The Greatest director ever!!!!!

The greatest director ever???
Spielberg!!!!
That's all I need to say.

Reason?
As Director:
E.T.
Jurassic Park
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Minority Report
War of the Worlds
Poltergeist (he directed it, Tobe was just looking over his shoulder)

As Producer:
Gremlins
Goonies
Back to the Future
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Twister
Men In Black
Transformers
Band of Brothers
The Pacific

As Dreamworks:
American Beauty
Galaxy Quest
Gladiator
Almost Famous
Cast Away
Shrek
A Beautiful Mind
Road To Perdition
The Ring
Anchorman
Collateral
Rescue Me
Disturbia
I Love You, Man

Do I need to say more.
I don't care if you disagree Gauci. You cannot argue with runs on the board.

kids

I love my kids but sometimes they are a pain in the ass. When they go away I miss them but it seems when they come back it does not take long for me to want them to go away again. My children are a huge part of who I am and I would be lost without them. It's hard to be a dad because it's hard to see your mistakes coming out of your children. You look back over your life and think "Geez I wish I had taken school or my first job more seriously" and then as a dad you get to see your children do they same silly things you did. The stupid thing is you always say that you will never let your children do the dumb things you did but when its all said and done, they do, and you really never had that much control. My kids are chick and boy. Boy is 16 and chick is 13. Boy lives with me and chick lives with Mum. They are well adjusted and very personable and I love them so very much. They are so funny and when they spend time together they dont stop laughing. Boy has told me many times that chick is his best friend and he tells everything to her. One thing that blows me away is there step dad. Here is a guy who never had his own kids but was totally willing to love mine and put up with there daily good and bad times. He has lived through christmas's and birthday's. He has put up with bad attitudes and loved awesome smiles. He has gone out or in his case has stayed in to provide for them and they are not his flesh and blood. He did not take on just a wife when he got married to her but he took on a fully fledged living family organism and succeeded. My children love him and consider him such a huge and integral part of there lives and I know would be lesser people without him. He really is a very good and honourable man and I thank him for caring and putting his wants and needs second to his childrens. Chick and boy will succeed and alot of their success will be attributed to you. Thank you.

Thanks kids for been a beautiful, lively, scary, funny, loud, sad, annoying, special, creative and constant pain in my ass!!!

hello again hello

Its been awhile and i had forgot I do a blog. Movies, movies, movies and kids and work and worrying and life and tv shows and friends all get in the way. Thats ok, u just keep plugging away. Have decided that I am going to travel. Don't know when but sometime in the next few years I will go overseas plus I would like to travel Australia a bit just to see. Don't want to be one of those wankers who travels the world and does not even know there own country so will just have to work on that. Start with the Great Ocean Road and work it out from there. Saw Super 8 and Xmen-First Class in the last couple of weeks and loved them both. Anyway, will talk soon. Bye xxx

Not That Hot

This is going to be short and sweet.
I may surprise, stun or offend some readers but I don't care. I'm sorry if I hurt feelings or make some people wonder if maybe, I am gay.
Here it goes. Is everyone ready? Hold onto your hats coz this may well be a bumpy ride!!!

MEGAN FOX IS NOT HOT!!!!!

This girl is the classic example of "became famous coz she's hot".
She really is not hot and she cannot act.
Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Kate Winslet - all incredibly hot and they can all act.
I may well have lost readers but I really don't care. I just call them how I see them.

Off to watch a bit of Roland Emmerich - this time 2012.

Roland Emmerich - The New Irwin Allen

Remember those quality 70's disaster movies?  The Towering Inferno, The Posiedon Adventure, Fire!, and Flood! All produced by Irwin Allen and all pretty cheesy. They did have there limited excitement and I guess for there time they were pretty well done.
Welcome to the 21st century and the new Irwin Allen, Germany's own Roland Emmerich.
For those of you not acquainted with his movies, he is the director of such world destroyers as Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and released late last year, 2012.
Last night, I had some time to myself and been that my AFL team was not playing (we are Geelong the greatest team of all) I decided to hunker down and peruse The Day After Tomorrow. It is part of my DVD collection, as is Godzilla, and I am quite proud to say that I totally loved it.
Roland's disaster movies usually have pretty crappy scripts, dodgy acting, an annoying child who you hope does not make it to the end (but always does) and yet he seems to round up a shit load of money because his special effects, set designs and production values are some of the best going around.
He plays it cheap on the acting talent with a reasonably well known actor so as not to spend too much and that works to his advantage as he can siphon the money he saved on talent back into the production.
I recently read an interview with him where he said he was not doing any more disaster movies and I say "Roland, you suck!!!". That really is a big loss to this well trodden format of movie making. Sure, you need to leave your brain at the door but sometimes you don't want to think, you just want to view. So, to all those up themselves artsy losers who think the latest Lars Von Trier or Werner Herzog movie is $15 and time well spent at the cinema how about you give good old Roland a shot, you may surprise yourself.

Go West Old Men

After about a month of consistent darkness, junk food and no sleep, I emerge with a  strange mix of confusion and happiness plastered on my face.
Let me explain this further.
I have just finished watching the 7th and final season of the West Wing and what an absolute pleasure it has been. This TV show created by Aaron Sorkin is considered by myself and I believe many more to be one of the most well acted shows that there has been on TV for a very long time.
Martin Sheen as the president, Richard Schiff as Communications director Toby Ziegler and Allison Janney as Press Secretary/Chief of Staff CJ Cregg amongst others week in and week out display acting skill that if played out on the silver screen would gain each one of them an oscar without too much trouble.
I must admit that been I am Australian I did not fully comprehend many of the storylines but I did get the gist of most and even though I am not particularly political  I was still totally submerged in each and every show and character.
It constantly amazed me that the writers continued to have me engaged constantly and sometimes on the edge of my seat with season cliffhangers that made me go out the next day and buy a new season.
Thank you Aaron Sorkin and the rest of your team. It was a pleasure. Its because of people like you that I am slowly becoming a 400 pound weakling.
P.S.  Aaron Sorkin, when are you going to bring out something new? I can't wait.

Almost Famous-Greatest rock movie

As the title says, Almost Famous is considered by me to be one of the Greatest Movies of all Time and the best RocknRoll movie ever. Cameron Crowe may have got it a bit wrong with Vanilla Sky and a whole lot wrong with Elizabethtown but Almost Famous is a well crafted, incredibly well written movie. Crowe does not consider flashy camera angles or nifty special effects, he just writes a story that makes u laugh and cry. There are not many movies out there that I have seen where at the end, I'm sad that they finish but this is one that not only makes me sad when its over but makes me long to be a part of the 70's music scene. Every character is well conceived, and the actors that fulfil the roles are perfectly cast. Maybe my only gripe is Patrick Fugit as William. As I watched the movie I felt he just did not understand the weight of the role he was playing. Don't worry, its a small gripe. Awesome awesome awesome.