So, really, the Braves have suddenly picked back up this last couple weeks. Guess what? I solved my money problems and haven't been depressed about it. So suddenly they're playing better. It really is my fault! Guess I'd better keep myself happy.
Transformers was freaking awesome. Wait, not was, is. It is freaking awesome! I've seen it twice and I plan to see it at least one more time in the theatre and I will own it when it comes out on DVD. Have you seen it? If not, watch it. I never liked Michael Bay movies all that much before, although The Island was decent, but this movie is a masterpiece. OK, it has a couple plot holes. Some elements of the story are just kinda ignored. And the ending is a little weak. But it doesn't matter. It's no weaker than the old TV show was, and in many ways the story is much better done, and I still loved the old TV shows. Of course, it all comes down to graphics. If they hadn't made the robots look so good, it would have been an awful movie. Seriously terrible. But there isn't a moment in this movie where the robots aren't believable.
One of my biggest worries was that the robots would be just robots. Not really autonomous characters on their own, but just big machines that in the end just did what the humans told them. Instead they are full characters. Not quite the main characters in the movie. The hero is still the kid. But that's ok, because we got to see Optimus shove a sword through Bonecrusher's head. Just freaking awesome.
Ok, so the movie was great and I don't want to knock it at all, but after raving about the movie all the way home from the theatre, I immediately got online to try to find out more about another movie. The preview shot with a home camera. Starts with the kids throwing a going away party, then suddenly they hear a noise and feel a rumble. They go outside in time to see a huge explosion in downtown NYC and hear the noise again, now distinguishable as a roar. At the end you see the Statue of Liberty's head go flying through the air and then a date and producer, but no name. How cool was that? Well I looked and I looked and barely found anything other than the fact that no one really knows anything. It's a monster movie that is, apparantly, shot all with handcams. So you see the whole thing from the point of view of the people running from the monster. Pretty darn cool. Produced by JJ Abrams. Good producer. You can check out the wiki at :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield, but there's not a lot on there.
They're running an ARG. I'm a sucker for ARG's. If you don't know what ARG means it's Alternate Reality Game. Or something like that. Basically it's a game that pretends it's not a game. Look up I Love Bees if you want to find out about them. That was a really well done one for Halo2. It's kind of like advertising for nerds. We really get into it for some reason. So far the ARG for Cloverfield is kinda leading some people to think the movie might be about Cthulhu. Could be interesting.
I have the flu. It sucks. Had it all weekend. So that means I've been sitting in my house all weekend. I did go out friday night, but probably shouldn't have. Hope I didn't infect the whole movie theatre. Although that would be mildly amusing, in a terrible kind of way. "Tonight at 7, an entire movie theatre packed with people all become infected with flesh eating virus." Man, I hope it's not a flesh eating virus. That'd really suck. I have to stop writing before I get too random.
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