Posted 21:06 by Grote 0 comments

New Link

If you look to the left a bit, you'll see I added a new link to the Links area. So if you were curious what I'm filling my head with these days, now you'll know. I'll provide a link to the book in question to Amazon.com and you can get more info about the book. If the book is really good I'll probably post a review telling you that if you haven't read this book, you probably should. If you have a suggestion for a book, please feel free to e-mail me.

Posted 19:31 by Grote 0 comments

Me saw Hulk

Hulk... was Hulk. Let me first say the CGI Hulk was believable and when Hulk went smashing, Hulk was good. But I have to say the movie took forever to get its legs and get the plot going. I felt like I was Sisyphus trying to push the movie up the hill we call an origin story, which they tweaked a little. Once it got going it got good, Hulk smashed, told the not-so good guy he wouldn't like him when he got angry. His dad's kinda crazy/evil too, in a chaotic neutral sense. Not having read many Hulk comics I can't compare one to the other but I'm told for the most part the movie stays mostly true to the comic. Really I think that was my only problem with the movie, not lack of plot but almost too much of it. Betty Ross had some unknown angst with her Father, Bruce had some major but somewhat believable angst (otherwise no Hulk). Bruce and Betty have angst with each other since she dumped him before the movie began for beinging emotionally distant. (Irony!) The comic book borders were kinda neat showing you different perspectives of the same scene it was a gamble and for my money, it worked. If you're going to see this, don't expect a Spider-Man or an X-Men type movie. This is more of a drama movie and to steal a line from Sinister Urge, this is a movie about people talk to each other with one of them turning big and green and smashing things. All in all, see this movie, but see it on a matinee, dollar theater, or rental.

**3/4

Posted 10:38 by Grote 0 comments

New Battlestar Galactica

The SciFi Channel is making a re-make of the classic 70s TV show. Only one small problem: Lt. Starbuck is FEMALE! Now, I'm sure the woman is a fine actor and all (wait this is a SciFi channel production... scratch that) but c'mon, don't ruin my childhood like George Lucas has! After doin some searching of the show's page I found this reason for the sex change. Great. Thanks. Does this mean if he (Apollo) pisses her off she's not gonna shoot down that Cylon that's about to vaporize his ass? Bastards. First Mystery Science Theater goes bye-bye, then Farscape, now this. All in favor of shooting the head of Sci-Fi and putting someon in charge who *knows* Science Ficton? Motion passed.

Posted 09:42 by Grote 0 comments

Sign up now!

No, I'm not selling something. I'm actually informing you of the NATIONAL do not call list. Go here and sign up your land line and your cell phone and any other number you can think of. If you're like me, and I know I am, I hate interrupting my video game or movie enjoyment to tell a telemarketer to go bugger himself. Obviously there will be some exceptions; pollsters (although I've never been polled), non-for-profit organizations, your phone company and any company you've done business with in the last 18 months. Once you sign up, telemarketers have 3 months to become compliant. After that you can report that company to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and that company can be fined up to $10,000 per offense. It went into effect last night according to the President's statement, they've been registering 108 people per second. Neat. That loud cursing sound will be telemarketers after they realize they can only call 5 people in the country.

Posted 20:58 by Grote 0 comments

The coolest commercial you'll never see...

That is of course unless you right-click(and choose save-as) here or click here to be taken to the multimedia site for Honda UK. 606 takes to get this thing right. NO CGI was used. The reason you'll never see it? The car is only available in the UK. You can read more about the commercial from Snopes.com in this article, and in this article, from MSNBC

Posted 21:50 by Grote 0 comments

Tasteless website of the indeterminate time period

Need to fill out a "death pool" at work? Having an argument over whether or not J.D. Salinger is dead? (He's not by the way) How about Donald Pleasance? (Yep.) Then your search is over! Presenting: whoisaliveandwhoisdead.com pretty catchy eh? They've got listings for just nearly every category you can think of. There's a little icon on the right to alert you that a person is "80+" to give you that extra edge in your death pool. For those who don't know a death pool is a tasteless game where you put x number of dollars in a pool and pick three names of celebrities who you think are going to die between now and the end of the year. If you're the "lucky" person to have those three celebrities die first then you win the pool.

Posted 18:11 by Grote 0 comments

Today is my birthday

I turn 26 today. Older? Yes. Wiser? Probably not. Click here to see who I share a birthday with...

Upcoming movie news/rants

New Punisher Teaser Trailer is up you can find it here. One question that all you comic-philes out there can answer for me: Why the heck would you wear a big-ass bright white skull on the front of your chest?? I know there's the intimidation factor and all, unless the Punisher is immortal. Is he?


Well, it was only a matter of time. They're making a movie about 9/11. The kicker? The guy who played Dubya (Timothy Bottoms) on "That's My Bush!" is going to play Dubya in the new movie(s). I put the possible plural there for a good reason. According to the IMDb, there are two 9/11 movies being made. With the same cast no less! They are titled: The Big Dance and DC 9/11. Seriously though do we need any hollywood movies about this yet? I still get a little choked up when I see the planes slam into the buildings. I taped the 9/11 special (the one filmed by the French documentary company, shown on CBS) months ago and haven't had the guts to watch it. Hollywood had the good sense to wait 30 years after Pearl Harbor to make a movie about it. Let's take a step back and take a deep breath for a decade or so.


Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a new writer-director attached to it... good luck Garth Jennings, whoever you are. Party on Garth! ( What? It needed to be said...)


Dude Where's My Batmobile? will probably be the title of the next Batman movie now that Ashton Kutcher is attached to play the caped crusader. But let's pray that bastion of news, E! online is wrong(second article down).


If you haven't read Jim's rant about LXG, The League and/or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Do so. All I have to say about this steaming dog turd is I'll see it in the Dollar Saver Theater if at all.


T3: um... Pass.


Last but not least, I'll probably go see Hulk tonight. I'll try to post a review later.

Posted 16:59 by Grote 0 comments

My suspicions realized -or- why I won't buy Star Wars galaxies

For those who don't know, Star Wars Galaxies is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORG). You can create a character and go into the Star Wars universe and go nuts. I'm usually against MMORGs in general, (I don't believe paying $50 for a game then paying $10 monthly for the right to play said game) but while browsing Penny Arcade today I ran across this review (You'll have to scroll down a bit to read the review cleverly titled "SWG"). Anyway read the (p)review and make your own judgement.

Posted 23:50 by Grote 0 comments

Its the game that's not just for prisons anymore......

So I'm at a graduation party today and they get these two ramps out, each have a hole in them. A couple of my female cousins announce to the party that they're going to play "Cornhole". At this point I got scared. Was my family about to become an honorary Kentucky Family? (We *were* in a suburb of Cincinnati so its pretty close....) Was I hearing banjos? I began to search the area for usable weapons. But no worry, thankfully, apparently this game is of Cincinnati origin much like Jarts and Horseshoes but for kiddies. If only because Jarts and Horseshoes are deadly. By the way I did do a google search for cornhole (without the "game" qualifier on it...) Look at your own risk....
Just don't get me started on the whole Government banning Jarts thing....

Posted 11:58 by Grote 0 comments

Bush to be third President to be impeached?

It's possible if those Weapons of Mass Destruction don't turn up soon. As this article states, "if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked." Bush is overdue for a scandal he's dodged the Enron thing and really the only other scandal is his daughters can't stay out of trouble. Nothing will happen until after the 2004 elections, that is if anything happens. We could find tons of WMDs tomorrow. However if nothing is found and Bush is re-elected and the Democrats re-take Congress (one somewhat likely scenario and two very likely scenarios) then maybe more talk will come of this...

Posted 17:51 by Grote 0 comments

I pity the fool!

Presenting the Mr. T'inator! He can turn any site into a site run by Mr. T! For example let's take Mr. Jim's website Strange Interlude, we just work a little hocus-pocus and presenting an improved website (not that it needed improving). Or CNN.com or even Star Wars.....