On the Topic of Movies

From what I've read, the next Terminator film will shoot for a PG-13 rating. I think that is complete bullshit! The other 3 Terminator films were all rated R, and they were better for it.

The same was talked about for the new Robocop movie, which needs to have an R rating to be any good. That movie was all about violence and to shoot for anything lower than an R would be nothing less than atrocious.

This brings me to my point. I saw Step-Brothers earlier today. It was pretty hilarious (overall it was meh, but it definitely had its moments). They could only achieve what they did because of an R rating and the movie was better for it. That's what I hope for Hollywood to realize. I hope they ditch the need to make movies to appeal to the masses. I say, FUCK anyone who can't see an R rated movie without guidance. They can wait, or they'll always find a way to see it so it doesn't matter. The sad thing is that shooting for a PG-13 rating ultimately gives studios dollar signs in their eyes because more people pay to see it. I say fuck that, movies make so much money nowadays that there should be a law against making movies that clearly should get a R rating, and shooting for the PG-13 rating. Fuck the masses, lets get movies for adults as they were meant to be seen!

Movie News from Comic-Con '08

There were some amazing announcements this year at Comic-Con, the uber-geek's wet dream convention.

Anyone who has seen The Dark Knight is well aware of Watchmen being made into a movie. I never read the comics, but the movie looks amazing. I might pick that one up...

There's a little vampire movie called Twilight that is generating a huge amount of buzz lately. From what I've read it was a book adapted into a movie about a girl falling in love with a vampire...or something. I'm sure kiznox will wet his pants for that one.

A new Terminator movie is set for an '09 release with Terminator Salvation, which is supposed to be a reinvention of the series. With the reinvention master, Christian Bale as the star. The Governator is rumored to make an appearance in the film.

Super awesome big news: the Wolverine movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is supposedly done filming. The story follows Logan (Wolverine) and Victor Creed (Sabertooth) as mercenaries who join the Weapon X program. Oh yeah, and the movie has Gambit! Wet pants now.

I've never seen the original The Day The Earth Stood Still, but the remake looks stunning, and so does Jennifer Connelley. Keanu Reeves plays an alien.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian were both at Comic-Con promoting their stupid non-porno films. My question is, does anyone actually care about these girls and why haven't they died yet?

Sam Raimi has two bits of movie news at the show. First is a new campy horror flick Drag Me To Hell, which I know nothing about. It stars Alison Lohman, who is rather hot. The other bit of news is the possibility of a new Evil Dead movie. If they bring back Bruce Campbell as Ash, then I'm all for it.

The comic book adaptation of Red Sonja is coming to theaters in 2010, starring the super fine Rose McGowan wearing barely any clothes. I know nothing about this, but count me in!

Footage from Tron 2 was shown at the show. Makes me wish I saw the first one...oh wait, I'm sure I have at least a year before it comes out to catch up on my Tron-icles.

This little ditty called Push stars Chris Evans, a potty-mouthed (supposedly) Dakota Fanning, and Djimon Hounsou (the bounty hunter from The Island). Its sorta like a superhero movie with the "heroes" on the run. Psychic powers abound!

There are sequels to Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. The former is supposed to have a faster, smarter Jason as opposed to the slower, Frankensteinish Jason of past films. I'm intrigued, but I'm sure the movies will still (as they always have) suck.

What does Kevin Smith+Seth Rogan+Justin Long=? Probably a fucking hilarious movie. That's exactly what I hope Zack and Miri Make A Porno will become. Justin Long is a gay porn star, hilarity ensues.

Oh yeah, Robocop has been confirmed as a retelling of the original story. Looks like the new Batman franchise has started a trend...

And yes, G.I. Joe and Transformers: Rise of the Fallen are being made and are surely gonna make everyone wet in the pants. As I hear it, the beginning of Transformers is a giant action scene (Go Michael Bay!)

Sadly, most of these are about a year away.

Shia LeBeouf's rise to being the biggest pimp ever

in spite of recent potential drunk driving charges (tsk tsk Shia... I'd still jump you in a heartbeat though) I thought I'd take a few moments to discuss how Shia LeBeouf is the luckiest guy ever (so long as he's straight, which I just keep praying every day he's not)

2005 - The Greatest Game Ever Played

Peyton List as Sarah Wallis

2007 - Disturbia

Sarah Roemer as Ashley Carlson

2007 - Transformers

Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes

2008 - Eagle Eye

Michelle Monaghan as Rachel

And just for me I leave you with the pimp himself...


rawr

Babe of the Week

This girl's name is Ash Soular. She's hot and plays the guitar, which makes her even hotter

An Andy-style life list....

So I haven't really posted in a while, so here it is:

The Andy-Style List of Random Things in My Life

(I'm working on the title.)

- I have been reading Harry Potter a lot. I said I wanted to start reading more in the summer and I'm glad I followed through on something (finally). Half-Blood Prince may just be my favorite book in the series. And now for Deathly Hallows....
- The new HP6 movie comes out in about 117 days! The trailer for said awesomeness comes out in 3 days! It will most likely play before "The Mummy 3."
- After falling asleep during the Dark Knight (3 am, opening night), I saw it again. It fuckin' rocks. And Andy is getting that much crazier by the day...he he ho ho ha ha.
- Vangizzle and I went to see "Weird Al" Yankovic at the Showboat (not Riverboat, SVG) in Chesaning. He played everything you could imagine and more. It was really awesome. SVG made a good point when he said, "It's hard to rock out to Weird Al." It was a lot of fun to see him, but Scott is right. And plus, this little seven year old kid next to me kept looking to me to see if I thought a joke was funny before laughing. It was adorable.
- I have seen about 35 movies since I last posted that list of movies. I'll provide a more extensive list when I hit fifty, but until then, here are some movies I suggest: Charlie Bartlett, Super High Me, Happily N'Ever After, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Onion Movie.
- Umphrey's McGee is coming to Michigan and Indiana. They will play at St. Pat's Park in South Bend, IN on Septemeber 5th (I will be there!) and then they play in Michigan (!) on October 2nd. They will return to the State Theatre in Kalamazoo after five years of absence. (You know I'll be there!). The next night they will be in Muncie, IN which is about a 3.5 hour drive from here. I'm debating.
- I love Gilmour.
- I love Gilmore Girls, but haven't watched in a while.
- My friend Brian from work installed Windows Vista 64 Ultimate on my laptop because my 'Compy 386' was working as slowly as a motherfuckin' snail on morphine. Now, my compy runs like a dream.
- Every Thursday , I go to an Alphabet dinner (or I try to) with people from work. This week it was F. Fondue and Fuzzy Navels. F-antastic. I missed the week before that, but the week before THAT was D. And we had Drunken Noodles (Tofu and Chicken), Daquiris, Doritos, and Ding Dongs. D-Licious.
- I work six days a week but still only manage to scrape less than 30 hours a week. Shit.
- I saw Hellboy II with the 'rents. It was decent.
- The same night I went to see Space Chimps with Scott. It was fuckin' hilarious (in the altered state of mind.) Crudlar!
- Umphrey's McGee is still the best band to walk the face of the earth.
- Lollapalooza is in a few days. It is starting to get exciting. Most excited for: Brand New and the Raconteurs, followed closely by Radiokopf (that's for you Cottonmouth). Woot to the woot!
- I have this Add-On for FireFox called StumbleUpon. When I am bored, all I do is hit a but labeled "Stumble!" and it brings you to any random website within the categories that you choose when you install it. It is tyte. So I'll leave you with this...some make your own Motivational Posters (you know the ones I mean).

Music with Buttons

Here I Am in Life...

I just graduated college, with what seems like no knowledge. I don't feel like I have anything to offer the world, which makes getting a job a bitch. Now, I have been offered a corporate job with JJs, which is awesome...but now I don't know if I want to take it. I don't think I really want a job like that. I need a change of pace.

I went home last weekend and talked to Larry. He brought up that he might join the Navy, which is a huge shocker coming from him. But that got me thinking, why don't I join the military? I know someone in the Navy, and he's been to the other side of the world (not to fight, but to train and such) and he says that the experience is amazing. I think that's what I need right now. I think I need to get away from here. Traveling while getting paid and trained just seems right.

After graduating I thought I would have some discipline and direction, but I'm realizing that I really don't. Joining the military (Air Force, Navy, or Army) could provide me with the direction I need, along with helping me advance my skills and possibly learn a new trade along the way. Since I graduated college, I automatically start off at a higher rank/pay grade, so I have that going for me if I join.

Yeah, I do have a fear of joining and then seeing action, but I do believe that this is something that I need. My mom even told me that I should join. There are so many paths that I can choose after my service is complete that this seems like a good choice for me.

I know you guys have mixed thoughts about the military, but right now I'm about 80% sure I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna try to find an Air Force (the branch that most interests me right now) recruitment center and get as much info as possible. Obviously I'll let you guys know what I ultimately decide, but my decision will probably be within the next couple of months.

Yeah, I bet you were not expecting that one.

Someone else's Dark Knight review

Everyone out there, including myself, has praised this movie (although I have not taken the time to do a full on review, I usually leave that to Hock) but this guy gave the movie an F. Really? An F makes me want to laugh in your face. This guy obviously has a different taste in movies, for God's sake he gave Vantage Point a "B" and that was a horrid movie. Do me a favor guy, I know you waited in line and sat in a sold out movie theater but wanting to fall asleep within the first hour? Come on. Don't take this movie down with you in your bid to try and prove that the shitty movies are good and the great ones are bad, that seems to be what you've done on your reviews thus far. You want further proof? He gave the Matthew McConaughey movie "Failure to Launch" an A+. Yeah, nothing he is in deserves an C, let alone an A+.

That's my venting for the day, I'm sure this guy will also badmouth Harry Potter once that comes out too. Just a ray of sunshine you are bucko.

The Weekly WYR

That's right folks, I'm back with the next installment of the Weekly WYR, thanks goes as always to College Humor.

Would you rather...

Have your town overrun by zombies or fat girls with high self esteem?

Zombies will kill you and eat your brains which is pretty painful and, ultimately, deadly. Fat chicks...well it's about equal really. Kudos to you girls with high self esteem but come on, who wouldn't want to see an ironic thing like zombie Abe Lincoln try to eat the brains of an African American? Admit it, you would stop and see the irony.

Have popcorn kernels stuck in the back of your mouth or have a fly keep landing on your when youre trying to fall asleep?

Damn these are both uber annoying but I think the easiest thing to do would be to simply get up and swish around some water to get rid of the kernels. God knows I wouldn't want to take the time or energy to kill that damn fly, especially if I'm trying to fall asleep.

Burn the roof of your mouth eating hot food or have all your fingernails clipped too short?

Well the burning of the roof of your mouth is just a temporary inconvenience because that will go away much quicker than cutting all your fingernails too short. That is a nasty feeling for a while. Plus, the burning of the roof of my mouth happens much more often than the fingernails, so I'm semi-used to it.

Go back in time and change something in your past or go to the future and see what your life is like?

Ah, the never ending predicament. Would you go back in time to change something or see your future? I think it would take too much of the unpredictability of life out of the picture if you knew too much of the future. However, as we learn all to often from movies and TV, even the most innocent of changes in the past can dramatically alter the future. Changing that one thing in the past could alter things in this life beyond our wildest imaginations. You think you're not that important? Go to the past and change something...then let's see.

Have the monster from Cloverfield trying to kill you or Javier Bardem from No Country for Old Men?

Never seen either movie. I'll leave this one to the fellow bloggers.

Be best in the world at one thing or 10th best in the world at 10 things?

We all have that one talent, apparently, even if we don't know what it is, but 10 things? Sweetness. Now what ten things those would be, I don't have the time to think about that right now...maybe another post...

Have infinate amounts of okay pizza or have a set amount of the best pizza in the world?

Was this question written by a stoner? I love pizza with the best of them but there is a limit to it and I'll take a set amount of the best damn pizza because that's all you really need. We're talking the difference between Hungry Howies and Green Lantern pizza? No friggin contest. See you in Madison Heights.

Have your life depend on getting a swirled random password in one try or figure out a magic eye in one try?

I had to look up what a magic eye was and, because I suck at those, I have to go with the random swirled puzzle.

Be a cute polar bear with an amputated leg or a cute kitten that is bald due to a deathly illness?

Have you ever known a kitten to be cute when bald? I don't like cats anyway, so I'll take the polar bear. At least I can aggresively destroy anyone who pokes fun at me because I'm a friggin polar bear!

Personally end strife in Darfur or see The Dark Knight?

My fellow bloggers are going to hate me for this but...I have already seen the Dark Knight (tee hee hee) and it was magically entertaining and made me wish I could have the DVD already! I would love to see it again and again and again...so sorry people in Darfur, you can't compete with Heath Ledger's Joker.

I Need $5000, STAT!

There's this company called Supercar Life that lets you test a Porsche 911 Turbo, Lamborghini Gallardo, Ferrari F430 (probably my favorite supercar of all time), Mercedes-Benz CLK63 Black Series, and an Aston Martin DB9 on a closed track. So that means you can take those fucking awesome cars and drive them like they are meant to be driven...FAST AS FUCK! Granted, that's a steep price to drive an automatic (BOOOOOOOOOOO!) supercar, but you get an opportunity of a lifetime. I'd rather own one of these cars at some point in my life, but for now this is the closest I might be able to get to actually driving one of these.

Hey! Remeber me?

So I haven't posted in a while, and I'm sure you can all attest to this. But I'm sitting at work and had a sudden epiphany.

So some guys when they drink, suffer from what scientists call "Whiskey Dick".
I'll admit it happens to me. I'm sure these men see it as a terrible thing, because it turns what was going to be an exciting, thromping evening into a 'flacid' disappointment.

But did anyone stop to think that that maybe this is your body's natuarl defense mechanism to stop you from doing something really stupid? (or ugly)

So the next time this happens to you (if this sort of thing happens to you), try to think about how bad it might have been. And maybe you'll thank your penis for being a little smarter than you on this one.

Its on the Wikipedia, so it must be True!

Interesting Futurama Factoids:

In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore uses a scene from the episode "Crimes of the Hot" during his initial explanation of global warming. The Futurama cast and crew also made an animated promo titled "A Terrifying Message From Al Gore." Gore is a recurring guest star on the show, his daughter Kristin Gore is a regular writer and story editor, and he has said that Futurama is his favorite show. The promo is included on the DVD release of Futurama: Bender's Big Score.

Someone tell me why this guy isnt running for office?

Awards:

Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television Production
2000 — Brian Sheesley for episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Television Production
2001 — John DiMaggio as Bender for episode "Bendless Love"
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production
2001 — Ron Weiner for episode "Luck of the Fryrish"[76]
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Television Production
2003 — Rich Moore for episode "Roswell That Ends Well"
Best Home Entertainment Production
2008 — Bender's Big Score

Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
2000 — Bari Kumar (color stylist) for episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two"
2001 — Rodney Clouden (storyboard artist) for episode "Parasites Lost"
Outstanding Animated Program
2002 — "Roswell That Ends Well"

Environmental Media Awards:
Comedy — TV Episodic
2000 — "The Problem with Popplers"

Writers Guild of America Award:
Animation
2003 — Ken Keeler for episode "Godfellas".
2003 — Patric Verrone for episode "Godfellas"

R.I.P. Izzy

I know most of you already know about this, but Sian and Aaron had to put her little cat Isis down last week. She got very sick and was having trouble eating and keeping on weight. It's really really hard for all of us, and I just hope that wherever she is now, she's happy and not in any more pain. Please keep Sian and Aaron in your thoughts and prayers, because this came very suddenly. She was only about three years old.

Goodbye my little love, you will be sorely missed. :(

The Dark Knight Exclusive Trailer

This trailer is found on YouTube but was exclusive to Dominos Pizza for a while. If you have not seen it, it is the best trailer thus far and by far the most disturbing as you listen to the Joker talk...the dialogue from 0:48-0:57 is just chilling.



GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!

In All Things Jimmy...

and kitty!

730am Should Not be Considered Sleeping In...

But for this guy, who has been on a ridiculous schedule all week, well, it is. I think that I passed out as early as 9 last night...so its like I got oodles of sleep. My body is a complete reck.

In any case, I finally have a day off and I am super-ridiculously happy about it.

Lollapalooza Schedule Posted!

So, it looks like I'm doing shrooms for the first night before the Raconteurs who fit in perfectly before Radiohead. I'll probably be drunk the next night for Rage Against the Machine and then drop acid the last night for Nine Inch Nails. Sadly, no show goes on past 10pm, so that means NIN won't have a crazy light show. Bummer. Well, not so much of a bummer as FUCKING AWESOME CONCERTS! There are also other concerts during the day, but we'll figure that out when we get there. I guess having no show go on after 10 does give us the night to do whatever in Chicago, so that shouldn't be too bad.

Eye Candy of the Day

I was watching parts of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (good movie, btw) and Michelle Monaghan is in it. So for your viewing pleasure, and for those who don't know who she is, here you go.


She's also in the movie Eagle Eye with Shia LeBouf, which looks pretty intense. Sadly though, that one won't come out until late September. So have another picture.