Here's the top MCS tags found for "star"

• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Stargate
• Starcraft
• Star Wars: Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith
• LEGO Star Wars
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Starbucks
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Wars: Rebels
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• StarCraft II
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Battle Beyond The Stars
• Dark Star
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Last Starfighter
• Star Wars: Episode 7: The Force Awakens
• Starship Troopers
• Fist of the North Star
• Homestar Runner
• StarTalk
• Star-Lord
• Stargate: Universe
• Star Wars: Battlefront
• Star Fox
• Men Who Stare At Goats
• The Star
• The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek: Beyond
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Star Citizen
• Star Wars: Celebration
• Starfire
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Starry Night
• Stargirl
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Star Wars: The Old Republic
• Starsky & Hutch
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Krystle Starr
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Star Wars: Episode 8: The Last Jedi
• Star Trek: Axanar
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Duck Dynasty Doomed to Die?

In a statement accompanying the video, the cable network said: “After five years, 130 episodes and one of the biggest hits in the history of cable, the Robertson family and A&E jointly decided that Duck Dynasty, the series, will come to an end after this season.”

USA Today is reporting that the open bigots that starred in the sadly successful “Duck Dynasty” have had their show canceled. Good riddance, hope A&E is able to fill the hours that Duck Dynasty had before with more episodes of people finding fake trash in fake storage units, then selling it to their fake friends.

Planet Of The Apes/Green Lantern Crossover

When Taylor goes missing, Cornelius investigates and discovers an ancient ring, unlike anything he has ever seen. As its power echoes through the stars, the Guardians of the Universe must reveal to their Lanterns a secret they had hoped would remain buried. With the Green Lantern Corps, led by Hal Jordan, racing to get to the source of this power before Sinestro can get his hands on it, they will discover a truth that will change them forever on…the Planet of the Apes!

This sounds as stupid as the Green Lantern / Star Trek crossover, hopefully they do as well as that did, because the Star Trek crossover ended up being pretty good with a story that made sense.

via www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/17/heres-deets-planet-apesgreen-lantern-crossover/

Get A Job review

Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, and Bryan Cranston lead this all-star comedy about the hilarious attempts of a recent college grad, his girlfriend, and their friends to find work.

I didn’t know that Bryan Cranston nor Alison Brie was in this film, the former more than the latter, and it was a pleasant surprise, they both did a great job in the film. The trailers framed the film as a tale of the college kids that graduated right as the economy crashed and none of them could find jobs. Turns out that there’s no economy mentioned in the film and it’s about millenials and their inability to properly excel without prizes and extreme motivational interventions.

Or maybe it’s about how they’re tired of getting prizes every time they take a dump, not sure really. It was a funny film and Alison Brie is great to watch in the roles she chooses.

my scientology movie review

My Scientology Movie is a 2015 British documentary film about Scientology directed by John Dower, and written by and starring Louis Theroux. The film takes an unconventional approach to the subject matter, featuring young actors “auditioning” for parts playing high-profile Scientologists in scenes recreating accounts from ex-members about incidents involving senior church management. The Church of Scientology responded by putting the filmmakers under surveillance and denouncing the film.

I would like to see the movie they made.

Mineral

Ghostbusters (2016) review

From director Paul Feig, GHOSTBUSTERS makes its long-awaited return starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon & Leslie Jones.

It’s still meh. it’s still a pale shadow of better movies.

It’s still entertaining if you had no clue there were better Ghostbuster movies out there.

Ratchet & Clank review

Based on the popular video game, a spunky Lombax and a defective robot join forces to try and save the world.

A beautiful movie with a mediocre storyline that lines up pretty closely from the first video game that was released over 15 years ago, which I honestly have only recently started to play on the PS3 in the Remastered Edition of the game. There’ll be a small review of that once I finish the game, but that may be a while, as I’ve dismantled my ps3 due to some power outages.

The movie was entertaining and I suggest it if you need some Lombax love in your life.

The Walking Dead: A Tell Tale Game game review

Set in the same world as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series

This was a game in the same universe as the comics and television series, for better and worse. The story doesn’t really go anywhere and I got stupidly emotionally involved with characters that I knew were scheduled to die. It was fun but not all that fulfilling. I would suggest it if you have 8 hours to kill, but man was I depressed after ending Seasons One. I haven’t even started 400 days or Season Two yet!

Happy Eleventh Birthday MCS!

It’s been eleven years since I started this site, and I still haven’t managed to blow it all to hell yet, so join me in the chat room and we’ll reminisce about the times that chat rooms were relevant and people actually used them!

Also, there’s a page that shows you all the posts on this day for each of the past 11 years.

And here’s the top rated posts on the site, some good shit in there. maybe I’ll see if I can (finally?) get thumbnails on the top 10 page. that might be useful for an image site, right?

Cell (2016) review

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this mind-blowing thriller based on the novel by Stephen King about a cell phone signal that triggers apocalyptic terror.

Based on a Stephen King story, for better or worse. I enjoyed the ending in spirit but feel like it could have been framed slightly better to cut down on the confusion and ambiguity.

Some minor spoilers to nit pick on:

• How did the phoners in the movie become able to communicate digitally with their voices? and pick up radio waves? would have made more sense for them to keep their stupid phones, but instead now they’re able to just look at a radio tower and communicate with whatever’s controlling them?
• Why the ambiguous ending?  what was controlling all the phoners?
• WTF was up with that spider crystal ball at the beginning of the film?
• Where did all those letters on the fridge come from?  I feel it would have been less jarring if there were hundreds of others on the floor, but instead we get a 200 character message from his son.

X-Men: Apocalypse review

Apocalypse, the most powerful mutant in Marvel’s X-Men universe, tries to destroy mankind in this action-packed hit starring Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence!

Obviously I’ve seen this in theaters, was interesting to watch it again with time to pause and reflect on what’s going on in the series and notice more of the things that just make no damn sense. Mystique as the good guy? Mystique that isn’t blue? Apocalypse just waking up because he got some sun? He slept for 4000 years? Where did he get all that tech all that long ago?

Oh just hush and enjoy the serious acting that happens between the horrible action set pieces. I’m hoping that this is the last we see of Katniss/Mystique and we see more Jean Grey in the next movies. I enjoyed it, but much less than I should have.

Bridge of Spies review

In a dramatic thriller inspired by true events, Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on a near impossible mission to negotiate the release of a captured American U2 pilot.

Tom Hanks is just the best, isn’t he? Well it doesn’t matter what you think, I think he’s the best. This was a good movie, my only complaint is the over use of obvious CGI. Hanks really sold it though!

Extinction Point review

Reporter Emily Baxter survived the alien red rain that blanketed and annihilated the human race. But after the downpour, and the lethal contagion it spread, came an even greater horror: the rampant transformation of the dead into something utterly unearthly.With a terrifying new form of life emerging from the mutated landscape, Emily’s only hope is to flee toward distant Alaska where she can unite with the survivors who have reached out to her from a remote science facility. The journey from New York will be long and painstaking, and Emily has only her faithful dog and whatever she can carry. But, after discovering a small family of refugees along the way, Emily’s determination to escape the unfolding catastrophe and carve out a new future is renewed. Standing in their way are Earth’s new masters, equally determined to survive and thrive, and possessed of monstrous capabilities Emily and her allies can’t begin to imagine…until they’re face to face with the hideous reality.In the battle about to begin, there will be no room for mistakes or mercy—only the most ruthless instincts to survive. –Amazon.com

This one is right in my wheel house and I really enjoyed it. There’s some pretty dumb plot points (looking at you bicycle!) but over all it’s a great start to building a world.

Urge

A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner (Pierce Brosnan) introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug. Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies – but what starts out as a fun night of partying quickly turns deadly, as the island paradise deteriorates into a tropical madhouse.

from Movies – 2Queue

Skiptrace review

Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and comedy favorite Johnny Knoxville team up to take down a notorious Chinese drug lord in this explosive and hilarious action-comedy.

There’s a good movie in there somewhere, the story is familiar and it’s great to see Jackie Chan again. Unfortunately it appears that the director (Renny Harlin, director of Die Hard 2) missed a great opportunity to bring a true Jackie Chan experience, with way too many choppy cuts and painful CGI. For every choppy scene or misplaced CGI scene though, there were gorgeous scenes of the Gobi Desert or stepped rice patties, so while I’m grateful for those scenes, I’m still sad when I see 200 camera cuts in a single action scene with Jackie fighting a DD Russian woman.

It’s a good Jackie Chan movie, I love the guy, but this isn’t a great film.

Side note, if you look it up on IMDB, it’s under the title of “Jue di tao wang”. No idea why.

Animosity Number 1

One day, the Animals woke up.

They started thinking. They started talking.

They started taking revenge.

Now, a dog and his girl are trying to get away–out of New York City, and all the way to San Francisco, to the only person who might be able to protect and save her.

From the writer of INSEXTS A-FORCE, and BOMBSHELLS and the artist of SUPERZERO, comes a new kind of road trip, a new kind of black comedy, and a new kind of coming-of-age.

I think I’m interested in reading this here series.

Sofia Boutella

She’s the legless assassin in King’s Men and the WHITE ALIEN from Star Trek Beyond, Jayla.  I liked her in that role more than the assassin one.

Hurricane Hermine update

My city is still completely fucked from the hurricane that came though, there’s no power fire nearly half of it’s residents, including your humble tiki god.  Is been a real shitty week so far, but we were lucky that no trees hit our cars or the house.

Being without power means I’m unable to post anything to the site that isn’t just a text post.  I can however post pictures I’ve taken myself or approve images that have been submitted.  If you could please submit some stuff, I’ll source it all when I get my phone: a charger at the local watering hole.

If your not following me on untapped or Facebook, now would be a great time to start!

Corvette Summer review

Mark Hamill (“Star Wars”) heads towards Vegas in pursuit of a stolen Corvette he built. He’s helped along the way by a sympathetic runaway, portrayed by Annie Potts (“Designing Women”).

Mark Hamil’s first film after Star Wars, it also stars Annie Potts, who I know better from the Ghostbuster films (sorry Designing Women fans!). The films one of those great summer flicks that feels like it was done on a very low budget, as there’s no special effects and only a couple major stunts in the whole film. We don’t see many of these types of movies any more, not sure what that says about us now days.

Side Effects review

Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller about an experimental drug that has chilling and deadly side effects.

Somewhat disappointed in the amount of Channing Tatum, but the story and acting more than made up for it. I really enjoyed this one.

The Lovers And The Despot

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/12/meet-the-movie-star-kidnapped-by-north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-il.html

I highly recommend this fascinating documentary about one of the strangest things that ever happened in the history of film. Basically Kim Jong Il kidnapped two of the leading lights of the South Korean film industry and forced them into servitude for decades. He even made the director make a knock off Godzilla film! (one for you rdeckard) Here’s the evidence.

Psy was even inspired by the above events in this track. (metal style!)

we live in a kingdom of bullshit

Everything around us is fake and unimportant.  Time to start a revolution, I’ll bring the beers!

Independence Day: Silent Zone review

he No. 1 blockbuster movie Independence Day was only part of the story. After the alien invaders are downed and teams are sent out to find survivors, only some personal belongings of Dr. Brackish Okun, head scientist of Area 51, are found.

Okun’s story is amazing, yet completely believable. It begins in the 1970s when this CalTech genius arrives at Area 51 to work with the National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA on the study of a downed spaceship retrieved from Roswell, New Mexico.

But there is much more to the job than Okun realized. Soon, he begins to suspect that a massive government cover-up has successfuly buried all evidence of alien visitation throughout the years–a cover-up in which Okun is now an unwilling participant. His perseverance leads him to the truth behind the studies at Area 51, the government’s fear of an alien invasion and a mysterious encounter in the Mexican desert at a place known as “La Manta de Silencia”: The Silent Zone.

Not a terrible book, much better written and laid out than the novelization of the movie, but it suffers from the obvious problem of being a prequel. We know that not much work was done on the alien space ship and we know that not much really happens to change the world that ID4 starts in. There’s a few good plot threads that held my attention, but this was clearly a test story to see if anyone actually cared about the universe. Luckily it did well enough to warrant a few more books in the series, which I’ll be consuming very quickly I think, as they’re all sequels and have some promise of furthering the story along.

August Humble Monthly Bundle

Disc Room (humble download only)
Call of Duty BO3 MP Starter Pack
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
The Jackbox Party Pack 2
Poi
Planet of the Eyes
Starward Rogue
Random Access Murder

Looks like it’s all crap again, this is two months in a row where they didn’t have a big headliner game, and they’re advertising “SOMA” as the next month’s headliner. Seems like this is turning into a big old waste of money.

Have you played any of these? Any of them any good?

For the Love of Spock

An examination of the enduring appeal of Leonard Nimoy and his portrayal of Spock in Star Trek (1966).

from Movies – 2Queue

A Blonde guy comes homes . . .

Q: A Blonde guy comes homes . . .

A:

from Tiki Humor www.tikiwebgroup.com/32005/a-blonde-guy-comes-homes/

Ghostbusters (2016) review

From director Paul Feig, GHOSTBUSTERS makes its long-awaited return starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon & Leslie Jones. –Amazon.com

There’s an elephant in the room with a a particular SJW/sexism/politically correct insanity twist, so let’s get that out of the way: This film is not one of those silly over the top “oh I can do it because I’m a girl” type movies. Their genders don’t matter, which is amazing considering how the film was marketed. The initial marketing was completely out of line with what the film ended up being. Actually, I take that back, the blurb above it from today’s version of the Amazon listing of the film, and it’s still completely wrong. The Ghostbusters do not return, there is no triumphant “hey we’ve been gone for 20 years, how’s it going” story line, in this film, they completely reboot the series and ignore the previous two movies. Not in a smart way like Star Trek (the old stuff is still there, just in an alternate dimension) or Star Wars (it’s all still there, but here’s a new story that looks exactly like our first story), but in a silly way that asks the audience to disregard years of hope and fandom. They had the opportunity to pull the same BS that Ghostbuster II did, where everyone just stopped believing in ghosts and these four new ghostbusters are the only ones that still believe, or independently find out about the ghosts among us. Oh well, opportunity missed.

Luckily, that’s the worst thing I can say about the movie. Humor and story are on par with Ghostbusters II, and the acting and special effects are about what you would expect from a summer blockbuster movie that deals with ghosts. That is to say, it’s all watchable once or twice but isn’t going to stand up to repeated viewings. Surprisingly though, I think I’d rather re-watch Ghostbusters (2016) than re-watch Independence Day: Resurgence. Additionally, the cameos were pretty weak, Billy Murrey’s being the worst and Ernie Hudson’s being the best. Dan Akroid’s was somewhere in the middle with just a touch of fourth wall breaking that I wasn’t exactly thrilled with.

At the end of the day, I suggest you check it out in theaters, they’ve set up a good universe with room to grow, and it was a good movie as long as you ignore the fact that there were previous movies. My favorite parts all included Slimer, not sure what that says about me or the movie.

Mimic Three Movie Set review

Cockroaches get re-engineered to save humanity, but will our meddling be the end of us all?

Why in god’s name did I watch all of these. The first one started the franchise out on the right foot, there’s a pseudo futurism element to it, the second one pretty much forgets they’re in the future and the third one just throws everything to the wind and just gives up on the future idea, or even the idea of going somewhere other than a single apartment.

Complete rubbish that’s pretty enjoyable if you’re into shlocky horror that has pretensions of science fiction.

High-Rise review

Tom Hiddleston stars as Dr. Laing, resident in a high-tech skyscraper which places him amongst the upper class. Life seems like paradise. But, as building flaws emerge the social strata begins to crumble and the building descends into a class war. –Amazon

Some very disappointing stuff in this movie. It has all the elements of a great film, but somehow threw them all over the place in the most random order possible, with some major pacing, story elements and design issues that make no sense to me at all. Hiddleston is supposed to be playing a character that’s lower/middle class that somehow gets elevated to the upper class. There’s violence, tall buildings, parties, Jeremy Irons, sex, rape, murder, and all sorts of pandemonium that unfortunately seemed more for titillation than for story telling. I was hoping for a “Mad Max / The Raid” type of movie and got something less than either of those movies ever sunk to. Skip it unless you want to see Hiddleston nakes, which was actually worth the price of admission for me

Lovelace review

Amanda Seyfried is Linda Lovelace in this true story about the girl-next-door who becomes the world’s first pornstar. –Amazon

Definitely not as salacious as I thought it was going to be, this one still turned out to be a depressingly titillating view into the early life of the first widely known pornographic actresses. Great acting all around, excellent film for a early Sunday morning.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) review

The extended cut of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” includes 30 more minutes of story and action not seen in theaters! Also includes the Theatrical Version of the film plus over 2 hours of bonus content. From director Zack Snyder comes “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” starring Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent in the characters’ first big-screen pairing. Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before. —Amazon.com

This is the fuller, more realized version of the film that was seen in theaters. It removes most of the ambiguity of the character’s motivations, and adds a fair bit more of Superman’s journey during the film. Skip the theatrical version, and let’s never speak of it again. The movie still has some major issue (crrrraaaazy Lexy!) but they make more sense than in the original version.

SHAVE

Finger

For the One Star voter- my biggest fan.  You know who you are!  LMFAO

Independence Day : Resurgence review

Amazon.com

This movie had a lot of issues, most of them stemming from the fact that 99% of the film was CGI, very very noticable CGI.  In scenes where you would think they could afford to just go on location and shoot, they choose CGI (the salt flats were CGI?).  All the jets, all the aliens, most of all the explosions…CGI. Couple that glaring situation with the plot that made a whole lot of zero sense at all.  A space ship comes from the dark, and the president only cares about a speech she’s going to give?

There was also a severe issue of pacing, lack of gravitas, and confusing narratives. There was only a single character that didn’t feel like they fell out of a horrible syfy box of horrible science fiction tropes, and that man’s name was Brent Spiner, who I know better as Data from Star Trek : The Next Generation.

I enjoyed the explosions, but this is a one time viewing movie, it hurts my brain too much to want to watch it again.

“The days go on and on… They don’t end.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHlprOQmB8

Longmire review

Amazon

I accidentally finished all the available episodes for this series over the weekend. I say accidentally because I honestly had no idea I was on the last episode until it was over and Netflix stopped giving me more to watch. Turns out there were only 4 seasons of around 10 episodes each, which is about half of what a normal tv series gets.

Another reason I finished them so quickly? This is a damned good series featuring a sheriff of a county out west with gorgeous mountains, forests and fields. The only reason I started watching it was because I finished Battlestar Galactica and looked up what Katie Sackoff was up to, turns out she was on Longmire playing a deputy. She’s great in the series, but that’s not to say she’s the only one that shines in this series, there’s a lot of good acting and a lot of good scripts here. The story plays through all four of the seasons too, so there’s no filler episodes to worry about.

Strongly recommend!

The Last Wave review

Richard Chamberlain stars as Australian lawyer David Burton, who takes on the defense of a group of aborigines accused of killing one of their own. He suspects the victim has been killed for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes his own involvement with the aborigines…and their prophecies.

Amazon

Reminds me in a tangentially interesting way of one of my most favorite movies of all time, The Quiet Earth. Unfortunately The Last Wave suffers from a huge dose of the Magical Native trope. It was a good glance into mid 1980’s Australia and what was concidered normal at the time and was well made, so if you’re in the mood for some heavy “end of the world” type of story with some side of casual racism/mysticism, this is the movie for you.

GALAK-Z game review

Prepare for the bar to be raised on deep-space 2D dog-fighting! GALAK-Z is a modern, A.I. and physics-driven open-world action game, viewed through the lens of the classic 16-bit space shooter. Powered by the next-generation Cyntient AI platform, GALAK-Z puts players in control of anime-inspired spacecraft inhabiting procedurally generated worlds.

In GALAK-Z both stealth and skill are required to defeat truly intelligent enemies. You will be forced to outsmart enemies that think, react and cooperate like seasoned pilots! Master your ship’s sublimely-honed controls as you blast enemies, unleash missile salvos, and even toss your opponents, mech-style, to their explosive demise.

Recently added, Arcade Mode lets you replay failed missions any number of times without losing all of your saved progress. Rogue Mode retains GALAK-Z’s original white-knuckle roguelike challenge that harkens back to the 16-bit era of gaming. Rogue mode will always be available if and when you’re looking to test your skill and bravery by putting everything on the line, every mission.

Players will be forced to outmaneuver, outgun and outsmart enemies that think, react and cooperate like seasoned pilots. Both stealth and skill are required to defeat enemy squads in a brutal game of cat and mouse. Prepare for an enemy that comes alive like never before!

Exclusive Guest Star: Juan from Guacamelee featured as an enemy unit in the game!
New The Void DLC w/ endless gameplay and Online Leaderboards and a Daily Challenge
ARCADE mode with per-Mission checkpoints
Procedurally-assembled levels
Physics based combat simulator!
Advanced enemy A.I for intense dogfights!
Scripted missions and ‘roguelite’ structure
Resource-based, progressive weapons system
Inspired by 70s / 80s anime and arcade shooters

Part Macross, part Voltron, part twin stick shooter, and an awesome soundtrack. I’ve played a few missions and by golly these sure were fun.

The Lobster review

Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, John C Reilly, Lea Seydoux, Michael Smiley and Ben Whishaw, THE LOBSTER is a darkly funny love story set in a near future where finding love is a matter of life or death…

According to the rules of The City, single people are arrested and then transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man (Farrell), escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

Amazon

This was a weird but great film. Wooden acting from everyone all around, but I get the sense that this was intentional and just part of a society that would turn it’s single people into animals if they don’t pick a mate. They never get into the science fiction side of the story, this is more of a character piece that’s making commentary on dating and marriage and what people will do to find someone to be in their lives.

The Goodies – The Movies

One of the greatest sorrows in my life is that The Goodies never made it to features like The Pythons. This is the closest they ever got, with a plethora of gags, many of them filched from classic silent comedies. The Goodies really knew their movie history. Watch Buster Keaton get the house front falling down gag from THEM and not the other way round. Note how they also influenced Aardman Films. Mr Bobo in The Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists also communicates with subtitles on boards like Bill does here, creating a perfect comedy ouroboros, with The Goodies being influenced by animation and animation being influenced by them.

As a side note, this is possibly funkier than The Funky Gibbon, and yes, I know it’s not Christmas. Bill genuinely loved funk and in every live performance they did, you can see he’s having the time of his life being a ‘pop star’, while the others seem a bit more uncertain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1386ytTjU

Tiki Asks : How many times have you moved in your life?

I’m about to hit the second longest time that I’ve ever lived in a single home.  The longest so far is when I moved from Massachusettes to Florida and lived in Pasco County from age 4 until I left for college at 18.  I then bounced around from college dorm to back home to college house to back home to college house, then moving every couple years until I bought my own place about 5 years ago.  I’m really starting to want to move again, but owning means that I’m either going to have to have a second mortgage or sell the one that I currently have, and with the market being what it is locally, I don’t think I’m going to be able to sell for any amount of profit.

Bleh.

So how many places have you lived?  Any interesting moving stories?

Tiki Wars

Rocky Movie Weekend review

I’ve never watched a Rocky film in my entire life, so I figured I’d give them a try. They were all good to not so good, but luckily none of them were down and out terrible. Even he worse one (3? yes, the third one was the worst) wasn’t a bad movie, just not the best Rocky film.

Rocky
Just a down on his luck bum trying to make something of his life, all while trying to get the attention of a mortally shy woman who works at the local pet store. Great story about going the distance and making the best of what life gives you.

Rocky II
That same down on his luck bum did what happens when you give a poor guy a lot of money, he went out and spent it all and got in a bad spot. Combine that with Apollo’s bruised ego and you get an amazing rematch that ends the way you would expect it to.

Rocky III
The weakest of the first three movies, this one has Mr T in it as a completely over the top caricature of some Kimbo Slice prototype. All he wants to do is kill Rocky in the ring and Rocky has to defend himself all while things are starting to fall apart around him in his personal life.

Rocky IV
TRAINING MONTAGE! Feels like half this film is Rocky and Drago(?) getting ready for their fight. The Russians using high tech and Rocky using a traditional log cabin / farm house. Sadly, this is the least believable of the four movies so far, and really points out that (in this movie at least) Rocky isn’t a great boxer, but he can take a ton of punishment. Additionally, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to believe that the Russian crowd would suddenly change their allegiance to Rocky when he started to be able to land some hits. Highlight of the film was the entrance of Apollo Creed to his exhibition fight against the Cold War superhuman.

Rocky V
Rocky retires then gets a pet project who then goes on to betray him and joins the dark side. It ends with a shitty assed street brawl that seems to forget the entire reason that Rocky’s retired. Also, I just realized, back in Rocky 2 or 3, they mention that he’s at rick of loosing his eye sight in one of his eyes from being beat up so often. Guess they’ve forgotten that by this movie, cause he has brain damage, but not the kind that actually hurts you, just the kind you have when you can’t get punched any more.

Which he does, repeatedly. Ugh.

Rocky Balboa
Going back to the idea that Rocky’s just a bum that doesn’t have much of a chance (brought to you by ESPN). The current heavy weight is watching ESPN, when ESPN mentions that ESPN has an ESPN computer that does hypothetical matches between two time separated heavy weight champions, all while you watch ESPN. Rocky hears about this too and wants to prove he’s not completely washed up.

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Creed
The illegitimate child of Apollo Creed keeps getting in fights, so he becomes a boxer. His mother is against this idea, but the kid wants to fights, so he seeks out the best boxer he knows of and gets Rocky to train him. Rocky isn’t he has anything left to offer the world and everything that he loved in the world has pretty much left him by this point. The Rocky movies have all been able to pull the heart strings, but holy hell this one really did a great job at it.

Conclusions?
Sylvester Stallone is one hell of an actor when he’s not playing some superman/punisher super hero. From the very first movie, he really gave a great performance as a guy that’s missed his chance and is given one more try at greatness. It’s a formula that they used for SEVEN movies, and not once did it feel like there was any pandering or anyone giving less than 100%. Sure, there were some serious time period tropes going on, but they never dipped into Ninja Raps. At worst, there were some Mullets and broken down cities.

Klingon Tatoos

the planets

they even included the bastard planet known as Pluto

Jem and the Holograms review

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This movie would have been a run of the mill girl power film that would have been received much better than it was, if only it weren’t named after the science fiction / musical tv series of the same name. The original tv series (for those you that didn’t watch it) revolved around a young woman that owned a controlling interest in a music label that had an AI living in her ear rings that could project music and holographic clothing. Jem and her friends went around the world experiencing musical hi-jinks, usually on opposite sides from their musical nemesis group, “The Misfits”.

Sadly, none of these key points were included in this new re-imagining of a well loved and treasured series. What they slapped the “Jem” name on is a adequately done girl power / family power movie that was done well enough, but didn’t really land ANY of the science fiction elements or the 80’s rock music that true fans were looking for in the franchise. Had they named this “Carla and Fam” I wouldn’t be panning it so thoroughly, it’s just mind boggling that they would look at the original series and put something like this out.

Jumper review

The science fiction thriller leaps to a new realm with Jumper, which begins the epic adventures of a man who discovers that he has the exhilarating ability to instantly teleport anywhere in the world he can imagine. From New York to Tokyo, from the ruins of Rome to the heart of the Saharan Desert, anywhere is possible for David Rice (Hayden Christensen), until he begins to see his freedom is not total, and that he’s not alone… but part of an ongoing, global war that threatens the very survival of his rare and extraordinary kind.

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I had a really low opinion of Hayden Christensen after the first couple Star Wars prequels, but this is the movie that showed me he’s actually a pretty capable actor. Additionally, this was the movie that I read an interview with the author of the books it’s based on and he said something to the effect of “I’m happy with the changes they made with the story, more people will buy the books now because of the wider exposure!”.

Then I went and bought the book. Then the sequel, the comics, the next book, some of his other books, and a few other things by him too, so I guess that proved his point.

The general public didn’t love this film as much as I do and that’s a shame, because it means we’re not going to get a sequel and the world is lessor for that.

Ender’s Game review

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Man, do I love this film, but I can’t tell if it’s because I loved the book so much when I was younger or if it’s actually a good film or not. There’s so much that they skipped over or changed, I really hope they get the opportunity to remake this into an HBO mini series. Maybe have some Arrow style flashbacks of his brother and sister taking over the known world while he’s out on his own doing his own thing?

The Return of the Trilogy Roadshow

www.joblo.com/movie-news/the-star-wars-original-trilogy-is-returning-to-theaters-this-summer-649

drafthouse.com/news/original-star-wars-trilogy-2016

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

The sequel to the Matthew Vaughn-directed film will see Taron Egerton’s Eggsy and Mark Strong’s Merlin heading to the United States, where they’ll find an American verison of their own organization, lead by a swaggering, sharpshooting cowboy.
Read more at www.comingsoon.net/movie/kingsman-the-golden-circle-2017#9EWrhqikgYmKi149.99