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Movie reviews

2007-02-01T16:33:33Z

I know I've been a real slacker when it comes to posting, but lately it's just work, work, work and the only thing I make time for is to read the news and sometimes keep up with my friend's page. Over the last two weekends however, I have broken with my routine and gone and seen two movies. Since this is such an odd occurance, I thought I would share with you my reviews;
first the good review;
Pan's Labrynth. What a really good movie. It was a fantasy, but a really really dark one set during the Spanish cival war. I would highly recomend it to anyone who gets off on the visually rich movies, and anyone who doesn't mind subtitles (unless of course you speak Spanish). If you are like me though, bring a tissue for the end. And don't let anyone catch you crying, no matter how many people sniffling you may hear you will still be mocked if there are still tears in your eyes when the lights come up.

and the bad review;
Epic Movie. What a fetid,steaming pile of crap. I expected it to be kinda bad, but in a funny way. But I don't think I laughed more than once during the entire movie, and I was laughing at something that hadn't even been meant to be funny. It was so weak that I considered demanding my money back... Save your money. Smacking your own head into a wall repeatedly will be more entertaining than this total shit convention.

Awwwwwww

2006-11-09T01:20:31Z

So Rick Santorum AND Katherine Harris lost.

Color me so very, very sad...

Mrs. AntiChrist

2006-08-28T18:01:57Z

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/senate.harris.ap/index.html

Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps the AntiChrist has been among us all along, and perhaps it's not Cheney... perhaps she's a woman...

In other news, I have have not posted anything in about 7 million years. I am nothing but a lurker. I hang my head in shame.

Clerks 2

2006-07-19T13:15:49Z

So, I just heard on the radio that Joel Siegel got up and stormed out of Clerk's 2 during the 'donkey' scene. I think that's the funniest thing I've heard all morning.
I'm SO going to this movie.
Maybe twice.

really excited!

2006-06-27T18:29:08Z

Ok, so I'm kind of a dork, but I'm really excited about the new Superman movie. I'm looking online to try to find an IMAX theatre showing it nearby. I have a local theatre that will be sure to have it, but I really want to see it on a movie screen the size of the moon.

On another note; Two movies I saw last week that get the emphatic thumbs up-

An Inconvienient Truth. I went expecting to be bored out of my mind, but found it to be a really well done movie that I will recommend to everyone! Who knew Al Gore had a sence of humor????

The Notorious Betty Page. I had nothing to do Saturday evening, so I hit this tiny little artsy theatre on campus and saw this on a whim. It was a really well done movie. The actress, Gretchen somebody-or-other, was absolutly drop dead gorgeous. If I could have her, I'd switch to the other team in a heartbeat.

This has been another waste of your time movie review moment.

Gay Batwoman?

2006-06-01T19:11:13Z

Perhaps I'm the last one to know (I don't follow comics that closely any more), but:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/06/01/batwoman.uncloseted.ap/index.html

Batwoman's gay.

Cool...

really bad joke

2006-05-24T18:13:29Z

How did the Pope get the bird flu?

ready?

He got it from the Cardinals.

boo, hiss, boo.....

The interview meme

2006-04-13T18:40:10Z

1. What was your favorite weapon in Resident Evil 4? (Mine? Rifle. Sniping zombies and 'Moby's SUV' monks = Da Bomb.)
The sniping rifle was a thing of joy. (sniping rifle with zoom!!!)
At heart though, I'm a shotgun kinda girl. I had hoped it would be a bit stronger than it was, but when you absolutly positivly had to blow a guy off a roof... it did the job.

2. Looking forward to the Silent Hill movie?
Very much so. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it's going to be suckage-on-parade, but I DON"T CARE!!! The movie looks like it got all the biggest parts right; The psychotic nurse thingies, the holes in the floor, the oozing pulsing walls... I'm gonna be there on opening weekend like the complete dork that I am... But no, I'm not going in costume.

3. Your take on what really happened to Jack Twist: Really a tire accident, or gay-bashed?
I think gay bashed. I think that he was too obvious with the guy with the hyper active wife... and someone who already suspected probably took it as all the proof they needed to kill him.
4. T-shirt you wouldn't throw away even if you couldn't wear it anymore for whatever reason?
It's in my basement in a plastic bag. It's a 20+ year old tie dye with a V of huge quartz crystals painted on it. Ripped to shreds and completely unwearable, but I'll never throw it away.

5. Are you going to finish that steak? (This is Zeena's question.)
Steak? Are you kidding me, my little Pom friend? This is the fat woman on a diet. It's tofu. Or something diet like that. No meat or fat or flavor. You can have all you want!!!

Want to be interviewed?

My own Hell...

2006-03-15T12:01:35Z

General asshats
Circle I Limbo

Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Rednecks
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Scientologists
Circle IV Rolling Weights

NAMBLA Members
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

The Pope
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Republicans
Circle VII Burning Sands

Creationists
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

George Bush
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Enigmakat Beware

2006-02-28T01:41:52Z

Enigmakat -- resiatnce is futile:

http://www.dailysixer.com/brokeback.shtml

For Robyn_Ma and Murnkay

2006-02-24T00:54:34Z

You two should review this when it hits the theaters...

http://broodwich.bravehost.com/brokeback.html

Hobbit Love

2006-02-20T00:43:34Z

Okay, we all knew it had to happen sooner or later...

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2699711?htv=12

Not great, but not bad, either. Somewhat dull at times but the ending is funny and worth sticking around for...

sylver_spydr @ 2006-02-01T11:16:00

2006-02-01T16:19:18Z

Well, I havent been posting recently, and I just have no real excuse. Well, except for fatal frame 3, which has sucked away many an hour. I've had some time off from work and done some road trips out to visit old college friends. Everyone seems to have gotten married and had kids. Bah. Kinda hard to reminiss with someone about the 'wild days' when their kids are right there underfoot.
Don't get me wrong, the kids are sweet and it was great to see different folks from the past, but it was just sureal...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE WATCH THIS!!!

2006-01-10T01:38:43Z

Please. Please view this. I think it's a local for the Oscars...

http://www.break.com/index/brokebackpenguin.html

eerie Japanese lullaby

2006-01-05T16:04:11Z

Fatal Frame 3 ownes me.

I've put hours and hours into this game, and love it!! I've been playing as Kei for the last few days and it is really hard. He has NO sensitivity and the ghosts just kick his ass all over the place. I also hate the sexism that only a "man" can move the bookcase to get to the ladder. Be real, the guys is a toothpick... no way he's that much stronger than Rei. It's so typically Japanese...

Other than that, not a damn thing is going on. I hate winter...

Fatal Frame 3

2005-12-27T21:59:10Z

So, basically they did Fatal Frame 3 as a cross between Fatal Frame 2 and Silent Hill 4...
and geek that I am I am already addicted.

And The Shit Blew Up...

2005-12-10T22:32:28Z

Richard Pryor died this morning.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/10/pryor.obit/index.html

Goddamn. He was great.

depressed

2005-12-09T21:39:16Z

So, I saw the teaser trailer for Silent Hill last night. It looked awful. I'm so damn depressed. I had such high hopes, and it really looks bad.
I will still go see it anyway, because, well, ITS SILENT HILL.
but I may end up wanting my $6.50 and two hours of my life back. It's a risk I'll have to take.

much funnier than the Santa letter

2005-12-07T17:46:47Z

Oh Great Cthulhu!

I have been an extremely industrious devotee this year.

In December, I stopped enigmakat from defiling Lovecraft's grave (-20 points). Yesterday, I wore an Elder Sign (-10 points). In February, I fed finalrequiem to a Shoggoth (250 points). In April, I rescued mistful from being sacrificed (-200 points). In September, I visited my relatives in Innsmouth (100 points). In March, I defiled the grave of that traitor, Lovecraft (90 points).

In short, I have been very good (210 points) and deserve to be promoted to High Priest.

Your humble and obedient servant,
sylver_spydr

Submit your own plea to Cthulhu!

Warriooooorrrsss, come out and plaaaaaay

2005-11-30T17:11:21Z

Indigo Prophesy annoyed me, so I opened up my Warriors game and started playing that one instead.
I couldn't find a stupid book in IP, even though I had figured out exactly where it was supposed to be, and when it wasn't there proceeded to check every damn shelf...
so, I decided to spend my time on wanton distruction instead.
The graphics are good, up to, if not better than GTA Vice City, but I noticed that the mouths were moving kinda odd and it kept distracting me from the story...
You need money for drugs and spraypaint, and to get it you rob stores, steal radios and mug people. I was embarassed to be having so much fun doing the sort of things I would never even think of doing in real life... Not that it stopped me.

I am victorious!!!!

2005-11-22T16:38:01Z

I have beaten Resident Evil 4. I rock. I am da bomb. Go me.

thirty five hours of my life. That's how much I gave that game... and that's not including all the times I died and then chose to sulk and turn the console off instead of continuing. And it's not including all of the time i've since spent on the mercenary extra, or the Ada storyline.

So last night I decided that since I'm already an antisocial person and never go out to do anything... I might as well enable myself to keep right on being this way....

and I opened my copy of Indigo Prophesy.

WOW.

That about sums it up. It is really cool. You can play all the characters and it's set like you are playing a movie. The tutorial is the actual game creator done in 3d form on a movie set telling you how to control the characters.

Very cool, and based on only an hour or so of game play I give it the totally-thumbs-up seal of approval.

Addiction is a terrible thing

2005-11-03T16:01:11Z

Remember October 26th? I do. It's the day I raced to the local video game store and stood in line twitching like a junkie waiting for a fix...
And then I got hooked up;
Resident Evil 4 for playstation 2.

And I haven't left the house except to go to work ever since.

I have no idea who got voted off of Survivor, no idea if the folks on Lost are in fact still Lost. Are the desperate housewives still desperate? Or just moderately concerned? Have we gone to war with anyone else? Anyone important take a dirt nap?
I don't know, and I don't care...

God, I love these games.

All Goths Are Bad, Or Cats, Or Perhaps Just Dead Greeks

2005-10-21T19:42:50Z

... I never was very good at logic puzzles.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/21/vitale.suspect/index.html

Free Prediction O' The Week: this will set off another round of right-wing commentator calls for a return to Godly values, an obedience to President and Country, and the destruction of all things different because, of course, those things are BAD.

Why is it you never see stories along the line of "Murder Suspect Was Clothed, Enjoyed Salad [sidebar: fully-dressed vegetarians arrested by the thousands, many more scorned]"?

Any day now I expect that Harriet Myers' name will be withdrawn fron consideration.

And then replaced with Fred Phelps.

sylver_spydr @ 2005-10-06T12:46:00

2005-10-06T16:50:19Z

I try to withold my political venting, and I try even harder not to share the email chain letters that constantly fill my mailbox, but this just irritated me enough to feel like sharing it;

Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.
It was censored in the US from all later reports.

Corpse Bride

2005-10-05T16:02:06Z

So, I went to see Corpse Bride this weekend...
I'm still trying to decide if I liked it or not.
It was neat, but it seemed to be trying to be too many different things at once; a musical, a horror, an art flick...
The only thing it managed to do w/out a doubt was to be a Tim Burton movie...
I'm hoping to get to see Serenity this coming weekend...
I remember the series fondly, so I'm looking forward to it. I've read alot of reviews that blew it out of the water though, so I really hope it doesn't suck.