Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Top 10 Movies of 2011 (January thru June)

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     Top 10 Movies Of 2011 
    (January thru June)
    (As told through my opinion on movies I've seen.)

10.


Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston make a great pair in
this comedy about a guy that would do anything to try and 
get the, who he thinks, is the lady of his dreams.  The
trailers for this movie did not do it justice in the comedy
department.  Definite must see for any Adam Sandler
and comedy fans.

9.


Between Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, 
Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, and the rest of the 
star-studded cast, this movie was pretty much a must see.
Fast Five was filled with excitement, anticipation, twists,
and turns (some of which were unpredictable).  Even if
your not a car enthusiast, such as myself, try to watch.
You might just be surprised.

8.


Most of the time sequels aren't as good as the originals.
That is why I'm still watching the original.  This is a prime
example of too much hype.  Was the movie funny?  Absolutely.
Was it as funny as the original?  Absolutely not.  I cried of
laughter, but not at as many parts as the first.  Still a really
funny movie.  I couldn't imagine anyone else in these
roles now.

7.


This movie actually surprised me.  I thought it was going
to be a complete dud when it came out in movies.  After
watching it at home though, I had to watch it again.  I was 
expecting a low budget "why did you put this on screen"
type of movie, but it wasn't like that at all.

6.


Went to the outdoor movies to see this.  It came on second
after Sucker Punch.  I thought this movie would put me to sleep,
but it did the opposite.  Granted this movie doesn't remind me
much of the story I was told when I was little, but the movie
was well put together.  Watch the movie you won't be
disappointed.  Try to guess who the werewolf is too.
Good luck.

5.


This movie was much better then I ever would have 
thought it was.  A child who was raised in the woods
of Finland by her ex-CIA father makes for a compelling
storyline to me.  Don't forget that she was raised to be a
killer not a video game player.  Eric Bana was a perfect
fit to play the father.

4.


Vince Vaughn and Kevin James in the same movie?  This
was certainly the funniest movie of the half year for me so
far.  These two have great chemistry together.  Surely I 
wouldn't mind seeing more movies involving these two.
The plot of having to contemplate telling someone
you care for very much is a compelling storyline.

3.


How often is there a series of movies made that continue
to be great each and every film?  We're lucky enough
to have two series.  One in Harry Potter and another
in Pirates of the Caribbean.  Orlando Bloom and 
Keira Knightley were missed, but everyone involved still
pulled a great movie out of their butts.  A definite must see
for any movie fans.  Pr anyone thats ever been on the ride
in Disney.  Either one.

2.


This movie was a big surprise to me.  It was a tailor-made role
for Matthew McConaughey.  An unbeatable defense
attorney is faced with having to defended someone that he
knows is guilty.  Check this movie out.  Your'll hopefully be
as happily surprised as I was (even after putting it off for 
a few months).


1.


Limitless wasn't even on my radar.  Check the movies that
were playing one day, and there wasn't really any movies
that stood out to see.  So my girlfriend and I checked out the
trailer for this movie and it seemed to be good.  The trailer
didn't even show the greatest parts of the movie.  This is one
of those movies that I would have paid to see in the movies
again.  Let alone buy it when it comes out.  Paul Bradley
redefined himself as an actor to me.  No longer is he The
Hangover guy, but he is the Limitless guy.

Other movies I enjoyed:

The Mechanic, I Am Number Four, Drive Angry, Insidious,
Sucker Punch, Thor

*There are a ton of other movies that I have yet to watch, but
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Top 10 Pet Peeves

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     Top 10 Pet Peeves
(as told through my opinion)

10.
Obnoxious Ringtones In Public
(Waiting in line to checkout and the person's phone next 
to you goes off with the Geico Insurance ringtone.  Really?)


9.
Parents Who Plead With Their Children
(Learn to deal with the whining, and punish
the child for pete sakes woosies.)


8.
Stretched Out Sleeves And/Or T-Shirt Necklines
(Walking around with sleeves that are 2 times
too big or a neckline that can fit another
person in there with you.)


7.
Pants On Men That Are Too Short
(Their called capris, and their sold in
the women's section.  Which means their
for women.)


6.
Pants On Men That Are Too Tight
(You and my sister have something in 
common,  she tap dance too.)


5.
Shopping Carts With A Bad Wheel
(I don't want to use the shelves as
bumpers.  I'm shopping not bowling.)


4.
When You Score A Goal On Yourself In Fooseball
(Who hasn't done this?  And we're all human so I'm sure
we all feel dumber then dumb when this happens.)


3.
No Towels Left In The Bathroom
(Who wants to go take a shower at 7am, only
to find there are no showers from the last person
the day before?)


2.
Tailgaters
(There's never a cop around when you need one,
but when you do it their right there.  Just want to slam on
my brakes)


1.
Empty Toilet Paper Roll Left On Holder
(You can't turn around or go under the sink
to put a new roll on?!?!?)


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Friday, July 22, 2011

Make Up Your Mind!

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    There was this one time, and many other times, when I made plans to do stuff with friends.  I'd get all excited to do what we had planned, and the day comes to hang out, and I get the door slammed in my face!  Not literally, but figuratively.  Thank goodness because that would hurt a lot, I think.  Has this ever happened to you?  I'm so sure that I'm willing to bet the 24 bottles of water I just bought that I was planning on drinking to keep me hydrated in this African heat (give me Alaskan heat!).  If this has never happened to you, then chances are your the d-bag thats actually doing this to people.

     Ever wonder what's going through peoples minds before they f you over?  I've found the answer to this long lost question.  You ready for this?  Stupidity, and wanting to only please themselves.  No one should ever cancel on someone if they've already finalized plans.  It's understandable if something comes up.  For example, your car breaking down, sickness with you or a family member, family is going away so you have to watch the pets, etc.  Stuff like that.  Nothing like, someone else invited me to do something better so I'm going to go with them, or the person that I hated last week wants to hang out and make up so I'm going to go with them.  

     The best ones are when your plans actually went through, and your hanging out, and someone can't make their mind up on what they want to do.  Let's do this!  No let's do that!  Not back to this!  How about that?!  Come on.  We are our own people.  Just because you can't make up your mind, doesn't mean we can't make up ours!  If one of the suggestions sounded good, and we planned on doing it.  Then you changed your mind.  Well guess what, to bad I'm still doing the plan that sounded good to me.  News flash: The world does not revolve around you.  There are other people that have opinions and want to do stuff too.

     Personally, I'm the type of person that'll point out all of this to you.  Better yet, after I point all of this out to you, I will promise to do it back to you just so you know how it feels.  No timeline will be given.  Sorry an eye for an eye.  Especially if this person has don this a lot of times.  No one should ever feel bad for telling someone the truth especially if what they do hurts you!  Lets just hope that no one else asked you to do something good for that day before this person decided to "cancel" on you.  That hurts the most.  When you had the same opportunity as them, and didn't take it.  To all the last second mind changers out there that think their the greatest thing since slice bread.  News flash, karma.


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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Nice Headlights

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     Imagine being blinded by someone's stupidity, being unable to see, and a dear suddenly leaps into your cars lap?  "Shut them off @#!$ @%&# %^~!@ $@^&," is usually my exact words when I'm driving along at nice and some d-bag decides to leave his high beams on while he's coming the opposite direction.  Really?  You don't see me chugging along in my awesome Jeep?  You this blind or do you think your the hottest thing since this weather.  On a side not this weather is brutal lately. Anyways the high beams were invented back when some guy was thinking to himself, "I need to be able to see at night.  So let me create these headlights so people can see at night."  Good thing he did otherwise we wouldn't be able to see at night (I bet you love when I say the same phrase in consecutive sentences).

     I've got a solution to this.  It may just be a little bad to the bone or rebellious (as I been told), but when I'm driving along, and some inconsiderate person is shining their bright blue high beams (or any high beams) at me, I turn mine on right back.  It only makes sense!  If I am unable to see where I'm going,  I'm going to help you out with the matter at hand too.  Surely this technique is common sense to hopefully every, but there are a lot of people in this world (let alone my area of living) that do this.  

     People that have authority have to be the worst.  Driving around in their world wide known cars, with such words as "Police" or "Ambulance" on the side.  If your chasing someone down and/or have your lights flashing that's one thing, but just because you think your the man (or woman) doesn't mean that people aren't cursing you out.  I still do it to these people because you can't tell who it is until they get close anyway.  Your not the only people trying (and use that word very loosely) to drive on the road Mr. Cool People.  

     Somebody should really come up with a sensor.  A sensor on a vehicle that "realizes" that there is another form of light coming at them, so the high beams would be automatically downgraded to low beams.  Not a bad idea right?  They have sensors to "help" you parallel park.  So come on people that design these moving objects!  Please.  Do it for the little people that do rebellious style stuff that could get themselves in trouble if they do it to the wrong people.


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200!

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     I know it isn't a lot, realistically, but I reached over 200 page views yesterday!  It's probably all from the same 5 people though.  Just playing with you.  To me though, that's a lot, considering I just starting posting my thoughts 2 weeks ago tomorrow.  I apologize for not writing much, but, unfortunately, not so good things have been coming up every time the thought to post comes to mind.  Leave your comments about your own opinion on what I write about, or give me something to write about.  Thanks for reading! 



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Monday, July 18, 2011

Harry Potter? Of all movies.

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     Honestly, back in 2007 when the first Harry Potter ( Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ) came out, I thought that the movie would mount to nothing, be a fad, a one hit wonder.  Boy was I wrong.  I'm not a huge fan of the series, but I'm also not a huge hater.  With this movie, I drink neither the hatorade nor the kool aid.  Looking over the statistics from this past weekends opening of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows 2".  This movie, I can safely say, beat the heck out of "Horrible Bosses".  Yes, that's the movie I went and saw with my girlfriend.  I enjoy comedies more, but don't get me wrong I say "Lets go see Harry Potter," and she says "No."  Which obviously means I'd do anything for her.  Lets look over what happened this past weekend though, sha'll we?

     Before I give out any stats, I'd just like to point out that these gigantic numbers make me sick. I wouldn't know what to do with so much money.  Not that the actors get it all, but just imagine the percentage that they receive, and this is just the first weekend!  I'm sure it'll be playing down in Disney for months.  These numbers are NEW records for the U.S. and Canada combined:

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• Opening Weekend - $169,189,427
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• Opening Weekend - IMAX - $15,500,000
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• Single Day -  $91,071,119
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• Widest 3D Launch - 3,100 Locations
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• Highest Gross in Advanced Ticket Sales - $32,000,000
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• Biggest Midnight Release - $43,500,000
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• Biggest IMAX Midnight Release - $2,000,000
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• Highest 3-Day Gross - $169,189.427
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• Fastest to $100 Million - 2 days
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• Fastest to $150 Million - 3 days
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These are new international AND global box-office records:

• Opening Weekend - $481,489,427
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• Opening Weekend Foreign - $312,300,000
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• Opening Weekend United Kingdom - $36,000,000
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• Opening Weekend Australia - $26,700,000
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• Highest Grossing Worldwide IMAX Release - $23,500,000
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     Personally, I will never look at them numbers again because of high grossly high they are.  I could never imagine being one those actors, and watching their stock rise, or watching that money rolling in.  What to do with all that money and fame, I wouldn't know.  I'm excited to see what they do though.  Hopefully they retire, and follow that little green line that you get when you join Fidelity Investments.  I want a green line.  In all seriousness though, no one deserves that much money.  Wether its going to the people that made the movie (actors, actress, directors, screen writers) or the company.  No one, but the average joe needs that kind of money.  Give me a cool 500,000 and leave it up to me to multiply it.  I'm good with that.  Would you be?  Congratulations though Harry Potter.  Maybe one day I'll watch you, and see what all the hype was about.


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Friday, July 15, 2011

Can You One Up The One Upper?

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     Today I've been dwelling on a certain class of annoying people.  Actually ever since my girlfriends dad bought up a story about his friend who is a one upper, I've been thinking about this.  Only because I've personally met or known a few of these people. Let me start off by asking if you even know what a one upper is.  If you don't, let me quote Urban Dictionary 's definition (since a) it's funny and b) they make it so simple to understand that a dumbass can understand it) a one upper is "An annoying person who responds to hearing someone else's experience or problem by immediately telling a similar story about themselves with a much more fantastic (or terrible) outcome".

     If you still don't get what this kind of personality disorder is I am personally sorry.  Go google the term.  Anyways, back on track.  I've always wondered how this horrible trait in a person even comes to be.  Is it in someone's dna?  Does the person learn it from a parent who does it overtime?  Are they lying?  Just want attention?  Or is the story actually accurate, and they decided to tell the story right after your story so their story (yeah that's right I just said story 3 times in a sentence) doesn't disappear from their thin skulls?  For some reason I'm going to for with the first 50 I suggested opposed to the last one.

     To me the worst are sports fan, because no matter how much you like to think you know about a player or a team, that person seems to miraculously know more.  As if this certain someone studied f*cking espn.com knowing that you were going to have a "conversation" on that sports topic.  How about while playing video games, not only is he killing you, but he talks about the ways that he is killing you, and everyone else!  Like he studied the guide before he came over and demolished you.  I'm sure girls are bad in this way too.  Especially when they have a boyfriend.  OMG my boy toy got me this.  OMG my boyfriend got me that.  OMG my boyfriend has lots of money, and we're almost married even though we only been together for 5 hours.

     There are way too many scenarios to talk about on this subject.  Real fast I can't forget to throw a shout out to the public stranger one upper who you have no idea who the person is or that they even existed, and suddenly their chiming in on your conversation.  I'm sure we all just want to slap them, and tell them to go dig a whole and stay in it till they learn to control themselves.  Tell next time people, listen out for one uppers.  Laugh at one uppers.  And slap them around until they get the point that they are annoying as f*ck.  Thank you and good night.


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lady Gaga + Wheelchair = Stop Being So Sensitive

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     I can't believe what I heard this morning on my way to work.  Z-100 was talking about how Lady Gaga had a great concert in the down under of Sydney, Australia, when they suddenly said something that was like an explosion of rants going off in my head.  Miss Gaga came out to perform "You and I" dressed as a mermaid while popping wheelies (just kidding) in a wheelchair!  Then they preceded to talk about how some people were really offended by this.  Supposedly people were so upset over this that, while at a night club after the concert, her entourage (by the way great show, Ari Gold is the man) were having eggs thrown at them.  Yes people I said it.  Eggs.

     I am one on the side of the people that really don't care.  It may be because I've never had to be in a wheelchair, let alone have to live in one, that I really do not feel a strong opinion in favor of being mad at her for this.  Personally, I see this as a, this is just Lady Gaga being Lady Gaga.  Exactly like, for us sports fans, Manny being Manny or Lebron being Lebron (a.k.a just acting like dumb asses a.k.a. not using any brain cells).  She's just one of those one uppers.  If another performer is in the news for any reason, she has to one up their reason with an even bigger reason of her own.  

     Eight surgeries I've had on my lower tailbone region.  When people go around calling me an ass, I don't get upset at them for referencing the word ass (I know what your thinking, nothing as demoralizing) .  Or better yet, we teach sign language in schools, but shouldn't that be insulting to the hard of hearing cause the non-hard of hearing people are learning something thats mean for the hard of hearing?  I'm almost 100% sure that makes no sense to anyone but myself.  Still don't see how this is such a terrible thing considering she didn't say anything nasty about people that need wheelchairs.  

     Ever going to a Walmart or A&P or someplace that has them motorized carts, where people sit in and scoot around (I can't remember the name right now and don't judge me cause I'm sure you have brain farts sometime), and scoot around in them yourself even though nothing is wrong with you (if there's something "wrong with you then I'm not talking to you)?  Same thing people!  Or parking in a handicapped spot when your not handicapped (that one pisses me the f off though).  I'm sure your sitting there thinking of 999,999,999 other things that people do that are worse then what she did.  I'm sure it's just a huge thing cause she's suppose to be a role model (funny movie) to kids. Well if you think she's so bad, then don't go to her concerts, and those that love her go.

     Remember Kurt Cobain?  Yeah that Nirvana guy, who was one of, if not the greatest artist of all time if not his time.  He came out in a wheelchair at one of this concerts about 15 years ago now, but who cares if he did it right?  Till next time, keep your eggs in your fridge, and blast some Gaga music while riding around in wheelchair or motorized scooter.  I've never done that.  I mean it ..........







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