Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Spaaaaarrrrtaaaannnns.........

So today is the day cats and kittens. 300 comes out on DVD today. Best Buy seems to have the coolest offer, with a mini-spartan helmet and some cool mini-artwork in a box set for thrity five bucks. Circuit City had just some art work (I think it is the same as what came in the box set) and the retard zoo has it boxed with the history channel DVD about the real spartans. I can't stress enough how much every single one of you needs to go out and buy this movie. It is the best damn movie I have seen in ten years, at least. The visiuals are amazing, the action is nearly non-stop and the story is good. And for the women and gay men it has some of the best looking men in the best shape I have ever seen (no I have not started batting for the other team, I am just confortable enough that I can say those are good looking men). In case you are unfamilar with the story it is about the Persian army trying to invade Sparta. When the king of Persia brings his army of nearly a million men the Spartans send three hundred (because the Persian king bought the Spartan congress to not send the entire army) to a place called the hot gates (a large stone passageway into Sparta). There the mighty three hundred hold off the Persian army for so long and kill so many of them that the Persians actually loose the desire to fight. Of course no matter how good a fighter you are three hundred against a million aren't good odds and the three hundred all die. But that rallies the rest of the Spartan army to march against the Persians and send them packing (that last part isn't in the movie). Again I have to say it, BUY THIS MOVIE!!! It looks like the two disk set is loaded with bonus features but they are selling a single disk version for those of you who aren't big into the making of kind of stuff. Yes I alreday have a copy of it, I was at Best Buy right at ten when they opened to get the cool boxed set with the mini-helmet (I missed the V for Vendetta boxed set with the mini V mask and wasn't going to let that happen again).

Oh I did finally go see Chuck and Larry on Sunday. It wasn't nearly as bad as the critics are saying it is. It wasn't great by any stretch but it had quite a few funny moments. And Jessica Beil looks great in nearly the entire movie. Lets just say I would do bad naughty things to that girl for sure.... but I digress. This movie had plenty of stupid stuff in it, and Sandler isn't on his top game for sure, but all it was worth the five bucks I paid to see it (AMC has cheap movies before noon on Friday, Sat, and Sunday). If you can't see it that cheap, wait until it comes to DVD and rent it, Netflix it, or download it. All in all; B-/C+

So the job hunting isn't going well again. Rent is due tomorrow, and I am more then a little short (nearly all of it). I am running out of shit to sell, and am about to start selling things I don't really want to get rid of. I think my Beehive clone bucket might be next on the list, I think I might paint it up and put it on Ebay. I also have an extra Fett bucket that I got as payment for painting some Fett armor (back when I was still making plenty of money and didn't really need the extra it seemed like a good deal) that I could paint up and sell. I really don't want to do either of those since I had plans for both of those helmets, but at this point it is looking grim.

On a completly unrelated note I managed to get my paintball gun fixed, on my own! I don't know if I had mentioned it here or not but a while ago I took my paintball gun out to play and something happened and it made a loud pop noise and started rushing gas out the front end of it. Since this is the first Angel paintball gun I have ever owned I wasn't too familar with it and had no idea what the problem could be. Right after it happened I posted on PBnation.com about it and got pretty much non-sense answers. I had since opened a ticket with the Angel master techs at fixmyangel.com and was going to send it it. I just was looking over their site when I noticed they had a forum that was a Q&A section with a master tech, basically you post what your problem is and they post what might be causing it. Well I did that just so I could get an estimate of what it was going to cost to fix. Well the MT posted back as to what it might be. He thought it might just be that my valve might not be seated correctally. So I downloaded a new manual for my gun, figured out what part he was talking about, and checked. Sure enough it wasn't. I also figured out why my breach was hard to open and close, and fixed that. So now my gun works fine and it cost me NOTHING! All praise to those wonderfull Master Techs at fixmyangel.com So now as soon as I get working and get money again (though I do have a free entry to the Wednesday night tournys and enough paint I could play) and Eric gets his ass in gear and gets his gun fixed (his really does need to be sent in) we can go out and play! I am very excited.

Well I am off, I need to spend some time looking at job postings, then it is time to watch 300!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

I quit...

So I got tired of going to that new job. I really hated it. So I quit, Friday night. No I don't have a new job yet, no I don't care. I just couldn't stand going to that one anymore. So no more for me. I am still hopeing to hear from Sea World and if I do I will be happy. I also put in some applications to a couple of other places and perhaps I will hear from some of them.

Now Saturday was a monument to inactivity for me. I managed to sleep for the entire day, and I do mean all of it. I went to sleep around eight in the morning and I woke up at four in the morning on Sunday! Holy crap that felt good!

I did go see The Simpsons Movie on Friday. But I will have more about that later. I still haven't seen I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry yet but I will. Probally today.

One thing I think I forgot to mention on here is that last Saturday I went out to dinner with Randy and Angie (they drove from out of town just to come have dinner with me!). We went to Kobe Steakhouse (it's one of those Japanese places where they cook at your table) and I love that place. Afterwords we went to Dunkin Doughnuts/Baskin Robins for ice cream. While we were sitting in there a group of four twenty-something year olds came and sat at the table next to us. One of them at one point got up and went outside to his car. When he came back in he had one of the Don Post Boba Fett helmets in his hand. He handed it to me and said he thought I might want it more then he did (he saw my Boba Fett t-shirt I was wearing). He just gave me that helmet. Now of course I have two helmets alreday that are way better then this DP ever could be but I wasn't going to turn it down. Hell part of me thought to paint it and then sell it on E-bay for a fat cunck of change. Later when I went to the retard zoon looking for Transformers toys a dude comes walking out of the toy isle with an arm load of them. I noticed he was carrying one of the ones I acually wanted (08 body style bumblebee) and he asked if I was looking to Transformers toys, to which I responded that I was looking for what he was carrying in his arms. He asked which one (at this point I noticed he had like five of the bumblebees as well as several others) and I told him. He looked at his arm load and handed me on of the bumblebees. He also pointed me to one of the other ones I was looking for (bonecrusher). I thanked him and he went on his way. Now I am sure he is one of those guys that goes in and hoards all of the hard to find figures then sells them on e-bay for a high price. But it was really cool of him to just hand me one of the harder to find figures. It's not something you see everyday. So I went home and posted on TDH about these two random acts of kindness. Just becuase I wanted to share them. Eric mentioned that I should give him the DP helmet becuase he wanted it. I told him no since he alreday had a DP helmet and a brand new Boba Maker helmet and didn't need it. But it made me think, I don't really need it either... So I decided that i was going to give it away. Since some random stranger was nice enough to give it to me, I decided I would do the same thing, give it away to someone who would enjoy it more then me. So I started a thread on TDH saying I would give it to anyone who really needed it. I also decided that I would custom paint it for who ever wins it how ever they want, for free. Since the helmet had just been given to me I wanted to add something that I could give into the pot. Well this inspired a couple of other people to do the same thing, one guy tossed in a full painted set of armor on a vest, another threw in a painted rocketpack, and one more tossed in a set of metal guantlet darts! All to whom ever I choose wins it. No one is asking for anything in return (except that the winner pays shipping). I really thought this was a nice thing to do and I hope the new owner really enjoys this stuff.

On to other things now. Thursday I said I was going to Eric's house to paint Randy's royal guard helmet with my new spray gun. Well I did, but man everything that could have gone wrong did. First for some reason my compressor died (it's brand new mind you), thankfully Eric's dad had a big nice one I could use. Then the regulator for the paint gun stripped out and fell off. That was a bigger problem... I managed to get it to stay on long enough to paint the helmet, sort of. While painting it, the helmet started to fall over, and I didn't want it to fall and smash into a million little peices so I reached for it...with the hand with the metal paint gun in it... and chipped the helmet. Then when I finished the helmet, I was going to run paint thinner though it to clean it but the regulator fell off and wouldn't go back on so I could only get a little bit of thinner though it. Needless to say it didn't go nearly as well as I was hopeing. Now I have to fill the chip with bondo, sand then entire surface and then re-primer it. So all I really did was waste time, paint, and money. GOOD TIMES! I went out and picked up a couple of new regulators for the gun, both of them were really cheap (thank god for harbor freight!) and a stand to hold the gun when I am not using it and to fill it. So hopefully I will not have the same damn problem again.

I did get the Jango armor finished and it will be shipped out today. I got started on the rocket pack, but have hit a snag since I can't find the light blue paint for it. So I am not real sure what I am going to do with it now.

I really think I am going to go see Chuck and Larry today...probally.

Now review time!
The Simpsons Movie: I will warn you, I have not seen the later seasons of the Simpsons, and I don't really like the first couple of seasons. But I am a fan of the middle seasons (and I would probally like the new seasons but I don't have TV so I don't know). I was a bit dissapointed with this movie. It had a couple of quick laughs though out the entire movie, but I was really expecting more. The plot is really weak, but I wasn't expecting much. It had some decent sight gags, and the Tom Hanks cameo is great. But I was just expecting it to be a lot funnier. I mean really they have had like eightteen years to get this right, and it let me down. They did show Bart's wang, and I could have done without that. Marge curses, Maggie speaks, and Homer puts a silo of pig shit into a lake. Stay though the credits, all of them. But I do think some of the credits were a joke if you actually read them, there was a Japanese section that all of the names sounded like jokes. I could be wrong and just made a terrible raciest comment but I am pretty sure they were really jokes. All in all: B-

DVD review:

Cars: First let me say that I love Pixar movies. I really love them. But this one I think is the weakest of their movies so far. While it was good, and better then a lot of other movies I have seen, it wasn't great. I was really expceting this one to be incredible (some pun intended!) but it just wasn't. It had good moments but it was a pretty big let down. The credits had some of the most funny stuff in it. (espcially the part with the big truck mentioning that Pixar uses the same voice in all of their movies....his! It's the guy who did the voice of the piggy bank in Toy Story, and used to be on Cheers) I am pretty glad I waited for DVD on this one. All in all: C+

Masters of Horror: Ciggarette Burns: I will of course mention that I am a big horror fan, and anyone who has been to my condo can tell you that. I have a life sized Jason Voorhees statue in my living room (not a cardboard cutout thing but a real maniquin). I built my own Freddy glove, I have all of the Sideshow toys Jason figures. I used to have Freddy mask, and still techinally own one but it is at a guys house to be repainted and it has been there for two plus years....anyway I am getting sidetracked. This flick was done by John Carpenter (Halloween, Christine, The Fog, The Thing etc.) and is about a guy who goes in search of a rare film that makes who ever sees it go mad and kill people. As the main character gets closer to finding it he sees ciggarette burns and then flashes of bad things. It was decent, but not so much as a horror movie, more as a suspense/thriller. I enjoyed it and look forward to seeing more from this series. They have a bunch of these short films (each one is only an hour) all done by great horror directors. All in all: B


Well kids that is all for now. I will post here reviews of what ever film I end up seeing today.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Working...

So I know it's been a while, sorry I am lazy. But I have good news to report, I am once again gainfully employed. I got a new job at the Sheraton Safari resort near Disney. I am once again working over nights, doing audit work. I also had my interview with Sea World on Tuesday (it got pushed back) and I felt like it went well. The bad news, I hate my new job. It sucks something hard core. It is actually seven to eight hours worth of night audit work, and that is aweful, and boring as all hell. Now the problem isn't that it's eight hours of work, but that it is eight hours of audit work. I only did the old job because the audit work was only about three hours, and I could stand that. Hopefully I will hear back from Sea World and get that job and go there and ditch this new job as I HATE it.

I have made quite a bit of progress on some of my projects here at the house, though. I have the Jango armor almost all done, the Boba armor is about seventy percent done. I still need to finish those two, and then paint the Jango rocket pack and I will be all done. I am going today to Eric's house to paint Randy's royal guard helmet with my nifty automobile spray gun. I hope I can figure out what to do with it all and not kill my self in the process. I guess the paints are like SUPER TOXIC and if proper safty steps aren't taken death can insue. And knowing me I will probally forget something and have to make another trip to the hospital... man that would not be good at all.

I think, depending on what time I finish at Eric's place I might go see I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry today. I know I told a couple of you that I was going to go see it this previous weekend, but I didn't I was lazy. But you know what comes out tomorrow? SIMPSONS MOVIE!! I am excited about that one for sure. Well that is all I have for now, I am going to go cook some lunch and then get on the road to Eric's.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Sleep...who needs that??

So it's nearly five am and am I sleeping? No. Do I want to be? Yes. Since I don't work nights anymore there is no reason for me to be awake in the midding of the damn night, yet here I am. For some reason I can't sleep much these days. I have only been getting like three or four hours a day at best. Oh well, I am sure I don't really need it.

So at last I have some mildly good news on the job front. Sea World called today, and I have an interview set up for Thursday at two thirty. The interview is for a front of house manager at Sharks Underwater Grill. Basically that would be the guy in charge of all the wait staff, hostess, and bartenders. It doesn't pay that great but right now income is income.

Also on a prop building note I went out and picked up a book on how to paint cars. Now you might be saying "But Mark, you don't paint cars!" Well you are correct I don't paint cars, because if I did I wouldn't need a book telling me how to do it! But really the book is to teach me how to paint with auto paints using my nifty new spray gun Randy got me. (He got it for me becuase I am painting his royal guard helmet with it) I am pretty happy with this book and it seems really informative.

I was bored today so I went and saw another new movie. This one has been out for a little more then a week. But in case you haven't seen it yet read on.

Licensce to Wed: I tried to call Greg and find out if this movie was any good or not before seeing it but he didn't answer his phone so I went in only with the reviews that I could find online. Needless to say I didn't have high hopes for this one after reading some of these reviews. I was very plesently supprised. The movie was actually quite funny. The trailers do give quite a bit of it away both plot-wise and most of the jokes are in the trailers too. But none the less it was funny. And apparently most of the theater I was in thought the same as well as there were parts that I couldn't hear the dialog because people were laughing so loud. The movie's plot is pretty weak, and it wasn't hard to figure out what was going to happen. Mandy Moore did a so so job, but she looked good most of the movie so that is what's really important. Robin Williams has jumped the shark I think. The main male star was the saving grace for the movie. His responses to most of the shit that happend to him are what got most of the laughs. While it wasn't the funniest movie I have seen I enjoyed it enough to not be bored with it. You can almost deffinatally wait until DVD or it's on the pay movie chanels if you have those. All in all: B-


Have you gone and seen Transformers in theaters yet? No ? WHY THE HELL NOT? If you wait much longer they will take it out of the big theaters with the larger screens and better sound and put it into the shit theaters (you know all theaters have those) and you will miss out. GO NOW! Trust me you will thank me after words. If you don't I will give you your money back....








Ok no I won't give you your money back but if you don't like it something is wrong with you and you need to punch your self in the groin. If you can't do it your self ask me and I will do it for you.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Toys. Oh dear got not again...

Welcome to another exciting adventure of Mark's world. I am your host. Mark son of Milton and I will be guiding you though the rest of your read. So on to it.

Yesterday I went to Eric's work to drop off some Fett peices he wanted to borrow. While I was there he twisted my arm (he asked, Hey Mark want to shoot my M-4 to which I responded, um hell yea) and got me to go shoot his new M-4 rifle. Well needless to say I enjoyed it. I only put fourty rounds through it but I still enjoyed it. It is by far my favorite of his guns. Afterwords we went with some guys from his work to get a couple of beers (and I ate some gator tail). Needless to say I am pretty sure Eric is the butt of everyone's jokes no matter what group of people he is with. I kind of feel bad for him, but then again all of us have been there at some point it's just his turn since he only seems to hang out with people older then he is. After the beers and food we went and saw Harry Potter again. It was actually better the second time around, not that it wasn't good the first time, it was just better the second.

Also this past Thursday and I think it was last Thursday also Greg called me and asked me to go and get beers with him. I enjoyed that since we used to do it every Wednesday night either instead of or after paintball. So it has been nice to go out and chill again. Plus he has bought the food and booze the last two times we went out. Both times I told him he didn't have to but he insisted. (I assume because he knows I have no income comming in) What ever the reason I am not going to complain since he is buying..

So I have fallen back into an old and disturbing habbit. I have begun buying toys again. Sigh. For those of you who don't know I used to be one of those people who had to own every single action figure that was in the Star Wars line. After a while I was running out of room, and more inportantly tolerance for Hasbro reissuing the same figures over and over again. (new cards or different paint or some thing stupid like that) So a while ago I sold all of my action figures (and got a nice little chunk of change for it) and haven't looked back since. It has been nice not going down the toy isle every time I go to the retard zoo or Target. Plus it has saved me tons of money. Well stupid Hasbro just had to go and make new toys for the new Trasnformer movie, and I noticed one of them (Blackout, who was my favorite from the new movie). I thought "eh, he is eightteen bucks that isn't bad and he looked pretty cool" so I bought it. I took it home and started trying to figure out how to transform him. Well after not being able to do it for a solid ten minutes I got the instructions and then figured it out. (by the way when did Transformers get so damn hard to transform that you need an advanced enginerring degree to do it?) So I played with it for a while longer and really liked the figure. He looks cool in robot mode (like he does in the movie) and he actually looks like the real helicopter when he goes to copter mode. He doen't have big stupid guns anywhere or anything stupid like that. Plus in helicopter mode there is a button you can push and it makes the rotors spin, which I thought was neat. And this is the best part, in robot mode the rotors can come off his back and he can hold them and use them as the spiny blades of death like he does in the movie (and you can still push the button and make them spin!). So after realling liking this one, and seeing some of the other ones both online and reading some reviews of them I went out on the search for them. Two days later and about eight trips to different stores later I have six of the them (counting the first one) including the expensive, big, really cool, Optimus Prime. I really have to say I think these are really cool. It has been since like ninteen eighty five since I have had a new Transformer toy, and these are so cool. But here is the problem, while from this line I only wanted the ones from the moive (I still need to get Bumblebee, Bonecrusher, maybe the leader class Devestator since the delux version is so small, and probally Jazz, and Scorponok. I can find the last two everywhere I just am debating if I really want them or not, the first two I can't find anywhere as I am looking for the new body style bumblebee not the old busted version) and I don't think I am going to get Megatron as I don't really like how he looks, but I am looking on Ebay for the old G1 toys that I had as a kid. So far I have only found one I actually want and that is Blitzwing. Most of the other G1 figures I think are stupid, but Blitzwing is really cool cause he transforms from a Bot, to a Tank, and then to a plane and I had him as a kid! This has no where to go but bad since I don' want one that is in bad condition and I really want one with the instructions since I remember not being able to get him to transform into one of the three options (like I could get him to go to robot and tank but not plane or something like that).

Damn you Hasbro, I hate you. At least I have limited my desire to buy them since I only want the cool ones from the movie (like I am not getting Ratchet since I think he is dumb in both truck and robot mode). But since the movie is doing so well we all know they will make another one (which makes me very happy!!) and I will have to get the toys from that one... I just hope I don't decide I want to buy other G1 toys because I think they are cool or because I didn't have them as a kid (like Megatron that turns into a gun, since my mom didn't like guns...) .

Oh well I am off to play with Optimus since I just got him tonight and just got him into truck mode now I need to see if I can figure out how to put him back into Robot mode.

Off.

Oh a side note, Dvd review if you are thinking about seeing the movie Derailed, pass. I couldn't even finnish the stupid thing. I got up to the point after the two main characters get mugged (and the girl gets raped) but I just didn't seem to care about either of them, and I think the movie makers expecting me to care about them for the rest of the story to work. I was really bored. Don't ask me how it ends, or anything that happens after about fourty minutes into it cause I have no idea. It's on it's way back to Netflix and is getting one star on my Netflix rating system.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

New Features?

Well hello boys and girls. I know it's been a while.. but I just haven't had anything to talk about. Nothing really new has happend. I am still unemployed, which sucks. I have been looking for things but nothing is really happening. I have put in apps. at a couple of places but with no call backs. (They were done online so no way of calling them) But on a more positive note, all this extra free time has helped me get some stuff done with the painting projects I have sitting around. Now of course these are not my personal projects, these are things people have commishioned me to do. I also have sold some of my props and costume parts that I am not using. I sold my ROTJ Boba rifle, and my Tusken raider mask (yes I use the tusken mask). I sold the tusken because I wasn't 100% happy with how it came out and I got more then I paid for it so it was a good deal. I am going to take the money I got from selling it and buy new snowtrooper armor and get it ready for Dragon Con! I am also happy to report that the guy who had me paint his ROTJ Boba bucket for him recieved it and LOVES it. That of course makes me fell better because I am always worried that someone won't like something I do for them. Espically when it comes to Fett stuff, since that crowd is so detail orientated.

But as the title suggests I am going to add a new feature to my blog. I am going to start adding movie reviews! Since I see at least one new movie a week (some times more) and I have opnions on them I figured I would share with you, my faithful readers. This post I am actually going to review several movies at once since all of them are new and all of them I have seen. So lets begin.

First up is going to be Live Free or Die Hard:
I went and saw this flick not really knowing what to expect. I am not a huge Bruce Willis fan, and I have only seen Die Hard 3. Well I can say I was very plesantly supprised. The movie was action packed, massive stunts, and decently acted. It helped that I really like Timithoy Olyphant (the bad guy in the flick). I also like Justin Long. (Also the cameo apperance by Kevin Smith didn't hurt either) While Willis pretty much gave the same performance as every other movie he has done. He is one of those actors that doesn't really make me believe his character, I don't see Dective McClane up there I see Bruce Willis. I must say despite BW hamming up the screen the rest of the movie was bad ass. The action was almost non-stop which was what I expected from a movie like this. It had a nice mix of gun fights, car chases, explosions, and fist fights. It even had a little martial arts (not from BW of course) from this hot little asian chick. Also for my inner Geek it had some nice Star Wars referances (including a Boba Fett one!). All in all I really enjoyed the movie. Don't go to it expecting great acting, a well planned story or anything like that, do go expecting a good time and lots of action. It is pretty much a perfect summer popcorn flick (even if you, like me, hate popcorn). I give it a solid B+

Next up is Transformers:
Now I must first start by saying, I grew up on Transformers, but I was never a huge fan. I liked the toys more then I liked the TV show. I couldn't name all of the original Autobots, nor Descipitcons. I knew of course who Optimus was, and Megaton, and Starscream but that was about it. I heard of Bumblebee but couldn't tell you what kind of car he was (prior to the movie). All that being said I had really high hopes for this flick. I know lots of people hate Michael Bay movies, and think he is a bad director. And I am sure in the grand scheme of things he really is. But he does know how do make an action film. This movie was pretty much fantastic. I loved almost every frame of it. I didn't mind the stupid humor, hell I even laughed a couple of times. I do think there are a few things that could have been done with out (the scene with the parents in the bedroom with the son embarrassing him was stupid) and the Sector 7 guy was badly written. ILM did the CGI for this flick, and it shows. The bots look amazing. But that is also their down fall, the bots are too detailed. I don't want to see the original look of the Transformers, but these were way too complex. When two of them would fight all you would see is a mass of car parts. It was way too hard to figure out which part belonged to which robot and even what part of the bot I was looking at. I think all of us would have been ok if they had a bit more armor and a bit less parts. I don't think anyone is going to be upset to not see where the tie rods or strut bars when the Bot is in Bot mode. One little thing and this one annoyed the poop out of the painter in me. When the bots are in robot mode their paint is scratched and weatherd. Ok fine I understand they have been fighting and what not that makes sense. But when they transform back into car mode they are shiny and new. Even when we first meet the Autobots all of them look weathered in Bot mode, but when they rolled up they were all shiny and new. Would it have killed them to just make them shiny and new in bot mode at the beging of the movie? Or weather the car mode later in the film?? Despite all my little nit pickings the movie was awesome! The action scenes were great, watching Blackout take out the army base at the begining was awesome. And then when Scopinox attacks the GIs in the desert OH MY GOD! Not to mention the Bumble-bee vs Barricade fight! Starscream vs. the Air Force's FA-22's FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC! I can't say this enough GO SEE THIS MOVIE IN THEATERS!!! I give it a very solid: A I actually liked it enough to go see it twice in theaters, and would probally go again if someone asked me to go with them. (the last movie I actually paid to see more then once was 300)

Last up (only by time line) is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:
Ok again I will start with some facts: I have not read any of the Harry Potter books. Sorry. I know they are good, but I am a visiual guy, I went to film school after all. I don't want to know what happens in the movies before I see them. (HP is the only series I feel this way about for some reason. I went out and bought the comic books for Ep2 and Ep3 Star Wars just to know what happens in them) I go totally spolier free for the movies. The most I want to know is what the offical trailers show me. So with all that being said on to the movie. OOP was quite well done. Once again we have a new director at the helm of this film, why they can't get one and keep him I don't know. (I liked the guy who did GOF) Don't get me wrong I liked what this director did with the film, I just think it is odd we need a new one every movie or every other movie. (I did not like the one who did POA). I think the transitions between scenes was neatly done this time around, with the Daily Prophet montages. I do think it was odd that OOP was the longest book to date yet it was the shortest movie. Why? Even though I didn't read the books I felt like the movie was leaving stuff out. The movie feels very rushed, almost too much. I wish they would have made this one three hours instead of two and paced it a little slower, and spent a little more time introducing the new characters a little more. I think the visiuals of this movie were fantastic, though not quite as stunning as GOF. I still think GOF is my favorite of the entire series. I plan to see OOP at least one more time in theaters since often I find with movies I like I tend to notice more things about them the second time around. I do wish they would have stuck with the original Death Eater costumes over the new ones, I think the new ones look like Dr. Doom rejects from Fantastic Four (which I also saw: C+) . I might have liked the new costumes if I had not seen the ones in GOF first. Yes I know the GOF ones remind everyone of the KKK, but I don't think they looked that much like them (the KKK usually wears white, red and green robes and hoods over their faces not skulls). I just think the skull masks were much more scary then the metal ones. The wizard fight at the end of the movie is amazing, it is the first time we get to see full adult wizards using powerful magic at each other. I wish it would have been a bit longer (the fight). All in all I really liked this one too. It gets a very strong: A (though it really would have had to have been terrible to get less then a B+)

I know it seems I haven't seen a movie yet that I didn't really like. Well I will just put in some letter grades for some other summer flicks I have seen:
Fantasitc Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: C+
Spider Man 3: B-
Ratatouille: B+
Knocked Up: B

Things I am looking forward to seeing:
I Now Prononuce you Chuck and Larry
The Simpsons Movie
Skinwalkers (maybe?)
The Borne Ultimatum
Hot Rod
Rush Hour 3

Some things I will not be seeing:
Hairspray (John Trovolta in a fat woman suit...no thanks)
I Know Who Killed Me (Lohan acting...no thanks)
Who's Your Caddie (just a terrible title, it can't be good)
Underdog (as much as I like Jason Lee I just can't bring myself to see this piece of shit)
Bratz (need I say more???)
Daddy Day Camp (well I didn't see Daddy Day Care, and I am not going to. Man what happend to Cuba Gooding Jr.? Did he used to make good movies?)

Wow it was a long one today. I hope you enjoyed your self. And please send me money.

Monday, July 2, 2007

STUPID ENTER KEY!!!

Once again I wanted a new paragraph but couldn't make one. So you are probally reading these all wrong. Look at the right hand side of your screen, use the nav bar to find them in correct order. But what I wanted to write about in this new lovley paragraph is that my foot surgery went fine. My toe looks all kinds of ugly now but that is life. Soon the pain from the surgery (which isn't really that bad) will go away and I will be able to walk normal and put shoes on with out excrutiating pain! Won't that be exciting! Well I am going to finnish this now becuase I am hungry and I need to make food. So adios.

AHH stupid computers!

So I wanted to make a new paragraph under that last one but for some reason the ENTER button wouldn't do anything. Not real sure why. So now that I have been fired you might be asking your self "Self? How on earth can Mark be online if he isn't at work???" Well friends the answer is simple, what do I do when I loose my only source of income? Well I go out and get a new bill to pay every month. That's right I went out and got internet at home. So now I can search for jobs....and look at porn at home. This of course did not come without it's own set of new problems. For one my computer is several years old now, nearly seven or so I think. So that means it isn't what you would call "up to date" it runs slow, it freezes up all the damn time (I think I have restarted about twenty times today alone) and it won't download a lot of the new software it needs. I can't for some reason open this website in internet explorer. I can open it in AOL just fine (minus the ENTER key thing) but who wants to be in stupid AOL all the damn time? NOT ME!

Canned....

Suspended....pending termination. So I wasn't so much suspended as I was fired. I mean I was suspended until I went in and signed the stupid paper work but it didn't matter. I had a strong feeling that was the case. My stupid manager was just too much of a coward to tell me to my face. I think I am actually more mad now that he didn't tell me then I would have been if he would have just manned up and told me to my face. What kind of a manager is he that he can't even have the diginaty to fire someone. As I said COWARD!