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Mission Impossible III

This Summer, I did not rush out to see a movie each weekend, however I did go and see the big ones. Well the first one for me was, Mission impossible III, and you might think that I’m crazy for this but I when and saw this movie on my vacation when I was in Vancouver, (it was fun, to go out to a movie out side of Toronto)
I really did not have plans to see this movie, at that time, however with all the good reviews for it, and all the bad reviews for the The Da Vinci Code, we went to go see this one

Ok, this movie was blah. What do I mean by that? Well, it just did not do anything for me, and I don’t think it was worth my time and money to go and see it in a theater. I would say that it’s an ok rental, but that is all. But what really pissed me off about this movie, was not anything in the movie, but the things that the critics were saying about it.
Some things people were saying about it :

The perfect summer movie -- fast-paced, action-packed, emotionally engaging (without demanding too much investment), and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Whattya want for 10 bucks?
Full Review

For all of the movie's professional craft and lovely vertigo, the experience is like eating popcorn in a guillotine.

Full Review

Ok I, must be completely off in left field, but I did not enjoy this movie at all, I felt like I was watching a movie from the 80’s, or early 90’s. It was the same old formal, good guy, and girlfriend having a good time, just being good people; bad guy does something bad, and kidnaps girlfriend; good guy goes underground to get bad guy, and save the girl; blah blah blah…… I’m so boarded. Maybe I watch too many movies, and I have become too cenacle; and you may love this movie, with all of its predictable twists and turns, its super human stunts, and all of its special effects. So I would not try to stop people from seeing it, it looks like a lot of people had a good time with it, but I did not.
5/10 nothing new here.

Playing with my PSP again

One of the things I got for my Birthday was two $50 EB (Electronics Boutique) gift cards. Well I just used them on two new games for my PSP. Tekken Dark Resurrection and Def Jam: Fight for NY: The Takeover, now I can dust off my PSP. Both games play really well, and I do not have problem pulling off the fighting moves in them. Right now I’m playing Def Jam (not a game for the little ones), and I’m having a good time playing it. If you have a PSP and like fighting games you need to get these two games, good times all around.
But don’t get Def Jam for your kids.

Poseidon

This weekend I saw the movie Poseidon, I did not expect too much from this movie, and my initial impressions were correct, this was a hard movie to watch. I’m really sick of seeing dumb people do dumb things just to move a story in a certain direction.
There was one thing that was good about the film. The flipping of the boat, looked as real as I possibly could image, it was well done, however it was way to short.
Now the story it self is poorly written, and just annoying too watch. You can read Al's review as well, at Al’s Blog Spot

4/10 a 4 for the good effects, 0 for the story

I got my New/Safer Dell Battery

Well I received my new; and Safer Dell Battery today. I really wanted to keep my old one, because I did not have any problems with it, however they are going to charge me for the new one, if I don't return the old one within 10 business days. Funny how they have 20 business days to get me the new battery, but I only have 10, oh well. I'm happy with the service, so I can't complain too much.

The Black Dahlia

Ok, it has been some time since I have been out to see a movie on a Friday night. Well this Friday, some of us from work went out to see a movie, and we ended up seeing this one: The Black Dahlia, with Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart. They all did a good acting job in the movie, and it had a really nice look to it as well.

Ok lets get down to the nitty-gitty, this movie sucked the big one!!, I was so board, I did not care for any of the characters, the story was convoluted, and felt very contrived. It's tries to weave a complex mystery, and draw you in, however, in the end it does not make any logical sense, and I don't care.

Good acting, but a crap story, 3/10

Holy air conditioner Batman!!

We visted our friends, Tony and Mark on the weekend for a BBQ. The food was great and their house looks amazing. We could not help but notice a new addtion to their backyard, The Koolatron 5000 air conditioner. I think the same one cools the skydome.

Dan's Front Door Paint Project

Dan had this week off, so he gave himself some project to do around the house. One of those projects was to paint the inside of the front door, a dark colour. Now I did not want to do this, but after seeing our friends home, and what they did with their door, he was going to do it and not be stopped.

Day 1

I was not too happy with the way it came out, and neither was he. Now this looked really good in our friends house, but it did not work in ours.

Day 2

he decided to go with a lighter colour. This looked really good however, there were problems with the paint, and when you got close to the door, you could see lots of cracks

Day 3

After going to home Depot, and spending 3 days on this door project (that should have taken 1h), the front door now looks really good.

Silent Hill

I really did not want to see this movie, I mean I really really did not want to see this movie, however my brother told Dan that it was a good movie, so we rented it. I don't like movies with spooky kids, I find the plot device tired, and this movie was all about the spooky kid. That was one thing, the other item that was tired, was all the running around, finding nothing, and being chased by things that had no purpose other than to chase you around. This went on for over 1 hour of the movie, before any real story was told, but to my surprise I found myself interested in the story. Also I understood what happened at that end of the movie, and I liked that part. (If you do see this movie and don't understand what happened just ask and I will tell you what I think). The One thing I would say is that having a Christian background, helps you understand it better.

5.5/10 It takes way to long to get to the interesting stuff, however I like the fact, that they don't spoon feed you what happened, or what is going on. to to

Derailed

Hmm....

What should I say about this movie, with Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen. I did not have any real problem with this movie, however I was able to see what was coming, which does not say much. I'm someone that can't see twists and turns in movies, so that fact that I could see this one coming does not say much for this movie. I would say watch this movie for the two actors, and not so much for the story, I thought that they were good in it.

5/10 I did not hate it

Red Eye

Ok, I'm going to start and give my 2cents about the movies I have seen, so lets get to it.

Last week I saw the movie "Red Eye" with Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, and I would have to say that the movie was enjoyable to watch. Now there were a lot of problems with the story that you have to look past, however the two main characters were written well, they were both smart and believable and the pace was good. The airport scene had alot of problems, but I let that pass, because I liked the characters. However there was one person that I had a problem with, but I don't want to say, with out giving to much away.

6.5/10 good acting, with some story problems

Well Summer is over

Ok with the end of volleyball, comes the end of summer, (well at lest for me)

This summers volleyball, was not that good. it was hard to get people from work to come out, witch was strange, because last year we always had lots of people coming out to play, oh well.

I do have to thank the few people that did come out all the time, and when they could make it.

Next year I don't think I will put a team togeter though work, I will just ask people from work if they would like to "pay too play", that way I will get people that really want to play.

I can't really put the blame on people at work, people have other things they want to do, and volleyball might be fun, but you have to want to make the time for it.

Getting too old for games

I hope it is not true, but I find I'm not into games, the way I use to be. The only games I want to play, are the ones that are short, and quick to play. However I feel this is the fault of the game makers, games take way too much time to play, and you can't just stop save, and come back later to continue playing.

Also I find that when I play a game for a long time, it now feels like I wasted all that time doing nothing, and getting nothing out of it. I is strange that I don't feel that way about TV watching.

Oh well just something I was thinking about on my way to work.

My Dell is going to Blow!!!

Well, my Dell XPS has one of the Batteries that can catch on fire, if I don't have it plugged in. I will call them this week to get a new one.

I have not used this Blog in a long time, Did not feel like saying anything, but now that MS, has changed it a bit, I will see if the changes are any good. Maybe I will start putting in some movie reviews again, or talk about Naruto (2 more weeks until the good stuff).

Well that is it for now, I'm going to go and read a comic book, then go to bed, if stargate does not download.

Update on the Dell Battery:

I went to the Dell website, and placed a order for a new battery, and they sent me this (I love how they point out, that it's a Sony battery):

Battery Recall

Order Confirmation

Thank you for placing your Battery Recall Request. Your Request Number is: *******

You will receive an email when your Order has been shipped.

Please allow up to 20 business days for delivery.

Thank you for participating in the Dell recall of certain Sony batteries. Your replacement order has been received and you can expect to receive your new battery within 20 business days. You may continue to use your notebook computer safely by turning the system off, ejecting the battery, and using the AC adapter and power cord to power your system until your replacement battery is received.

Email: To Acknowledge Order of New Battery

Date 8/28/2006 8:30:51 AM

Dear Customer,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Shipment of quality products always has been and continues to be our foremost concern. As always, if you have questions or concerns about this or any other subject, please feel free to contact us.

http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/regionalSupport.aspx

Sincerely,

Dell Inc

This is my first Blog entry from the boat :)

Just saying hi to all. I don't have time to say much. I hope to get more time later. Hope you all are having a good week.

Later

Advance Volleyball Champions for winter 2005/2006!!!!

Oh my god. When Lynn (the person that put our volleyball team together) asked me to be on her advance volleyball team, I told her, that I thought that, advance volleyball may be too much for me, and that I was not good enough to play on a advance team. Well she talked me into it.

We got off to a shaky start, but the team was fun to play with, so it was going to be a fun season win or lose. By the end of the regular season play, we were in 4 place; out of 14 teams, so just made it into the Championship Round (better then I expected).

The Semi-Final game was the best game of the whole season. We were up against the #1 team in the league, they did not lose one game, and we just lost to them the week before. But somehow we pulled it off and won 2 out of 3 games. Each game was won by 2 points, and they were amazing to play with. After that game we all went out for drinks. They really deserved to get second place, but they came in third.
Last night was the Finals, and we won all three games, so we are the Champs!! It feels really good.

Now, on to beach, for some beach Volleyball.

Oh no, I'm getting old. 70 music explosion

Oh my god, I'm getting old. I fell asleep yesterday, and woke up to an infomercial. An infomercial, about hits from the 70's. and I found myself really liking the songs that they were promoting, and now I'm on a quest to get all the songs. I know that most people would not understand why I like music from the 70's. but I guess that does not matter.

Now I have over 150 songs to find, using iTunes, and the apple music store. lol, I'm so sad lol

Saw II

 Ok I'm back, and yes I know, it has been a long time, I just did not know what to talk about. However I'm going to try keep the blog going from now on.

 

Ok Saw II. Well This was not the a grate movie, however I did enjoy the movie. If you liked the first SAW then I would say that you will like this one more. Also if you did not see the first one, it might be a good Idea to see it first before looking at this one. The only thing is that you may hate the first one, and not want to see this one.  

One other note, some people will love to know that Donnie Wahlberg from New kids on the Block fame is one of the stars of the film; blah he was ok...

6.5/10  to  to

 

Crap, I could not lose the weight

Well it is my first week, and I did not lose all the weight I needed

I checked my weight this morning and I was 177.5 lbs. I only lost 0.5 lbs. and I know why. I had way too much bread this weekend. (Also it might have been the fact that I went to McDonalds two times this week ).

Well, I will try harder this week.

Rent

Now I wanted to see the new Harry Potter movie, but instead I was dragged to this movie. I did not want to spend my money on a movie that I saw the live play of, so as you can imagine, I was not too happy going to see this movie, I was determined not to like it.
Well I loved the movie, it brought back all the feelings I had when I saw the musical. It was amazing. However I can not recommend this movie for people who did not see the musical. I don’t think a movie can ever do the same thing as good musical and looking back at the story, I think that I would not like the movie if I did not see the play. However this had to be one of the best movies I have ever seen in a theatre.
If you look past the story and like the music you will enjoy this movie, however if you did not see the musical and don’t like singing in a movie, I would not go and see this one if I were you. (go see the musical you will get a lot more out of it).

One last note, at the end of this movie, people applauded, and I also saw a few people crying.

 

 For me I would give it 9/10. But for anyone that has not see the musical 6/10

Birth

For some unknown reason I really wanted to see this movie, because it looked like a high end take on reincarnation. I was expecting to see an intellectual take on the subject, interwoven in a good story and good actors; all I got was the good actors.

This was a boring story, told so slowly, it will drive you mad. There must be only 10 pages of dialogue for the whole 2 hours. Most of the film was spent on people looking longingly into space (for people that know me, it was like watching the anime "Lien")

But that was not the worst of it. There was a scene in a bath tub with an adult and a 10 year old boy. This scene was disgusting and unnecessary. Not only was this a bad story, but they felt they had to put in a scene, that went too far.

 I give this peace of crap 2/10