Movie Review: Sweeney Todd
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Sweeney Todd - Amazing. Johnny Depp, amazing. Some of the shots/scenes....were more than amazing. The musical numbers....amazing. Could very well be the movie of the year for me. (well, movies that were released this year at least!).
Police Blotter of the Day: The Great Escape/Shawshank Redemption
Monday, December 17, 2007
Never was there a day I was more proud to be a New Jersian.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/17/jail.escape.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
Otis (couldn't think of a cooler escaped convict name), Jose, if you read this on the Lamb...feel free to email me for my address to hide out for Christmas...I make a kick-ass turkey chili and have porn. Well deserved sirs, well deserved.
Christmas Extravaganza pt. 2 pictures
Laurie gettin' ready
First stop, the GRINCH!
Orchestra seats, front and center!
Stage. The show was GREAT. I've seen the Rockettes, about 10x and I can say that the Grinch was absolutely better!!
Merry News Corp. Xmas
Balls!
Kobe and Surf and Turf lunch!
THE tree
GREAT day in the city, weather was perfect, timing was perfect, show was perfect, lunch was MORE than perfect!
Movie Review: I am Legend
I am Legend - Visually amazing. Visually amazing. (yes, I said it twice) The "monsters" were way too GCI looking. A few unrealistic (even more so than the plot as a whole) key parts to the movie that I can't give away without spoilers. The ending was very weak. The acting, well, it was Will Smith so its either going to be good or horrible depending on which bandwagon you are riding on this week.
Movie Review: The Tunnel (Der Tunnel)
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Tunnel - Great based on a true story Cold War movie. Long, but great. If you can't read subtitles for 2 hours, don't bother. Acting was great. Lead actor reminded me of Jason Statham for some reason. Actually, all the actors I could have linked to Hollywood Actors. For the second time I noticed a foreign film did some things that Hollywood flick wouldn't regularly do and went places that Hollywood would have never went. The plot, and all the subplots were all interesting. Like any good movie, you'll hate certain characters and you'll love some. If you have any interest in the Cold War, this is a must-see. Not sure sure how anyone who lived in Germany slept at night for all that time...
Speed Racer Trailer
Monday, December 10, 2007
Haven't been so excited about a movie since...well....Sweeney Todd, Into the Wild, aw....damn, OK so I get excited about movies easily...but...I'm saving up for a huger TV and blue-ray player JUST for this flick on DVD...
Local Police Blotter of the Day
Friday, December 7, 2007
Chicken evades roadkill fate
SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Why didn't the chicken cross the road? Or more precisely, why didn't he make it across the road?
That's the question South Brunswick police were asking at about 9 a.m. Thursday when they received a report of a chicken lying in the middle of Timothy Avenue near Nancy Street.
Animal-control officers and police responded to the scene and quickly determined that the chicken, whose identity has not been released, belonged to a Henderson Road resident who is known to have several chickens on his property.
"It was easy to figure it out," said detective Jim Ryan. "There aren't that many chickens in town."
The owner was not home at the time the chicken flew the coop, so it is unknown how it left the property. The chicken appeared to have suffered an injury and is recuperating at home.
More New Years Resolutions
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Organize my gMail better. I get over 100 emails a day, not including work emails.
Weekend Movie Reviews
Forward: This past week or so has been littered with countless hours on the couch watching snowfall with my love, eyes glued to mind-numbing horrible movies. (in front of a beautiful Christmas tree)
A Christmas Story - Classic feel good Christmas flick with WAY too many funny quotes. If you don't know this one by now...
About a Boy - Hugh Grant. As much as I can't think of anything that I actually LIKE Hugh Grant in, this flick, I actually liked him in it, although Mr. Affleck could have made this movie a little more than "just watchable". The little kid was a bit annoying, as was the nut-case "granola"mom. The kid desperately needed a haircut. Kind of a silly plot, with an OK ending and Hugh Grant was actually a little more than bearable in it. I rate is a little above "just watchable"
Garden State - So I kept hearing, even though it was from typical chick flick fans, that this movie was pretty good. Being a loyal because I live here resident, I figured I'd give it a shot. I like Natalie Portman and I think thats the dude from Scrubs which I watch from time to time. I liked everything about the movie but the actual love plot. It was just stupid. Beyond cliche' ending, etc. etc. The rest of the flick, if they were aiming for what I thought they were aiming for, which was to make this depressed actor feel a little better about himself compared to the people who are still stuck in NJ digging graves with fantasy ambition, was pretty good. I must also note that the part where the knight walks by when he wakes up, is hysterical. So in conclusion, I really dug on the story of him "finding" himself, using a field of typical false-ambitious New Jerseyites, however the love story, which I guess was the main plot, was horrible. P.S. Whomever on IMDB gave a review that was titled "A Film that Defines a Generation" needs to clubbed about the face with an old sneaker.
Children of Men - GREAT premise. Kinda....VERY poor execution and an even horrible ending. I don't know why I thought this was going to be good, but it DID have a lot of potential. This plotline would have played out much better in a series of books, so that rather than spend 20 minutes of gunfire battles running through a refugee camp, they could have just said it in one sentence and been done with it. So, because my reviews this week have been kind of negative, I'll still leave this movie as rated horrible, but I will list my likes about it. The sets. They must have spent the entire movie budget on sets (because the acting was horrible). Damn, thats it...I just liked the premise and the sets. Oh yeah, how could I forget, I absolutely hated the character of Sid. If that son of a bitch referred to himself in 3rd person one more time I was going to throw my DVD on the railroad tracks behind my house. For the love of god...
I should concentrate on analyzing plots and acting more, and I will, but this week was not the week to start...
New Years Resolution
Friday, November 30, 2007
I'm pretty good about New Years resolutions...if I make 10 I usually stick to about 9. Albeit, I make them pretty reasonable!
I'll be listing them randomly as they come to me and then I'll compose a blog post with all of them at once around Christmas.
Be better with names, remembering them. This goes for people, people in movies, actors names, character names, people at work, friends, friends significant others, friends of friends, people I meet, just names in general. I'm horrible.
Movie Review: The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others - Great flick. A love plot you don't expect to see much in US films. I even loved the chubby hooker. One thing I just love about foreign flicks is simply the different way they 'take' a plot rather than the typical happy ending/sad ending. In this flick, they made it more complex than that. The actors were "OK" but the plot had me loving it.
Washington D.C. Weekend Trip
Monday, November 26, 2007
We decided to go to Washington D.C. for the weekend as a quick getaway. We scored a very cheap hotel room for the weekend that was a top rated hotel in D.C.! (The Sofitel)
All pictures below can be seen on SmugMug too.
We left on Friday morning, 5am. By the time we Starbucked up and hit up Hess for gas it was around 5:45-6ish.
hotel was nice...
...And in a perfect location too...block or 3 from the White House and not too far from the Capital...
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The Hope Diamond
Looks like a cheezy photoshopped postcard
The American History museum is being renovated, however they had some exhibits in the Air and Space Museum...
Lunch...
Bond, James Bond (after a 45 minute wait in line!) - This was an amazing museum, however it was a little too crowded to enjoy it all.
Before Dinner
Dinner
After dinner..
Georgetown the next morning...
At breakfast (Clydes, great breakfast!)
Stairs from the movie the Exorcist!
Shops at Georgetown
Laurie's Before dinner Bubblebath
Dinner at Bobby Van's Steakhouse
16oz filet...I've never eated a filet that big!
Breakfast Sunday morning before we headed home..
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