Picked up a handful of movies at Blockbuster today to help pass the weekend by. I had read last week that the Blockbuster chain announced in a SEC filing that they are considering closing the brick and mortar versions of their stores and moving to a strictly online business model. The store was pretty dead when we were in there so... might not be a bad idea.
Anyways... my thoughts on these flicks...
Role Models
I didn't really care to see this one and when we were trying to decide what to get, this is the one I fought the most. I just couldn't imagine paying to see anything with Stifler in it and let's face it, that's all he's going to ever be to anyone. He could be working in a heartfelt, World War II period piece about the Holocaust and he'd still be Stifler to me.
Hrm.
That might be fun actually. Write that down!
Anyways, the movie wasn't as bad as I feared. There was nothing fantastic about it but it had a few touching parts and some amusing scenes. All in all, it's a comedy that doesn't completely annoy me and those are few and far between anymore. Oh, by the way... he basically played Stifler in this. This easily could have been an American Pie spinoff minus the grossout humor.
BLUE'S REVIEW: I wouldn't pay to see it but if you see it on your favorite movie channel, I might give it a watch.
The Transporter
I know, I know. I'm probably one of the last people in the world to see this one. I just hated the second Bourne movie so much, I fear almost all action movies that look to be cut out of a similar cloth. This one was more in the vein of Shoot 'Em Up - which is actually the other way around by far. I liked it... sorta. Again, I wasn't blown away by it and would never buy it but it was a decent watch with some fun chase scenes and wacky martial arts stuff. The action wasn't as jumpcutty as Bourne so that was cool.
BLUE'S REVIEW: Yeah, if you haven't seen it, it's worth the rental.
2009-04-11
2009-04-10
2009-04-09
A Tale Of Two Pitchers
By now, I'm sure most people have heard the very sad story about the death of Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart late last night. The story goes something like so...
** Adenhart made his season debut last night and seemed to have pitched quite well.
** His father was in the crowd to watch his son pitch. After the game, they had a meeting with Nick's agent, Scott Boras.
** Sometime after that, Adenhart went to a Fullerton club with two CSU Fullerton students.
** While leaving the club, someone who was on a suspended license for DUI ran a red light in a minivan, hitting the car carrying Nick and the other two people - killing them all. The good Samaritan then proceeded to make a run for it on foot. Jackass. Luckily he was caught where he hopefully will spend severe amounts of time in jail.
It really is a sad story to read - especially stuff about his father going out to the mound today and crying. Just tragic, tragic stuff. The paper even has Boras crying when he talked to the press. The other players throughout baseball seem to be a bit shocked - I'm sure it's quite a, "That could've been me" moment.
I don't know much about Adenhart other than what I've read today but I just wanted to pay some sort of respects tonight.
In a slightly related note, another Angels pitcher, Ervin Santana, was in the store today and did not get recognized by anyone but another customer. What can I say? I wouldn't have recognized him either.
** Adenhart made his season debut last night and seemed to have pitched quite well.
** His father was in the crowd to watch his son pitch. After the game, they had a meeting with Nick's agent, Scott Boras.
** Sometime after that, Adenhart went to a Fullerton club with two CSU Fullerton students.
** While leaving the club, someone who was on a suspended license for DUI ran a red light in a minivan, hitting the car carrying Nick and the other two people - killing them all. The good Samaritan then proceeded to make a run for it on foot. Jackass. Luckily he was caught where he hopefully will spend severe amounts of time in jail.
It really is a sad story to read - especially stuff about his father going out to the mound today and crying. Just tragic, tragic stuff. The paper even has Boras crying when he talked to the press. The other players throughout baseball seem to be a bit shocked - I'm sure it's quite a, "That could've been me" moment.
I don't know much about Adenhart other than what I've read today but I just wanted to pay some sort of respects tonight.
In a slightly related note, another Angels pitcher, Ervin Santana, was in the store today and did not get recognized by anyone but another customer. What can I say? I wouldn't have recognized him either.
2009-04-08
Excuses, Excuses
It's been a weird week on this site for me. Usually, the week of Wrestlemania and Opening Day puts me at no shortage of topics to write about and this week is no exception but I just haven't really found the time/energy/desire/whatever.
At work today, someone asked me, "How's the writing going?" I get the question a lot as everyone knows that I've written a screenplay and that I have other stuff I'm working on. I usually give some semblance of an answer about, "Collecting ideas", "working things out in my head," "piecing stuff together"... something like that. Today, I very bluntly said, "It's not." Which, in all honesty, is the truth. I have some notes jotted down about some ideas and one screenplay with about twenty pages written but... well, yeah... that's hardly an actual effort.
He commented that it's tough to do when you're working full time. Of course, I agreed. I mean, someone was giving me a ready-made excuse about why I'm not writing. Of course, I agreed! Then I added in a little something about how it's really hard to write at the moment because I don't really want to shut myself off in another room when I get home and my aging laptop has problems with multiple and inadvertent characters appearing out of nowhere.
All of which is true!
But still... I feel kinda like I'm letting myself down. I mean, this was part of the reason I went for the low-pressure, check your brain when you leave, retail jobs, you know? So that I could put more focus on the outside-of-work activities. So, if I'm not doing that... what AM I doing?
I'll let you know when I have an answer to that.
At work today, someone asked me, "How's the writing going?" I get the question a lot as everyone knows that I've written a screenplay and that I have other stuff I'm working on. I usually give some semblance of an answer about, "Collecting ideas", "working things out in my head," "piecing stuff together"... something like that. Today, I very bluntly said, "It's not." Which, in all honesty, is the truth. I have some notes jotted down about some ideas and one screenplay with about twenty pages written but... well, yeah... that's hardly an actual effort.
He commented that it's tough to do when you're working full time. Of course, I agreed. I mean, someone was giving me a ready-made excuse about why I'm not writing. Of course, I agreed! Then I added in a little something about how it's really hard to write at the moment because I don't really want to shut myself off in another room when I get home and my aging laptop has problems with multiple and inadvertent characters appearing out of nowhere.
All of which is true!
But still... I feel kinda like I'm letting myself down. I mean, this was part of the reason I went for the low-pressure, check your brain when you leave, retail jobs, you know? So that I could put more focus on the outside-of-work activities. So, if I'm not doing that... what AM I doing?
I'll let you know when I have an answer to that.
2009-04-07
2009-04-06
2009-04-05
Quick Mania Thoughts
I'll probably feel like going into detail a little more tomorrow or the next day but some quick thoughts...
** Michaels/Taker was all that I thought it would be and then some. They held nothing back and laid it all on the line. The building was absolutely electric throughout the whole match and that was certainly the match everyone had come to see. Nothing else came close.
** MITB was a lot of fun as usual with Shelton and Kofi bringing the insanity. Punk winning was a bit of a surprise and I was REALLY hoping he'd use the case tonight. Ah well.
** Whoever booked the finish of HHH/Orton should be future endeavored. I can not think of a worse possible "clean" finish than that. Absolutely terrible.
** STEAMBOAT~!
** If I'm Miz and Morrison tonight, I'm extremely pissed off. Two of the men who were consistently the most entertaining throughout the entire year and they don't even merit a match on the show? Bullshit. On the same topic, no one wanted to see Kid Rock... don't get that one at all. And after seeing Mickey Rourke milk his entrance to the ring, I think I'm pretty happy the Rourke/Jericho match didn't go down as planned.
That'll do for now. Overall, my initial impression was that it was a good Mania and could've been a great one if the match order had been shuffled slightly and with a few key changes.
** Michaels/Taker was all that I thought it would be and then some. They held nothing back and laid it all on the line. The building was absolutely electric throughout the whole match and that was certainly the match everyone had come to see. Nothing else came close.
** MITB was a lot of fun as usual with Shelton and Kofi bringing the insanity. Punk winning was a bit of a surprise and I was REALLY hoping he'd use the case tonight. Ah well.
** Whoever booked the finish of HHH/Orton should be future endeavored. I can not think of a worse possible "clean" finish than that. Absolutely terrible.
** STEAMBOAT~!
** If I'm Miz and Morrison tonight, I'm extremely pissed off. Two of the men who were consistently the most entertaining throughout the entire year and they don't even merit a match on the show? Bullshit. On the same topic, no one wanted to see Kid Rock... don't get that one at all. And after seeing Mickey Rourke milk his entrance to the ring, I think I'm pretty happy the Rourke/Jericho match didn't go down as planned.
That'll do for now. Overall, my initial impression was that it was a good Mania and could've been a great one if the match order had been shuffled slightly and with a few key changes.
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