Category: Movies

Saw the documentary “Super Size Me” last night. It’s about this guy who eats McDonalds food, the entire menu, 3 meals a day which he has to finish, and has to get a super size if they ask, for 30 days straight. Effectively, living off of McDonalds, and only McDonalds, for a month with his vegan girlfriend stressing about it.

The guy gained a considerable amount of weight in just 30 days, almost half the last week. It took him 14 total months to lose the weight he gained. God knows how bad his liver and kidneys were damaged through the whole process. He even suffered mild impotence because of restricted bloodflow. Aside from a myriad of other negative things, at parts it was just painful to watch, ecspecially when his new health problems became real and life threatening.

My initial reaction was to never eat fast food again, at least McDonalds, but I was even having second thoughts about my bi-weekly Chik Fila excursions. The guys sources, in movie, are only half there, and he throws around mad statistics, but I have yet to hear a challenge to his claims, therefore, I’m taking it as sound info with questionable accountability for now.

I really liked it and was really woken up to the nutrition problem this country faces in the form of obesity.

All I have to say to non-US residents is see this movie, and keep our food franchises the f$)%* out of your country!

Now, granted, to me Subway is a good one and is ok with moderation and responsible choosing of their menu. I, however, work out as a crutch for nutritional freedom, and even that is a stretch. I assume since I do strength training and cardio 3 days (sometimes 2) a week, that I can eat pretty much whatever I want. As I got more in tune with my body, I realized what made me feel bad, and what didn’t, so it got easier to tone down the blatantly horrible parts of my diet, mainly sodas. I merely switched to sugary, processed lemonaide though (not the Aussie kind, the Aussie-Pakistani kind), which has the same amount of sugar, or more, than sodas such as a Coke.

Anyway, pretty crazy stuff in the flic. Real sobering, and another wonderful challenge I can’t wait (no really) to have when attempting to raise kids in the future with good habits. Parents have their work cut out for them. Heck, I still haven’t quit coffee, although, I’ve switched to tea midday so I’m making better progress than my cold turkey approach with ciggarettes. I don’t need ciggarettes, but I do need coffee.

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Just saw The Grudge, the USA version of Japan’s Ju-Jo or whatever. Brandy saw about 5 minutes of the whole 90 minutes.

How come no one in horror flix today has any ballz? Seriously. If some kid meows and hisses at me, I’d bark right back. Cat vs. Dog… dog beats cat, I win sucka. I don’t know how it is in Japan, but we have a heirarchy here in the US. It’s called cat, dog, husband & wife. You twice removed, so I speak in your next in charge’s native tonuge to ensure you know I mean business.

Secondly, any pop-lockin’ corpse that has to crawl because it’s so beaten is just a prime target for an additional one. You start gargling towards me because you haven’t drunken any water in 3 years isn’t gonna garner any sympathy. In fact, I’d army, steel toe boot smash your head like a burning bag’s on my porch, regardless of contents.

There is a reason they don’t put people like me on TV on shows such as Fear Factor or the Real World. I’m not interesting, I merely do what real people would do. If there’s some jawless aberration coming towards me, I’d sock the rest of the head out of the park Babe Ruth style. If there is an evil house, you burn it and have a Rave with priests from every denomonation, replacing the Dasani with holy water.

…I still watch my back and hasten my footsteps when I turn out the lights. I blame that, though not on the dark, but rather because of the fact I’m not packin’.

Anyway, good flic if you like the rush like I do.

No spoilers.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

It was ok. I dug the whole 50’s, bluish feel, the soft tones, the grandiose, yet dark feel of the filming. I liked how air superiority was a truly expounded concept in this flic.

However, I thought a lot of character development was not very well executed. I found it hard to really attach myself to any of the characters, aside from a minor one they encountered in Tibet. They jsut didn’t have much too them, and although they weren’t shallow, there just weren’t enough quirks. The personification of the plane was another example towards the personification side of things; the plane could of been taken soo much further. Remember the Batmobile in Batman? It had character, it had style, it WAS a personfied part of Batman. I think the plane was almost there… but the relationship between pilot and craft was on the extreme of indifferent. The flip-side would be like Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars… now THERE was a relationship.

Worth $8? Wait for the DVD unless you have a student/company discount.

The Forgotten

Fuggin’ awesome. Basically, a mother’s lost her son in an airplane crash, and is trying to emotionally deal with the loss, which is obviously hard on her. She’s in therapy, in a nice house in the city. However, certain “forgetful”ness things start to happen. It starts with a cup she thought she had just placed on a table… to forgetting the location of objects, to pictures not looking the same as before. Things go deep from there…

It’s one of those flics that has the calm intensity of Pitch Black, the ability to rouse a theatre out of their seats more than once (only saw that ever happen in Signs and the original Scream), and make you feel pretty small and insignifant, yet hopeful at the same time. Great date flic… better than Sky Captain. It is Sci-fi, but doesn’t have that as the overall tone, blatant enough to sell itself as it, so non-sci-fi’ers may still find this one approachable.

It fuggin’ rocked! I laughed, I cried, and I went “Whoa!” a bunch. The train scene rox. Definately a must see. Just like last year, movie of the year for me. Saw it Saturday night w/ Erik n’ crew.

Bruce Campbell was in it again, which was awesome.

If you haven’t seen it yet, see if you can spot Stan Lee, creator of original Spiderman comic. He’s only on screen for a split second, and I spotted him by his voice.

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…’course, I still want to know where the heck is Venom? The ending didn’t imply he’d be anywhere to be found in the 3rd one. I was hoping for a comet or something…