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| Movie Review: Running Scared |
| 02.27.06 (11:10 pm) [edit] |
Rating: ©©½
Starring: Paul Walker, Vera Fermiga, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri
This film has been panned by most critics except for Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News. Based on Harry's strong review, I decided to check it out. It's not often that my cineplex shows anything decent. Distributors don't bother to send the nonblockbusters films up here because they assume they won't have an audience. They're content to send us films like "Big Momma's House 2" and "Saw II". Not surprisingly, I haven't been to the cinema since "Underworld 2" opened. Seeing a trend here? Yes, my cineplex loves sequels.
Anyway, back to "Running Scared". First of all, I am not the biggest Paul Walker fan. I've always felt that he relies too heavily on his blondeness and gorgeous blue eyes to ever amount to a half-way decent actor. I never thought he could go through an entire film without saying "Dude". This movie showed me never to judge a pretty boy by his cover. Walker can act, shockingly well, under the right direction and with the right script. I guess no one ever trusted him with a meaty role before.
Walker plays a low-level mobster, Joey, charged with the task of getting rid of guns used to commit crimes. When he fails to get rid of a gun and it is implicated in another crime, his ass is on the line with his employers, the cops and his enemies. At the center of all Joey's troubles is eleven-year-old Oleg, his neighbour's kid and his son's best friend. Joey and Oleg spend a wild night out and about, trying to stay one step ahead of their chasers.
The film is extremely violent. No, seriously, extremely uber-violent. No one with a weak stomach, heart or bladder should bother watching it. If you can handle the violence, there are some truly horrific and sickening scenes that make you wonder how it is even possible that we live in such a world. Vera Fermiga plays Joey's long-suffering wife and comes to face with pure, unadulterated evil.
The film is gripping, challenging and entertaining. You walk out never wanting to ever see anything like it again. You've been warned!
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| Deep Freeze |
| 02.27.06 (10:32 pm) [edit] |
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Last night wasn't the coldest night I have experienced up here in the True North but it was cold enough to cause my pipes to freeze up, leaving me without hot water to shower, wash clothes, dishes or even wash my hands.
I'm going to have to shower at my gym tomorrow before work. I managed to get by today but tomorrow's a full and sweaty one. Right now, you really don't want to be next to me in bed. The water is so cold that I have put off peeing until the very last second because washing my hands means spending 20 minutes thawing them out by the heater.
If the pipes don't thaw out with the heater, their gonna have to open up the wall and use a heated pipe-snake to melth the ice. Last week, we lost power for an hour while the hydro company did line work on our street. The apartment temperature dropped 10 degrees in less than an hour. That tells me that our insulation is crap. Our poor insulation is probably why the pipes froze.
To add insult to injury, the zipper on my bubble jacket broke and I was outside carrying groceries home, so my hands were tied up. From now on, I will only by clothes with YKK zippers.
I'm definitely moving when my lease is up. I am not going to spend another winter up here freezing and showering in cold water.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!
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| No Contest!! |
| 02.25.06 (12:39 pm) [edit] |
Well, some times the tried and true are just that - tried and true. Some times you don't need to look any further than one of your best mates for inspiration. With that said, I would like to sincerely thank those of you who offered technical and artistic support in my quest for a suitable banner. Despite AE's description of the above banner as "vaginal", I am very very happy with it and I owe it all to Daft and Demented's Mal.
I told her that I wanted something frosty or icy-blue, reflecting the fact that I have moved to a colder climate and she delivered this feminine, smokey blue, ethereal dream. Thank you, Mally! I'm not exactly sure what AE meant by "vaginal" and your guess is as good as mine. Did she mean dark and damp? Did she mean moist and murky? Did she mean hot and hairy? I have no idea.
What do you think?
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| Animal Activists, please don't kill me but ... |
| 02.24.06 (10:26 am) [edit] |
As the victim of facials from the sky-rats of the world, whether vacationing in Paris, or just popping out to the local pub, I thought it was time that I voiced my outrage.
Available for a limited time (until PETA gets on my ass).
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| You suck!! |
| 02.24.06 (10:05 am) [edit] |
A list of everyone and everything that sucked for the week of February 18th to February 24th, 2006.
1. Olympic Media Coverage - for placing incredible and undue pressure on athletes who already demand the best from themselves, skewering them when they fail to deliver and squeezing every last drop of drama out of would-be rivalries. Oh, lets not forget the shiatty back and forth coverage of taped events, so as to give the impression that they are all taking place at the same time. Ever notice that it's been the unheralded athletes that have delivered? There's a correlation there. Look into it. Hate to point to any one in particular, but Bob Costas - YOU REALLY SUCK!
Next time, cut back on the face powder, lip gloss, and the airbrushing - you look like Dorothy Hamil's ugly sister.
2. Amazon.com - for splitting up my order of a duvet cover with matching shams into 3 different shipments with 3 different carriers. One pillow sham was delivered by FedEx. The other pillow sham is to be delivered by Airborne Express in two weeks. The duvet cover is to be delivered by UPS in 3 weeks. Why not save yourself some money and consolidate the damned order? Oh, but wait! You would have to wait 3 weeks to charge my credit card if you did that, and we know how you don't like to wait for money. BASTARDS and ASSHATS!! Amazon.com Delivery Department - YOU SUCK BIG DONKEY BALLS.
3. Futureshop.ca - for sending me the wrong phone TWICE!!! For making me go to Purolator to make the return TWICE!!! For raising the price on the phone after you farked up my order and making me have to call you TWICE to get the discount. For charging my credit card TWICE!!! You can take your 5% discount and go to H-E-double-hockey-sticks TWICE!!! You have lost me as a customer as well as anyone that will listen to me. Futureshop Delivery Department - YOU SUCK ROYALLY!!
4. My neighbor - for clearing the snow out of your driveway by putting it in front of mine and piling the snow bank so high that I cannot see oncoming traffic when I back out into the street. See that patch of yellow snow, that's a pineapple snow cone, I left for you. EAT IT!
No, I'm not bitter, I'm just releasing some negative energy here.
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| My Two Cents - Live and Let Die |
| 02.23.06 (5:50 pm) [edit] |
This is a new weekly column. We'll see how long that lasts.
Earlier today, two former Bond villains, Toby Stephens and Christopher Lee, came out in defense of the new James Bond, Daniel Craig. Craig is best known for his roles in Layer Cake and Munich. People have been calling the signing of Craig as the death of the Bond franchise.
My question is this: how can you kill something that is already dead? I'm sorry, but Bond movies have sucked since Sean Connery did Diamonds Are Forever. Lee says that people should wait to see the film before passing judgement, while Stephens feels that Craig will breathe new life into the franchise.
I have to agree with Stephens and Lee. Give the guy a chance, and honestly, they need Bond to be less fantastical and comical and to be more grounded in reality now. This is the new millenium, so don't make Bond cartoonish and then ask us to take him seriously. Pierce Brosnan went from cool to smarmy in less than 60 seconds.
I remember there was the same uproar with Timothy Dalton and I enjoyed his Bond films quite a bit because I could believe that this guy was an agent in Her Majesty's Secret Service. He wasn't a joke like Roger Moore. No offense to Mr. Moore, but I couldn't see him wrestling Dakota Fanning and winning, much less the usual Bond villains.
Craig looks like he could take a good knocking about and still keep going. That's what we all need - a pair of shoes you can skuff up and get dirty and still look stylish when we head out to the pub to pull. George Lazenby was a pretty good Bond, but you don't here anybody talking about him.
Also, realistically, spies are supposed to have blendable and unimpressive features - kind of like Matt Damon's "Jason Bourne". He's shaggable and forgettable all in one. I welcome the change. Those who want to boycott can kiss my arse - my large "buns-of-yogurt" arse!
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| Heartbreak Canada |
| 02.22.06 (6:53 pm) [edit] |
Team Russia - 2
Team Canada - 0
It's time to draw a warm bath, plug in my hair dryer and perch it ever so precariously on the shower rack.
Two weeks ago, I couldn't have given a rats ass about hockey (that's ice hockey to you Aussies!). Then, suddenly, the hockey version of cupid struck me with his arrow and I was hooked - FOREVER. It's shocking to me how much I care about hockey. As shocking as it was for Angelina to discover that Brad had a virulent and aggressive strain of foot fungus, it was doubly shocking for me to discover that I wanted to have Martin Brodeur's 4th son.
Now, my heart is broken. There will be no medals for Team Canada. There will be a new Olympic champion. My money is on Finland. I can't think about them right now. All I want to do is just cry, until I'm all dried up.
Why Hockey gods? Why? Why make me care so much, so soon, only to be shattered?
Well, tomorrow is another day. Vancouver 2010.
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| The Boys are back! |
| 02.21.06 (6:40 pm) [edit] |
It's been a while since my last long-distance crush. My last Boyfriend of the Moment (BotM), Chris Evans, is long gone. He is a distant memory - a mere piece of lint stuck in the navel of time. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?? He was in Scary Movie for Pete's (Sampras) sake!
Anyway, my sanity has returned, as has my penchant for flavours of the moment. That's flavours not flavors. I am in Canada now. My current fling is characteristically unavailable, utterly out of my league. With 3 stand out performances this year on the silver screen (Hustle and Flow, Crash, and Four Brothers) and a smile that could melt the 35 cm ( 1 foot 2 inches - Canada now!) of snow currently covering my car, it's hard not to notice the force of nature that is Terrence Howard. The sight of him could keep me warm, even when it's -30°C (-22°F - CANADA, damn it!!).
What throwdown score do you give the man who made you melt playing an abusive pimp? 5.
For those who are unfamiliar:
The Throw Down Scale measures the time I imagine it would take for the BotM to rip my shirt off, unhook my bra and throw me down on the bed (ranging from 0 to 90 seconds, because some of my bras open at the front). As a point of comparison, in theory I would have given Jude Law a 20. When Law scored a 16 ripping off his children's nanny's bra last year, it marked the first time that the Throw Down score was tested in practice.
This moment in Boyfriend history is brought to you by:
Thursdays at 8ET/9CT on Fox.
Image courtesy of Dr.Crotch - Your source for Crotch Graphics since 2005.
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| ***Banner Contest*** |
| 02.21.06 (5:53 pm) [edit] |
Natblog needs a new banner (and a new background image too). The ones I previously had got deleted (because I am not an advanced user, apparently). They were lovely too. The banner was made by Mal. Yours truly made the background. Now, with the click of a mouse, it's all gone. All gone!! ::cries::
So, dear graphically-talented friends, can you please help me out? Just post the banner in your blog and write a comment here and I promise to check it out, as well as the rest of your blog.
Thanks in advance.
Nat
This banner contest is brought to you by:
Quite possibly, the world's perfect crotch
Image courtesy of Dr.Crotch - Sponsor of Natblog's Boyfriend of the Moment Series
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