So I just saw Fanboys. It finally came out in theatres even though I had seen a trailer for it on the Clerks II DVD. It was exactly what you would expect a movie about a Star Wars cross-country road trip movie would be like.
AWESOME.
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Fanboys
Friday, February 13th, 2009Harold & Kumar the return
Sunday, March 16th, 2008We went and watched Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanimo Bay yesterday with Stella. It’s not going to be released until the end of April but this was the west-coast premier at the SF Asian Film Festival. I enjoyed the film, especially the scenes with NPH and the unicorn, but I prefer the original to this one. The original seemed a bit more subtle or varied in the jokes, this one was (as sequels usually are) more in your face about the race/political stuff.
There was a Q&A session afterwards with John Cho; who said that after
seeing what audiences liked about the original on dvd, they focused more on that stuff rather than if they had immediately made a sequel it would’ve been more of a wacky-antics-and-hijinks-euro-trip type of movie. I’m ok that they didn’t do that because really, there have been a lot of terrible road trip films and I don’t need to see any more.
I say go see it in the theatre, you’ll laugh.
I finished the Harry Potters
Saturday, August 11th, 2007More catching up. I finished book 7 of the Harry Potter series on Sunday night. I had about 100 pages left when I got home from Vegas and begged and pleaded to be allowed to finish it that same night since it’s like pausing a movie in the last 10 minutes. It was good but intense. For those playing along at home I had mangled the titles of all the HP books as I read them and shall now list them all for you here:
- Harry Potter: Episode I – The Philosopher’s Menace
- Harry Potter: Episode II – The Chamber of the Clones
- Harry Potter: Episode III – Revenge of the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter: Episode IV – A New Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter: Episode V – The Order of the Phoenix Strikes Back
- Harry Potter: Episode VI – Return of the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter: Episode VII – The Death Star Hallows
I think that these titles still work for the books.
I also finally caught the fifth HP movie this week, it was enjoyable but I noticed that there may be difficult writings ahead for the next two films due to continuity issues between the books and films.
results of the test
Friday, July 13th, 2007I picked up the rental car on Wednesday night. I got a Scion xA. It’s small, seats four, cute and totally gutless. Getting onto the freeways here means just stomping on the gas for it to start accelerating up to traffic speeds. :( Since I was considering getting an xB though I’m glad I got this car since the xA and xB are the same car with different bodies on ‘em.
There was no test. While I had a rental car and was ready for the driving test the DMV wanted to have some paperwork from the rental place stating that I was allowed to use their car for the test. The actually helpful DMV clerk told me to call them and fax it back to her and then I could do the test. I called the rental place and explained the situation. They responded with “Yes, but you’ll need to talk to a manager.” I asked if they could just fax the papers up to the DMV since after all I’m apparently already trustworthy/skilled enough to be renting the car in the first place. Nope said they, I had to physically appear in their office which would mean I’d miss my scheduled time for the test. Thus re-scheduling of the test for next Thursday occured.
Saw Transformers and wasn’t too impressed. I hated the robot design. They all looked basically the same once in robot form so it was hard to identify which evil decepticon was attacking which heroic autobot. I realize that the target audience wasn’t primarily my generation so all the goofiness/slapstick stuff should be expected, but man the house scene was just dumb. The bots didn’t seem to be the sharpest hammer in the toolshed and were always bumbling around. I did like John Turturro’s character though. I won’t even comment on the computer-ese used. :)
Craziness
Sunday, April 29th, 2007We saw Hot Fuzz last night. It was thirteen kinds of awesome. A quality parody of action films without the lameness of current american style parodies like Scary Movie or movies of that type.
I bought two more hats yesterday, there were pricey but I think worth it. One a Borsalino straw hat for the summer and the other, a blue felt hat by Stacy Adams for some colour action instead of just the grey Biltmore that i’ve had for a year.
The GF has to play World of Warcraft as part of her job. I find that funny and sad. Funny because she doesn’t really play any games aside from the occasional Guitar Hero and sad because maybe she’ll get sucked into WoW and have no time for me anymore or worse turn into the blob-like people that the kids on South Park did.
LA trip debriefing
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007LA was fun. The delays at both airports were not. We did not get home until way way too late. The lateness didn’t help with the proto-cold I had been sensing all weekend and now I’m fully in sick-mode. It was either the GF coughing on me all last week or the work illness that seems to be hitting everyone @ work.
Pictures of some of our adventures are here. We enjoyed some damn fine .jp food on Saturday but I think the highlight of the whole trip was watching Lone Wolf McQuade. It is Chuck Norris. It is David Carradine. It is a buddy movie. It has a short man in an electric wheelchair. It is really cheap-ass beer. It is glorious. Rent and watch this with some friends and you can’t be disappointed.
i have seen 300
Friday, March 16th, 2007I wish I had abs like those Spartans. Blurry and computer generated.
movie stack
Sunday, October 8th, 2006Due to the craziness of the last 2 weeks i’ve managed to stack up a large queue for films to watch. Here’s what’s sitting on my coffee table: Casablanca, Brick, Swingers, Blade Runner, They Live, ALL OF BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (the new stuff).
Now the reasons:
Casablanca is because my manager is shocked! shocked! that I haven’t seen it. Brick was left on my desk at work because of a night out drinking with a customer leaned towards talking about cool movies this is also why Blade Runner is there. I’ve seen Blade Runner, but not in a long time. Ditto for They Live and Swingers.
I was invited to a coworker’s place for the 3rd season premier of BSG since there’s this small cult of people at work that can say nothing but good stuff about it. So on Friday night I rolled over to there place apres work and we first watched the WoW episode of South Park (awesome) and then a “what’s happened so far” catch up piece that covered the mini-series and then the first two seasons. That seemed a bit cheesy but I blame the compression of events. Finally the main event, the premier. It was good. Well produced and mildly confusing since I have no real clue what’s going on but enjoyable. So now that means I have to catch up on 50hrs or so of sci-fi drama.
more movies
Sunday, August 20th, 2006Saturday was more film watching. First, I went to a BBQ over in Oakland and didn’t die and then I went for my first trip ever into the Castro. I, as well as some people from work (same peeps that hit up SoaMFP on Friday night), went to the Castro because they were showing a brand new 70 mm print of Tron at midnight at the (apparently) historic Castro Theatre. The theatre is awesome looking; it’s all old school columns and architecture and whatnot. The print was quite good with a clear crisp picture. Tron was as good as I remember it, I have the DVD and I think I’ve watched it in the last two years so I can recall most of it. I was starting to zone out and drift to sleep near the end but I made it through. Best part of the night was the announcement that in October they’re going to be showing “They Live” with Rowdy Roddy Piper. How cool is that? Rad I say, rad indeed.
Speaking of SoaMFP, I’ve been getting a lot of the hate vibe from people when I mention that I saw it and I thought it was enjoyable. All this hate makes me sad.
SoaMFP
Friday, August 18th, 2006Snakes on a mothafuckin Plane was mothafuckin awesome. I went with a couple people from work and the theatre was packed. It was high quality B movie action but the crowd interaction was what raised its awesomeacity. If you had any inkling of wanting to see SoaP at any time, go see it now while it’s still in theatres with lots of like minded people.