAS ALREADY IN THE CAR OBVIOUSLY IT UNLOCKED DONT KEEP PUSHING IT!!! Fuck. People piss me off. I know its a stupid rant but I cant satnd the sound of the cars beeping 50 times when i already have to deal with the fryer beeping all fuckin day to tell me its done. Plus honestly how hard is it to put the key in the hole in the car and unlock it? When did we as a people become so fuckin lazy that we cant put a key in a hole anymore. Since theres no movie out right now that i care to see expect some more rants from me in the future,i need some way to vent my frustration. ARGH. FUCK.
-They dont want dressing? Fuck that I'll put my own dressing on it.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:47:18 -0400

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Kung Fu Panda

Went to see Kung Fu Panda today with my little brother, I was expecting it to be a lame kids movie but I really enjoyed it. At the beginning we see Po, played by Jack Black, wake up and meet his father who is clearly not his father as they are of different species. Through a series of events Po gets chosen as The Dragon Warrior and the one to defeat the newly escaped from jail Tai Lung. There is alot of physical comedy as Po attempts to train and become strong enough to defeat Tai Lung. The movie overall felt really short but was almost 2 hours in length. I suppose a good trait of a movie is that its able to keep you entertained so that you dont realize how much time has past. In the end Jack Black throws some classic Tencaious D in the mix by uttering the word, Skadoosh, which of course is nonsense but he mangaes to put that into every song anyways. For hardcore Tencaious D fans, see if you can figure out which character was played by JB's good buddy KG. Hint: its not a leading role, at all.
Overall score: 8/10
-What the fuck is a platypus supposed to be anyways?

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:39:39 -0400

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Wanted

I went out to see Wanted on Wednesday fully expecting an unrealistic action flick that is a good escape for a while, and boy did it deliver. Wanted is about a young man about our age who finds out that he is the son of the greatest assassin in the world and is now being recruited to join The Fraternity, a group of assassins. After much persuasion he decides to join and has to go through rigorous training before he is allowed to kill. They teach him many different skills such as curving the bullets and being able to pick other bullets out of the sky by shooting them down. He eventually gets to kill people and the movie progresses from there when he tries to kill the man who killed his father. Of course there are twists and such, which i wont reveal for obvious reasons. Overall the movie was very well made with good action sequences and stylized fight scenes. In the end though the movie makers overused some of the coolest action parts way to fucking much. Almost every bullet shot was either curved or shot out of the sky by another bullet. I mean comon give us something else. Its a rather graphic movie with some really awesome death scenes, it also has its fair share of comedy, when the comedy does actually show up its well placed and got many laughs from the audience. It was cast very well, but they left some huge plot points open, for example they introduce a character and then explain nothing about him, as well the Loom of Fate which tells the assassins which targets to kill works in binary code, but the monks who started The Fraternity started it 1000 years ago. Monks knowing binary? I think not.
Overall rating 7.5/10 for overuse of action scenes as well as unexplained points.
-Shoot THIS muther fucker!

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:33:13 -0400

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Went out to see Hellboy II tonight, I really enjoyed the first one so I figured what the fuck lets go see the second one. I really enjoyed the film and had a good time watching it. Overall the movie was very riveting and had its funny points which broke up the tension between action scenes. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, who to my knowledge has yet to make a bad movie, it was very stylishly done and kept the audience enthralled by the lighting fast action scenes as well as the dialogue. The story line follows Hellboy as he tries to stop the Elven Prince from retrieving all three pieces of the legendary crown and awakening the Golden Army to destroy the humans. Straying from the first movie he introduces a whole underground world of elves, golbin and other mythical creatures that live literally right beneath out feet. Ron Perlman reprises as the lovable red behemoth who protects our world without our knowledge. We get to see the sensitive side of Hellboy as well when he is forced to do somethinghe does not want to, I liked this as it broke up the action and made Hellboy more human instead of just being a crime fighting demon. The action sequences in this movie were fantastic and were really stylistically done, Del Toro really knows what he is doing when it comes to directing an action sequence. He was able to think of some very innovative creatures along with deaths to go along with some of them. He also seems to have a fixation with creatures who eyes where they shouldnt be, as seen in Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. There was a part that indicated a possible third movie, so we'll see where that goes. Overall I really enjoyed this movie, my one huge problem with it was young Hellboy, his mouth didnt match up with his words and he was rather annoying overall, other than that I had a great time and recommended this one highly.
Rating: 8/10
-My body is a temple, fuck that its a carnival.

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:27:05 -0400

Added: 2008-09-29 23:27:05

The Dark Knight

Fantastic, if I had to use one word to describe this movie that would it. This movie was absolutely fan-fuckin-tastic, its very hard to describe in coherent sentences about how I feel about this movie. Heath Ledger was absolutely amazing as the Joker and easily out-classed the Nicholson Joker of old. This movie made Batman Begins look this a piece of shit, well in my opinion it wasnt that good in the first place but, anyways, Christian Bale as Batman sort of irks me because of the thing he does with his lips when he talks, makes me not want to look at him. The movie jumps right in without any consideration for whether or not you know anything about Batman, which is good so we dont have to deal with any backstory. The Scarecrow shows up at the beginning of the movie for no apparent reason, I found that really bothersome as they just threw him in there and then didnt do anything else with him the rest of the movie. This incarnation of Joker was a complete psychopath with zero regard for life or anyones safety at all. They do not give him a backstory which is awesome because it surprisingly adds depth to the character, as well as making him more mysterious. Nicholson's Joker looks like a complete pussy compared to Heath's. I dont want to say too much about the plot so as not to spoil anything, but if you anything about the comics then you know that Harvey Dent is an important character. I cant really say enought about how awesome this movie was. The action was amazing and the new bat-gadgets were sweet, I want the sticky bomb timer thing! The Bat-sonar made me really disoriented, which after sitting for over 2 hours made me really uncomfortable. I find it very stupid that Batman is able to fall from absurd hights without any bodily damage. There was at least 3 occasions that he fell from at least 3 stories with no damage. There will be a third movie as a bunch of people are under contract for a trilogy. The big issue is whether or not the Joker will make a re-apperance as Heath is dead. The Riddler will most likely be the villian in the next one, there is a hint towards it as one of the characters names is Mister Reese, "mysteries", so there is a good chance that he will be the Riddler in the next one. My one issue is if Heath Ledger wins a posthumous Oscar, will it be because his preformance deserved it or is because he's dead? So we'll see where that goes. Also I felt there was alor of people in the theater who would otherwise have not gone to this movie only did because Heath Ledger is dead. Oh well such is life.
Overall score 11/10, yes it was that awesome.
-I have to...................... "Why so serious?"