"I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"

X-Men 3 was indeed entertaining. It wasn't great, it was good and entertaining. The battles were badass but the dialogue was so goddamn laughable. There are many hilarious dialogue moments in the film but overall it was a fun ride. And don't leave when the credits pass by because there's a little surprise ending that caught the audience off guard (yours truly included). Brett Ratner didn't do a bad job but he could have done a much better job if he had the time (the film was shot in November). Many characters die in the film (IMPORTANT characters of the X-Men trilogy, mind you) and there are many characters within the film that are hyped up but are just extended cameos (Angel, for example). I wish there was a Sentinel fight though.

Lost.

Was.

Awesome.

B-b-b-bumming around until summer school. Out of the 5 jobs I applied for, only 1 called back. I didn't get the job because they didn't have the job at nights but at least they called back. Today was the second to the last American Idol episode and to be honest Katharine and Taylor both sucked the big one today. Both of them couldn't give the knockout performance that the show needed but my heart is still with Katharine. She needs to win because she's so goddamn hot and George Clooney-wannabe annoys the hell outta me.

I DID NOT like the season finale of House. I found the episode to be anticlimatic due to the entire episode being a fucking dream while House was being transported after being shot in the stomach and jugular.

Please GOD, let the season finale of Lost be great. I can't stop thinking about yesterday's season finale of 24. Man, that finale was fucking amazing to say the least. If you didn't see it, fucking download it by all means necessary!

Borrowed four movies from Nicheflix and watched 3 of them already. 13th District was pretty good despite a cliched story. The movie was mostly an adrenaline rush rather than being overly intellectual like most action films these days. The Proposition with Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, and the great performance from Danny Huston was GRITTY. Man, after watching the movie wanted to take a shower.

Tsui Hark's the Blade was goddamn GREAT. I thought the fights were fucking awesome. Where else can you see a one-armed man with a yo-yo blade fight a dude with this fucked up sword at the end of a film?

And finally, I'm sorry this is so belated but happy birthday Chrissie!

"Right here!! Right now!!! You are going to face JUSTICE!!!!"

24's super-fucking-awesome season finale was just that: SUPER-FUCKING-AWESOME.

Man, I hope Lost is just as good or even better!

And Jesus married Mary Magdalene.

As it says in the Da Vinci Code.

The movie was pretty good. It is definitely not for people who easily sleep in the theater. The film runs a long 152 minutes (with credits, of course). I found the film incredibly intriguing and compelling. Some of the ideas in the film are quite fascinating and Audrey Tautou is really cute. There's one thing I'm missing though. Why the hell are critics fucking ripping this film to pieces? Some say that it is slow (I found it to be quite fast) and plodding. Some found it to be too expository (well, I didn't know shit so this factor helped me a lot) and the dialogue laughable (I didn't hear anyone laughing in the theater I was in).

The film is the definition of pop entertainment, pure and simple. I found Hanks to be likable and quite good in the whole of Robert Langdon, Ian McKellan is great as Sir Leigh Teabing, Audrey Tautou is cute, cute, cute as Sophie, Paul Bettany does his job as the villain Silas, and Jean Reno does admirable work as Farche. Howard's direction is as cliched as ever but did it hinder me from liking it? No. The film is far from perfect but it does its job. It gives the movie audience something to watch and be entertained by.

Some people took this film too seriously and it destroyed their outlook on the film. And what's all this backlash with religious perspective of this film? It presented the Christian religion respectively. It presents its so-called "facts" as fiction and in the end we know its fiction. I'm a Catholic and did I hate the film for presenting the so-called "facts"? No NO NO! I liked the film and sure it dragged during the final few minutes but I was entertained. Movies are entertainment but some people forget about this a long time ago.

Tagged by Felice
The first player of this game starts listing six of his/her weird habits. the people who get tagged need to write a blog entry regarding their six weird habits, as well as to state this rule clearly. in the end, you need to choose six people to tag and list their names. don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" and tell them to read your entry.
1. I always sleep really really late (around 4am or 5am).
2. I do the thing that most guys do. If those guys say they don't do it, they're lying! There was a Seinfeld episode about this.
3. When nobody is looking, I rock out air guitar style to the music I'm currently listening to.
4. When nobody is around, I sing to the top of me lungs.
5. When I'm pissed (mostly probably at my dad), I usually talk to myself (mostly about how my dad is asshole, motherfucker, s.o.b., etc).
6. The way I take a shower. I first put shampoo on my head, then soap and scrub my face, then my body. It's always like that when I shower to maximize soap usage and minimize time.

Tagging: the next 6 people who read this goddamn blog!

This one made me laugh. A lot:

School is over for me for the Spring. But after two weeks, I got to go to class for the summer.

"I lent you my body but you lent me your dream." - Jerome

I just watched Gattaca and man, my brother was right. Gattaca was GREAT. You know that feeling when you've just seen a great film? Well, after Gattaca I had that feeling. The music, the images, the dialogue, everything was pitch perfect. I have to give some credit to Michael Nyman who did the score for the film. His work was truly awe-inspiring for Gattaca after the past work that includes the magnificent score for the Piano. I recommend Gattaca to anyone out there who needs to watch a film with substance. It is a film that makes you think.

At last, Lost is beginning to give out some answers to the whole new hatch thing after last week's awesome episode. One of the creators, J.J. Abrams, says that the season finale is "the greatest season finale ever shot." I hope he doesn't have to eat his words come two weeks.

As for 24, there's a new motherfucker to hate and maim aside from the President and it's Miles. Man, I'd like to kill that fucker. Sure, he had that slithery type voice all season but man when he was speaking to the President I wanted to pop a bullet in his fucking head.

Prison Break is also getting to its season finale (Monday is the finale) and man it has been great so far. All these twists and turns, I hope the finale is amazing to say the least.

By the way, the judges' reaction to Daughtry being voted off on Idol was effing priceless. I absolutely love Katharine (she's hot) but I agreed that she was the worst performer on Tuesday.

The Top 10 Unintentionally Gay Moments in Film: 10-6. 5-1.

Mission: Impossible 3!

I wish I could like this movie.

But I can't.

There are a couple of scenes that are decent but overall I felt empty. There were no action scenes that made me go "WOOOOOO! What a rush!" Director Abrams intrigues the viewer by placing a much later scene in the beginning of the film. It makes the film compelling but how can a movie be good if there's no substance after?

I was reminded of many other films like watching this film: Aliens, John Woo's the Killer, Hard Boiled, TV's 24, Speed, the Man in the Iron Mask, etc. It's like Abrams took the best scenes of this film and just placed it here. Abrams has great actors but their performances are shoddy at best. When there's a performance that truly shines (Hoffman's comes to mind), his role is so small that if you've seen any of the tv spots you've seen his entire performance. I didn't care about the characters. I didn't give a shit about Ethan Hunt or his girlfriend. I didn't even give a crap about John Rhys-Meyers or Maggie Q (despite her hotness).

Finally, I knew the twist even in the beginning of the movie. When the character does this certain type of face or acts a particular way, HE'S A VILLAIN. And the way the villains were killed was so so weak. ARGH!

Keri Russell did look mighty delicious in the flashback scenes (except when she had the googly eye, that was gross).

I think I finally found the problem with the goddamn power cord. I think it was the battery because I noticed that when I didn't plug the ac plug in the laptop the power block was still on. So I removed the battery, blew out any dust, and put it back in. Now it's working properly again. Hopefully that's it for this problem.

Changing the subject, the new Tool album (10,000 Days) is quite good. I'm surprised at how the album is mixed and engineered so amazingly well (unlike many of today's music).

I'm currently using my laptop on its battery (which I haven't done in a while). I think my power cord just died. After plugging in its power cord in and out numerous times (seriously, it was like the power cord was having sex), the fucker decided to just die on me. I found a place where the power cord is just $28.99 but the shipping is fucking $10. Fuck me in the ass, Compaq, fuck me in the ass. Great, the fucker had to die on me on the final week of school.

Man, was Family Guy hilarious. I thought the funniest scene was when Stewie started singing Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" while he was in the television.

I think there's something wrong with my ac adapter. I can't buy one because it's effing $44. There's something wrong with the power block or something because it doesn't want to get power from the power cord.

All that crap with Ricardo Mayorga saying that he will detach De La Hoya's retina or stop his heart has come to an end. A crushing end. Oscar De La Hoya not only beat Mayorga, he destroyed him. He knocked down Mayorga three times with the stoppage in the 6th.

The EMO SONG. This must be the best song ever.

My random thoughts

I think I'm gonna rant here. You know, I really hate mass. It's so goddamn boring. It's all blah blah blah praise Jesus. And the Catholics are wondering why people aren't going to church. Felice and I talked about this once. I even asked her if she remembered the priest's sermon, she replied, "No. I was thinking about the 40-Year-Old Virgin." When I leave my parents house, I think I'm gonna be an agnostic or something.

I think that the new Poseidon film looks really really stupid despite the hotness of Emmy Rossum.

The new Goo Goo Dolls album sounds like shit. Well, the album is actually really good. The problem is that it isn't mastered really well.

Man, did Katharine look hot during second performance in American Idol earlier today. Her first performance was kinda bad though and can't Chris Daughtry do anything else than rock? I'm beginning to get tired of that fucking trill he does when he screams. Elliot chose the wrong song when he sang Michael Bublé's "Home". It didn't sound right for him. And another thing, my mom really hates Taylor.

Thoughts on theatrical trailers

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Wow. I didn't expect the trailer to look this awesome! What really surprised me were the visual effects, which were absolutely amazing.

Superman Returns: I don't know. I think this movie looks kinda gay. Wency is right that it looks stupid. The thing is that it is not a rehash as everyone thinks. It's actually the continuation AFTER Superman II. Brandon Routh really reminds me of Wentworth Miller from Prison Break, even the way he talks sounds like Miller. There's other things bothering me as well: Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey. They made Lex Luthor so freaking cheesy. There's one line in the trailer that made me cringe. Kate Bosworth is a beautiful woman but the problem is that she looks so miscast here. But you never know, the movie may actually surprise me.

United 93: It took me a while to write a review of this film because it took me a while just to write a reaction to it. There's one question to be asked: can there a film where one can die of a heart attack just by watching it? United 93 is one of these films. Not because of what happens but the way scenes are presented are so emotionally charged that all you can do is just sit back and hope for them to get through it safely. When the passengers start fighting back the only thing I could hear is my heart beating. LOUDLY. Really loudly. There are some scenes that angered me and some that bored the hell out of me but when Todd Beamer says, "C'mon guys, let's roll," my blood pressure began to rise. It is undoubtedly one of the most intense scenes ever shot on film. It is as if you want the heroes to triumph and you know they won't and it makes the film harder to swallow. But one thing is definite, this is one of the best films of the year and one of the most important.