Showing posts with label Shades of Media And Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shades of Media And Culture. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Underworld


Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
This movie should have been called Underworld 0.5
it's a prequel to the two Underworld movies that were previous released

Now I'm actually a big fan of this series, b/c believe it or not I'm into Vampires and Werewolves. But to be honest I could have waited for this one to come out at Blockbuster, it was enjoyable, but from watching the two previous Underworld movies I knew from the Flashback scenes from those what was going to happen. At least it was better than god awful Twilight.

Couple of things about the film:

The parallels are obvious: Aristocratic Vampires (they are the Bourgeois) and the their Slaves the Lycans/Werewolves (they are the Proletariats).

The daughter of a Vampire Elder falls in love with a Lycan causing a forbidden "interracial" relationship.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Coincidence?

::Props to Diesel from Hawksquawk for the Links::

Here's a couple of links to some stories
read all of them and see if you think it's all a coincidence

also I think it's kinda funny how little has been reported on this in the mainstream media.


Mike Connell
Ohio Attorneys Seek Protection for Mike Connell and his Family against Alleged Threats from Karl Rove




Plane Crashes In Stark County Pilot Does Not Survive The Crash



Pilot who died in crash touched lives of many


Coincidence? Conspiracy?


The silence of mainstream media is deafening!

now watch Hollywood come up with some kind of watered down movie version paralleling this story in a few years.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Burn After Reading


So I read about this in my homie's blog so when my compadre and I went to get our Sunday ritual movie I had this in mind, and just so happens to be a big ass poster in the front window...It was a sign lol literally

I enjoyed it, Brad Pitt played a character you typically wouldn't expect him to play and it really stood out to me.

If you like Coen Bros. movies definitely check this out!

Some of you, and I will put money on this...will probably hate this film.

::spoiler warning::

If you read the back of the DVD or any synopsis its going to tell you something about CIA and spy stuff and wacky/interesting characters getting into some crazy things and it does its really more of a Parody of spy movies. But to strip this movie down to its bare bones it's about a lady who saw herself as "disabled" and "grotesque"(See Garland Thompson). She doesn't see herself as the acceptable norm of society. She goes in desperation mode and seeks out money in order to get the alterations needed for her to become "normal."

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Slumdog Millionaire


Catching this movie tonight with my partner in crime I will update later after I get home

AdiOs for now

::UPDATE::
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Anyways we went up all the way to Cheshire Bridge Road to catch it at the theater there

WOW pretty good movie, I definitely enjoyed it. Its a typical love story under all the action and back story within the movie, though it was a bit predictable. The thing that sticks out on my mind is how the movie was shot and framed. Lots of angles and the lines and colors in the shots really stood out for me. Also establishing shots were pretty, If ya check out the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.


Also M.I.A. has a couple of tracks in the movie, but the one that sticks out is "O Saya" ft. AR Rahman...

I think its pretty dope download it HERE

::OFF TOPIC::
The SWAT sammich and Texas Melt at The 5 Spot is the fawkin' Truth!
Try it if you have the chance to

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Four Christmases



So I went to see this movie last night. It wasn't our first choice, but we arrived late and the movie we wanted to view already passed. Well anyways, this movie wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but then again I didn't really expect much from it. It was surprisingly funny (not hilarious), and the main characters had a little more depth to them than what I expected.

Vince Vaughn- Plays the same role he does in every movie. Blehhh

Reese Witherspoon- Was her usual self, plays typical blond with family problems, discovers something about herself and then tries to make changes. Whoopty Doo...I find myself attracted to her though.

Robert Duvall- My favorite character from the movie (Vince Vaughn's father), though it was a secondary character, I found it to be very well done.


Though I usually hate watching Romantic Comedies, let alone Romantic Holiday Comedies, I 've come to the conclusion that I despise these things not because they are typically horribly made, but because I envy the characters in the film. It's not even the fact that these usually end happily, it's that in reality these ideal endings are exactly what they are....IDEAL

"IDEAL" exist but is never attainable. It is the concept of perfection or what is thought to be perfect or flawless. We all have our own vision of what ideal is to us, but no one ever attains it, we will always settle for the next best thing, if not we settle for the next best thing after than and so on...the cycle continues until we find ourselves satisfied with mediocrity.

I will never be satisfied.

Fighting over Toys


BLAME IT ON CAPITALISM!

2 Dead after shooting in crowded Toys R Us

updated 9:47 p.m. ET, Fri., Nov. 28, 2008

PALM DESERT, Calif. - Two men pulled guns and shot each other to death in a crowded toy store Friday after the women with them erupted into a bloody brawl, witnesses said. Scared shoppers fled but no one else was hurt.

The violence erupted on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping surge, but authorities indicated the shooting wasn't related to a shopping frenzy.


FOR MORE CLICK HERE

And I thought the pregnant women at Babies R' US were violent.