The Avengers (2012)

freekin awesome. go see it. that is all. (yea yea plot holes extra bs just see it is is great)

TV Shows and cancellations

I haven’t really been watching movies lately. been going through a bit of a slump and all (not getting into that though) but I have been watching a lot of TV shows on Netflix recently. One that I just finished was Kingdom. It’s a British show from a few years ago with Steven Fry as the lead character (I love him, he is great on QI). It’s a pretty entertaining show but the 3rd season ends on a cliffhanger. So I go and search see if I can download the rest of the episodes only to find out IT WAS CANCELLED. Damn them for not giving me closure. Now for the rest of my life I will wonder what might have been (probably over exaggerating but you know what I mean). Why does this happen to shows? Why cant, if a show is going to be cancelled, they film one more episode just to close things off. The station would still get to cancel the show but the people that watched it would at least get an ending. its like getting to a really great part in a book just to find out the writer died and cant finish it but the publisher decided to put it out anyway.

GAAAH

 

OK, I think I’m done for the moment

Letterboxd – first impressions

I signed up to get into the Letterboxd beta a wile back and just got an invite code today. My first thought was it’s a prettier version of Flixter, but in just my short time using it it feels a lot more natural and community friendly. When you click on a movie you go to its page where you get the basic plot info poster art a few user reviews and links rent or watch the movie on iTunes, Amazon or Netflix. If Netflix doesn’t have it for instant watch it sends you to the page to get the DVD in the mail. you can also do things like rate and review the movie from its page. there is a button at the top of the page that lets you type in a movie name and add it to your movies list and rate it without having to go to the movie page. I really like the diary feature. You can mark the date you first watched the movie and every time after that. kinda eliminates the need for my watch list page since its only there mostly for my own reference. You can link your Netflix account to add things to you queue and I think they are going to try to integrate your rated items from Netflix too but I’m not sure on that one. I don’t like the half star review ratings. I think the 5 star system is a good one cause it leaves a bit of leeway when rating items, but that’s a small gripe I’ll just stick to full stars and get past it. I’ll be using this quite a bit in the future and can’t wait to see what other features might be added in the future.

Letterboxd

in a music mood

not really feeling like watching a movie tonight so i figured id post a few music videos that i really dig

Mouse T – Horney

3OH3 – Starstruck

Milow – Ayo Technology

Super Meat Boy Soundtrack – Power of the Meat

Alex Gaudino ft Shena – ‘Watch Out’

Alex Gaudino Feat. Christal Waters

Monster Magnet – Space Lord

MC Frontalot – First World Problem

Flogging Molly – seven Deadly Sins
(probably my favoretest band ever)

 

Stacking

The game Stacking came out about a year ago on consoles and finally just a few days ago was released on steam. I just got done playing the first adventure and t was great. it took about 5 or so hours to get through with about 75% complete. this game is really fun it has old school adventure mechanics and quite a bit of humor. Each doll has one thing it can do and you have to figure out how to get each objective done using the many different abilities they have. I really like how there are at least 3 ways to complete each challenge and you are encouraged to go back and find them all. definitely worth the few bucks on steam (as of right now its only $10 so pretty good deal)

A Rant about movies

Ok so this was going to be a small aside at the beginning of a review but I decided it needed a bit more.

So here’s the deal I started watching Ninja on netflix and a little wile in I had the sudden urge to watch The Last Dragon a movie from 1985 that I only remember a few scenes from but somehow it popped into my head at that moment. Thinking, “that movie must be on netflix” I stopped the movie I was watching to start the new one that was in my mind. Low and behold the movie is only available on Dvd through the mail. Well at least I can watch it I figure. But I want to watch it now (first world problem, I know) so I check Hulu, no dice. I see amazon sells it for $10 streaming but not on amazon prime. I can also get the DVD for $10 in the same amount of time to get the Dvd from netflix so that’s another no go. Finally I see its on Crackle.com but there are more adds than if it played on network television. WTF! why the hell isn’t this not very stellar movie available through some streaming service add free. You can not tell me the studios are making much if any cash off movies like this. So end of story is I pirated the dang thing so I can watch it tonight. I can understand some catalog titles being held off of streaming services because they are still bankable. But dammit everything else that is over 10 years old should be legally obtainable without adds streaming somewhere. Preferably the services that are already established and I subscribe to.

Ok I’m done

John Waters: This Filthy World (2006)

“All young people need to have someone bad to look up to, and I hope to be that one tonight”

Comedy is very subjective that’s why I don’t touch it much in reviews. For example I think LisaLampanelli  and Dane Cook are awful and extremely unfunny. Yet I like Larry the cable guy and Louis CK which couldn’t be further apart comedicly speaking. But I had to comment on this. John Waters is great.one of my all time favorites. I have his Christmas album, seen almost all his movies, read and watched every interview I can find. So yea I am a bit biased. This isn’t really standup comedy. Its more like someone just talking about the absurd things in their life. And it is hilarious. All the talks about Divine. The things he has seen everything its just great.

That is all. I have no more to say. You knew already if you will like this or not.

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