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.

Tom Cruise - What the hell?

Thoughts by Adam, typing by Chickie Bell

Tom Cruise...where do we start? No matter what people say, Tom is an awesome actor. Tom's biggest problem is the fact that every movie he makes, whether it be in comedy, action, drama or mystery, the facial expressions he uses are always exactly the same. The main one he uses makes him look constipated. There is one exception though, the movie 'Magnolia'. In this movie the way he expresses himself gave people a reason to forget about scientology, couch jumping and Tomkat. He made us believe that the character he played lays somewhere within the real Tom Cruise. Tom, please come back to us!!!! We want to like you but you keep making a dick of yourself and we are getting frustrated. You will discover respect, box office takings and maybe even the elusive Oscar you so desperately crave. Also, if you do take notice of what people are saying we won't care about your height. Anyway, until we read again, "I have a need, a need for speed."

The start

Hello anyone who wants to read this. My name is Ad and I love movies. Its what makes me feel alive and if the only thing I could do with my life was sit on my ass and watch tv all the do da day then thats fine with me. In this blog I want to let people know what I think of different movies and I have no doubt that there are thousands of different blogs that proclaim to want to do the same thing. I will try my best to be a little bit different and a whole bit interesting about movies, life and how movies relate to life. If I go off on a tangent, well who cares, Im writing this, not u.

Anyway, it's really late and I'm hangin with my beautiful daughter tomorrow so best I have a good night sleep. Talk soon, Ad.