tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6461377214416645862024-02-18T22:43:18.488-05:00Jesus Was A Browncoat So I Aim To MisbehaveThis is a Youth Ministry resource for my movie suggestions, theological rants and hysterically funny musings.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-67346524713603267892012-05-11T03:34:00.000-04:002012-05-11T03:34:04.653-04:00S.S.L. - THIS POST MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE!<link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CSTAFF%7E1.PET%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so if you read my last post you found
out that I have had a fair amount of writers block as of late, so I decided
that I would try and break it with a topic that is near and dear to my heart,
in movies, and in everyday life. And to do that, I need to give you a scenario
and a bible verse or two so you will understand, so bare with me and it will
all make sense. So here we go.</span></span></div>
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Scenario # 1<br />
You are driving on a family vacation through the back roads of, of, well, you
know what, it doesn't matter, it could be forests, or</span></span></div>
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Detroit, truth is it doesn't really make a difference, but what does
matter is all of a sudden your car stalls, your cell phone doesn't work and
there is no sight of CAA, The Auto Club or any local, county or state law
enforcement anywhere in sight. What is in sight is, or at least, in ear shot is
the sound of a chain saw starting up, (possibly accompanied by a banjo, it
depends on the movie or location) and that is usually followed by some form of
maniacal laughter and then the slaughtering of all your loved ones starts to
happen. Does this sound familiar? Ok, good, now onto scenario number two<br /><br />
Scenario # 2<br />
You are home alone, and the phone rings, you answer, expecting to hear either
one of three things, 1.) Your best friend calling to see if you want to hang,
maybe even check out the latest Christopher Nolan<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">1</span></span> movie. 2.) A window or
heating duct company trying to get you to try out their latest deal, or 3.) A
robotic message lying to you about the proper polling station you should go to
in the up coming</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;"> election. But no, instead of any of those incredibly useful things, what you get is some psycho deep
breathing with a voice modulator informing you that he is in the house ,
(possibly in the basement, but more likely in the closet <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">2</span>) and that you are
going to die cause he is going to kill you when you least expect it. Is this
ringing any bells, or metaphorical phones, good, (I am just gonna assume you
had your metaphorical phone bells rung, if you didn't, don't worry too much
about it, life is full of disappointments, this is a very minor one) moving on
to the last scenario, which strangely enough is kind of an end of the world
thing. <br /><span> </span><br />
Scenario # 3<br />
ZOMBIES!!!!!</span></span></div>
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Yep, you heard me, Zombies. Flesh eating, stumbling around, arms outstretched,
want to eat your brains for breakfast Zombies. Do I really need to write more,
they're freakin Zombies, Nuff said. So there they are, the three scenarios that
give you a little glimpse into what I am talking about, so now let me give you three
quotes from the good book<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: orange;">3</span></span> before I actually get to the point of all this.<br /><br />
We will start in Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 12, which says, "The word of
God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts all the
way through, to where soul and spirit meet, to where joints and marrow come
together. It judges the desires and thoughts of the heart." Next up is
Ephesians chapter 6, verse 16, "At all times carry faith as a shield; for
with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the Evil
One. And accept salvation as a helmet, and the word of God as the sword which
the Spirit gives you."<br /><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><br />
Ok, now ask me, "What's your point?" Well, go ahead, ask, I'll wait.
Who am I kidding, it has been so long since I have blogged I better not waste
any more time, so here's the point, S.S.L.
Now, give me a minute,(or a couple of minutes if you are a slow reader) and I
will explain. In the last bunch of years there seems to be a bunch of sayings
and slogans that have used the first letters of each word for a short form. Now
this is way before texting short forms took hold of the world with their lol's
and brb and my personal favorite, AMRMTYFTS <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">4</span>, but no, I am talking about the
whole WWJD thing and such, and probably the most famous one in history, S.O S.,
(which is an old sailor term for distress ships which stands for Save Our Souls <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">5</span>). Well, for me, I say forget about S.O.S., cause it is all about S.S.L.</span></span></div>
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S.S.L. simply means this, <b>SWORDS SAVE LIVES</b>. Ok, so here it is, take all those
scenarios from earlier, the chainsaw wielding hillbilly psychos, the serial
killers in stupid masks and the flesh eating zombies, and then give yourself a
sword.<br /><br />
Now sure, it sucks that you are in the situation you are in, but be</span></span></div>
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don't you feel a whole lot better knowing that when the zombie comes to eat
your spleen, (little known fact, Zombies love spleens, not sure why, but trust
me, they do) that you can cut it into a bunch of pieces <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">6</span>, or as the serial
killer comes down the stairs with his stupid taunt, that</span></span></div>
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chance to cut the arm off that he dialed the stupid phone with in the first place. You see, I love swords, always have, always will, there is just something awesome about them, so much so that even the bible recognizes this.
In the bible, as shown in the above verses, a sword is given an incredibly high
honor, it is said to be the metaphorical equivalent to the WORD of God. I can't
stress enough how awesome that is. So it makes perfect sense to me that this
love of swords has carried over to movies, so be it Highlander, or Seven
Samurai or your run of the mill ninja movie, if swords are there, then I am a
happy camper. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Me, as a sword wielding tennis ball looking happy camper.</span></td></tr>
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So, with that, every time I watch a movie and any of the above scenarios occur,
or countless others, all I keep thinking is, "Man, if that guy just had a
sword he would be fine right now." So think about it, next time you are
watching a movie and the fit hits the shan <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">7</span>, remember S.S.L., and you can
thank me later.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A classic choice, you can't go wrong with.</span></td></tr>
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Oh, and for those really smart people who noticed that I only gave you two
bible verses when I said three, here is the third one, (and good for you being
so smart, go eat a cookie, my treat). In Matthew</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not really Jesus, but pretty cool anyway!</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large;"> chapter 26, verses 51, 52, it
talks about when Jesus was being arrested, and the disciple that shares my name
decides that he was going to take my advice, and pulled his sword with the
following results, "One of those who were with Jesus drew his sword and
struck at the High Priest's slave, cutting off his ear. “Put your sword back in
its place,” Jesus said to him. “All who take the sword will die by the
sword." Now, Jesus was not a violent guy <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">8</span>, and although I love swords I
have no problem with what he said, cause it is true, those who live by the
sword will die by the sword, but as far as I am concerned, that beats getting
eaten by a zombie any day. So thanks for reading, I will try and post more
often, until then, stay safe, stay dry, and for my sake, stay living, cause I
have no interest in taking out your zombie corpse <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">9</span>, with a sword or
otherwise. Anyway, until then, blog at you later. </span>
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<span lang="EN-CA">1 Man can that guy make outstanding movies
or what, and if you say, "or what" do yourself a favor and just stop
reading my blog, cause clearly, you suck. <br />
2 And I am not referring to the killer being homosexually in denial, incase you
were confused.<br />
3 And by the good book I am referring to the bible, incase you might have been
hoping for the latest Stephen King novel.<br />
4 To be truthful I just typed in "funniest texting short form" to
Google and that one came up, I don't have a favorite, cause I am not lame like
that, oh, and it stands for "All My Roommates Thank You For The Show"
incase you were wondering.<br />
5 And now you know, and knowing is half the battle! Go Joe!!!!<br />
6 Actually cutting it to pieces would be a waste of time, here is a video
staring Zach Levi to educate you on proper zombie killing technique, enjoy.</span></div>
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7 Yeah, you read that right.<br />
8 He actually took the time to reach down and pick up the dudes ear while still
being arrested and healed him there on the spot, how awesome is that.<br />
9 I wanted to use a different word here then corpse, but my wife would have
told me off, so feel free to make it cooler by picking any word you think fits
best and I will get to stay out of trouble, how is that for team work.</span></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-32474123259867697812012-03-08T23:33:00.000-05:002012-03-08T23:33:44.713-05:00M.I.A.? The Case Of The Annoyingly Stupid Block<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its been a while since my last post, (as my friend Davis just pointed out to me yesterday) so I will fill you in on why I haven't been posting.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVt1EounnoWJpM8x0lIAij0rWj9Y_vHEZ0LW1iMhCGhcMVNVrt7_gimMN50dKC2QZmvO3E7_2xe8MoAwcLRZoTKy4G7LOEk-bydn9hrOGzwP0LJNVuZqFlXFAQ-H4PmCHgqvksHsyWhrcG/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVt1EounnoWJpM8x0lIAij0rWj9Y_vHEZ0LW1iMhCGhcMVNVrt7_gimMN50dKC2QZmvO3E7_2xe8MoAwcLRZoTKy4G7LOEk-bydn9hrOGzwP0LJNVuZqFlXFAQ-H4PmCHgqvksHsyWhrcG/" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;">Yep, I have had a really bad case of writers block, where I just end up staring at my iPad screen for what seems like hours, and nothing comes, and that really hasn't changed, but I thought I would just write and see what comes out, so here goes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW3IxZgMiIvjmzu9gHR4Ac5vWW3gSGY_XW-u4l_KbqsU9jbSoFIqckeOLWssXLU2m1CkP-1Z832wLwtfnHjbrOsAuzN0cc3a77P0qQlAhfBafsLAp_2smPVeygFay2WcROhrw_WnWEK0u/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="508px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW3IxZgMiIvjmzu9gHR4Ac5vWW3gSGY_XW-u4l_KbqsU9jbSoFIqckeOLWssXLU2m1CkP-1Z832wLwtfnHjbrOsAuzN0cc3a77P0qQlAhfBafsLAp_2smPVeygFay2WcROhrw_WnWEK0u/" width="640px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmMjmU7bG-SgSG-ycQUn9iDsqsMTs9UMF3L0j8ojoKk6q2s-Zz1rdV91UtF9WcpUnVmr2Zsu0_yZQVWx-V37auPEZGbtHDgo_C0nuoobhVHu92FH3WNFUQaBYOahF3qc8b3y0lnDu1uhr/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmMjmU7bG-SgSG-ycQUn9iDsqsMTs9UMF3L0j8ojoKk6q2s-Zz1rdV91UtF9WcpUnVmr2Zsu0_yZQVWx-V37auPEZGbtHDgo_C0nuoobhVHu92FH3WNFUQaBYOahF3qc8b3y0lnDu1uhr/" width="576px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOYGYK9qslbeRBFSlddTBcRBVLIUdIqr0NeuP8lhKRQvUinYAW5iWR4e425F5xa0Y9-RUuzrEV-qDDVqjOjF-tlih71CfHPrz_x2jJSuS7hRzeFqv5Hrd76uX3S_aG6KRveoqVAXr_fA1/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="533px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOYGYK9qslbeRBFSlddTBcRBVLIUdIqr0NeuP8lhKRQvUinYAW5iWR4e425F5xa0Y9-RUuzrEV-qDDVqjOjF-tlih71CfHPrz_x2jJSuS7hRzeFqv5Hrd76uX3S_aG6KRveoqVAXr_fA1/" width="640px" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the screen I looked at for a couple hours before just </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">adding the above pictures and the text below and calling it a day.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;">Well...........that sucked. A couple of hours and a few movies watched later, and this is as far as I got, so lets just say, writers block sucks, and here is a picture of awesomeness to make up for my blockyness. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5NOchxhbTAnMq0DMFZXX5VDklPnxeo_jCJUAGGDoTiaYAwctZDyyWU3fBrgEwEeHoRdDzfTh1hPCZ-LTszJVLOiY6LRQ1QjIucxVWakxbAv1iV0YLQpXW2Vt2ubatBJZHwJrlVvAX0Uu/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5NOchxhbTAnMq0DMFZXX5VDklPnxeo_jCJUAGGDoTiaYAwctZDyyWU3fBrgEwEeHoRdDzfTh1hPCZ-LTszJVLOiY6LRQ1QjIucxVWakxbAv1iV0YLQpXW2Vt2ubatBJZHwJrlVvAX0Uu/" width="638px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;">And that's all I got, blog at you later, whenever that is.</div></span><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-26596505162350959172012-01-30T00:49:00.000-05:002012-01-30T00:49:15.193-05:0010 Classics Of 2011: Old To The World, New To Me<span style="font-size: large;">This last year I have had the chance to watch a lot of movies that I have never seen before. Going through best movies of all time lists and Oscar Best Picture lists, I have watched some incredibly classic movies. With that in mind, here are ten of them, in no particular order, that I would recommend that everyone should see. <br />
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First up is probably one of the oldest movies I have ever seen, the groundbreaking...</span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvqa6CaEy6MiAz7x-R2yXQ-Du-5SoMjmOEhTyyhQWBozOspn0_51HN5M2Vrzba7nkZbPvruQpWyuyBz48ewPTtnKOes0TjOdQes6KcFYlTE7fEgfH6DHKsaVvux9JGqSkDs4uCecFpBde/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvqa6CaEy6MiAz7x-R2yXQ-Du-5SoMjmOEhTyyhQWBozOspn0_51HN5M2Vrzba7nkZbPvruQpWyuyBz48ewPTtnKOes0TjOdQes6KcFYlTE7fEgfH6DHKsaVvux9JGqSkDs4uCecFpBde/" width="440px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nosferatu has to be one of the most famous horror movies ever, as well as an amazingly classic movie. It is truly one of the cornerstones of silent film history and if you are lucky enough to see the restoration version that was recently made you know how innovative and creative film makers could be, even back then. A must see for any film buff.<br />
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Next up is the first of two from the king of noir, Humphrey Bogart, in...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMW9oG3x1GqTBru6cLZwY9rN8lNoO6iInJPO3GRfV9W54hTvG6hUEzgTZyx1Y0Hbhnbfk_XamQL1eaHZ91wzPe0SUd-l7cHRXtfKy0yPXlja5gd4h4n6yjiJrPZTDYw107OXZt7XgzDF-S/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMW9oG3x1GqTBru6cLZwY9rN8lNoO6iInJPO3GRfV9W54hTvG6hUEzgTZyx1Y0Hbhnbfk_XamQL1eaHZ91wzPe0SUd-l7cHRXtfKy0yPXlja5gd4h4n6yjiJrPZTDYw107OXZt7XgzDF-S/" width="286px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Maltese Falcon is a classic double cross, triple cross, quadruple cross, (well, maybe not quadruple cross, I kinda lost count, but you get the point) movie with a great performance from Humphrey Bogart, (man can that guy talk fast), although it seems a little anticlimactic at the end, but maybe that was just me.<br />
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Moving from noir to war, we have one of the best movies about bombers ever made, in....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0mJbzWUhy8TWHVCdJ1LosyNIFyulnBQKmq3u6TVI0gDX4Mx4CYV7gFS-d6ykOJv8BnEUziM2AHmm8nTIklIjSN_-tTyfhKJGg7Cfmrw9PSiHnL34ZS5tqwTM0UwJr7WaupG8-zfEllz7/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0mJbzWUhy8TWHVCdJ1LosyNIFyulnBQKmq3u6TVI0gDX4Mx4CYV7gFS-d6ykOJv8BnEUziM2AHmm8nTIklIjSN_-tTyfhKJGg7Cfmrw9PSiHnL34ZS5tqwTM0UwJr7WaupG8-zfEllz7/" width="422px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Twelve O'Clock High is a brilliant war movie about the first day time bombing runs in the 2nd World War. Gregory Peck does an outstanding job leading the cast as the hard nosed General who tries to turn around a bomber squadron that seems to have lost all its direction. The story is great, and the inclusion of all the real war footage from both sides is absolutely fantastic and really helps make the movie feel authentic.<br />
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Keeping with the number twelve, next on my list is one of the best legal dramas ever made, and it is all </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">about...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jCCGSyBh3esU_bHgWw6pE5LAs9ZmcQ61_-f2J8DKAIMUOHSQAOxrjQl61_iqZr50nc0DDKC9dXua4dOib8DK9PGIuhfOnyqiFubIOJE4GowBKhoaqcX3CwVIUYTLfRKegnFuP0A8dZod/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jCCGSyBh3esU_bHgWw6pE5LAs9ZmcQ61_-f2J8DKAIMUOHSQAOxrjQl61_iqZr50nc0DDKC9dXua4dOib8DK9PGIuhfOnyqiFubIOJE4GowBKhoaqcX3CwVIUYTLfRKegnFuP0A8dZod/" width="412px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">I first saw the remake of 12 Angry Men before I actually saw the original, so in that, as I kept comparing the two as I watched it, and I have to say, both versions are outstanding, but this classic just has a little something more. It is incredibly taut, tense and well cast and acted, with an amazing story and script and is unlike and probably better then any other legal based movie ever made.<br />
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Remaining in the black and white mode, next we come to a movie made more recently, yet uses the lack of a color pallet to its full advantage in...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63Nd1JSIARYT5Z4YQlYT75Gi2_QWU88niTPVYxHVVnmZJ_SGyS4N1wWA1uoX8ZV65oPsbFWHphOhnh5HRBwc9GVUFcY3vleB_4dLoeskfeakpHgN-atyCqqez_xSNOTD5CnX-_vasNYsn/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj63Nd1JSIARYT5Z4YQlYT75Gi2_QWU88niTPVYxHVVnmZJ_SGyS4N1wWA1uoX8ZV65oPsbFWHphOhnh5HRBwc9GVUFcY3vleB_4dLoeskfeakpHgN-atyCqqez_xSNOTD5CnX-_vasNYsn/" width="416px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brilliantly acted by John Hurt (as John Merrick, The Elephant Man) and Anthony Hopkins (the doctor who say more then deformity) and a touching true story, The Elephant Man is a well put together movie and for some reason having it filmed in black and white totally helps get across the bleakness that John Merrick must have lived in until his life was completely changed. I give John Hurt credit for his performance in this, cause you really couldn't see him at all, yet he did an awesome job of acting with all the make up and prosthetics applied, just proving again what an amazing actor he is.<br />
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Back to Boggy and another noir, for any one who is tired, here is...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLmPfnicrQB850kuSmIdnSEiFVDERvu-I8ReT7LfP-p6hyPqNlahI7f9KUv24aZZ4O3G1loKuruJwkuWxo9oM9sFQbqYtMAQUxuLUAB6gMInAr5o1DHjTrLFGxJusOybj3yw4MoliFZEQs/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLmPfnicrQB850kuSmIdnSEiFVDERvu-I8ReT7LfP-p6hyPqNlahI7f9KUv24aZZ4O3G1loKuruJwkuWxo9oM9sFQbqYtMAQUxuLUAB6gMInAr5o1DHjTrLFGxJusOybj3yw4MoliFZEQs/" width="409px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is another noir movie that allows Humphrey Bogart to shine in all his utter coolness. He is just awesome like he always seems to be and the story of murder, love, sex and betrayal moves at a decent pace, keeping you attention throughout, plus it has a young Loren Bacall, so that is pretty cool too.<br />
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2011 is the year I became a fan of all the leads of the following movie, so I was thrilled when I found they were all in a movie together, in...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmmycZa_U3Io2znKSaaEWTB6jAKMtN77XYrpRYO5kN_yhv71MKQE8z_zLADf7GDdOdCQRALY-7fw4P1XB0DBC9gGcsmbzohN9dDafuItwsGbYx4ThoSzRZRQPrSx3PQMqJjGH6ol639qs/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpmmycZa_U3Io2znKSaaEWTB6jAKMtN77XYrpRYO5kN_yhv71MKQE8z_zLADf7GDdOdCQRALY-7fw4P1XB0DBC9gGcsmbzohN9dDafuItwsGbYx4ThoSzRZRQPrSx3PQMqJjGH6ol639qs/" width="409px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn and Carry Grant all being awesome with each other, what more do you really need? Well, add a really fun story, sharp fast dialogue and a romance angle and you have yourself greatness on celluloid, plus Stewart and Hepburn flirting with each other in a drunken stupor is worth watching any day.<br />
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Next on the list is a movie that unfortunately doesn't exist in its entirety anymore, which could be considered irony considering it has the word Lost in the title, with the black and white master piece...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCYG0OpY6eZhNeSxjzDTE_lnj_jtctcCZTaoaKy2kxYxkffdtHCJoEzxAc8wNrz4fLtedCj2PHhHxA9WhGo48AAQXFRDmTL8UNVfQMG0bU7zoaWxSwg00dL696SmZ07fDOxTxQqMz84QY/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCYG0OpY6eZhNeSxjzDTE_lnj_jtctcCZTaoaKy2kxYxkffdtHCJoEzxAc8wNrz4fLtedCj2PHhHxA9WhGo48AAQXFRDmTL8UNVfQMG0bU7zoaWxSwg00dL696SmZ07fDOxTxQqMz84QY/" width="412px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lost Horizon is a outstanding classic movie directed by Frank Capra of "It's A Wonderful Life" fame. Capra does an incredible job conveying a feeling of well being throughout the film about a group that has been taken to Shangri La against their will, only to find that there is nowhere else they would rather be, well, most of them anyway. As I said earlier, Lost Horizon is a movie where a full print of the original film stock has been lost to time. Yet they have been able to put together most of it, including some scenes where they only have film stills but they still have the audio track. Although it is not perfect, it still lets you experience that part of the story and helps round out some of the loose ends that otherwise would exist. Who knows maybe someday a full print will show up, maybe in Shangri La, or Cleveland. What, it could happen. <br />
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Second last on my list is the story of a king and his best friend who was torn between loyalty to his friend and to God in...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzt1wGb8ZHzLu_gk7hSjsGSEsJ6V1HKuYt9UV4vpikzkqRguIZVEz4fp7Olvdebxdzv5fU6yOUlXqj4MsA_RCy2EzYez-z7TTA6X4zYZp7aJeDaTzFlwyf6CTtbMArckH4l-_yuLj85PRq/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzt1wGb8ZHzLu_gk7hSjsGSEsJ6V1HKuYt9UV4vpikzkqRguIZVEz4fp7Olvdebxdzv5fU6yOUlXqj4MsA_RCy2EzYez-z7TTA6X4zYZp7aJeDaTzFlwyf6CTtbMArckH4l-_yuLj85PRq/" width="473px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Becket is the story of the English king who lives only for himself and his friend, and when facing a power struggle with the church he decides to appoint his best friend to the head of the church in England to fix it, only to find that due to his faith Becket takes the job much more seriously then he was expected to. Becket boasts brilliant acting, (how is that for alliteration) from Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, a great story about friendship and conviction, and was up for 11 Oscars, which used to mean something, so all in all it is an outstanding film.<br />
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Now onto the last movie on my list, which is one of the best true stories I have ever seen put to film, in...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGM686yU5U_MByhnbYXhuXTGChvSMXyPd3TNYIdmrIBvcOioNu1dCeFROxAuHvQAKTx1SOa0dRycJJgUYTozJP_aaMvPon4-am2pHofeFtwufPMQDMW3nbuDRzRs_zBrD-5R2egGTI2bgB/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGM686yU5U_MByhnbYXhuXTGChvSMXyPd3TNYIdmrIBvcOioNu1dCeFROxAuHvQAKTx1SOa0dRycJJgUYTozJP_aaMvPon4-am2pHofeFtwufPMQDMW3nbuDRzRs_zBrD-5R2egGTI2bgB/" width="480px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sergeant York is one of the best movies I have ever seen for showing how God can turn a life around. York, played by Gary Cooper (incidentally, when the real Sergeant York was asked for the rights to turn his life into a movie, one of his conditions was that Gary Cooper would play him) is a rough housing drunk who is a crack shot with a rifle and has a temper to match. But that all changed when in a fit of anger York goes to kill a man and God hits him with lightning, and I mean literally, and sets him down the path were he would become a reluctant national hero when war breaks out. Gary Cooper is excellent as York, having a great metamorphosis from drunkard and angry young man to an honest Christian, living out his faith, and the rest of the cast does a great job too. <br />
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So there they are, 10 classic movies that if you haven't seen I highly recommend you check out. Now I know it has been a while since my last post, and truth be told I actually started writing this post back in November, but for some reason it has taken me a long time to finish it, so I hope to post a bit more often this year, (that's 2012, for those of you reading this in the future, which would be your present, but my past, wait a minute, I think I just confused myself, man I hate time travel paradoxes) so with that said I will end this post and remind you all to be safe out there, cause you are your brothers keepers, and your sisters keepers, and most important of all, you are your bees keepers, so watch out for honey and stingers. Until next time, blog at you later.</span></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-18016337390620130252012-01-01T17:08:00.000-05:002012-01-01T17:08:58.638-05:00My 2011 Movie Watching Year<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, it was quite a year for movies, and a year of change for a lot of things. For example, 2011 is the year I finally embraced the Blu-ray disc format. I had been on the fence up until now, and that changed this year, (an easy way to see this is that last boxing day I bought a bunch of movies, and only three of them were on Blu-ray, as opposed to this year, where I bought 31 movies on boxing day, and only one of them was on dvd, and thats only because they have yet to produce that movie on Blu-ray) and I have to say, Blu-ray is as cool as people have been saying it is, so you got me, now let it go. Moving on, 2011 is also the year that a major source for peoples movie watching changed, and what I mean with this is that my beloved Blockbuster officially closed up shop forever, (well, at least in Canada anyway, I have heard it is kinda still in the U.S., but I don’t live there, I live here, in Canada, the true north strong and free, and apparently strong and free of Blockbuster now too). This shows how much the movie watching landscape has changed. Now I don’t think it was one thing that killed Blockbuster, you can’t point your finger at Netflix and yell MURDERER!!!!! I actually think it was several things all happening at the same time that caused the mighty block to fall, like Walmart selling movies incredibly cheap, speciality movie networks on cable, pay per view on demand movies and then throw on top of that Netflix and illegal movies on the internet, and Blockbuster fell down and went boom. This year for me was also a year of lists. I printed up a few lists such as the INTERNET MOVIE DATA BASES top 250 movies list, and the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTES top 100 movies, and then I printed up the Oscar nomination list going back to the 30’s for BEST PICTURE NOMINATIONS, and basically tried to see as many as these movies as possible, (A big thank you goes out again to Pickering Public Libraries, who gave me a ton of these to watch, even holding them for me so I could swoop* in and pick up 10 to 15 at a time, you guys rock). And last but not least, I printed up and watched all the James Bond movies through out the year in chronological order, (a big up to my dad for supplying me with the movies for this from his collection, you are my own personal Q). So, saying all that, here is my list of movies that I watched this year. I will place my total at the bottom, and just to prepare you, this may take awhile, so get reading.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfhQKaBLUh-Dmac_v_vaDAY6MD33Z9mO3pT90c1BQ3lOnsxYT4yq8BWONZxwURUdRPKYOstkd9CiLhfHR-Guey6Vhx0_7GPdSuRdn_vqDVcTpRU2E_F4ImPx9fsBNH4Z81fBP2fn65EHf/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFfhQKaBLUh-Dmac_v_vaDAY6MD33Z9mO3pT90c1BQ3lOnsxYT4yq8BWONZxwURUdRPKYOstkd9CiLhfHR-Guey6Vhx0_7GPdSuRdn_vqDVcTpRU2E_F4ImPx9fsBNH4Z81fBP2fn65EHf/" width="270px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span> * Dangerous Minds * Dark City * Date Night * Dawn Of The Dead (2004 Version) * The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008 Version) * Daybreakers * Dazed And Confused * Dead Calm * Dead Snow * Dear John * Death Hunt * Death Race 2 * Death Race 2000 * Death Wish * Death Wish 2 * Death Wish 3 * Death Wish 4 * Deep Impact * The Defiant Ones * Despicable, Me * Devil * The Devil's Double * Diamonds Are Forever * The Diary Of Anne Frank * Die Another Day * Dinoshark * Dirty Rotten Scoundrels * Disturbing Behavior * The Diving Bell And The Butterfly * Dodgeball * Dog Day Afternoon * Doom * Double Bang * Downfall * Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde * Dr. No * Dr. Strangelove: Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb * Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story * Drive Angry * Driving Miss Daisy * Dude, Where's My Car * Due Date</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">N & O</span>* The Name Of The Rose * Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind * Network * New Jack City * The Night Of The Hunter * Night Of The Living Dead * Norma Rae * North By Northwest * Nosferatu * The Number 23 * Oceans (X2) * Octopus * Octopussy * Of Gods And Men * Office Space * Old Boy * Old School * On Golden Pond * On Her Majesty's Secret Service * Once Upon A Time In America * Ondine * The One * Ong Bak * Ong Bak 3 * Ordinary People * Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis * The Ox-Bow Incident</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there they are, all 763** of them, yep, you read that right, 763, and for those of you who suck at math, if I was to watch two a day, that would give me 730, so Booya to me for beating that mark. So yeah, I like movies, thanks for reading, and see you in the new year, hope it is a good one for you and yours. Blog at you later.</span></div><br />
*I think I need to swoop more often, cause it is just flat out fun.<br />
**Ok, just be honest, you can tell me if you just scrolled to the bottom of the list to see how many I watched, cause I totally know you did. Oh, and just for comparison, in 2009 I watched 291, and then in 2010 I watched 676, so it is safe to say I watch way more movies then you.</div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="clear: both;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-76105724610312731942011-12-03T09:18:00.000-05:002011-12-03T09:18:05.287-05:00The Incredible Mr. E And The Two Doors Of Doom<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, I have been watching a lot of James Bond films lately, and that means I have seen a lot of evil dudes catch Bond and instead of just putting "two" in his head like any sensible villain, they put him in a pool with sharks, or a jungle with wild animals chasing him, and Bond does what Bond always does and gets away and then beats the bad guy. So with that in mind, here is a little situation that I am going to put you in, with two diabolical choices, and you can just call me The Incredible Mr. E for this post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxhPQxKzv5-CcLJpLcf2zb2IdqxWjp9o8jHTSqF5y8UEPBe5p72-G-GggnsWTveZoszj0U8mMdqIt55R_Vite8bxsCjvtaeiFAq7WJs39bf3BONW0r1J-zcthyT8LN-7FXH7Q9g702hA_/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxhPQxKzv5-CcLJpLcf2zb2IdqxWjp9o8jHTSqF5y8UEPBe5p72-G-GggnsWTveZoszj0U8mMdqIt55R_Vite8bxsCjvtaeiFAq7WJs39bf3BONW0r1J-zcthyT8LN-7FXH7Q9g702hA_/" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">So here it is. You find yourself in a jungle with two levers in front of you. The levers open doors to cages 5 miles away from you on opposite sides of the jungle. You are then told over a loudspeaker by The Incredible Mr. E, (which is me if you remember, and if you already forgot you might want to talk to a doctor about that, cause something might be wrong with you if you forget that quickly and then being stuck on my imaginary island with monsters chasing you is the least of you worries) that you have 60 seconds to pull one of the two levers, or both of the cages will open. So, which lever do you chose to pull, the left or the right? Well, what are behind the cage doors would be my first question, (and probably yours too, that or, do you know the muffin man, but the cage question is probably a bit more important right now*) so Rod Roddy**, tell em' whats behind door number one.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well The Incredible Mr. E, behind door number one is a terrifying killing machine of a creature that stand between 6 to 8 feet tall, has a hardened exoskeleton, a razor sharp piercing tail and even if you do manage to hurt it, it has acid for blood. I am of course referring to a Xenomorph, or as you might know it better, an Alien.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5aoMhD8v7dhs_HjDhKbxBzg74fJxpinjmgeQcLvwgQ77-6iDoOvg_V-Lou5rzLgwykI3bXIEbHqlbG4WPhvP93SjIn47QAgkNnAtp_9ohxO-Jl1GQDAG44O_WbXxvX80RyGkuRQptq7G/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5aoMhD8v7dhs_HjDhKbxBzg74fJxpinjmgeQcLvwgQ77-6iDoOvg_V-Lou5rzLgwykI3bXIEbHqlbG4WPhvP93SjIn47QAgkNnAtp_9ohxO-Jl1GQDAG44O_WbXxvX80RyGkuRQptq7G/" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, Xenomorphs are the creatures found in all those ultra cool scifi movies in the Alien series. They are strong, fast and tricky, and did I mention that they are great at hiding too. Yeah, so if you pull that first lever this is what you are going to have chasing you around the jungle. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDQE-k4fD3QEehwTupknH5JN8M61sTiLp9-iF0KbuSWYjyQLVp_ZtFP3OBitutyX5z7HZIE1AkogYMic4JVDPyJnrso36PE6XPSj9bKEmOTQs9ZDt0tm11oSdQW1yn6pwgrqDrzOikFdH/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDQE-k4fD3QEehwTupknH5JN8M61sTiLp9-iF0KbuSWYjyQLVp_ZtFP3OBitutyX5z7HZIE1AkogYMic4JVDPyJnrso36PE6XPSj9bKEmOTQs9ZDt0tm11oSdQW1yn6pwgrqDrzOikFdH/" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So that is door number one, but what about door number two you might say, that has to be better then an acid filled monster, right? Well, how about something that likes to hunt acid filled monsters for sport, cause thats what is behind door number two.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2QdCtkIEAeD0cwVA8g5j05vKwqx0zjnkunyVjk1Csmhs0Dfn4LAoaRykpEZqkIG29wiGjaWG8zfFIKLA3Eimnb0n1eSG5e8QQVL5_ezN6Zu_S15MeTTHj4bFeIW8gJH7mLH-woJ9Pcvh/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2QdCtkIEAeD0cwVA8g5j05vKwqx0zjnkunyVjk1Csmhs0Dfn4LAoaRykpEZqkIG29wiGjaWG8zfFIKLA3Eimnb0n1eSG5e8QQVL5_ezN6Zu_S15MeTTHj4bFeIW8gJH7mLH-woJ9Pcvh/" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Predators, (from the aptly named Predator series) are smart, quick and very strong aliens standing roughly 6 to 7 feet tall, (not the xenomorph type, but aliens in the, "there not from around here" variety). They are also incredibly advanced, with cool energy weapons and space ships and....theres something else, something I'm forgetting,..... what is it, oh yeah, they can become freakin invisible. Yep, Predators have this ultra cool tech that basically covers their entire body and for all intents and purposes, makes them invisible, which comes in really handy, cause in case you haven't figured it out yet, Predators are called Predators cause they are hunters, and they are really really good at tracking things down and then killing them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmKjzFxcQ8WYkCuRmyAbpXK7pvEY3BB4xTrkB0tvtCsfW3AX1X-58O8_EMvno_xVjHQ_3_MkxMtmCsm2c6pATAbcTBmTT059d4ic0sMD3rqBfqQXmqesG5pc1gkw6UIieliVgw2Ba0Pn3/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmKjzFxcQ8WYkCuRmyAbpXK7pvEY3BB4xTrkB0tvtCsfW3AX1X-58O8_EMvno_xVjHQ_3_MkxMtmCsm2c6pATAbcTBmTT059d4ic0sMD3rqBfqQXmqesG5pc1gkw6UIieliVgw2Ba0Pn3/" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, you are back in the jungle, standing in front of those two levers, the one on the left letting out a Xenomorph, the one on the right letting out a Predator. You have 60 seconds, or both of the cage doors are going to open automatically and then you are doubly screwed, cause this island is the only island in the history of the world where Predators and Xenomorphs will not kill each other, due to a chemical that I, The Incredible Mr. E, have injected them both with. So if you were banking on letting the time run out and both cage doors opening with the possibility of the two killing each other, then you are pretty much dead, cause they will just catch you together and then sit down on a checked table cloth and split you like a bucket of chicken. So, tick tock, tick tock, make a choice, and pull a lever, and then run for life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxVI5KTrJls_-LMu6IpjtAgaXzsrrom5f5sdeFDrjb9EASYKtAQkXlOKlddkth-bktTYIldYeixez0jNgyxjuuy94F44Qko3Z8fOUfHzM6GrJSEfFLEKxteIpuF8Cj1dBeMdlzMQ1mEHr/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="480px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHxVI5KTrJls_-LMu6IpjtAgaXzsrrom5f5sdeFDrjb9EASYKtAQkXlOKlddkth-bktTYIldYeixez0jNgyxjuuy94F44Qko3Z8fOUfHzM6GrJSEfFLEKxteIpuF8Cj1dBeMdlzMQ1mEHr/" width="640px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you go, that is my super villain diabolical plot. So pick your poison, or killer alien, as the case my be, and until next time when I kidnap you and put you in a impossibly impossible*** situation, this is The Incredible Mr. E saying, remember to spade and neuter you pets and aliens, and poop and scoop always, unless of course your pet is a Xenomorph, cause then you will just melt your hands trying to pick that stuff up, but other then that poop and scoop away. Until next time, blog at you later.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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**Some of you are probably wondering, Who the heck is Rod Roddy? All I can say is, ask your parents, they will know.<br />
***Yeah, you read that right.</div></img></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-23603943544930043052011-11-21T19:27:00.004-05:002011-11-21T21:18:31.568-05:00Pixar Smackdown: Round Five<span style="font-size: large;">Welcome back to the fifth round of...... </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pixar Smackdown</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IEJEBeB8l2pN-JEAXFHD0mimBOYEkrH2rZxhS-h-Hy_jL8p3AQIpMKlyDpNneXom0ITMhR3s6wsFw9qpxK91cUFctMUFcf7K3MU2QxjwZFo2GlqPNsufGu-tBZ8_uBf25kChXrpcytAj/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IEJEBeB8l2pN-JEAXFHD0mimBOYEkrH2rZxhS-h-Hy_jL8p3AQIpMKlyDpNneXom0ITMhR3s6wsFw9qpxK91cUFctMUFcf7K3MU2QxjwZFo2GlqPNsufGu-tBZ8_uBf25kChXrpcytAj/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, maybe it was the Superman picture that spurred people on, (but I doubt it) but for the first time in Pixar Smackdown there was a complete shutout, with one movie utterly destroying the competition And that movie is... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2ZagphNC7lzUa2GpgSSkjPNVJg4oCZqrMh7SVS1BawND21NzA_34codJL3Noa_9Gk2Gz62sb-wmE3pMrSR1FtWJSyzpQF09D0pcCEWnYM8qzmCIFmMtjhNRp9cekzegNiAzD5DWvD2QB/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2ZagphNC7lzUa2GpgSSkjPNVJg4oCZqrMh7SVS1BawND21NzA_34codJL3Noa_9Gk2Gz62sb-wmE3pMrSR1FtWJSyzpQF09D0pcCEWnYM8qzmCIFmMtjhNRp9cekzegNiAzD5DWvD2QB/" width="297px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, The Incredibles scored a perfect shut out, 5 to 0, (pathetic voter turn out once again rules the day) over Lightning McQueen and company, but I kinda figured it would, superheros are so much cooler then automobiles. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-92qRaFvabOqCt0opwDIpnUnKO_PrNhWVUNamPi6j-_1zpcyusA3suAN1Xkazf7gZ5M6JOjuljCjnPUo1j6OYGOOUq74C8LQJ8EAGQk6vDAiabbL9yH1Tb2n9KnVoLMa-PG_ZwrL9PN4u/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-92qRaFvabOqCt0opwDIpnUnKO_PrNhWVUNamPi6j-_1zpcyusA3suAN1Xkazf7gZ5M6JOjuljCjnPUo1j6OYGOOUq74C8LQJ8EAGQk6vDAiabbL9yH1Tb2n9KnVoLMa-PG_ZwrL9PN4u/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, now onto the next round, where maybe Mater will have a second coming, cause the first movie up is....... </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUb-fYHZ6MnfsZHBKxbVEvIQg4PtNEZ_c4QR6z__MfFbZS_eTimryt2HfCRixk99ZfNSYCIpl23HUOQ-igKGTzXh-Njs5SKXmnFmyJVvfSqaVuBWzXRLGCN1NX4zP5gUXhSHjyAN9ACpT_/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUb-fYHZ6MnfsZHBKxbVEvIQg4PtNEZ_c4QR6z__MfFbZS_eTimryt2HfCRixk99ZfNSYCIpl23HUOQ-igKGTzXh-Njs5SKXmnFmyJVvfSqaVuBWzXRLGCN1NX4zP5gUXhSHjyAN9ACpT_/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, here is the thing, I haven't actually seen Cars 2 yet, while most of my family has seen it twice now, (due to birthday parties and</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZSuE1zY1Wl0HDl23hNgjEXUYDcxkedczu5YBThTdX8fjdy8Ou0ryK3YrytYyhTxTN1jPsHX3CaBrLIa_iD0bn4DD9coboDJ03R4BNT4Oyv5BLucas3fpsac8uk5D65rvFyoBgVuDZCL9/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ZSuE1zY1Wl0HDl23hNgjEXUYDcxkedczu5YBThTdX8fjdy8Ou0ryK3YrytYyhTxTN1jPsHX3CaBrLIa_iD0bn4DD9coboDJ03R4BNT4Oyv5BLucas3fpsac8uk5D65rvFyoBgVuDZCL9/" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> school trips), so I can't really say much about it other then it looks funny, and both of my daughters liked it, so if you have seen it and thought it rocked, then give it your vote. And for this round, keeping in the vein of sequels, Cars 2 is going up against the first movie that Pixar ever did as a sequel.... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCGWFgbQZlQXnjQDvZvuJtbDZ2qVAF1tEjlZykwtlOWi4eJ563cPTvFK1-YM2-sj2CKHa1EnMhN3WaJFQNB_tcUWrqozVGVUKK90JZLKTqug8K043SmeMFR4ABaofxMT5MDT2qc9W2N9O/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCGWFgbQZlQXnjQDvZvuJtbDZ2qVAF1tEjlZykwtlOWi4eJ563cPTvFK1-YM2-sj2CKHa1EnMhN3WaJFQNB_tcUWrqozVGVUKK90JZLKTqug8K043SmeMFR4ABaofxMT5MDT2qc9W2N9O/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, just as Cars got beat in its first time up to bat, so did Toy</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Story, when it lost to Monsters Inc., and now it gets another chance</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">to go to infinity, or even possibly beyond. The second time out for Buzz and Woody is a pretty awesome movie, continuing the theme of what toys go through and the issues of abandonment that they will start to feel as their kid owners get older, (this is brought to its conclusion in the third movie, but we are not there yet). As in the first time out, the animation is stellar, the voice work awesome and the humor is great. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb05G5ZHqt0Qml64f8hyphenhyphenJsUad2G8kR1CKX4MJEmO7lpB42K_8T_TmR1myk6VdogDkMFkQ-BGVt54L_r-1ljd58TdisT4_q__r5be_KG_ZEq55wfDDXcXJA16vDgd-oqBEWepPKglhJOVuQ/" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb05G5ZHqt0Qml64f8hyphenhyphenJsUad2G8kR1CKX4MJEmO7lpB42K_8T_TmR1myk6VdogDkMFkQ-BGVt54L_r-1ljd58TdisT4_q__r5be_KG_ZEq55wfDDXcXJA16vDgd-oqBEWepPKglhJOVuQ/" width="640px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what sequel is better, not just your favorite, but the better made movie, and for the love of me, vote for once in your life, its your civic internet duty after all. So place your vote on the pole on the right side of the page, and make sure to floss, at least once a year, or maybe sooner, yeah, sooner is better. So until next time, stick and move, and shuck and jive, and float like a butterfly and sting like a beamer, or something like that. Until then, blog at you later. </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLwXGrvp7E2UKSjiVw3x3PVtmFAUz7PI3IvbbkIDFgvpvfZClaptCvBjln0zNMWmCc0lDb5NI_t1E0XrD4-jidtcnelvjbqcQmcErPJYXq_xRPqpnXBchtGnkzr8inxElPW1ziHocImZP/" width="299px" /></img></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-86982044449369940182011-11-15T00:43:00.000-05:002011-11-15T00:43:51.111-05:00George Lucas, You Suck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Bxu3_6HF8-pIoexXW6juhrnHRFD3pXuNtXdZKM3bI-RTVt0RL8YOo-lVAmpdqgd-BZUnWwlXMjAVd4eWQCupCyjo6Y6HQtOBZtl__CCr74y1SpR63E9F2pvOWSL6itfG8gT7wtD-1ChN/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Bxu3_6HF8-pIoexXW6juhrnHRFD3pXuNtXdZKM3bI-RTVt0RL8YOo-lVAmpdqgd-BZUnWwlXMjAVd4eWQCupCyjo6Y6HQtOBZtl__CCr74y1SpR63E9F2pvOWSL6itfG8gT7wtD-1ChN/" /></a></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, for those of you who know me, you know that I love the original Star Wars movies, (that's episodes 4, 5 and 6 for those playing along at home) and that I hate the lame prequels. For me, numbers 1, 2 and 3, despite all the cash that was dumped into them, and a cast of good actors, were just horrible movies, that amounted to little more then a cash grab. I found this sad, cause I thought better of George Lucas, but because of the originals, I still held a warm spot in my heart for the man that has given the world and me Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and the force. That has now changed. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">On October 31st of this year I celebrated my 13th wedding anniversary, (yes, you got that right, I got married on Halloween, long story, but I will say this, my wife is awesome to have married me 13 years ago and stuck with me all this time) now because we were going trick and treating with our daughters, (they were Wonder Woman and A Dead Bride, in case you were wondering, and they looked great) we decided to go out and celebrate our anniversary on the 30th instead. Now I am telling you this because that night after we went out for a nice dinner, (Lone Star, ummm, Chicken) we went and saw the new Three Musketeers movie, (which is an ok Paul. W.S. Anderson action movie, if you like Paul. W.S. Anderson action movies). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPZpe4dQW_ZYFyE1n47tu3D8b2SNLEYuyouUga9LoBsDrnXpyRyEAYV4Y9N4ygSJWcSJrC6MTsnCkRJu4V7fyxmDbmprEdgSha7EcOFL4JP_7Ic-eKnR2mBnNTFyejgHbhYaF0RE6l3L0/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPZpe4dQW_ZYFyE1n47tu3D8b2SNLEYuyouUga9LoBsDrnXpyRyEAYV4Y9N4ygSJWcSJrC6MTsnCkRJu4V7fyxmDbmprEdgSha7EcOFL4JP_7Ic-eKnR2mBnNTFyejgHbhYaF0RE6l3L0/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now as it was, there was only one other couple in the theater with Bethany and I, (they were sitting behind us and seem to be very kissy kissy, so we made sure not to look back during the movie, cause I didn't want to know what they were doing) which is a good thing, cause for the first time ever, I yelled out profanity in a movie theater. And here's why.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">A little while ago a friend and I were talking about older movies being released back into the theaters with 3D effects added, (Lion </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7NIbzb1Hnf6-2i_NfHgztL97el-8jfywBNidQqUqNjcA_9IsRQ1dfEwtqIui47R4Lrl2PhMqdSka9JoKSasr2oNDkXGlO_4vZoyID83pBkWWqWRgF3GnvXynZN1zx0jaG1akK-3Y1XSpS/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7NIbzb1Hnf6-2i_NfHgztL97el-8jfywBNidQqUqNjcA_9IsRQ1dfEwtqIui47R4Lrl2PhMqdSka9JoKSasr2oNDkXGlO_4vZoyID83pBkWWqWRgF3GnvXynZN1zx0jaG1akK-3Y1XSpS/" width="320px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">King, I am looking at you, shame on you Disney, instead of making something new and awesome, you took the easy way to make a little cash, shame on you) and he asked me "if Star Wars was released like this if I would go see it?" To which I replied, "Not even if you bought me dinner first!", (in truth, I can't remember my exact response, but that sounds about right) I then went on to say that George Lucas wouldn't lower himself to such a pathetic cash grab with Star Wars, not for a gimmick like 3D. Well, as I sat in the Three Musketeers previews, I saw this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/bXY13IVwaCk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, I was wrong, apparently Georgy is a cash whore, and is taking his greatest cinematic achievement and changing it to make a quick buck. This caused me to swear loudly at the movie screen, (I am not proud of it, but I did it) So, this leaves me with only one thing left to say. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">George Lucas, YOU SUCK! </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-9946563899718965592011-10-31T22:35:00.000-04:002011-10-31T22:35:51.230-04:00What Did He Just Say? 5 Awesome Subtitled Movies<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the best movies that I have seen in the last couple of years are what we in North America would call foreign films, (I guess if you live in the places that they were filmed you would just call them "movies", and call our movies foreign, but I live where I live, so I will call'em like I see'em). Now, this post almost could have</span> <div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5TqaBMSe0DGTmjXjq1sD_w9MmbBbb35-LXrETo2mcdsu5mD8Ifw6HRyeGBCmGykNAvf1ZLkz2xCds8_TRZuoDTuahJovQCKobPCKHayJaTX4wj6BkyAMP_1Xg5mVTGNZwWbtSSSMFlbQ/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5TqaBMSe0DGTmjXjq1sD_w9MmbBbb35-LXrETo2mcdsu5mD8Ifw6HRyeGBCmGykNAvf1ZLkz2xCds8_TRZuoDTuahJovQCKobPCKHayJaTX4wj6BkyAMP_1Xg5mVTGNZwWbtSSSMFlbQ/" width="320px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> been a rant, cause one of the things I hate is when people will not watch a movie just because it has subtitles, (one of my teen friends hates subtitles so much that he actually told me that Inglourious Basterds* was the worst movie he has ever seen**) and for me, if a film is in subtitles and you have a choice to watch the dubbed version, I always pick the subtitled version*** cause I like to hear the actors performances as they were meant to heard, even if I have to read what they are saying. So with that said, I am recommending five foreign movies from five different countries that are totally worth seeing.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, first up is the brilliant film based on the true story of a young man who wants to become a photographer and get out from the....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyK1KZ22vFFQL-8_VugfqnfEgUUwSq1X6cIuv6RIiaF8CH0y8cXTzTiDHR8UDw6UystO2b0WReEFVDTYC2L-Ip9Ulp820lLitu7ni-9fZne0OOyubDSzR1LrhYBh6ZkVgJnMPqE8ontHM/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVyK1KZ22vFFQL-8_VugfqnfEgUUwSq1X6cIuv6RIiaF8CH0y8cXTzTiDHR8UDw6UystO2b0WReEFVDTYC2L-Ip9Ulp820lLitu7ni-9fZne0OOyubDSzR1LrhYBh6ZkVgJnMPqE8ontHM/" width="443px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">City Of God (Brazil) is a film that has amazing acting and an incredible true story, all about a drug lord controlled slum in Brazil that ends up as a war zone between two groups, and "Rocket" is a young man who gets caught in the middle. City Of God is a movie that took me a long time to finally get around to watching, but after seeing it I can say it is an incredible worthwhile experience. There are interesting and memorable characters, the editing is incredibly well done and as always, it is great when films are based on true stories. Now a word of caution, it does have swearing and violence, so it is not for everybody and if you are easily offended then it is not the film for you.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next up is one of the saddest and yet most beautiful animated movies ever made, which takes a child's perspective of the horrors of war, in......</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJke3MI-9jeUFHoyw_vdVyz7rm__CTTk0rlPOAVj-k4aDZV3JofWN8cJ7UmiTC-rTIUoNdHb44q4eN1W2l6plhuPzFix0451eBnjwo6dWHR8Feh0e9jLh-52Ts7mw8DZvQXovgZ_-86L7S/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJke3MI-9jeUFHoyw_vdVyz7rm__CTTk0rlPOAVj-k4aDZV3JofWN8cJ7UmiTC-rTIUoNdHb44q4eN1W2l6plhuPzFix0451eBnjwo6dWHR8Feh0e9jLh-52Ts7mw8DZvQXovgZ_-86L7S/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grave Of The Fireflies (Japan) is the story of a brother and sister who find themselves orphaned during the second world war, (this is the one movie of the five that I don't mind seeing without the subtitles, because it is animated it is not quite the same, although both the original language track and the english version are both done exceptionally well). Their Mother is killed during a bombing raid and their Father is out in the Japanese navy, leaving the siblings to be placed with an awful family relative, which causes them to leave and be on their own, living in caves and trying to make the best of it until their father comes home. Grave Of The Fireflies is a one of a kind movie that conveys incredible emotion through phenomenal animation, and telling a tale that is very unique amongst movies about war. It manages to entertain while pulling at your heartstrings and leaves you with an ending that is not really happy but more realistic. On a whole this is a great example of the unseen horrors of war, sibling love, and how far family will go to take care of each other.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From looking at World War 2 through the eyes of children, we move to looking at it from the perspective of the Norwegian underground resistance, that was trying to desperately get Hitler's goons out of their country, and one "mad"**** man named Max who led the way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhEB9T_TPM4nd0SFd6He81mbOysx3sJ0ecb_zxhbpz4bUUfqPnJsvPuLxQb3mI_xqFnH_4mVMVPCv3L5-BqyOalzaHIjUTByi7Epn4LVBMhkKD5aQEluXn6ixMrqKMnt-mhfBn_i9OyUN7/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhEB9T_TPM4nd0SFd6He81mbOysx3sJ0ecb_zxhbpz4bUUfqPnJsvPuLxQb3mI_xqFnH_4mVMVPCv3L5-BqyOalzaHIjUTByi7Epn4LVBMhkKD5aQEluXn6ixMrqKMnt-mhfBn_i9OyUN7/" width="419px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Max Manus: Man-O-War (Norway) is a movie I came across at the library when it was mistakenly put in the wrong section, and I am really glad that someone misplaced it, cause it is a great unique war movie. It tells the story of Max Manus, a leader in the Norwegian underground resistance against the nazis, (I hate frickin' nazis, did I ever tell you that) who have taken over the country. It is filmed really well, has very believable action and has a decent pace. And it too has the whole "based on a true story" thing going for it. Plus, how great is the name Max Manus, it just screams, "I AM AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!", so it has that going for it as well.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After two movies about WW2 lets move on to the only movie I have ever seen about the Korean War made from the Korean perspective, in the very violent.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7Aw4Y27-B_ORYHBhs0mZVRxFuk7GqdtsDqvWajTStxJQ4A7xl6yWh8sDgGE5RLYZDLf3IewuRHU4enCjeoAy6gSSqSR1ZSoTnhtufpzttIX8PLF-ryLMlD14RbNAueMF-4Zi8s5xPO7V/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd7Aw4Y27-B_ORYHBhs0mZVRxFuk7GqdtsDqvWajTStxJQ4A7xl6yWh8sDgGE5RLYZDLf3IewuRHU4enCjeoAy6gSSqSR1ZSoTnhtufpzttIX8PLF-ryLMlD14RbNAueMF-4Zi8s5xPO7V/" width="425px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood Of War (Korea, duh!) is the story of two brothers who are forced into the army when their neighbors to the north declared war on the south. The one is incredibly smart, and the other one is incredibly loving and only wants whats best for his family, and he thinks that means his brother should become a doctor and is willing to do anything to get him out of the fighting and back to their mother and family. It has solid acting and action, and is very original in its storytelling, although it is not for the faint at heart as there is a fair amount of graphic bloodshed, but it is a war film after all, so think of it this way, if you can handle Saving Private Ryan, then you should have no problem with this.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last up is a movie about one of the most important and best martial artist to have ever lived, the quiet and unassuming.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8un9OTDR7lMoXHufXhpSZNqEOUp3vBAZ9_Pk-VCDgQ-1S2UHZTjHnDf6LC_YpRYVoRbxmCAcrtBe5pcBE7KO6CsWacAcv6QUFWObZnI1RD139Fzr3z0mIcJ-1SozkfL-G1ceaHxiAF6N-/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8un9OTDR7lMoXHufXhpSZNqEOUp3vBAZ9_Pk-VCDgQ-1S2UHZTjHnDf6LC_YpRYVoRbxmCAcrtBe5pcBE7KO6CsWacAcv6QUFWObZnI1RD139Fzr3z0mIcJ-1SozkfL-G1ceaHxiAF6N-/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ip Man***** (China) has to be one of the best martial arts movies I have ever seen. Donnie Yen, (the guy who plays Ip Man for those of you who don't know who Donnie Yen is) is amazing, with fists so fast that sometimes you would swear they had sped the film up, (they didn't, if you can believe Wiki that is, and if you can't trust Wiki then what can you trust******) the story is great, (basing the story on a real person always bla bla bla, you should know the deal by now), it is beautifully filmed, the acting is solid all around and the fight scenes are just simply amazing. Oh, and did I forget to mention, that Ip Man was another famous marital artists first master, now what was his name again, oh yeah, BRUCE "I AM THE DRAGON" LEE!!!!! So yeah, Ip Man rocks on so many levels that it hurts just thinking about it, and the fact that more people haven't seen this just cause it is not in english is maddening. </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you are, five movies that although you will have to do some reading to enjoy, are well worth the effort, (that is unless you are illiterate, and in that case just sit back and enjoy the cinematography, but come to think of it, if you got this far in my blog and you are illiterate, you haven't understood a word I have typed, so I will just say enjoy the pretty pictures, and pretend you got it). So give foreign films with English subtitles a chance, you never know what you are missing until you give it a try, and for all my illiterate readers, I will end with a funny picture of a monkey for making it this far, and remember everybody, hands up and chin down is good, chin up hands down will make you sleepy real fast. Until next time, Blog at you later.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIO7B-NQg1Kfqf9UrLlw5aCcxzelo8CtegLxmzGmn0sqG92J6Tc01RDwkhAz8wkD7Q5jvSy0z_f9IodpojeWCXRoRDvfmMH6mrTxTZp3r6lpR9RWrLymYjOzJb5zGO-ufBos5q8HiecJQk/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIO7B-NQg1Kfqf9UrLlw5aCcxzelo8CtegLxmzGmn0sqG92J6Tc01RDwkhAz8wkD7Q5jvSy0z_f9IodpojeWCXRoRDvfmMH6mrTxTZp3r6lpR9RWrLymYjOzJb5zGO-ufBos5q8HiecJQk/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Hey, I actually spelt it right, which is to say, it is spelt incorrectly if you are using the proper words, but Q.T. spelt it wrong on purpose, now, I know I spelt it right/wrong cause when I bought it on Blu-ray it came with a dog tag that now shares space around my neck with a Jesus dog tag, and if not for that I would have spelt it wrong, or right, or something, my head hurts now either way.<br />
**I actually think it was the best movie of 2009, so my friend Connor basically couldn't be more wrong.<br />
***Animated movies are one category this fits in, but the best example is the Japanese Godzilla movies, which become so much cooler when you watch the dubbed version, like the following video will show.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/ADGyPxY3Lg4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">****</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2lrLTPecIh0FEZxYp0sEWwIQ7RVi8GVYCG6jVgqGSxnb0SBtNspwI-t50WyY_FdiorWx0BcOa0WAIP-Rh-vEzOfEGXn9W_IHrRA4jzHkwImmGKxOKykOCX7Wc_XpXRdY9JWnjBkXad0ZB/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2lrLTPecIh0FEZxYp0sEWwIQ7RVi8GVYCG6jVgqGSxnb0SBtNspwI-t50WyY_FdiorWx0BcOa0WAIP-Rh-vEzOfEGXn9W_IHrRA4jzHkwImmGKxOKykOCX7Wc_XpXRdY9JWnjBkXad0ZB/" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*****Big shout out my friend Jim Chen for telling me about Ip Man and then giving me it as a birthday present, thanks Jim, this picture is for you.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAa5OW1p3L7uDs7yJpAQnv4icSX6LTd2SIjWVon8bHrVC4AFpdei7VOn7u8cHKrKFuWOL38xFeqLVytnM8hts9l2losZUk35oYYc1VNgnk0bAQienj5HX8Q5VVTxQrGzrlgkyJMmv1igjp/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAa5OW1p3L7uDs7yJpAQnv4icSX6LTd2SIjWVon8bHrVC4AFpdei7VOn7u8cHKrKFuWOL38xFeqLVytnM8hts9l2losZUk35oYYc1VNgnk0bAQienj5HX8Q5VVTxQrGzrlgkyJMmv1igjp/" width="278px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">******</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS7iS0Awp44EOTFHh_okPoKLzDpoLCtotc0ErIFksPenxBuRlJ6MIxfHTRJW5hKERF9riY7BFZtzTZ71E1Kglfc7cnk8dLenR6ihf2kE3DXR1WjpJznZzpAfh9dpPMGd4C5BOHEqCI-vdh/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS7iS0Awp44EOTFHh_okPoKLzDpoLCtotc0ErIFksPenxBuRlJ6MIxfHTRJW5hKERF9riY7BFZtzTZ71E1Kglfc7cnk8dLenR6ihf2kE3DXR1WjpJznZzpAfh9dpPMGd4C5BOHEqCI-vdh/" width="258px" /></a></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-16857427440965757932011-10-06T20:02:00.018-04:002011-10-06T21:33:46.573-04:00Pixar Smackdown: Round Four<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlZiCJeDd9MMCr-v1vcszxML-faxvxnxdHSsooZmLldw9CYKowDVApBqi3PrnByIj3txJL5XNqno60HzcRhnCJMysNmB2T_XWjUKtTynpKzdOEuk70Q2-k8Hqcfnd4HQCYN6_lbAE0GNL/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPlZiCJeDd9MMCr-v1vcszxML-faxvxnxdHSsooZmLldw9CYKowDVApBqi3PrnByIj3txJL5XNqno60HzcRhnCJMysNmB2T_XWjUKtTynpKzdOEuk70Q2-k8Hqcfnd4HQCYN6_lbAE0GNL/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When I first thought of calling these posts Pixar Smackdown, I never thought that one of the movies that I think is amongst Pixars best would be smuck downed so hard, and by a little cute fish no less, but that is what happened, because the winner of round three was...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVgEMZz-juHZmy-VqxDTIsDuxyxJ48ssaHov1wMydq_Y0_4_xhC7CuzEuy7imqbhSjmIOjCHZlphcBpNHNAl6JpQGVjoJ5lulsCT8wf_HcVWKGMh4gBQaZ-RdPFmEaw53bK9Pw8h4zyI_/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVgEMZz-juHZmy-VqxDTIsDuxyxJ48ssaHov1wMydq_Y0_4_xhC7CuzEuy7imqbhSjmIOjCHZlphcBpNHNAl6JpQGVjoJ5lulsCT8wf_HcVWKGMh4gBQaZ-RdPFmEaw53bK9Pw8h4zyI_/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, Nemo totally trashed* Wall*e in the biggest vote landslide to date, (it was 6 to 2 incase you were wondering, wow, that is so, underwhealming). This is the first time that the movie that I picked actually lost. Now before anyone starts ranting at me in their heads, (or out loud for yous** people who are really into this for some reason) I will say this, I think Finding Nemo is an incredible movie, but I just think that Wall*e is better, mainly due to the... well, I think I will just use my friend Ben Peltz's answer for picking Wall*e, "Its scope and its cultural commentary is massive for what is billed as a kids' movie." and I total agree with Ben on this, (Ben also has an awesomely smart blog on Google+, click the <a href="https://plus.google.com/112439641786841940697/posts/HEVpFudJNxS#112439641786841940697/posts"><span style="color: red;">link</span></a> and check it out, after you finish this of course), but the rest of you voted for the clown fish and company instead, so that is that. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9Ms9T-mvY_ocxxEWD5QHazWR7BNsWFjpMP9yqhiGbGcpqBsNidVHgdFX8d00PySdSmQRZYKYb63QuOphcJZYgq0lCnvUB51oc_qKlxavhhwfWkJvGSXR_r18G90yPl6-UoN5gHQ_49mr/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9Ms9T-mvY_ocxxEWD5QHazWR7BNsWFjpMP9yqhiGbGcpqBsNidVHgdFX8d00PySdSmQRZYKYb63QuOphcJZYgq0lCnvUB51oc_qKlxavhhwfWkJvGSXR_r18G90yPl6-UoN5gHQ_49mr/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, now that that is out of the way, onto round 4. First up is my second favorite animated movie of all time***, which is about the daily lives of superheros, and their friends and families. Of course I am talking about...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7CtFkBpL1s0uo9X0lpil0oJgA5cLJ2un7axAqC6Bguf8i8gV0gCF54cw_4m0yvrFeXzbsOCzEScaSVfQMwVm-EaMmmi1xBMOyNc4BEG4lvni67krgvnM06UbbzUcFi324DwEj7i5NoDMq/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7CtFkBpL1s0uo9X0lpil0oJgA5cLJ2un7axAqC6Bguf8i8gV0gCF54cw_4m0yvrFeXzbsOCzEScaSVfQMwVm-EaMmmi1xBMOyNc4BEG4lvni67krgvnM06UbbzUcFi324DwEj7i5NoDMq/" width="432px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Incredibles is, well, an incredible movie, for lack of a better word. It is funny, has great action and a realistic depiction of what</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgha6gfpRrF8WOUsq4iEHmhEwiPtpysVM8ZSlnmIQ6UOYACtk4ljwGaB53a2YMelRsK_L-5VNciegAeLqEXm7b7lMxb5nvmOL0aNaX5gmtVCmZruvJOQs9O8boCpVfq3WvvKU43tj82P-/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgha6gfpRrF8WOUsq4iEHmhEwiPtpysVM8ZSlnmIQ6UOYACtk4ljwGaB53a2YMelRsK_L-5VNciegAeLqEXm7b7lMxb5nvmOL0aNaX5gmtVCmZruvJOQs9O8boCpVfq3WvvKU43tj82P-/" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> could happen to a "Super" once they can no longer be super. Add to that the great voice work and direction from Brad Bird and a little fashion designer saying, "No CAPES!" and you have one...(I am trying not to say incredible, but I really want to) amazing movie, but can it possibly compete with a "precision instrument of speed and aerodynamics", well thats up to you, cause it is going up against......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyApQFFFZw3BIjL1u1obeSNDeClbvOe0LSvd0fEsmrogdlQ3p5rIo4AJeCpcN6GrzylU-9LdmuG3SIii3_60GTlHLUJ2ZMsuD0oTSknf2tXHePogO2bWHeC1cUAJvBzUNA0enF9hPS3pzJ/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyApQFFFZw3BIjL1u1obeSNDeClbvOe0LSvd0fEsmrogdlQ3p5rIo4AJeCpcN6GrzylU-9LdmuG3SIii3_60GTlHLUJ2ZMsuD0oTSknf2tXHePogO2bWHeC1cUAJvBzUNA0enF9hPS3pzJ/" width="432px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who knew that race cars and tow trucks could be so entertaining, but they are. Cars is often over looked among its Pixar brethren,</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGwgxt-z68TwHtQPXi_1r5kOZ0Z-admyR9afHz2pqDxfbv0dn4kO2xBnRYrGV6V_OT9JXT1xfAQz-fExy7JNKKEbYTHyDWmx_h3IhLmPDXSyX_5pj-ekTgEoOMRXG_pmwarC4cpbnPqh8Y/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGwgxt-z68TwHtQPXi_1r5kOZ0Z-admyR9afHz2pqDxfbv0dn4kO2xBnRYrGV6V_OT9JXT1xfAQz-fExy7JNKKEbYTHyDWmx_h3IhLmPDXSyX_5pj-ekTgEoOMRXG_pmwarC4cpbnPqh8Y/" width="400px" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> cause, well, lets face it, it has cars that are humans, but are,......cars. Some people have trouble with this, I am not one of them. I for one think Cars is great. It is funny, has one of the most memorable Pixar characters in Mater, (I totally knew that Larry The Cable guy would make a great tow truck the second I heard my first Git R Done) and made a whole lot more fans for nascar. It also looks fantastic and has a great moral about thinking of others before yourself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there are your choices, superheros or automobiles. Now, for a friendly reminder. </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We here at Jesus Was A Browncoat So I Aim To Misbehave, </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (which is really just me, but it sounds cooler if I say it that way, </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> cause you might envision a room filled with really awesome yet </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> overweight funny mega geeks that are working around the clock </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to serve your humor blogging needs.****) are looking to crown </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the best Pixar movie ever, so when voting, please don't just vote </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> for your favorite, pick the better made movie, and to make sure </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> your vote counts, you have to place it in the poll on the right side </span></div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> of the page. Thank you for your patronage and participation.</span><br />
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<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So get voting everybody, and if you are in Ontario, Canada, today this goes doubly for you, because it is election day here, (and you should see some of the parties that are out there that you can vote for. There is one that has their main goal as legalizing marijuana, I think they are called the Happy party, or was it the Munchies party, I can't remember, but I am pretty sure they would be really funny to watch if they ever got in*****) So until next time, remember, your left shoe goes on your left foot, and don't be tricked into thinking otherwise, or you'll just end up walking in circles, and no one wants that, so keep both shoes on the right feet, (I mean, correct feet), and you will be able to stay on the straight and narrow. Until next time, blog at you later.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*I did two awesome things there, first, I used some great "T" alliteration, which is always nice, and secondly I said Wall*e got trashed, which might actually be a use of irony, but I can't be sure of that, cause irony is a tricky thing to get right, especially if you are a female canadian pop singer, but that is another story.<br />
**Yeah, I meant to say yous, so stop correcting me in your head already.<br />
***Incase you are wondering what the number one is, you can find it that answer in my <a href="http://jesuswasabrowncoatsoiaimtomisbehave.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-top-20-movies-of-all-time-13-to-9.html"><span style="color: red;">Best Movies Of All Times</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>List.<br />
****That would kinda make me the Steve Jobs of the operation, which I only bring up because I do all my writing for this thing on my iPad, and Steve Jobs passed away today, so although I never met you Steve, from the bottom of my heart I want to say thank you for all you did, rest in peace.<br />
*****Sorry, but its never gonna happen.</div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-58955428566911344262011-09-23T02:32:00.001-04:002011-09-23T04:45:29.751-04:00Half The Force, Still The Same Price: A Fullscreen Movie Rant<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; 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border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't seem that long ago that I was in the cashier line at Best Buy with the newly released Star Wars Trilogy DVD in my hand, (I am talking about the real Star Wars trilogy here, not that fake piece of "dirty word" that Lucas tried to pawn off on us a while back) you know, the cool silver one that looks like this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggC7CPKvsXZrFCqERz_arHXhpvkU9n8AABuw7oYi-52Lr4eW3I6tuOd4Jv_KN-C8dJX6mMEeX9wttqzoJnx0Gb2BIXO9vmRkDTt-yX2IOsH_SWMJlmFhZHgfA0Xo5rpm2OZdoqbiqgRcfu/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggC7CPKvsXZrFCqERz_arHXhpvkU9n8AABuw7oYi-52Lr4eW3I6tuOd4Jv_KN-C8dJX6mMEeX9wttqzoJnx0Gb2BIXO9vmRkDTt-yX2IOsH_SWMJlmFhZHgfA0Xo5rpm2OZdoqbiqgRcfu/" width="302px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, as I was standing there, waiting, I noticed that the lady in front of me had a Star Wars trilogy in her hand that was gold instead of silver, and then I noticed that the silver ones were widescreen and the gold ones were fullscreen. Now, at this point I leaned forward and politely asked her if she didn't actually like seeing the whole movie, (Ok, I didn't really say that, I actually just shook my head and wondered if she knew what she was buying, but I said it in my head, so that is good enough) and that brings me to a nice little walk down memory lane. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsqP2g3U9zJUGLmHmCpdjXAyl2k3_HLOE-r4sbSIWX1pp6Gtc-wA0wpsYLK4Yot_x3QjbYM5nX1DyLuJqxonJ1BUFdR0rMbtGOy2_XZq8jTQ4ex8Br9kbINejFWLPN41KyPGX3Zi65mxk/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsqP2g3U9zJUGLmHmCpdjXAyl2k3_HLOE-r4sbSIWX1pp6Gtc-wA0wpsYLK4Yot_x3QjbYM5nX1DyLuJqxonJ1BUFdR0rMbtGOy2_XZq8jTQ4ex8Br9kbINejFWLPN41KyPGX3Zi65mxk/" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">You see, loving Star Wars as I do, my parents bought me this really cool collector set with all the movies on VHS, (VHS refers to video tapes, these were like ancient dvd technology, for those of you young people who might be reading and didn't understand the reference) and for the first time ever I was introduced to, WIDESCREEN movies*. Now at first I didn't get it, the picture seemed wrong, squished kinda, but it was explained to me that when you watch a fullscreen movie, you are actually missing some of the picture**, and that widescreen lets you see it all. Here are some pictures comparing the two so you can see what I mean, first with Star Wars</span></div> <br />
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</tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">And then with an even better example from Lord Of The Rings</span> <br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1PwVVfYnSQlv0qmI5JuEAA3WM64fMr4wjppqZESa1SrM3gu9Wpba5P6hSKLkRJFLzAz6Rs2TGObF5TCb5LzOTX2mozJrnBILZGLCAZvZD8rZWYJXB-hwv5IkLp-HRrXjZAAvHh3HnOLwT/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="432px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1PwVVfYnSQlv0qmI5JuEAA3WM64fMr4wjppqZESa1SrM3gu9Wpba5P6hSKLkRJFLzAz6Rs2TGObF5TCb5LzOTX2mozJrnBILZGLCAZvZD8rZWYJXB-hwv5IkLp-HRrXjZAAvHh3HnOLwT/" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So you got to see the whole picture, that was cool, but what about those annoying bars you might say, they are just so......annoying! Well, thats kinda what It thought at first too, but then it was explained to me that you are supposed to watch the movie in the dark, and the bars won't bother you. And you know what, its true. So, this was all before dvd's came out, and when they finally did, most of the time they came in widescreen, but if not you usually had the option to either watch it in widescreen or fullscreen, and on the same disc no less, (although some of them used <a href="http://jesuswasabrowncoatsoiaimtomisbehave.blogspot.com/2011/03/he-should-be-drug-out-into-street-and.html"><span style="color: red;">Double Sided Discs</span></a> to accomplish this, and that is a whole other rant all together) </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So here is my question? </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Why the heck are they still putting movies in fullscreen!!!!!!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiLHVcHhR0YB2tPdZ23FfX0Huj4DwCi4hGleCvcSroHBR7cBJqjIXYnsregzXI81JvfAYfoTn4Kpr9xLOGxHW4lz30xc2v4G9wbK579RefADpkjilLiOosECEDtndlsyq_85V_k9hf1iT1/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="438px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiLHVcHhR0YB2tPdZ23FfX0Huj4DwCi4hGleCvcSroHBR7cBJqjIXYnsregzXI81JvfAYfoTn4Kpr9xLOGxHW4lz30xc2v4G9wbK579RefADpkjilLiOosECEDtndlsyq_85V_k9hf1iT1/" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I mean, what is the point? If they could fit both formats on dvd's before, why not now? Plus pretty much every dvd player I have ever seen has the ability to zoom in, which basically gives you an </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkSZxiV6EiN8P-Wt952OQgT-0XBU7wXE2utX4dQ9y6gA8wyPlhKBMvvwmnGZivQh5onG8yu_8c3ZFsV5E3Gw2_HD473olYawpwacVdqk9bfjDSipihZCGgu_kbKWo7QcBvHWabufgkCI3/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkSZxiV6EiN8P-Wt952OQgT-0XBU7wXE2utX4dQ9y6gA8wyPlhKBMvvwmnGZivQh5onG8yu_8c3ZFsV5E3Gw2_HD473olYawpwacVdqk9bfjDSipihZCGgu_kbKWo7QcBvHWabufgkCI3/" width="297px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">option to make any widescreen movie into a fullscreen movie, (that is assuming you like missing the complete movie experience). So why do they still make full "frickin' annoying missing the scope that was intended" screen movies? So, if you know, feel free to let me in on the secret, cause it bugs the crap out of me, especially when you accidentally pick up a movie that you have been looking for and buy it, take it home and unwrap it to find that it is fullscreen, (this happened to me on more then one occasion, stupid rabbits, fullscreen is for....., well, schmucks). So, that is my rant, until next time, remember, stay safe, stay warm, and for the love of Pete, (hey, thats me) stay widescreen. Blog at you later. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Sou_s4aryeX2o3544Uvgk_k2IBHWixI1R6vkXcznYldFpNUm0qF22UkV4nLe17Z_nUs-rV3SRvsFm_cv72tCAQUslFGj6Toq90Qn7H1Fls-T1rtXFrat01uYdoJqv4miVuBcWhzlYAAO/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Sou_s4aryeX2o3544Uvgk_k2IBHWixI1R6vkXcznYldFpNUm0qF22UkV4nLe17Z_nUs-rV3SRvsFm_cv72tCAQUslFGj6Toq90Qn7H1Fls-T1rtXFrat01uYdoJqv4miVuBcWhzlYAAO/" width="297px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*It helps to put a deep loud movie announcer voice in your head for that part, but if you want a less epic post, feel free to just read it in your own normal pedestrian voice. <br />
**What they do is actually called Pan And Scan, which means that when they go to put the movie on dvd, someone actually has to sit there and watch it and decide what the most important part of each film section is, and then focus on that, leaving everything else in limbo like some half eaten taco that you ate and then put down, and your mom put it in the back of the fridge, and you find it years later. Now, what ever you do, no matter how much you like tacos, do not eat that one, sometimes, if you love something, you just have to let it go, this, is one of those times. Unless of course you are watching the widescreen version of the movie, which is like eating the complete taco and going back for seconds, and even thirds possibly***. So to recap, fullscreen is two year old moldy half eaten taco, Widescreen is taco paradise, and now you know. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXGcuDfC7mDrWrYldiiEz5TAGn_1x3B9oAPaSKNOcy2TkIWqow-jHT08XICC6r3tR-b8WMnONK_5iDk8xpevoD5pAW78W8Ht4KFfKqFZM4WTVw2P8hHoGgddl6WaUx5fhBcKX7BM5MJO8/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXGcuDfC7mDrWrYldiiEz5TAGn_1x3B9oAPaSKNOcy2TkIWqow-jHT08XICC6r3tR-b8WMnONK_5iDk8xpevoD5pAW78W8Ht4KFfKqFZM4WTVw2P8hHoGgddl6WaUx5fhBcKX7BM5MJO8/" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">***Man, now I really want a taco, and I am writing this at work at 1:35 in the morning, this sucks. </div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-30550365687450248882011-09-13T23:37:00.001-04:002011-09-13T23:42:45.701-04:00Pixar Smackdown: Round Three<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome back to the third round of: </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pixar Smackdown!!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBYPzYkWov2cWuYCgfHv0sBrI4FbgwlopyP9JO2nN3TKF6wnvPt3kIS_j0cSQ96Zm65lfBofUCc48r-6Kjs4vKO2H1MpqJ7UTzK60RMIcIAf4Zqe6Q3CP1K9jQVq-2BBzftho_YupzAbY/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcBYPzYkWov2cWuYCgfHv0sBrI4FbgwlopyP9JO2nN3TKF6wnvPt3kIS_j0cSQ96Zm65lfBofUCc48r-6Kjs4vKO2H1MpqJ7UTzK60RMIcIAf4Zqe6Q3CP1K9jQVq-2BBzftho_YupzAbY/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just to recap for those of you who have not been playing along at home, in round one Monsters Inc. defeated Toy Story, and now for the results from round two, where A Bug's Life went up against Ratatouille. And the winner is.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0Mk013bj8s2TEoP08WX-lO3zuf9vNk2MCHcpl8WfWR3ndiJz8LpLT4ubUJOq8DHYAMvIrv62p1a2ortGiyOzOm-0a0jHxIDOr1GiMB25ZQ0rLD2UuV0b6fO72J_qPkTJpm_WBjMGoey0/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0Mk013bj8s2TEoP08WX-lO3zuf9vNk2MCHcpl8WfWR3ndiJz8LpLT4ubUJOq8DHYAMvIrv62p1a2ortGiyOzOm-0a0jHxIDOr1GiMB25ZQ0rLD2UuV0b6fO72J_qPkTJpm_WBjMGoey0/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, A Bugs Life won by a whopping 4 votes to 2, (the voter turn out is starting to remind me of a local government run election) so yay for the insects I guess. So now, onto round three, which as far as I can see, is going to be one of the toughest, cause it has two of the biggest Pixar movies going toe to toe. So first up is the movie that caused pet stores all across the world to sell out of clown fish, of course I am talking about.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3F8OsfS-u4Ph4wKCGxE76HfTYkYsnz73V18G7nQOFmJCGzym3uSJVfzkoxkYvS3Q3UwwcvBs-qI-iG_MPUlJawD1WBOM1-eTuNCkL9YGJN5o9odawr9RdsJNIBXW_vxZHKiET4NLekjX/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT3F8OsfS-u4Ph4wKCGxE76HfTYkYsnz73V18G7nQOFmJCGzym3uSJVfzkoxkYvS3Q3UwwcvBs-qI-iG_MPUlJawD1WBOM1-eTuNCkL9YGJN5o9odawr9RdsJNIBXW_vxZHKiET4NLekjX/" width="473px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finding Nemo has to be one of the most beautifully animated</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">movies of all time. Water has never looked better, plus all the fish and coral, they just did a stunning job. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQenZ7WGPHNkvbOO6Kq2G3F-vIXFqacWUHEcNkieusaqCs7my-iB41QMGEy-d3bDHzq2SoKdtVFzatjfGrs6TANM9scToJfL3XHbDC62WdgmWVvxdP6hOWVgTGGgIJe3SUQIhOd3D0VtnU/" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQenZ7WGPHNkvbOO6Kq2G3F-vIXFqacWUHEcNkieusaqCs7my-iB41QMGEy-d3bDHzq2SoKdtVFzatjfGrs6TANM9scToJfL3XHbDC62WdgmWVvxdP6hOWVgTGGgIJe3SUQIhOd3D0VtnU/" width="640px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now take that and add all the incredible voice work and an endearing father son story, and lots of memorable humor, and what you get is a freakin masterpiece. But can that masterpiece beat another of Pixars masterpieces which has possibly the sweetest animated character ever.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYW7Uw2odjHLm5Ghfr_sjWRRWsxnaOUkcVkvrodZ0kLJt5G_CfGH4KQtYIn9s2wQtAq52WVLyDw27kEKaHJogRPk9XbpG2YZLr_78jgUYG1CT0djuDVzQQfNejp119a1bBbKVBPwreVvEo/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYW7Uw2odjHLm5Ghfr_sjWRRWsxnaOUkcVkvrodZ0kLJt5G_CfGH4KQtYIn9s2wQtAq52WVLyDw27kEKaHJogRPk9XbpG2YZLr_78jgUYG1CT0djuDVzQQfNejp119a1bBbKVBPwreVvEo/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, I think Wall*e is one of the most endearing characters ever to </span><span style="font-size: large;">be put on screen. There is just something innocent and likable about him, the way he loves so fully. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_muYF8IqXv0kDCQ7xVKbg14PopOX5CSqHvBIb9WE7J-8ZS8JfODZgphTv6g87Q0-aUwLIzoHg-MsAmySTr89GuROpqtHjzpMuoQfvnNV2ERkpZ3K_oy12t6sowM-PMLEYfKTVzMMZYwg/" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_muYF8IqXv0kDCQ7xVKbg14PopOX5CSqHvBIb9WE7J-8ZS8JfODZgphTv6g87Q0-aUwLIzoHg-MsAmySTr89GuROpqtHjzpMuoQfvnNV2ERkpZ3K_oy12t6sowM-PMLEYfKTVzMMZYwg/" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you have ever read my <a href="http://jesuswasabrowncoatsoiaimtomisbehave.blogspot.com/2010/12/christ-in-film.html"><span style="color: red;">Christ In Film</span></a> post you will know that I basically think that the character of Wall*e is awesome on many levels, and the film is the same. The story is just great, it is very original, creative and heart warming, looks incredible and even has a great moral message about taking care of the environment and obesity.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
So, there is the hard choice before you, and remember, it is the better movie I am looking for, not your favorite, and make sure to vote on the pole on the side, its the most thrilling thing you can do on the internet, plus it helps lowers your cholesterol*. So until next time, stay loosey goosey, and I will hit you on the flip side, or the middle, or somewhere other than in this post. Blog at you later.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljrZMTK5nviXOssUZToh5RcWH1vm8VFK8mplP-Ih6wLVyyt7ENdt_2uxeWpSRLo_DKt5iKqw1Km21AGACj0_Ir-amxuA5-X_YfGYR0evA8PCMEvbdy-ZzUxY4MY9DMdLewyyN9d-CZ-UC/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljrZMTK5nviXOssUZToh5RcWH1vm8VFK8mplP-Ih6wLVyyt7ENdt_2uxeWpSRLo_DKt5iKqw1Km21AGACj0_Ir-amxuA5-X_YfGYR0evA8PCMEvbdy-ZzUxY4MY9DMdLewyyN9d-CZ-UC/" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*There is no actual proof that voting on my question of the week will lower your cholesterol, but its the internet, and anything could happen, so give it a shot and see what happens. </div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-50681102685545513762011-09-03T20:38:00.000-04:002011-09-03T20:38:27.169-04:00Biking, Baseball And Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 4 Movies Worth Checking Out<span style="font-size: large;">A while ago my friend "Bear"* asked for some movie suggestions, so this is the first of many posts that will let you all in on some movies that are not quite as well known as say, Harry Potter, or </span><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryyJRPtvaTBypYNhvV-500Nh6J5U5rZzMxT-XlPyZqYYPw80c1-yi-MzA651k7ZJQ5-ffuUw9E9OCQlUTZlSpYj9nJpGcrgbzxDQ69DS9Km65VHZVuevWeGn8X5Fx7hhcMwcEK9NJBAgu/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryyJRPtvaTBypYNhvV-500Nh6J5U5rZzMxT-XlPyZqYYPw80c1-yi-MzA651k7ZJQ5-ffuUw9E9OCQlUTZlSpYj9nJpGcrgbzxDQ69DS9Km65VHZVuevWeGn8X5Fx7hhcMwcEK9NJBAgu/" width="320px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Avatar, but are pretty awesome in their own right none the less. So to start I thought I would give you two sports movies and two movies with one of the best young actors in the business, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. So first up is the true story, (Actually, they are both based on true stories, sweet) of a crazy Scot who challenged the cycling world authorities, (who are jerks, big fat jerks, well, ok, due to the fact that I am trying to lose weight I won't say they are big fat jerks, cause they seemed to be thin enough, but they are still jerks none the less) and changed the sport forever. I am talking about,</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVO9uH-8x9NwqGOSV3ojqTaqVMUQoUWx-f-LB5j7ODGeU3cEKf-a4DPtVwsg3hCkeHO8D48Mn2xivzOWoGBYIM0mlvuOJ9ciEyWejIKXx5m_V0FPmGyne3RKtrmPKfaI1JRYOr20VsbA8/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVO9uH-8x9NwqGOSV3ojqTaqVMUQoUWx-f-LB5j7ODGeU3cEKf-a4DPtVwsg3hCkeHO8D48Mn2xivzOWoGBYIM0mlvuOJ9ciEyWejIKXx5m_V0FPmGyne3RKtrmPKfaI1JRYOr20VsbA8/" width="428px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29ub4_flying-scotsman-trailer_shortfilms" target="_blank">Flying Scotsman Trailer</a> <i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/clr16" target="_blank">clr16</a></i></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, The Flying Scotsman is terrific, I remember seeing a trailer for it but then it disappeared out of theaters fast, as many of the really good movies do. Anyway, The Flying Scotsman is a very good movie about a man who is trying to overcome depression and</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4VmI0oQpzuh66EowjOwa0o_bISFvg0SCcOOmRsWHXSXgT2AXFalIA5WMvEezxlefmyb5UYRvxPD9Rmj0fLRa9Emn5vglUYiF_vuax1CouaIl1BAtC9FkSQ4AhubA6OblhcgyUj9Vp0jY/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4VmI0oQpzuh66EowjOwa0o_bISFvg0SCcOOmRsWHXSXgT2AXFalIA5WMvEezxlefmyb5UYRvxPD9Rmj0fLRa9Emn5vglUYiF_vuax1CouaIl1BAtC9FkSQ4AhubA6OblhcgyUj9Vp0jY/" width="320px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> disappointment to become the best cyclist in the world. The acting is quite good from the whole cast with Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Boyd, (minus the hairy feet**) and Brian Cox all putting in great performances, and it does a great job of letting you feel the movement of riding a bike incredibly fast, even one made with washing machine parts. So check out The Flying Scotsman, if you are looking for an inspiring movie or just really like weird shaped bikes. Next up is a movie about a small town that eats, sleeps and breaths baseball, (my buddy Joel would have loved growing up in this place) and they also play it a bunch too, well, at least they did before they had The Final Season.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDf4ZMS_lJ2bfEXX-ASwD_xVYxSYqlKu2HRIkMpoL-QtgjL8O0_bRNuN2EtUv95wt_cYrxp22LbXPbechR_C4lirDmCfz9mCSuP0LpotaBtPzRH8393859lufESmNLzwumxKE9BmZSNg5z/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDf4ZMS_lJ2bfEXX-ASwD_xVYxSYqlKu2HRIkMpoL-QtgjL8O0_bRNuN2EtUv95wt_cYrxp22LbXPbechR_C4lirDmCfz9mCSuP0LpotaBtPzRH8393859lufESmNLzwumxKE9BmZSNg5z/" width="441px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/CchzJJjHopA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Final Season is a well put together small town small budget baseball movie that is predictable yet still good. It is fairly clean, family friendly and has a decent cast. Again as with the first movie, it is based on a true story, has a good message and oh, and it also has Rachael Leigh Cook, who looks really cute in a baseball hat. So if you likea da baseball, and you likea da movies, then you will probably like The Final Season. </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now, onto the awesomeness of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/image-library/port/376/j/joseph-gordon-levitt-wi09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376px" id="il_fi" src="http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/image-library/port/376/j/joseph-gordon-levitt-wi09.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="251px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now you may know JGL, (thats whats all his friends call him***, and since I have seen so many of his movies it's like we are practically brothers, so he is cool with me using it) from such movies as Angels In The Outfield, 500 Days Of Summer and the best movie of 2010, Inception, (where he was awesome) but JGL is an incredibly hard working actor, and has been in a lot films, and not all of them get the attention they deserve. So to start, do yourself a favor and keep a "LOOKOUT"**** for the movie Brick.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzbL2oZ2U58MVfTnuAPMbMzAKd515pAEQafjS0_cYg7Ug7AkdxE95cnQeeDsNSwjesVx7noNU_YFvk0zwYhYL63UNWHVMBLqLtecFOGn7j4DIxg4utmZFLDUISY_b1z8BaP29kW7FfejI/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzbL2oZ2U58MVfTnuAPMbMzAKd515pAEQafjS0_cYg7Ug7AkdxE95cnQeeDsNSwjesVx7noNU_YFvk0zwYhYL63UNWHVMBLqLtecFOGn7j4DIxg4utmZFLDUISY_b1z8BaP29kW7FfejI/" width="448px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/a3CS_27SsYA/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/a3CS_27SsYA&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a3CS_27SsYA&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><span style="font-size: large;">Brick is a fairly unique movie in that it is a teenage film noir that would have made Bogart***** proud, (for those of you who don't know what Film Noir is I stole the following description from Wiki</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRCDXeuXeMiMjSELLlnSfRqcEeDQeHFgsKS5KL-pAl0tBMwl4EPzG9nLadl51qEC2N_1ATMw61nfj6hqFnFNZKqSPTLC-DExpGnbhV8hCKOhqqEOSyYUjtVSsaLkD1kF0D3y3IEN6mG4U/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRCDXeuXeMiMjSELLlnSfRqcEeDQeHFgsKS5KL-pAl0tBMwl4EPzG9nLadl51qEC2N_1ATMw61nfj6hqFnFNZKqSPTLC-DExpGnbhV8hCKOhqqEOSyYUjtVSsaLkD1kF0D3y3IEN6mG4U/" width="320px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> for you, "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.", for those of you who already knew that, pat yourself on the back, cause you are in the know) it has good solid acting, interesting dialog that although seems very unrealistic, works amazingly well for some reason and a well put together mystery. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great as the lead, looking for answers about his ex-girlfriends murder among the elite of the high school culture, taking a lot of punishment along the way. This movie is not for everyone, some will find it too slow or too self involved, but for me, it works pretty much perfectly, and it might work for you too.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To finish up I leave you with another Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie that rocks and doesn't get enough love, The Lookout.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnAPMyWKzKuHEVVgXb5O0Mcw9vroY_IYJuJDnL_Zp1WOdUabJzAMas06aOpPuzBATIhe74Fb2ktxl30U5kja7AYeQJXaqyV7jVFn2rWEcM9KlZPEdjfT8_3mUq_cq6JwU6N9qPb8PAW4B/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnAPMyWKzKuHEVVgXb5O0Mcw9vroY_IYJuJDnL_Zp1WOdUabJzAMas06aOpPuzBATIhe74Fb2ktxl30U5kja7AYeQJXaqyV7jVFn2rWEcM9KlZPEdjfT8_3mUq_cq6JwU6N9qPb8PAW4B/" width="435px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/RFKRYBgjaYE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-size: large;">Just like The Flying Scotsman, this is a movie that I remember seeing trailers for and then it seemed to just never come out, so when I finally got a chance to see it I was bummed, cause it rocked, and hardly anybody saw it. Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are great together, bickering back and forth, and then you get a cool mystery and heist kinda all thrown in there. JGL gives a stellar performance as he tries to keep his mind straight while being stuck with an injury that fights him at every turn, (it is a little bit like Memento, which is another awesome movie in its own right), and it has a very satisfying ending. </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you go, four movies that deserve to be seen that you might have missed. Feel free to let me know what you think if you end up watching them, or are ultra cool and have seen them already, that would of course mean you would have to comment, which seems most people don't want to do, (with a few exceptions, you guys that do read and comment, you know who you are, and thank you very much for taking the time to give me your thoughts, what ever they may be). So until next time, stay safe, stay in school, and stay away from the KFC Double Stacker, it is pure evil******. Blog at you later.</span><br />
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*I named him that, cause I tend to give people nick names when it suits them, like my friend Stretch, who got named cause she is tall and thin, but also has the last name Armstrong, and there was an awesome toy from my youth called Stretch Armstrong, so it just fits her perfectly, boy am I awesome.<br />
**He played a Hobbit incase you didn't get the follicle foot reference. <br />
***I just made that up, I have no clue what his friends call him.<br />
****Ha, JGL movie title joke, don't worry if you have no clue what I am talking about, I do, and that is all that matters.<br />
*****Bogart is a reference to one of the coolest actors in movie history, Humphrey Bogart, who did a bunch of film noir movies, and it makes me very sad if you didn't know that. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8ozQ2FmfFiu6biZsyKN8GbB6Ojx2t3XpDPx8I3u83EtdI8Zh3DS6VvHTowPojTxFqwXOoePGJMooNYE7iKmFlid6tHzmWVNKfB2CK8dgSLsJwwuCbEnEPQYGJkX49u0K5X6tIwNs3tQ8/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8ozQ2FmfFiu6biZsyKN8GbB6Ojx2t3XpDPx8I3u83EtdI8Zh3DS6VvHTowPojTxFqwXOoePGJMooNYE7iKmFlid6tHzmWVNKfB2CK8dgSLsJwwuCbEnEPQYGJkX49u0K5X6tIwNs3tQ8/" width="287px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">******That is unless KFC wants to sponsor me, in which case it is the best thing ever! Yeah, I can be bought, at least in matters concerning fast food chicken.</div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_youtube_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-21415610936376101852011-08-26T20:26:00.000-04:002011-08-26T20:26:56.271-04:00Wands Or Lightsabers: May The Force Or Patronus Be With You!<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So this weeks question is incredibly simple, with no big long explanations, (I actually asked my best friend and his beautiful wife this question and they answered in unison in about half a second*) so here it is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbyPzHfURVGDH8ZUC3UHIYAxwD5kZuPiD7-slyeDi168tQ6H6kp69zRbfabM1o-or0-lDLUyUOxLiKFu85ixgdOYU-cU0pMbESLAz8VM_7QdA3QRnwZ4C8hsyMnCmD-Y3s9jPeDYq6j6zf/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbyPzHfURVGDH8ZUC3UHIYAxwD5kZuPiD7-slyeDi168tQ6H6kp69zRbfabM1o-or0-lDLUyUOxLiKFu85ixgdOYU-cU0pMbESLAz8VM_7QdA3QRnwZ4C8hsyMnCmD-Y3s9jPeDYq6j6zf/" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would you rather be a Wizard from the Harry Potter movies?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would you rather be a Jedi from the Star Wars movies?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There you have it, you all know what this entails for both choices, and if it sways your argument, yes you do get a wand if your a Wizard and a light saber if your a Jedi. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjc9P4sMezMzm9C0FgxlIfAN8GrjHwXFQxKtXKeQRyLo2VXyHC4dkyacm0O3WkaMao9RUKZRxnc3SkGQQJNQHCKNx9MIRxiq1ZQcbEpJlmf5F-p30tRw399ruWeqzr6_H6eQS4K8XyGrBs/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjc9P4sMezMzm9C0FgxlIfAN8GrjHwXFQxKtXKeQRyLo2VXyHC4dkyacm0O3WkaMao9RUKZRxnc3SkGQQJNQHCKNx9MIRxiq1ZQcbEpJlmf5F-p30tRw399ruWeqzr6_H6eQS4K8XyGrBs/" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have posted a poll at the side incase you just want to vote, but feel free to leave a really cool answer if you are up for it. So get answering, and until next time, stay good, no matter you be a magic or force user, and I will blog at you later.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKRv2zBenWWynwemtDMgA1Uv0FRsxfoJbTGxcV9ixE7BjLFCQN0BN38TK68D_0IBvqnaas-SB98ecwa1JAVwR403EefXg-ne46CbAPPjyJy_nj09DXY54l8COthjYedONCUGiVCHNA2_W/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKRv2zBenWWynwemtDMgA1Uv0FRsxfoJbTGxcV9ixE7BjLFCQN0BN38TK68D_0IBvqnaas-SB98ecwa1JAVwR403EefXg-ne46CbAPPjyJy_nj09DXY54l8COthjYedONCUGiVCHNA2_W/" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Just incase you were wondering, they both picked Jedi, and once I told them they would get light sabers it left no doubt to their choice.</div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-10399253622713124602011-08-13T20:20:00.001-04:002011-08-13T20:30:22.857-04:00Pixar Smackdown: Round Two<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07z5mQc3iryhrjjT5Nuu0re-g5Shj7AHOEd3KiP_gR6sSB9fFs6tuA72GxIxOemiVZYvzAQOgBIHNU1LdJG6cVVuKCVoTTSf9sjHrGjbKn-JAac_ZHZN0MPtonv8S-8PVlHn1nS-EwPht/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07z5mQc3iryhrjjT5Nuu0re-g5Shj7AHOEd3KiP_gR6sSB9fFs6tuA72GxIxOemiVZYvzAQOgBIHNU1LdJG6cVVuKCVoTTSf9sjHrGjbKn-JAac_ZHZN0MPtonv8S-8PVlHn1nS-EwPht/" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the first round of Pixar Smackdown, Toy Story went up against Monsters Inc. and it all came down to one vote. And the winner is........</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YfOdLcMRQGzVxRAF2fZQRsAcy-O7j-D9AaRcJG5QRzj6w8gIoqMZdofHWXmrMKTGPHeJUdiRVY3Zs17RhlblVTeG93gmhYMx8yKYP64Ny0kIE_Wdc55EDP8KC5l5NIv9RCGDKZ_dlZwc/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6YfOdLcMRQGzVxRAF2fZQRsAcy-O7j-D9AaRcJG5QRzj6w8gIoqMZdofHWXmrMKTGPHeJUdiRVY3Zs17RhlblVTeG93gmhYMx8yKYP64Ny0kIE_Wdc55EDP8KC5l5NIv9RCGDKZ_dlZwc/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, Sully and Mike Wazowski won, receiving 5 votes to Buzz and Woody's 4, which means that only 9 votes were cast in total, which is really sad, but no matter, now we move on to the next round, and hopefully you might feel guilty enough to actually take the 3 seconds to click your choice on the right hand side. Now, onto this weeks Smackdown.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibBXUVJpCn3Ms0hK2BFV8iONqvbBnN5sjWkMNDDo10yN1BH1zcABOCX7k4KxVbvkDLOeKf4g6cEOh7yu8MVUDCutRtSY_7r9SQk1Wsy3BgvnXyRYYEgcFLHrcwCkIt5DWx5eOTdWnkUgvf/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibBXUVJpCn3Ms0hK2BFV8iONqvbBnN5sjWkMNDDo10yN1BH1zcABOCX7k4KxVbvkDLOeKf4g6cEOh7yu8MVUDCutRtSY_7r9SQk1Wsy3BgvnXyRYYEgcFLHrcwCkIt5DWx5eOTdWnkUgvf/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">First up in Round 2 is Pixar's second film, about a dreamer that just wants to make life better for himself and those around him, and because he is different minded then, well... everybody, is often shunned for it. Of course I am talking about Flick, the wacky ant in, A Bug's Life. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtf2zJTmyDVmHw4Z5BOuytZ1GO5foXqkjDczKAaTb-9iJ7aW9MZJPvTcBLj1oKXrz4f3Vb33fXqJdQcYIIAdVTM0Rj6gWpYYhRRigdzfSnN7eTIvpXM7TJVLx8G7Cnt64u0WpwEkm-mlFv/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtf2zJTmyDVmHw4Z5BOuytZ1GO5foXqkjDczKAaTb-9iJ7aW9MZJPvTcBLj1oKXrz4f3Vb33fXqJdQcYIIAdVTM0Rj6gWpYYhRRigdzfSnN7eTIvpXM7TJVLx8G7Cnt64u0WpwEkm-mlFv/" width="432px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now quite often, when I end up talking to people about Pixar movies, I hear it said that A Bug's Life is their least favorite. Now saying this, people don't say it is a bad movie, but just it is at the</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeljz-tkbXf_deHrLV-P_ERL-jkw0-TUOX2qSAkUWqHf358xUzFP_3cTIT-fiXe3BnE-BGWYKHaO6UMMAL2fTOj-KVEDeVc1vyqiGalE2jVLNbQh_6g8D0fLCB35KI3W6kRSqv1SAej6FL/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="184px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeljz-tkbXf_deHrLV-P_ERL-jkw0-TUOX2qSAkUWqHf358xUzFP_3cTIT-fiXe3BnE-BGWYKHaO6UMMAL2fTOj-KVEDeVc1vyqiGalE2jVLNbQh_6g8D0fLCB35KI3W6kRSqv1SAej6FL/" width="320px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> bottom of the list of Pixar movies. Now I for one do not feel this way. I have always had a soft spot for A Bug's Life. I think it has excellent voice work with Foley, Leary and Pierce all giving great and fun performances. It also has a kinda of Seven Samurai feel, (incase you have never seen Akira Kurosawa Seven Samurai or don't have a clue what I am talking about, feel free to click this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnRUHtSgJ9o&feature=related"><span style="color: red;">link</span></a> for the trailer once you have finished reading this post and voted) which makes it all the better. So since many find this to be the least of all Pixar movies, I decided that it should go up against the Pixar movie that I personally feel is their weakest, which is...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6UT8Dl7cqjGJBkJP09PRyvew3gnMxjCTsIXjv5SmXvIIOlwXX117mV8o7k169mfub_xbAQmiLrbgTm1R4ol_nFIfeVjHrQX-zP6E24HFhqXP1ldXnDIGXExrvu0mBP_uoUqZq-lmhqpp/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG6UT8Dl7cqjGJBkJP09PRyvew3gnMxjCTsIXjv5SmXvIIOlwXX117mV8o7k169mfub_xbAQmiLrbgTm1R4ol_nFIfeVjHrQX-zP6E24HFhqXP1ldXnDIGXExrvu0mBP_uoUqZq-lmhqpp/" width="428px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, Ratatouille. Now I know some of you are probably shocked, cause a lot of people loved Ratatouille, but I didn't. Now, I am not </span><span style="font-size: large;">saying it is a bad movie, in fact, I think it is a very good movie, but as far as I am concerned it is the least best of Pixar's efforts. Saying that, rats have never looked so good, or cute, and I really </span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFCL1TL8slFxW6C5lpPKeZdKsF5172qI1G_SwzrEDJlm-dKA2cJjUdDq8mbHVtNOMWNyU7zqHRG4YQYSC6im61tfuqhakOlqqd5IrN433vHUs3NB651_KFn8okRffqAzPLjKDZz5moq06/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFCL1TL8slFxW6C5lpPKeZdKsF5172qI1G_SwzrEDJlm-dKA2cJjUdDq8mbHVtNOMWNyU7zqHRG4YQYSC6im61tfuqhakOlqqd5IrN433vHUs3NB651_KFn8okRffqAzPLjKDZz5moq06/" width="298px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">liked the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> way that food and cooking is viewed, and as with most Pixar movies, it has a great message about following your dreams, and looks amazing. Now like I said, you may feel differently about which one you like better, and I will repeat, this whole Smackdown thing is not about picking your favorite Pixar movie, but the best. So, which is the better movie, A Bug's Life, or Ratatouille. Again as with last time, feel free to give an answer in the comment section, but in order for your vote to count you have to put it in the poll on the right hand side of the page. It will remain open until Round 3 is up, so get voting, and remember, only vote once, or Jesus will unleash a bunch of ants riding rats to chase you around your living room, and you don't want that. So until next time, stay lemon fresh, and blog at you later.</span></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_image_section">*Did you catch the pun that Sully makes in the picture, if you did your really smart, cause I didn't even mean to do it.</img></div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-63449365949928799392011-08-10T23:36:00.000-04:002011-08-10T23:36:01.030-04:00The Heart Of The Hangover<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qZZAf_UcUe6df4sb3RZjK8YcPa3iO4ycuJ1Tb-WtSbHOcOjMFSqlHKDnUBycY7KakwqoyBOLQGZOGDd62eepi8COprf1b6XtgPkaekzxHovUiFvnMKg69v29PV_Zx9amXsupV5Bl5asN/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qZZAf_UcUe6df4sb3RZjK8YcPa3iO4ycuJ1Tb-WtSbHOcOjMFSqlHKDnUBycY7KakwqoyBOLQGZOGDd62eepi8COprf1b6XtgPkaekzxHovUiFvnMKg69v29PV_Zx9amXsupV5Bl5asN/" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever found profoundly real biblical truths in places that you would never think to look for them? For example, in a movie, about four men, who are having a bachelor party weekend of drinking, drugs and debauchery..........twice. Yep, you guessed it, (at least, I am hoping you are getting good at guessing this kinda stuff by now) the movies I am talking about are The Hangover and its sequel, which is cleverly titled, The Hangover 2</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section">. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so here it is in a nut shell, the real question that these two movies look at is, "Why do these men do the things they do?". Now most people would just look at the obvious answer, and say they did all those crazy things because of the drugs that they had taken, just to recap for those who might not remember, (or for those much more Godly people then me who skipped it all together) here is a quick list of some of the things that the Hangover boys did. They, stole a cop car, locked a man in a trunk, stole a Tiger from Mike Tyson and a Monkey from some drug dealers, make various bets including daring Stu the dentist to pull out his own tooth, cause a riot, marry an "escort" who leaves her baby with them, have sex with an anatomically incorrect prostitute, kidnap a monk who has taken a vow of silence, get a face tattoo and do a whack load of drugs. That is just a few things the guys do over the two movies, but was it the drugs that caused all this behavior?</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8t9J7hZzWA4k3inSYgnqJnY-OBkhWkSOc4NB0adod5O2zgvOpW_yiN_KKYBj-mfRLTRQ2LwuycQjLAhHLcvRlwXWo30GtHAh3Y9LZe60FVdLVXj-NZukVcjWBZQTvbbGQK73jLevvzkVY/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8t9J7hZzWA4k3inSYgnqJnY-OBkhWkSOc4NB0adod5O2zgvOpW_yiN_KKYBj-mfRLTRQ2LwuycQjLAhHLcvRlwXWo30GtHAh3Y9LZe60FVdLVXj-NZukVcjWBZQTvbbGQK73jLevvzkVY/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stu, the self tooth extracting dentist, comes to the conclusion at the end of the second movie that he is not what he always thought he was. Instead of being a normal middle class dentist, he is really a wild man, and he states, "There is a demon inside of me!". But on this point, I completely disagree with Stu. It is not demon possession that caused the boys to do all these crazy things, and it is not really even the drugs that they take, although I am sure that helped relieve them of some of the inhibitions, but why they really do launch head first in to so much sin and crime is simple, their hearts wanted them too.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaINffExUPCifSzw9q5z0DvvbPp9Lk2T_CI3SUR9boGL4X0ED4L1wxPxgt9LvcptEzaoz764PTjrC1mVpWMTZUNrEKKnJcHj0eUZ2gRTc-6kRmLS77Cvsd_-VmzdAkXHDdhOcYAWttXa4p/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaINffExUPCifSzw9q5z0DvvbPp9Lk2T_CI3SUR9boGL4X0ED4L1wxPxgt9LvcptEzaoz764PTjrC1mVpWMTZUNrEKKnJcHj0eUZ2gRTc-6kRmLS77Cvsd_-VmzdAkXHDdhOcYAWttXa4p/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now here is where this movie gets really theological. All the guys bad behavior comes directly from their hearts, and there is this little book called, The Bible, that tells you why, and in two different places no less. First</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9InagCI4UxTafe38opEKFTI-Sxm9aO3Oc8xiA3URxBsyQp3Q0LgIN6WeG6LQWloKHk93cSRL7OXNfPBf6zTaZnuQcNk0TzwYg1TARXjoNG6SEKj9rhhSMZZg53xgtpJTL68RterNvCkp/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9InagCI4UxTafe38opEKFTI-Sxm9aO3Oc8xiA3URxBsyQp3Q0LgIN6WeG6LQWloKHk93cSRL7OXNfPBf6zTaZnuQcNk0TzwYg1TARXjoNG6SEKj9rhhSMZZg53xgtpJTL68RterNvCkp/" width="400" /></a> in the book of Matthew, (which is the first book in the New Testament, in case you were going to go look it up and wanted a little help) Chapter 15, Verse 19* which says, "For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.". The second is in the book of Mark, Chapter 7, Verses 21 to 23, (you can find that one yourself. What, do I have to do everything for you?) which says, "For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill, commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly— all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean.”. Now when Jesus** was saying these things, it was due to the fact that the Jews were constantly talking about all the things that can defile them, and Jesus pointed out that no matter what type of food a person ate, it could not be as bad as the evil and sin that lurks in the hearts of all mankind.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"> </div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The heart is the key to it all. We all do bad things, adults, kids, and even teens***, and many times when we look back, we are not sure why we did them. Well, look at your heart and you will find the answer. It is funny, cause most often you hear people say to follow</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdiR4u2wlpNTES0rVacGWX9vCbnok697fEs88pIGYwCV3XZt9L5CBnmHG_Bv1h1OG2qoY01Hst8Y1oj2XS7J8SHCeqANhRhFzTrxFln_4oNJ7PdpHPb1uS9G36SvCqCWtqaaq72NYNTnn/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYdiR4u2wlpNTES0rVacGWX9vCbnok697fEs88pIGYwCV3XZt9L5CBnmHG_Bv1h1OG2qoY01Hst8Y1oj2XS7J8SHCeqANhRhFzTrxFln_4oNJ7PdpHPb1uS9G36SvCqCWtqaaq72NYNTnn/" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> you heart, but I am not actually sure that is good advice, cause as Jesus points out, I don't think your heart necessarily has your best interest at, well, heart, to use the expression. And this brings us back to the Hangover movies, where the guys do all those bad things, and like I said, everyone looks at the drugs, but the heart is the real culprit. Why would they do all that stuff? Cause their hearts told them too, and they listened, sure, the drugs maybe made them hear their hearts clearer, but it was their hearts none the less that did all the directing. So remember, you can find Jesus stuff in the most unlikely places, so keep your eyes open, cause biblical truths are like boxes of chocolates, you never know if you are going to bite into the good ones, or one of the cherry ones, or something like that anyway. So until next time, guard your hearts, especially in video games, and I'll blog at you later.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rXn23BY6ZH1Mjn8lNWGwt0gr-u0CJQcdcafcty9y8VTH9g-bRzOUOxwy3vIKwprcHv5D-eRUwBZgwLg1G_DRlvIOcKvJDRdGyTVG1ruCGQ3zISbRJExFlYpJOyfrYDE1BWBnum17aCKl/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rXn23BY6ZH1Mjn8lNWGwt0gr-u0CJQcdcafcty9y8VTH9g-bRzOUOxwy3vIKwprcHv5D-eRUwBZgwLg1G_DRlvIOcKvJDRdGyTVG1ruCGQ3zISbRJExFlYpJOyfrYDE1BWBnum17aCKl/" width="193" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"> <br />
*I am using The Good News Translation for both passages, so I just saved you from having to guess, aren't I nice, don't you just want to send me some money, thanks.<br />
**I would tell you who Jesus is, but I am going to give you some credit that since you are reading this on the internet that you should at least know who Jesus is, even if you don't know him personally. <br />
***Yeah, even teens, if you can believe such a thing.<br />
</div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-90195350310483863092011-07-30T20:46:00.000-04:002011-07-30T20:46:41.808-04:00My Life Is A Lie: Entertainment or Energy<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFeb69cfQSxQv0NHdGdBEgKRrg3O8R6fqH9WpjdLefjF22odxU-6KEotEe9IO0UAHfshwV1-R3RNarpVUuLTaHko4N2JeqT3LpEEL0j5n25llHFf79TQRRn1eG45H3CaSdyxNYR_OyPrp/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFeb69cfQSxQv0NHdGdBEgKRrg3O8R6fqH9WpjdLefjF22odxU-6KEotEe9IO0UAHfshwV1-R3RNarpVUuLTaHko4N2JeqT3LpEEL0j5n25llHFf79TQRRn1eG45H3CaSdyxNYR_OyPrp/" width="164px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">This is a question that I have been waiting to do for a while, and it involves finding out something about your life that would change it forever. So, lets get right to it. First off would you rather wake up one day to find that your whole life is fake, your friends are paid actors, same as your family, and pretty much everything you know is a fabrication. Well, then your name might turn out to be Truman, and your life might look something like this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMiWSkDiwhGiB99ZFdIRCFMKqFPUOC64sw-tbOu9VnQPOeFcnrp4lQClpbSoKubiOokjkEXbtxe8pG3vjZ3RKgmvNwgDRAd8iECQHoYWeF-NHeGbEwasqaO1FqxYzvbQeAbkcl8N7KO6Ig/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMiWSkDiwhGiB99ZFdIRCFMKqFPUOC64sw-tbOu9VnQPOeFcnrp4lQClpbSoKubiOokjkEXbtxe8pG3vjZ3RKgmvNwgDRAd8iECQHoYWeF-NHeGbEwasqaO1FqxYzvbQeAbkcl8N7KO6Ig/" width="393px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yep, if you haven't seen it, The Truman Show is one of Jim Carreys best movies, and it is all about finding out who you really are. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYj2m1yVpGU?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are you the way you are because it is in your genes, or because you have been made that way by the people who surround you, or both, and what would you do if you found out your whole existence is a lie, shown to the world for entertainment. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I don't see you, Good afternoon, Good evening and Go away, or something like that.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">But wait, there is another choice. Instead of finding out that you are in a world that revolves around you for the entertainment of others, you can find that your whole world is a lie, and that your real purpose in existing is as an energy source for a race of machines that keeps your mind a slave in a make believe world, or as you probably know it, The Matrix.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oooowww, Its all green and sparkly, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I wonder if it is minty fresh too?</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Matrix has you, follow the white rabbit! These are the words that spark off the search for truth that leads Neo to find his world is just a virtual reality program that is used to keep human slaves happy while they are drained of their life. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/UM5yepZ21pI?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlike Truman's world, were your life's purpose was to entertain, in the Matrix, you find that your life is a lie, but also that there is a war going on, and now you are a soldier on the front lines. </span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahh man, I hate being all sticky!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So here is the choice, find out your life was all fake and now that you know you have to figure it out what to do, and where you fit in, or find that everything was all in your head and there are machines that want you dead. Sure, Truman's world seems easier, you just have to move on, yet basically everyone on the planet knows who you are and have seen you do everything, but there is not a way to take any real revenge, or have any sense of justice. While in the Matrix, sure, your life was a lie, but now you have someone to fight against, a battle that whether you win or lose, you at least tried and took some control back about what happened to you. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I thought I would just give you a glimpse of what it would be like if Jim Carrey was Neo.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, thats it, let me know which one you pick, and why, and remember, always aim for the head when fighting zombies, this really has nothing to do with this post, but is sound advice none the less. Stay cool and blog at you later.</span></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div class="bloggerplus_image_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div></div></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-29234436878585876632011-07-22T23:08:00.002-04:002011-07-27T05:19:05.637-04:00Keep Your Shirt On: A Needless Nudity Rant<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are few things in the experience of film that bug me more then needless nudity. Now, before I can really get into this properly I have to be honest, I have always been a fan of, how do I say this, emmm........ok, breasts, there I said it, (please don't judge me). From my youth to my teenage years I was very breast obsessed, and loving boobs and movies as I do, seeing the words, "This movie has nudity"* always seemed to make it that much better. Cut to me being all growed up, I'm still a big fan of breasts, but now that I have matured a bit, (what, really, I have!) and I have a wife and daughters, I look at nudity in films much differently. Where once upon a time nudity in a film = awesome, now it is something that I am always happy to not have to see.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0KTd69QuGF9mGIXHz5Bo42-s7DfzlYyZLcm86p9AN8j40Z_QCMKhpYvZlJpzDEJHvWHBdj0QK_SFevI8mIOCAV0mMYSLWjMqK520Fv7D1W9EfVXKnEc38xNhnaKdB2KQXufw_T5n1p12/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0KTd69QuGF9mGIXHz5Bo42-s7DfzlYyZLcm86p9AN8j40Z_QCMKhpYvZlJpzDEJHvWHBdj0QK_SFevI8mIOCAV0mMYSLWjMqK520Fv7D1W9EfVXKnEc38xNhnaKdB2KQXufw_T5n1p12/" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now this is not to say that nudity in film is always wrong, (now hear me out) you can't possibly do certain films without showing naked people. For example, Porn, JUST KIDDING, ok, for example, Schindler's List, (If for some incredibly strange reason you have never heard of Schindler's List, first of all that is sad, and second of all check out my post <a href="http://jesuswasabrowncoatsoiaimtomisbehave.blogspot.com/2011/04/beyond-film-movies-that-are-more-than.html"><span style="background-color: red;">here</span></a>) . You may ask yourself**,why was nudity necessary in S.L., (I am just going to use the initials for Schindler's List, cause I am lazy, and I figure you are smart and can follow along) well, when making S.L., Spielberg was trying to capture a realistic portrait of what happened in concentration camps during</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">showers are in the white coats on the left</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the holocaust, and in that, the Jewish people were often humiliated and degraded in many ways, one of which was to all jog around in a circle naked to see if any of them were sick so they would send them to the showers, (in case you are really clueless, when you were sent to the showers in the concentration camp, it is usually where they killed you) where again, it would make sense to show people naked there too. So in the case of S.L., and other movies like The <a href="http://jesuswasabrowncoatsoiaimtomisbehave.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-top-20-movies-of-alltime-4-to-1.html"><span style="background-color: red;">Shawshank Redemption</span></a> where they bring prisoners in to the cells naked, or movies set in Africa or Australia that have indigenous nudity, (that is just a fancy way of saying the people normally walk around naked, so it makes sense to have them naked in the movie) in these cases nudity is necessary to tell the story. But in truth, that is really not what this rant is about.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rvQu_SB4FXjjoeNaNuhIzfTVUuq30fNn8bRfB7HdZyLGM2VFZ5P-ZNLKfUSOGY7ST4ey3NfxqKWWy1t53HE8LyCcBd2hEiJ3K3Lbv5srg-ggQ9EkO_qvMPoyjXWzKvOXwmIAMdV3aOnU/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3rvQu_SB4FXjjoeNaNuhIzfTVUuq30fNn8bRfB7HdZyLGM2VFZ5P-ZNLKfUSOGY7ST4ey3NfxqKWWy1t53HE8LyCcBd2hEiJ3K3Lbv5srg-ggQ9EkO_qvMPoyjXWzKvOXwmIAMdV3aOnU/" width="301px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is not what I am talking about.</span></td></tr>
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<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What this rant is really about is needless nudity, now here is my problem, and let me set the stage for you so you fully understand what I am talking about. Ok, shut your eyes, and imagine that you're watching a movie, and while you are sitting there, watching this movie, you think to yourself, self, this is a good movie. I bet other people I know would like this movie, in fact, since I am a youth leader, I think that this would be a great movie to show to my teens, cause they would probably wait a minute, did that woman just take her top off. Why, WHY!*** Ok, so did that ever happen to you, cause it happens to me all the time. So just so you think I am not insane, let me give you an example. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmfVOpKtC4KCEx_0he6X4ODHMJEfA4utFh4JstuENvf5kQiS6udQZqdWs789rMpRKb2deikNNnSHoN3sX8LnosQub-yryAzCMIJLS9dKAMQ4jtMuqtnWirq21OtDk9mAcpjFL13S08RCR/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmfVOpKtC4KCEx_0he6X4ODHMJEfA4utFh4JstuENvf5kQiS6udQZqdWs789rMpRKb2deikNNnSHoN3sX8LnosQub-yryAzCMIJLS9dKAMQ4jtMuqtnWirq21OtDk9mAcpjFL13S08RCR/" width="427px" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">K2 is a movie about the true story of 2 climbers that join a climbing expedition to reach the summit of, you guessed it, K2, (if you didn't guess it don't feel bad, Jesus and I still think your awesome, maybe not smart, but definitely awesome). So how could there be nudity in a movie about mountain climbing? Well, the one guy in order to go on the trip needs to ask his wife for permission, and he has trouble sleeping trying to figure out a way to ask her, which she picks up on and bugs him to tell her what is bothering him, so he finally does and she gets mad and storms off. So, here is the thing, the guys wife sleeps naked. So for about 4 seconds when she gets up you see her completely undressed. Now, in S.L. nudity has a reason for being there, but why was it in K2? Beats me. I know why boobs are shown in many films, and that is for one </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlcyhmdqtstVF_P7I2_czEgS8p0zhcPK00uDb5TTo7ZERujwB4J3pUxWjXgUuEOR0XzLGKCUatKSJqBJQghsv5LP6kxWnRAn1xecxjFhngn2rnEbFrCdFZrGOca-3E83cC1g8SMqpKgsB/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="280px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlcyhmdqtstVF_P7I2_czEgS8p0zhcPK00uDb5TTo7ZERujwB4J3pUxWjXgUuEOR0XzLGKCUatKSJqBJQghsv5LP6kxWnRAn1xecxjFhngn2rnEbFrCdFZrGOca-3E83cC1g8SMqpKgsB/" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I only did it for the sake of art!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">simple reason, $$$$$, (I </span><span style="font-size: large;">like to call this the Halle Berry Clause, cause she got paid a bunch of money in Swordfish to show her twins**** for a few seconds of screen time, $500,000 to be exact, and I will be honest, I think they over paid, but they actually did get their money's worth, cause a bunch of guys coughed up $8 to see Swordfish for just those few seconds of screen time). Men like seeing naked women***** and film makers know that, so although I would prefer there be no nudity in a </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, I admit, it was funny, but still not necessary!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">movie, at least you </span><span style="font-size: large;">can see</span> <span style="font-size: large;">why they are putting it in, $$$$$, (I just watched Piranha the other night, Boobs in 3D, now that is art******) but why the heck did they put it in K2, or Forgetting Sarah Marshall, or one of the biggest movies of all time, Titanic, (which I refuse to ever watch, but come to think of it, why was there nudity in Titanic? AAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hey, do you want to pretend that you're flying </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and then you can show me your boobs later?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><em>FOR SURE!</em></strong></span> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is good!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and the people who I could have shown them to, but now I can't, all because some guy decided that a woman in the movie had to expose her Thelma and Louise******* for a few seconds of screen time. So, ladies, keep your girls under wraps, whether on film or in life, and guys, stop being such horn dogs. That's all I got for now, so until next time, stay dressed and rant at you later.</span><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Actually, if the words, "This movie has violence, nudity and course language" appearing at the front of it, I generally thought that no matter what it would be awesome.<br />
**Bonus points if you actually did ask yourself.<br />
***Now if you shut your eyes, how did you read the rest of my post?<br />
****The twins is just one of the slang terms I have heard for breasts, here are some more, many of which I have heard from women. Balloons, Bert And Ernie, Bonnie And Clyde, Cha-Chas, Dairy Pillows, David And Goliath (not sure I understand this one unless they were particularly disproportionate in size to each other), God's Milk Bottles, Holmes And Watson, Hubcaps, Milk Wagons and my personal favorite from Leonard Cohen, The Upturned Bellies Of Fallen Sparrows, or Ta-Ta's, its kinda 50/50.<br />
*****Some women do too, but I don't have time to go into that here.<br />
******Please note the sarcasm, plus I saw it in 2D.<br />
*******That is another name I have heard used.</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-11384539384475532992011-07-18T16:29:00.005-04:002011-07-18T17:41:00.264-04:00Pixar Smackdown: Round One<div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><em>Before I get into my normal brilliant as usual post, I just thought I would mention why I have yet to post anything for July, so here goes. Life happened. Ok, now, onto the post.</em></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So in this edition of Question Of The Week, (which I should probably start calling Question Of The Whenever I Get Round To Posting It, but it is too late to change it now, no matter how often it comes out, plus I am lazy, so Nuff said) is the first step in discovering, (at least from the people who read this crazy little thing called Jesus Was A Browncoat So I Aim To Misbehave) what the best Pixar movie is. Now as before, when I was putting together my best movie of all time list, I am not looking for your or my "favorite" Pixar movie, but the actual best one of all time. This will be done in rounds with two movies going against each other every week until there is only one left standing. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSAjS3AQoSqNBR92f4S4y5cXEO8PVU1gYVqoJwxodYirFsonIeVLQd-6mKYdhCnwbmWptbaVKJHlh25M_UfpC8y-YNSluYV-AolZFZW3SJd6zxPgZmGmc87ecV98CFD3y6Q4BiO5R3iq7u/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSAjS3AQoSqNBR92f4S4y5cXEO8PVU1gYVqoJwxodYirFsonIeVLQd-6mKYdhCnwbmWptbaVKJHlh25M_UfpC8y-YNSluYV-AolZFZW3SJd6zxPgZmGmc87ecV98CFD3y6Q4BiO5R3iq7u/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, as of late some of you who have been reading and trying to comment, (in particular those of you who have red hair, or are bald) have not been able too due to some crazy Internet blogging conspiracy, so here is how I am going to do this. First, feel free to give me a great cool long answer in the comment section, (Davis, I am looking at you here) or you can post the same on my Facebook page, but, and here is the important part, in order for your vote to count you have to check off your selection in the poll on the right side of the page. The voting will remain open until I post the next Pixar Smackdown Round, and I will just ask that you only vote once* per round. So, with all that said, onto Round One, and as they say in one of my favorite 90's video games**, FIGHT!</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM5T56YQJG-5Sn83pxxFpz0DC1vziuipFdvtPihgUxyMQvqoDT5h1wNuOyAoMtk9XZJWVySmUjc3u5SpjDr6DreB3DJFSLG_hrN0GB8m28y0ggaoguoJa5BC81fPHlAT2EsPCOK98TVAA/s1600/6de903eb24915609532faff42840cd32_an10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="310px" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM5T56YQJG-5Sn83pxxFpz0DC1vziuipFdvtPihgUxyMQvqoDT5h1wNuOyAoMtk9XZJWVySmUjc3u5SpjDr6DreB3DJFSLG_hrN0GB8m28y0ggaoguoJa5BC81fPHlAT2EsPCOK98TVAA/s400/6de903eb24915609532faff42840cd32_an10.jpg" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So to start off I decided to go with two of Pixars most well known films, and what better film to go first then Toy Story. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3_I44qWsQdABTFpHeLCW3P7AjKCZtCXmMfJWmht9wN27vLRz0UEsAVCpRDlN8Qj-QjiHDOrpHCZE8aFk3sZeF6BY0FoPAy1hzdkl7YZoaTNohpc3NfrXiMNy3KszDL2ERuMHGOt1QDzg/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3_I44qWsQdABTFpHeLCW3P7AjKCZtCXmMfJWmht9wN27vLRz0UEsAVCpRDlN8Qj-QjiHDOrpHCZE8aFk3sZeF6BY0FoPAy1hzdkl7YZoaTNohpc3NfrXiMNy3KszDL2ERuMHGOt1QDzg/" width="379px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The story of a boy and his toys is the movie that started it all for Pixar and made the characters of Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Woody household names. Toy Story was an original, brilliantly animated full length feature spectacle of a movie that forever changed the animated movie landscape. It showcased awesome three dimensional animation, had incredible voice work and story telling and basically paved the way for all those that came after it, but does that make it the best? </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDHHlzv8COQfY8LXZCCzzeciRzvdV1WgaY9KopUfeY-nQoogYcxaz0lzzqUxuXGYV7Yzr9kGO9AvO-XnCPylp6hEl12mc-mEPXUuSTqal6ZYkgTxgki1YOX-ND3lT-bgSX49uXdTxksFB/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDHHlzv8COQfY8LXZCCzzeciRzvdV1WgaY9KopUfeY-nQoogYcxaz0lzzqUxuXGYV7Yzr9kGO9AvO-XnCPylp6hEl12mc-mEPXUuSTqal6ZYkgTxgki1YOX-ND3lT-bgSX49uXdTxksFB/" width="170px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So going up against the originator is a film that answered the age old question, why do monsters jump out and scare kids from the closet,</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and that movie is Monsters Inc. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9ZXtWpP9ds6xOivbTCjmGim3eRvPwvHqH3fweoMDchcjkVGb70Da4GxdDu4_f4dJehLYrqDjW-7PN2SQSDgptd-RsVtNBGMN0YVhZPMKENuI4SEVIFJiu1iAUm2KjJiolOZ-bPDJfLAU/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl9ZXtWpP9ds6xOivbTCjmGim3eRvPwvHqH3fweoMDchcjkVGb70Da4GxdDu4_f4dJehLYrqDjW-7PN2SQSDgptd-RsVtNBGMN0YVhZPMKENuI4SEVIFJiu1iAUm2KjJiolOZ-bPDJfLAU/" /></span></a></div> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And you won't like me when </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I'm Angry</span></td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">3 films after Toy Story, Pixar brought Sully, Boo and Mike Wazowski to vivid life, in a humorous and fantastic story about love, friendship and what home really means, oh, and power shortages. It brings a world of monsters to life that is familiar yet unique, and gave a whole new perspective to how dangerous a sock can be. Just as in Toy Story, it has incredible everything, and the animation even looks better, if that is possible, but, is it the best?</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it, round one, and remember, it is not the film that you like the most, of have the fondest memory of, but the one you think is made the best. So, get posting, and make sure to answer in the poll on the side. So until next time, watch some movies, eat some popcorn, if you get a chance go check out the indie film that just came out, you know, that low budget one about the boy wizard, it has a small following, but could always use some more fans, and remember, always use the internet for good, and not evil. Blog at you later.</span></div></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Now I am trusting you in this to only vote once per round, sure, you could cheat and I would not know, but baby Jesus would, hovering over his little cradle, and he wouldn't like it, so be nice and only vote once per round, ok. </div><div class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">**Bonus marks if you know what game I am talking about.</img></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-42550967662853061922011-06-29T20:46:00.005-04:002011-06-29T21:39:58.447-04:00Good Movies Teens Will Like: Extreme Days<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></img></div></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"></img></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the last 10 years I have done a ton of movie nights for teens, (ok, I know I say the word "ton", but that is just a metaphor, cause really, how do you weigh getting kids to watch movies together, what unit of measurement works, so lets just say that "tons" in this case means "a lot" and we will leave it at that.) and I have always ended up showing one movie more then any other, and that movie is Extreme Days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxrSyIReyUj71g5WSw26DICNv0JX87tMskPjhSUjopon5xV3pRepU7EtZNr1l41D9sFchm2lpXMo4Qx8aEzlgUqK0jwd0BvC-xCrL29JAbybCtUmBIJJnLhg9OEj0IMaoNJ02iXwwjPDP/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJxrSyIReyUj71g5WSw26DICNv0JX87tMskPjhSUjopon5xV3pRepU7EtZNr1l41D9sFchm2lpXMo4Qx8aEzlgUqK0jwd0BvC-xCrL29JAbybCtUmBIJJnLhg9OEj0IMaoNJ02iXwwjPDP/" /></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, why have I shown Extreme Days more then any other movie? Well, it has lots of sports montages, it is funny and most of all, it is incredibly clean, (more on that later) yet, teens still like it, (now when I say teens like it, not all teens do, there are some who don't, but I am talking in generalizations, so if you're reading this and your name is.... lets say D. Broda, no, that is giving away too much, lets just say your name is Davis B., yeah, thats what we will call you, and as Davis B. you are saying to yourself, "I didn't like it!" well you are in the minority my brother, but I still think you're awesome, so cool beans), so with that said, lets move on to what it is about and I will get back to why you will show it later.</span></div></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What It Is About - Extreme Days is basically about 4 friends, (Matt, Corey and the two brothers Will and Bryan) that have grown up together doing stupid stuff and after finishing college they go on a road trip that they have been dreaming of doing all their lives. They first head to mexico to do some surfing*, and after only </span><span style="font-size: large;">a short</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">time, Corey gets a call that his Grampa G has died and he has an inheritance to collect which is all the way in Yacama Washington. So the boys pack up their gear and decide to road trip to there instead. Shortly after heading in that direction they meet up with Matt's cousin Jesse, (Matt has a lot of cousins, and I mean a lot). Jesse is a smart, beautiful girl that has car troubles and is hit upon quickly by Bryan, and then joins the road trip after dismissing Bryan's come ons so that she can get back to university which is also in Washington. From there a lot of extreme sports happen, Corey bets Bryan that he can't get Jessie to do something he wants her to, (Bryan picks getting her to sing, cause she can't sing, which brings about a hysterical game of spoons) and they keep heading to their destinations where more surprises wait for them.</span></div></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Teens Would Like It - Ok, so here it is, the moment you have</span></div></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzEAShz-mzT8DnydeuH7ba6AS0ikNr4iCM7shJUhM7xGTBwMyxJA8ZMp8iHjqAW71tnnlGomBmOHR2DyoCeTuRJMVf9AeMpu219f-n6JfIXnoc86HGgw32VRhMqXQIuelhkng2lwIrDmv/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzEAShz-mzT8DnydeuH7ba6AS0ikNr4iCM7shJUhM7xGTBwMyxJA8ZMp8iHjqAW71tnnlGomBmOHR2DyoCeTuRJMVf9AeMpu219f-n6JfIXnoc86HGgw32VRhMqXQIuelhkng2lwIrDmv/" width="200px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> been waiting for, the reason teens will like this movie. It has guys </span><span style="font-size: large;">lighting farts on fire! Yep, that's it. Ok, that's not all, but man oh man do teens love watching farts explode into flame. Ok, the other reasons teens will like this movie is it is funny, has lots of cool sports highlights and everybody loves a good road trip. It's that simple, put together farts, sports and humor, and you got a movie that teens like.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Leaders Would Like It - Now as I said earlier, the main reason that leaders will like Extreme Days is that it is incredibly clean. Now, when I say clean I am not referring to the fact that it </span><span style="font-size: large;">is washed in soap, or that the disc has no scratches, no, what I mean</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the most skin you see in the whole movie!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table> <span style="font-size: large;">is</span><span style="font-size: large;"> that it is a teen movie that has lots of things that teens love, yet no swearing, or gratuitous violence and most of all, no sex. Yep, you heard me, it has no swearing, violence or sex, absolutely none, zip, zero, nada, (or any other word you can think of for nothing). It is a movie that you can show that won't get you in any trouble, (well, as long as your youth aren't stupid enough to try and light their farts on fire, so just incase make sure you tell them not to, cause you know someone will do it and say, "Well, you never said not to!") and what leader isn't always hyped for that, (unless of course you aim to misbehave, and then you may go looking for trouble anyway).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUrqAbkDWBKvC-7DcIuy7JcBjHYOtgOW55XyCiq0qIguuX2XAB00LHCoHL4s-mPerbfcJ0BTeq3thXnLD6anyO2I3f8eLv6HwKSuu8qgrdFReQ_rWah0MeJvWX97UEwOZd_KVUxtI6vZf/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="356px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggUrqAbkDWBKvC-7DcIuy7JcBjHYOtgOW55XyCiq0qIguuX2XAB00LHCoHL4s-mPerbfcJ0BTeq3thXnLD6anyO2I3f8eLv6HwKSuu8qgrdFReQ_rWah0MeJvWX97UEwOZd_KVUxtI6vZf/" width="400px" /></span></a></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Extreme Days isn't a movie that hits you over the head with God, in fact, most of the time it kinda just hangs out in the background. The two main areas it does surface is first and foremost in the soundtrack. Extreme Days boast a very good and very very very Christian soundtrack. It consists of 17 songs from such artists as POD, Skillet, Toby Mac and John Reuben, just to name a few, (if</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Riding in the Joyota.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> you have never heard of any of those bands, don't feel bad, you will probably like some of the music anyway). Throughout the movie they did a great job of matching music to scenes, getting the feel just right pretty much every time. Now saying that, this is not done in a way that makes the viewer really notice, especially if they don't already know the bands, (so basically, its not like every time a song comes up you think to yourself, "Yep, here comes another Christian song again"). So other then the music, the main God stuff comes up three quick little times. First in the form of Jesse mentioning that God is what</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have car trouble, and my dad was a jerk and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">left our </span><span style="font-size: small;">whole family, Thank God for God!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> helped her when her father left their family, when someone gave her a card that said, "God Understands". The second time is when Bryan and Will are discussing their sister dying and Bryan says, "the more you hope the more you get let down" and Will mentions that he is tired of Bryan blaming God for their sisters death, and that, "don't you think it hurt God to watch Amanda go through that". Lastly, Will does a voice over to finish the movie, mentioning that, "When God throws you a curve ball, don't duck, cause you never know what you might miss". So as I said, there is no bashing you over the head with God stuff or bible thumping, (just on a side note, bible thumping sucks in all forms, but I found this out in particular at a camp in my teens, when a leader mentioned not to bible thump people, and my friend, Mark, looked at me, then looked at his big freaking leather bound bible, then back at me, and then in one swift movement thumped me across the head with it. After my ears finished ringing, I looked at Mark and said, "What was that for?", to which he laughed and said, "Bible thumping!".**) yet it still manages to slip a few spiritual moments in amongst the sports and the flaming farts.***</span></div> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hey, does anybody know where to get our bags, anybody?</span> </td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">So, if you are looking for a movie that is funny, and extreme sports oriented, and has flaming farts with a little God stuff thrown in for good measure, then Extreme Days is the film for you. So pack up your Joyota****, and grab all the pickled eggs you can carry, and remember to brush you teeth with Coke-a-cola, and sit back and enjoy the movie, but, "for the love of donuts" don't let Jesse sing, cause the world doesn't need to hear another coyote caught in a trash compactor.***** Until next time extreme readers, stay safe, stay toasty, and stay away from the Turkish Sailor, cause they had a problem with their meat. Blog at you later.</span><br />
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<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*I should point out that Extreme Days is not a big budget movie, so you and your teens will easily notice that the 4 friends are not actually in any of the sports montages, even though they do their best to make you think they are, so when your superknowitall teen points that out you can say, "Yeah, I know, the super cool good looking blogger guy already told me that, now shut up and watch the movie."<br />
**After the first whack upside my head from Mark, you will be happy to know that I did some serious bible thumping myself, and it was after Mark and I had hit each other about 8 times that the leader finally saw us and asked what we were doing, to which we looked at each other for a second and then responded in unison, "BIBLE THUMPING!"<br />
***Flaming Farts, now there is the best piece of alliteration that I have ever written.<br />
**** Joyota, is a reconstructed jeep with a rebuilt Toyota engine, now you know.<br />
*****This is how Matt describes Jesse's singing, which is apparently the only thing she can't do.</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-76184394627993181442011-06-23T04:09:00.002-04:002011-06-24T15:42:07.715-04:00Well That Sucked! Movies That Let You Down.<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever been totally hyped for a movie to come out, cause you saw the trailer and it blew you away, or it is a live action feature film from a cartoon series that you love, or is a continuation or, a "prequel", (curse you Georgey for messing with perfection by placing stupid crap before it)? Well, for some of us this is a huge problem, (for my BFFF this happened with Hitchhickers Guide To The Galaxy, which let him down huge) and for one family that are friends of mine, it actually prompted a first for my blog, which is, I am giving someone else a chance to talk for once. So I am going to start it off by quickly listing a few movies that have been huge let downs for me, and then I am going to turn it over to my friend Michelle for the big kibosh at the end, (Any comments that are mine during that section I will have in green writing, so no one gets confused about who is saying what). So without further blathering, lets get on with the disappointment.</span> <br />
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</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So first up on my list is the abominations that are the 3 Star Wars prequels. I love Star Wars so much, (my very first tattoo was of the rebel symbol, and I was so ticked off by how much the prequels let me down that I got it covered up) and was so excited that they were</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is not my Star Wars universe!!!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> coming out that for a while I let any plot holes, bad acting and overall suckage just slide, cause I thought I was getting a Star Wars movie. Well, by the time the 3rd one came out, all that glimmer and shine had faded and all I could see was how bad the movies actually were, and man oh man, it felt like getting kicked in the gut. It ticked me off so much that I sold my copies of them and have been lucky enough to never have had to sit through one again.*</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next up is X-men Origins: Wolverine. Now, let me say that I don't think that this is a terrible movie. In fact, I think it is pretty good, well, at least for the first half anyway. The first half is really great actually, with some awesome clashes and some incredibly funny lines. Seeing Deadpool, (that is the character that Ryan Reynolds</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Why did they make it suck in the second half?<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why?!!!!!!!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> plays) on film finally was great, being the incredibly funny badass that he is, and you get to see Wolverine do his thing too, but then midway through, right after the whole taking down the helicopter, it just starts making less and less sense and sucking more and more. And then they top it all off by sealing the lips of the funniest guy in the movie? Really? What the heck were they thinking, and I am not even gonna start on the whole Adamantium bullet thing, cause I don't have the time or the patience for such stupidity. Needless to say, I was incredibly let down when it was all over as I walked out of the theater.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last two I will talk about before I hand it over to Michelle are The Score and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus . The Score is a movie that should have been awesome, it has Edward Norton, (who is the main redeeming thing in the movie) Robert De Niro and one of Marlon Brandos last performances, but sadly it is not that good a film. Also, the trailer for it made it seem like a much more complex a plot then it really was, and so I think that made for part of the problem. As for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus , the hype surrounding this movie was huge cause it was the last movie Heath Ledger made before his untimely passing, and it had a really good cast. Sadly though, it had an incredibly muddled plot, poor acting and was so boring that Bethany and I only got through half of it before turning it off. Both movies left me disappointed, and annoyed, but that is nothing compared to how the Russell family felt, and for more on that, here is Michelle. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the Russell Family, in all their awesomeness.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">My family, not unlike most other families, is usually super busy with lots of places to go. That's true almost every day of the week, except Saturday. On Saturday mornings we wake up when we want to, and then snooze until we get hungry for breakfast. The kids all jump into the parents' bed, and we watch Saturday morning cartoons (which aren't as good as they use to be), <span style="color: lime;"><em><strong>(I totally agree with Michelle on this point, Saturday morning cartoons used to rock hard, now they just show stuff that they already show the rest of the week, and have almost entirely given everything over to anime, not that anime is a bad thing, but it just shows a lack of creativity on the north american animation side)</strong></em></span>. A few years back, a new cartoon came on called "Avatar - The Last Airbender". We watched it and quickly got caught up in the story line.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3JQiV5xiVAJNWAlrcqBtE_9P1kW8hLtUP_zrEuwayB1DWKSY8jVJmwWTC9TeN7-2oQWPetNGF0IJ44juZaLdTNcg19ryq3NHhXQI5-8GfdV4razosczwJd5aO6UHi31ytYNc0IZowMx7/s1600/the-last-airbender-book-1-water-collectors-set-review.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3JQiV5xiVAJNWAlrcqBtE_9P1kW8hLtUP_zrEuwayB1DWKSY8jVJmwWTC9TeN7-2oQWPetNGF0IJ44juZaLdTNcg19ryq3NHhXQI5-8GfdV4razosczwJd5aO6UHi31ytYNc0IZowMx7/s640/the-last-airbender-book-1-water-collectors-set-review.jpg" width="640px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The core of the story is that - The long lost master of the elements has returned to the world. He awakens to find that the World is at war and "out of balance". The foundation of their world is that there are four main elements (represented in four tribes of people), one of the elements/tribes (FIRE) has become too powerful and is trying to dominate all the other elements/tribes, <span style="color: lime;"><em><strong>(why does fire always have to be the bad guys, for once it should be someone else, like the salad people, cause we all know that salad is evil**)</strong></em></span> . It turns out that the Master of all the elements (The Avatar) was just a kid when he was told of his overpowering responsibility to ensure the world stayed in balance, so he got scared. You see 100 years ago the boy thought it a really big responsibility to keep a whole world in balance, so he decided to take a vacation before starting his Avatar training. After running away, the stupid kid accidentally used his powers to suspend himself in time, and his short vacation has turned into a hundred year sleep, <span style="color: lime;"><em><strong>(I did this once, I think it was called high school)</strong></em></span>. He awakens to the fact that his race is now extinct, and he is - THE LAST AIRBENDER.</div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">That's a great starting point, but what really gets you involved in this cartoon is the characters. Aang is funny, innocent, and powerful, but by himself he can't carry the whole show. He needs a sensible and determined friend/love interest, to join him (named Katara). He also needs the brilliant and hilarious brother figure (named Sokka). Together these three provided my family with laughter and excitement on a sleepy Saturday morning. The three main characters traveled their world, meeting a huge cast of unique characters. The quest is to train the young Avatar for the day he must face the Fire-Lord (and bring peace back to the world). That's not all, the writers were awesome enough to also provide us with a full blown prodigal son character. Our main villain is embodied in the banished son of the Fire-Lord named Prince Zuko. The prince has with him (as he chases Aang) his wise and seemingly lazy Uncle Iroh who is just an older form of Sauka (Aangs' comic relief).</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">My family would not start our Saturday without first waiting to watch the next episode of this show. Everyone laughed, and at the end of the episode we would all talk about the events and what we think should happen next. Then we heard about the movie being made. We got so excited because our little Saturday morning ritual was going to be made into a full blown movie - with awesome special effects, and real fight scenes, and more Sokka jokes. It had the blessing of the outstanding co-creators, and of the studio (Nicolodian). It had an award winning director and some-what known actors. What it did not have was the writing staff of the original series or a good special effects team.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2zbhi2niV6IvpGtY4Px0xQvJ_5bchDKDIRfQEhAGz-9hZ-UOzoBgdEeBwzBVdpp7rythCBT4an66jljObvpIWWoiLAxPvyqqLXNIirqp5ypt6HwDODYmMZto8m5C4OWZxWIWOAlzawc_/s1600/Last-Airbender-poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2zbhi2niV6IvpGtY4Px0xQvJ_5bchDKDIRfQEhAGz-9hZ-UOzoBgdEeBwzBVdpp7rythCBT4an66jljObvpIWWoiLAxPvyqqLXNIirqp5ypt6HwDODYmMZto8m5C4OWZxWIWOAlzawc_/s640/Last-Airbender-poster.jpg" width="428px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The day my family went to see this film we were so excited. The movie was DISASTROUS. We couldn't figure out why none of the main characters resembled their original counter-parts. They even had different names! Who renames a main character? Should we rename Elizabeth Bennett, or Anne (with an e) Shirley, or Aragorn, or Harry Potter, or King Arthur? NO... No director or writer should ever mess with the name of the main character. But he did...</div><br />
We tried to get past the name thing but we were immediately presented with another major problem. Nobody was funny! Not one hint of a laugh throughout the whole movie. Zuko was super stiff and so was his uncle. Aang had very few lines (and he couldn't act so maybe that's why he wasn't allowed to speak), and Sauka had even less to say. Why is it that the three main characters don't have anything of real substance to say? Maybe because they didn't have time.<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The story line moved through the events of the television series as though it was a checklist of events that had to be done. Actually; they didn't get the checklist done either. They left out Souka's first love interest (the </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Kyoshi Warriors) and barly touched the fact the Katara wasn't allowed to practice her waterbendin (because of sexism). When the first real fight scene came, it was a real let down. In their world when people fight, they use their ability to bend the elements to do the fighting for them. Not in the movie. The acting was stiff and the special effects reminded me of the days of claymation. It was so obvious that there was no connection between the effect and the actor. My whole family groaned when it took seemingly forever for someone to "generate enough power to pick up some water". We continued to watch, hoping and willing the movie to get better, but it was all in vain. The climax scene near the end when GOOD TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL. In the cartoon it is an awesome display of the power of the spirit world, but in the movie it did not happen.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The season ending scene of the tv show begins with Aang surrendering himself to the WATER SPIRIT, to be used to avenge the death of his beloved MOON SPIRIT. Through Aang the Water spirit creates an overpowering water monster that single handily destroys the entire Fire Nation Navy. The people that bow down to him - live. The people that don't bow - get smashed. In the movie - that doesn't happen. The Water Spirit swims helplessly as the Moon Spirit is murdered. The fights take place between the people, and at the end when the Moon is brought back to life, Aang water-bends a big wave to gently push the Fire Navy ships away.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Could this movie been more disappointing? Recently I decided to watch it on DVD again, just in case I was too hard on it the first time. I must say that I got even more disappointed. It's because I was able to really appreciate the huge vacuum that was left. It was as though the characters we watched on Saturday mornings were not even there. Not their names, not their powers, not their humor, not their friends, not their anything. I</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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hates me right now cause<br />
I said I liked the movie.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> blame the co-creators (Michael DiMartino and and Bryan Konietzko) and Nickolodian for abandoning Aang and friends to the half-hearted whims of a one-hit wonder director, <span style="color: lime;"><em><strong>(this is where I hugely disagree with Michelle, M. Night is an incredible director that has some amazing and successful movies. The Sixth Sense made $661,500,000, Signs $407,900,000 and The Village $114,195,633 at the box office, and that is not including DVD sales, so one hit wonder he is not, also he made number 17 on my top 20 best movies of all time list, so just cause you hated this movie, don't hate the man)</strong></em></span>. If the original writers were used instead of "Shyama-bomb" ,<em><strong><span style="color: lime;">(</span><span style="color: lime;">ah ha ha, that is so creative of you Michelle, taking M. Nights name and putting Bomb in it, you should do this for a living)</span></strong></em> then maybe this movie might have had a fighting chance. After watching the film I felt compelled to immediately watch all the TV episodes on DVD to purge myself of the bad taste left in my soul. Needless to say my family is really hoping that Nickolodian does not give permission to Mr. Shyamalan to make the next two seasons into a movie. He just can't do them justice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLAaX1PziiOGzmUzobhitgRN34a1eG4EFFR6ZpbBkKPdPwcRdnwMDjmTLaxyiVmw8sJ_9FwfiNbu6Gs8-usSSmse1qcf-q-dENFEmcX660ITsvrJ14zrbLRQjATAw3-3K17m21yLOE_b4O/s1600/206797_10150227627970350_618015349_9191518_1068204_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLAaX1PziiOGzmUzobhitgRN34a1eG4EFFR6ZpbBkKPdPwcRdnwMDjmTLaxyiVmw8sJ_9FwfiNbu6Gs8-usSSmse1qcf-q-dENFEmcX660ITsvrJ14zrbLRQjATAw3-3K17m21yLOE_b4O/s320/206797_10150227627970350_618015349_9191518_1068204_n.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Michelle Russell</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it, movies that were a huge disappointment to me and my friends. Let me know some of the movies that you felt like this about, cause it is my experience that it varies from person to person. Until next time, stay classy true believers, and always eat your breakfast with a spoon, no matter what it is. Blog at you later. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*I introduced my daughters to Star Wars last year, and they now tell their friends on the play ground that start talking about clone wars and prequel nonsense that, "Those aren't real Star Wars movie!", and oh does it make me so proud.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">**My oldest daughter Marajade would disagree with me on this point, cause she loves Salad, but I stand by my statement, it is evil.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-40154155204244258462011-06-18T01:42:00.063-04:002011-07-18T18:00:21.106-04:00There Can Be Only One - Who's The Best Bond<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><span style="font-size: large;">So this weeks question is easy, who was the best James Bond? You have 4 Bonds to choose from, I am not including anyone that has not been in at least 2 movies as the British super spy, oh, also you can't have the name Daniel or Craig, so sorry Daniel Craig, you're not allowed to play and vote for yourself, (ha, you think I didn't know that you read my blog, did you Daniel, well the jig is up bub, and I got my virtual eye on you, and let me tell you, your next Bond effort better be a whole lot better then that last piece of mediocre tripe you put out, your first film was great, do more like that). So let me know, who is the best Bond, and I will crown a winner in two weeks time, so make sure your vote counts, (cause I don't want to hear any whining and complaining if Dalton wins and you think otherwise, it's all on you).</span></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAwhBMUn2umrHWbIaofS2AmCiAahFuldODSB5SIiLiwJrIkhc1D1RXlH-FTeBseY5i1mnpxMDKaNu9EGBYUB9elknfMRTAfbC6OaLu0VVrldSuZTs6S5VLjZNziCIuH_0Ayab97F_JAQco/" width="440px" /></img></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sean Connery</span></b></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoZzC9Wgkjj8O8ahQj3d4QEj16CeQAqb7YKziaN4iMYjsmXc7ehO4ZBpGE_CH9qU9M8uKcSDB1hMBoMGeKDaIemLjkcCVLjGX4i0WaknSUUfyZ_F7u1ICY0ND7_-6BddmCr22Qe6wgImz/" width="322px" /></img></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><span style="font-size: large;">So first up is the original James Bond, Sean Connery, and because he was the first James Bond, quite often he is considered the best. This is mainly due to the fact that every Bond after him was always compared to him in some way or another. Starting the franchise off with the movies, "Dr. No", "From Russia With Love", and "Goldfinger", he set the ball rolling for a character that has lasted almost 50 years, and is still going. Basically, he set the tone for all that was to follow, and although this might or might not make him the best, it certainly adds some credibility to the argument. Plus, in case you I forgot to mention it, he is Sean "Frickin" Connery, and you basically don't get any cooler then that.</span></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Roger Moore</span></b></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPcJuKdYGUcR2zg6dOWbBfvrghFqKoLjnOPIG6JJnf7xqc7jd7ebxIjX5LC0MmMCAsB6ObjNJHihFUvIISH4pxE34MLPz3HFPeuaeF-a-yK3vh27eFXTYizCTpz10v3nRsMyGhVqpTAlc/" width="321px" /></img></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><span style="font-size: large;">The second man to drink from the shaken not stirred martini glass was English actor Roger Moore. He took Bond as more of a light hearted jester killing machine kinda spy and is responsible for, "Octopussy", "For Your Eyes Only", "A View to a Kill" and 4 more other films. Moore was the Bond I grew up with as a kid, so I have lots of fond memories of him, particularly when he used the front skid from a snowmobile to snowboard down a mountain, man I wanted to do that, and I would have, if only I would have had a front skid from a snowmobile, a mountain and super spy skills, all of which I was lacking at that age, (still missing the mountain and skid, but I got mad spy skills now that I am adult. In fact, I am so sneaky that I have snuck into your room while your reading this and am standing behind you*).</span></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Timothy Dalton<b></b><b></b></span></b></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg76AGzQKnWcJzQQfGU2XdW2i4QyuTxbnQ8LHSgPZPZjC_b_gtWbTM3Y8fC46UotUFBkFI-Y59ZWYfprtg5MNDLgfeUWvmARuhuPuyUte49sbdpQD7njca9du8bgkjcd8NNHrqbcBjU5Z0t/" /></img></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><span style="font-size: large;">The 3rd man to have a license to kill is Timothy Dalton, (Ha ha, you see what I did there, Timothy Dalton stared in a movie called Licenced to Kill, and mentioned that he had a licence to kill, this is gold I am giving you people, pure GOLD**). Now I have always kinda liked Dalton, cause he was Bond during my teen years and he is Welsh, and my Dad is from Wales, so I kinda had a whole heritage pride thing going on, now unlike the earlier Bonds, Timothy Dalton only made 2 movies, "The Living Daylights" and "Licence To Kill" but even in such a limited run, there are still people today who think he is the best. So vote for him, and as they say in Wales, "llannddrunllemhanrr tam thellwodd"***</span></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_text_section"><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pierce Bronson </span></b></div><div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-a537ZSdIexheajcuPvW-JFYt7yXEzv3g9qngB6SSvyw8XvIYT7I0ksVCexUNbULouK1kZHCPZJB71lF-io2Blt4j9MnMS74gHsKfOau24cBPFtCLchQc12hwEUuBQdAsDDmdKmsa5ux/" /></img></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fourth and last on the list is Pierce Bronson, who is someone that fans had clamored for years to don the mantel of the double o's. Bronson did a great job filling the shoes of Bond, bringing a bit of a different take on the spy, but also hearkening back to Connery more then anyone else. He started with one of my favorite Bond movies "Goldeneye",which later became one of the best Nintendo games ever, (which was also called, "Goldeneye" in case you were not around to play it, or are not very smart, both of which would be sad) And then he followed that up with, "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "The World Is Not Enough". All in all Bronson did 4 films with decent success before handing over the reigns to the current Bond, but was he the best 007? That is up to you guys.</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it, the four Bonds in the running. You have 2 weeks to get your answers in, and then I will throw in my two cents and will crown a winner. So who is it, who do you think reigns 007 supreme. Until next time, remember, be shaken, but not stirred, and blog at you later. Now Moneypenny, wear did I leave my gun?</span></div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Ha ha, made you look, actually I am hiding in your closet, but the door is stuck and I really have to go to the bathroom, so could you please let me out, PLEASE!<br />
** Not of the Finger variety mind you, but Gold none the less.</div><div align="left" class="bloggerplus_text_section" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*** This is not actually Welsh, but it could be, they use lots of double letters. Now if it was actual Welsh, it would say, "A vote for Dalton is probably a waste of a vote, but thanks none the less"</div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-22971432108962162322011-06-14T16:21:00.003-04:002011-07-18T18:00:44.169-04:0030 Days Of Dinosaurs Or Darkness<span style="font-size: large;">For this installment of Q.O.T.W. I am giving you a whole month long vacation away from the normal drudgery of life, and giving you 30 days in two incredibly different locals with two very different types of wild life. <span style="font-size: large;">(ok, now before anyone makes the stupid comment, "I wouldn't pick either one", lets just assume that some super secret government agency has kidnapped you and is giving you these as your only options, cause they are big government jerks, so you have to pick, ok, great, moving on). </span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOBsbuJPcJjzEIOCvjuJt3XevVQauLHnbxj_jcNrs65BxuJ1zC0iNLIUYqJsiyzs291wS-z94pzerSRnssoUeZ_mcVGZiMiXncK6b_wKACdJeet4khv5XfX17uO5h1x-yqAKYsfzZTk1u/s1600/zavd.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOBsbuJPcJjzEIOCvjuJt3XevVQauLHnbxj_jcNrs65BxuJ1zC0iNLIUYqJsiyzs291wS-z94pzerSRnssoUeZ_mcVGZiMiXncK6b_wKACdJeet4khv5XfX17uO5h1x-yqAKYsfzZTk1u/s640/zavd.gif" t8="true" width="640px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So first up is the beautiful tropical island of Isla Nublar, or as most of you probably know it better, Jurassic Park.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bim7RtKXv90?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;">So you all know the story, "God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Come for the sights, stay for the meal.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man, Woman inherits the earth."* well I don't know about that last part, but that is the main story of Jurassic Park. So you would be on the island, for 30 days, with the dinosaurs set loose and hope to do your best to survive the flesh tearing, claw ripping dinosaur roaring inhabitants. </span></div><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">You could spend your 30 days in the isolated yet stunningly</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then he said, "No, I already gave<br />
at the office". Can you believe the <br />
nerve of some people.</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">beautiful Barrow, Alaska, where for 30 days a year the town goes </span><span style="font-size: large;">completely dark, its kinda like the sun takes a vacation. Now that sounds kinda bad, but you still get to be in a town, and that is good, so there are buildings and a store, but wait, I forgot, there is something else that is also in the town, and that is Vampires, which have made the trip specially to Barrow for the 30 Days Of Night.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/c5Q3PdT6GFQ?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> <br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the choice comes down to this, would you rather spend 30 days with dinosaurs that are trying to kill you on a hot island, or </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah, I'm shocked I have a career too!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">30 </span><span style="font-size: large;">days</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in wintry Alaska where Vampires are searching house to house, looking to eat you with smiles on their faces and a glimmer on the fangs. As always, post your answer and we will see what is scarier, Dinos or Vamps. So until next time, stay away from vampires and </span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pick Me!<br />
Pick Me!</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">dinosaurs, and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> remember, stay </span><span style="font-size: large;">away from vampires and dinosaur, yeah, I said it twice,</span></div><span style="font-size: large;">but you can never really get enough of such sound advice as that, and that's what I am all about. Blog at you later.</span> <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*This is a quote from Jurassic Park, in case you were wondering, which I know you were.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-34193687238727015622011-06-04T02:57:00.001-04:002011-06-06T19:16:41.965-04:00Faiths Double Edged Razor: A Theological Movie Review Of Contact<em>So I have been super busy in the last couple of weeks, with my BFFF's wedding. (I was the best man, cause I'm awesome) modifying my DVD towers and buying and trying to not fall off a unicycle, yeah, you heard me, a unicycle, so although most of this post was put together 3 weeks ago, it has taken until now to actually get it published. Sorry about that, I know how much your lives all revolve around my musings, so I will make sure to keep them coming for the next while at a steady pace. Now with that out of the way, onto the post.</em> <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">It takes just as much faith to believe that there is no God as it does to believe that there is. Faith is a tricky thing, cause you can't always be 100% sure about what you believe. I actually think that God made it this way on purpose. You see, if everyone had unshakable irrefutable undeniable proof, that God is exactly who He says He is, (like in every gene that was spliced the words, ‘God Made This’ popped up, or God showed up on every TV, Internet and radio channel all across the world at the same time, and blew people away with his awesomeness, such much so that no one could be stupid enough to argue) then there would be no real choice on our side, we all would just believe and accept, but it would not be called faith. For example, no one doubts that people need oxygen to breath and continue living, not one person on the planet debates this, (and if they tried to without the use of oxygen it would be a pretty quick debate anyway) it doesn't take any faith to take in a breath of air and know that it is real. So instead of God removing all doubt from everyone, thus leaving us nothing to contribute, He gives us a bunch of proofs for those who want to look for them, (in nature, science, morality and the all important slices of toast which seem to have Jesus' face show up in them often) and allows us to say, "Ok, I believe!". Now, where I am going with all this is that in the movie Contact, this argument is brought forth in a really interesting way, looking at science, belief and faith and how they all actually share a lot more in common then we often think they do. So, with that, onto the movie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQfD5uad1BQflHj2C9AZC4v5U-Ww3OPhGwkQjGvz3lTutl0Y-RDmiomZsWJ3r7M5xiwduCJPhs6fIiwg6Z5h800d7EqwoILqj-IeiQM7-auC8lgOzCa1JVZqFVMjcmsKfBvLFJoRQYWRN/s1600/190178_1020_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVQfD5uad1BQflHj2C9AZC4v5U-Ww3OPhGwkQjGvz3lTutl0Y-RDmiomZsWJ3r7M5xiwduCJPhs6fIiwg6Z5h800d7EqwoILqj-IeiQM7-auC8lgOzCa1JVZqFVMjcmsKfBvLFJoRQYWRN/s640/190178_1020_A.jpg" t8="true" width="425px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Plot: That is the story for those who don't know.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you might expect, the main plot point of Contact is about making contact, and in this case it is referring to aliens making contact with us. Now the driving force behind this discovery and the main character of the story is Dr. Ellie Arroway played by Jodi</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Getting strong psychic vibrations here, I am seeing, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I am seeing.... aww crap, I lost it.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Foster. She has been fascinated by radios and looking for extraterrestrial life since she was a child and carries this through to her career as a scientist, (they never really say what her official title is, so scientist it is) where she excels but turns down teaching positions to join SETI, which stands for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (I cut and pasted this from Wiki so as to not get it wrong, aren't I smrt, I mean smart, yeah, definitely the second one), which most people in her field view as a waste of time and career suicide, (but she kinda had to do it, cause A: she passionately believes that there is life on planets, and B: if she didn't we wouldn't really have any kind of movie to watch now would we) So she goes to the Arecilbo Observatory in Puerto Rico where she is given time on a nice big radio to track for, "little </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you mean I only take<br />
my shirt off once, but I'm<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em>Matthew McConaughey</em></strong></span>,<br />
Don't they know that!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">green men". It is here she</span> <span style="font-size: large;">meets a good looking "man of the cloth without a cloth" which means he was going to be a priest, but liked women, so he gave it up. Well "Not Quite Priest Guy", (played by Matthew McConaughey who for the first time ever only takes his shirt off once in a movie, this could be a sign of the apocalypse) and Ellie hit it off and although they both disagree about God and faith, quickly fall into bed together. Just as soon as this happens Ellie is kicked off of her ultra cool telescope and she bands together with her coworkers to try and find funding to continue listening for little</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pick Me Jodie Foster, Pick Me!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> green men in New Mexico. It is at this point she is given money by a super smart reclusive gazillionaire and the listening and searching continues. Cut to 4 years later and baddaboombaddabing all of a sudden a signal starts coming through and the entire world goes nuts, (well, that is the quick way of saying that the government jumps in,) so they get a signal, and sooner or later find a design for a machine in the signal and then it all becomes incredibly political with governments and committees deciding who is the person to go into the machine and represent the earth to who ever it was that sent the message. This is where "Not Quite Priest Guy" comes back into the picture, now as the Presidents spiritual adviser and famous pop culture writer, and Ellie and him start up their relationship again, well, kinda. From there, after a bunch of mishaps and problems, (you know, like people dying from massive explosions cause no one bothered to check the credentials of an incredibly easy to spot religious nut who was carrying a bomb, sure, like that would happen) and Ellie gets to go into the machine and has an experience that will change her life forever.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ohhhh, The Claw, I mean, Ohhhh, The Machine</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-large;">Main Theme: Belief in the unseen.</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a theme that the whole movie pretty much depends upon, but funnily enough, I think many people miss the fact that Ellie's unwavering faith that there is life in the universe other then humanity, is completely unsupported by any actual fact. She believes so much that we are not alone, that she devotes her life to trying to prove it, yet, she can not understand how people can believe in God, (we will talk more about that later). The belief that whether there is proof or not that something "is" true pops up constantly in Contact, in the science talk but also in the faith talk as well. This climaxes in the end when all the same arguments that</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Ellie used for God not existing earlier are then applied to her when she makes first person contact with aliens and has no proof for it. Believing in something that is unseen is essential for this story, as it is for people in the real world, (not the TV show from the late 90's, I actually mean the real world were we all live) and whether or not you doubt there is a God or not, we all have a belief in things we can not see, and often can not fully understand. For most of us, it all comes down to one of the two following five letter words, "Proof" or "Faith". That is what Contact is really about, the question of can you believe if you have no proof, especially if what you have instead of proof is a very deep personal experience. In the end, it leaves the answer up to the viewer, but it does do a great job in asking the question.</span></div> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Would you guys tell Jodie Foster to stop bothering me, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Just because I am green and little does not mean I am an alien.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I am not an alien, I am a monster being, thank you very much!</span></td></tr>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Theological discussion points</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will be really honest, I am finding this post incredibly hard to write right now, (this was three weeks ago remember) not sure why, so I am just going to give you some bullet points, and you can catch the bullets and do what you want with them*. Sound good? Yeah, ok, so let’s go.</span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">• Scientific faith, in such things like black holes, and light travel seems very acceptable, but God is impossible?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">• Why does a man who is considered to have the spiritual pulse of America defend the faith so poorly?</span></div><span style="font-size: large;">• If Occam's Razor state"the easiest answer is most likely"****, why do they never bring up the fact that millions of years of chance with no direction what so ever is a lot harder to believe in and less likely then believing that a super powerful God made it?</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">• Is proof really necessary for belief?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">• How many times does it take a wood chuck to eat pasta? What? Wood chucks don't eat wood, but they gotta eat something, don't they?</span></div> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know who this guy is but amen to that.</span></td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, in closing, faith is necessary for, well, pretty much everything, and that’s all I got. Stay healthy imaginary webbers everywhere, and blog at you later.</span></div><br />
*Word of caution, bullet catching is very dangerous, for cinematic proof check out Christopher Nolans brilliant film, The Prestige, where Christian Bales character loses a finger, and so does his brother. It must be hard being brothers.**<br />
**I just did two thing there, I made a Forest Gump reference, and I just spoiled a part of The Prestige for anyone who hasn't seen it, well at least I didn't mention the cloning thing, cause then I would just be a jerk.***<br />
***Doh!<br />
****I actually found out that Contact was not really using Occam's Razor properly, and it actually flat out misquotes it, so for anyone who is interested, it actually states, "<strong>one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything",</strong> so Hollywood got it wrong, shocking!<br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-81029901156142660602011-05-14T12:23:00.002-04:002011-07-18T18:01:08.956-04:00Superpowers Extravaganza<span style="font-size: large;">So, (man, I always seem to start these things with So, or, well, ok all I can think of is So right now, but I am sure I only have one or two phrases that I begin with) here is this weeks chance for you to </span><span style="font-size: large;">contribute to Internetland*. Now over the years, arguments have gone back and forth over whose super powers you would rather have, and I thought I would give you all one to think about. But instead of going with a traditional superhero like Superman, Spiderman, and Howard The Duck, (well, ok, maybe not Spiderman), I decided to go with two guys with powers that could be superheros if they wanted to be.</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dude. why do I suck so much?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Oh yeah, I forgot, Spiderman 3!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">First up, do you often find yourself just wanting to get away, but can't afford it or don't have the time? Well then, have I got a super power for you. How would you like the ability to transport yourself in the blink of an eye to pretty much anywhere you want on earth. You think it, and bam, you are there. Well, then, Jumper is your movie. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/Ue_jQY8eTwk/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ue_jQY8eTwk&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ue_jQY8eTwk&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">But what if travel is not your thing, but you worry about the future a lot. Being able to jump anywhere is good and all, but if you jump into a place where you would be killed, well that is not gonna be all that helpful. So, instead of Jumping, how would you like to know the future instead, well then, Next is your ticket to ride**.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/vb9_BHZ2VXM/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vb9_BHZ2VXM&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vb9_BHZ2VXM&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So those are the choices you have, would you like to pop all around the world, or see what is coming at you a mile away. Let me know what you would pick, and why, and the first person to respond gets their name mentioned in next weeks question, like last weeks winner, my buddy Conal, some of you may </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Super Powers are for wussies!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I'm BATMAN!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">r</span><span style="font-size: large;">emember that Conal is</span><span style="font-size: large;"> my friend who has a very sincere devotion to screamo music, rugby and most of all, my beard***, and he was the first to pick Tony Jaa </span><span style="font-size: large;">to beat Jet Li, so thus I am talking about him right now. So get your answer in pronto, you know you want to, and until next time, stay super powered, like my friend Sunshine, who has smile power, or my buddy Cracker, who has freaky musical powers, or possibly my sister Shanon, who has the power to never be able to get to the punch line of a joke, well, I guess that is not really a super power, its not like she is a super ant, or possibly a wonder bunny****, anyway, safe choosing, and blog at you later.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Internetland sounds like a great place to be, doesn't it. I can just see the adds, </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPa4WSCMknz9_OeVvaewUn4EwFlpPRm87wIjFZitiR8SSHQTqs-asTXJ3hKVYh49rryqdHqjH2n4ErJleF7iMCwmqKd0AM6ngP5H13HSACt826cZqIOYF6VEhgMjQLs-H2ss0f8xxhX7JY/s1600/Internetland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPa4WSCMknz9_OeVvaewUn4EwFlpPRm87wIjFZitiR8SSHQTqs-asTXJ3hKVYh49rryqdHqjH2n4ErJleF7iMCwmqKd0AM6ngP5H13HSACt826cZqIOYF6VEhgMjQLs-H2ss0f8xxhX7JY/s640/Internetland.jpg" width="487px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">and it sounds a little bit safer than Zombieland, but just a little bit, cause have you seen some of the stuff out there in Internetland, heck, zombies might even run away from some of it, so be careful out there.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">**Coo Coo Ca Choo <br />
***I have been getting a whole lot of compliments on my beard lately, because it is getting so long. Pity I am going to have to trim it down for my BFFF's***** wedding, I'm the best man so I kinda don't have too much choice.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">****Super Ant and Wonder Bunny is a book that my sister made when she was a kid, and I love to bring it up to bug her. Love ya lil' sis.</div>*****Pineapple Express reference, if you have seen the movie then you know what it means.<br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16336236639035715276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-646137721441664586.post-32129621801689868432011-05-07T17:41:00.003-04:002011-05-07T22:26:28.794-04:00What's That Ripping Sound? Oh, That's Just Hollywood!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Someone asked me a while ago, "Why do you like movies so much?" and to tell the truth, I didn't have a really good answer, I just do. And here's the thing, I don't just like one particular type of film, I pretty much like all of them. From action to drama, comedy to, well, not comedy, (I am having a little trouble thinking of anything else right now, but I am sure there are lots of categories) heck, I will even watch a well done chick flick from time to time. I mention this because out of all the films I watch, I also watch a fair number of movies made from countries other than Canada* and America, and they sometimes have subtitles cause they are not in English. So, right about now you are saying to yourself, what is your point you super handsome blogger genius you, (I know, its scary that I just read your mind like that, its a gift, sometimes a curse, but mostly a gift) well, one of my big pet peeves is when Hollywood takes a perfectly good film, and remakes it in English with American actors. You would be surprised at how often this </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm here for the killer sandwich audition!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">happens, in the</span> <span style="font-size: large;">last 10 years alone there have been a bunch of horror movies such as Pulse, Quarantine, The Grudge, The Ring, The Eye, and The Sandwich, (ok, I made up that last one, but I would totally love to see a movie about a killer B.L.T. that is trying to take over the world) you also have other genres, like Romance, (The Lake House) Action, (Bangkok Dangerous) and Comedy (Dinner For Schmucks) that were all based on movies from other countries. Now I am not saying that remaking foreign films is totally a bad thing, sometimes it gives us</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtF0BaSytUwHn5dDNFw3xXIngAONI9vyU9vy_FF_uBM1HS7xDwW94OHdMsyUlmwvjSn4ztgoTPQMhyphenhyphenl-O0eA5XBsX_kWrdYl6yma1Rmu6RsfWK7VpHOKUo8_F48Mp6b3lBXsD_z_KjXyZd/s1600/TheMagnificentSeven11960_5161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtF0BaSytUwHn5dDNFw3xXIngAONI9vyU9vy_FF_uBM1HS7xDwW94OHdMsyUlmwvjSn4ztgoTPQMhyphenhyphenl-O0eA5XBsX_kWrdYl6yma1Rmu6RsfWK7VpHOKUo8_F48Mp6b3lBXsD_z_KjXyZd/s200/TheMagnificentSeven11960_5161.jpg" width="138px" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjbv_YY17MTo_t0EoQtjISF4iJZTOnume93BwZWAlTBjMWUCgEHPjED23OBAyFOlMxC5EaHwb7IU2weGr463edDfa3htXu10BDsPkaZKXm1nQuRKHhYpbJFH87T5s9gXm6_qttgKpYhyR/s1600/Seven_Samurai_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjbv_YY17MTo_t0EoQtjISF4iJZTOnume93BwZWAlTBjMWUCgEHPjED23OBAyFOlMxC5EaHwb7IU2weGr463edDfa3htXu10BDsPkaZKXm1nQuRKHhYpbJFH87T5s9gXm6_qttgKpYhyR/s200/Seven_Samurai_poster.jpg" width="159px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> great movies, like Clint Eastwood's "A Fistful Of Dollars" and Yul Brynner's "The Magnificent Seven" which are based on Akira Kurasawa's Japanese masterpieces </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Yojimbo" and </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Seven Samurai" . But, there are some films that are excellent all on their own, and really, the only reason Hollywood has to remake them is that its an easy cash grab and they have a total lack of originality. It is with this thought that I give you three movies that should have been left alone, no matter what critics may say.</span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let The Right One In</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhng0XUwXNkXtYydNLck8M4x8S0BNXTxIU1tQ6n73OiAdxZtun3Vi18YBfEaaSnlNFpA46vJQIX4ga2wBJV34ahoSFpHvJX2IM5dAe0CYPegQBq2920TqkO0XHUGXcdml-u5Jrk8obDDy92/s1600/lettherightonein-US-poster-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhng0XUwXNkXtYydNLck8M4x8S0BNXTxIU1tQ6n73OiAdxZtun3Vi18YBfEaaSnlNFpA46vJQIX4ga2wBJV34ahoSFpHvJX2IM5dAe0CYPegQBq2920TqkO0XHUGXcdml-u5Jrk8obDDy92/s640/lettherightonein-US-poster-full.jpg" width="428px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">First up on the list, and the main reason I wanted to do this rant, is a terrific movie made in Norway called Let The Right One In, here is the trailer for you to check it out.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ckdZpYVn38?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-size: large;">Beth** and I watched this movie sometime last year, (I could actually give the date and everything, if I wasn't so lazy. What, my bag with my book in it that has all my movie watching info is all the way down the hall, and I am way too lazy to go get it, so just take my word that we watched it, Ok) and when we finished it and deleted it off our PVR, (man do I love deleting things off of the PVR, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment, that I watched that, and now, I can delete it to save space for more movies to be recorded, aren't I awesome, yes I am) the first thing we both thought about was, "Hey, that was a really good movie, I sure hope Hollywood doesn't remake it, cause it is so good the way it already is."*** Cut to sometime in September of 2010, and I started hearing about this awesome movie called, Let Me In, so I decided to check out the trailer for it online, (I have a confession to make. I am addicted to watching movie trailers, I love going on Apple Trailers and Flickster and seeing what new ones they have up. The only downside to this is that I am rarely ever in a movie theater and get to see a trailer for a movie that I have not already seen. So when a trailer starts I usually turn to Beth** and tell her what movie it is for way before the title comes up, but she still loves me, so its all good) and after 10 seconds my blood started boil****, watch the trailer and you will probably see why.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/BA_USu7C2ZQ/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BA_USu7C2ZQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BA_USu7C2ZQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep, freakin Hollywood did exactly what I told them not to, (frickin Nazis......, sorry, I mean, frickin Hollywood people). Now, whether or not Let Me In is a good movie or not, I will not say, although it probably is, cause look at the source material, but I can only probably say that, cause I will not be watching it. If I ever get the urge to watch a small female vampire stand up for a kid that is being bullied at school, I already know where to go to see that, so take that Hollywood, and big ups to Norway.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Infernal Affairs</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKtQo45MeXcrpJAEG5pEYdswOQiF2fYu2VK8faEv3gC8NX9vHChVukCG7WAXsLBlo5Ah9rdKlZ0AiMQhfNFXa8bUhQ_KMUNSj3iUp4pfXQzbmcJXUQgYdD6_tqPtC6kK6Vj9bT2ncs5yAt/s1600/infernal_affairs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKtQo45MeXcrpJAEG5pEYdswOQiF2fYu2VK8faEv3gC8NX9vHChVukCG7WAXsLBlo5Ah9rdKlZ0AiMQhfNFXa8bUhQ_KMUNSj3iUp4pfXQzbmcJXUQgYdD6_tqPtC6kK6Vj9bT2ncs5yAt/s640/infernal_affairs.jpg" width="428px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Infernal Affairs is a movie that I took out from the library, (big shout out to the Pickering Library here, you guys rock, sorry for the late fees) and watched one night while I was at work. I popped the DVD into the player, sat back, and within 10 minutes felt completely ticked off. Now I wasn't ticked off cause Infernal Affairs was a bad movie, or cause it had terrible acting, or even cause it was a double sided DVD and was full of scratches. No, I was ticked cause I had watched this movie before, only it had big name </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioK_xReWrpZaGCm3qNgMx-X2QtcTx1CSI3-6KMMcCKFF9_diI2b4VwQMCp1x12RvsegyDp8EwdqhTY1XPeg5aN2_tv477LSzW-bRU4J7-OyL6Jl-8ATpxBxJT_8rOGbeEnzHsE7p7gonFl/s1600/imagesCA36HO1S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioK_xReWrpZaGCm3qNgMx-X2QtcTx1CSI3-6KMMcCKFF9_diI2b4VwQMCp1x12RvsegyDp8EwdqhTY1XPeg5aN2_tv477LSzW-bRU4J7-OyL6Jl-8ATpxBxJT_8rOGbeEnzHsE7p7gonFl/s320/imagesCA36HO1S.jpg" width="216px" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">American</span><span style="font-size: large;"> actors in it, was directed from a hugely famous American director, and was nominated for 5 Oscars, winning 4, including best director and best picture of the year. The movie I am talking about is The Departed. Yep, the Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon*****, Jack </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, highly praised, Oscar winning, juggernaut of a movie is a total ripoff. Now here is the thing, The Departed came out when I was living in Winnipeg for a short time, (DON'T ASK) and there was a guy who lived in the same building as us that actually owned more DVD's then me, (which is kinda impressive, back then I was probably at around 450 or so, and he seemed to love movies as </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then I said to her, "Yeah, but my ego is this big!"</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">much as I did, although some of the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> movies that h</span><span style="font-size: large;">e thought were great I think are down right terrible, War Of The Worlds with Tom Cruise, I am looking at you here) and this guy, we will call him Mark, (cause that was his name) told me that The Departed was the greatest movie of all time. So when I finally got to see it, I was expecting to be blown away, and.......I wasn't. I am not saying that The Departed is a bad film, in fact, I think it is a pretty good one, but to have it win the Oscar and Martin Scorsese win best director, (I personally think that he only got it that year cause the academy realized that they had yet to give him one, so that was as good a time as any. Heck, he won over Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, which is a</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">He should have won for this.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"> much better and more original movie, and he only gave Infernal Affairs a two second nod, mentioning the directors but not the films actual name) for a movie that was laid out for him to copy, even using about 85 to 90 percent of the shots, he won an Oscar for that?</span><span style="font-size: large;">That was just WRONG, (I am not saying Martin Scorsese is a bad director in any sense, I think he has made many incredible films, like Gangs Of New York, Casino, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, but to give him the Oscar for The Departed is a bit of a sham) In case you don't believe me, here are the trailers for both, starting with The Departed and then Infernal Affairs, you decide for yourself, but as for me, I like the original more, although seeing all the big names in the remake is cool none the less.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/SGWvwjZ0eDc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Death At A Funeral</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDih5G7U0kM_sesj-S05wtsjMMOUqbqHrpe6otPVi977OzNr3PHn1mFd5BAPsm59rWe2E5ajgH6EVkBlu9PPJUTG6dotByRbM7bWdVcqCyEZg3qfaxyPlMqJerXlQrCxyNOBowgG-vF3S/s1600/death_at_a_funeral_ver4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDih5G7U0kM_sesj-S05wtsjMMOUqbqHrpe6otPVi977OzNr3PHn1mFd5BAPsm59rWe2E5ajgH6EVkBlu9PPJUTG6dotByRbM7bWdVcqCyEZg3qfaxyPlMqJerXlQrCxyNOBowgG-vF3S/s640/death_at_a_funeral_ver4.jpg" width="440px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, last on the list is a brilliantly funny British film directed by Yoda no less, (that's Frank Oz for all of you who don't know). Death At A Funeral is the story of a dysfunctional family that has to come together for a Fathers funeral, with the sons, mother, cousins, in-laws, in-laws to be hopefully and one little person, </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bust A Cap In Chris Rock I Will!</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">all </span><span style="font-size: large;">bringing</span><span style="font-size: large;"> their problems with them, and hilarity ensues. It was really funny, and when we finished watching it I never really thought that </span><span style="font-size: large;">anybody would try and remake it, but I guess Chris Rock saw it and thought, this movie would make a lot of money and be really simple to make if we just replaced all the actors that were English with funny Black actors instead, well, everyone except the little person, they kept him. As with Let Me In, I have watched the original, so I have no interest in seeing the remake, plus Alan Tudyk gave one of the funniest performances ever in the original, so watching the remake would just tick me off. You can decide for yourself what you want to do, but no matter what I don't want to hear anybody talk about how creative Chris Rock is, cause in this case, he is not.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/neCY4hh1wJg?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">So that is my rant, sure, you might have never seen these stories if they were not remade, but for us that have watched the originals and thought they were great, to see them so blatantly ripped off, is well, it is *$##$%$#%****** annoying. So, remember, stay original, and off drugs, yeah, drugs are bad, unless perscribed by your doctor, and even then, they might find out later that the drug they gave you for headaches might make you grow an extra toe, on your forehead, so sometimes those drugs suck too, now what was I saying? Oh yeah, stay classy true believers, and rant at you later.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*Believe it or not there are a bunch of movies made in Canada, some you would probably never even know about, such as X-Men and The Incredible Hulk were filmed in and around Toronto, and we even have movies that are totally Canadian, check out Foolproof starring Ryan Reynolds for a good example of this. And now you know, and knowing is half the battle. YO JOE!!!!!</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">**Beth is my unbelievably super beautiful wife, in case you were wondering.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">***I am sure that was not the exact words, but it was something like that, I probably said, lets go get Dairy Queen somewhere in there too, but I figured I would leave that part out of the main body of the post, aww, now I want Dairy Queen, stupid subliminal advertising. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">****Just a figure of speech ladies and gentlemen, my blood usually stays at the same temperature as everybody else's, but it does have an unusually high acidity level, so lets just say if we were in a space ship, you probably don't want to cut me, what, I'm just sayin*******.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">*****</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/e5MkyS6vQcc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>******I wasn't actually swearing here, I just pushed a bunch of random keys, so if you put any swear words in there, well, that's all on you.<br />
*******I'm Just Sayin is my youngest daughter Zions excuse for saying anything she wants, she will tell me I am fat, or that her grandma is old, and when she is told off, she looks at us and says, "I'm Just Sayin" cause that apparently makes what she said ok.<br />
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