I got 80.

It's a stupid test, but it's kind of amusing. On a different note, why can I never post images with urls in Blogs?

Yeah, I went to the dentist today and got three cavities filled. Cost friggin 438 clams. Didn't hurt at all though (small cavities), but did you ever notice all of the things that they cram in your mouth? The dentists were going through utensil after utensil and I didn't even know what the hell they were using them for. There was this one gigantic thing, like half a foot long tube that they were cramming in my mouth and I had no idea what use it was. Let's see, there was the hook, suckey thing, air blower, this strange shot, big ass tube, drill, water sprayer, and some other thing I couldn't recognize. That's eight tools! Hmmm...

-Mike

.... seven months late. :lol:

Well, I missed a lot of theatrical releases so I needed to catch them on DVD. I suppose there's a small chance that Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang might make it on the list but I'm doubting it. So, without further adue, enjoy. Or don't... only three people will see this anyways. >_>

Honorable Mentions
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Good Night, and Good Luck
A History of Violence
Pride & Prejudice
The Squid and the Whale

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#10: The 40-Year-Old Virgin - Comedies get a real bum rush when it comes to top ten lists and, especially, from the Academy. In many ways, it is more difficult to make a great comedy than a great drama. But no movie in the past few years has made me laugh as hard or as frequently (for the whole movie, too) as The 40-Year-Old Virgin. And it's also very sweet for the sex-comedy genre, which is bitten to shreds by critics.


#9: Capote - Truman Capote was many things. Eccentric, creative, but more than all else troubled. And he was never more troubled with life than the time when he began a friendly relationship with a mass murderer because he knew his story would make for the greatest novel. This is a deep character study acted flawlessly by Mr. Phillip Seymour Hoffman.


#8: Grizzly Man - An exploration on the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, a sincere man that spent 13 years of his life deidcated to Grizzlies until one of them killed him and his girlfriend. It is easily the best documentary of the year, and has a sincere and tragic aura surrounding it.


#7: Brokeback Mountain - Calling this movie the "gay cowboy flick" is sucking all the complexity and emotion that this movie contains. Ang Lee has always had a gift for bringing out the most feelings out a movie, and he does so better in this movie than any of his others with the aid of amazing cinematography and a mournful musical score.


#6: Crash - This is probably one of the more compelling movies of the year because it really affects each member of the audience differently. It deals in racial issues in society, and forcibly finds a way to your heart. Directed by Million Dollar Baby writer Paul Haggis.


#5: Match Point - Woody Allen's sharpest film in years puts him right back on track in the world of cinema. There's brilliant acting all around, with the best script of the year. It starts out as a slowly developing character study but begins changing into a taut thriller.


#4: Syriana - Despite what people say, I don't think you need to be a cynic to appreciate this movie, although it probably helps. Syriana is easily the most complicated movie this year with a plot that will twist your mind into all sorts of odd knots. It holds no punches, and demonstrates how unstoppable big business has become. Corruption runs the world, not goodwill.


#3: Cinderella Man - How no one ended up seeing a Russel Crowe movie I don't know, but it is debatably the best movie of Ron Howard's career. It's moving from the beginning to the tense finale.


#2: Sin City - This is THE comic book movie. The only one to look and feel exactly like one. The story sucks you in, but what is truly unique about Sin City is its visuals. This film is not for everyone though. If you do not like a lot of violence, or are not a fan of noir films (heavy storytelling), this may not be your movie. If you are into that kind of stuff though, this movie will blow you away.


#1: Munich - For Spielburg, this year is very similar to 1993 where he delivered Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. This year, he again delivers two very good movies: War of the Worlds and Munich. This is a complex and compelling tale about the after-effects of the killing of 11 Israeli olymic performers in Munich, Germany. The greatest movie of the year.

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And so, it is complete. I just saw Brokeback Mountain today, and wanted to finish this list once and for all. I think it's a good year in movies, all in all. Hope you liked the list.

-Mike

You know, America is a great country. When compared with every other country, we're at the top. But why, oh why, must some of the people in power be so ignorant? I'm specifically talking about Bush, and I'm specifically talking about Embryo Stem Cell research. There is something seriously hypocritical about someone that thinks it is actually killing human lives. It's ignorance on a level that is staggering. It's an EMBRYO for christ sake. It's about as developed as the skin cells that are eradicated when you wash your body with soap. It's not a human life, it's a microscopic smudge. Embryos that, by the way, would be thrown out anyways. And this is coming from a President that sends troops to a war that has become a huge liability. Those are human lives. Not some microscopic dot.

China and Britain are far surpassing us now when it comes to stem cell research, and this is terrible for us. Medically, it could be as much a breakthrough as the internet is technically. All because Bush wants to save a few peices of nothingness? What is this country coming to? Am I the only one that thinks this is complete insanity?

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Also, my speakers on my computer broke. :(

They only fell one foot and they don't work anymore...
Bummer... :cry:

-Mike

This is a completely mind blowing video demonstration that describes exactly what the various dimensions are and how there can physically only be ten of them.

Tenth Dimension

If you don't understand it at first, keep watching it until you do. It's amazing.

Now, imagine if anything living exists in the tenth dimension, and what power it could hold.

No you're not going to get a formal review like usual (aka I'm lazy). But it is definitely a fun movie, and one of the better super hero movies to come out. I think Batman Begins is a better movie, but they're on fairly equal ground.

I was supposed to see Pirates today but when we got there at seven, everything was sold out until the 10:45 showing. So, we just decided to watch Superman which was a very good idea. I'm still going to see it, though. Hopefully on Monday.

Movies aside, everything is fine and dandy. Well, not quite dandy, but fine to say the least. Dentist said I had great teeth. :D

Lastly, my sleeping schedule is seriously ****ed up. I end up going to sleep at around 5 and waking up at one or two. I try anything, everything, but it doesn't seem to work so now I'm going to the extreme. I'm going to have three alarm clocks going off (spaced at at fifteen minutes), my TV is set to turn on with the volume extremely loud at 11:45, AND I'm even having a friend call in at 12 for a last resort. If this doesn't work today, then I'm getting the Super Sonic Boom. It's a special alarm clock that has the same scale of loudness as a leaf blower. Also, it has a vibrator that you put under the bed which shakes the entire bed. That's getting out of bed in style. 8)

-Mike

This is getting serious. It is getting very serious because not only is a country, whose leader openly despises us, attaining atomic bombs, but our president just happens to be the type to attack countries when they MIGHT have weapons. They do, could have them pointing at us, and that means Bush must be at least thinking of moving troops in S. Korean camps into North Korea. This is bad.

If we become too hostile, we could be witnessing a nuclear attack on our country. Probably on the Western coastline. COULD is the key word though. Obviously Kim Jong isn't so crazy that he doesn't realize doing so would doom him and his people as well as the country.

However, it is much more likely that he would attack one of our US stations in S. Korea.

We cannot become aggressive with North Korea. This is the place where those monkeys from the Wizard of Oz came from. Jong will never attack us. Especially when he has not nearly enough weaponry to pose any threat.

We need to leave it alone for now. There's no need to engage them.

*sigh* I'm sure I'll have a cavity. I hate going to the dentist...

For that matter, how can anyone become a dentist?! You're staring at someone's mouth for an hour. How does it feel to know that all of your patients dread coming to you...? I'm sure the money makes them feel better. (¬_¬)

-Mike

These last couple of days have been strange. Not just what's been going on in my life, but the weather as well. All day long for the past three days, it has rained. A constant, moderate rain that is really depressing to watch. I was gonna see Superman today, but it didn't work out (partly due to the rain). Later last night, I decided to walk around the neighborhood. I have no idea why. Maybe because I haven't actually been outside (excluding car rides) in three days. I noticed something pretty cool. The rain everywhere was shimmering from the moonlight which made the whole street and grass sparkle. Made it brighter than the daytime. I wish I had a camera on me so I could show you, but oh well.

Aside from that I haven't done much. Watched some movies. I played a couple video games with a friend ( I haven't played a video game in months. Also, my haircutter is gone:evil:. She just up and left, and now I have to go to a new place. I look like a hippie, too...

Lastly, I made a MST3k banner. It's so badly made, I know. They're always watching bad movies so I figured it should look like crap.

And if you don't believe that, it's because I'm terrible at making banners.

This movie is a replica in terms of storyline of It's a Wonderful Life and The Family Man. In fact, if you saw The Family Man, this movie would seem stirkingly familiar around many points. The only thing different is that he has a remote control that controls specifically where he goes in life. This could have been fashioned into an interesting movie, but it only lasts for so long. A workaholic (Adam Sandler) is sick of his hard-working life that never pays out for him. But when he walks into the Beyond section of Bed, Bath, and Beyond (Family Guy watchers, this should seem familiar), he stumbles upon a remote control that actually controls life and lets him fast forward, pause, look back into his life, and even provides him with a commentary of his own life. However, things go wrong and the remote starts fast forwarding on its own at large timeframes.



That is exactly when the movie stops being funny, though. Immediately after problems arise the movie completely stops the comedy, it never comes back, and tries to focus on the drama. Adam Sandler never was very good at making a good drama, and he really turns it into a weak melodrama by the end. If you're actually paying attention to the dialouge instead of just the jokes, then you'll notice a bunch of plot holes involving Sandler's weight gaining issues and how poorly written and unrealistic characters expressions are when the emotions should be pouring out. There's nothing worse than a comedy that dies halfway through the movie and tries to fill in the gap with drama. Wedding Crashers had this problem, but the beginning was much funnier than this one and it was only a half hour with lackluster drama replacing comedy. Click has an entire hour floating devoid of comedy, filled with poor melodrama. For an Adam Sandler movie, that's a bad idea.