After seeing the trailer to the new Dreamworks film Monsters VS Aliens which was on the Kung Fu Panda DVD, I am not ashamed to admit that I was laughing as hard if not harder than my 5 year old. This movie looks fantastic and so funny. It takes a parody of War of the Worlds, Godzilla, It Came From the Desert and rolls it all into one. An alien invasion spoof where monsters are called upon to help save the earth, the humor looks spot on and I am betting this will be a huge hit for Dreamworks.
What do you think of the preview, are you looking forward to seeing it? I honestly would see it in theaters even if I didn’t have kids, but bringing my 2 boys will at least make me not stand out in a crowded theater.
I am one of those people who upgrades their cell phone through my provider every year or two when I can upgrade a phone and renew my service account. I usually get either a discount or a free phone on the lower end. When I saw that bestincellphones.com allows you to get a Blackberry Pearl for free I was absolutely amazed. Seriously, even with contracts directly it costs over $200 to get a nice blackberry even if it is a model a few months old.
But after looking for free verizon phones I found that the offer was a free Blackberry Pearl, with a new Verizon account and with activation waived. This was an excellent way to get a high quality new phone for new cellular subscribers.
Of course all of the best free phone deals are for people willing to purchase a new Cellular company account activation or switch carriers. Like if you were currently with Verizon and wanted to look for new free Sprint phones you can find a wide variety that are free even phones in the $200 - $400 range are free with a new contract.
However I did find many free models for people who are just wanting to upgrade their phone by renewing their contract with your existing carrier. So even if your looking to upgrade and want to look for free Tmobile phones you can find 10 cell phones that are free just for renewing your contract. Some phones like the Nokia 2760 and the Samsung T429 have enough of a rebate that you actually get money back from choosing that phone making you actually gain a credit just from choosing the phone and renewing your contract.
If you were in the market to setup a new account with AT&T and looking for at&t cell phones for example they have the Blackberry Curve 8310 not only for free, but with rebates you actually get $74.99 cash back from a mail in rebate. (The phone actually costs .01 cent, and they give you a $75 mail in rebate, which is kind of odd but still works the same way).
I have honestly browsed all categories even though I am only with Verizon at the moment and when my contract comes up in a few months I will be looking for the best cell phone deals and it appears that the deals here are much better than just going through your carrier directly, so it is worth shopping around and comparing.
My wife actually picked out this movie at blockbuster as the read on the back of the box looked interesting. The movie wasn’t as funny as I thought it was going to be, however the movie was most enjoyable and is a good romantic film that shows that any relationship can have its ups and downs but love is worth sticking it through in the end.
The movie focuses on Frank Allen played by (Ryan Reynolds) I have actually seen 2 Ryan Reynolds movies in 3 days, kind of weird, his other movie Definitely, Maybe was also a very good movie, but he plays a similar role. His character is a narrator of the story more or less in both movies, and he plays a similar character type.
So Frank Allen is a man who creates lists for everything and is very much organized and in order, rarely taking any unplanned chances or random acts. Though how he met and married his wife was a rather interesting story, and we learn this as we get more into the film. The movie all starts when his wife tries to insert a chore into his daily plan and sets the clock backward 10 minutes to give him some extra time to get the chore done. She accidentally sets the clock forward and causes him to lose 10 minutes however and his day is a complete mess. He misses his ferry, is late to his “Time Efficiency” seminar where he is the key speaker on how to be efficient with ones time.
Things spiral down hill from here and he blunders into a situation ending up in a hotel room with a groupie, he awkwardly escapes the situation but not before his wife assumes he has been cheating on her. This leads him to spending the night alone and almost getting into an accident with a woman in labor in her car. He drives her to the hospital and helps her get admitted, but when the mother runs away abandoning the baby Frank is left and listed as the father. His wife now thinks he has been having an affair, has a child with another woman, and he is left trying to explain all of this.
Just when you think things can’t get worse, they do and the rest of the film covers all of this. He learns that he isn’t the father of his daughter, but his best friend Buddy Endrow is (played by Stuart Townsend). So he assumes his wife had an affair on him, meanwhile she was just as shocked to learn it wasn’t Franks child, Buddy is shocked to learn he actually is a father and still loves and has loved Frank’s wife Emily (played by Susan Allen) the whole time.
The movie has one of the best endings out of this type of movie showing how true love overcomes many things and my favorite part is in the last several minutes of the film and how it all works out between the three of them. For a movie that I had never seen advertised, not even sure it came out in theaters, this was an unexpected treat and I would give it 4 out of 5 stars in the Romantic Movie genre.
The movie “Death Race” with Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Joan Allen and Ian McShane is a loose remake of the movie “Death Race 2000″ even Roger Corman was brought in as a consultant for the remake of the movie. The movie had some interesting trailers think like “Fortress meets The Fast and The Furious”. There are countless movies about prisons eventually becoming privatized and corporations in order to make money pit the inmates against each other in gladiator style battles. The Running Man is one example of such a film with Arnold Schwarzenneger.
A private prison holds a payperview type event called “Death Race” where violent inmates are pitted driving against each other with cars armed with weaponry and having defensive metal plating as well as oil, napalm and caltrops. The premise of the game is whichever inmate wins 5 races gains his freedom and his sentence pardoned. The shoe in for the race is a racer named “Frankenstein” so disfigured he has to wear a mask. Frankenstein dies winning his fourth race and the prison Warden Hennessey (played by Joan Allen) can’t let the ratings slide for the show. Death Race is about an honest hard working man Jensen Ames (played by Jason Statham) who is a former racer that lost his license due to a drinking and driving incident. He was relegated to working at some sort of plant where everyone was downsized and laid off. Who is framed and setup, thrown in prison and forced to race as “Frankenstein” to keep the ratings up.
The movie is as predictable as anything you could imagine, senseless gore, prison violence and the races are choreographed so predictably, but the movie is fun to watch. Jason Statham plays his usual character type “Silent but Strong” a man of few words but of action. He reminds me a little of Sylvestor Stallone in his older movies without the slurred accent. That isn’t bad, I actually enjoy watching him and his style in most of his films. Tyrese Gibson plays one of the more amusing characters, a vicious racer named Machine Gun Joe who is also gay. He is known for all of his passengers getting killed in each race and going through several in a single race.
The movie plays out fast, and has a satisfying ending. Watching the cars unload on each other reminds me of the game series Twisted Metal for the Playstation and helped me to enjoy watching the film further. If you like car racing scenes, machine gun fighting, prison fights, murder, gore, and a movie with a happy outcome in the end then this movie you will thoroughly enjoy. Just don’t go into the film over analyzing anything. Know it is mindless and strap yourself in and enjoy the action for what it is.
This novel focuses on the 50 marines who were recruited into Pinehearst to become part of the enhancement program so they could track and hunt down “specials”. This issue ties in to the online webisodes of the recruit showing Ryan the marine going into a private facility where he spies on Tracy and Nathan talking about being one day away from injecting the marines and that the marines should be told what they signed up for. This issue really is just to get you in touch with the marines who were in Pinehearst and show their perspective and what was happening in the show.
The issue ends with Tracy and Nathan talking about the non-catalyzed virus still existing and the risk that the marines may inject themselves with it. Nathan unsympathetic as usual mentions that they are just marines and nobody will be suprised if they die in the line of duty. Once gain the comic illustrates Nathan’s cold and cruel heart, here is a person who has continued to show negative traits nad behaviors since Season 1 and almost had a redemption when he saved Peter’s life in the Season finale. Season 2 showed him having remorse for what he did and opening Season 3 into him believing he was doing good.
Nathan unfortunately is a bad seed and has most evil and contempt in his heart for other people who are special. But, like most villains Nathan doesn’t think he is evil or wrong, he just wants to do “good” and thinks his way is the best way. So as we lead into just 6 weeks or so into the first chapter of “Fugitives” we know that Nathan is out to get and round up all of the other “Specials”
Have a Merry Christmas to all of my readers and friends, if you don’t celebrate Christmas then hey just enjoy the day off of work and go see one of the dozen movies that opens in theaters today. In the meantime here are some funny Xmas Comics I found scattered online to share with my readers today. These were the funniest four that I could find and I hope you find them amusing.
I have actually seen some of the older Heroes Webisodes called going postal and really enjoyed them, my only complaint was that they were very short and felt very rushed in the scenes. I wish they could be at least 10 minutes in content instead of the 3 or 4 minutes you get for the webisode. Since Heroes is on Hiatus for a few months I decided to delve into the webisodes this week and the latest series is known as “The Recruit”. I watched both Part 1 and Part 2 and share my review and summary here:
The webisode shows you that one month ago Pinehearst took part in a secret government operation and recruited 50 marines. This was also shown in the show, but in the TV show only 1 marine was injected with the formula. The marines were to be genetically enhanced so they could better track and bring in “Special” people. The first chapter is called “Private Mills” and opens with a female marine being interrogated by Angela Petrelli in a room. We can see the marine’s shoulder is injured and Angela is asking her for the location of something. The scene flashes back to twelve hours ago showing Private Mills in a room at Pinehearst with two other marines. Blue fire erupts into the room while they are arguing and collapses the floor, I can only assume this was when flint attacked the lab and surrounding area. One of the marines is bady injured his leg pinned by some rubble, and Private Mills goes to find a flashlight. Just as she procures one a piece of rubble falls about to kill her and she teleports away. This ability is very similar to the Dungeons and Dragons Dimension Door spell in how it works, she appears next to the freaked out marine and asks him to trust her.
This ends the first episode and again it is just under 3 minutes in length but the acting is fairly good for a webisode and seeing Angela Petrelli’s cold interrogation really puts you into the show, you don’t feel like you are watching something else, you feel as if you are watching a different part of the same show.
Chapter 2 titled “It Was Nothing” again starts off with Private Mills in the interrogation room, she awakes to find a man standing in the room saying Ms. Petrelli will return soon. Private Mills claims she doesn’t have an ability. We flash back to Pinehearst lab to see her helping the marine David. But the 3rd marine who fell through the floor with them has injected himself with a vial hoping it will help heal a severe laceration on his abdomen. Private Mills grabs another vial and injects the other marine who has an injured leg. Private Mills is shot in the shoulder as she injects David with the serum, David falls to the ground and starts suffering pain and just as Private Mills asks him whats wrong the episode concludes.
Again the episodes are very fast paced but they are so fast paced that they end to quickly. They webisodes needed to be about 10 minutes long to really capture my attention, it takes about 5 minutes for me to even get into a show, and this ends just as it starts to draw you in which is a big downer. The quality of the effects, acting, and action is comparable to the TV Show which is amazing in itself for original content only found online.
I would recommend you give them a try, but I would actually wait and watch a finished series so you can see all of the clips, than engage in a new one where you have to wait each week for the next 3 minute clip.
Have you ever wondered how to unlock an iphone to make it work with any Cell Phone Service Provider? I do think people should have the ability to use any phone with any service and the iPhone being the most popular and one of the most advanced cell phones on the market should be available to those locked in contracts with other service providers.
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After seeing how Arthur Petrelli met his end at the hands of Sylar last week I was predicting that Sylar would go after the other one of his so called parents that has lied to him. Angela Petrelli lied to Sylar just as Arthur had in claiming she was Gabriel’s parent and Sylar wants revenge for being used as a pawn in the Petrelli game.
This was the final episode of the Volume known as “Villains” and starts off with Nathan and Peter squaring off about the death of their father. Nathan has become so twisted and dead set on giving abilities to create a super army that he directly opposes Peter’s desire to shut down and destroy the formula. Peter again can’t bring himself to kill family and instead knocks his brother unconscious and works to destroy the formula in the lab. Mohinder who was trying to use the formula to save himself is thwarted and held to watch as Knox and Flint assist Peter in leveling the lab. Knox goes to subdue Nathan and meets an unfortunate end at the hands of Traci who freezes him and shatters him like glass shards. Nathan arrives at the lab but is too late to save the formula, Flint goes berserk and starts igniting the place and Peter injects himself with the formula as the only means to escape. He saves his brother by flying the two of them out of there, only to have Nathan reject him and say he would not have done the same.
Nathan was always a shady character since season 1 and the few glimpses of hope and good we saw in him were easily overcome by his character flaws. Peter is on the polar opposite of the spectrum, good to a fault and incapable of making decisions to cause harm and kill that would have saved lives earlier. Reminds me of the most recent Batman movie where Batman cannot bring himself to kill the Joker even after the joker killed the love of his life. That pretty much is the way Peter Petrelli is as well without as much darkness in his heart as batman.
Meanwhile most of the episode was about Sylar trapping Claire, Angela, Meredith and Noah hostage in Level 5 and attempting to play some twisted game where he can convince them to kill each other in order to escape, reminds me of a lighter version of the SAW films. One of the most clever moves was Noah releasing the other villains in an attempt to slow Sylar down, and Sylar wound up killing them all, running up against Eric Doyle the Puppet Master who temporarily held him only for a moment before Sylar overcame him.
In the end it was Sylar’s pride and overconfidence while interrogating Angela that allowed Claire to sneak up on him and deliver the glass shard through the back of his skull. Though this should not have happened as Sylar had the “Super Hearing” power acquired in season 1 and he should have been able to hear her, though he was screaming at the time. The building was leveled by Meredith exploding after being injected by adrenaline and unable to control her powers.
One of my favorite sequences was when Ando injected himself with the formula and attempted to determine how to use his power, Daphne had stolen a vial from Mohinder’s hands just before Peter was destroying the lab and brought it to Ando. Ando’s power was to super charge other heroes and using this ability he enhanced Daphne so fast she can run through time to bring Hiro back to the present. The episode wraps up the volume with Sylar being buried by rubble while being debilitated by a glass shard in the back of his skull. Hiro ripping up the formula, Peter regaining his powers and gives the appearance that there may be order about to be established again.
The whole point of Volume 3 Villains was to try and show that there is a duality in each and every one of us and everyone has the ability to be both a hero and a villain, this is what I also believe in my personal life that there is no such thing as pure white/light or pure black/dark but everyone and everything is shades of gray to some degree.
The preview clip to Volume 4 Fugitives shows Nathan Petrelli speaking with the President of The United States played by Michael Dorn (Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation) which was amusing since we are about to have a black president and one is portayed on the show. I also like the way Heroes taps into the Trek cast for guest appearances and everyone they have tapped has played a decent role although Nichelle Nichols had the shortest role in Heroes that wasn’t clearly defined much. George Takei I thought did a fantastic job as Hira Nakamura’s strict and disciplined father and enjoyed his portal of the character very much. Nathan is so hell bent on revenge that he convinces the president that the people who have powers should all be detained and locked up, but of course fails to declare that he has any powers of his own. This now looks like the future of Season 1 where Nathan was president and people with abilities were hunted down and locked up in facilities. I would hate to see the show keep going round and round in circles covering the same issues over and over.
If this volume is Fugitives and implying that all people with abilities are fugitives from the law, then the show now turns to where everyone is being hunted and constantly evades pursuers. With PineHearst and Primatech all but left in ruins, I am not sure what the plans of the company are and if there are any at this point at all. Since we have until February to mull this over, I am sure that NBC will release Graphic Novels weekly that will help fill in the gaps, since Volume 4 apparently takes place 3 weeks into the future. NBC typically uses the Graphic Novels to fill in gaps of time, and they have Web Episodes which parallel the show which I should check out and review.
Overall I was disappointed with the final episode as Sylar who is supposed to have the gift of “Understanding How Things Work” ultimately played into the role of a jealous, vengeful person bent on revenge and making critical bad guy type mistakes. Why is it all villains make the same mistakes constantly, they must spout epithets, final words, delays, pauses…etc. Ah well, I didn’t like the twist they were putting on Sylar, and instead liked it when he only killed for the sake of stealing powers and becoming the most powerful, when he became just a standard serial killer who took pleasure in it was when they weakened the character quite a bit. It was refreshing seeing Angela start telling the truth and we did learn that Sylar’s real parents were still not disclosed, if Sylar should return again which is very likely he could come back and seek more vengeance. My prediction is somebody will find the charred remains of Sylar and pull the glass from the skull and he will regenerate again.
I saw the movie trailer to the movie Watchmen for the first time while watching Batman: The Dark Night and I must say I am incredibly impressed by the trailer itself. The computer animation looks outstanding, the dramatic display of the characters leaves me speechless and the background song by Smashing Pumpkins sounds so appropriate.
I didn’t think the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a bad movie, but it could have been done so much better. Watchmen for those of you who don’t know is one of the Graphic Novels by Alan Moore and published by DC comics in the 1986 - 1987 years. There were 12 issues which were released and the story for the comics is set in the 1980’s in an alternate reality.
Though in the comic books there was less focus on superheroes, in fact they were outlawed in 1977 there being only one superhero called Doctor Manhattan who had nuclear powers and was based off of Captom Atom from Marvel Comics.
Here is the movie trailer let me know what you all think:
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