I promise

I do not intend to turn this wobsite into a repository for movie reviews, but I just saw an AWEMAZING movie and feel the need to share my opinion about it with my reader(s?)

The Movie: Cloverfield
Basic Premise: People in New York, some thing BAD happens.

I will not give any spoilers here other than the occasional Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone spoiler so no need to worry about me ruining the movie.

My expectations: I expected something best described as terrifying awesome.

Results:I got that, and so much more. This is the best new movie I have seen in some time.
Dark, action filled cinematic genius is dominant here, interspersed properly with "explosions" and comedic moments. I Loved this film, and I now consider it one of my all-time favorites, along with The Goonies and Unbreakable.

Score: = explosions
This movie is best described as Super-Ultra-Great. The ending is perfect. This movie joins the legacy of films that receive my whole-hearted admiration and recommendation.

And if I am not dead, I am still alive today.

Not just any post

It's a movie review!

First to explain my rating system.
It was originally inspired by this comic.
I have expanded the basic premise to suit my own tastes.
The idea is that a movie I really enjoy has the right amount of action sequences (from here referred to as explosions) interspersed throughout the plot. Note: a movie can be enjoyable without explosions, I just like 'em.

However, a movie can be overfull of explosions as well as being under explosive.

Furthermore, I do not guarantee any correlation between my opinions and anyone else's.

Ratings are as follows
-(x) explosions - needs approximately (x) more explosions
+(x) explosions - to many explosions by approximately (x)
= explosions - the correct amount of action, excellent movie
if |x|<1 good movie
else if |x|>3 disapointing
else if |x|>=5 I was not amused.

so, that mess out of the way
The Movie: Juno
Basic premise: leading female is pregnant!

So let it be known that I really enjoyed the film, but I did not expect to. I had heard good things, but my initial expectations were somewhat low. I expected a romantic comedy, or something similar.
What I got was a darkly comedic film that blew away all my expectations. The film is bursting with memorable characters and thoroughly quotable dialogue. I walked in the theatre expecting to kill an hour and a half with something marginally more entertaining than what I would have done otherwise. I got so much more, but the movie wasn't quite perfect, at least not in my opinion.

Score: -1 explosion.

The last word: I enjoyed the film, more than expected. It has my recommendation, but it does not quite join the hallowed halls of =explosion films.


And if I am not dead, I am still alive today.

I haven't posted recently, Here's why.

I've been on vacation, yeah... vacation.
Happy um.. New Year?
Now that it is the second of January we return to regularly scheduled posting.

Or at least what passes for regular posting

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Montage Experiment

So this is a test, of a pure text montage.

Depending on how it turns out this could become a regular feature.

First we need music, 

Imagine a sweeping orchestral ballad playing in the background. 

  If you have music playing please pause it, otherwise you would ruin the effect.

Fade in, a group of three dogs, two large black and brown, and a small grey schnauzer.

Cut to an empty suitcase sitting on a bed.

Fade in to some form of baked good with a coat of icing sitting in an oven. 

The music builds, and a rousing anthem begins to replace the ballad.

A quick succession of landscape shots, green hills and a few mountains interspersed with cars cattle, bridges, signs, and telephone poles, surrounded with a thin fog.

Suddenly slowing to a short series of pictures of buildings, slightly blurry as though taken with a shaky hand.

The series ends, a small house on a gravel lot.

Fade in a picture of a pizza.

The music builds higher, and a strong brass melody enters.

A shot of thick traffic on a road in the rain.

Fade in on a room full of people and fancy computers.

People standing outside a large building.

The music builds to a dramatic crescendo, a bright trumpet fanfare taking the lead.

A massive arena crowded with people.

A close shot of someone operating some large machine.

A quick shot of a group of people all cheering and shouting.

The music begins to die down, steadily returning to the original ballad.

Land scape shots again, very similar in nature to the first series.

A few more shots of epic sweeping landscapes.

A house on a hill, overlooking a lake.

The music fades out, and a small brass choir plays a chorale.

A final sequence of landscape shots, closing with a small city.

As the chorale comes to a close a Brick house is shown.

The house fades out as the last chord of the chorale is held.

And if i am not dead, I am still alive today.

  

3 in a month?

Is that a world record?
Nope.
Personal record?
Oh yeah.

So, here I am posting three times in a month, in fact, in less than seven days.

So yeah.

Penguins have projectile poop, just one more reason they are the best birds ever.

Thats pretty awesome.

And if I am not dead, I am still alive today.

Oh yeah!

Oh, so the previous tradition of twice a month posting?
Well I think thats over.

Since I have now met that goal for December in 3 Days.
So here's to new more frequent headwords.
New goal? Lets not make any commitments.

But I do know this, cold chin equals sad time.
It is true, sad time indeed.

But do you know what isn't sad time?
Silly Hats!

Prevent sadness, wear a silly hat!

And if I am not dead, I am still alive today.

Hey Check out this action!

Yeah, thats right, I did post on the first day of a month.

See I can do it, in fact I might start posting more than twice a month.

How you like them apples?! Huh?!

Well that's about it for now.

Kompressor does not dance.

And if I am not dead, I am still alive today.