News Archive - June 2007
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6-27-2007
Benoit
Well, it looks as though Chris Benoit strangled his wife, then suffocated his son and then hanged himself in his weight room.
That's pretty shitty.
Breakout
Paris Hilton is out of jail. My life can now be complete again.
I will admit though, that she came out of jail with little or no makeup on and she still looked pretty damn hot. She's still a useless waste of time and space, however. My opinion hasn't changed on that.
6-26-2007
Chris Benoit
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Sad Day
Sometime yesterday, World Wrestling Entertainment personality Chris Benoit was found dead with his family at their home in Georgia.
He was supposed to appear at a house event over the weekend and then on the Sunday night PPV event, "Vengeance." He didn't show and, apparently, the WWE reps were worried and called local officials to check on the family.
Chris, his wife Nancy and 7-year-old son Daniel were all in the house and as of now it's being ruled as a homicide.
I was always a big fan of Benoit's going back to when he moved to the WWE along with Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko.
He was known as The Crippler to go with his finishing move, the Crippler Crossface. But I liked the Rabid Wolverine moniker better.
Monday night's "RAW" was cancelled and a tribute show was put on instead. That's how I found out about this, when I turned over to USA and caught the final clip of Benoit winning the World Heavyweight Championship during "WrestleMania XX." He was congratulated in the ring by Guerrero who passed away in 2005.
It's definitely a sad day.
6-20-2007
Hot Broad You've Never Heard Of
That is until Transformers drops into theaters in a couple weeks. But before that happens, meet Megan Fox. She's been around on TV including "Two and a Half Men" and "Hope & Faith" or you might have seen her in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
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No matter, she's hot as hell. Just ignore the fact that she's engaged to that poser Brian Austin Green
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6-18-2007
Surf's Up
Friday night, after Wizard World closed up, we hit up the theater to see Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Overall, it was a good movie. As good as the first installment at least. It was a quick movie, only about an hour and a half, but there was some decent action going on mixed in with the comedy bits that the first installment made standard.
All of the actors were back including Ioan Gruffud, Chris Evans, Michael Chicklis, Julian McMahon and the always hot Jessica Alba. Honestly, watching her run around in a skintight uniform is well worth the price of admission. New to the cast were Andre Braugher, Laurence Fishburne (voice of the Surfer) and Beau Garrett, who's almost as hot as Alba, as Frankie Raye.
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The premise of the film; The Surfer shows up on Earth to prep it for destruction by Galactus. While that's going on, though, we have Reed and Sue trying to get married.
Blah, blah, blah, some stuff happens, the Surfer digs some holes in preparation of Galactus arriving, the US Military, led by Braugher's General Hager, comes to the F4 to help stop him and Von Doom gets awakened in his metal tomb.
In the end, some more stuff happens, the Surfer turns out not to be such a bad guy (hence the rumored 2010 Silver Surfer movie), Doom makes his comeback and Galactus is nothing more than a cloud in space (you could almost hear the Fanboys weeping).
Honestly, I couldn't really write an in-depth review of this movie because there's not a lot of depth too it. That's not, however, a bad thing. It's a summer comic book movie and it succeeds wonderfully in that aspect. The film doesn't delve into the meaning of responsibility like a Spider-Man, it's not a story of redemption like Ghost Rider and it's not even an FX display piece like the upcoming Transformers film. It's just...fun.
Go see it in the theater, though, because there are enough FX that there's some wow factor on the big screen. Since it took the number one spot for the weekend with $57.4 million it'll be good enough for another sequel. I'll slice it off a solid three wheels of cheddar out of five.
Wizard World Philly
Last Friday I headed to WW Philly with my buddy Joe for a couple of hours. Saw some interesting art and comic books, plenty of merchandise of all sorts and we even stopped into a panel by the Wizard staff on upcoming comic book movies. Most you've heard about, they're coming soon, but a couple were put up that held some new news for me. Maybe I just haven't been paying attention.
Did you like The Hulk? Neither did I. We'll get a second chance with The Incredible Hulk, now with Edward Norton as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler as Betsy Ross. I have to say, I'm going to miss Jennifer Connelly's tits, though.
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I already mentioned it, but look for a Silver Surfer movie some time in 2009 or 2010. What else? We already knew about sequels to Superman and Batman but one thing is that, apparently, the Wonder Woman movie is in limbo for now. And no Joss Whedon.
It's been put off a little but we're still getting a Sin City 2 and be on the lookout for another installment of Hellboy. Oh, and if you didn't know (I didn't), the upcoming I Am Legend with Will Smith...comic book movie.
One of the best quotes of the panel was when they were talking about either Transformers for Indiana Jones 4, and they mentioned Shia LaBeouf. One of the Wizard guys on the panel made a comment to the effect that Shia is "hot right now." "Hollywood told me so."
Not to take anything away from the kid's acting abilities, because, honestly, I've only seen him in Constantine and I, Robot (I don't remember him from that movie), but he's getting a huge push right now. He was just in Disturbia this year, Transformers is coming in July, he did a voice in Surf's Up and now he's going to be in Indy 4 next year. He's a big star now, I'm sure he's out snorting coke off a hookers ass someplace.
Bottom line, if you like comic book movies there's going to be plenty of stuff coming in the next couple of years.
6-15-2007
Birthday Wishes
Has it been another year already? Guess so, Happy Birthday Zac!
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6-12-2007
Fought the law...
And the law, this time, won? Paris Hilton is back in jail, which is a total shocker to me. She is, apparently, on suicide watch, however, and according to Barbara Walters, she's no long going to act dumb.
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That's an act?
Whatever. See you in two weeks, Paris.
MyTube
So I started watching this show on the ABC Family channel called "Kyle XY," and it's pretty good. I started last summer with a 10 episode run and the new season just kicked off last night. I think this is a 13 episode season but, no matter, it's still good.
It's has a sci-fi vibe to it and it definitely picks up where shows like "John Doe" and "The Pretender" left off. Basically, Kyle shows up with no past, has some superhero-style abilities and is smart as shit. Sounds familiar, but it has it's own thing going. Plus, for "X-Files" fans, the show has plenty of Krycek-like goodness.
In not-so-good news, it appears that the final nail was hammered into the coffin of "Veronica Mars." Although it wasn't on the fall schedule, there was a slight glimmer of hope as the absolute final decision wasn't going to be made till the middle of June. Well, it got made. No fourth season, unfortunately.
Fuck you, CW Network. And fuck you, Time Warner, you thieving bastards, for not carrying the CW network in my market.
Fletch
While we're talking about the entertainment world...it appears that Joshua Jackson may have landed the roll of Fletch in the upcoming Fletch Won movie. I'm slightly disappointed that Kevin Smith won't be directing and that Jason Lee won't get the title roll, but Jackson is a pretty decent actor and it'll be cool to see him in something as potentially funny as a Fletch movie.
And, please, no Pacey jokes.
It's a Jungle Out There
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Safari 3 Beta
"Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria." Yes, boys and girls, the world is a mixed up place these days. The bitter feud between Windows and MAC users has just gotten a new weapon thrown in the mix, Safari 3 is now available for Windows!
If you're running Windows XP or Vista, and have a fast enough machine, you can download the Public Beta to finally see what all those hippies are talking about.
I have to admit, it's fast as hell. Usually on Windows with IE you get a page that starts to fill in text, then some graphics then things may get hinky for a second before things kick off. Not with Safari. You get a load bar for a few seconds then BAM, web page, fully rendered text with interlaced graphics that catch up in a matter of two or three more seconds. But the page is operational faster than IE or Firefox.
It has tabbed browsing and some of the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to in IE seem to work the same. The interface is clean and compact with not a lot of things getting in the way or taking up valuable screen space. And the buttons are all in logical locations, unlike IE 7 with it's oddball refresh and stop buttons.
If it's this fast on a PC with Windows I wonder what it's like on a MAC? I was just saying the other day that I wish computer manufacturers would make some decent looking equipment like Apple does. We spotted a sweet looking MAC laptop in the library the other day and there is nothing on the market from any computer manufacturer that comes close to being as stylish and functional.
Is it time to investigate prices in the Apple market?
6-8-2007
Jail Break
In a huge shock to no one, Paris Hilton is out of jail after just 3 days of her 23 day sentence. Now she has to wear a LoJack and spend the next 40 days under house arrest. Yeah, it's tough being stuck in your mansion with maids and butlers for 40 days.
Why did they send her home? "Medical reasons." I didn't know raging egomania was now a medical condition. Or, maybe it was the fact she wasn't eating. Because, you know, anorexia at home, ok. Anorexia on the cities nickel, not ok, here's your get-out-of-jail-free card.
Worthless California justice system.
Still Illegal
The proposed immigration bill is not going to get a vote in the Senate this year after Harry Reid pulled it yesterday.
Hmm. Mixed feelings. On one hand, I liked the tighter boarder part, on the other, I didn't like the "pathway to legal status." That basically translates to amnesty, which I'm NOT in favor of.
6-7-2007
Vacation
Even though I've been back for a week now I've been slacking on updates.
So, how was LA? Shitty. From a city standpoint it was not a place I'm in hurry to go back to. It was very expensive for everything out there and we didn't even venture far from the hotel for anything other than the convention.
Smog. Holy shit. When it gets humid here on the East Coast you know how you can't see across the valley sometimes? Well, it was like that in LA all week only it wasn't humidity. As a matter of fact, it was in the low 70's all week and not once did it feel humid. We even had sun and a cool breeze a couple days.
We could see the Hollywood sign from our hotel room but it was so smoggy all week we only got a couple glimpses of if. I tried for a photo but no dice.
Anyway, my vacation was fun despite the city but I'm definitely happy to be back home.
MyTube
Could there be hope for "Jericho" to make a comeback on CBS this fall? Maybe. Apparently I missed the memo, but the web site JerichoLives.com motivated the fan base which sent over 25 tons of peanuts to CBS executives (if you've seen the show you'll get it). CBS not only is donating the peanuts to charity, they've given "Jericho" a 7 episode reprieve.
Look for it to come back as a mid-season replacement. I'm hoping if the ratings are good enough they'll pick it back up. But, either way, as long as they have a chance to write a conclusion to the series I might be happy(ish).
No, get off your ass and save "Veronica Mars.!"