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Archive for May, 2009
The Fast Food Challenge
May 26, 2009
Since The Beer Challenge went so well (with a few slip-ups), I decided to up the ante for the summer.
Starting June 1st, I’m giving up fast-food (McDonald’s, Burger King, White Castle, Wendy’s, Chipotle) until August 31st with one exception. I have a couple of road trips and I’m not going to starve myself.
I was debating all day whether pizza counts as fast food and decided only Domino’s counts.
This actually would be pretty easy except for when I’m strapped for cash and could have just gotten some dollar cheeseburgers from McDonald’s and, most frequently, when I come home drunk and am starving for White Castle. Hell, I take cabs from the bars TO White Castle.
Oh well, wish me luck.
Movie of the Week: Terminator Salvation
May 26, 2009
Man, what would it take to get James Cameron to come back to the franchise? This movie was okay. Not as bad as the reviews made it seem. Sam Worthington was great (considering some of the awful lines he was given). Christian Bale (still in Dark Knight-voice mode) really didn’t bring anything to the role aside from being grim for two and a half hours (which is sad because the movie was rewritten to make John Connor a bigger part of the film). Anton Yelchin did an awesome Michael Biehn impression as young Kyle Reese.
I wasn’t sure for awhile but it’s official: Common gives some of the worst line readings I have ever heard. I want to know who his agent is that he keeps getting parts in these big movies. No way McG didn’t cringe when he watched the dailies.
The script and plot were very suspect but one thing that bugged me about the final act of the movie was how STUPID Skynet was. This part is spoilery so stop reading if you didn’t see the movie and don’t want to be spoiled.
Once it hits your lips, it’s so good!
May 25, 2009
The Beer Challenge is over! I didn’t do to bad.
- Three days where I drank because of beer pong
- Two baseball games
- One day that I took a “day off” but that was after a month had gone by
Not bad all things considered. I wonder what my next personal challenge should be…
24 Season Seven: 6:00AM – 7:00AM / 7:00AM – 8:00AM
May 19, 2009
Final Kill Count: 28 (+3)
Um, is there another hour of this season that I’m unaware of? I thought this was the season finale.
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A New Way For Me To Bore You
May 18, 2009
I created a page on Tumblr called “Sean Loves This…“
I’ll just be posting random quotes, songs, videos and photos that I…well…love.
(I know, how interesting do I think I am?)
Movie of the Week: Star Trek: The IMAX Experience
May 18, 2009
This is definitely the movie to beat this summer.
I’m not a hardcore Star Trek fan. I never watched any of the TV series but I’ve seen all but two of the movies (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek: Insurrection). I thought director J.J. Abrams and screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman did a great job of reintroducing the new cast, respecting Star Trek canon but giving themselves an “out” of having to repeat the same stories everyone already knows.
I loved the inside jokes (never where the red jumpsuits) and every time a character said their stock line (“Damnit, Jim, I’m a doctor!”, “I’m giving it all she’s got!”, etc.), I got a little smile on my face
The cast was great although I think Chris Pine played Kirk as too much of a douche. The standout was Zachary Quinto who was born to play Spock.
One quibble, what is Abrams’ obsession with powerful red glowing liquids?
Lost Season Five: The Incident
May 14, 2009
What I Liked:
- Great acting all-around especially the tense shootout at the future Swan station
- This season has been Josh Holloway’s moment to shine and he did not disappoint
- Jack and Sawyer come to full-fledged blows
- Rose, Bernard and Vincent! I’m glad the writers effectively wrote them out of the show but in a completely satisfying way that was true to their character
- We finally meet the infamous Jacob and see the four-toed statue (it appears to be Sobek)
- I liked Jacob’s flashback showing him nudging Kate, Jack, Sayid, Sawyer, Locke and Hurley along.
- It also appears we have met the true villain of Lost (I’ll call him “Black” from this point forward because it couldn’t have been a coincidence that he was wearing black while Jacob was in white during the first scene)
- Sun found Charlie’s DriveShaft ring!
- I’m glad that the “what lies in the shadow of the statue” people are the good guys too.
- We finally know what lies in the shadow of the statue: “That which will save us all.” (translated from Latin)
- I knew it was Locke’s body in that box!
- If this is the end for Elizabeth Mitchell (it appears so), she went out with a bang figuratively and literally. I don’t think I ever wanted a person to be saved during a cliched “don’t let me go or I’ll fall” scene than I wanted Juliet to be saved
What I Didn’t Like:
- Sayid bleeding to death in the back of the van and I have the radioactive core of a hydrogen bomb, sure, I have five minutes to chat
- The fact that Kate played even a minuscule factor in Jack’s decision to set off the H-Bomb made me groan and wish that Jack got shot.
- I hated Juliet’s flip-flop to go along with Jack’s plan because of Sawyer’s glance to Kate during Bernard’s speech about being with the one you love. But I was okay with it more than I was Jack.
