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Okay, after about oh, a two month layoff, I'm posting again. The reason for the layoff, besides my usual procrastinating self, is there haven't been any movies worth seeing lately. Since my last update I only saw four movies I hadn't previously seen. But the tides are changing. This week Sin City comes out, later in April we can look forward to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Of course May

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I have never seen the original Assault on Precinct 13 but I think I'd like too after seeing this remake. There really isn't too much to say here. It's New Years Eve in Detroit Michigan and precinct 13 is scheduled to close at midnight. Most of the equipment and staff have already moved, and there is only a skeleton crew working to oversee the buildings last night of use. A snow storm hits and

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In Good Company is one of those movies that is unabashedly a "feel good" movie. It's not the kind of film that is going to break any new ground. It's nothing we haven't seen before. Yet, you come out of it really enjoying it. Even when parts might feel a little too unrealistic you don't care. You watch the film, love the characters and want the happy ending. It tells the story of two men who

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I recently saw Meet the Fockers. I really liked Meet the Parents so I figured this one should be pretty funny. I saw the trailer and started to worry. I saw the movie anyway and it ended up being kind of lame. Yeah there are some funny parts, but for the most part it's filled with those moments that are supposed to be funny. Not much to say here except it's a rehash of the first movie. Ben

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I don't have children but I think that one of the toughest things about being a parent would be when to stop being overprotective of your child. It seems like parents of young children are on guard 24/7. They have to be, I mean a three year old can't comprehend the danger inherent in life. On the same note though, when your child gets older when/how do you let them willfully accept the risks

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I've always enjoyed James L. Brooks movies. As good as it gets is a classic with me. When I heard about Spanglish I figured it was a can't miss with the cast and Brooks at the helm. Well it did miss. There are some good moments and the acting is fine but it never really picks what this story is truly about. It feels like a writing assignment in screenwriter's class where the goal is to depict

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I loved Ocean's Eleven. It had so many things going for it; a really cool celebrity cast, a really cool villain, really cool good guys, really cool gadgets, really cool humor, and a really cool and clever heist. In other words, it was really cool. Ocean's Twelve on the other hand is just cool. It had most of the same of the elements of the first one except the heist part was really kind of lame

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JGNN - This week offers up many new releases that we know you've all been waiting for with great anticipation. Well friends, the wait is over. Exhale and read on. Twelve years in the making and still not done, a compellation DVD of the Juggy Gales Fantasy Football & Supper Club’s greatest highlights hits shelves today and it’s loaded with your favorites: § Ty’s Chair § Corky goes to the bar §

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Yep, in honor of my old shop teacher "Mr. Kessler", this is a Heinz 57 post, a "catchup" post. The Incredibles is, for lack of a better term, Incredible. The animation is spectacular, as should be expected, and the story is a large helping of fun! In typical Pixar fashion it has enough story and jokes to please the adults, and enough humor and wackiness to make the kids happy. The story of a

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I've been slacking off a bit lately and I have too many reviews to catch up on. As a result here are a couple of quick reviews which are a week late. Sideways is the kind of movie that really is more about these particular characters in this time and place then it is about plot. During the course of the film we come to meet Miles and Jack. Miles is depressed, we soon understand why. He is

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I Heart Huckabees is a very strange film in almost every way. It's strange in the cast; Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Whalberg, Dustin Hoffman, and Lily Tomlin. It's strange in the way action will just stop to explain strange existential concepts and, in an effort to display and understand them, peoples faces will just break off like jigsaw puzzle pieces and float around the

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Okay, I'll be the first to admit this isn't the kind of movie I usually see. I have never been too impressed with "chick flicks". Some I've liked and some I've hated but for the most part I just stay away. I mean I'm a guy, what do you expect? So to understand why I'd go to the theater to see Shall We Dance? we have to go back a couple of years. In April of 2003 I drove to Champaign, Illinois

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What if when you die your loved ones could watch a movie of your life? A movie comprised of your memories to give the viewer a feel of who you were? What if every moment you lived was recorded for just this very purpose? In The Final Cut, Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, a man who is a "cutter". Cutters are people who access the Zoe implant, a microchip inserted into the brain while still in

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Friday Night Lights is based off a book written in 1989 that chronicles a Texas high school football teams bid for a state championship. As we would expect there are many colorful characters that make up the team. There is the cocky running back who collects brochures from colleges and waits for the day he can buy his Mercedes Benz. There is the quiet Quarterback who sees football has his

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Wow! I mean really, prepare to piss yourself from laughing so hard. Team America: World Police is the new film from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It is a hilarious look at the war on terror as told with marionettes. Team America is an elite police force who responds to threats of terrorism where ever they may rise. After the death of a team member they decide to recruit a new

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I missed it, but a month ago was the one year anniversy of Warren's death. R.I.P. Warren. I'm still enjoying every sandwich. Mutineer By Warren Zevon c. 1995 Zevon Music BMI Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Hoist the mainsail - here I come Ain't no room on board for the insincere You're my witness I'm your mutineer I was born to rock the boat Some may sink but we will float Grab your coat -

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I've begun writing for a new blog with some friends of mine. The format is pretty much a free for all where we discuss whatever comics/books we're reading, movies/TV shows we're watching, music we're listening to, games we're playing, etc.. You get the idea. Once you've looked around here swing on over to http://viewfromthecheapseats.blogspot.com/ and take a look around.

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Firemen run into a burning building. As you would, expect flames dance around everywhere. They go in to rescue a couple of guys still trapped inside. They find some and begin to make their descent back out to safety. Except one of the firemen thinks there is another man trapped. He goes on his own to save him. He finds the victim and successfully gets him out of the building. Only to have the

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A friend of mine saw the ads for Sky Captain and the World of tomorrow and swore up and down that he had seen this before. That it was a remake of something. I told him I didn't think it was but he still wasn't convinced. Well having seen the movie I know how he felt. Sky Captain is the distant cousin of a movie like Independence Day. It borrows heavily from past Sci-Fi films but still comes

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That is right football fans, today is the kickoff for the 2004 NFL season. I'm no Nostradamus, but this is how I see the season shaping up! NFC North 1) Green Bay Packers- On the decline but still good enough to win a weak division. 2) Minnesota Vikings- Explosive "O", no "D" 3) Chicago Bears- Good for more wins than people think. 4) Detroit Lions- Young team on the way up, but not there yet.

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There have been some classic comic book stories in the last 20 years that deal with sacrificing for the greater good: Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Almost any Spider-man story, The Dark Phoenix saga from the X-men just to name a few. Hero owes a lot to these great comic tales. Seemingly superpowered people fighting for what they believe is best for the world. Villains that don't believe

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Think of the last time you were out in a major city (Chicago, L.A., New York, Las Vegas, etc...) at say, 3:00am. As you were driving to your hotel, or where ever it is you were going, you see a taxi drive by and you get a glimpse of the person in the backseat. Did you ever wonder who the person was? What they were doing out at 3:00am? Collateral offers up at least one explanation, maybe that

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Garden State is the kind of movie that when it's over you realize you liked it more than you thought you would. It's a very funny comedy/drama about a man who comes back to his home town for the first time in years for his mothers funeral. Andrew (Zach Braff) is an actor who lives out in L.A. He's doing somewhat okay for himself, apparently he had one memorable role as a retarded quarterback,

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When I was a kid I used to play with my action figures all the freaking time. It was pretty much the best way to spend the day for me. I loved movies and had a very active imagination. This was a huge plus since all my toys seemed to be action figures and their accessories. The two main types of figures I had were Star Wars and G.I. Joe. They were both roughly the same size of figures so they

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Isn't it sad when yet another childhood dream is crushed? Remember how it felt when you figured out that the gifts Santa brought had been hidden in your parents closet for weeks before Christmas? I had another experience like that this past weekend. Reality is a bitter pill to swallow. Over the course of last weekend I went to the Wizard World Chicago comic book convention. The Chicago con

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I have this t-shirt I like to wear to work that says " The corporations hate you. You are a pawn". I think that pretty much sums up the way most of us feel about corprate America. Of course I'll stop and think that it's not really that cut and dry. Corporations still need working people such as myself to make/sell/buy their various products to keep the rich on top. Then a movie like the remake

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Imagine if you had a guide on how to make a movie. Follow step one, move on to step two, etc... Now imagine if many people started making movies with the same guide. They would be all the same and all the originality would be missing. Sure they would have all the steps completed, but it would be a pretty boring flick don't you think? Well that describes M. Night Shyamalan's new movie The Village.

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The first teaser trailer for Batman Begins is up at the films website, http://batmanbegins.warnerbros.com/. This one can not get here soon enough!

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Arrested Development is the funniest show on T.V.  I love it and was thrilled it got picked up for another season.  Then I found this on www.dvdfile.com, Awesome!!!! More TV on DVD is on the way from Fox Home Entertainment, who will debut the critical darling Arrested Development: The Complete First Season on October 19th. Presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 surround and

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I was just reading all the coverage from the San Diego Comic con over on www.comicbookresources.com and I'm really wishing I was there.  In case you're not familiar, the San Diego con is the biggest comic show/geek fest in the country.  The big advantage it has over the one here in Chicago is that since it's so close to Los Angeles a lot of movie people attend it.  So you get a nice one/two punch

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This is way too creepy!!!  If you figure out how it works, let me know, cause this is freaking me out!!!  http://mysticalball.com/. 

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I've been slacking off with the movie reviews so here are four mini reviews all in one easy to read post! I, Robot -  I was pretty surprised at how much I liked this one.  I actually went in expecting to be disappointed, not Battlefield Earth disappointed or anything but lets just say I did not have high hopes.  Of course they deviated from the Asimov stories so much that it doesn't even get a

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I stole this from peterdavid.net.  Okay it's not really stealing if I credit the source right?  Anyway, if you're a comic geek this is freaking funny.  Gotta love an op-ed piece written by The Hulk!!! 

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Spider-Man 2, wow! What a great superhero movie. Roger Ebert says it's the best superhero flick since the first Superman movie. If it's not the best it's definelty up there. Sam Raimi clearly loves and understands the material here, it made all the difference in the first Spidey flick and it shines through here. Finally, a superhero movie that is more about the characters then just about

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This weeks movie is Fahrenheit 9/11. I have to admit that I went into this movie prepared to not vote for President Bush come November. There seems to be a certain school of thought that people who would vote for Bush would see this movie and then decide to not vote for him. I really don't think Fahrenheit 9/11 will have THAT big of an impact on the election. Most of the info in the movie is

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Feel like listening to some Warren Zevon tonight. Ourselves To Know Warren Zevon, Zevon Music BMI We left Constantinople in a thousand ninety-nine To restore the one True Cross was in this heart of mine To bring it to Jerusalem and then sail home to Rhodes We took that holy ride ourselves to know We took that holy ride ourselves to know Everyone got famous, everyone got rich Everyone

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Have you ever heard the old saying "Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans"? Well that is pretty much describes the new Steven Spielberg move The Terminal. Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a man who is traveling to the United States when a military coup plunges his home country into war. Since he doesn't yet have his visa to enter the country and the U.S. doesn't

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Saw "The chronicles of Riddick" yesterday. It was okay I guess. I mean the FX were all pretty cool. The action was okay. It's just that, at the end of the movie I was just thinking "whatever". I couldn't get into it. I don't think it's horrible, on par with the average action/sci-fi type movie. Maybe the problem was it is just too average. Nothing about it stands out. If you're a Vin

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Got the following off www.dvdfile.com Gotta love South Park: Last but not least, we have a special one-off South Park: The Passion of the Jew. This incendiary parody of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will also hit DVD on the 31st, feature a 4:3 full screen transfer and Dolby 2.0 surround track, plus two bonus episodes: "Christian Rock Hard" and "Red Hot Catholic Love." All this can

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I checked out a movie called Saved! tonight. I was pretty blown away. The movie is a satire on the whole "born again Christian" hysteria. It's a film that is very funny but manages to address some serious topics at the same time. It takes place in a Christian high school where everyone prays and says Jesus about a million times in a day. The main character is Mary, and at the start of the

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I caught the end of game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals tonight. Tampa Bay beat Calgary 1-0 to tie the series at two games apiece. In coverage of the series most of the sports media talk about how no one cares or will watch? Why? Okay I understand the whole small market syndrome. Teams from the smaller cities in the league have less fans than the larger ones. Therefore allegedly no one in the

Tyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125971433559812721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099987.post-1085984873186522822004-05-31T01:20:00.000-05:002004-05-31T01:27:53.186-05:00

Just saw the movie Supersize me. In case you don't know it's a documentary about a man who eats McDonald's three times a day for a whole month. His rules are he has to eat everything on the menu before the month is over and if they ask, he must supersize his meal. As you can imagine it plays havoc with his body. His weight jumps from 185lbs to 210lbs. His Cholesterol jumps from 160 to 240

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Blah

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Ty's top ten movies of 2003 For the most part this was a weak year at the movies. Maybe it's just me but it seemed like the last couple of years had a great balance of entertaining popcorn type movies and movies that meant something. This years crop felt like it was more style than substance. I can't say I saw alot of awful movies this year, but there were quite a few disapointments. 2003

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The 2003 Juggy draft is history. A good time was had by all, espically during the post-draft festivities which included a drunken former Superbowl champion, a cracked out mascot with a drooling a problem, a strange sister Shazam sighting, and a visit to Sophie the whore's not one but two drinking establishments. All in all it was another historic night in a league full of tradition. The

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The new NFL season kicks off in less than two weeks. What a wonderful time of the year. All the teams have been in training camp for several weeks now and the pre-season is getting close to wrapping up. Pretty much every team has some major battles for playing time and roster space going now. Each pre-season game contains opportunities ranging from players fighting for starting jobs, all the

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Came across a very good interview with Tom Petty in the Sunday Chicago Sun-times today. I've always admired Tom Petty as a musician, and when he released his latest album I've been able to read and hear several interviews with him. He is coming to Chicago to play five shows and tape an episode of the PBS show Soundstage so it was only natural that the Sun-times conduct another interview with

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Last fall, I think, Spirited Away was given a theatrical release here in the U.S. Unfortunately I missed it then. Thank God for Oscar success. The film took best animated feature at the Academy Awards this year, so it was given a theatrical rerelease. It was made by Hayao Miyazaki, the same guy who made Princess Monokoke. I've read that Miyazaki doesn't like to use computers for his

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A couple of years ago I took a creative writing class. It was broken into two segments; Short stories and poetry. Well, I'm not much of a poem person. But I did my best. I thought I did okay on a couple of them, but most were shit. I even named one "Shitty Poetry". At the end of the semester we had to read two poems in front of the class. One of our own and one by a published poet. At the

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Well its Oscar time. I know alot of people do this type of thing every year, but when I was a kid and Mom asked if I too would jump off a bridge if all my friends did I usually said yes. So here are my predictions. an + means who I think should win and a * means I think that selection will win. Best Actor Adrien Brody- The Pianist Nicholas Cage- Adaption(+) Michael Caine- The Quiet American

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Well its been awhile since I did an update. I've been busy playing with my new DSL connection, I know I suck. But anyway there were a couple of things I wanted to share with you. First of all Check out TROGDOR!!! a stupid little Atari style game that is worth killing a few minutes of your day with. Has anyone seen that new show on Fox, Oliver Beene? It's starting to grow on me. I thought

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Saw Tears of the sun over the weekend. What this movie tries to do is put a face on the nameless victims war leaves behind. Does it succeed? Sort of. I say that only because about 3/4th of the way through the movie stops being original, and just becomes a generic action flick. Bruce Willis is the leader of Navy SEAL team sent into Nigeria during the civil war. His team is sent in to bring

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I Came across a link on aintitcoolnews.com about something called the video store project. A student on Cornell University is doing a disertation on the history of video retail and its impact on the motion picture industry. When you go to the website you are asked a series of questions about any store you want to talk about. You are given spaces to relate stories about that store. When you

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When I first heard about Life Gem my initial reaction was something like "What a bunch of freaks". But then the more I thought about it, the more it grew on me. Life Gem is a new service where your loved one, and you can do pets, are first cremated, then the ashes are turned into a gem, which can then be mounted on a ring, or necklace or whatever. Better than just sitting on a shelf in a

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I came across this very funny article about the axis of evil wannabes from Wil Wheaton.net. Funny stuff.

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I finished cleaning up at work tonight and was waiting for the next shift operator to come in. I saw that there was a Rubick's Cube in the cabinet. Naturally I started playing with it. Memories flooded back of the glorious 80's. I remember there was Rubick's Cube, Rubick's Snake, Rubick's Sphere, and Pryaminx. I loved those things and could lose hours each day just playing with them. For

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I saw the movie Dark Blue, last night. Judging from the advertising I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. But I read a few positive reviews and figured what the Hell? Very good flick. Set in Los Angeles, days before the verdict in the Rodney King trial, Dark Blue is about Eldon Perry(Kurt Russel) a LAPD sgt. who does certains "jobs" for the higher ups in the dept. We watch as Perry and

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Things to read: Confessions of a dangerous mind by Chuck Barris. Unknown man #89 and Freaky Deaky, both by Elmore Leonard. The Millionaires by Brad Metzler. Things to watch: The third season of Six Feet Under kicks off this Sunday(March 2) on HBO. Arena League Football on NBC every Sunday afternoon, not as good as the "real" game but something to watch until the NFL draft. Movies to watch:

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Did anyone watch the show Firefly? I loved that show. But of course it got cancelled so Fox could show such interesting programing like Fastlane, Joe Millionaire, and lets not forget, The Brady Bunch goes to Washington. The people behind Firefly were unable to convince Fox to pick it up for another year but there are completed episodes that Fox has yet to air, hopefully they will. Due to the

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Hi everyone. Here is the deal, the website Tom and I had was hosted on Homestead. The dirty bastards raised their rates on us. So the old site is dead. In turn, I decided to a "Blog" or a weblog for us non cool people. It's not as flashy as a regular website, but that just makes it easier to post. Also, it's a bit more free form than a website. I can post whatever I want and not feel bad

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