Bro-mance????

last night, was a firday night with a difference for me, instead of the usual drinks and a night out, i opted for the more mellow and hangoverless night out at the movies!!!! after a couple flips of a coin the boys and i finally decided on a movie, I Love You, Man.........

effin hillarious!!!!

Paul Rudd, best known for marrying Phoebe in Friends and small roles in movies such as Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old, Night at the Musuem and more recently Role Models, finally gets his big break in this sweet, amusing and perfectly acceptable comedy, I Love You, Man. He stars alongside the big naked guy from Forgetting Sarah Marshal ,Jason Segel who plays the laidback, cheerful, owenwilson-ish and honest slacker Sydney Fife. Before I go into what the movie is about, I would just like to point out here, that Paul Rudd does and amazingly awesome job here, and its about time hes has his own movie after stealing scenes from all those other ones, he was perfect for this role and to me is the american hugh grant!!!

The movie is about Paul Rudds character, Peter Klaven, finding a best man for his wedding!!! The different thing about this movie is that, Peter is sorted when it comes to finding female companions but has no luck with male bonding and finding platonic male- love! So the movie goes, boy meets boy, boys bond over air-guitaring to Rush music, boys have pretty weird, almost bf and gf like, break up and then the inevitable make up!!! John Hamburg, director of Along Came Polly, does an amazing job with this movie, not only was his casting spot on, the way he wrote it was witty,intelligent and fine tuned. In the hands of another director, the movie could of steered to a more raunchy, akward and boring direction, but Hamburg, makes toasting a blow job at a dinner, infront of the whole family, funny and later on more serious (Peter and his fiance, the hotty from The Office, Rashida Jones, talk about issues in their sex life.) One thing i was sort of half expecting was some deep sort of revelation in the movie, i thought that Sydney, might actually not have any friends and be the one looking for friends himself and i also thought that Hamburg would make Jones's character (the fiance)more annoying and naggy!!!! instead of the supportive best fiance character she played. The movie was fresh and smart and Hamburg never let any joke overstay its welcome..........and i also like how it put romance in the background and concentrated on male friendships and also Peter's gay brother was not the usual tight t-shirted, flamingly annoying stereotype. also Peters voice imitations absolutely hollarious,was it jamaican or was that a leprechaun!!!!!! fu-nny!!!!

I Love You, Man is full of laughs, raunchy but serious, blokey comedy and a must see!!!!

X-men Origins: Wolverine.....riding the waves

What’s happening man? Today I did not attend any of my classes, or even enter the USP for that matter, but in my defence, since this blog is for my class assignment, and it is a blog on movie reviews, I didn’t watch a movie today, I was working on an assignment. My day kicked off at 7 this morning, thanks to my neighbour’s dog making it perfectly clear, that yes indeed, a dog’s bark is worse than its bite! After the very rude awakening, I got up and decided that I was not going to classes today, but instead take a “mental health” day off and watch a movie. I was in the city at around 9am and I have to admit, had quite the uneventful/normal day. It is now 7:45 pm I’m tired, hungry and in dying need for a beer, but that’s another story all together.
I came to realise many things today. One, that there is no decent place in Suva to get a good breakfast, unless you’re willing to sell and arm and a leg. Two, for some reason shop owners insist on chucking buckets of water out in front of their shop first thing in the morning and go about doing so, like it’s the most normal thing in the world and three village 6 only sells salty pop corn, what if I wanted some sweet pop corn or colourful ones?
But anyway, after a very horrible breakfast from this place in MHCC, cold water on my feet courtesy of that shop keeper in the little street alongside Jacks, I walked into Village 6, ordered a small box of very salty popcorn and a Kerri apple juice, then took my place in the very empty cinema 4 waiting on my movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine!
I am a huge fan of the X-men series, and it’s not because I had every single comic book when I was younger or, that I was the champion of the X-men game at FunScape or anything like that, it’s just that, and I say this on behalf of every other male species on this planet, Halle Berry in tights, is just too much, not be a fan of. To my understanding, there is an X-men, its sequel and a prequel and because all three movies were super successful, they decided to make even more money off us, by having spin-offs and I THINK (don’t take my word for this) but X-men Origins: Wolverine is actually the first of three.
Now the movie itself was great, but before I go on, I have to admit, I was one of those “eager-beavers” that could not wait for it to come out and got a copy of its un-edited and unfinished version and sat through the whole movie, laughing my ass off, at the strings and the very primary graphics! But like I said the movie was excellent, Hugh Jackman reprised his role as the wolverine (because he doesn’t age DOH!!), Scarlett Johanssens main squeeze “what’s his face” was in the movie as well, the cool guy from Friday Night Lights, the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.I.AM and a couple other famous people, made up an exceptionally well mashed cast that looked great on camera!
The plot of the movie is very interesting, it showed us who exactly the Wolverine is, how he got his name and from whom, how he loved and lost and loved and lost again, and then just lost his memory altogether. It introduced us to characters that were not included in the previous X-men instalments, like Gambit and Stryker and also developed Sabertooth’s character abit more than they did in X-men part 1. Graphics and special effects played a very important role in this movie, trust me, I saw the movie pre- touch ups and post- touch ups and the latter is definitely easier on the eye! Watching a three way battle between Wolverine, Sabertooth and Ryan Reynolds “Experiment 11” was off the hinges, amazing! The choreography involved in every move, could be appreciated by the trained as well as the untrained eye and, even the blind!!! I shit you not! But you have to see it for yourself to know what I’m going on about!
Another thing that sort of surprised me in this movie was the level of “darkness” in it. I mean, after The Batman’s the Dark Knight, raised the standards of what superhero movies should be (Incredible performance of the very evil Joker by the late Heath Ledgar), I don’t blame the producers of this movie, riding with the waves here and taking time to create a chance of a relationship between the audience and the usually, pre-assumed “evil” villains.
When I refer to the, level of darkness in this movie, what I mean is, that the makers of this movie are making us desensitise what are villain should be or actually is, by telling us why, the particular villain is evil. Take Sabertooth, for example, his character is one I think about 50 percent of the audience could relate to. He’s father died right in front of his eyes and he was forced to bring up the very person that was responsible for his death. On top of that, the person that killed his father was in fact, (insert Shortland Street or other dramatic theme here), his brother! Then to add insult to injury, he spends the rest of his life, trying to prove to people and others that played father figures in his life (Stryker) that he was just as good as his kid brother. Now, I don’t know about you, but the unhygienic Sabertooth, had it pretty rough. Dad dying at a young age and being on the losing end of sibling rivalries, not cool at all.
What I think the producers of this movie successfully got away with, was making villains in this movie, more relatable and sympathising to the audience by developing their character from a hub that can seem applicable to the audiences’ perception of reality, rather than the usual good old fashioned “I’m evil and I’m going to kill you, hate me for that” type of villain.
(Don’t take me too seriously here dude, I’m just babbling! and p.s if this makes sense to you, pat yourself on the back )
Anyway, enough of my BS, I have to get a beer! But if you do have the time, suss out this movie, it is excellent!!!!
My rating would be a 3.5 out of 5 and a “whole cinema experience” type of viewing, unless of course you do find a DVD copy that has been properly and fully edited already!
X-Men Origins: Wolverine..........LEGENDARY!!!!!!!

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TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic:
$153,486,284
55.5%
+ Foreign:
$123,056,170
44.5%
= Worldwide:
$276,542,454


DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend:
$85,058,003
(#1 rank, 4,099 theaters, $20,751 average)
% of Total Gross:
55.4%
> View All 3 Weekends
Widest Release:
4,102 theaters
In Release:
19 days / 2.7 weeks
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5. list of cast

Hugh Jackman
...
Logan / Wolverine

Liev Schreiber
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Victor Creed / Sabretooth

Danny Huston
...
William Stryker

Will i Am
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John Wraith

Lynn Collins
...
Kayla Silverfox

Kevin Durand
...
Frederick J. Dukes / The Blob

Dominic Monaghan
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Chris Bradley / Bolt

Taylor Kitsch
...
Remy LeBeau / Gambit

Daniel Henney
...
David North / Agent Zero

Ryan Reynolds
...
Wade Wilson

Scott Adkins
...
Weapon XI

Tim Pocock
...
Scott Summers
======================================================================= link to possible spin offs

http://screenrant.com/xmen-spinoffs-deadpool-storm-gambit-rogue-rob-7360/

if i were a superhero who would i be........?.......hmmmmmm

How’s it going man? So today, this post is dedicated to superheroes world over, as well as comic book geeks that just got an erection!

You know, growing up all I ever wanted to be was a superhero, I was convinced that superheroes can fly across the world in the blink of an eye, stop a train travelling faster than the speed of sound, dead in its tracks with their hands and best of all have an endless bevy of beauties throwing themselves at them everywhere they go. But u know what’s even worse, those superheroes that were already cool even before they got their abilities. I have thought of about 5 of these guys that definitely have it easy.

First off Peter Parker, or Spidey, ok sure he lives in a crappy apartment, has a crap job that pays shit, and is always under attack from the press, but just think about this, he gets to wake up next to everyone’s favourite “girl –next- door” Mary Jane Watson!

Next up Johnny Storm or Fantastic 4’s Human Torch, he grew up working on fast cars and motorcycles and has probably been through more chicks then a KFC processing plant. All this before he could even “flame on!!!”
Next up is Bruce Wayne or the Batman, he had a rich and pampered life that would make a princess jealous, he lives in a mansion, has a multi- billion dollar corporation, and in all the batman movies I’ve seen, he never has to work for his money!

Next up is Tony Stark or Iron Man, let me just put it this way, he makes Batman look like a little bitch. He’s richer and has seen more supermodel ass then a toilet seat at a supermodel convention, but you know what he always has a steel plated wedgie!!

And by far the coolest superhero before he even got his superhero abilities has to be Reed Richards or the front man for Fantastic 4. He’s a super smart scientist, and not the mad kind, and even though he may not be the richest on my list and may even be a bigger geek then Spiderman’s alter ego, he is number one on my list, because every day he gets to go home to the super hot, Jessica Alba, I now understand why they call him Mr. Fantastic

this is the Oscars right?????

Ok so every film is made with the hopes of 2 things, making a truck load of money and getting an Oscar nomination. This post will not be about movies that have been nominated for an Oscar of 3 (The Reader) it will however be about 6 of the craziest moments, caught live on television, that ever went down at the Oscars.......

1. In the year 1995, the usually funny David Letterman hosted the Oscars and made a complete fool of himself when he introduced Uma Thurman to Oprah Winfrey. He was like, Uma Oprah, Oprah Uma, Uma Oprah, Oprah Uma, and kept at this until the cameras had to cut to commercial because producers of the show realised that David Letterman, was getting a case of the nerves. That and the crowd started booing him! SHAME!

2. In the year 1985, Sally Field (the lady that played the mom on the show Brothers and Sisters and you probably may know her as Robin Williams’ Miss Doubtfire’s Wife) uttered out those 7 infamous words, that made her publicists want to enrol her in self esteem seminars – “You like me, you really like me”. No Sally Field, we really don’t!

3. Who could forget Adrien Brody’s acceptance speech in 2003, for The Pianist, when he strolled right up to Halle Berry, who was presenting the award, wrapped his arms around her and started French kissing the shit out of her........guyse the Oscar, he just made out with Storm! NICE!!!

4. This spot belongs to the very “confident” Jack Palance, at the 1992 Oscars, he proved to the world that you don’t have to be old and weak when he got down on the stage and did not 1 but 3 one armed push ups! If you ask me that Gillette he used was probably made in a nuclear plant, damn! A 400 year old man doing one armed push ups! What next the guy with the nose from the pianist hooking up with Halle Berry...................wait a minute!!!

5. Is when David Niven, the British Actor, got streaked at the 1974 Oscars, by a dude wearing nothing else but a porn star moustache!!!! And as if the whole thing was planned, David turned ever- so- casually around back to the audience and said “ Poor chap, isn’t it fascinating that the only way that man will ever get laughs in his life is by stripping down and showing his short comings”....CLASSIC!!!!

6. And the craziest thing that has ever happened at the Oscars belongs to none other than, the man himself Marlon Brando of the God Father. Not only did he refuse to receive his Oscar, he sent up this chick dressed as an American- Indian in a 50’s western movie to tell the people, the reason he didn’t want to receive the Oscar was because he was embarrassed about the way the film industry was treating American Indians......fair on.......BUT, it turned out later that the chick who was dressed up as an American Indian was actually a Mexican “adult- film” star and that both her and him were stoned out of their heads and high on every other imaginable drug available during the Oscars......EFFORT!!!!!!

for any guy forced to watch a chick flick!!!

Hey guys, so what’s happening man? This is post is actually for any guy that has ever been forced to watch a chick flick, usually in the hopes of scoring, during or after that movie, what you are about to read, might surprise you. Funny thing, I was online earlier looking for something to talk to you guys about when I came across this pretty “interesting” article that was written by this famous female historian from the prestigious Oxford University. It was a really really long article, don’t worry I won’t bore with all the details, but I have to admit, it did get me thinking. The article stated that, 90 percent of every film that is written and directed in Hollywood is done so by men. Even if it is a chick- flick. Now if you still don’t catch my drift, let me put it very simply for you. A majority of chick- flicks that you have been “forced” to sit through, are actually accounts of what a male perceives a woman as being!! Which got me thinking, why exactly are guys so pissed off or embarrassed to watch a chick flick with their girlfriends, is it because, it’s expected that men are suppose to kick up a fuss when it comes to the date nights that has the girlfriend, choosing the movie, or is it because, subconsciously, you and me, really love our girlfriends and don’t want any other guy, especially someone we don’t know, putting our girlfriends into categories that we don’t find attractive in members of the opposite sex......I know it might be abit of a stretch, but I mean, just think about it. We hate girls that are clingy, shallow, obsessive, and dumb and stalker- ish. For example in the movies Bridewars and Confessions of a Shopaholic, lead female characters in them were weight obsessed, label obsessed, man obsessed and wedding obsessed!! In the movies Confessions of a Shopaholic, Isla Fisher, plays a wanabe fashionista who lives for designer clothes and would happily fight to the death (300 style) for a pair of Gucci boots going on sale..........Obsessive and shallow trait in females we hate –CHECK!..... Other movies like He’s Just Not That into You (HJNTITY) are about women overly desperate for commitment from the men in their lives.......Obsessive and clingy trait- DOUBLE CHECK! In the movie All About Steve, Sandra Bullock plays a stalker who chases her one night stand across the country in the hopes that they will get married........Dumb, stalker-ish and obsessive trait in women we hate –TRIPLE CHECK!......now I could go on and on and on about all these other films that paint women in a negative picture (which they probably don’t intend to do), but I won’t. However I will leave you with this to think about. Next time your girlfriend wants you to watch a chick flick with her, you could either;

1. Let her know that you like her too much to have some fool of a “profit- driven- producer”, make her look bad and explain this whole blog post to her. Now doing this can get you out of that 3 hours from hell and you will definitely give her the impression that you “treasure” her dearly. (Which will inevitably score you some points) or you could

2. Spend some time doing what she wants to do while having a huge smile on your face for 2 reasons, one being, you know that your girlfriend will appreciate you not acting like all her friends boyfriends and kicking up a fuss about watching a chick- flick and two, knowing the fact that you know, the first reason for smiling, and that your girlfriend will probably REALLY make it up to you........both ways you’re a happy man!!!

So there you have it, trustworthy evidence that chick flicks are good for two things:

1. Painting women in a negative picture and

2. Definitely putting a “smile on your face” after the date night.....or if you’re really really lucky, twice that night!

kate winslet in the nude!!!!!!! need i say more?

now i managed to watch this movie, courtesy of our friendly neybrhood bootleg dvd shop, its called the reader and it won heaps and heaps of awards. it starrs kate winslet and is directed by the same guy that brot us the hours.......i wont gve away too much about this movie, but its abt a 15 year old boy that develops a relatonship with a woman twice his age, played by kate winslet........now this 2 are together for a whle and then all of a sudden she dissapears, the movie then fastforwards 8 years later, the boy is now 23 and a succesful lawyer hu specializes in nazi war trials..........he then meets his former lover, akte winslet, hu is now on trial for murder........if u thot the whole movie was about a 30 year old and a 15 year old getting togethr.....(well it kinda is)......not quiet, bcoz it turns out that kate winslet is guarding a terrible secret she has from way bak wen and the nazis ruled germany............dude trust this me this movie is something that will blow ur mind, its pakd with unexpected twists and even tho the movie is abt slow, its worth th watch.....plus you get to see kate winslets bossom.......so if u do have time chek out the reader.........its good......

links- http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/film-nominations-in-2009,657,BA.html

a must see - 3.8 out of 5.......Slumdog Millionaire

now the other day I watched slumdog millionaire AGAIN and i have to tell u dude, this movie is great, I’ll probably give it a 3.8 out of 5...the cast was made up of relative un known actors except for bollywoods Irfan Khan.......and the movie told the story of Jamal,. a street kid or a slum dog and how he gets his big break on the hit tv game show who wants to be a millionaire...........anyway Jamal ends up doing really well on the show, which gets the producers of the show abit suspicious and then the cops are involved, and the thing I like about this movie is the way the British director tells the story...........he uses flash backs that show the terrible poverty in Mumbai and how Jamal, the street kid, deals it and how he knows the answers to the millionaire questions........i know it might sound a bit boring, but trust me mates it’s a really really powerful movie...........so if u have the time.......suss it out k....it’s called slumdog millionaire and I highly recommend it, and if my word isn’t good enough and you have been living under a rock, slumdog millionaire won a truckload of awards at the Oscars and Golden Globes and all other movie awards.........

links - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/awards