Thursday, July 28, 2011
WHY DO THE THEATERS HERE SUCK?!?!?!?!?!?!
This weeks big release at the movies is Cowboys and Aliens and I don't consider The Smurfs a big release. One of the big problems we have here in Puerto Rico is that movies don't release the same days they release on the states. Example, Green Lantern came out on the states on June 17th and here in Puerto Rico it releases on August 8th. AUGUST 8th!!!!! I'm talking about a full 48 days later, a month and a half later. WHY??? Reviews for this movie are bad but still... Movies also release here on Thursdays while they release on Friday on the states.Speaking of movies not releasing when they should, this week's releases here are Cowboys and Aliens, The Smurfs and Horrible Bosses. Didn't Horrible Bosses released 3 weeks ago??? What the heck is wrong with the theaters here???
Not only do we have movies releasing weeks after the US release date, but there are movies that never release here. Take Me Home Tonight never got a release date here and that was a movie I was interested in watching. I'm still interested in watching. Another movie that is not getting a release date here is Winnie the Pooh. Having grown up with the old school Winnie the Pooh, this movie seems interesting even if it is for nostalgia factor.
One that that pisses me off big time is on what screening room they put it on. Last week I went to see Captain America and to my surprise I find out that they had it in the SMALLEST ROOM IN THE WHOLE THEATER!!!!! It sits a little over 100 people. The room was so small that I had to sit in the second row and the screen looked smaller than my big screen TV. The sound was crappy and there were two light on top of the screen flashing every 3 minutes.
So having Cowboy and Aliens release today, I took the day to go see the movie, but since the first screening was at 3:40 I said "Fuck it" and didn't go. Why would you put a first screening at 4 in the afternoon??? But that's not the worst part. The put it on the same small room where they were showing Captain America. Are they thinking with their asses???
And let me tell you something about 3D movies here. The 3D rooms suck. Seats are broken, the AC is set WAY too cold and the screen looks dirty. The glasses are always dirty and they are these dinky, plastic pieces of crap they could find. The paper glasses with the blue and red filters work better for 3D than the actual crap they give here. But lets talk about the movies. The movies are dark as shit and the glasses make them look darker. I know the movies are dark but I have seen movies that are supposed to be really bright and they look dark. I saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon on 3D... Well, more or less. At the 22 minute mark the movie started skipping like a scratched DVD. WTF?!?!?!?!?!? After 10 minutes of waiting, they decided to rewind the movie a minute and it worked fine, but it started freezing and went black 14 seconds later. Everybody got up and the Manager told us that we had 2 choices, either we get a rain check or wait for them to restart it. Fuck that, gimme my money back and I went see it at another theater and guess what??? It was the one with the flickering light and watching those flickering lights for two and a half hours really pisses anybody off.
Movie theaters here suck. I don't care if we only pay $7 when US theaters pay $10 to $15, but I rather pay $15 and go to a clean, big, comfortable movie theater than the ones we have here.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
You Sunk My Battleship!!!
Who hasn't heard those words??? And if you have heard them, that means that you have said them. Even if you have never played the Battleship board game, everyone knows "You sunk my battleship".
When I first heard that they were making a movie based on the Battleship board game, I didn't know what to think. A two-player, combat-strategy board game that will be made into a two hour, silver screen adaptation? Imagine that. Epic battles, battleships blowing up, sinking boats... Sure we have seen this in every movie that has been out and has boat in it, but this is a movie based entirely around this. A guy's movie... That is until the teaser trailer came out.
This trailer starts out good, considering that you can put any kind of story in it and it would seem OK. We see generic battleships with generic rock music in the background, with a generic guy on a beach with his girlfriend, who happens to be the Captain's daughter (there's a shock) and that he wants to marry her and blah, blah, blah. So the Captain decides to take him on a little International Drill so he can prove himself to his girlfriend's father. While in the water, they stumble upon an object that they have no idea what it is.
Here is where the trailer grabs my attention and not in a good way. This is a movie based on a board game about sinking battleships and they find something that they have no idea what it is, but let's give it the benefit of the doubt. For all we know, it's a sinking boat. Going back to the trailer, we see that the Captain sends none other than his soon-to-be son-in-law to go check it out. He gets to the object and... Wait a second, I think I changed trailers half-way into it because this looks like a transformer. No, this is still the Battleship trailer. OK, a sunken ship that looks all transformer-y. Maybe they want to go all futuristic with this. Anyways, he checks it out and finds a panel. Once he touched the panel, the "whatever-it-is" activates and sends a beam to the air creating a dome-like shield. This shield reminded me of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2".
Um... Did I miss something here??? This is a joke, right??? The "whatever-it-is" is actually an alien spaceship. AN ALIEN SPACESHIP?!?!?!?!?!?!? Where was the alien spaceship on the Battleship board game??? Was there a special edition that i missed??? I'm sorry, Hollywood, but this will not fly around here. How do you take a best-selling board game about battleships and put aliens on it??? Was there missing footage of Transformers Dark of the Moon that you just couldn't throw away??? I predict that in the end of the movie, Optimus Prime will come to the aid to the humans, win the battle and give a grand speech. Of course, that is considering that people will actually go see this. The people that probably will see this will be the ones that have no idea that Battleship is a board game.
Considering that the trend now will be making movies based on board games, watching this trailer, I don't have a lot of faith in them. You can't just take a board game and make a movie "based on it" and put in it whatever you feel like. If you are going to put whatever you feel like it in the movie, don't say its based on something that has nothing to do with what you put on there.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
She Really Likes Cats.
If you don't live under a rock, you probably know Debbie the eHarmony cat-lover.
This is probably one of the funniest videos i have seen in a while. Except for the Doritos Pug Attack video. I would totally date Debbie. But the cat obsession would probably become a problem in the future. But wait, that's not the only thing.
Many people would date Debbie, but would they date Cara. That's right, Debbie the cat-lover is actually Cara Hartmann. AN ACTRESS. The problem with this video is that people like "Debbie" exist. Cara had us all fooled and it gets worse. She actually has a website where she sells shirts based on this video and i am being serious. Don't believe it, google it because i am not linking it. If you want check her twitter because the things that are written there, even if they are fake, are so dumb that makes me want to slap her silly. Oh wait, somebody already beat me to it. Some people, man. Some people.
In the mean time we can have fun with this. Here's a remix i found to make it a little bit more funny.
This is probably one of the funniest videos i have seen in a while. Except for the Doritos Pug Attack video. I would totally date Debbie. But the cat obsession would probably become a problem in the future. But wait, that's not the only thing.
Many people would date Debbie, but would they date Cara. That's right, Debbie the cat-lover is actually Cara Hartmann. AN ACTRESS. The problem with this video is that people like "Debbie" exist. Cara had us all fooled and it gets worse. She actually has a website where she sells shirts based on this video and i am being serious. Don't believe it, google it because i am not linking it. If you want check her twitter because the things that are written there, even if they are fake, are so dumb that makes me want to slap her silly. Oh wait, somebody already beat me to it. Some people, man. Some people.
In the mean time we can have fun with this. Here's a remix i found to make it a little bit more funny.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rebecca Black... Again!!!
After a full week of being sick, I'm back to writing whatever the hell I want. What would be my come-back piece??? It's been an eventful week for my brain with lots of TV shows, movies and not being able to go see the new Harry Potter movie, which if it is like the last couple of chapters of the book, will be awesome. But what can possibly be bigger than all that???. As I turn on my computer and started "researching" for whatever it is that I'm gonna write, I stumble upon what could be the biggest news in the entertainment business and no, I am not talking about J Lo and Marc Anthony's divorce. I'm talking about Rebecca Black's brand new music video "My Moment". Ugh... Threw up a little.
For this video, she decided to ditch the under-age driver and settle down on a quiet recording studio. I guess she's all partied out. She starts the song asking "Were you the one who said that I would be nothing?" Why does she makes this so easy for people??? And to make matters worse, she follows that brilliantly though up line with "I'm about to prove you wrong". Because this song feels to be directed to all the Rebecca Black haters and, as I am soon to discover, i was right I'm only going to pick out the parts that made me cringe... aside from the voice. And by that i mean the whole song.
Were you the one who said that I would be nothing
Well, I'm about to prove you wrong
I'm not the only one who believes in something
My one wish is about to come true
I already covered the smashing beginning to the song where she might as well call us morons and in a stroke of brilliance she tells us that she's not the only one that believes in something. Well, I guess I'm going have to start believing in something. That's kind of hard considering that this is coming from someone that her one wish is about to come true... or so she says. If her dream is to be famous, she achieved that with "Friday". I'ts not the way she wanted to be famous, but she is famous nonetheless. Another weird thing is that she constantly keeps looking at the camera. I feel as if her eyes are penetrating my soul and sucking me in.
I'm not stopping for you
No matter what you do
I'll just keep on dreaming
My head up in the clouds when nobody is around to see...
[Chorus]
This is my moment, my moment
It's my time, flying high, lime light
Feels like my moment, my moment
I've waited for so long
But now everybody knows this is my moment, my moment
It's my time, flying high, lime light
Feels like my moment, my moment
I've waited for so long
But now everybody knows this is my moment, my moment
Come on, Becca. If you were to stop, we wouldn't have this priceless gold to write about. You know how many parodies have been made famous thanks to "Friday"??? And why would you need you head in the clouds when nobody is around to see this is your moment??? Cruising down the highway didn't help??? Ooh look, she went back to the bus stop. AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I'M HAVING "FRIDAY" FLASHBACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's something i don't get about where this chorus is going. First of all, I don't recall her flying high and when you have the most disliked youtube video EVER, i don't think you're in the lime light either. Secondly, if she wants us to take her seriously and forget that shes the "Friday" girl (like that'll ever happen), why do they constantly remind us by having her read newspapers saying shes the "Friday" girl. Last but not least, how can she be rubbing in our faces that she goes to movie premieres, signs autographs, she made the newspaper and all that while hating on the exact same people that put her there. Look Becca, it's not that hard. No people disliking the video so much, no "fame". Calling people who disliked your video enough to give you said fame, shooting career in head... or whatever is left anyway.
You knew it all along, I was afraid of you
I thought I couldn't be myself
You tried to be my friend
But I wouldn't let you
Remember what you said
Don't miss out on your chance
Your life is in your hands
So take it just as far as you can
By trusting in yourself, forget everyone else
Believe...
[Chorus]
...............
This is the problem with teeny starts today, they don't incorporate what they want to do with what they want them to be. See Miley, Christina and Britney, once they did what they wanted, people got shocked. I wonder what Ms Black would have done if she wasn't afraid of us and was herself??? I tried to be her friend??? My Facebook got hacked?!?!?!?!? NNNNNNOOOOOOOO IT CAN'T BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh... She's talking about someone in specific? That makes me rethink the whole song. Anyway, this person tells her to trust in herself, to not miss out on her chance, but to fuck everybody else. Again, we gave you fame, we can easily take it away. I'm guessing she's referring to the wannabe gangster in the "Friday" video. Well, at least shes moving away from this being a song for the haters. She's trying to be serious.
Haters, said I'll see you later
Can't talk to you right now
I'm getting my paper
Said I'm doing big things
Things you never dreamed of
I hope you are happy cause I'm 'bout to blow up
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is Rebecca Black's way of saying "I'm better than you". I'm may be hater, but
we both know legitimate fame for you is not going to happen. I really don't want to talk to you, so that's 3 minutes saved. Oh shit, she reads the paper... No, wait... Forgot papers have cartoons and shoppers in them. No wonder she's so excited with the paper, or maybe she just looks at the obituaries to see if her 15 minutes of fame died. "Friday" is the only big thing she's made and it was a big thing alight. A big piece of shit. My dreams consist of much bigger things than partying and having the most hated song ever. And to be perfectly honest... I am happy. I'm happy because you are about to blow up, just like Paris Hilton did with her music career, just like Heidi Montag. Look at how they ended up and then we can talk.
I don't have anything against this girl but it's like she doesn't get how the business works. You know what, this is probably the last time I'm going to touch anything related to this girl and i really don't mind. I just want her to know that if she wants fans and people that actually buy her shit, she probably should stop telling them to fuck off. I think i feel bad for the girl getting all this hate. Thumbs up for even considering making another video. Now that i think about it, the video ain't that bad... She called me a dream-less hater that can go fuck myself. THIS VIDEO SUCKS. SUCKS MORE THAN HAVING TO BE STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 3 HOURS WITH POOP FLINGING, FARTING MONKEY.
For this video, she decided to ditch the under-age driver and settle down on a quiet recording studio. I guess she's all partied out. She starts the song asking "Were you the one who said that I would be nothing?" Why does she makes this so easy for people??? And to make matters worse, she follows that brilliantly though up line with "I'm about to prove you wrong". Because this song feels to be directed to all the Rebecca Black haters and, as I am soon to discover, i was right I'm only going to pick out the parts that made me cringe... aside from the voice. And by that i mean the whole song.
Were you the one who said that I would be nothing
Well, I'm about to prove you wrong
I'm not the only one who believes in something
My one wish is about to come true
I already covered the smashing beginning to the song where she might as well call us morons and in a stroke of brilliance she tells us that she's not the only one that believes in something. Well, I guess I'm going have to start believing in something. That's kind of hard considering that this is coming from someone that her one wish is about to come true... or so she says. If her dream is to be famous, she achieved that with "Friday". I'ts not the way she wanted to be famous, but she is famous nonetheless. Another weird thing is that she constantly keeps looking at the camera. I feel as if her eyes are penetrating my soul and sucking me in.
I'm not stopping for you
No matter what you do
I'll just keep on dreaming
My head up in the clouds when nobody is around to see...
[Chorus]
This is my moment, my moment
It's my time, flying high, lime light
Feels like my moment, my moment
I've waited for so long
But now everybody knows this is my moment, my moment
It's my time, flying high, lime light
Feels like my moment, my moment
I've waited for so long
But now everybody knows this is my moment, my moment
Come on, Becca. If you were to stop, we wouldn't have this priceless gold to write about. You know how many parodies have been made famous thanks to "Friday"??? And why would you need you head in the clouds when nobody is around to see this is your moment??? Cruising down the highway didn't help??? Ooh look, she went back to the bus stop. AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I'M HAVING "FRIDAY" FLASHBACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's something i don't get about where this chorus is going. First of all, I don't recall her flying high and when you have the most disliked youtube video EVER, i don't think you're in the lime light either. Secondly, if she wants us to take her seriously and forget that shes the "Friday" girl (like that'll ever happen), why do they constantly remind us by having her read newspapers saying shes the "Friday" girl. Last but not least, how can she be rubbing in our faces that she goes to movie premieres, signs autographs, she made the newspaper and all that while hating on the exact same people that put her there. Look Becca, it's not that hard. No people disliking the video so much, no "fame". Calling people who disliked your video enough to give you said fame, shooting career in head... or whatever is left anyway.
You knew it all along, I was afraid of you
I thought I couldn't be myself
You tried to be my friend
But I wouldn't let you
Remember what you said
Don't miss out on your chance
Your life is in your hands
So take it just as far as you can
By trusting in yourself, forget everyone else
Believe...
[Chorus]
...............
This is the problem with teeny starts today, they don't incorporate what they want to do with what they want them to be. See Miley, Christina and Britney, once they did what they wanted, people got shocked. I wonder what Ms Black would have done if she wasn't afraid of us and was herself??? I tried to be her friend??? My Facebook got hacked?!?!?!?!? NNNNNNOOOOOOOO IT CAN'T BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh... She's talking about someone in specific? That makes me rethink the whole song. Anyway, this person tells her to trust in herself, to not miss out on her chance, but to fuck everybody else. Again, we gave you fame, we can easily take it away. I'm guessing she's referring to the wannabe gangster in the "Friday" video. Well, at least shes moving away from this being a song for the haters. She's trying to be serious.
Haters, said I'll see you later
Can't talk to you right now
I'm getting my paper
Said I'm doing big things
Things you never dreamed of
I hope you are happy cause I'm 'bout to blow up
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is Rebecca Black's way of saying "I'm better than you". I'm may be hater, but
we both know legitimate fame for you is not going to happen. I really don't want to talk to you, so that's 3 minutes saved. Oh shit, she reads the paper... No, wait... Forgot papers have cartoons and shoppers in them. No wonder she's so excited with the paper, or maybe she just looks at the obituaries to see if her 15 minutes of fame died. "Friday" is the only big thing she's made and it was a big thing alight. A big piece of shit. My dreams consist of much bigger things than partying and having the most hated song ever. And to be perfectly honest... I am happy. I'm happy because you are about to blow up, just like Paris Hilton did with her music career, just like Heidi Montag. Look at how they ended up and then we can talk.
I don't have anything against this girl but it's like she doesn't get how the business works. You know what, this is probably the last time I'm going to touch anything related to this girl and i really don't mind. I just want her to know that if she wants fans and people that actually buy her shit, she probably should stop telling them to fuck off. I think i feel bad for the girl getting all this hate. Thumbs up for even considering making another video. Now that i think about it, the video ain't that bad... She called me a dream-less hater that can go fuck myself. THIS VIDEO SUCKS. SUCKS MORE THAN HAVING TO BE STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 3 HOURS WITH POOP FLINGING, FARTING MONKEY.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Through thick and thin.... and the occasional broken electronic
Haven't you ever wonder, why is it that people that call themselves your friends usually look you up whenever they need help with something??? I've noticed that this has become somewhat of a trend these past few weeks.
Everything seems to start good whenever you meet someone, but as time goes by, your friends start asking you for favors. You decide to be a good friend and do the favors, but then everything changes and the only times you talk to them is whenever they need a favor. After a while, you don't even get to spend time with them and the time that you spend together usually gets interrupted in some shape or form.
Boyfriends and girlfriends are usually a big interruption. And the phrase "bro's before hoes" is actually full of shit. Calling every ten minutes or so to check up on you or even cutting the night short. It's annoying when your girlfriend or boyfriend can have a girl's night out or a guy's night out and they keep calling to check up on you. Have you actually canceled plans that you already had just because your bf/gf magically forgot the plans you had, which you have been reminding them for the last two weeks, and they suddenly decide to make plans that involve you and have nothing to do with what you were doing???
They say that when you get a bf or gf you forget about your friends... That's not true. There is a big difference between forgetting about your friends and actually making time for them. Learn to balance them out. Whenever you lose a friend, it's your fault and nobody else's
Taxi servicing and the occasional "buy me this because I love you" are two of annoying line of the friend-losers. Having gone through these two things myself, I can say that these two are not that big of friend-losers, but the existence of these work like a burning fuse that have a bomb at the end.
Having lost lots of friends for lack of time distribution, girlfriend and boyfriends dragging them into their world in a way where nothing from the outside exists and constant interruptions, I can say that it sucks. Sometimes is actually for the best, let them get dragged down by themselves because sometimes is not worth hanging on if you're going to get dragged down with them.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Twilight
The Twilight Saga!!!!! Another waste of the young mind. I'm gonna make this one short and sweet.
A girl named Bella comes to live with her father. Why??? Fuck if i know. Enter long haired, girly looking, soon to be shirtless, man...er, boy-wolf named Jacob. The point of having him in this movie??? Set him up for future sequels, love triangles and sex appeal. BTW don't love triangles usually have 3 people, where the girl is interested in both guys??? A vampire and a werewolf fighting for an emotionless girl, that time and time again will pick the vampire over the wolf because she's not in love with him, does not make it a love triangle??? But that's another time, another movie. She goes to school and becomes friends with a group of people that make fun of her. Again, why??? She sees this group of albino, mafioso type people and ask who are they. Gee, I don't know, They are all brothers and sister, not by blood, but because they were adopted and what a coincidence that they all have pale skin. Did they adopt them from the pale-only orphanage? So the outcast of the group, or more or less the leader, comes in last and all alone with him sad face (boo hoo). She looks at him and goes Paris Hilton on his ass and goes "That's hot".
As it turns out, she has biology with none other than the pale looking, saddy-sad guy. While she walks in front of the fan, pouty face guy, named Edward, starts making faces. I don't know, maybe she farted or something. Oh and what odds, the only seat available is next to him. Joy for Bella and her crush on a boy that she just found out existed. So after an awkward couple of minutes of him making faces and staring creepily (apparently classes last 15 minutes or so) he decides to leave and goes to the Principal's office to complaint and change classes because he cannot tolerate that there is someone in his class that shows no emotion, smells bad and it's paler than him. So he disappears for the rest of the week and comes back Monday. First thing he says is hello and apologizes, but when he asks about the weather, that's when it gets weirder. She says "any cold, wet thing, i don't really like". Well I guess that's it for sex with a vampire. Really impressive how being in love with a vampire makes her change her mind about cold, wet things, considering he's always cold. This is the point where she explains why she moved to Forks with her dad, but again, who cares???
Ooh, she's going to smile... nope. False alarm, people. Here comes the parking scene, where the parking lot is full of people, but not one soul manages to see pouting man basically run like Flash, get in front of Bella and stop a friggin' car with his hand. Really??? He stands up and goes away, but not before giving her a "your soul now belongs to me" look, and nobody seems to care much for him. It's like he does it on a constant basis. "Oh shit, he did it again". And guess what??? The doctor is from the pale orphanage too. Maybe that's the trend in Forks. Now a non-important road trip to learn about flowers, fun. Back on the cafeteria, Bella talks to Mr. moody Edward and asks him if he wants to go to the beach and he says no because its too crowded, but not before doing the all important recreation of the book cover, you know, just in case you have no fucking idea what book are they doing. It's only the first movie and its called Twilight, I wonder if that means they did a Star Wars and began with the last book. So yeah, there are 3 cars at the beach, so very crowded. Ah, here comes man-boy again to tell her an old scary story. "I'm a wolf, he's a vampire and we made a deal not to fuck with one another". Ooh, I'm so scared. I've heard scarier stories in cartoons. Pale emo guy takes Bella to eat, and yes, its just her eating because he's on a special diet and that he feels very protective of her. He seems like a psycho, yet she still wants him and he tells her he can read cat's minds. He speaks meowish now? You don't need to read a cat's mind to know it wants Meow Mix.
Let's skip ahead to her looking for info on vampires just because he has cold skin. Her and Edward decide to go into a forest where she finally reveals that she knows what he is. FUCK NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anybody in their right mind can tell he's a friggin' vampire. Once she is through playing whatever guessing game show she has going on in her head and tells him he's a vampire, what does he do??? Takes her up a mountain, on his back, doing his Speedy Gonzalez impersonation and shows her what sunlight does to him. Everybody knows vampires burst, melt and burn in sunlight, but noooooo. Mr. Throw-logic-down-the-toilet goes into the sunlight and glows. GLOWS. She says he looks beautiful and he glows like diamonds. I got an idea. Why not put him under direct sunlight, cut off his skin while it is still like diamonds and sell it??? That way you get money and you get rid of a murderer!!!! He tells her "I've killed people and i wanted to kill you. I've never wanted human blood so bad". Her response???? "That's cool" Whats with this same-face, emotionless, I-don't-care-about-my-life girl??? I guess she likes cold, wet things now.
Off to meet the Edward's mob...i mean, family. We have "the mother" Esme, "the father" Carlisle (the pale doctor), The "I-know-the-future" Alice, the "I-always-look-constipated" Jasper (the one with the "Yum, food" look on his face), the "bitchy" Rosalie and the "jocky-jock" Emmet. After that, Edward shows off his amazing Spider-man powers, then a lot of boring stuff.
Ooh, sex scene. Bella wants his cold, wet thing in her. YEAH!!!!!!! Wait... He denied sex??? He's gay, I knew it..."I can't lose control with you", yeah, because getting married and having sex with her and after turning her into a vampire, they realize that they can have sex all the time without getting tired, isn't losing control. Mr. Durfinsmurf.
Edwards takes Bella to play baseball with his family. He says that it's the only time they can play because there is a thunderstorm coming. Um, WHY??? Why do they need to play baseball only when there is a thunderstorm??? The damn field looks deserted. Is it because of the sound??? The bat doesn't sound that loud and besides, if they were actually playing with their super-powers, don't you think the bat will break??? But its all ok because the Black Eyed Peas decide to end the game early and from the looks of it, they are magicians. As you can plainly see, they turn an ordinary baseball into a crystal ball or a Christmas tree ornament. That means that the next 30 minutes of the movie will be spent protecting sweet, precious Bella.
James sets a trap for Bella and she obviously falls for it. She uses pepper spray on James (really???) and he decides to break her leg. She, of course, give two of the most unconvincing screams and shows no emotion whatsoever ,other than an open mouth in shock (which in not very much convincing), and in comes Edward to help her (big surprise there). After a brief fight, it takes 5 or 6 vampires to kill one. So, since she is losing too much blood from her broken leg, Carlisle decided to tell Edward to bite her and suck out the venom from James bite... Wait... Why not do it himself??? Why doesn't he stop Edward from almost sucking her dry??? Maybe he secretly wants Bella dead...
Finally, they go to prom, where nobody seems to care for the cast she has on her leg. She tells him that she wants to become a vampire, but he declines. They dance, they kiss and then he teases her pretending that he's going to bite her. After that, we come to the best part of the whole movie, watching the credits roll while Linkin Park's Leave Out All The Rest and Paramore's Decode play. The book must have more info but what's the point when the movie was illogical and dull. I must give thanks to Anime Dreamer for the info she has given me to use in this. The worst part of it all is that there are still 4 more movies after this one and each one has the same levels of stupidity and idiotic brain twisting (not the good kind). I can actually feel my I.Q. points die as I watch these things. So much for short and sweet.
A girl named Bella comes to live with her father. Why??? Fuck if i know. Enter long haired, girly looking, soon to be shirtless, man...er, boy-wolf named Jacob. The point of having him in this movie??? Set him up for future sequels, love triangles and sex appeal. BTW don't love triangles usually have 3 people, where the girl is interested in both guys??? A vampire and a werewolf fighting for an emotionless girl, that time and time again will pick the vampire over the wolf because she's not in love with him, does not make it a love triangle??? But that's another time, another movie. She goes to school and becomes friends with a group of people that make fun of her. Again, why??? She sees this group of albino, mafioso type people and ask who are they. Gee, I don't know, They are all brothers and sister, not by blood, but because they were adopted and what a coincidence that they all have pale skin. Did they adopt them from the pale-only orphanage? So the outcast of the group, or more or less the leader, comes in last and all alone with him sad face (boo hoo). She looks at him and goes Paris Hilton on his ass and goes "That's hot".
As it turns out, she has biology with none other than the pale looking, saddy-sad guy. While she walks in front of the fan, pouty face guy, named Edward, starts making faces. I don't know, maybe she farted or something. Oh and what odds, the only seat available is next to him. Joy for Bella and her crush on a boy that she just found out existed. So after an awkward couple of minutes of him making faces and staring creepily (apparently classes last 15 minutes or so) he decides to leave and goes to the Principal's office to complaint and change classes because he cannot tolerate that there is someone in his class that shows no emotion, smells bad and it's paler than him. So he disappears for the rest of the week and comes back Monday. First thing he says is hello and apologizes, but when he asks about the weather, that's when it gets weirder. She says "any cold, wet thing, i don't really like". Well I guess that's it for sex with a vampire. Really impressive how being in love with a vampire makes her change her mind about cold, wet things, considering he's always cold. This is the point where she explains why she moved to Forks with her dad, but again, who cares???
Ooh, she's going to smile... nope. False alarm, people. Here comes the parking scene, where the parking lot is full of people, but not one soul manages to see pouting man basically run like Flash, get in front of Bella and stop a friggin' car with his hand. Really??? He stands up and goes away, but not before giving her a "your soul now belongs to me" look, and nobody seems to care much for him. It's like he does it on a constant basis. "Oh shit, he did it again". And guess what??? The doctor is from the pale orphanage too. Maybe that's the trend in Forks. Now a non-important road trip to learn about flowers, fun. Back on the cafeteria, Bella talks to Mr. moody Edward and asks him if he wants to go to the beach and he says no because its too crowded, but not before doing the all important recreation of the book cover, you know, just in case you have no fucking idea what book are they doing. It's only the first movie and its called Twilight, I wonder if that means they did a Star Wars and began with the last book. So yeah, there are 3 cars at the beach, so very crowded. Ah, here comes man-boy again to tell her an old scary story. "I'm a wolf, he's a vampire and we made a deal not to fuck with one another". Ooh, I'm so scared. I've heard scarier stories in cartoons. Pale emo guy takes Bella to eat, and yes, its just her eating because he's on a special diet and that he feels very protective of her. He seems like a psycho, yet she still wants him and he tells her he can read cat's minds. He speaks meowish now? You don't need to read a cat's mind to know it wants Meow Mix.
Let's skip ahead to her looking for info on vampires just because he has cold skin. Her and Edward decide to go into a forest where she finally reveals that she knows what he is. FUCK NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Anybody in their right mind can tell he's a friggin' vampire. Once she is through playing whatever guessing game show she has going on in her head and tells him he's a vampire, what does he do??? Takes her up a mountain, on his back, doing his Speedy Gonzalez impersonation and shows her what sunlight does to him. Everybody knows vampires burst, melt and burn in sunlight, but noooooo. Mr. Throw-logic-down-the-toilet goes into the sunlight and glows. GLOWS. She says he looks beautiful and he glows like diamonds. I got an idea. Why not put him under direct sunlight, cut off his skin while it is still like diamonds and sell it??? That way you get money and you get rid of a murderer!!!! He tells her "I've killed people and i wanted to kill you. I've never wanted human blood so bad". Her response???? "That's cool" Whats with this same-face, emotionless, I-don't-care-about-my-life girl??? I guess she likes cold, wet things now.
Off to meet the Edward's mob...i mean, family. We have "the mother" Esme, "the father" Carlisle (the pale doctor), The "I-know-the-future" Alice, the "I-always-look-constipated" Jasper (the one with the "Yum, food" look on his face), the "bitchy" Rosalie and the "jocky-jock" Emmet. After that, Edward shows off his amazing Spider-man powers, then a lot of boring stuff.
Ooh, sex scene. Bella wants his cold, wet thing in her. YEAH!!!!!!! Wait... He denied sex??? He's gay, I knew it..."I can't lose control with you", yeah, because getting married and having sex with her and after turning her into a vampire, they realize that they can have sex all the time without getting tired, isn't losing control. Mr. Durfinsmurf.
Edwards takes Bella to play baseball with his family. He says that it's the only time they can play because there is a thunderstorm coming. Um, WHY??? Why do they need to play baseball only when there is a thunderstorm??? The damn field looks deserted. Is it because of the sound??? The bat doesn't sound that loud and besides, if they were actually playing with their super-powers, don't you think the bat will break??? But its all ok because the Black Eyed Peas decide to end the game early and from the looks of it, they are magicians. As you can plainly see, they turn an ordinary baseball into a crystal ball or a Christmas tree ornament. That means that the next 30 minutes of the movie will be spent protecting sweet, precious Bella.
Finally, they go to prom, where nobody seems to care for the cast she has on her leg. She tells him that she wants to become a vampire, but he declines. They dance, they kiss and then he teases her pretending that he's going to bite her. After that, we come to the best part of the whole movie, watching the credits roll while Linkin Park's Leave Out All The Rest and Paramore's Decode play. The book must have more info but what's the point when the movie was illogical and dull. I must give thanks to Anime Dreamer for the info she has given me to use in this. The worst part of it all is that there are still 4 more movies after this one and each one has the same levels of stupidity and idiotic brain twisting (not the good kind). I can actually feel my I.Q. points die as I watch these things. So much for short and sweet.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Clichés
Lovely clichés. They rule the movies. What's a movie without the clichés that everybody loves? The hero that never dies, the over-the-top villain that wants to take over the world, the obvious good guy betrayal. These are the most awesomely... stupid waste of film ever!!!! These clichés you can pinpoint them even before the movie begins. You go see a romantic movie and you immediately know they get together, break-up and get together again before the end of the movie. Action movie, good guy lives. Crime movie, the most obvious person is the killer. So why not make a "Top 5" list using ten of the most exhausted clichés ever?
1) Let's start with the most obvious one there is: the black guy. I don't know why, but the black guy always dies first. I'm sure it's about racism. So many movies out there where the bubbly, dumb blonde lives a lot longer than the muscular black guy. And the other thing is that in every movie thee is there is only one black guy. It's a big town, but there is only one black guy. That's why Tyler Perry is awesome, every character is black and there is always one, AND ONLY ONE, white person.
2) It seems like every movie since The Matrix came out it's trying to copy it or at least parody it. We've seen the bend back to avoid getting hit with whatever they throw at you. On The Matrix it was fine, in Scary movie was funny, but after that it started getting repetitive and a must have for movies. There is also the slow-motion. After seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon I noticed that they used a lot of slow-mo. It's not bad, but again, it takes away from the flow of the movie. It makes 3D look better and that way you see everything on the screen well, but when it happens every 15 minutes, its not worth it.
3) The hero of the movie. What cant the hero do? He always gets the girl, doesn't care much for explosion behind him, never gets hurt in a car crash, never dies at the end of a movie, you name it. I understand that he' the hero, but that doesn't make him super human. Batman is less super-human than some of these action heroes. They crash cars and they roll 5 or 6 times and they emerge with only a couple of scratches when the other car that barely hit the wall kills the driver. They get into situations where they try to get the audience to think they are not going to make it, but everyone doesn't really care when they get captured or knocked out because he always gets free and gets the bad guy.
4) "Oh no!!! There's a bomb in that building set to go off at any moment that the bomb squad couldn't disarm!!! What can we do?? I know. Let's bring in the hero, that knows NOTHING about bombs while the there's only 10 seconds before the bomb explodes and have him disarm it after 15 seconds." The hero always knows about bombs or lucks out (happens 99.9% of the time) and he always manages to disarm it with one second left. I don't know if anybody has noticed this, but why does the disarming scene usually last 15 to 20 seconds when the timer only has 10 seconds left. And grenades are usually out of whack. In Blade 2 he activates a box of grenades that is supposed to go off in 10 seconds, but, not only is his counting to 10 inconsistent, but it takes around 15 seconds before they go off giving the enemies enough time to actually attack. Which bring us to...
5) The villain's plan. Come on, you have the guy that has been trying to kill you in front of you, unarmed, and helpless and NOW you decide to give the grand speech, giving him enough time to come up with a plan and ultimately kill you??? I don't think the hero will care about your plan after he's dead. Let's say that for once he tell him the plan and afterwards kills the hero, what now??? Throw a party??? It's just plain stupid. Why not teach your henchmen how to shoot??? They shoot thousands of round with machine guns and not once hit the target. Stevie Wonder, while sitting in a pitch black room would have much better aim than you guys do!!!
This goes to show that clichés are not always good. They tend to drag a movie down and make it boring. Not so many movies surprises people anymore. Horror movies have the same generic bad guy and it's no surprise when the bad guy is revealed or when someone betrays someone else. Maybe that's why so many people think movies feel the same. Maybe that's why movies like Scott Pilgrim vs the World (not saying that it doesn't have its clichés), that try something new, flop. Even though it is something that it's been used a lot, movie clichés tend to be a safe zone where a lot of people live and are afraid to come out of that shell.
1) Let's start with the most obvious one there is: the black guy. I don't know why, but the black guy always dies first. I'm sure it's about racism. So many movies out there where the bubbly, dumb blonde lives a lot longer than the muscular black guy. And the other thing is that in every movie thee is there is only one black guy. It's a big town, but there is only one black guy. That's why Tyler Perry is awesome, every character is black and there is always one, AND ONLY ONE, white person.
2) It seems like every movie since The Matrix came out it's trying to copy it or at least parody it. We've seen the bend back to avoid getting hit with whatever they throw at you. On The Matrix it was fine, in Scary movie was funny, but after that it started getting repetitive and a must have for movies. There is also the slow-motion. After seeing Transformers: Dark of the Moon I noticed that they used a lot of slow-mo. It's not bad, but again, it takes away from the flow of the movie. It makes 3D look better and that way you see everything on the screen well, but when it happens every 15 minutes, its not worth it.
3) The hero of the movie. What cant the hero do? He always gets the girl, doesn't care much for explosion behind him, never gets hurt in a car crash, never dies at the end of a movie, you name it. I understand that he' the hero, but that doesn't make him super human. Batman is less super-human than some of these action heroes. They crash cars and they roll 5 or 6 times and they emerge with only a couple of scratches when the other car that barely hit the wall kills the driver. They get into situations where they try to get the audience to think they are not going to make it, but everyone doesn't really care when they get captured or knocked out because he always gets free and gets the bad guy.
4) "Oh no!!! There's a bomb in that building set to go off at any moment that the bomb squad couldn't disarm!!! What can we do?? I know. Let's bring in the hero, that knows NOTHING about bombs while the there's only 10 seconds before the bomb explodes and have him disarm it after 15 seconds." The hero always knows about bombs or lucks out (happens 99.9% of the time) and he always manages to disarm it with one second left. I don't know if anybody has noticed this, but why does the disarming scene usually last 15 to 20 seconds when the timer only has 10 seconds left. And grenades are usually out of whack. In Blade 2 he activates a box of grenades that is supposed to go off in 10 seconds, but, not only is his counting to 10 inconsistent, but it takes around 15 seconds before they go off giving the enemies enough time to actually attack. Which bring us to...
5) The villain's plan. Come on, you have the guy that has been trying to kill you in front of you, unarmed, and helpless and NOW you decide to give the grand speech, giving him enough time to come up with a plan and ultimately kill you??? I don't think the hero will care about your plan after he's dead. Let's say that for once he tell him the plan and afterwards kills the hero, what now??? Throw a party??? It's just plain stupid. Why not teach your henchmen how to shoot??? They shoot thousands of round with machine guns and not once hit the target. Stevie Wonder, while sitting in a pitch black room would have much better aim than you guys do!!!
This goes to show that clichés are not always good. They tend to drag a movie down and make it boring. Not so many movies surprises people anymore. Horror movies have the same generic bad guy and it's no surprise when the bad guy is revealed or when someone betrays someone else. Maybe that's why so many people think movies feel the same. Maybe that's why movies like Scott Pilgrim vs the World (not saying that it doesn't have its clichés), that try something new, flop. Even though it is something that it's been used a lot, movie clichés tend to be a safe zone where a lot of people live and are afraid to come out of that shell.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Justin Beaver... I mean... Beaver
I'm going to get a lot of hate mail for this, but like I've said before, it's called freedom of speech.
I am fully aware that it's Bieber but i could care less. While watching today's UFC 132 i found myself looking at the most asinine thing ever. Justin Bieber on the front row of a UFC event. Two things that should never go together. This is what is cool, this is what is in and this is what boys and girls around the world look up to.
A 17-year-old wannabe gangster, that looks girly and singing songs called Baby. Never Say Never was the most gangster thing he has ever done and its because he has Jaden Smith on the song. Yeah, he's a bad-ass alright. I get that what makes somebody famous is the people, but come on. Let's look at the facts:
1) Now-a-days there is more focus on what a famous person looks rather than actually acting or signing. Case in point, the most famous thing the Beaver has done in acting (no, that crap "documentary" called Never Say Never doesn't qualify as acting) is the CSI episode where they kill him.
2) He has a book about his life. HE IS 17!!!!! How eventful his 17 years in this world have been to have a 240 page biography. And he's been famous how long??? 3-4 years??? There are even more famous people that have been famous since they have been 6 or 7 years old and have written their auto-biography well into their 30' or 40's
3) His hair cut costs $750. Really? Really??? Who pays $750 for a haircut called "the fringe" (and I'm not referring to FOX's show Fringe). I can get a similar haircut in my local Supercuts for way less. And speaking of his hair, He sold a lock of hair recently on eBay for charity. I know it was for an animal-rescue center in Santa Clarita, California and i shouldn't complain but... IT SOLD FOR $40,668. What is that person going to do with it? Frame it, put in on a wall, put it on the disturbing collection next to his spit out chewing gum? I can think about a lot of things i can do with that kind of money, like say... oh i don't know... A CAR!!! I think you can get a house for that kind of money.
4) He's 17 and getting tattoos and people say that it's cool that a role model for younger kids gets a tattoo. His girlfriend Selena Gomez had a purity ring until they "officially" announced they were together. I'm thinking one of them is clinging to the other just for more fame. Do people still think they are pure and not doing anything??? Go back a couple of years back to when Britney Spears was all innocent and Justin Timberlake was still a singer, when everything was pure as rainbows. Everybody knows the had sex. Earings, tattoos, not"pure" as the media puts it, but still a great role model for little boys and girls that follow on their role model's footsteps. You can't blame anybody but yourself if they end up doing thing you don't want them to but their role models do.
This girly, gangster wannabe is just like every tweeny fab. JUST a fab. It happened to the Jonas Brothers, It happened to Miley Cyrus, It WILL happen to the Twilight saga, once they get older they will disappear. It's really hard to take any tween fab seriously. So I will sit back, relax and let this one fizzle out just like all the others that are now buried and done. BTW He looks likes he's crying rather than singing. Or pushing out his new song. Try not to get hemorrhoids while shitting out your new song.
I am fully aware that it's Bieber but i could care less. While watching today's UFC 132 i found myself looking at the most asinine thing ever. Justin Bieber on the front row of a UFC event. Two things that should never go together. This is what is cool, this is what is in and this is what boys and girls around the world look up to.
A 17-year-old wannabe gangster, that looks girly and singing songs called Baby. Never Say Never was the most gangster thing he has ever done and its because he has Jaden Smith on the song. Yeah, he's a bad-ass alright. I get that what makes somebody famous is the people, but come on. Let's look at the facts:
1) Now-a-days there is more focus on what a famous person looks rather than actually acting or signing. Case in point, the most famous thing the Beaver has done in acting (no, that crap "documentary" called Never Say Never doesn't qualify as acting) is the CSI episode where they kill him.
2) He has a book about his life. HE IS 17!!!!! How eventful his 17 years in this world have been to have a 240 page biography. And he's been famous how long??? 3-4 years??? There are even more famous people that have been famous since they have been 6 or 7 years old and have written their auto-biography well into their 30' or 40's
3) His hair cut costs $750. Really? Really??? Who pays $750 for a haircut called "the fringe" (and I'm not referring to FOX's show Fringe). I can get a similar haircut in my local Supercuts for way less. And speaking of his hair, He sold a lock of hair recently on eBay for charity. I know it was for an animal-rescue center in Santa Clarita, California and i shouldn't complain but... IT SOLD FOR $40,668. What is that person going to do with it? Frame it, put in on a wall, put it on the disturbing collection next to his spit out chewing gum? I can think about a lot of things i can do with that kind of money, like say... oh i don't know... A CAR!!! I think you can get a house for that kind of money.
4) He's 17 and getting tattoos and people say that it's cool that a role model for younger kids gets a tattoo. His girlfriend Selena Gomez had a purity ring until they "officially" announced they were together. I'm thinking one of them is clinging to the other just for more fame. Do people still think they are pure and not doing anything??? Go back a couple of years back to when Britney Spears was all innocent and Justin Timberlake was still a singer, when everything was pure as rainbows. Everybody knows the had sex. Earings, tattoos, not"pure" as the media puts it, but still a great role model for little boys and girls that follow on their role model's footsteps. You can't blame anybody but yourself if they end up doing thing you don't want them to but their role models do.
This girly, gangster wannabe is just like every tweeny fab. JUST a fab. It happened to the Jonas Brothers, It happened to Miley Cyrus, It WILL happen to the Twilight saga, once they get older they will disappear. It's really hard to take any tween fab seriously. So I will sit back, relax and let this one fizzle out just like all the others that are now buried and done. BTW He looks likes he's crying rather than singing. Or pushing out his new song. Try not to get hemorrhoids while shitting out your new song.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
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