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Fourth of July

July 5, 2008 / posted in Entertainment, Family and Friends, Movies, The Day To Day, Uncategorized, Videos / No Comments

I find it a bit depressing that I only had one post last month. Work has been busy and more stressful than usual. It’s not just me either, but for everyone in my department. The three day weekend has given me some much needed downtime.

On the forth, I slept in and went to my Mother’s house to cook out. Later that evening we managed to catch the fireworks show as we were heading home. We didn’t exactly plan to see them. We just happened to hear the percussion of fireworks as we left the house and drove in that direction. They were very impressive.

On Saturday, Alexis, Tyler, and I went to see “Hancock”. It’s a movie about a super hero who’s a miserable drunk that, while trying to help people, tends to wreak everything. The movie exceeded my expectations with an original character who is likable despite being flawed. I don’t consider this a typical Will Smith movie. Like his character in “I am Legend”, he isn’t all smiles and jokes.

On Sunday, Alexis and I went with her parents to see “Wall-E”. “Wall-E” met my high expectations for a Pixar movie. As Alexis had pointed out to me, the movie had very little dialog. The machines generally only spoke their names and when the humans spoke they furthered the plot. The visuals were great as was the story.

Uncle Paul?

April 13, 2008 / posted in Family and Friends, Gaming, Hockey Talk, Movies, The Day To Day, Videos / No Comments

I’m going to be an uncle. It hasn’t quite sunken in yet, which is why I forgot to mention it last week. My brother’s wife, Shannon, is going to have a baby boy sometime in late August.

In other news, Alexis and I had a pretty busy weekend. We started out by doing lawn work Saturday morning by mowing the lawn and trimming the tree in the front yard. Now I can actually mow around the tree without getting hit in the face by branches multiple times. Later that day I cooked steaks and watched the Dallas Stars smear the Anaheim Ducks five to two, making the series two to zero. On Sunday we went to a Texas Rangers game, courtesy of my Mom’s work place. We ate at a restaurant there at stadium then proceeded to our seats just eleven rows behind first base. After the game we went home and watched “V for Vendetta” and then played “BioShock” for the PC. Well, I played “BioShock” while Alexis watched, bit her nails, and gave me encouragement. I need all the help I can get. The game takes place in an underwater city, where science has been allowed to do as it will, without any moral constraints. The city is serious decay as are it’s inhabitants. See for yourself in the video below:

“V for Vendetta” was an excellent movie and seriously intense. I’ve linked to the trailer below:

B Movies

February 17, 2008 / posted in Movies / No Comments

After my last post I thought about the other B Movies that I own.

Big Trouble In Little China

You can’t go wrong with ninjas, special effects, and a cocky wise-cracking hero.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”

Biggles: Adventures in Time

Average guy spontaneously time travels to help a World War I flying ace named Biggles. Germans have some sort of sound weapon and Joe Schmo is the only one that can help? This is also Peter Cushing’s, AKA Moff Tarkin, last movie.

Evil Dead 2

The main character, played by Bruce Campbell, lops off his hand when evil gets inside it, then attaches a chainsaw where his hand use to be. As awful as that sounds, this movie is a classic campy zombie flick and Bruce Campbell = Gold

Goonies

A group of misfit kids find a treasure map and risk life and limb to find the treasure in order to keep the greedy land owners from foreclosing on their homes. The kids encounter booby traps, escaped convicts, and a likable disfigured lug who likes Baby Ruth candy bars. There are rumors of a sequel floating around and it’s no surprise because Goonies never say die.

They Live

Everyone has been hypnotized and can’t see that aliens have integrated themselves into our society. The hero, played by Roddy Piper, stumbles across treated sunglasses that block out the alien signal and allow him to see truth about the world around him.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.

House 2

This is possibly the silliest movie in the list. It’s a sequel to a horror movie that took itself seriously. Jesse, the main character, was orphaned as a kid and moves into his parents old house. He learns about a crystal skull that was buried with his great-great-grandfather and decides to dig it up. It turns out his good-natured great-great-grandfather is still alive due to the powers locked in the skull. Jesse must then protect the skull from random things that pop out of the woodwork, so that he can keep his grandfather alive.

Krull

This movie is hard to explain in a couple of sentences, but I’ll give it a try. A royal wedding is rudely interrupted by a midieval alien army. The prince is defeated and the princess is kidnapped, but, with the help of a mentor, the prince finds an awesome weapon, second only to a lightsaber, called “The Glave”. With it and a rag tag group composed of thieves, a child, a cyclops, and a goofy wizard they rescue the kidnapped princess and live happily ever after.

Inner Space

A second rate pilot along with a submersible pod is shrunk small enough to be injected into a hapless hypochondriac, played by Martin Short. Martin Short’s character gets thrown into a game of high tech espionage when another group tries to kidnap him and acquire the submersible pod. The movie has its moments with action and special effects showing the internal workings of the body.

Real Genius

An extremely smart and naive boy, named Mitch Tayler, attends a highly prestigious college and ends up rooming with Chris Knight, played by a young Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer plays a wise cracking uber genius who works for a professor that’s secretly selling his project to the government. When he discovers that the project is gone and the government plans to use it as a weapon, they form a plan to sabotage the project and pull a prank on the prof.
Memorable parts of the movie include Val Kilmer’s introduction to Mitch, a slew of one-liners, and a guy disappearing into Mitch’s closet.
Mitch: Did you know there’s a guy living in our closet?
Chris Knight: You’ve seen him too?
Mitch: Who is he?
Chris Knight: Hollyfeld.
Mitch: Why does he keep going into our closet?
Chris Knight: Why do you keep going into our closet?
Mitch: To get my clothes – but that’s not why he goes in there.
Chris Knight: Of course not, he’s twice your size – your clothes would never fit him.
Mitch: Yeah…
Chris Knight: Think before you ask these questions, Mitch. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that can wear his clothes?

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