32 hours and forty six minutes

..and no 'Happy Birthday Costal' post on the blog?

what is up with that

THE MAN

THE MYTH

THE LEGEND

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

If you want to tear a movie apart in the first two paragraphs of a review this is how it's done...

Roger Ebert say,

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
The plot is incomprehensible. The dialog of the Autobots®, Decepticons® and Otherbots® is meaningless word flap. Their accents are Brooklyese, British and hip-hop, as befits a race from the distant stars. Their appearance looks like junkyard throw-up. They are dumb as a rock. They share the film with human characters who are much more interesting, and that is very faint praise indeed...

there is more on the website

Something i made to make everyone giggle...

More to come, i'm still adding onto it.

Movie of the Century

I was recently allowed the privilege of getting into a private showing of Disney's G-Force, through means I'm not at liberty to say. I was skeptical, as I'm sure you all are, at the time. Allow me to put any worries out of your mind; G-Force is possibly one of the best things to ever happen to the human race, or even still, the planet Earth. It's rare that a movie can bring a man to his knees in sheer awe of its greatness - rarer still, is that the same movie can cause one to howl with such hearty laughter, cry tears of unimaginable sadness, and to poop themselves a little bit. All before the opening credits finish.

It's certainly not a movie I'd recommend to everyone. There's just so much to grasp in the one short viewing that I cannot suggest seeing it without being prepared to analyze everything you thought you knew about everything. Your idea of reality will be put into question; black will become magenta, up will become downish and kind of toward the right a little bit, and you will never look at a gazelle the same way again. Indeed, after viewing this movie, you will be both a better and worse person for it.

No expense is spared throughout G-Force's twelve and a half hour time-span, offering a total of seven intermissions so that the audience can sit in silence and ponder about the universe, to question every choice they've ever made since their birth, and to finally accept Buddha into their lives. The film itself takes bold leaps in its daring attempts to escape both reality and time itself; to break barriers, and then put up new ones. One of the most touching and overwhelming scenes in this movie that really sticks out in my mind is the one in which Hurley, the orange-and-white spotted guinea pig, confesses his homosexuality and love for Agent Blaster. Upon viewing this movie I would have never thought I'd curl up into a folding seat and sob silently out of sheer tenderness and understanding for a tiny rodent-like creature - this movie changed that. This movie changed a lot of things in me.

To sum up my feelings towards this monolith of a film would be impossible. I cannot think of what words to choose even now as I write this. Kubrick, Kurosawa, Spielberg...it's as if they're nothing but children holding their first camcorder in comparison to this tour de force of film making. To say even that is belittling it; it's simply on an entirely different scale. And that scale is somewhere on Mars. And it's not even our Mars, it's like some Mars in the fifth dimension, just doing it's own thing.


Your savior has arrived, film enthusiasts, and its name is G-Force.

Ahh!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!... dunno how excited I am for this :\ Thoughts (from the two people who still read this blog, heh)?

10 in 2010

So I'm kinda surprised no one posted anything about this yet - But the nominations for Best Picture next year at the Academy Awards has been expanded from 5 to 10.

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2009/20090624.html

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this decision, and I guess I won't really know until they announce the nominees in February. But with the way last year's awards went, with Slumdog taking practically EVERYTHING, I do like the idea. It seems a little odd that they would only increase the nominees for best picture though. If the Academy is trying to "recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize", wouldn't it have made more sense to just increase ALL of the nominations to 6 or 8?

vernal pools unite!

HI GUYS!, for all of you who still read this, vernal poolers will meet in the media lab on monday at around 1. please let me (609.742.2876) or zander know if you can make it!

cool beans.