What I May Have Left Out

What else happened March 27,2010 that I left out? Oh! after we played that shooting game for an hour we decided to play some other games for about five minutes because these games were no fun, then I suggested that we go down to best buy for no reason the gang agreed so off we went down the side walk from Malco to Best Buy we arrived at best buy and had to leave five minutes later in order to get our tickets for Hot Tub Time Machine. On the way back started running ahead for no reason in his actual Indiana Jones hat so I started singing the Theme to Indiana Jones and the other two guys I was with joined in and that was pretty funny to us at the time. Then his hat blew off and into the street I told he not to get run over in a joking fashion then once he returned with said hat I remarked on him running into the street in the first place. then we got the tickets for the second movie we were going to see. I enjoyed that day for it was the first time in a while that I had spent a whole day just hanging out a doing stuff. I usually work or just sleep so I had fun that day like I hadn't in a long time.

Shoot 'em Up

Right after we saw How To Train Your Dragon and before we bought our tickets for Hot Tub Time Machine the four of us that went played a little arcade game in the lobby for about an hour and spent over $30 in quarters that one of us had brought. In the game you are supposed to save a variety of places from terrorist trying to take it over. It is a shooting game that only two could play a time so we went into an awkward rotation before dividing up into teams. We shot at terrorist as if we were John McClane from Die Hard. Me and Zack got into perfect police stance to fire at those evil fiends, but Mitchell shot very oddly and with his left hand even though he is right handed and Daniel shot up those terrorist just like a gangster. We had a lot of fun doing that, so much fun in fact we lost track of time a how much money we had spent in this machine. It wasn't until later that we figured out it had been an hour and that we had at least spent $30. It sure was fun I can tell you that and I know we annoyed the people who worked there like crazy during that hour, and I'm fine with that.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Before I mentioned I went and saw Hot Tub Time Machine in theatres now I will talk more about it. First off I must say that this movie is funny but, is not for everyone. I enjoyed watching this movie with the group I was with we all got a good laugh out of it. It had some pretty funny moment like when the main characters try to inspire their friend to win a fight with a jerk that keeps beating him and the inspiring talk doesn't help and he still gets beat by the jerk that was pretty funny. All in all I like this movie but, would not recommend to everyone has the majority of the humor is profane and not fit for younger and more conservative audiences.

How to Train Your Dragon

I mentioned before that I saw the movie How To Train Your Dragon in theatres on march 27, now I would like to talk about it. It was an interesting film that is for sure because I was actually willing to get up and leave the house to see it, which doesn't happen often. My critiquing of this movie begins with the negatives. It was a bit cliche for my taste, the story of a son trying to impress his father and of trying to understand another culture as been done to death. Also in the movie the main character loses a foot toward to end without much plausible explanation as to why. Now the positives, besides the fact that the story is cliche it's still rather good and is presented in a manner that was appealing to me as well as to the other I saw it with. Also about the foot, despite the fact that I don't know exactly how it happened I love the idea of the main character losing a piece of himself literally. Which fits since his dragon who also lost a body part much earlier in the film. To me for them to have the major character go through what he did and not come out unscathed has a deeper message that makes this movie more than just another family movie with a happy ending. In short I like this movie and recommend it to anyone I see.

March 27, 2010

A date which will live as a day of fun and funny in the history of me and the others involved. We, and by we I mean me and three friends went to the movies this day to see two movies, How To Train Your Dragon and Hot Tub Time Machine. First we saw How To Train Your Dragon which was a good movie I recommend it then we played a shooting game in the lobby for an hour and spent well over 30 dollars in quarters in that machine. After that we walked to best buy for no reason and got a laugh out of Daniel's hat. Then we saw Hot Tub Time Machine which was also good and I talk more about these movies later, but I'm out of time for now.

Why 3D?

As you may or may not have noticed 3D movies are becoming more frequent and popular in recent times. As to why is a question I ask myself quiet often, in fact it's everyday now because one of the movies i want to see this weekend is in 3D and proudly boasts it's extra dimension in the ads for it. Yes from Avatar to the new Clash Of The Titans remake 3D movies are getting more attention. Some would say it's because of advances in technology and that 3D is the future. It's as though people have forgotten that 3D films has been around as far back as the 1890's. Many remember 3D as a cheap effect to bring in teenage crowds to movies in the 1950's. One of my favorite comedy album's by Weird Al is called Weird Al in 3D which I have mentioned before in this blog, The reason is because back in the 1980's 3D was seen for what it is another poor effect to desperately bring in the wow crowd. I have even heard of Sony now selling TVs with 3D technology so you can enjoy the cheesing effects at home. It's obvouis that I am not a fan of 3D and never will be so to me this is funny and sad at the same time. And when you put on those goofy glasses, sometimes over a pair your already wearing, in order to watch these films all I say is Why 3D?

Malco

A while back I mentioned that I would be seeing two movies in the near future, How To Train Your Dragon and Hot Tub Time Machine. I would now exactly when I would be going by now if it wasn't for Malco Theatres. I have visited Malco.com for days and even now they still have not posted the showtimes for Friday yet which is when both movies come out. I am supposed to bring a lot of people to see both of these as part of a last big thing to do before I graduate but, I can't tell these people when to go because the showtimes are still not available. so right now I'm not to happy with Malco and I wish they would post the showtimes sooner rather than later. Well I'm going to check Malco.com again to see if maybe now they have it up, so see ya.