Oh how I’ve missed my magical friends. Are they all dead and blowed up? Or is everyone except that meddling Juliet alive and living in a mental hospital? Or are they all living in a snow globe in Howie Mandel’s grubby little hand at St. Elsewhere Hospital?
To get you pumped up for the upcoming season, here is a nice real-time thingy about the plane crash. If you have ten minutes you’d like to squander:
All I know is it better not suck.
Filed under: Movies
Took the kids to see this over the weekend:
Hey it was a buck! The seats were purple and still had some fabric left on them!
While there, my lovely wife took one for the team and wrangled our two-year old during the entire screening. I can’t help it that same two-year old wanted nothing to do with me–but it afforded me the opportunity to actually watch the movie.
And while I was watching, I noticed something strange. I was laughing. And it was genuine! There were one or two jokes inserted expressly for adults and lo, they were actually funny. It was a fun treat, kind of like when you find out you’ve been on the freeway for 20 minutes, and you have no idea where your mind has been for the last 15, but you’re not dead yet! It was kind of like that.
Also, you’ve got to love any movie with a monkey named Steve voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, another character voiced by Mr. T, and the most romantic scene ever involving a huge Jell-o mold and a scrunchy.
If you have an extra buck, you could do worse. Just sayin’.
Filed under: Song of the Week
Just saw “500 Days of Summer” last night which is a great movie, especially if you don’t like formulaic rom-coms full of predictability, standard endings and happily ever after. One of the best aspects of the movie was the soundtrack stuffed with good music. This is my favorite.
Temper Trap, I have no idea who you are, but this song is makes me feel like I’m riding a unicorn through a field full of cotton candy. Shirtless of course.
Filed under: The World of Sport
It’s no secret that I am not a fan of the corrupt cartel known as the Bowl Championship Series. It’s highly ironic that an organization responsible for educating our young men and women looks at outsourcing their postseason as a smart decision. Don’t they have one math major in the NCAA? Don’t they know that switching to a college football playoff = more money for them to keep and an actual crowned champion instead of a fake one that hoists that stupid crystal football? Have they learned nothing from the greatness that is March Madness?
There are millions of great articles every year about the NEED, nay the RIGHT of every American to expect a playoff instead of this hokum. Like this one. But it’s promptly ignored so the apologists can tell us how great it is that we get something called the AdvoCare 100 Bowl instead.
Still upset he got beat by Utah last year.
Here are some things even dumber than this wonderful system we are stuck with for at least the next five years.
- Jon Gosselin
- A hot sauce enema
- Cancer
- the Pontiac Aztek
- Baywatch Nights
- The McRib
- Tap dancing
- Synchronized swimming
- Organic Pop-tarts
- Baseball
- Nick Saban
- The entire Kardashian family
- Pluto
- Nicolas Cage’s hairpieces
- The New York Yankees
Sure, I’ve only seen like six movies this year, but I’m ready to crown a champ. Avatar!
I’ll be honest, after seeing the preview, I wasn’t that excited to spend three hours with these fake looking blue giants but the movie was about 9,000 times better than the preview. Some brief context: it takes place in the future, the humans are in the process of invading a distant world, Pandora, for its precious natural resources. The indigenous peeps are 10 foot tall giants with interactive hair braids (don’t ask.) The humans have figured out a way to interact among them by inhabiting manufactured Na’vi bodies or “Avatars” after years of training. Some reasons this movie whips:
- Sam Freaking Worthington – if there’s a better actor on the planet, Sam could kill him with his bare hands
- CGI that is Effing incredible. Apparently Jimmy Cameron spent years perfecting this new art and it shows. I have never seen anything like it, especially in the third dimension with funny glasses. I guess that one time I got a swirlie in the third grade comes pretty close.
- Did I mention the special effects? I could live on Pandora, curled up in a leaf or riding an ikran, all day long
- Character development – With a nearly three hour running time, you actually get to know and care about these characters
- Sigourney Weaver!
- An entire new race and world – Na’vi are cool. And I’m kind of confused by this, but Neytirri is actually uh, kind of…hot
- Killer 3D – The only thing more realistic would be me sitting directly in front of you and poking your eyeball with my finger
- Michelle Rodriguez not playing somebody mean for once
Say what you will about James Cameron, but he’s managed to do it again. Maybe this arrogant know-it-all actually IS the king of the world.
