Tom
Cruise and Katie Holmes are throwing in the Xenu Towel (Divorce that
is)
From
Reuters, ((Hollywood
superstar couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning to divorce,
People magazine reported, citing Holmes' attorney.))
After
five years of “Free Katie”, I guess she and we will finally see
that happen. Here's the kicker, this time it was Katie that filed
for divorce. Karama is a bitch, because it was Tom Cruise that
blindsided Nicole Kidman. And, Kidman hasn't seen her children since
then.
From
Huffington Post,((According
to TMZ, Holmes
is the one who filed for divorce,
citing "irreconcilable differences," and is asking for sole
legal and primary residential custody of Suri. Their sources add that
Cruise apparently did not see the divorce coming.))
You
can blame the state of her career on the bad press she got from
joining his Space Church and marrying him. At the time, Scientology
was being attacked by the blow-back from the South Park-gate and she
was caught in the cross-hairs. There was some behind the scenes
battles with WB after Batman Begins. WB recast her Rachel
Dawescharacter
with another actress. When the Dark Knight came out she did Mad Money
instead. That movie barely broke even. Her career hasn't fully
healed ever since marrying him.
And,
don't forget she was in one of the worst movies of all times...Jack
and Jill
.
Make
no mistake about it, she wants out of the church and she wants to
take her daughter with her too. It's going to get ugly. (up in here,
up in here)
He has a bit of Bubba Sparks
in his vibe doesn’t he? Actually, he is
a cross between Marky-Mark and Bubba.
I’m not sure if this was done for real or created to fan the
trolls. I mean look at his face he
looks Marky-Mark.
Someone from Facebook treated
(inflicted?) me to this rapper and I found him to be entertaining in a “Hot
Problems” Rebecca Black sort of way. He's has some internet fame it seems, enough for there to
be a Wiki page on him and his buddy Money Maker
Mike.
And, yes, the tall
nerd standing with him, doing nothing is called Money Maker Mike. I guess he is
Kreme's DJ Jazzy Jeff. Does Mike have
any rap skills?
To be fair, his
rap skills (skillz?) have improved over the three videos. That’s not saying much, but still.
Honestly, I actually like this trailer a lot. They really didn’t change the outfit that
much. And, I like that we never see
Dredd take off his helmet in the trailer.
Compare the new trailer to the old awful movie starring
Sylvester Stallone. As far as I know
there will be no Rob (Surf Ninjas) Schneider. Now, isn’t this concept of a group of cops fighting an entire
apartment complex from an Asian film?
If you get a chance, re-watch the Stallone version. I will
give the movie credit for its score and amazing FX for the cityscape. It truly feels like an oversized city. Too bad the acting and writing aren’t as
good.
For a while PC gaming had the independent developers and games
on their sides, but it seems both Microsoft and Sony have had many of these independent
games on their networks. I still do
like Steam on the PC, despite not having the time to use it as much.
Gaming consoles have become light computers in a sense
too.
I am starting to see a growing trend of buggy games starting
to sneak their way onto console gaming systems. I guess because they can fix it via online updates.
~True Blood: It is
very good this year. I like some of the new stuff they threw into
the world this year. HBO has had some really good shows on the
network. I liked seeing the origines of Pam before her vampire
turning.
~Community:
I am not even sure I'll even bother watching Community this upcoming
season. And, the season finale could be viewed as a series finale.
It was certainly written that way. Having the major shakeup with the
writing crew just can't be good for the show. There won't be six
seasons and a movie.
~Standing in Line:
As I've gotten older, I've noticed I have a low tolerance for
standing in lines now. I don't like having people around me anyway,
but it's gotten worst to the point that I hate being around people in
general. Lines are the worst of both worlds because they surround
you from front and back with people. I remember standing in line to
get my reserved PS2 way back in the day. Today, I won't even bother
doing that. I still have that heavy PS2 sitting somewhere. Now,
where is that thing?
~Oh
Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mickey,
hey Mickey Oh
Mickey, you're so fine!
~That's My Boy: Well, the latest
Adam Sandler movie has failed. The movie cost 70 million to make and
it has
only made 29 million worldwide. Ouch, even the legion of Sandler
fans didn't bother seeing the movie. Where as Jack and Jill was a
modest hit, this one will never make its money back. Sandler movies
stick to a formula and that's it. I still like Anger Management,
despite it sticking to that Sandler Formula. And, why was this movie
70 Million? It makes no sense. If you're going to make money, you
have to stop making these 70 + comedies.
~I will get to my second part of the Prometheus review. Movie reviews take longer to write than other things.
This is a brutal
fight. The guy in the red shirt was actually a good fighter, but
they knocked him out before he got up. They gang up on him like a
bunch of punks. The worst part is when they continue to beat him
after he's been knocked out. What assholes.
Here's the full
video.
Here's the good
news: these two assholes have turned themselves in. And, this is
partly because of YouTube. From
Huff Post, ((He
says 21-year-old David Mendez and 27-year-old Edras Ramirez, both of
Los Angeles, were jailed on suspicion of assault. They remain jailed
Thursday.
Authorities
believe they're the men who were videotaped beating and kicking a man
on a transition road to the Interstate 5 freeway on June 12.))
Here's
the kicker, the victim was arrested too for a completely different
reason. From
AP, ((The
man who was beaten in the video, identified as Jerry Patterson, was
arrested without incident in Altadena on an outstanding warrant on
suspicion of DUI, hit and run and assault in a May 25 incident, the
California Highway Patrol told NBC4-TV on Thursday
))
So, yeah he's an
a-hole too, but he didn't deserve the beating.
Holy crap that is a good trailer. It makes me want to see the movie even
more.
Notes:
-You see the famous breakout scene where Bane’s people
take apart a plane in mid-air.
-There is a clip where you see prisoners breaking out of
prison. This might be based on the
Knight Fall series where Bane broke out all the bad criminals in order to wear
down Batman. So, we’re seeing a bit of
that mixed into the script.
Bujold just doesn't have same
warmness as Kate Mulgrew. VOY had some good performances and Mulgrew
does a great job because she has a softer tone to her performance, but still keeping it strong.
Bujold doesn't seem to have a strong presence either. When Bujold
was playing the role the character was called Nicole Janeway. (She wanted the name Nicole) You
can notice that Bujold keeps her distance from everyone while Kate
seems to always have a closeness to people.
They
were filming the pilot when Bujold promptly quit show after a couple
of days of shooting. From Memory
Alpha,
((She
quit after a day and a half of shooting, with the public reason being
she was unaccustomed to the hectic pace of television filming. Other
rumored reasons included dissatisfaction with her performance on the
part of the producers and dissatisfaction with the character on the
part of Bujold
))
Rumor
has it, she had a breakdown on set with the entire crew and actors
watching. The director got angry with this display of weakness. He said, "Don't act this way, you're the captain."
From
Memory Alpha, ((Berman
also recalled that after working on the set during the second day of
shooting, Bujold went to her trailer in tears. Later, both
"Caretaker" director Winrich
Kolbeand
Berman met with her there and asked her to go home
))
And,
this photo pretty much sums up why I am already sick of Kanye and
Kim. Say what you want about Kanye, but at least he worked for him
fame. Kim, on the other hand, has no talent to speak of. Well, she did bang Ray J and that's saying a whole lot.
It just
seems like they want to the whole world to know they're in love.
We
get it. You're famous and rich and in love.
After
that foolish wedding, Kanye needs to watch out because she'll use him
too.
F' it. They were meant for each other.
Now, I am not saying she's a gold digger, but she messing with no...city slicker.
Do
you remember these ads? They were a part of those “Bo Knows” ads
from back in the day. Bo Jackson was known for playing in
professional baseball and football. So, there was something to
market there. Bo
promoted the cross-training shoes for the Nike company.
Nike
saw him as a media titan just like Jordan, but it didn't turn out
that way. After his hip injury, he was never the same. He did show up in a Pepsi ad, injured.
And,
yes that was Sonny Bono in there as a cameo. Pretty funny.
Bo
Diddley
This
one is my favorite one because of Bo Diddley (not Boo Diddly)
appearance. I remember seeing this long version of the ad way back
in the day with Bo getting better with the music. And, what's with
the square guitars?
I
also like that they threw in Bo doesn't know hockey.
Does Bo know Blogging?
They should really bring these ads back, in the same way they did with the Mars Blackmon ads for Nike.
Amia Miley: I find
it funny that this is probably the only time so many people have even
talked about the Pornstar Ania Miley. I've always found her very
cute . I had no idea she had quit the business. Anyway, Kanye
West's Twitter page posted a picture of a naked woman eating some
while sitting on a bed. People assumed it was Kim Kardashian, but it
was Amia instead.
This follow up isn’t bad, but
not nearly as good as the first one.Beat for beat the movie is nearly identical to the first movie to the
point that it gets a little boring.This
time around they go to Thailand, and that’s about it on the differences.And, don’t get me wrong there are some funny
moments here and there.And, I found
myself liking their exploits from the night before more entertaining than the
current story being told.
I’ll also give the movie
credit for being slightly darker in tone than the first one. However, that doesn’t make up for a weaker
script than the first movie. All the
major players are back and pretty much fit right into the role they were in the
first one. Zach’s character gets them
into trouble again.
The movie just isn’t as good
as the first one with the entire story beats being played out exactly the
same. This sequel is more of a remake
than a sequel anyway. Then there are
cheap laughs that make me shake my head like the transvestite jokes. I like raunchy humor, but those jokes seems
a little too ugly. Again, the darker
elements are refreshing, but the repeated jokes from the first film do get
tiresome. I can’t say I’d recommend the
movie, but it isn’t as bad as say Freddy Got Fingered.
Grade C-
The Hangover crew looks at the new Lindsay Lohan movie.
I personally thought
they should have kept this scene in the movie. It is a very grim
scene, because it shows that the Alien doesn't only kill people but
wrap them up in this shit. I believe James Cameron used elements of
this cocoon stage for his Aliens movie. Where I think here it is
implied that the alien was going to implant the “seed”. Aliens
shows us differently.
In
the movie, Dallas
is
seen one last time with the Alien catching him in the ducts and
that's all we see of him. In the theatrical cut, it is implied that
he died. Here, we see that Ripley kills him out of pity.
From
IMDB, ((After
Ripley discovers the remains of Parker and Lambert, she makes another
discovery. Ripley enters the landing gear area of the Nostromo (where
Brett got killed) and discovers a cocooned Dallas and Brett mutating
into an egg. Dallas pleads, "Kill me". Ripley flames Dallas
and the Brett-egg and then runs to set the ship on self-destruct.
))
So, they were being
turned into eggs. That's pretty gruesome. Given what we see in
Prometheus, I could actually buy the different methods of the Aliens
birthing cycle.
Planning Deleted
Scene
This scene is a
little rough, and clearly was meant to have cut away shots and
closeups. I agree that this one needed to be cut.
We had a terrible hailstorm
here too, but it wasn’t as bad as the one in Texas.
From
Reuters, ((Insured losses from the massive
hailstorm that struck the Dallas area on Wednesday could reach as much as $2
billion, making it one of the most costly storms of its type in U.S. history,
an insurance organization said on Friday. ))
I've been caught in a
hailstorm and it is very painful on the skin. Plus, you get pockets full of ice
in your jacket.
Plus, think about how much
wildlife died in the storm. When that one storm hit Louisville, we had a lot of
dead birds everywhere.
Yeah, that was in poor
taste. I am not a supporter of Bush,
but that it was a bit too far I think. You
can’t do something like that. When a
singer makes threatening remarks to Obama, we’re outraged, and this is no
different.
No one would have noticed it
if it wasn’t for the producers pointing it out though. Most people would have focused in on the old hand-maiden head.
From
LA Times, (( And the creators David
Benioff and D.B. Weiss pointed it out in the DVDcommentary on the episode.
"George Bush's head appears in a couple of
beheading scenes," the duo revealed in their commentary. "It's not a
choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever heads we
had lying around."
We use a lot of
prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can't afford to have
these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them,
so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out
that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.
"In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this,
though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and
apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise." ))
Prometheus is a very beautiful film with
some interesting concepts about evolution and mutation thrown in as its central
theme. I am truly surprised how much I
love this movie. It certainly didn’t
disappoint. Its roots are firmly
planted in the Alien universe, yet the movie is its own story and could
possibly sprout its own series of sequels.
Prometheus is a very good movie, but sometimes gets a little too carried
away with its big ideas. However, the
movie is very entertaining with some thoughtful commentary about the origins of
mankind. It will not answer all the
questions for you, and that’s all right.
I don’t want to reveal too much of the
basic plot, but it is about a crew of people out to search for the origins of
human life. However, they discover that
there might bigger and worst things out there ready to destroy them and all of
mankind
Ridley Scott does an
outstanding job fully realizing the universe again with this different take on
the premise of a crew going out into unknown and bringing something really bad
back. The opening of the movie has a
sweeping scope that could only be realized by Scott. The movie opens big with the birth of life on Earth. This is a very well directed moment and it
is referenced with a darker take with the “birth” at the end of the film. So, we begin and end the movie with a
“birth”. And, I don’t want to give away
what that birth is at the end, but fans of the series will love it. It was one of my favorite moments.
The visuals are truly astounding. The CGI and makeup effects are
top-notch. You really get the feel for
the strange alien creatures and mutations.
The film does raise some serious
questions about the origins of humankind and even religion to a certain
extent. For some, many of those
questions will not be answered and other questions will arise from those
answers. And, that’s what I really
enjoyed about the movie. The movie
teases us with answers and they literally take them away brutally. It is within the subtext of the movie that
some of those questions will be answered too.
The movie also works on a horror movie
level too, thus going back to its Alien roots.
There are some truly disturbing scenes, such as the C-section scene and
the black ooze attack. Scott
masterfully builds the tension with all the scary moments in the movie. And, he even teases us with one scene where
a character says, “There’s something else living down there.”
Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof wrote a
fine script, but there are times when it seems they got too ambitious. With the fast pace of the script, sometimes
characters get a little left behind in the rush to the conclusion.
Side note:
Jerry Goldsmith’s Main Theme does appear
in the film and soundtrack! I got a big
smile on my face in the theater. It is
early on in the film, so listen for it.
The Special effects for just this mere ad are pretty
good, but there is a problem. Are they
selling the TV show or the personality of Charlie Sheen? Are we all Charlie Sheen-ed out now?
Part of me hopes this TV crashes and burns just like
this ad. And, I know this is based on one of Adam Sandler’s better movies,
but is Sheen the right person for the job? I think FX is throwing their money away.
I’ve always said, “Would your
past self be disappointed with yourself current self”. Chyna (doll) would be
this type of person.
Has anyone worked as so hard
to get to the top only to fall so far?
She “The Ninth Wonder of the World” was born in Rochester, New York and
busted her ass to become a bodybuilder.
She came from a broken childhood, so that was probably what drove her to
be something different. And, looking at
her Wiki page, she went through a lot bad shit, but became a collage graduate.
She began working in the WWF
(f’ the E). I remember being drawn to
the background “bodyguard” of Triple H.
She had an amazing look to her that made her stand out. I think her prime in WWF was when she left
DX and teamed up with Eddie Guerrero. I
think they also softened her looks up a bit during this time.
I still think Triple H broke
her heart when he started dating Stephanie McMahon.
From Wiki, ((Laurer also defended her title against Lita at Judgment
Day in 2001.[53] Although she won the match, she soon vacated the
Women's Championship, as this was Laurer's final WWF match. The relationship
between Triple H, her former real-life boyfriend, and Stephanie
McMahon (with whom Laurer
claims he had an affair and then left her for), was a major factor in her
departure.[38] She left World Wrestling Federation on November 30, 2001,
several months after she had been taken off of television.[54]Jim Ross later claimed that she was not fired, but rather
chose to leave for personal reasons. ))
And, I think that made her
slide into the depths of shit that she's in now. After leaving or getting fired
from the WWF, I think she went about aimlessly.
After showing up drunk and
high in many places, she is now doing porn. That's right porn. Most people that
go into porn see it as misguided way of moving up to better things. Somehow,
Chyna managed to go from being at the top to lowering herself into porn.
And, now she looks like this.
Yep, I am sure she's okay. (eye roll)
Oh, and she just starred in
her newest porn movie.
I have to agree with Todd in the Shadows. This is the worst tie-in song to a movie in
a long time. When you think about the
first song MIB by Will Smith, it is light years away from this garbage. The music video is way better than this and
the lyrics actually tell the plot of the movie, unlike this mess.
While I didn’t like Danny Elfman’s score for this movie, I
wished they had used it for the closing credits instead of this crap.
After watching this video, why do I feel so dirty? The music seems to be an ending to an
extremely wild orgy of some kind with all the sweaty people sleeping around the
house. I’m sure the post party smells
like beer, corn chips and weed. It
almost makes me want to go this party, but then realizing I would have to drop
by the clinic the next day for a screening.
I have to give the director credit for making the whole video
seem very seedy with the side-pans throughout the entire video. It almost gives it a 80s porn feel with the
brown colors and strange edits.
This music video and song put Fiona Apple on the map thanks to
her different look and strong voice.
The song is very dirty with its message, and probably something today’s
Fiona wouldn’t sing. This song proved
that she was a good singer with an interesting video to back it up.
While Fiona isn’t “my type” in body shape, she looks pretty
damn good-looking here. I guess it is
the way they shot her and put focus on her very pretty eyes.
Notes:
-What are you trying to say with the “long” nose stuffed
doll?
-A vacuum cleaner?
What are you trying to suggest there, Fiona?
-Why are you in a closet, Fiona?
-Did you catch the little noose tied to the chair at the end
of the video? What was that about?
-Why are there oranges in the bath? Are people worried about scurvy?
~Looking
forward to Prometheus, just not sure if it is the movie I wanted.
However, right now on RT the movie
at 73%, which is a good thing.
Ridley
Scott
crafted a good
space movie in the form of Alien and I am hoping he does the same
here. Yes, we know its a prequel. I've been listening to the
Soundtrack recently too. Now, will I see it tomorrow or Saturday?
Probably early Saturday. This was the movie I wanted to answer
certain questions left from Alien.
Dish people will miss out on Joan, and that's a very bad thing.
~Dish
Network, aren't you being a little childish here with AMC? I
swear some of these network Dish disputes are just plain petty.
Because of the negations getting heated between Dish and AMC, Dish
decided to bury AMC to the depths of channel hell to channel 9609.
Talk about giving them the shaft. If AMC loses Dish, they will lost
millions in this dispute. And, Dish will lose a highly rated network
too. But, moving AMC to 9609 just seems childish to me. It's like
when the chubby kid takes his ball with him because he didn't get to
score (in more ways than one).
~Drew
Barrymore married again: Maybe three times is the charm. I am not
sure why she married Freddy Got Fingered director/writer/actor.
Maybe the Chad was really great. Do you remember her being in Batman
Forever as the henchmen (girl) Sugar? She looked very good in that
movie, but her character was one of the weaker aspects of that movie.
Too campy and too Batman 60s for my taste.
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