A Day to Remember

I want to stop and thank all of the War Vets that fought for our freedom. Because of the War Vets I'm able to live a free life and I'm thankful for that. Thank you.

Justice league: Crisis on Two Earth's Trailer

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I just saw this over on IGN.com and I thought that it would be cool to share it here. I've always love the Warner Brothers DC cartoon series and I'm looking forward to watching this one. What do you think of the trailer?

Skank Robbers the Movie

Growing up in the 90s I remember watching the shows like 'Martin' and 'In Living Color'. That is why when I saw this trailer over on The Movie Blog, I was pretty happy to see these characters again. Sheneneh and Wanda were hilarious in their time and so just to see them in any form was great. Then I heard they were making a movie based on these characters and I was looking forward to seeing the film. But I started thinking, Was this a good idea?

Sheneneh was just a side character that popped up every so often in 'Martin' and Wanda only appeared in short skits. Could these Sheneneh and Wanda characters really hold down a whole movie together and still be funny? I think that characters like Sheneneh and Wanda would find it hard to be interesting and funny for anything long like a feature length film, since there whole gag was that they were always chasing after some man and they were ugly, (beside the fact that the audience knew it was a guy dressed up like a women playing the role).

Also, given the fact that both of these characters have been off TV for over 10 years I have to wonder if its really a good idea to try and bring them back. There is probably a good portion of the movie going audience that will not even recognize these characters and thus are not immediately interested in seeing a movie about them.

I think this film is probably 10 years to late. Then again, I will probably still go to see it. What do you think? Are you interested in this movie?

This is Why I dislike Hulu?

For all the praise that services like Hulu seems to get, I have no such love for the service.   Its not that I believe that it is a bad service its just that I can’t use it.  Just take a look at the picture below.

 

I would love to use a service like Hulu, its just a shame that they still are only in the USA. 

I believe that if services like Hulu don’t become universal they will have a very hard time breaking into the international market, as the pirates are filling the void that Hulu isn’t filling.  Lets hope that copyright holders have a change of heart soon, for us outside the US.

Oh Brother

Have you ever went to the Theatre and been absolutely annoyed with a trailer?

I've been feeling that way lately about the trailer for the movie Brothers. Recently, I've recently been trying to see a movie every week on the cheap night at my local theatre and without fail the Brothers trailer plays before every showing each week and it just annoys me.

I have zero interest in seeing this movie so much so that it rubs me the wrong way to see the trailer and I just haven't had this happen to me before with any other movie. By now you are probably asking what is wrong with this trailer? Why does it bother me? The truth is I'm not even completely sure myself.

When I first saw the Brothers trailer it looked like a decent movie. I was saying to myself that I wouldn't mind seeing this movie when it comes out. Then, Toby Maguire's character went crazy and I was just turned off and decided never to see this movie. (At lest not in Theatres.)

I like the old formula of the girls husband or boyfriend dies and a close friend, etc. hooks up with the girl, then die husband or boyfriend is found alive and now they need to deal with what happened. But, this film (I find) tries to (at lest with the trailer as I haven't seen the movie) reinvent the wheel. The trailer seems to make this movie out to be some kind of thriller, when a film like this shouldn't be. Its just annoying.

If you missed the trailer for this film I posted it below. Tell me if you feel the same way about this movie. And what films have rubbed you the wrong way.

What’s with Baby Seals

For years I’ve looked at the different campaigns PETA has run over the years and I have to wonder what’s up with this guys? They seem to be very extreme in there beliefs, and the tactics they take to get there message across to people. From having famous models and actresses pose nude to protest fur to the Vegetarians making better lovers and then to this latest campaign to Save the Seals.

The campaign to save the Seals has gained the support of many A list stars from Paul Mccartney, Pamela Anderson and the lovely Grace Park pictured above. But I have to wonder what is the fuss all about.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t believe in the mistreatment of Animals or for them to needlessly suffer for any reason. This same sentiment is also located in the Bible that I draw much of my world view from. In Proverbs 12:10 (NKJV), it says, “A righteous man regards the life of his animal, …”. That being said, why are the seals so important? This year PETA felt it so important to go out and start the campaign to stop the seal hunt months before the actually hunt was to occur and had Pamela Anderson Touring around to get there message out there.

Call me ignorant but I just can’t see why I should care about this campaign or the seals. Sure they are baby seals, but would it really make a difference if they were adult seals being clubbed. When I look at the world and see people killing each other and many people (including children) starving to death each day or dying from unsafe drinking water, I find it hard to care about seals. Where are the celebrities when people are dying. Besides Bono and Bob Geldof, there doesn’t seem to be very much in the way of celebrity support. But pull out a cute animal and there are celebrities around the block.

Well I’ll shut up now before I rant any further. In any case, What do you think? Is this really worth the time and effort that is being put into save this animals? I can’t say that it is.

**** Just a side note I thought that I should give a link back to Disgrasian where I first saw this add posted.

Am I Brainwashed?

That is the question that I have been asking myself lately.  I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine (female friend) that made the decision to shave her head.  Now she did seem to have some difficulty with it at first, but then she told me that she started to rock it.  She even told me that some of her professors said that they liked it. 

I ended up responding to her, (I can’t remember what lead me to say this), that I don’t find shaved heads attractive.  Not a smart thing to say to a women with a shaved head.  To my comment she responded that I was brainwashed by society to believe in their form of beauty.

Now the truth is I can’t in any way 100% prove that she is wrong in what she was saying, since I was born and raised in this society.  There is no way for me to be born and raised in a different culture other than my own.  But at the same time I can’t just leave it at that.  I’m a guy I have to be right sometimes.

So I took it upon myself to examine, what I believe is beauty. Which brought me to look at the women that I currently think are beautiful. To the left is a picture of Grace Park.  Now I find this women absolutely amazing.  I know most people that watched Battlestar Galactica (BSG) watched it for Tricia Helfer, but for me Grace had my eyes especially after her first love scene with Helo (Tahmoh Penikett).  Then in the 3rd season when she got into some better shape, there was no turning back for me. 

Now some may say sure that its easy to like her.  She is beautiful, etc.  But you need to look at what our culture finds beautiful.  Society likes a skin big breasted, women with a nice butt. She doesn’t have all of those qualities.  I’ve shown you 2 of the better pictures of Grace, but here is a picture that I don’t find her so attractive in. (To the right)  Grace Park is a really skinny women and I like a bit more meat on my bones. She also has small breasts and I do like breasts to be a bit bigger.  But I still find her to be probably my favourite celebrity women right now. 

Why you might ask?  Because I do.  I’ve found that over the years that what I thought was beauty has changed and a lot of what I find attractive in a women is her personality.  The physical is a factor in a women’s beauty (I won’t deny that), but I find that the personality is now a big factor for me.  Also I have found that there are different things to like in different women.  When I look at all the women that I liked from high school on up, there was different things that I liked about them.  I never simply just relied on a physical criteria in selecting a woman. 

Most women seem to have a belief that they must conform to a certain set of physical parameters to be beautiful, but I know 3 women that didn’t fit any of the characteristics of what society called beautiful, that had men lined around the block waiting to go out with them.  One women I know was over weight but she still managed to have a bunch of boyfriends. (One of the guys she went out with kind of surprised me). The second girl, I kind of found ugly, but she had no shortage of guy friends ready to take her out.  The last women was some what attractive, but it was her personality that really stuck out with the guys that she worked with.

Guys like women for more that just the physical.  Despite our social norms.