Monday, August 04, 2008

Another viewing of "Get Your Own"

See previous post with this video for more information.  This is their upload from Break.com



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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Get Your Own... Fritos

Here is the genius that is my girlfriend's brothers and their friend... College kids with way too much time on their hands over summer break...

Actors:
Javier Avellán
Daniel Bernal

Camera Crew:
Juanpi Avellán

"Poop" and Penny dropper:
Adam Hymel

Editing and Production
BernAvellán Studios


Friday, August 01, 2008

Summer Movie Review 2008


Hey readers!  How's it going.  It's August 1st, 2008 and I think it's time to review the movies I saw this summer.

I by no means consider myself to be a valid movie critic and I do not intend for my reviews to mean much of anything except to show people that I have indeed seen these movies.

Movie #1: IRON MAN
Director: Jon Favreau
Opinion:
Awesome movie!  Iron Man is born of a rich man named Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) who designs and distributes weapons to the US military.  His transformation from civilian to hero is really awesome.

I see the underline message of this movie as this: It's not enough to have a lot of money; You have to have intelligence.  If Tony Stark had simply stopped at being rich and never embraced his academic abilities, his character would have been killed early in the movie.  If this had happened, the movie would've only been about 20 minutes long and boring.

Movie #2: Get Smart

Director: Peter Segal

Opinion:
Two Tumbs Up!  I never watched the 1965 TV show on which this movie is based, but from what I hear from others who have seen it, they place a bunch of classic items and themes into the movie that will keep the old school folk interested.

Steve Carell gives a perfect performance in this film as agent "Maxwell Smart" for a branch of the government that the general public is lead to believe no longer exists.

Again, I don't want to give the story line away. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Anne Hathaway, and Dalip Singh also appear in this movie and play fitting characters.

Moral of the story... Sometimes those who are the best at what they do are the ones you need to trust the least.  At least, that sounds like a good moral for this story...  Oh, and bombs can be stored in the most musical of places!  Yay!

Movie #3: The Dark Knight

Director: Christopher Nolan

Opinion:
All I can say about this movie is WOW!  Heath Ledger as The Joker sums up why this movie is so amazing.  It is really a shame that he died so young.  If this performance was a glimps of the kind of actor he was developing into, the world lost a great.

In this 2nd installment of the new Batman series, The Joker takes over as Gotham City's main villain.  This is a take on the Joker nobody has done before.  Jack Nicholson's Joker was still slightly goofy and not really "evil."  Heath Ledger's Joker is a demented, twisted and very dark.  The kind of evil the Joker brings to Gotham is far beyond the normal Mafia criminals Batman helped Gotham deal with before.

If you are a expecting the "na na na na na Batman!" type of Batman, this movie is not for you.  It is definitely a darker take on Batman.

One of my favorite things about these new Batman movies is that Gotham is a more realistic city.  It's not all fantasy-like as it was in the previous Batman movie series.

I saw this movie in IMAX.  Much of the movie was shot using IMAX cameras, thus, much of the movie took up the whole IMAX screen.  If you have not seen this movie yet, go see it in IMAX.  If it is no longer showing in IMAX... well... you missed out...