Friday, August 27, 2010

This place sucks. Sorry. Or not. Whatever.

Hey.
Yeah. I missed you guys too.
Oh...you didn't miss me at all?
That's sort of a rude thing to say....
Whatever. I don't curr.....
Alright....I'm sorry! JEEZ!
Cut me some slack...I'm really lazy....
I know these summer months have been some what lacking in terms of posting, and I'm sorry for that.
The get this show back on the road though, I've spruced up the place a bit and put a new banner up. I'm pretty much a baller now with all that bling-blang going on up there.
My classes start on the 8th, so I'm sure I will have plenty of time in between classes to waste your time with things. In fact, on Tuesdays I have 6 and a half fricking hours between classes!!!
It may be the best schedule EVER.
In the mean time, here's a couple of things you should know about.

Movie Snob-ism
The Expendables made a butt-load of money since it came out.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World did not.
I've seen both of these movies, and guess what? The Expendables sucked hard. Super Hard.
I was going into it thinking "Hey, this movie is going to have a terrible story, and terrible dialogue, but some top notch old school action." You know what? I love old school action. I miss the old days where people would use squibs and build awesome dummies to then chop in half. This is what I was so excited for!!
But then they didn't flipping do any of that.
CG blood spatter and CG knifings.
Are you effing kidding me? It wasn't even good CG, it was really cheap and bad.
Along with this is the fact that a majority of the fight scenes were filmed/edited into short, choppy shots, so much so that you can't tell if someone is fighting another person or maybe just doing some really intense Tae Bo.
My interpretation of this is that they made the movie with the expectation that it would be released as PG-13 (because that's where the money is kids!), but then decided at the end to "make it R" by simply adding some crappy blood and even lamer stabbing.
For shame guys, for shame.

Now, on the other hand, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was soooo good.
I loved it.
My f-bomb loved it (even though she said it looked dumb and I forced her to go)
All my friends (Matt and Liz...that's all I have...) loved it!
My boss loved it!!!
Go see it.
Go spend copious amounts of money on it.
It is honestly a one of a kind film, with some very original ideas, not the story, obviously, it's based on a graphic novel. But the graphic novel was original!
It's a very funny, very entertaining film, and yet, it is losing out bad.

Last but not least; Piranha 3D.
Terrible in all the right ways. Just plain hilarious, go here and see most of the actors from the film completely mocking it. Good times.

Pure Awesome
Grant MacEwan University beer gardens!
To start the year off pretty much every post secondary institution does something, and this year two of my favourite local bands are playing at my school. If you are in Edmonton on the 9th and 10th come see Christian Hansen and the Autistics, and The Dudes!
Here's a little taste of the awesomeness.




PS
You'll notice that I didn't curse at all this entire blog post.
This is because i've been getting some complaints from some of the readers (you know who you are) that I use too much vulgar language.
So, just for you, I cut back.
You're fucking welcome.

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