Where The Hell Ya Been Mav?

Ok guys, been hella busy with the new job. To add on my computer has been screwed up for forever and I used to use Tiffany's but now she uses it for her job so now I'm a little screwed. I get to use it ever now and then. But guys trust me, I still read your blogs even if I don't comment. Just bare with me and keep the good blogs coming. Thanks

New Job Info And Need Advice

So I got a new job that I start on Monday. A new car lot is being built and I am about to start detailing. Never done car detailing before but I have worked at the local marina and basically detailed huge houseboats almost solely by myself. So I'm pretty sure it will be right up my alley. Get to wear jeans, t-shirt, and hats (which is what I wear about everyday anyway), so that's perfect for me.

Ok I need some opinions. I'm looking into a new mp3 player. Tiffany has said that if I pick one out she will get it for me..maybe for Christmas. I want the 120g of whatever I get. I'm looking into the 120g Ipod Classic and the 120g Zune player. I'm not sure which one to get, I've looked them both up and its really split down the middle. Any advice guys? Pros and Cons, anything. Thanks.

Iron Man 2 Casting Switch?

So I came up on the news that Terrence Howard, who played James Rhodes in the first Iron Man will be replaced by Don Cheadle. As far as I can tell the switch came about because of "financial differences." What do you guys think? I know that Howard's role was only that of a supporting actor, but from what I hear War Machine will be in the next movie and will make Rhodes character much more prominent. Good thing or bad thing?

Note: Ha where the hell is everyone?

Another note: I have another DVD update coming up, keep checking in.

DVD Update

NEW MOVIES.....yay......

It may come as no surprise to some that my DVD collection is diversifying. Now that little Piper is here I have been interested in finding movies for her. So you will now see that there will be more of a emphasis on finding and buying animated and cartoon movies. But DAMN they are usually really high.

I ordered 3 dvd's off the Internet and am waiting for them to get here.
They are:

• Memento - God I have heard so much about Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, who directed the latest Batman movies. Anyone seen it? If so don't tell me anything about it but is it good?
• O' Brother Where Art Thou? - LOVE this movie. Glad to add it to my collection.
• Ice Age - A favorite of mine in the animated movies. Woot..

Other movies that I do have now are

• American History X - Honestly have never seen this entirely through. But I love everything I have seen.
• The Other Boleyn Girl - Tiffany loves this movie. Not my favorite but actually not to bad.
• Porky's - Can you believe I have never seen this? Eh found it dirt cheap so that's good.
• Stop-Loss - Always looked good, hope it is.
• Hot Fuzz - Heard it's funny.....yea that's all I got.
• Children Of Men - Looks awesome, I like Clive Owen as well.
• AVP - Never seen this. Is it cheesy?
• Shrek - Funny
• Monster House - Always looked interesting, hope its good.
• Wild Hogs - Was really cheap in a brand new box so I got it.
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Never seen it. Alot of ppl are split down the middle with this one.
• Vanilla Sky - Movie was never on my radar until recently, looks interesting.
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Honestly... I'm embarrassed to say I have never seen any of these movies all the way through. I love them though. I wanted to get the pack with all the movies but I thought it would be cheaper to just get them separately, oh well.
• The Princess Bride - Classic
• Mission Impossible - Been looking for this one.
• Private Parts - Really funny, its Howard Stern.
• Frailty - If you have not seen this, watch it. Very cool.
• Alpha Dog - Dunno if it's good. Oh Well.
• The Break-Up - Tiffany has wanted this, looks funny.

As always if you guys want a review, let me know. Am I behind on reviews? If anyone has asked for one please catch me up.

Note: I have been interested in the movie Requiem for a Dream. Can anyone tell me anything about it? Thanks

Cloverfield.......Honestly

Now Tiffany borrowed this, watched it, and raved about it. So the day after we sat down and watched Cloverfield. Now I had somewhat high expectations for Cloverfield but they weren't extremely high. I gotta admit, I'm pretty disappointed. Now there were things that I really enjoyed but way too many things that annoyed me. I'm not calling this an official review because as far as I know, we all have seen it so there is no reason to go into what it's about and etc.

First off I have been asking myself maybe I should watch the movie again by myself, giving it another chance to sink in...maybe a little differently. Now I'm not one to really pick movies apart unless there are so many farfetche'd things going on. And while watching Cloverfield I could not seem to shut up. I was sighing, scoffing, and laughing during unlaughable times.

Likes:
Now I'll admit, the simple premise of a huge monster terrorizing Manhattan was pretty damn cool. Also the other selling point was that it was made as a home video. Now the shaky camera didn't bother much at all, but what I thought made it interesting was that by using a handheld camera it made the movie, the experience, and the monster seem like a reality show. Didn't seem ya know...prepared, or staged. And that was a big plus. The movie did have quite a few good laughs and that was good.

Dislikes:
I had a lot of things get under my skin. First off, the monster itself. Totally generic, it didn't pop. Plain but still reasonable cool. But when I did see the creature I was like, "Oh, that's it?" Secondly, I don't know how big Manhattan is personally but I hated how the story followed 4 people on this big island and everywhere they seemed to go, the monster was right there around them. Thirdly, I hated the smaller creatures that fell off the big one. Seemed to me like they were just thrown into the movie so you could not ask the question, "Why can't they just go into the subway and wait it out?." And after a while it seemed that the main, giant creature was only the second most dangerous creature. The characters had to worry more about the little guys that the big daddy. I hated that the monster is Huge and yet for most of the movie you get tiny glimpses of it. In the end you do get a few really good shots but like I said, the creature still did not impress me much. Also I just could not stop comparing the movie to the plot of Godzilla, not necessarily the Godzilla movies themselves. The ending left me wanting more of an explanation but that as not too much of a problem to me.

In the end, I'm still glad I own the movie. It was in the least still entertaining. And it was a decent watch, I didn't hate it but so many annoying things always popped into my head. I'm usually an advocate of telling people to just watch the movie, go with it, don't ask too many questions and just enjoy it, but with Cloverfield something was off to me. I will definitely give it another shot because everyone else seemed to enjoy it so maybe I'm being too harsh.

DVD Update

4 new movies to talk about.

Went into Blockbusters because I had a few coupons and found 4 movies.

Sideways - Not a newer movie. About 2 guys on a road trip to wine country. Tried watching this a few years ago and hated it. I've heard really good things about it so I decided to give it another shot.

Million Dollar Baby - Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. Excited to see this one, looks interesting and won quite a few awards. We will see.

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead - Know nothing about this, looks good, has a good cast, only 2.99, what the hell, right?

The Bank Job - Jason Statham in a action movie....need I say more? Looked like another generic Bank Heist movie but I have heard it's actually a great movie.

Well there ya go, I have been planning on making a blog of DVD's I have always wanted that I just can't find. I may put that together. I'd also be interested in everyone else's "Wanted" DVD list.

DVD Update

Umm, I think I went overboard a little. It's totally Tiffany's fault. She is supposed to smack my hand away when I reach for another DVD. Anyways, to be truthful, I really didn't spend a ton of money on all these DVD's, I got a lot of great deals, whether it be the 5$ movie rack at Wally World, or buy 2 get 3 free at Gamestop, so honestly it's not that bad.

Lets Start with the game. I went ahead and found Madden 08 for only 10 bucks, and Tiff's brother has it so I bought it so we could play, not knowing the next damn day he bought 09, but oh well. Its good to have a nice variety of different games for my 360.

Next is the 5$ movie rack at Wal-Mart. I have said it a thousand times and I truly believe it, that our Wal-Mart has the best selection of 5$ movies I have heard of or ever seen. It's amazing the quality of movies in that bin (actually its a four sided shelf), but everywhere it's different.

So I bought 2 movies out of the 5$ bin

• Fargo - Made from the Coen brothers who made No Country. My parents used to rave about this movie so I'm excited to see it.
• Men of Honor -(Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro). This movie is so underrated, our walmart has like an entire shelf of this movie so I guess no one buys it but it is a really good movie. Check this one out.

Gamestop (Buy 2 get 3 free). So I really did not want to get five movies here but Tiffany found a really good movie that we both have been looking for. The only bad thing is that its not worth it to just get one movie when you can get 5 for the price of 3 so I forced myself to find 4 others.

• Titanic - This is not my favorite movie but it's ok, the thing that excited me the most was the AMAZING box it came in. It looks like a book, its huge. So thats a plus.
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico - Never seen this, loved Desperado so had to get the next movie. Johnny Depp in it is just a plus. Thought it was odd that the spine of the movie did not have the movie title on it, had never seen that before. Then realized I bought a DVD without the sleeve which pissed me off. Note on the sleeve later.
• Ultraviolet - Always looked interesting, never was a must have for me but needed to find movies so this was the next one. Hope it's good.
• Phantom of the Opera - This was for Tiffany. She has wanted it for a long time so no brainer there.
• L.A. Confidential - Heard a lot of good things about it, I have high expectations for it, so hope it does not disappoint.

Flea Market. I get alot of movies at the flea market. You can find really rare movies for dirt cheap. Alot of the DVD's I buy are only 5$ and whats so great about them compared to Walmart is that they have so many more movies to choose from. Only downside is that its only open on Saturday and Sunday.

• Wildfire Season 1 - All for Tiffany. She loves this show. I believe its the best buy out of all my new movies. An entire season for 5 bucks. Can't beat that. I'm curious to watch it as well.
• Apocalypse Now - So called greatest war movie ever. Very excited to watch it. Not a huge war movie fan but seems like I always hear the name of this movie so could not pass it up.
• Signs - Have this on VHS but have always wanted it on DVD. Great, great movie. Prolly one of the reasons we all still go see M. Night's sub par movies in theaters.
• Predator - Love this movie, surprised I didn't have it. Easy choice.
• Se7en - Gosh the hype on this movie, I really am glad I found it. Been looking for it everywhere. I'm sure it will be great from all I've heard from it. GREAT BOX as well.
• Monster's Ball - Ever since the Joker I have been fascinated with Heath Ledgers past projects so saw this one. Honestly never heard of it but looks pretty good.
• V for Vendetta - Heard this was the best of the V for Vendetta, Ultraviolet, and Aeonflux movies, so got it.

Game King (Found the COMPLETE Once Upon A Time In Mexico here and asked the clerk if there was someway I could buy just the sleeve to the movie. Really wierd question. Anyways he was really cool and just gave me the sleeve for free so Hells Yea.)

• Talledega Nights - Needed a good laugh and have been keeping a eye out for this one.
• Jeepers Creepers - Just a really cool movie, glad to add it to my collection.

Blockbusters

• Rendition - Looked really good, anyone know anything let me know.
• Fracture - Also looked cool, one of the only movies I have ever bought that I didn't know a single thing about.
• The Hammer - Honestly always looked silly but I remember hearing that it was actually quite good so for 2.99 not much of a risk.
• There Will Be Blood - Always looked for this movies to drop in price and finally found it for 4.99 so scooped it up.
• Atonement - This is one of those movies that I have seen sit and sit on the shelf telling me to buy it and I finally caved. Looks like it has potential.
• Water Horse: Legend of the Deep - Tiffany always thought this looked cute so I picked it up for her.
• In Bruges - Another movie that I knew nothing about, seemed like I had seen it on someones top 10 of the year list so I risked it.

Video/Video. (Buy 2 get 1 free). This is a place I never go into, its honestly kinda nasty inside and never really had much but had not been in there in probably 5 years so stopped in there to see what they had.

• X-Men - I have the 3rd one and am one step closer to completing the trilogy. Not much to say....its the X-Men....its awesome.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - God finally. The only Harry Potter movie I didn't have on DVD. It's always like 10 dollars and thats too damn much. 5 bucks here.
• Freedom Writers - Sixty congrats. You first movie you reviewed that really effected a purchase. Based buying this solely on your review. Good job.

Wal-Mart

• Will Smith Collection. This came with I, Robot and Independence Day. GREAT, GREAT buy.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail - LOVE, LOVE this movie. Finally found it for a reasonable price. LOVE this movie.

So thats it. As always, want a review let me know.