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Lost Season Five Poster

November 21, 2008

lostseason5posterrealI can’t wait!

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Movie of the Week: Role Models

November 19, 2008

Probably the most consistently funny movie of the year (although Tropic Thunder had more Oh-My-God-I-Can’t-Breathe! moments)

It’s great to see Paul Rudd, who is always hilarious as a second string player in all of Judd Apatow’s hits, finally get to be a the lead (he co-wrote the movie with ex-State members Ken Marino and David Wain, who directed)

I’m glad Seann William Scott finally went back to playing another variety of Stifler.  It’s okay, buddy.  I know you want to be more than the asshole from the American Pie series.  But that’s who you are.  Embrace it.  You too, McLovin’!

Usually what happens in a movie like this is it’s starts out really funny, then falls apart in the end with the sappy and/or lessons learned scenes.  It did that a little but not so much as with Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Now when is Jane Lynch going to star in her own movie?

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Who Wants to Play Paper-Rock-Scissors-Lizard-Spock?

November 18, 2008
  • lizardspockScissors cuts paper.
  • Paper covers rock.
  • Rock crushes lizard.
  • Lizard poisons Spock.
  • Spock smashes scissors.
  • Scissors decapitates lizard.
  • Lizard eats paper.
  • Paper disproves Spock.
  • Spock vaporizes rock.
  • And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.

P.S. I love The Big Bang Theory

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer

November 14, 2008

harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-posters

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New Watchmen trailer

November 14, 2008

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Still have concerns about the ending

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My Embarrassment Is Now Public…and Increased

November 13, 2008

I was on Twitter yesterday and Whitney Matheson of Pop Candy (Pop culture blog on USA Today.com) twittered that she was surprised so many people hadn’t seen Heathers.  Well, I’ve seen Heathers but I sent her my “100 Movies I’m Embarrassed to Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet” list.

Today I noticed that I was receiving a lot of random comments on that post.  I went to Popcandy and surer than shit, Talk back: What movies are you ashamed you haven’t seen?

At first, I was like “Awesome!

Then I noticed she listed me as a “she.”

Bleurgh!

Update: She fixed it.  I got my e-manhood back!

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Movie of the Week: RocknRolla

November 12, 2008

More Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch than Revolver and Swept Away.  Thank God!

Guy Ritchie wasn’t even trying to do anything new or different.

He basically repeated the formula from his first two films…

…Witty but bumbling theives with a tough leader? Check

…Nasty villain? Check

….Wildcard character? Check

…Well planned heist that gets screwed up? Check

….Everything tying together in the end? Check

Actually, I thought the ending was too abrupt.  We never find out the final fate of Stella (Thandie Newton).

All the actors were great (I love hearing actors using their actual accents) except Chris Bridges (a.k.a Ludacris).  He was too stiff especially considering he was paired up with Jeremy Piven.

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I Have Been Watching This All Day Long

November 11, 2008

Puppies!!!

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My Blog Is An Open Book

November 11, 2008

I moved my defunct (it’s only active in my mind) writing blog to WordPress.

Hopefully I’ll add something new before New Year’s Day.

I need to mentally prepared for National Novel Writing Month 2009 (it’s too late for this year)

My Blog Is An Open Book

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100 Movies I’m Embarrassed To Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet

November 10, 2008

Now, I’ve been highly judgmental about movies I think everyone should see.  But sadly, there are a lot of bonafide classics (Oscar winners, AFI’s Top 100, IMDB Top 250) that I haven’t seen at all.

This list would have been much longer if it wasn’t for Netflix.

  1. 12 Angry Men
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. 4 Little Girls
  4. The Accidental Tourist
  5. An Affair to Remember
  6. The Age of Innocence
  7. Alien
  8. All The President’s Men
  9. American Graffiti
  10. Angels in America
  11. The Apartment
  12. Apocalypse Now*
  13. Babe
  14. Back To The Future III
  15. The Battle of Algiers
  16. A Beautiful Mind
  17. Ben-Hur
  18. The Big Chill
  19. Blazing Saddles
  20. Bonnie and Clyde
  21. Born on the Fourth of July
  22. Brazil
  23. Citizen Kane
  24. A Clockwork Orange
  25. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  26. The Crying Game
  27. Dances with Wolves
  28. The Deer Hunter
  29. Doctor Zhivago
  30. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  31. Ed Wood
  32. Fargo
  33. Field of Dreams
  34. A Fistful of Dollars
  35. The Five Heartbeats
  36. Fletch
  37. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  38. The French Connection
  39. Funny Girl
  40. The Godfather Part III
  41. Gone With The Wind
  42. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  43. The Grapes of Wrath
  44. The Green Mile**
  45. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  46. Hamlet (1948)
  47. Hannah and Her Sisters
  48. Harold and Maude
  49. An Inconvenient Truth
  50. It’s A Wonderful Life
  51. JFK
  52. The King of Comedy
  53. King of New York
  54. L.A. Story
  55. The Last of the Mohicans
  56. The Last Temptation of Christ
  57. Lawrence of Arabia
  58. Life Is Beautiful
  59. The Maltese Falcon
  60. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  61. Manhattan
  62. Marathon Man
  63. MASH
  64. Midnight Cowboy
  65. Mississippi Burning
  66. Moonstruck
  67. Moulin Rouge!*
  68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  69. My Left Foot
  70. Network
  71. The Neverending Story
  72. The Nightmare Before Christmas
  73. North by Northwest
  74. Once Upon A Time In The West
  75. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  76. Ordinary People
  77. Rashomon
  78. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
  79. Rear Window
  80. Rebel Without a Cause
  81. Saving Private Ryan**
  82. Scent of a Woman
  83. Schindler’s List
  84. Sense and Sensibility
  85. The Seven Samurai
  86. Sid & Nancy
  87. Singin’ in the Rain
  88. Slacker
  89. Some Like It Hot
  90. The Sound of Music
  91. The Sting
  92. A Streetcar Named Desire
  93. Taxi Driver
  94. Terms of Endearment
  95. The Thin Red Line
  96. Tootsie
  97. Waking Life***
  98. The Way We Were**
  99. West Side Story
  100. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

Feel free to judge me

* I tried to watch it but fell asleep
** The ending was ruined for me so I wasn’t in a rush to see it
*** I actually own this but I keep falling asleep when I try to watch it.