Getting "Lost" again Pt 2 of 5

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In my ongoing mission to re-watch all the seasons of Lost before the final season drops on Feb 2nd, I officially have a little over a month to watch the next 3 seasons. Fortunately, season 3 is the last of the long seasons, so seasons 4 and 5 will be easy. This season for me was a little under-rated, for some it's the worst season, but it's the season that gave us Eko, Ben, and Desmond so it could be argued as one of the most important seasons.

Once again, I'll start off with the top 3 episodes of season 2.

23rd Psalm
Easily my favorite episode thus far in Lost history. This episode makes me sad that Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje didn't want to stay on the show because I'd love to have seen more Mr. Eko episodes. Darleton had big plans to make Eko stick around longer and to even be the recipient of the visions Desmond gained in Season 3 ( such a shame.) This episode is by far one of the best stories in Lost. Eko being a merciless drug dealer turned priest was every bit surprising as it was good. We even got to see Eko 1-up John Locke's Season 1 staredown against the smoke monster... Plus that plane that rid us of Boone? Yeah that was Eko's dead brother's plane!

Two for the Road
I liked the shock factor at the end of this episode. For the most part I didn't care about Ana Lucia being chaperon for drunk Christian Shepard in Australia (even though it showed us that Claire and Jack are half-siblings). Funny as it was, I wasn't surprised about Sawyer and Ana Lucia's fling (which Sawyer would later so delicately put as "I screwed her" when having a moment of bonding with Jack). The real shock came at the end when Bernard and Eko become the last of the Tail Section survivors and Micheal cements himself as the biggest douche on the show.

Live Together, Die Alone
Finally! We get to see Desmond's story. So many cool parts, Ben being shown as the leader of the Others, Locke getting hit with the Jesus stick and crying about it, we learn why Oceanic flight 815 crashed, the four toed statue is shown and not brought up again until 3 seasons later and finally, The Kurrigan being shown as Desmond's Dharma Hatch buddy....if you didn't catch that reference you need to rent Highlander immediately. (Also did you know that Clancy f'n Brown does the voice of Mr. Crabs???)




Season 2 V.I.P
A very very hard choice, Locke had some great stories, Eko won fans with his backstory and Ben went from being a guest star to a main character with a very awesome line about milk.
Being the indesisive person I am, I can't choose between Locke and Eko. I know Ben had some moments but He really came into his own in the next 2 seasons so we'll leave him off this time. Locke was at the center of all the Hatch mystery moments, had some great moments with Ben/Henry Gale and his incident with the blast doors gave us a cooler map than the one Sayid stole from the French Lady's lair (where he was probably raped...just saying). Eko was a welcome addition and had the strongest and most appealing backstory in the series. Plus it's fitting that the two people who had a stare-down with Smokey and lived share this spot (although Eko doesn't go 2 for 2 later). Finally the Eko & Locke scenes are awesome.

Re-Evaluated Characters

Didn't really have any this season. I did hate Rose & Bernard and got mad that they got their own flashback episode and then I kind of liked them but then again I got more happy about seeing Vincent (the dog) than I was to see them after they were MIA for the full season last year...so maybe that doesn't really count.

Overall, fun season despite the WAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLTTTTT cries. Thankfully that didn't get dragged out into the next season. Best of all this season gave us mysteries such as the food drop that have yet to be answered. Also like WAAAAAAAAAALLLTT, Libby and the flight attendant seems to have a bit of significance, but with only 16 episodes left, kinda doubting that we'll find out what is going on with them.

Now time to kill off Season 3
Brad

A Few Must See Christmas Movies

Lately I've been in the Christmas mood. Between buying movie themed ornaments, gearing up for our trip to Abilene in a few weeks and probably this being our first Christmas married, I'm just a few degrees away from Clark Griswold (but without the lights) when it comes to being excited about Christmas. Plus we get to begin several of our own traditions.

Speaking of Clark Griswold here are some of my recommendations for movies to watch this time of year to get into the Christmas Spirit (which with me movies will always make the traditions list). Plus I'm intentionally leaving out old classics like "it's a wonderful life" and so on..leave those movies for your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.

Scrooged- Sure you can watch the hundreds of adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" or you can watch Bill Murray in his prime as a very Scrooge-like TV Network Executive. Plus with an abusive Ghost of Christmas Present and a shootgun toting Bobcat Goldwaith, what's not to love about this great flick.


How The Grinch Stole Christmas- Not talking about the Jim Carrey live action movie, I'm meaning the very old cartoon. If you don't watch this you might as well not celebrate Christmas. (on a side note: Have anyone else noticed how stores seem to not have the Mike Myers live action Cat in the Hat? Did they pay a lot of money to make it simply disappear out of embarrassment? I don't even think the Guru is on shelves either, perhaps Mike Myers is more powerful than imagined.)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation- This is probably my favorite installment of the Griswold's Vacation movies. From the oversized tree to the excessive lights and decorations, all the way to Cousin Eddie showing up. This is probably one of the best Christmas comedies made.


Elf- I almost forgot to add this one on, this is one of the last great Will Ferrell movies and plus in a few years time it could maybe surpass Christmas Vacation.

Home Alone- Yeah yeah this movie was freaking awesome as a kid because it would inspire you to actually make traps like this...I didn't since my mom told me that the robbers would have really died and I wouldn't want that grief on me so i refrained. Now in retrospect, Kevin has horrible parents and the robbers were wusses to get schooled by a 8 year old...or however old Mcaully Cullkin is in this movie.

Nightmare Before Christmas- Before it was a Hot Topic staple, this was a pretty fun christmas movie



A Christmas Story- Ralphie's quest for a Red Rider BB gun is definitely a must see staple for Christmas. In recent years TNT have been airing it on 24 hour straight marathons and as many times as I've seen it, this one never gets old I still laugh at the frozen flag pole dare, the really mean Santa, and "Ralphie's Pink Nightmare."




A Charlie Brown Christmas- Like "The Grinch..", this one is an oldie, but goodie. Plus that poor poor tree always seems to work it's way into holiday conversation without fail (ie: "I wish i had a charlie brown tree, this one we have is too much work..")


And finally my personal pick for the best Christmas movie and a must see:

DIE HARD!!!

Looking at the cover, it looks like a shoot-em-up action movie. But that's not true. It's really a story about a New York Cop trying to go Home to see his family but then some terrorists try to eff that up for him...but this is John "yippi ki yay motherf***er" McClain and that's not happening on his watch. So it's really about family which is what Christmas really is all about. You may want to watch Die Hard 2 after this one because it totally happens again...geeze this family has the craziest Christmases.



Bonus:
"A Star Wars Christmas"


This is a very very hard to find movie, George Lucas became so embarrassed with it, that a dvd or video has not and probably never will see the light of day. Anyone who knows where to find the full length show online will be my hero. From what I gather it's about the Star Wars gang trying to get Chewbacca and his family into the spirit of "Life Day" and Leia sings some stupid song to the tune of the Star Wars Theme. Clips are on Youtube and they are hilarious but man i want to see this trainwreck in it's full capacity.

Getting "Lost" again Pt 1 of 5

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Hey haven't put a post up in a while, mostly because I've been working and haven't had time to write entries (plus I've been lazy).

So Lost is coming to a end on Groundhog's Day this year. Personally I will be sad that it's over, but happy that they are ending on their own terms and before they lose most of their best characters as they become more in demand to take part in movies. So this is something i hope to finish before Groundhog's Day, every other night or so Stacey and I have been watching all the old episodes of Lost and after every season is re-watched I'll put a post about the best episodes, season VIP's, and a few other goodies.

First off let's cap off with my top 3 favorite episodes of season 1.

"Walkabout"

This was the 4th episode of Lost and it holds a special place to me as after viewing this episode I became a Lost addict. I first saw this episode about mid-season when ABC re-aired a few old episodes. Prior to this the show had a few WTF? moments such as the introduction to the polar bears and the smoke monster, but learning that the bad ass knife-wielding, boar-killing John Locke was crippled before the crash was by far one of the best reveals overall in Lost. Not to mention Locke has a staredown with the smoke monster and re-emerges out of the jungle with a slain boar on his shoulders entitling him to be dubbed "Badass prime" of Lost.

"Outlaws"-

If it wasn't for "Walkabout" this would be my favorite Season 1 episode. I already began to like Sawyer in earlier episodes, but this cemented him into a personal favorite for me. This episode has Sawyer on a hell-bent mission to kill a boar that destroys his tent, of course with this being Lost, Sawyer hears strange whispers prior to waking up to catch the boar rummaging through his tent. Flashbacks show Sawyer's ongoing attempt to find and kill the con-man, whom caused his father to kill Sawyer's mother and himself in a murder-suicide. Acting on a tip by an old partner, Sawyer travels to Australia to avenge his parent's death. Turns out Sawyer was tricked into killing a guy that owed his old partner money...whoops! This episode was also the first time Lost played "6 degrees of your favorite castaways" by showing Jack's dad meeting Sawyer in a bar in Austria (cool here but got WAY overused in season 2).

"Exodus"

Season Finales are always great, they leave you hanging and wanting more. Generally as a rule I shouldn't include season finales of Lost on this list, but this one had some great moments. Charlie got hit in the head with a bunch of rocks causing Sayid to treat his wound Rambo-style (gunpowder + Fire= awesome... plus he said "this will not be pleasant".) Also we saw the most bitchiest, annoying Lost character ever, Artz get blown into pieces. Too bad they didn't do this in the future to Nicki and Paulo. But most importantly, we got to meet the coolest member of "The Others" besides Ben. I don't think we learn Tom's real name until season 3ish, but my friend Josh Montgomery and I referred to him as "Steamboat Willy". Plus the hatch finally opens.

Season 1 VIP

Jack Shepard- I know he becomes frustratingly annoying and whiny in future seasons (Season 3 and above), and that Locke should really win the VIP slot with the whole "I was crippled but now i'm not, i fear no smoke-monster, and I killed Boone" thing he has going, but Jack solidifies himself as the leader of our favorite castaways this season and we know that he goes downhill from here and that alone makes that Season 5 beatdown between him and Sawyer all the better.




Re-evaluated Characters
This is a category I've made specifically to see what opinions have changed since first watching this show. First off, I didn't care for Jin and Sun. They didn't nessarily make me care for them to begin with (Jin was a dick mostly this first season) and I only had gratification with them when we found out Sun had an affair with the Chrome dome that was teaching her English. However later seasons I've grown to like both Jin and Sun.

The same cannot be said for Waaalttt!! and Michael. I liked them in the beginning. They teased a lot with Walt being all spooky and magical but after this season that seemed to have died out. They may still have a little something in store this final season but really who cares now? We got more gratifying stories with Locke, the others, Jacob & the Man in Black, Faraday, ect that I will be perfectly fine if we don't go back and touch on what's going on with Walt. Plus they tease about bringing back Characters from the past seasons, but I'm doubting that they bring back Michael after his well documented diss on Darlton.

Til next time,
Brad

The joy of laughing gas...aka funny things that happened when i was in la la land

So this is my first blog since getting married all of 2 1/2 months ago. A few temptations came up to write like "the best It's always sunny episodes", "reviews of stuff i finally saw", and "Lost rewind: a perspective on the past seasons", but i got lazy, however, I now have something to write about.

About a week ago, I had probably one of the most painful toothaches ever while i was at work. After visiting the dentist, he told my my wisdom teeth has got to go...and a tooth i had a bad root canal on, which the back portion broke off a few weeks after the procedure and remained that way for at least a year. So yesterday I went to get all 5 teeth removed. Everything began pretty normal, I talked to the nurses about the Broncos/Cubs game and how much everyone was booing for Jay Cutler. Then came the gas, about 5 minutes inhaling the gas I told the nurse I wasn't feeling anything (i was getting a little heavy eyed but i wanted more) so she turned it up a bit and left the room. Suddenly, within my chest it felt as if there was a constantly giggling person deep inside. Of course, I tried not to laugh and my mouth kept making very twitchy smiles. Shortly, I began making my lips form a "O" shape, for some reason this was funny to me. Then Dr. Lurcott came in to get everything started.

"This is going to be the part you're not going like very much Brad" he said, as he began to give me the local anesthesia shots (9 or so in total). As he began the other side of the mouth he said "here's some more" to which i replied "numf ve vff ouutta ve". He removed the plastic keeping my mouth open. "what was that Brad?" he asked. "I vaid numbf ve shiff out of me". He replied by laughing, then I realized that i was being a little to comfortable with my language and dropped a S bomb in front of someone i only knew less than 3 minutes, so i immediately said "Sorry doc, iff's ve gas". He was cool with it and said he gets it all the time. After I was nice and loopy and couldn't feel my mouth the procedure began. Thankfully, I didn't feel anything at all but lots and lots of pressure as the first two teeth were pulled. After the first tooth was pulled, i noticed how much blood was on the doctor's index finger, i also noticed when he tried to open my mouth wider the bloody finger touched my chin. "his damn bloody finger just touched my beautiful beard...i'm going to sue him" I thought to myself. The next few minutes, I just thought of nothing but very very random stuff, especially of the gas and how I wished i could feel like that all the time, or how i can be on laughing gas at work so I wouldn't hate my job, then i took a turn left and started having inner conversations with myself over star wars and marvel superheroes, which i "told" myself "Brad you are such a freaking geek, it's a miracle you're married and not a virgin".

My thoughts were interrupted when the doctor began working on the "bonus" tooth i had to remove (the one that had a botched root canal) for some reason this one was hard to remove and the doctor spent a good while trying to pull it. When he finally, removed it he decided to let me rest my jaws before doing the other two wisdom teeth. For some reason I thought I'd tell him "That tooff wav a bitff huh?" he replied yes and laughed and once again I apologized for another profane word and once again blamed it on the gas. As he worked on my other final teeth i drifted off again into the nerdy world of my random geeky thoughts until the procedure ended. For some reason I didn't remember him pulling the last tooth, in fact all i remembered was the one on the top jaw being pulled. "All done Bradley" to which i replied "holy shiff" and once again apologized.

They began giving me oxygen to get out of the laughing gas loopiness, and then had me wait until the doctor returned. I remember looking in some magazine but immediately putting it away once i came across a random article on sex dolls, I already made a first impression with this group as someone with a loose tongue, the last thing i wanted them to think was that i was into that stuff too (which i'm not, but the pictures were funny because one had a guy totally making out with one). Once the Dr came back in, I had to have the nurse play translator as I was mixing charades with mumbles to ask if i could get a doctor's note for work since my job right now consists of constantly talking to people on the phone for 10 hours a day.
Once i got my oxycodone and antibiotics as Stacey and I were leaving for some reason I thought I'd be able to tell her everything i said and thought in the room and about the squirrel that was on a dumpster when we were leaving, which obviously was lots of mumbles to which Stacey told me just to "shut up and tell her later".

The rest of the day, I spent gauzing myself, attempting to eat applesauce (which with a lip 3 times it's normal size and a numb mouth is quite impossible without most if not all of it falling out of my mouth and onto my lap/crotch area). Once i got my mouth to regain feeling, I tried again with much better success. Next dental work will be the replacement tooth I'll get...but i'm spending at least a month to recover.

When did Amazon become so funny?

Usually my nightly routine after work is after avoiding being attacked by the kitty and saying hi to Stace (who's usually in bed when i come home) consists of 2-3 hours online looking at stupid crap. It's fun to me and I can't stop!! However, in my usual rotation of funny websites (Fark, Digg, Cracked, et all), I now should add Amazon.com.

Usually this is where you'd go to find that obscure movie you wanted. Or perhaps to pre-order something you want. However lately there's been an awakening of really really funny user reviews online for the most pointless crap. Here I bring to you the best of what i found (so far) and give an official "bad ass rating" based on customer reviews. So of my findings Thus far we have a mystical magic wolf shirt, some sweet "fightin" pants, and...Uranium. Hope you enjoy!!(still figuring out html coding so bear with me)

Exhibit 1: The Magical Wolf shirt you'd find at Wal-mart or Goodwill...or even my Dad's Closet

Randomly Selected Quotes From Reviews

"This new shirt gave me the ability to hunt out deals at Walmart. Hit on chicks without throwing up. Pee in parking lots and not care. Bite through metal. And now at midnight my parents basement is filled with my screams, thanks AMAZON!!"-Leviticus St. Cloud
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"I read an article on this very shirt and its magical properties. I read that it attracts women like feces attracts flies. So being the 28 year old morbidly obese virgin I am, I promptly ordered it."-T. Rafalik "Teen Wolf"
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"After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth."-B.Govern

BAD ASS RATING: 5 OUT OF 5 CHUCK NORRISES

Exhibit 2: The Awesome Pants of Yesteryear

Randomly Selected Quotes From User Reviews:

"I was searching for clothes that speak to me.. These pants not only spoke to me, they entered my soul and transformed me. When I get out of my bitchin 78 camaro wearing these bad boys, there's no question who the boss man is..
You can easily go commando in these and feel even more manly. Your junk swings freely and using the restroom is that much easier.." - Alan E. Schmidt "Monkeyhead"
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"Until recently, I've had trouble finding pants that are both fashionable and conducive to my chosen fighting style (a lethal mix of Filipino stick fighting, Thai kick boxing, and Oklahoma pig grappling). Jeans have always proven constrictive, while corduroy chafes. Sweatpants are comfortable, but hardly something one would wear out to, say, Olive Garden or Old Country Buffet.

No, I needed something that would enable me to dish out a neck-high snap kick while still looking classy and cool.

These are those pants." - by Head Cheeze

BAD ASS RATING: 3 OUT OF 5 MR. Ts

Exhibit 3: Uranium Half-Off!!!

Randomly Selected Quotes From User Reviews:

"The quality of this Uranium is on par with the stuff I was bying from the Libyans over at the mall parking lot, but at half the price! I just hope the seller does not run out, because I have many projects on my list including a night vision sasquatch radar, an electromagnetic chupakabra cage, a high velocity, aerial, weighted Mothman net and super heated, instant grill cheese sandwhich maker." - Kyle J. Von Bose

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"Mixed with a little garlic, some finely chopped basil and pine nuts this makes a fine alternative for pesto. And it has an added advantage which is that if the lighting fails in your home it will produce sufficient illumination to make your kids and pets glow in the dark, enabling you easily to locate them." - J.D.Annis

BAD ASS RATING: 4 OUT OF 5 Bruce Campbells

my "explosive" thoughts on the Lost Finale

***don't read if you haven't seen the finale yet ***


2010 is a very long ways away and Darlton (producer,Carleton Cruz and co-creator Damon Lindelof) didn't so much as give us the slightest hint of what the hell happened at the end other than a Bizzaro title card and someone's eye opening. Not even a small taste of what to expect. In the last 4 seasons we got the following:

Season 1: Oh crap, Steamboat Willy just stole Walt (who'd later become WAAAALLLTTT!!!!)& maybe killed Sawyer!!!

Season 2: Desmond is blowed up oh nooooo!!! and Micheal and WAAAALLLLTTT leave while Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are bound and gagged by the others to maybe become experiments/polar bear food.

Season 3: Crazy Jack and Kate get off the island...unknowingly to us Locke Died.

Season 4: Island disappears, people leave the Island to be "rescued" we find out Locke Died.

and this is what we get
Season 5: ???????, Locke's dead but Evil Locke (no goatee sadly) lives on perhaps possessed by a devil.

Despite not knowing if our Lostaways are sent back into the present, past or if they are just sent into a million pieces around the island, I was SO FREAKING HAPPY TO SEE SAWYER BEAT THE LIVING PISS OUT OF JACK. Unfortunately Dr. Blockhead didn't get any sense knocked into him. but seriously that was worth staying a fan this long for, I been waiting for that for a long time. It turned out a worthless fight when Sawyer and Jack's shared love interests decided to let Jack blow up Jughead anyway leaving Sawyer without any support except for Miles who spoke up WAY too late. I'm sure Jack would still be lying on the jungle floor bleeding if Juliet didn't catch Sawyer looking at Kate. Stupid fickle women.

Secondly, It was great to see a few people come and go. I was glad to see that snooping annoying jackass Phil get skewered to death...jackass. Also,I know back in the day I was very annoyed with Rose and Benard being focused on more b/c i didn't care about them, but I've grown to like them, but despite that I was more happier with seeing Vincent the dog come back. There's alot of theories out there now that Rose + Benard = Adam and Eve skeletons way back in the first season. Still possible, but I don't know if the detonation of Jughead caused them to go wherever it is everyone went, so that might be a kink in that theory. Although they "died" or "have been dead" or "dying" I don't know if it's the end of the line for Sayid, Locke (the good one) or Juliet. If any of them were dead as in "not on the show after this" it'd be Juliet, she set off a nuke a foot away from her face plus she'll be in a remake of "V" this fall. However, I hope she comes back because I'm a fan of Sawyer and Juliet, Kate's damaged goods, just let Jack have her.

Now as for the Jacob stuff, pretty cool but we only see him one episode before Ben kills him and evil-Locke kicks him into a fire. Pretty cool new character but I'm sure he'll be back. I'm still deciding if he's a god, angel, demon, or whatever in a "game" against the black shirted other guy, god, angel, demon. The only thing I am making a theory of is that ship at the begging of the episode was the Black Rock (the granddaddies of the Others with Captain Richard Alpert) and this was where Jacob "failed" and flight 118 is his next chance at doing whatever it was he wants to do with bringing people to the Island. Also WAAALLLTT's dream about Locke being chased by people wanting to hurt him is probably that swarm of Others waiting to kick his evil doppelganger's ass. Although shocking, it's pretty depressing that Locke has been dead the entire time and shapeshifting anti-Jacob has been playing us half the season, which means Locke got screwed pretty bad. But who knows, maybe he'll get another touch of life/become Jacob's new vessel.

Finally, what the hell happened when Jughead when boom? I don't think we'll open with everyone in LAX not knowing each other like Faraday said it would cause. Instead i think something else is going to happen. In the words of Faraday's beast-whore-son-killing-mother, "Fate has a way of self-correcting". With that thought I think the season will either begin or end with the crash of flight 118, we'll have Charlie, Micheal, WAAALLLTT!!!, Eko, Claire, Boone, Shannon, Ana, Libby, Frogurt, Artz, Sayid, Good-Locke?? all back but everything goes bizzaro different. Best of all Nicki and Paulo won't even show up. That's at least the vision i have. But we'll see in 9 months!

Random Thoughts and tidbits for May

So last time i did a blog that WASN'T just movie lines to make people guess, I went on a rant about how Deadpool looks in the new Wolverine movie (which i was told to save my money because it sucks), since i haven't seen it yet in theaters or online I won't say anything but they did greenlight a Deadpool movie which hopefully gives less Deadpool shooting lasers out of his eyes and more classic scenes like this



Funny stuff, anyway this is why i love the character.

Big stuff coming up. Getting married in 44 days, and we FINALLY found an apartment! Our "top picks" had great reviews like "i lived next door to a prostitute" or "my car got broken into" and "this place has a bedbug problem". Finally we did find a good place, lots of Russians it seems, 3rd floor, 1 br and we'll have a deck and fireplace GREAT SUCCESS!!

So things like that has kept me a little busy from Scrubs so I don't get to reflect on it like Dru or Richard did, but I HAVE been following lost and as much as I love the season so far I was pissed about ONE THING:

Yep...they killed off one of the best people on the show since Desmond showed up in season 2. So Interesting character who Guarantees a great episode dies, while boring annoying characters live...

No joke, i literally got excited when I thought she got shot tonight!! But it was Sayid killing Roy from the office (who's a dick in 2 shows now). Anyway one more episode left and that's it for the year with Lost. I'm a little sad next season is going to be the last. Tonight was maybe/maybe not Scrub's last season, but i think I'll miss Lost a lot more. I'll need a new obsession this time next year.

What else... oh I found something I want to make I'm so making those and that'll be how i'll get rid of the boxes in the apartment when i move in. I maybe should wear THIS SHIRT while I'm killing boxes with the wolverine claws. Nothing says I'm a badass like Wolverine claws and a shirt that (according to the reviews on Amazon) has magical powers.

Well enough random stuff for now,
Brad

Geek Rant of the week (assuming this becomes weekly)

It all began with a leaked picture of a action figure..

THIS FIGURE!!

That little Barraka looking guy is Deadpool...according to the package for the upcoming Wolverine movie. Nothing to really freak out over really, Deadpool is bald, and horribly scared up hence why he wears a full body costume as seen here.

This is the Deadpool in the comics, a pretty cool character he's deadly, and he's also hilarious with his quips and insane moments of talking to himself or to those thought boxes in the comics. So naturally, this figure did not bother me at all, i mean I can live without the red and black costume, and the blades looked taped on...something that Deadpool probably would do fighting Wolverine, just to be funny.

However since this toy photo leaked, something much more bigger leaked...like the entire freaking movie of Wolverine!!! I admit sometimes I do watch movies (not downloading) without seeing it in the theaters while it's still in it's theatrical run, there are ways to do it, but if it's a movie i REALLY REALLY want to see (Watchmen, Quantum of Solace) I'll go to the theater, but if it's one I really don't want to see (Twilight)I watch it in this way. I have not seen this leaked movie but it's nearly impossible to not hear some of the feedback if you're a internet/pop culture geek like me...and now I'm getting nervous.

From some pissed off geeks, the toy shown earlier IS Deadpool. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I don't want it to be. This is the same baldy in the last trailer shooting lasers out of his eyes and a closer look at the toy IT HAS NO MOUTH!!! how do you make the "merc with a mouth" mouthless? anyway I hope that if they do the rumored Deadpool movie they at the very least give him a mouth if this is the real person.

However, I am a bit optimistic as when Batman Begins came out I was a little bummed out about Liam Neeson not being Ra's Al Guhl and Ken Watanabe was playing that role instead. He was billed as Ducard as Watanabe was billed as Ra's respectively, and as i sat in the theater I kept thinking Neeson would be a good Ra's and then the big reveal was Neeson WAS Ra's. So here's hoping.

Now after that rant I feel like a giant nerd...I should go to sleep or something.

PS: If Deadpool wasn't enough of a departure of a cool character, The Cobra Commander, best known for kicking puppies

will look like like this, this summer


-Brad