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GIT TO DA CHOPPA!

Posted by on July 28, 2010 Comments Off

The best advice you will ever receive:

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Predator set a new standard for violence in movies involving a group of guys in a jungle with a chick and an alien. It was a movie that scared the bajesus outta me but then made me appreciate the importance of mud and sticks in a fight against a foe with lasers, bombs, and a cloaking device. Flash forward 23 years and you get a new standard in men in a jungle with a chick…and this time 4 aliens!

Predators is set in present day on a distant planet. It opens with a scene of the main character (Adrien Brody) plummeting from the sky while attempting to open a parachute. Eventually he lands safely with all his guns and machetes and what not. We soon find that there are a few other guys falling all around. First they try and kill each other, but soon realize that they are being hunted. Sound familiar? Well, if you’ve seen any action movie that involves more than one guy, then probably so.

The rag-tag group is comprised of your usual assortment of fodder. You have the scraggly voice self appointed leader who never asked for the job. There’s the ever so doubtful chick. You’ve got the guy who’s not who he says he is but no one really cares until he’s met his demise. There’s the black guy, the comic relief guy, the Danny Trejo playing his usual character (after all, it is a Robert Rodriguez film) and a forgetful Laurence Fishburne. Each character is picked off one by one, alternating with one of 4 Predators up until the very end when you have the ultimate showdown (but not this kind of ultimate showdown). I won’t give away the ending, but let’s just say that the battle was just as epic as the original.

Predator Handshake

Predator Handshake!

Now for a review of the movie overall. I mean, there were certain things that I was expecting. Like a good old fashion handshake, but the rest was there. From a mini gatling gun to a mud covered guy fighting an alien that’s nearly 8ft tall. I really did enjoy the film and will most likely buy it when it comes out. It was a great follow up to the original. There were several throwbacks and references mixed in that made it seem like a continuation. They completely dismissed Predator 2 as well as the AvP movies.

The flow of the movie was fairly straight forward and to the point. There were some down times between fights, but it picked right back up. I didn’t expect there to be any vast character development or extravagant plot lines. I wasn’t looking for the personalities of the characters to carry me through the scenes. I wanted blood (both green and red), Predators, yelling, s’plosions, fighting, that distinct Predator sound and more blood. I got everything I wanted out of the movie. If you go into this movie wanting more than that or wanting a Chris Nolan film, then you will be disappointed.

I did have a few favorite parts of the movie as well as a few parts I could have done with out. For starters the sword fight was epic and bad at the same time. I mean, you get to see a Yakuza guy fight an Predator with a sword. As good as this could have been, it left me wanting more. They pretty much just ‘cut’ the point and moved on to the next scene. Laurence Fishburne was a character that was a bit strange to me. He played a guy that has been on the planet for several “seasons” and has adapted many survival methods. One of them being going half retard (you never go full retard). I dunno, I just didn’t like him in that role. He started off strong, but then just kinda fizzled out. The last thing that bugged me about the movie was the trailer. Here watch it again:

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The part at 1:28 where Adrien Brody has 10, count’em 10 Predator beam things on him is totally not accurate. For starters there are only 4 Predators in the movie and only 3 of them are hunters (the other is tied up as a captive because he’s not as cool as the bigger ones). Secondly, in the movie there’s only 1 beam thingy on him. Just one! Don’t be fooled into thinking that Mr. Brody is gonna pull some crazy stunt and get out of a massive explosion from 10 Predators, it’s just one people!

Ok, so that’s my rant/review. I really did like the action scenes and the music and the feel of the movie. It brought me back to the feeling of the original. I like the actors that were picked for the roles. The Predators looked great and true to the 1987 film. It was well paced and worth my money. I would highly recommend seeing it and at the very least you should GIT TO DA CHOPPA!!!

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Better

Posted by on November 19, 2008 No comments

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better.. better…
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better.. better…

The hardest part, this troubled heart has never yet been through now,
To heal the scars that got their start inside someone like you now,
But had I known or I’d been shown back when I longed you’d take me,
To break the charge that brought me home…
that, all but would erase me

I never would not thought I could
No matter what you’d pay me
replay the part
You stole my heart
I should have known you’re crazy

If all I knew was that with you
I’d want someone to save me
It’d be enough,
But just my luck
I fell in love and baby…

All that I wanted was…

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Now I know you better!

So bittersweet, this tragedy wont ask for absolution,
This melody inside of me, still searches for solution,
A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation,
A broken heart provides the spark for my determination.

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better, better…
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better, better…

All that I wanted, was…

I know ,you know,you know better,You know, I know ,you know better,
Now you know me better

I never wanted you to be so full of anger
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself

All that I wanted, was…

Now I know you better
Yeah we all know better

All that I wanted was…

I know better
I know better
I know better
I know better

If I were you, I’d manage to abhor the invitation
Of promised love that can’t keep up with your adoration
Just use your head, and in the end you’ll find your inspiration
To choose your steps and won’t regret this kind of aggravation

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better.. better…
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I’d know better.. better…

How is it possible that these are the lyrics to a song on the new GnR album and it’s one of the more rocking of the songs?! I mean I want some Paradise City or some Welcome to the Jungle. After like 15 years of waiting you think they could put something better together. Either way, I’m still all about some Guns N’ Roses, though at this point is more or less just the Roses part. Sadly Slash is not part of the “band” any more. Now it’s more like Axl and the Roses or some mess. Oh well, I’m warming up to the rest of the album. Lemme know what you think.

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Apps you NEED to get

Posted by on September 9, 2008 No comments

So I’m a sucker for new and shiny. Anytime I can get my hands on something that makes life easier by allowing me to perform a series of complicated tasks I jump all over it. So today I give you 3 apps that you should get that will totally make the day go by better and may even save your life.

Google Chrome: This browser kicks ass. The only thing its lacking as of now is all sorts of nifty plugins, but I’m sure in due time there will be tons. Heck, one day this browser might be a plugin to another browser, now wouldn’t that be amazing! Anyway, it’s fast, slick, simple, light weight and just plain cool. I like the fact that I can make an “application” out of any web page. Really all it’s doing is making a shortcut to a webpage on your desktop, but the word “application” is just so much cooler.

Simplify Media: You know when you’re talking to a friend online and they tell you that they’re listening to the greatest song ever and you’re like “omg, send it to me!” And they can’t or it’s in some weird format or non-sense. Or maybe you’re at work and there’s this one song you have stuck in your head and you know it’s on your computer at home and you can’t get it out of your head until you hear it, but since it’s at home that makes it nearly impossible? Well, this is where Simplify Media comes into play. With this I can set up a list of friends and stream any song on my computer to theirs through iTunes and vice versa. If Lewis has a song loaded in iTunes (or anywhere on his computer) it will show up as a shared playlist in my iTunes! I can listen to the nearly 17k songs I have at home on my work computer. It’s so awesome infact that if Jon wants to listen to something that I have at work via his iPhone…he can. It’s fast, simple, and uber cool. The possibilities are endless. So if you get it and want to listen to my stuff or share music, look me up. I’m thenumber3.

Dashwire: Have you ever wanted to export your chats from your phone to your computer? What about sending a picture that you just took to the masses without using your phone? What about doing anything that you can do/modify on your phone from the convenience of your computer? Dashwire will allow that to happen. I’ve got it set up and as soon as I make a call, receive a call, take a photo, send or receive a text message, it’s available online to manipulate. It can automatically update Facebook (or other social websites). It’s just pretty bad ass. You can even send/receive texts or calls from the web. In addition to Dashwire, thre’s CallWave. With this, when ever someone calls and leaves a voicemail it sends me a text message with their contact info, then sends me an email with the actual voicemail. So I can listen to all my VM’s on the computer rather than on the phone. I’ve only used it once so far and it could be a pain when I want to listen to it on my phone. But I typically just call the person back anyway. Oh, and I added a page of my mobile photos. So now any time I take a picture with my phone (that still just sounds weird to me), it should show up automatically on the bloggins’.

So there’s some stuff that everyone needs to get. I mean, with this stuff, I don’t ever have to actually interact with anyone. I can listen to other people’s music, talk to people via the computer, listen to them talk to me via the computer, heck, I don’t even have to touch my phone in order to use my phone. If only I could bypass the computer and just lay there and control it all with a wiimote that would be amazing. I urge you all to go out there and get this stuff and try it out. If there are any other apps you use lemme know and I’ll jump on it, or tell my computer to tell my phone to jump on it.

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Hulk Smash!

Posted by on June 13, 2008 No comments

Tonight 2 movies that I was eagerly awaiting came out, The Incredible Hulk and The Happening. It was a toss up on which one to see tonight and which one to see later this weekend…maybe. Well you can probably guess by the title which one we went and saw.

So my verdict is that it was pretty good. I didn’t see the Ang Lee version so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but it was pretty danged good. My only gripe was the lack of any real performance by Liv Tyler. She came across as very absent or just ‘phoning it in.’ I know Neal or some one else will be like “you don’t watch Liv Tyler for the acting…” but I really don’t find her like super actrive. Plus there better looking women out there that do a much better job at acting than her. So back to the movie. I’m not going to give any thing away, but there were some nice touches here and there that I enjoyed. I’m not a follower of the comics so I don’t know how true to things they were but all in all I thought it was good.

I have more updates on how things went this week, somw good others not so good, but I’ll wait until I’m in a better position to put it all down.

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Untraceable, more like unwatchable

Posted by on February 12, 2008 No comments

On Saturday someone wanted to come take a look at the house, so Maggie and I decided to occupy our time by going and seeing Untraceable. It looked half-way decent and we had about 2 hours to kill. Well, we would’ve been better off turning the car on, and just sitting in the garage.

This was a terrible, terrible movie. It was just bad in every way. There wasn’t any redeeming quality about it. The acting was bad; the story was full of holes and impossibilities. There was very little character development and it was rather predicable. About an hour in, Maggie and I both wanted to walk out, but seeing as we had already invested the time and the $12, decided to stay. I’m not so sure we made the right decision.

Either way, this was a sorry attempt at retelling Saw (only the first one, none of the other ones count), or Se7en. I would not recommend watching this, not even as a drinking game. Movies like The Core, Stealth, Mind Games, Armageddon, etc. have a certain quality about them that makes them tolerable. We’ve seen a lot of bad movies, and this is no exception.

In other news, the rest of the weekend was pretty good. The weather was awesome, we got the house cleaned, we got to play some Warcraft, and it was just nice to just relax.

Friday night I got to hang out with Jon Lee. We went to the Vortex and I got to experience what I can only describe as the best and worst burger of all time (the Elvis burger: Beef, bacon, bananas, peanut butter, and I added cheese dip and ranch for extra flavor). Luckily I only had 1 bite of that. Any more and I would’ve died…right there. After that, we hung out for a bit then went to the Claremont Lounge. It’s safe to say that this place has not changed since the first and only time I’ve been. It really is an experience.

Read above for Saturday. Sunday we sat around, then we decided we were gonna do our weekly long-run. I can’t express how proud I am of Maggie. She pushed herself farther than she ever had before. She ran like 4.5 miles or something. That’s pretty awesome considering she’s been having wicked shin splints. I only see her improving and that makes me happier than ever. I wanted to see if I could push my self to a 10k, and I did. It actually came out to something like 10.79k so damn! The only downside is that I may have sprained or caused a stress fracture in my left foot. If it’s not better by tomorrow I’m going to head to the doctor. It really hurts to walk, so we’ll see.

That’s about all I had. The post title, is a bit misleading, but eh, whatever. Bottom line is, don’t see Untraceable, but do go for a run. That’s it. Have a great week!

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DO NOT SEE TRANSPORTER 2

Posted by on September 5, 2005 No comments

…that is all.

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