We're going to Cuba for a week! This all happened very last minute, because I am nothing if not spontaneous, also I'm feeling worn out from work and need a break. So these factors were all conducive of me taking a holiday at the last minute. How last minute did this happen? Well Wed, I booked the following week off work, went online, got a hotel and ticket that same morning, and now I've just finished packing at the very last possible minute. Need to be at the airport in 4hrs so I'm going to go take a power nap now.
A new act was passed today called the "Energy Efficiency Act", which seeks to follow in Australia's foot steps and make Canada the second country in the world to ban incandescent light bulbs. I for one commend these actions and only wish the timeline was sooner, such as 2010 in Australia.
God of War? Way to keep up with the times there. Hey I hear they have this new game out called Tetris, and I hear Mario 3 is coming out and theres a racoon tail or something... the future is now!
(the title for this post was a spin on that old "God of Fuck", Marilyn Manson t-shirt)
(the title for this post was a spin on that old "God of Fuck", Marilyn Manson t-shirt)
Hot Fuzz is in the same vein of "Shaun of the Dead", this time spoofing american action movies, instead of horror zombie flicks. In the trailer they say that this movie was made by guys that "saw every action movie ever made"; well I don't know about every movie, but they certainly watched the hell out of Point Break and Bad Boys and Bad Boys II, and did Michael Bay proud with their homage (the over the head helicopter camera shot was so dead on I giggled uncontrollably). The movie was hilarious and had over the top, and I mean OVER THE TOP action sequences that were a few shades past inappropriate at parts and I LOVED it. I don't want to ruin it, but a scene with an old lady, taking it to the face... SO good.
Now here are some random musings that are movie related but in no way relevant to a review. I noticed two cameos by people from the original The Office tv show, there was Tim as a police captain from London, and The Office co-creator/writer Stephen Merchant as a man that lost his swan. Not as many The Office cameos as in Shaun, but I still appreciated them sneaking into the movie.
I also have to say that I think the director/writer Edgar Wright hasn't quite gotten the horror genre out of his system seeing as how even in this movie he manages to work in an axe murder, and let us not forget the crazy decapitations in his Grindhouse fake movie trailer last month for "Don't". Perhaps a new Shaun of the Dead is still in his system? We can only hope.
Now here are some random musings that are movie related but in no way relevant to a review. I noticed two cameos by people from the original The Office tv show, there was Tim as a police captain from London, and The Office co-creator/writer Stephen Merchant as a man that lost his swan. Not as many The Office cameos as in Shaun, but I still appreciated them sneaking into the movie.
I also have to say that I think the director/writer Edgar Wright hasn't quite gotten the horror genre out of his system seeing as how even in this movie he manages to work in an axe murder, and let us not forget the crazy decapitations in his Grindhouse fake movie trailer last month for "Don't". Perhaps a new Shaun of the Dead is still in his system? We can only hope.
"Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone AHHHHHH?"
"By the power of Greyskull!"
This is not so much a direct remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, but more of a modern adaptation of the story, and frankly, after the Physco remake, I can safely say this was a much better way to go. The plot is still similar to the original, and quite suspenseful, they even managed to put in the accidental "did he or didn't he see us?" camera flash going off by the window scene, except updated to be caused by the flash on an HD handy cam, instead of a photo camera.
My only complaint with the film was the silly sub-sub-sub-basement, under the hidden room of the main hidden room. Seriously was a hidden room not good enough, did the bad guy need to have 5 levels of hiddennes.
My only complaint with the film was the silly sub-sub-sub-basement, under the hidden room of the main hidden room. Seriously was a hidden room not good enough, did the bad guy need to have 5 levels of hiddennes.
Had a chance to see a sneak preview screening of Fracture yesterday. My opinion is that it was a good thriller. Ryan Gosling is awesome in it (if you haven't seen him in Stay, you need to get off your ass and get to Blockbuster), and Anthony Hopkins is a dick!. Funny story, I missed the first 15min of the movie so I spent the whole damn time trying to "solve" the murder when it turns out you got to see what happened right at the start... so there was NOTHING TO SOLVE... good times, good times.
I'm not goign to lie the Mac & Cheese Wedges I ate, that is Mac & Cheese wraped in a breaded crust forming a wedge, was delicious, but now I feel like death, so I don't think I'll be trying them again.
Young women, and young menThe new From Autumn To Ashes album drops tomorrow, how will it sound after the departure of Ben? We will see...
Forgive us, if you can
Abandon, your best friends
Demanding, detriment
Leaving your lover home waiting
Putting much faith in her patience
Don't fool yourself it's not endless
Phone calls are poor consolations
We've abandoned our best friends
When my militia succeeds in overthrowing the government, traffic cops and the provincial ministry of anything to do with traffic will be the first to feel my wrath.
Because the bureaucracy of the provincial government wants everyone to follow along, pay their fines, shut up and not question them, they have made it an incredibly annoying process to fight bullshit tickets handed out by their stupid cops.
I'll spare the details, and will just let everyone know that my court date to battle the completely retarded ticket is scheduled for December 2007. I'll let everyone know the verdict of my tinted windows case in 8 months.
Because the bureaucracy of the provincial government wants everyone to follow along, pay their fines, shut up and not question them, they have made it an incredibly annoying process to fight bullshit tickets handed out by their stupid cops.
I'll spare the details, and will just let everyone know that my court date to battle the completely retarded ticket is scheduled for December 2007. I'll let everyone know the verdict of my tinted windows case in 8 months.
Apparently Toronto police Office Thompson was feeling bored last night and decided to pull us over for no fucking reason. Once he had us pulled over decided to give me a ticket because he claims he couldn't see my seat belt through my tinted windows. He was driving behind me and there would be absolutely no way he could see me nor my black seat belt over my black clothes from BEHIND me. The first glimpse he caught of me or my seat belt was when his tubby ass walked up to my window, and even at that point with my window rolled down how well could he see my BLACK SEAT BELT on top of my BLACK CLOTHES? So that was a complete fucking bullshit excuse to pull us over, and keep us there for 30 fucking minutes!
Cost of ticket? $110, for my completely legal tinted windows! So now I have to waist a half day of work going to book a court day, then a full day of work actually going to court to fight it.
As the eloquent Ice-T once said "I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did it."
Cost of ticket? $110, for my completely legal tinted windows! So now I have to waist a half day of work going to book a court day, then a full day of work actually going to court to fight it.
As the eloquent Ice-T once said "I ain't never killed no cop. I felt like it a lot of times. But I never did it."