I hope I can write on this Blog more than once a month!!! I have been busy....with what...i still don't know....I have just as much time in a day as Einstein did.......so i have no excuses!!!






Lets begin!!



So.....is it just me....or does Elena Keegan kinda look like John Lovitz?????

























Hopefully she will not emulate the Lovitz character from Saturday Night Live when he is a compulsive lier!










In other exciting news....i saw a couple movies the last few days.......



One being Shutter Island!!!!!!









i give it.....a one thumb and a closed fist...out of a possible 5 thumbs up.



it wasn't bad......but I'm happy I red boxed it instead of going to the theatre!





Speaking of REDBOX......what an awesome idea!....this is what's going to put blockbuster out of business......not netflix and not streaming online......but redbox.....its super simple, super convenient, and super good!





did you know you could just go to http://www.redbox.com/, find where ya want to travel to to pick it up, search that particular redbox site, and reserve the movie so its there when you pick it up......and all for a buck a night!!! (well...a dollar 6 due to tax...but still not bad!)




i like it.....i enjoy a streamed movie every once in a while.....but sometimes the quality and random jerkings of the screen just make me angry! This way, if you part of the Blockbuster, Montage video, or Prime Time Video crowd....and your used to going to a place to pick a movie, watch it, and take it back afterwords or the very next day.....its only gonna cost you a buck....rather than the new prices of upwards to 5 bucks! I think its great, so check it out!



so....ya............Shutter Island.........Scorsase.........ya there were some definite Scorsese angles.....but i really think this was a slip for him......it was no Taxi Driver.....or Goodfellas.....or Raging Bull...or even The Departed..........but it definitely had thoughs Scorsese angles......and perfectly cues scores in the background........and one car was blown up...so that's got to count for something!




Well in "Shutter Island" Ted Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) leads a US Marshall two-some, paired with Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo..........also in Just Like Heaven....starring Reese Witherspoon....in which her chin was super annoying) to investigate a federal criminally insane mental institution of an inmate escape. During the investigation the Marshall's find that the prison administration isn't too eager to find the missing inmate. DiCaprio's character has constant flashbacks of World War 2 Nazi concentration camp liberation's and the alleged murder of his wife played by actress Michelle Williams by an arson.



Don't get me wrong....its kind of a cool plot....but as the movie goes on...you find that theres a couple of things that seem to be far fetched....and then just as soon as the movie comes to an end....you realize you should have rented something else instead.........like Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. Which i feel is a much better mind blitz movie! (i wish "Johnny Cabs" were real!)


on another note...i think i saw this Shutter Island character walking around in downtown Scranton last Wednesday.......I'm not even kidding









I also saw "The A-Team."





I give it......2 thumbs........but out of 10 thumbs....(so its really a one thumb on a 5 thumb scale....) I didn't love it....but i did hate it....




i say...."a miss" for Liam Neason....who plays Colonel Hannibal Smith.....and "a Hit" for Bradley Cooper who plays Faceman aka Lt. Templeton Peck. God he's hot!!! And I'm totally not gay at all! When i see a nice looking guy, I'm gonna tell ya about it! But he's no Dirk Benedict!!!



Do you remember that "Kate-a-pult???" a catapult for Kate Gosselyn.....to launch her into a picker patch or even the middle of the ocean or something.......well...lets take that catapult...and have a helicopter park it on the top of the empire state building......then tie up Mr Rampage, the guy who shitilly tries to play B.A. Baracus......and launch him.....into a nice crowded street in midtown Manhattan.....and ya know what....i really don't think too many people will care......



And the guy that plays Murdock...Sharlto Copley (what?) was "OK." What can I say....to play a mentally raving lunatic is a hard job......now ..is this guy trying to be Luke Wilson?........not the Luke Wilson that does the commercials now.......the actor Luke Wilson that was slightly skinner and had a smaller head............who knows.....but i got that vibe from him.....(seriously though...how about Luke Wilson's "Bloat Face???" Him and Val Kilmer...we need to find a cure!!!)







I'm really getting annoyed with the CGI crap..........what made the original A-Team a real treat was the cheesy mock car crashes and sudden unbelievable explosions.....this was alittle too non-far fetched....what ever the hell that means....





i did like that I caught Hannibal using an original chrome plated AK-47 that was used in the original show in one scene.....











The other night I saw "Grown-ups."










A Happy Madison production.........which is neither as good as Happy Gilmore nor Billy Madison........Even with its super all star cast!



you have Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Colin Quinn, and Tim Meadows........What a SNL Reunion!!!...but really ....what a crap out!

There were a lot of good one liners in there, but some of them made me feel uncomfortable.....it was a strange movie....i think they were just looking for a real "feel good" family movie....


Whats cool is that these guys were the dream team "Slack Pack" in SNL's early 90's seasons....and this is really a true first everyone get together to make a really funny movie.....and they screwed it up.......maybe its because of the absence of Lorne Michaels direction.....who knows.....

And what a slap in the face to Chris Farley........Kevin James is no...and will never be.....Chris Farley.....the only person in history that can be Chris Farley is John Belushi.....and the only person in history that can be John Belushi was...... Chris Farley.....


They should have left the "fat funny guy who looks like hes going to have a heart attack" be a vacant spot..............if Chris Farley was alive and ended up in the same exact movie......i think it would have been great.........instead we had to focus on David Spade's super awkwardness as a heterosexual gay man womanizer with a drinking problem......pretty much just playing himself in this part...


I think the best actor in the movie was actress Salma Hayek....you really want to love her and hate her at the same time.......and a neat thing to do is slightly cross your eyes when your looking straight at her face................. Una-brow!!!