Best Part About Stupid Movies

I'm always so happy when stupid looking movies come out. In fact, I look forward to their releases more than I do the movies I actually want to see. There is one simple reason why. I don't have to watch their retarded commercials any more. I don't know if you have ever noticed this but movie commercials are on tv all the time just before the movie comes out. Then it is a rare thing to see any mention on tv after their release. For this reason, and this reason alone, I was eagerly awaiting the release of Splice. This movie looks retarded.

Now, if we can only speed along the release of the next steaming pile of movie excrement, Jonah Hex. How STUPID does this movie look? Are you kidding me? How broke is Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, and Will Arnet that they need to be in this movie? I'm not including Megan Fox in this list because I don't associate her with much talent or brains.

How does this look entertaining? I want to rip out my eyes every time this commercial comes on. So, my new most anticipated movie of the summer is Jonah Hex. Get it in the theaters so it can die quickly and I can put it our of my life.

It Sucks Being a Sports Fan

I am dying as a sports fan right now. I don't care about basketball. The NBA is a league of showboats. Football has lost a lot of its flavor and I barely follow the weak 49ers. Soccer is boring. Golf is worse.
I have two sports loves. The San Francisco Giants and the San Jose Sharks. And they are killing me. First off, the Sharks' season may end tonight because they can't find a way to beat the stinking Chicago Blackhawks in the Conference Finals. The Sharks should have won games one and three but they just couldn't . It has been so painful in past years with the Sharks going down way too early in the playoffs. This year, when everything seemed right, when we are on the doorstep of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Sharks are about to get swept out of the playoffs. Not one win so far. It is painful. We are helpless to watch as nothing goes our way. It isn't even that the Sharks are playing poorly. They just CAN"T get a win. it is so frustrating to see one goalie shut down an entire team. That's it. If Niemi or whatever his name was got the flu and missed the next four games, the Sharks would make history and come back from a 3-0 hole. This one guy is shutting us down. He is that good. It is that bad for Sharks fans. I am almost tempted to not watch, listen, follow the game tonight just because I am scared. It sucks.
Then there is the Giants. The my-pitcher-holds-the-other-team-to-one-run-and-we-still-can't-get-a-win-Giants. What has happened to the Giants. Okay, I know that the Padres have some sort of entire Giants team voodoo doll and will for some unexplained reason destroy us the rest of the year, but Arizona? And Oakland? How are we losing to these teams? Well it is simple. The Giants CAN"T HIT. How did we start the season as the BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL and turn into the 3 hits per game Giants? It isn't the pitchers. Even when they are shaky they still pitch well enough to win. With the exception of Wellemeyer who is just awful, the pitchers keep us in the game. But no one can hit. We need to drop Wellemeyer and bring up Bumgarner. Sit Molina for a while because he is tired. Lets have Buster get up in here. Anything. Put Renteria back on the DL where he belongs. Make Pablo wear his glasses so he ca see again and start to hit the ball. Clone Nate Shierholtz. HIt Rowand in the face again so he can come back and hit. Anything. The Giants need to start winning and start winning now. It is getting bad.
With both of my teams struggling I don't know what to do. I eagerly listen to all of the games and walk away sad every day. I don't know what to do. Maybe I'll just take up badminton.

Iron Man 2

We just saw Iron Man 2 and I really enjoyed it. Now, before I continue I think I need to say that I enjoyed the first one better. The sequel was bigger, flashier, brought in more stars, and definitely moved the story along, but I think the first one was more fun. The original had constant one liners and it was fun to watch Stark try to figure it all out. While the comedy is still in the second and the back and forth with Tony and Senator Stern are fantastic, there is a real dark side to this movie that overpowers the light-hearted banter of the man on the hour, Mr. Jr. The script is heavier and that is okay. As Tony tries to handle his mortality he is shown as a flawed character. We all knew he was flawed but he was so darn funny that we ignored it. We can't turn a blind eye in the sequel. But we still root for Tony in this one and that is what matters. One of my favorite additions was Sam Rockwell. I love this guy. He was able to bring charm to his sleazy Justin Hammer. A great performance. Even Scarlet (I still sorta sound like a man) Johansson did well, especially when she is flipping through the air knocking dudes senseless. And Mickey Rourke gives a good performance as the bad guy with a sick sense of humor.
The effects of the movie are better than the first but the ending isn't that fulfilling. It feels like a repeat of the first movie. But the addition of War Machine is a welcome one. Although I didn't really like the way they wrote the character (he seemed bit whiney to me) War Machine rocks and I hope they keep him around.
There are plenty of ties to the Avengers movie coming up (which by the way is directed by Joss Whedon!!!!). Look for Captain America's shield, news footage from The Incredible Hulk, and stick around till after the credits for a secret scene. All in all, if you were waiting for summer movie season to start, look no further. It has arrived with the very entertaining Iron Man 2. Go see it, like it, love it, laugh, cry, ooo and aaaahhh. It is a fun ride and one I can't wait to see again. I give it four and a half resurrected Mickey Rourke movie careers out of five.
Plus doesn't this movie poster up top make it look like Iron Man is playing peek-a-boo? Love it.

You MUST Watch This Show

Okay, if any of you out there in the word have not seen ABC's Castle, you need to get on it. This is one of the best shows on tv. I am not a television watcher. There are a few shows out there that if I happen to be flipping through the channels and find them I will sit back and enjoy. I seek out Castle.
Let me explain why you are missing out if you have not become a fan of this show. It has everything. The cast is fantastic but what makes them all work well together is the script. First and foremost this is a murder mystery/detective show. Now before you give me all the but what about CSI nonsense, you need to understand that Castle is its own breed. For starters it is hilarious. this is one of the funniest shows out there and it isn't a sitcom. It is fresh, intense, fun, creative, and addictive.
The premise of the story is simple. Rick Castle writes murder mysteries. Kate Beckett is a homicide detective. A string of murders happen that are copies of murders committed in Castle's novels and he is brought in as a consultant to Beckett. He immediately shakes up everything she does and they butt heads. Of course there is the obvious sexual tension between the two but it never gets old, it never gets in the way and you even root for their hook up. they are the new Moulder and Scully.
Ryan and Espesito are detectives who work with Beckett and they bring a certain charm whenever they are on the screen. I promise, if you have any taste at all you will get hooked on this show.
Now they just finished their second season so if you are just jumping on this scene you have some time to catch up. The first season is out on DVD and I'm sure 2 is soon to follow. Rent it, buy it, borrow it, watch it on hulu. Do whatever you have to in order to watch this show. When it is on tv it is on ABC on Mondays at 10. Check it out.

Can't wait for July 16th

I am so excited for this movie to come out. Problem is I can't even tell you why. I don't even really know what it is about. The newest trailer only gives us the smallest hints. But even from the briefest moments of the original teaser I was in. I don't know if it is just because I trust Nolan. If you look at the work he has done, he should be considered one of the better directors around. Memento was AMAZING. The Prestige blew me away. Even Insomnia which isn't the greatest film ever had something to it that made it enjoyable. And then they gave him Batman. A franchise that was so stale and so overdone that I was hesitant. And then I saw Batman Begins and it was like nothing I had ever seen. Then to follow it up with The Dark Knight. Okay, weird Batman voice aside, are there any better superhero movies out there? Would we even be considering the late Heath Ledger as one of the best if we never saw him as the Joker? Nolan delivers at the box office. Maybe that is why I'm so excited. Or maybe the quality of DiCaprio's recent films. 15 years ago, if there was an actor out there that I would have been happy never seeing again it would have been Leo. But the Departed is one of my favorite films ever and this kid has decided to prove to us that he can act. Plus we see Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a major role for a change looking extremely sinister. This kid is good. Nolan brings back all of his Batman alumni for Inception and I am okay with it. Cillian Murphy is good in whatever he does. I love Ken Watanabe. And if Michael Caine was in every movie ever I would be okay with that.
All of this aside, just one look at this trailer tells us that something big is going to happen on July 16th. This could be the most retarded movie ever, but I guarantee that this movie will be like nothing we have ever seen before. This will be an event. Like it or hate it there is going to be moment after moment when we must pause and just say "wow." With Hollywood becoming boring and stale. with movie scripts simply re-working what has been done over and over. Inception proves to break free of everything we have seen lately. It will blow us away and give us something we have never seen before. Thats why I'll be there with child-like anticipation (it'll be like waiting for Santa to deposit presents on Christmas morning) on July 16th to have my mind blown by Inception.

Date Night

We went to see the movie Date Night starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey last night. We had a good time. It started off really slowly and I was worried that we weren't going to laugh all that much. But as soon as the story picked up, so did the laughs. The actors did a great job of playing the stuck in a rut couple who were in way over their heads. A couple of one-liners really got us laughing. I guess the biggest problem with this movie, and most comedies coming out recently, is that the majority of the big laughs came from the trailers. I always hate when that happens. Why show us everything before we even get into the theater? Now don't get me wrong. There are still plenty of laughs in the show not in the preview. Tina Fey's ad-libbed lines as they create conversations of other couples on dates are to die for and the car chase scene with the cab is hilarious. Plus you get cameo after cameo to keep you smiling.
So despite the flaws, the actors give it their all to make this an enjoyable show. Probably more of a rent rather than shell out $20 but if you go to see Iron Man or Robin Hood and they are sold out, this is a great second option (if it sticks around...we were the only two in the theater on Robin Hood's opening night). Well worth a viewing if you haven't seen it yet. I'm giving it 3 and a half flapjacks out of five.

Just for fun

So, this is going to be my own personal blog about things I like. I'll post my opinions about movies, books, maybe I'll throw in a story I'm working on. I don't know. Anything. We'll see if it catches on. Anyway. Hope to get some ideas out there and if you have anything to say throw it down.