lifeasdiaknowsit asked: You should watch "Lars and the real girl." Its a movie starring Ryan Gosling. I thought it was pretty good. I'm curious to know your thoughts. I enjoy reading your movie reviews btw. Take care.
I did see Lars and the Real Girl. I forget how I felt about it, so that means to me that it wasn’t bad. Probably I had thought it was something different to see, especially since I was in college for radio/tv/film and Hollywood has just been pumping out constant crap.
This movie sucked. The funny parts were in the trailer. My favorite vignette was probably the one with the Christopher Mintz-Plasse since they’re just running around yelling. Then David Putty steps in to explain to them how female’s menstruate. Second place goes to Terrence Howard telling his basketball team that they’ll win because they’re black… how racist. Third place goes to the Emma Stone story where they’re saying a bunch of weird shit to each other as they’re broadcasting over the public address system to the supermarket. ”He was a wizard!”
One star, I hated this movie. I’m glad I didn’t waste money in the theaters. Sure, I had some laughs, but not anywhere near ten dollars worth of laughs. If you can watch this for little or no money (like Netflix) sure, go ahead.
One day I was out in Los Angeles visiting my friend, Jeff, he was rooming with his friend, Eric. Well, turns out Eric has a podcast co-hosted ny Jeff. I’m four episodes in and they’re hilarious. These episodes are easy listens because they’re under 30 minutes. If you’re looking for a change of pace from AM/FM, your HAM radio, or a certain satellite radio provider, give Highway Diaries a listen! Oh yeah, it’s FREE!
We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. That’s why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, nineteen states have chosen to bump theirs even higher.
Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour.
"POTUS (via kateoplis)
So let’s do some math…
$9.00 x 40 (hours) = $360 (/week) x 52 (weeks) = $18,720 a year
$18,720 - $14,500 = $4,220 a year difference
That’s all it takes? The way the government spends money this could be a tax break. Also, does anyone know how this will affect inflation? I’ll give you a hint: not good.
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21 Jump Street was one of those movies I skipped when it released to theaters. The other night it was on TV and I saw the part where the duo takes the Poop drug and they go through the phases. I laughed and laughed at that sequence. When the eyebrows moved from their original location to a moustache position, I was dying. I decided at that point, I had to watch this movie in its entirety.
Tonight I did just that. Holy crap; it’s funny. It parodies itself, parodies how Hollywood is just remaking ideas from the past… like 21 Jump Street. It’s just a stupid, funny, action movie. It’s worth a watch for a laugh. I’ll give it a four, since I really liked it.
It’s a dual-heist movie, people! See, there’s a crack team of professionals robbing a bank vault as well as a duo of nitwits trying to rob the ATMs at the same time! That triggers a dark comedy chain of events. Patrick Dempsey plays a guy who goes into the bank to get some coinage and ends up smack in the middle of it all. He also goes about solving the mystery of why there was a man shot in the middle of the bank. Since it’s a mystery of sorts, I shouldn’t really go into too much detail. This is one of those IFC Films that goes under my radar since it doesn’t get much in the way of mainstream advertising because Hollywood thinks they know what people want to see.
If you’re in the mood for a movie with a dry sense of humor and something different than the status quo of mainstream, check out Flypaper. I really liked it, so it’ll get four stars.
I meant to do this about a week ago, however I lost power for 6 days due to Hurricane Sandy. Everything’s okay on my end though, don’t worry about a thing. I’ll cover the first four episodes, as I haven’t seen the 5th and 6th yet, but I’ll state that this show is a guilty pleasure, mostly.
I hate this show. I don’t care about the characters. I don’t care if they succeed or fail. I just don’t care. However, I can’t stop watching this show. Theres this shlock / dreck value to it all. The plot holes are offensive; especially the one where all electricity just stopped but not the electrical process that cells in the human body does. (Wisely they don’t really give an explanation as to why all electricity stopped, it just did.) Also, how’d all these guns get into Chicago? Where, when, and how did everyone get a sword and trained in swashbuckling?
The doe-eyed protagonist stinks. The world is in full scale apocalypse mode and she’s still worried about morality. Why bring the fat man with glasses? Worst choice ever. How is he HUSKY in an APOCALYPSE?
The first episode: I’m all in.
The second episode: I get pissed at the neck-breaking story telling speed and quick resolution.
The third episode: Okay, I’ll watch another episode.
The fourth episode: Oh, there’s a train in this one, all good movies have a train: Taking of Pelham 123, Back to the Future III, Unstoppable, Von Ryan’s Express.
The uncle is an ass, however, I still don’t like him. The whole world looks lush, bright, and green. That’s fine, but I always thought it’d be more gray like Fallout 3 or dark like Jeremiah. I guess the survivalists are so plentiful since all the incompetent people died with in the first couple weeks. That’s believeable.
Okay, I’ll expound on the 3rd episode a little more here with some bullet points:
-There was a commercial for scrubbing bubbles… maybe because this show is shit?
-I hate the protagonists gung-ho save everyone because just like Anne Frank, “I think people are all good deep down.”
-Hahaha, those muskets don’t shoot that fast!
-Who’s your best shooter? ”This guy!” No quick line like “Navy-seal” or “Marine rifleman!”
-This episode reminds me to read the Poor Man’s James Bond book.
-Miles’ true identity revealed! Now quickly, leave them in a cliffhanger and go to credits! …oh, wait, there’s still 12 minutes of show left?
-Miles: “I’m not talking about this.” 3 seconds later: “Okay, I’ll talk about this.” That’s just offensive to me due to the shit writing.
-Oh, they saved THAT guy!
Fourth episode:
I like Captain Neville. If this were a movie, Morgan Freeman would portray him.
Hopefully this show will be a mini-series and NBC will pull an HBO and just have a certain number of episodes. I don’t see them having legs if the entire series is about them trying to turn on the power. Although I want to know who killed that old lady with the computer in her attic.
So while not doing much of anything, I decided to watch this movie. Yeah, this is a rom com, big whoop. It was kind of made within the same time frame of Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached. This movie also starts off with two people who just kind of have an open thing, then she moves back to San Francisco and they somehow keep it going while he lives in New York. Spoiler alert: happy ending.
Some highlights of this movie for me were Charlie Day playing Dan, aka Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia while Jason Sudekis plays a composite of Mac and Dennis from the previously mentioned TV show. It’s funny and it’s got some heart or something, I don’t know. It didn’t make me want to claw my eyes out or throw myself off the roof. I laughed at some parts, which is good since it is a comedy. I guess if you’re out there and a girlfriend makes you watch a movie that’s funny and a bit of a chick flick, watch this one.
I give it three stars on the Netflix scale since I liked it.
I could say I liked this movie, however, I would be lying.
See, I didn’t like this movie since I didn’t enjoy it. I even went into it thinking, “This will be one of those ‘just watch for fun’ movies.” I had no fun. Most of it is just CGI bullshit nonsense which causes Abraham Lincoln to roll over in his grave. Ugh…
Also, a McPoyle being one of the main characters kind of annoyed me since he’ll forever be typecast as a McPoyle (from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.) I did like the battle scenes because that’s really the only thing I wanted to pay attention to during the movie. At points I just didn’t really care what was going on; I just wanted it to move along quicker. Perhaps I just wasn’t in the target audience of this one. Yeah, that’s it.
One star since I hated it.
This one fell through the cracks; I watched it 10/25 but due to a hurricane, I didn’t get around to reviewing it.
It’s one of those agents gone rogue / trying to get out of the business type movies. It’s a bit slow, but a quick watch at a little over 90 minutes. There’s also some cool fight choreography. That’s about it.
Three stars, I liked it.
