Week of updates: Day (cough cough) 7

Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

Week of updates: Day (cough) Six

Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

A quote, simple and effective.

"Losers are morons who don't have the balls to cheat."-Kenny Powers

Week of Updates: Day (cough) Five

Sorry I missed yesterday. Much Say Anything prep.
Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

This video has made me laugh and I've seen it like 100 times.

Week of Updates: Day Four

Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

This is the website I choose!

http://www.astoundingessays.com/getyourphil/

My brothers web comic! Read it!

Week of Updates: Day Three

Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

The book is, rather, a play. Called Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan. Read it last night. Really quirky, interesting dialogue. I thoroughly enjoyed and approve. It's an easy read and worth every minute. Some plays are tough to read because they are simply dialogue with basic stage direction, but this one lends itself to that.

Week of Updates: Day Two

Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

So a photo for today. The original picture I wanted was impossible to find online, from rapper The Game's debut The Documentary's booklet. The picture has game weighing drugs with a pistol in his hand peering through his blinds. The picture transcends the artist, and even music, as it just shows a desperate man trying to survive. Granted, I'm not a drug abuser or dealer, so that could be way above my head, but I find the picture to be very primal and real. But enough of that.



I love this picture. It hangs above my desk. It motivates me. It's funny. It's well painted. It's absurd. It's brilliant. I absolutely love it, and I love that it was an advertising tool so many years ago. When I grow up, I want a framed version for my home.

Week of Updates Day 1.

I saw this on LJ friends page and I need things to update update.
So we have one week. One post a day.
Day One: A Song
Day Two: A picture
Day Three: A book
Day Four: A site
Day Five: A Youtube clip
Day Six: A quote
Day Seven: Whatever tickles your fancy

So a song...



This song went way over peoples heads a few years ago.

A little note...

Hey everybody, just wanted to sit down and make a quick update about something pointed out to me recently. This year has been HUGE for hip-hop, while rock has shown some good efforts with Chickenfoot, The Dead Weather and a few others, I've noticed that hip-hop has had a great year thus far...lets just take a look at some of the greats we've had thus far. I won't give any comments, just a brief overview of what good has come of this year.

Method Man & Redman-Blackout! 2
La Coka Nostra-A Brand You Can Trust
Jay-Z-The Blueprint III
Mos Def-The Ecstatic
Wu-Tang Chamber Music
Raekwon-Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II
Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon (haven't heard it yet.)

And there's more on the way! A new Ghostface Killah album, Clipse's "Till The Casket Drops" and who knows...maybe Relapse 2 will be decent. So basically I'm saying that NaS was very wrong when he said hip-hop is dead. It's still alive and well.

The Prototypal Classic

I have decided to go all out and post my newest film on Facebook and Twitter. People have been whining about my lack of updates, so here is this.



Hailed by Conor Eamonn Ferguson as, "As good as any six minutes of Curb Your Enthusiasm."

And D.Winchell calls it "The most important film of this decade."

SAY ANYTHING IS PLAYING MY SCHOOL

And this is the flier I made.

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Summer Movie On Point INSANITY

Yeah no updates in mad long. Clearly working full time all summer and being of legal age to attend bars has gotten in the way of my posting. But alas, I am here once again at my computer, sitting in the comforts of my nice new Hofstra University dormitory. People have asked me what I thought of the summer movies, and it's tough because I saw quite a few of them. And I am bored on my last day of summer, so I would love to go and give you ON POINT REVIEWS for all of them!

Star Trek
A re-boot of the classic Sci-Fi franchise. The Lost and Cloverfield icon J.J. Abrams took the helm, and the question was posed; Can you take the geekiest thing in the world and make the world love it?




Pros
-The action was great, sci-fi space battles are a hard thing to make truly unique, but the ship designs really made this a sight to see. The man to man (or man to Vulcan, man to Romulan, you know what I mean) were good too.
-The ensemble was great, Zach Quinto and Chris Pine leading perfectly as Spock and Kirk respectively. John Cho, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and Anton Yelchin filled out the Enterprise near perfectly as well. Not to mention Eric Bana was near unrecognizable as Captain Nero.
-It was fun, it never took itself too seriously and really made for a great experience.
Cons
-Leonard Nimoy, while a pleasure to have in the film, sort of lingered around. He didn't do much to advance the story after his initial scene, but he just kept coming back to offer more wisdom.
-There wasn't enough time to let the secondary characters bloom. It seemed as though they were brought in for one scene (Sulu's swordfight for instance) and then tossed back for some supporting lines here and there. But since this was the first in what will surely be a franchise, it's forgiveable.


The Hangover
The sleeper hit of the summer, four friends go to Las Vegas for a bachelor party and much chaos ensues.



Pros
-The ensemble worked well together. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifinakis bounced off of each other very well. While Zach clearly stole the show with his awkwardness, Cooper's overexcited schoolteacher was my favorite.
-Visually, the movie was really good. There were some instances where I forgot I was watching a comedy because the shots of Vegas were so good.
-The whole "crazy stuff happens in Vegas" thing worked out to the movies' advantage. It was a bit cliché, but the movie didn't aim to challenge.
-Mike Tyson. Enough said.
Cons
-Galifinakis seemed to constantly push the limit of what he was doing, and several times, his character cracked incredibly dumb jokes, that even in context were just stupid.
-It got a lot of hype to be the next iconic comedy of this generation, and I feel as though it isn't at all. It's a fun, thoughtless comedy that is just around for laughs.
-It teetered between serious and over-the-top too much. Ed Helms falling for the stripper, while Ken Jeong hops out of the trunk of a car naked...two complete opposites that made the pacing a tad awkward.


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Robots blow things up, Megan Fox walks around all hot and stuff. Shia Labeof spits out quirky one liners.



Pros
-The first 45 minutes retained the fun over the original Transformers. It was fun, light hearted and didn't take itself seriously.
-The CGI is incredible, truly a sight to see.
-John Turturro, while spitting out terrible dialogue, manages to be funny against all odds.
-Megan Fox is incredible, truly a sight to see.
Cons
-After the first 45 minutes, the movie gets completely random, too hard to follow and downright stupid, and not in a good way like the first one.
-Too many robots! The first one was good because you could keep track of what Autobots and Decepticons were on the front line. The motorcycle trio, the Fallen, the old man...to many!
-Too much pointless action. Now I like things blowing up like any living male, but I'd like there to be a reason. It seemed that every chance Bay was given to blow something up he did.
-Megan Fox can't act. But did you really go to see her act?

Bruno
The guy who grew a dirty mustache to play Borat brings his third Ali G show character to the U.S.A. in this homophobe targeting flick.



Pros
-There is a lot of shock humor in here. Unexpected stuff left and right.
-Bruno really pushes some people to their brink and it's hilarious. A scene when he interviews parents about their babies modeling for him shows just how irrational some people can be.
-Larry Charles (director) has a knack for good timing. He lets the awkwardness settle in when it needs to, and he cuts away to accentuate a joke that doesn't need anything at all.
-The final "real" bit is fantastic, I laughed for a long time.
-One celebrity cameo is so funny that it lingers around the whole film, and at points you find yourself saying "Remember when that famous person made that great line?" and started chuckling again.
-They get the "fashionisto" bits out the way early. Those were his worst parts on the TV show. Putting him out of his element is much funnier than keeping him in it.
Cons
-The staged bits in this weren't as effective as they were in Borat. They seemed to just make too many awkward gay jokes, whereas in Borat, they actually developed the "story."
-While Borat pointed out the racism and ignorance in Americans while they let their guard down around him, Bruno merely pointed out the homophobia in people. While that was certainly funny, it didn't offer that same look at society that Bruno did.
-Male nudity urks me. And there is one scene of excessive male nudity.


Funny People
Judd Apatow directs this flick about a dying comedian who employs a young up-and-comer to help him organize his life.




Pros
-Sandler plays his best dramatic role to date, and perhaps that can be attributed to the fact that he plays a darker version of himself.
-The ensemble cast is good. Schwartsman and Hill especially compliment each other and Rogen. Bit parts from RZA and Aziz Ansari are good too.
-The stand-up comedy is really funny.
-Eric Bana's arrival is great, and he is hysterical.
-The cameos are for the most part great, Eminem, Ray Romano, Sarah Silverman, Dave Attell, Norm MacDonald, James Taylor, Justin Long. It added a little flare to the flick.
Cons
-It was too long and poorly paced. Had it flowed in the optimal way, it could have been his best movie, and an award contender for sure.
-Rogen didn't do much. In Knocked Up he showed us that he could put some heart to his slacker, here he's just a guy who wants to make it.
-Not enough of the bit parts from RZA and Aziz Ansari.
-The relationship between Rogen's character and Aubrey Plaza's was kind of forced. It could have been a real focal point of the movie.
-It was promoted as a comedy when really it was a drama. A bit more comedy couldn't have hurt it, but it was a real bad job on the PR part.


District 9
Aliens who are stuck on earth are treated like dirt.



Pros
-The small budget is used fatastically. The special effects are really good and real looking.
-All of the weapons used by the aliens are awesome and innovative. It's good to see new things in a movie like this.
-Sharlto Coply is a very convincing lead. Considering this was his first acting role, I think he deserves much kudos.
-The fights are great, they are subdued and minimal, but when stuff goes down, it goes down hardcore.
-The plot takes some strange archs, as characters turn their back on each other left and right.
Cons
-The flick segways from a mockumentary to a movie poorly. It keeps going back and forth.
-In the end, the film comes to a bit of a ragtag action ending. While most of the story is logical and proves points socially, the end does nothing more than showboat the CG, which is great.


Inglorious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino kills Hitler.




Pros
-Tarantino's dialogue is great, the first scene in which "The Jew Hunter" interviews a farmer who may or may not be housing Nazi's is superb. He builds tension so well and delivers in the release.
-Pitt plays his best character since Snatch. Aldo Raine is a hilariously brutal individual.
-The brief action sequences are satisfying to no end.
-The interweaving plots are interesting. To see them connect at the end is cool.
-Christopher Waltz was fantastic, he played the manipulative Nazi so well.
Cons
-Not enough of the Basterds. They were on screen for only a brief period of time.
-The pacing was off at times, while not as bad as in Funny People, it could have had a few minutes trimmed and it would have been fine.
-The secondary Basterds weren't given enough time, B.J. Novak and Samm Levine especially. That's just cause I'm a comedy geek.
-Mike Myers served no real purpose, he may have been good, but he didn't do anything.


ALRIGHT that about wraps it up. I'm seeing Up this weekend! Finally!